Issue 344 June 02, 2025 web pdf Heterodox Economics Directory
My favorite item in this issue of the Heterodox Economics Newsletter is, somewhat self-servingly ;-), our job ad for a new position associated with the Institute for Socio-Economics at the University of Duisburg-Essen. If you wanna work with us at one of the homes of the Heterodox Economics Newsletter, please consider applying. Also, please consider forwarding this opportunity to potentially interested candidates. Thanks ;-)
However, aside from this and a series of other interesting job postings, this issue also contains two noteworthy calls for support: one ties in with my short report in the last editorial on the troubling news of endangered academic freedom and self-governance in Japan (see here) and features a petition that allows scholar to express their protest in the face of these developments. Another one is issued by the EuroMemo-group, focuses on Europe and European economic policies and calls for a fundamental reorientation of the latter in the face of multiple crises. Again, there is the opportunity to support the report with your signature (see here for details).
Interestingly, most of the relevant information we obtain for the Heterodox Economics Newsletter neatly fits into the rough 'categories' defined about two decades ago. I admit I enjoy the simple fact that a deductive scheme once conceived is able to effectively sort information for such a long period. Not only because it makes our work easier, but also because – as we know from textbooks on qualitative research methodology – it is a somewhat improbable case given that deductive schemes for coding information notoriously fall short when being confronted with a diversity of empirical material and, hence, typically has to be adapted over time.
Nonetheless, and in line with the textbooks, there are rare reoccuring observations that do not fit into into one of these preconceived categories. One such reoccuring observation, that pops up every year or so, relates to contributions in mainstream economics that obviously or implicitly build on heterodox ideas, but reframe and embed them in a way that makes them more digestable to mainstream colleagues – which often implies to eliminate or camouflage the heterodox origins of an argument. And indeed, only recently I mentioned the example of a paper in AEJ: Macroeconomics that explicitly builds on the post-Keynesian notion of hystereses, that is, a macroeconomic version of path dependence, but makes only minimal references to post Keynesian scholarship.
However, things can go even worse as indicated by the most recent issue of the AEA-subjournal American Economic Review: Insights, which features a paper by Larry Samuelson and Jakub Steiner on "Growth and Redistribution: The Hedging Perspective". This paper makes much of the argument that if growth rates of wealth are stochastic, then the pooling or redistribution of endowments will be advantagous for the overall, aggregate growth rate of wealth (as pooling or redistribution works as a form of insurance so that critical negative shocks matter less, while the harnessing of positive shocks is improved). In general this is a neat argument pointing to a potential structural reason why greater equality of wealth could be conducive to economic growth (which complements the more established heterodox argument that greater equality of income will have such effects by focusing on stocks instead of flows).
Now, what I consider much less neat is the fact that this paper does in no way cite or acknowledge the work of Ole Peters, Alex Adamou and colleagues on ergodicity economics (which in my humble opinion can be considered as a variant of heterodox economics very close to evolutionary approaches), who have reiterated this argument for several years by now (e.g. here or here). Moreover, they even actively aimed to enter the respective mainstream discourse although with a general, critical underpinning. While I cannot say, whether the ignorance towards the contributions of ergodicity economics is due this displayed critical attitude or sinmply a consequence the authors' unwillingness to thoroughly assess the originality of their own contribution, such ignorance is indeed a reoccuring pattern in mainstream discourse. This is a pity as it undermines serious and open-minded mutual engagement and signals a strange form of intellectual dishonesty, that is truly disappointing.
All the best,
Jakob
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22 - 23 September 2025 | Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Athens, Greece
The geopolitical conditioning – shaped by Russia’s war of aggression in Ukraine, Trump’s MAGA agenda and competition with China – of EU policy developments is intensifying. The principal EU response has been to promote massive public spending in rearmament, and investment in the defence industry (Rearm Europe Plan/Readiness 2030, SAFE loan instrument, activation of the national escape clause of the Stability and Growth Pact to provide fiscal space for military spending), in short, militarization and readiness for war. This strategic move, emboldened by a process of unification through enemy construction, reorientates EU and Member State macroeconomic, social and industrial policies away from priority goals, such as preventing climate catastrophe, achieving sustainable development and ensuring social and ecological justice, by making them subservient to geopolitical rivalry.
At the same time, the US policy under President Trump of tariffs almost across the board of states and products is creating a global havoc in trade patterns, production frameworks and foreign exchange markets. The combination of the two forces unleashed both in Europe and globally are expected to lead to a redefinition of social and political forces with negative implications for society at large.
This year’s EuroMemo Group conference will be jointly hosted with Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences and will take place on 22 – 23 September 2025 (Monday – Tuesday) in Athens/Greece.
We invite proposals for papers that address militarization and its implications for EU’s cohesion and socioecological transformation, but equally encourage submissions that relate to recent European developments that pertain to one of the following topics (indicative list):
Proposals for papers should be submitted together with a short abstract (maximum 250 words) here.
Submission Deadline: 15 June 2025
6-8 August 2025 | Istanbul, Turkiye
The forum invites critical and Marxist perspectives on the transformations currently reshaping the global order—from the erosion of unipolar dominance to the reconfiguration of international trade, finance, labor, digital technologies, and ecological relations. We welcome contributions from a wide range of disciplines, including political economy, international relations, development studies, environmental studies, and labor research.
Papers may address theoretical, empirical, or policy-oriented questions. The full list of suggested topics and detailed submission guidelines can be found in the attached PDF.
Accepted papers will be considered for publication in WAPE-affiliated journals: World Review of Political Economy, International Critical Thought, World Marxist Review, and The Belt and Road Initiative Quarterly (BRIQ).
For further information click here.
Submission deadline: 1 June 2025
11-12 October | New Delhi, India
Call for papers for 2nd ISHET Annual Conference in New Delhi held at Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (IIT-D).
This is the second annual conference of the Indian Society for the History of Economic Thought (ISHET). ISHET has been established to revive teaching and research in the sub-field of history of economic thought (HET) in India.
We welcome papers on all HET topics. An illustrative list is provided below.
Kautilya, Khaldun, William Petty, Richard Cantillon, Mary Wollstonecraft, Adam Smith, David Ricardo, Harriet Taylor Mill, Augustin Cournot, Alfred Marshall, Karl Marx, Dadhabhai Naoroji, B. R. Ambedkar, Wassily Leontief, Piero Sraffa, Krishna Bharadwaj
Feminist, Ecological, Labour, Caste, Finance, Money, Macroeconomics, Microeconomics, Econometrics, Inequality, Mathematics in economics
Indian economic thought, Japanese economic thought, Russian economic thought, French economic thought, African economic thought, American and Latin American economic thought, British economic thought
Integrating HET in micro and macro, pluralism and HET, HET and critical pedagogy
Archival strategies, internalist approach, externalist approach, textual analysis, historical reconstruction, oral history
For further information please click here.
Submission Deadline for Abstracts: 30 June 2025
30-31 October 2025 | Pannasastra University of Cambodia Siem Reap Campus, Siem Reap, Cambodia
Southeast Asia stands at the crossroads of dynamic economic progress and significant socio-economic challenges. As one of the most vibrant and diverse regions globally, it has achieved remarkable strides in economic growth, regional integration, and poverty reduction. However, this growth has been accompanied by rising inequality, environmental degradation, technological disruptions, and increasing vulnerabilities to global uncertainties and climate change. This raises critical questions: How can Southeast Asia balance its rapid economic growth with inequality, ecological change, and digital transformation? Furthermore, how does research on Southeast Asia help us to understand the socio-economic rules that govern the world?
Addressing these polycrises requires innovative, multidimensional solutions that transcend traditional economic paradigms. The 3rd Southeast Asia Economic Research and Development Conference serves as a platform for young scholars, researchers, policymakers, and practitioners to convene, exchange perspectives, and propose actionable solutions tailored to the region’s unique context.
Adopting an interdisciplinary and pluralist approach, the conference aims to foster dialogue that integrates economic theory, empirical analysis, and practical policy interventions. By leveraging insights from various disciplines and methodologies, participants will contribute to a deeper understanding of the complex interactions shaping Southeast Asia’s socio-economic landscape.
The conference seeks to inspire bold and collaborative research that rethinks growth, sustainability, and equity within the region. The papers presented will not only enrich academic discourse but also provide a foundation for evidence-based policymaking to support inclusive and sustainable development in Southeast Asia. We welcome submissions that explore, but are not limited to, the following themes:
Accepted papers may be considered for publication in a journal special issue (Scopas) or as part of an edited book in an internationally established publication house.
The conference will feature plenary sessions followed by parallel sessions. All papers presented in the parallel sessions will undergo a refereeing process before being accepted for presentation. In addition, case studies focusing on any of the conference’s sub-themes will be considered for inclusion in panel discussions, facilitating interactive engagement. Esteemed scholars will be invited to participate in the panel discussions, offering insightful perspectives on economic thought, structural change, and macroeconomics.
Participation in the conference is free for authors of selected papers. We are pleased to offer a limited number of travel and accommodation support grants to PhD students and early career scholars within 5 years of their PhD. To be considered for such grants, please indicate your interest and eligibility in your application.
For further information and submission please click here.
Deadline for abstract submission: 15 July 2025.
16 September | University of Birmingham, UK
The CSE/Capital & Class Midlands group hosts its first annual workshop, dedicated to Paula Schwevers, our comrade, colleague, and friend, who very sadly passed away last year.
Confirmed speakers :
We invite papers and panels on the following themes, drawn from Paula’s research interests:
Please send proposals (title and abstract) to csemidlands@gmail.com. Paper abstracts should be 200 words max. Panel proposals should include a panel title, plus at least 3 papers.
Attendance will be in-person and free to attend.
For more information click here.
Deadline for Submissions: 11 August 2025
13-14 November 2025 | Europa- Universität Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder)
The doctoral candidates of the Chair of Economic Sociology at the European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) are organizing a mid-level academic conference at EUV in November.
You are warmly invited to the mid-level conference on Economic Sociology under the theme “Transformations of Capitalism – Perspectives of Economic Sociology in Times of Polycrisis,” which will take place from November 13 to 14, 2025, at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder). Keynote speaker Dr. Marcin Serafin (IFiS PAN, Warsaw) will open the discussion.
The focus will be on the challenges and contributions of economic sociology in the current global crisis, including topics such as the fragility of socio-economic systems, sustainable economic models, and the dynamics of social inequalities. The conference particularly addresses doctoral candidates in economic sociology from German-speaking countries, but English contributions are also welcome. Abstracts (max. 500 words) can be submitted until July 15, 2025.
A detailed call for papers can be found here.
Submission Deadline: 15 July 2025
As the urgency of climate change intensifies, green finance has moved to the centre of global economic and policy debates (European Commission 2018, 2019). Governments, financial institutions, and corporations increasingly frame private capital as a central driver of sustainability transitions, positioning financial markets as indispensable for achieving net-zero economies and addressing planetary crises. Yet this growing reliance on private capital raises urgent questions about the contradictions embedded in the financial, political, and institutional architectures of green capitalism (e.g., Buttel 2000; Mol & Spaargaren 2000; Christophers 2021; Mader et al. 2020; Ouma 2024):
Can green finance represent a genuine departure from financial capitalism’s speculative, profit-driven logics—or is it merely an adaptation that preserves its core mechanisms? How can sustainability be reconciled with a system built on perpetual growth, short-term financial returns, and asset-based accumulation?
We invite contributions from political economy, economic geography, law, finance, sociology, environmental studies, anthropology, and related fields.
Submissions should critically examine:
For further information click here.
Abstract Application Deadline: 15 July 2025 (max. 400 words)
Full Paper Deadline: 15 December 2025
30-31 October 2025 | HU Berlin, Germany
Call for Abstracts
Five hundred years since the German Peasants War, the land question has returned with force. Amid rising land prices, resurgent farmer protests, conflicts over ecological transformation, and deepening struggles over housing, agriculture, and energy, land has reemerged as a central object of political and theoretical debate. This conference invites critical engagement with the structures, histories, and contradictions of agrarian land ownership and land use in contemporary capitalist societies. Land remains at once a condition of life and a site of accumulation; it is essential to any project of democratic transformation and yet persistently enclosed, commodified and financialized. This conference asks what it would mean to socialize land today, that is, to democratize land ownership and reorient land-use to fulfill social needs and ecological demands. Can land be reclaimed as a collective good? On what grounds—political, moral, ecological—can the socialization of land be justified? And what historical, legal, and ideological obstacles stand in its way?
We welcome contributions that analyze the land question from political, social, theoretical, legal and historical perspectives. What are the theoretical and practical challenges of socializing land under conditions of financialization and ecological crisis? What lessons can be drawn from past and present experiments with land reform, common ownership, or public planning—particularly in Germany, where the socialization of land has a long and contested history? We are especially interested in work that addresses the following topics:
For further information please click here.
Submission Deadline: 4 June 2025
October 23-25 2025 | Forum for Macroeconomics and Macroeconomic Policies, Berlin
Gender plays a crucial role in many macroeconomic areas, including, for example, how fiscal policy or crises generate different outcomes for men, women, and non-binary individuals, and gender inequalities have substantial macroeconomic consequences. These disparities are often deeply entwined with labor market dynamics, where gender wage gaps, gendered and racial profiling of jobs and segregation, and inequalities in the distribution of paid and unpaid work persist. Such inequalities are further compounded by the systemic undervaluation of unpaid labor as well as paid care work, disproportionately carried out by women. Addressing these imbalances requires policies, which aim to close gender gaps and promote inclusive development. Equally critical is examining the intersection of globalization, climate change and gender, revealing how trade, climate conditions, and financial flows reshape inequalities in the Global South and North. Therefore, this year's FMM conference focuses on the interactions between gender and macroeconomics.
The submission of papers in the following areas is particularly encouraged:
Submissions on the general subjects of the FMM, macroeconomics and macroeconomic policy analysis and modelling, are encouraged as well.
Women are strongly encouraged to apply. We particularly welcome submissions for graduate student sessions.
Selected papers may be published in a special issue of the FMM’s peer reviewed European Journal of Economics and Economic Policies: Intervention (EJEEP). If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to get in touch with: fmm@boeckler.de
For further information please click here.
Submission Deadline: 14 June 2025
Submissions are invited for an interdisciplinary conference on "Palestine & Social Justice: Decolonisation and Development Studies" to be held at the University of Manchester on 26 September 2025. The conference is organized by the Global Development Institute (GDI) Students for Palestine with support from the GDI Innovation Fund.
This conference seeks to critically engage with Palestine's developmental, humanitarian, and political challenges while situating these within broader questions of social justice in the Global South. Contributions are welcomed from academics, practitioners, activists, and artists working at the intersection of Development Studies, Economics, Political Economy, Feminist and Postcolonial Theory, Middle Eastern Studies, and related fields.
The conference aims to be accessible and inclusive, with particular encouragement for submissions from early career scholars, Global South-based researchers, artists, and activists. Non-traditional formats are also welcomed.
For further details, please click here.
Deadline for submissions: 30 June 2025
26 September 2025 | University of Manchester
We are inviting submissions for an Interdisciplinary Conference on “Palestine & Social Justice: Decolonisation and Development Studies” to be held at the University of Manchester on 26 September 2025. The conference is being organised by the Global Development Institute (GDI) Students for Palestine with support from the GDI Innovation Fund.
This conference seeks to critically engage with Palestine's developmental, humanitarian, and political challenges while situating these within broader questions of social justice in the Global South. We welcome contributions from academics, practitioners, activists, and artists working at the intersection of Development Studies, Economics, Political Economy, Feminist and Postcolonial Theory, Middle Eastern Studies, and beyond. We are committed to making this conference accessible and inclusive. We particularly encourage submissions from early career scholars, Global South-based researchers, artists, and activists, and welcome non-traditional formats. For further details, please see the flyer or visit the page: Call For Submissions. For any queries, please e-mail: gsp.conference@manchester.ac.uk
Key dates and deadlines
27-28 November 2025 | Roskilde University
Hosted by the Department of Social Sciences and Business at Roskilde University, we would like to invite you to the NAES (Nordic Association of European Studies) two-days conference.
Nearly 15 years after the eurozone crisis, Europe continues to grapple with overlapping political, economic, and social challenges. From the war in Ukraine and rising far-right populism to shifting global alliances and Trump’s return to the White House, the EU faces mounting pressure to redefine its role on the world stage. With “open strategic autonomy” at the forefront, how can the EU balance geoeconomic statecraft, defense priorities, and environmental ambitions in an increasingly volatile global order?
The Nordic Association for European Studies invites scholars from economics, politics, sociology, history, and law to explore these pressing questions at its second biannual conference. Will Europe emerge stronger, or are new conflicts on the horizon? Join us as we analyze the forces shaping the EU’s future!
For further information please click here.
Submission Deadline: 15. June 2025
23 September 2025 | Athens, Greece
EAEPE seeks to institutionalize and deepen the involvement of and the exchange with young scholars and student initiatives at the association’s annual conference. One of the key forums for young scholars at EAEPE is the annual pre-conference that comprises a series of workshops by distinguished scholars, accompanied by social space to interact and network. Organized by a team of young scholars, the pre- conference was first launched in Genova (2015). This year, EAEPE and the Philosophy of Economics
Working Group of the INET YSI are putting their forces together to organize the 11th pre-conference workshop which will be held on 23 September 2025 in Athens.
Talks:
The purpose of this year’s EAEPE YSI pre-conference workshop is to explore pluralist perspectives on digital technologies, and to bring them together on a common ground. Artificial intelligence (AI) and digital technologies are reshaping our society at an unprecedented pace, sparking debates and discussions across disciplines and opening up spaces to analyze existing social challenges in a new light. But the discourse surrounding digital technologies is too fragmented in different strands of disciplines such as standard economics, political economy approaches, and Science and Technology Studies (STS) without a common framework clear of ambiguities. Bridging these perspectives is both timely and necessary. The pre-conference speakers and participants will reflect on how different strands of disciplines can be integrated or contrasted to provide a more nuanced understanding of digital technologies and their role for societal transformation.
Following the talks, participants will have the chance to participate in group discussions. Furthermore, there will be a get-together session where young scholars will introduce themselves and their research interests and get the chance to get feedback from and pair up with other young and senior scholars. Coffee break, lunch, and a social dinner will provide further space to connect and warm up for the main conference. All pre-conference participants are warmly invited to participate at EAEPE’s main conference.
Application/Registration to the Pre-Conference & Registration fees
You can apply for the pre-conference during the registration process for the main conference. Please register for the main conference by choosing the ‘PhD registration for members.’ After you ‘proceed to check out,’ you will be directed to enter your information and answer some questions. Among them is ‘apply for the pre-conference?’ where you should click on ‘yes.’ The reduced rate (90 euro) for PhD students covers the costs of coffee breaks and lunches during the main conference. Participation in the pre-conference (including all meals and social dinner) is free of charge for those who registered for the main conference. Pre-conference application opens on May 27, 2025, and closes on June 28, 2025. You will receive a notification of acceptance per email by the pre-conference organizers around July 10.
Financial support
A limited number of fee waivers are available for students and young researchers without funding opportunities. Applicants must provide a written statement of their supervisor or a faculty member of their study or PhD program confirming that they do not have financial support. Students without a paper presentation in the main conference need to submit a short motivation letter, explaining how participation could potentially benefit their academic development. Fee waiver applications are submitted through the EAEPE fee waiver application. For further information please see EAEPE’s page. In addition, thanks to the INET YSI support, we have some limited stipends available to partially cover the travel expenses of young scholars who do not have support from their home institutions. To apply, please send a short application letter before June 20, 2025, to eaepe.preconference@gmail.com Please check the website for more detailed information and updates about the pre-conference. For any questions, please contact the pre-conference organizing team – Anna Hornykewycz, Johanna Rath, and Merve Burnazoglu – at eaepe.preconference@gmail.com
Important deadlines
18 - 20.06.2025 | University College London, London, UK
UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose’s Rethinking the State Forum is taking place from 18–20 June 2025, over three days, the organizers will convene global thinkers, policymakers, students, and practitioners to explore how states can build the capacity to drive inclusive, green, and digital transformations.
Now in its third edition, the Rethinking the State Forum has become a landmark event in the IIPP calendar, showcasing the commitment to reimagining how public purpose is conceived, designed, and delivered.
Through a dynamic mix of public panels, workshops, and interactive dialogues, the participants will explore urgent questions around governance, knowledge systems, and economic power—from decolonising public administration to reclaiming digital sovereignty. Let’s listen, co-create, and reimagine what public purpose means in today’s world.
Alongside the public panel discussions, the Forum features a rich programme of workshops, applied learning sessions, and student-led activities that bring theory and practice together. Highlights include the international workshop “A New Economy Movement for a World in Transformation” hosted in partnership with the Global Fund for a New Economy, and practitioner-driven sessions on applied learning—spotlighting how governments are embedding experimentation and reflection directly into mission-oriented policymaking. The Forum will also showcase the work of IIPP’s MPA students through a poster exhibition, host a PhD reading group exploring cutting-edge research, and offer informal moments for connection and exchange, including networking breaks and evening drinks.
For further information please click here.
16 June 2025, 8:15am - 5:45pm | Levy Economic Institute of Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, USA
US House Representative Ro Khanna (CA-17) will serve as the Keynote Speaker at the 32nd Annual Levy Economics Institute Conference on Money, Finance, and Economic Strategies in Fractured Times, taking place this June. The event will return to an in-person format on Monday, June 16, 2025, on the Bard College campus in Annandale-on-Hudson, NY.
This year’s conference will include panels on Minskyan analyses of current sources of financial fragility, new directions in public finance, progressive policy agendas, climate finance, balance of payments constraints, the global economy, and additional topics.
Programme
Session 1: Beyond Minsky Moments
Daniel Alpert, Westwood Capital | How Minsky’s Money Manager Capitalism Will Frustrate the Purported Goals of US Economic Nationalism
Leila Davis, University of Massachusetts Boston | The Evolution of Minsky Regimes in the US Nonfinancial Corporate Sector
Rogerio Studart, Brazilian Center for International Relations | Financing Development in Times of Climate Crisis: A Minskyan Approach
Moderator: Talmon Joseph Smith, The New York Times
Session 2: Economic Policy in the Age of Trump
Pavlina R. Tcherneva, Levy Institute | Pocketbook Economics and the American Voter
James K. Galbraith, University of Texas at Austin | What Is Economic Policy For?
L. Randall Wray, Levy Institute | Should We Worry About the Deficit(s)? An MMT-Minsky Perspective
Moderator: Ryan Cooper, The American Prospect
Keynote Address: Rep. Ro Khanna (CA-17)
Moderator: Alan Minsky, Progressive Democrats of America
Session 3: US Policy and the Global Economy
Gennaro Zezza, Levy Institute | Prospects for the US Economy
Yan Liang, Willamette University | How China Organizes Finance Domestically and Keeps Foreign Capital at Bay
Ndongo Samba Sylla, International Development Economics Associates (IDEAs-Africa) | Critically Thinking About Monetary Sovereignty and Balance-of-Payments Constraints in Africa
Fadhel Kaboub, Denison University | Global South Joint Industrial Policies
Moderator: TBA
For further information and registration please click here.
16-18 July 2025 | University of Leeds, UK
The Forum on Scenarios for Climate and Societal Futures (Scenarios Forum 2025) is a multi-disciplinary conference organized by the Priestley Centre for Climate Futures and the University of Leeds, following previous forums in Denver (2019) and IIASA (2022).
Climate Scenarios: Purpose and Function
Climate scenarios illustrate hypothetical climate futures based on varying amounts of greenhouse gases (GHGs) released into the atmosphere and examine the effectiveness and risks of different responses through:
The forum brings together international experts to share knowledge, foster collaborations, and examine climate scenario applications while identifying future research priorities.
2025 Forum Focus
This year's forum addresses the application of socioeconomic scenarios to complex, interconnected global challenges during a period characterized by environmental shifts, social changes, and global uncertainties.
The 2025 program expands to explore scenarios that address health considerations, inform policy development, and examine future possibilities. The forum aims to advance discussions on robust, integrative scenarios for addressing contemporary challenges.
3 June 2025 10 a.m.| De Havilland Campus, Mosquito Way, Hatfield AL10 9EU
The PKES PhD Student Conference, co-organised by the Post Keynesian Economics Society (PKES), the Young Scholar’s Initiative and the University of Hertfordshire, invites advanced PhD students working in pluralist economic traditions – such as post-Keynesian, Marxist, structuralist, institutionalist, feminist, and others – to present their ongoing research. Participating students will submit a draft chapter of their dissertation in advance, which will be reviewed by a senior academic. During the conference, each student will receive comprehensive and constructive feedback from an experienced PKES researcher, offering unique insights that go beyond typical supervisory guidance in a supportive and friendly setting.
There is no participation fee for the conference. Lunch and refreshments will be provided thanks to generous funding by YSI. The conference will include a social dinner, sponsored by YSI, to give the opportunity to young scholars to come together in person, build their network and get involved with the heterodox economics community and YSI.
In addition, YSI will offer partial stipends for accommodation and national as well as international travel for selected young scholars who will present at the conference. Scholarships are limited, and aimed at students who cannot obtain (sufficient) funding from their university or other academic funding sources. Travel via plane should be avoided if possible. We are also not able to reimburse taxis or rented cars. Please indicate in your cover letter should you wish to be considered for this, and explain that you have exhausted funding from your university. To justify a travel stipend for participants coming from overseas for a 1-day event to our funders, it would help us if you could include an explanation of how the travel stipend can help you with attending academic activities other than the PhD conference in the UK/ Europe. This could be conferences or meetings with academic collaborators. Provided applicants are eligible, scholarships will be allocated on a first-come first-served basis.
Please don’t hesitate to contact the organisers via pkes.phd.conference.25@gmail.com
The link to the application form can be found here.
For further information and the programme, please click here.
12 June 2025 | University of London
The 2025 Annual PKES Workshop will be held on 12 June at SOAS from 13:30 to 18:30. The programme is available here.
Speakers include Hulya Dagdeviren, Jérôme Deyris, Leila Gautham, Hannah Hasenberger, Lorena Lombardozzi and Peter Skott.
Tea and coffee will be provided. There will be a drinks reception at the end of the event.
There is no need for registration. For any questions, please contact Maria Nikolaidi (email: M.Nikolaidi@greenwich.ac.uk).
For further information please click here.
1-5 December 2025 | University of Graz
While it has long been known that people can influence each other’s opinion, models allow us to understand how this micro-level process can lead to consensus, polarization and societal change on the macro-level. The field has come a long way since the first opinion dynamics model was published almost 70 years ago.
In particular, the use of computer simulations such as agent-based models have significantly expanded the scope and explanatory power of these models. Among others, models can now be used to study the interplay between social and economic change, investigate the impact of social media algorithms, explain political polarization and can replicate the evolution of empirical opinion patterns. In times of multiple crises which are exacerbated by increasing polarization, this line of research is more important and urgent than ever.
This year’s Graz Schumpeter Winter School and COLIBRI Focus Workshop is a prime opportunity to obtain state-of-the-art knowledge of models of opinion dynamics and social change, and to discuss future directions with top researchers in the field.
For further information please click here.
Submission Deadline: 30.05.2025
3 - 9 August 2025 | Zeitz near Leipzig, Germany
Join the 9th Summer Academy for Pluralist Economic with the topic “Rethinking Economic Policy for the 21st century"!
Spend a full week diving into the world of pluralist economic policy! In interactive workshops led by experts, you’ll explore a wide range of pressing economic issues – from feminist fiscal policy and inclusive labour market policies to debates on money, finance, and growth, all the way to climate justice and postcolonial perspectives.
In the Open Spaces, you can bring your own ideas, ask questions, and engage in lively discussions with other participants. And throughout the week, you’ll connect with inspiring people who, like you, are eager to rethink economics – all in an open, supportive, and collaborative learning environment.
We especially welcome participants from diverse academic and professional backgrounds – because a variety of perspectives makes the conversation richer!
All information and the registration form can be found here.
Extended Application Deadline: 15 June 2025
19 June | University of London, Senate House
The Global Fund for a New Economy (GFNE) and the IIPP Strategic Economics Alliance are hosting a workshop in London as part of both the Emerging Political Economy Third Annual Convening at LSE and the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose's "Rethinking the State" Annual Forum. The event brings together members of the UK community and funders to discuss the key challenges and opportunities for a Global New Economy movement in the context of major changes in the global scenario. The goal is to underscore the urgency of this movement at the international level and to forge strategies for advancing it through world-shattering ideas, policies, and actions.
Past efforts in new economic thinking have been strong but often localised, dispersed, and detached from the everyday dilemmas people face. Only a few of these efforts have successfully engaged and impacted policy, while many struggle to break free from academic silos. Unfortunately, most have failed to amplify the voices of those doing the heavy lifting and in connecting scholarly work with social movements in the Global South. These past efforts have also led to restrictive, mostly ‘national’ policy frameworks that reactively patch problems rather than proactively steering the economy towards solutions.
An urgent need still exists for a new economic paradigm. A global new economy movement with a wider and multi-disciplinary perspective, involving a broader set of actors -- especially voices that historically have been marginalised in these debates and initiatives. This workshop aims to strategise on how to achieve this at different levels, from the national to the global.
Confirmed speakers
Key information
If you would like to register your interest in participating in this workshop please contact carolina.alves@ucl.ac.uk.
Job title: Postdoctoral researcher Sociology; Understanding climate change attitudes
What does climate change mean to people—and why? And how do these meanings shape public responses to policy and information campaigns?
While a voluminous literature has mapped the social groups most and least concerned about climate change, a crucial lacuna remains: what does climate change actually mean to people? What do they believe is happening?
Scholarship has typically focused on explaining people’s level of concern and how strongly they believe in anthropogenic climate change—without acknowledging that the same answer given to survey questions means different things to different people.
Moreover, extant research has focused on the factors that explain levels of concern among the public as a whole, ignoring that specific factors likely matter more for some groups than for others because the meanings they ascribe to climate change differ.
This project (funded through the Vici programme of the Dutch Research Council, NWO) reorients the field by systematically studying population heterogeneity in such meanings and thus reveal which factors matter for which groups—and why. This will illuminate hitherto scattered findings.
The project’s objectives are to:
Building on innovative research developed at the Erasmus Institute on Culture and Stratification, the project harnesses the advantages of in-depth qualitative and large-scale quantitative research with its sequential, mixed-methods toolkit. This includes focus groups, Correlational Class Analyses, survey-experiments and discrete choice experiments.
The postdoc project advertised here will focus on Italy and run in parallel with a PhD project focused on the Netherlands.
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The postdoc, working under the close supervision of the PI, will be responsible for developing the research design, collecting and analyzing data in all phases of the project, and disseminating findings to both academic and non-academic audiences.
The postdoc will focus on the Italian case. The project budget includes funding to have our tailor-made surveys, survey-experiments and discrete choice experiments fielded by renowned data collection agencies that cater to high-quality social-scientific research initiatives. Hence, travel to Italy is not needed for the quantitative components of the project. However, the focus groups central to the first subproject (with the aim to explore in-depth the different meanings ascribed to climate change and their social origins) will take place in Italy.
In collaboration with the PI, the postdoc will author at least four scholarly articles for leading international journals.
The postdoc will also participate in academic meetings, (inter)national conferences, and team seminars, and will communicate insights to broader publics.
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Application Deadline: 11 June 2025
Job title: Pre-Doc Economist specialised in international economics and with an interest in environmental issues
The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (wiiw) is an independent research institute in the field of applied economic research focussing on Central, East and South East Europe. The institute has been operating successfully for over 50 years and enjoys an excellent international reputation. We offer our clients and stakeholders economic studies, forecasts and economic data.
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Deadline for applications: 22nd June 2025
Job title: Head of Department for European & International Studies
The Department of European & International Studies (EIS) is recruiting for a new Head of Department to start in post in January 2026. This four-year position may be held at professorial or reader level, with the successful candidate becoming a full-time member of the department when completing their term of office.
EIS is at a crucial point in its development. Moving from an arts-based European studies department into one that embraces international political economy (IPE), it has experienced rapid expansion of its PGT degrees and is about to launch a new undergraduate degree. We are looking for someone to lead EIS to its next stage, keen to seize new opportunities, and acutely aware of the constraints of higher education in a time of fiscal austerity. There is the need to ensure financial sustainability as well as growth in student numbers. At the same time, there is a need to help forge EIS’s identity between IPE and studies of European politics.
The key challenge is being able to work with school and departmental staff and be able to manage upward to the faculty and beyond in a time of change and challenge. The postholder will need to engage in the faculty’s continuing efforts to renew the education offering and ensure that the department leads innovation in teaching practice and delivery. At the same time, there are opportunities to develop research, such as large grants and to support research clusters. The aim is to develop EIS as a place for innovative interdisciplinary research.
These are times of opportunity as the faculty implements a fundamental review of the education portfolio with programme ideas moving into the development stage. This work runs in parallel to the launch of a revised SSPP Strategy 2030, Shaping Global Change. SSPP is also launching a Methods Centre and a faculty wide Platform to support Professional Education, CPD and other forms of third stream education and research. For REF 2029, the faculty will submit to five UoAs and in 23/24 SSPP generated £26m in research grants and taught almost 8,000 students.
The overall purpose of this role is to provide leadership to the Department of European and International Studies (EIS) at a time of change and challenge; to work closely with the school and faculty in driving innovation in teaching and financial management; to stimulate a dynamic interdisciplinary research culture, based on collaboration and attracting external funding; and to sustain and move forward the identity of EIS based on its historic roots in European studies and more recent expansion in international political economy.
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Application deadline: 05 June 2025
Job title: Lecturer in Technology and International Development
The institute is seeking a candidate who has an outstanding early career profile of publications and grant capture, with an excellent record of teaching and administration. They will be a specialist in technology and development, with a focus on areas such as socioeconomic impacts of artificial intelligence (AI), gender bias in algorithms, critical analyses of fintech, dynamics of platformisation, the emergence of digitally enabled forced labour, biometrics and surveillance, data justice, and the digital political economy. The successful candidate will be methodologically proficient within their discipline and demonstrate evidence of high-quality relevant research and teaching in international development. They will join an interdisciplinary team currently working in a wide range of areas including political economy, inequality and poverty, gender rights, climate change and natural resources, international trade, migration, and social. gender and racial justice. This post will be responsible to the Head of the Department of International Development.
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The above list of responsibilities may not be exhaustive, and the post holder will be required to undertake such tasks and responsibilities as may reasonably be expected within the scope and grading of the post. This post will be responsible to the Head of the Department of International Development. This is a full time role, and you will be offered an indefinite contract
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Application Deadline: 22 June 2025
Job Title: research associate (Post-Doc or PhD student, f/m/d)
The Institute for Socioeconomics is a young and dynamic institute at the University of Duisburg-Essen which attempts to open up new perspectives on the interaction between the economy and society through innovative contributions in research and teaching.
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Please send your electronic application, together with the usual supporting documents and the reference number 249-25 to Prof. Dr. Miriam Rehm, University of Duisburg-Essen, Faculty of Social Sciences, Institute for Socio-Economics, working group Socio-Economics with a focus on empirical inequality research, Lotharstraße 65, 47057 Duisburg, E-Mail: miriam.rehm@uni-due.de.
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Application Deadline: 05 July 2025
Job title: Tenure Track Assistant Professor or Associate Professor in International Relations in Environmental Policies
In your functions, you will have to :
Teaching (45%): Six hours a week of teaching throughout the year, at Bachelor’s and Master’s level. Additionally supervision of Master's dissertations and PhD theses.
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Administrative responsibilities (10%): In accordance with statutory requirements and in the name of collegiality, the post-holder will take on any administrative tasks that may be assigned to them by the Institute, Faculty, University or university decision-making bodies.
We offer a nice working place in a multicultural, diverse and dynamic academic environment. Opportunities for professional training, a lot of activities and other benefits to discover. For more information, visit www.unil.ch/carrieres
Further information can be obtained from : recrutement-enseignant.ssp@unil.ch
Application Deadline: 15 June 2025
Job title: Senior Lecturer Type 1 (Mer1) in International Relations
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What the position offers you: We offer a nice working place in a multicultural, diverse and dynamic academic environment. Opportunities for professional training, a lot of activities and other benefits to discover. For more information, visit www.unil.ch/carrieres
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Deadline: 15 June 2025
Job title: Research Assistant - Arthur Lewis Lab for Comparative Development
A Research Assistant is required to work for the Arthur Lewis Lab for Comparative Development, directed by Nuno Palma in the Department of Economics, University of Manchester The project starts on August 1st, 2025, and the contract is for 2 years. The Research Associate will be based in the Department of Economics, in the School of Social Sciences. Working under the guidance of the P.I., you will have responsibility for doing research assistance for Lab members, as well as supporting administratively the Lab's intellectual activities
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As an equal opportunities employer we welcome applicants from all sections of the community regardless of age, sex, gender (or gender identity), ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation and transgender status. All appointments are made on merit. Our University is positive about flexible working – you can find out more here. Hybrid working arrangements may be considered. Please note that we are unable to respond to enquiries, accept CVs or applications from Recruitment Agencies. Any recruitment enquiries from recruitment agencies should be directed to People.Recruitment@manchester.ac.uk. Any CV’s submitted by a recruitment agency will be considered a gift.
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Appliction Deadline: 14th May 2025
Job Title: Assistant professor in Economic History
The Department of Economics at the University of Southern Denmark in Odense, Denmark, invites applications for a three-year position as assistant professor.
Part of the position is linked to the project ‘Private Foundations: Shaping Leadership in Medical Innovation and Addressing Inequalities in Health' funded by the Carlsberg Foundation and led by Associate Professor Anthony Wray. Digitization of physician biographies and other historical records using large language models (LLMs) will be an integrated part of the project, hence knowledge, skills, and interest in this area will be an advantage.
The starting date is flexible, but we hope to welcome our new colleague on 1 September 2025.
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The Department of Economics is an international department with a strong tradition for excellence in research and teaching within the various areas of economics. The research, teaching, and dissemination activities at the department are organized within four groups: Econometrics and Data Science; Economic History; Macroeconomics; and Microeconomics. A more elaborated description of the department and the groups can be found on the department website.
It is the aim of the department to conduct research of the highest international standard documented through 1) publications in internationally distinguished journals, 2) presentations at international conferences, 3) external funding from competitive programs and 4) dissemination with high visibility and broad societal impact.
The department emphasizes high-quality research-based teaching using the most relevant teaching methods to enhance students' learning and the department explicit articulate our view on studying economics at SDU, which can be read here.
The department is responsible for the undergraduate as well as the graduate programmes in Economics and Mathematics-Economics at campus Odense. Also, the department is responsible for economics courses at different campuses at the University of Southern Denmark with activities in Odense, Sønderborg, and Slagelse. The research activities (and the workplace) are situated in Odense.
It is important for the department that applicants have good interpersonal skills and are dedicated to take part in the daily academic and social interaction of the research groups and at the department.
The assistant professor will be part of the Economic History group and will be affiliated to the Historical Economics and Development Group. The Historical Economics and Development Group (HEDG) focuses on research in Economic History with a strong quantitative focus. HEDG is internationally acknowledged as a leading research group and attracts substantial grants and media coverage, as well as publishing books and articles with top outlets.
The candidate will join an international team of researchers and will be involved in a research project on private investments and innovation in healthcare in the US during the early 20th century. For more information see this link.
The successful candidate is expected to contribute to the Carlsberg funded research project and support the development of a research team at HEDG, led by Anthony Wray, involving Assistant Professor Sophie Li, a newly hired PhD student, and research assistants.
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Application deadline: 1st June 2025
The international journal GAIA – Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society invites Masters students to participate in the 2026 GAIA Masters Student Paper Award ». Masters students are encouraged to submit their results from research-based courses / Masters theses in transdisciplinary environmental and sustainability science. The winner will be granted a prize money of EUR 1,500 endowed by the Selbach Environmental Foundation » and the Dialogik gGmbH » as well as a free one-year subscription to GAIA », including free online access.
GAIA – Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society is a peer-reviewed academic journal dedicated to inter- and transdisciplinary research on and for sustainability transformations. Please click here for a PDF of the call for contributions ».
Submission Deadline: 28 November 2025
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by James K. Galbraith and Jing Chen | 2025, Chicago University Press
In mainstream economics, markets are ideal if competition is perfect. When supply balances demand, economic maturity is orderly and disturbed only by shocks. These ideas are rooted in doctrines going back thousands of years yet, as James K. Galbraith and Jing Chen show, they contradict the foundations of our scientific understanding of the physical and biological worlds.
Entropy Economics discards the conventions of equilibrium and presents a new basis for thinking about economic issues, one rooted in life processes—an unequal world of unceasing change in which boundaries, plans, and regulations are essential. Galbraith and Chen’s theory of value is based on scarcity, and it accounts for the power of monopoly. Their theory of production covers increasing and decreasing returns, uncertainty, fixed investments over time, and the impact of rising resource costs. Together, their models illuminate key problems such as trade, finance, energy, climate, conflict, and demography.
Entropy Economics is a thrilling framework for understanding the world as it is and will be keenly relevant to the economic challenges of a world threatened with disorder.
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by Caitlin Schroering | 2024, Manchester University Press
Conflicts over water are human-caused events with socio-political and economic causes. From Brazil’s Movimento dos Atingidos por Barragens (MAB) to environmental activists in Pittsburgh, people are coming together to fight for control of their water. This book examines how movements are communicating and organizing against water privatization and other forms of water grabbing, and explores how movements engage with and learn from each other. Water is at the heart of this book, but Global solidarities against water grabbing is as much about collective struggle and popular organization as it is about water. Based on extensive fieldwork with two movements fighting against water privatization, the book uses anticolonial and feminist research methods to show how global communications and organizing are occurring around water and how Global North movements are engaging with and learning from the Global South and vice versa.
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by Vincent Guermond | Published January 30, 2025 by Routledge
This book comprehensively explores the messy and contested relationship between everyday practices of remittance sending and receiving, processes of market making, and operations of micro- and global finance.
Remittances and Financial Inclusion critically investigates a global migration-development agenda that aims to harness remittances for development by incorporating remittance flows and households into global financial circuits. The book develops a multidisciplinary perspective and combines insights from economic, development, and financial geography as well as international political economy and economic anthropology. It sets out a geographies of remittance marketisation approach to investigate the intricate and grounded ways in which remittance markets are constructed, the extent to which remittance flows and households can be (re)configured and incorporated into global finance, and why such processes are always fragile, contested, and in need of constant renegotiation. Drawing on extensive fieldwork research, the book provides an in-depth critical interrogation of the policies and initiatives that underpin remittance marketisation in Senegal, Ghana, and beyond.
This volume will be especially useful to those researching and working in the areas of international development, contemporary geographies of finance and market making, and migration and remittances. It should also prove of interest to policymakers, practitioners, and activists concerned with the relation between migration, remittances, and finance in the Global South.
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by Ariane Agunsoye | published 6th November 2024 by Bristol University Press
Pension policy in the UK and US is designed on the assumption that people make informed financial decisions, consistently invest in pensions and manage diverse portfolios. Deviating from this is often deemed irresponsible and irrational. However, this assumption overlooks uncontrollable factors like caring duties, employment breaks or income limitations. Even when individuals act as expected, unpredictable market shifts can hinder long-term planning.
This book redefines deviations to “rational behaviour” as logical responses to a dysfunctional system. Challenging existing theoretical discussions and policy approaches, it proposes a fresh perspective on rationality when it comes to financial practices and policy.
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edited by Anitra Nelson | published June 2025 by Routledge
This handbook takes stock of ‘degrowth’, a concept and movement, gaining increasing visibility in the 2020s. Contributors explain contexts for degrowth’s significance, elaborate its diverse history and detail its unique approaches, practices, challenges and potential futures. Part I sets the ecological, economic and political contexts framing degrowth’s evolution as a significant concept for societies facing the challenges of deepening socio-political inequities and ecological unsustainabilities.
Part II identifies themes characterising degrowth movements in a sample of distinctive countries, starting with its origins in France. Part III shows degrowth ‘concepts in action’, explaining in practical ways the meanings of terms such as ‘conviviality’, ‘degrowth doughnut’, ‘frugal abundance’, ‘commoning’ and ‘defashioning’. Part IV offers analyses and forward-looking imaginaries for degrowth from the perspectives of distinctive agents, agendas and theoretical frameworks. Contributors engage with ecofeminist futures, utopian thought and show how degrowth is necessary to address poverty.
Highly experienced and knowledgeable contributors from varied scholarly and practitioner fields address a range of strategic, activist, policy, and research questions in this handbook. Grounded in empirical cases they identify significant social and ecological challenges, relevant to students, researchers, activists, policy-makers and practitioners at various levels within the wide range of fields in which degrowth can be applied.
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by Harold James | 2023, Yale University Press
The eminent economic historian Harold James presents a new perspective on financial crises, dividing them into “good” crises, which ultimately expand markets and globalization, and “bad” crises, which result in a smaller, less prosperous world. Examining seven turning points in financial history—from the depression of the 1840s through the Great Depression of the 1930s to the Covid-19 crisis—James shows how crashes prompted by a lack of supply, like the oil shortages of the 1970s, lead to greater globalization as markets expand and producers innovate to increase supply. By contrast, crises triggered by a lack of demand—such as the Global Financial Crisis of 2007–2008—result in less globalization as markets contract, austerity measures are imposed, and skepticism of government grows.
By considering not only the times but also the observers who shaped our understanding of each crisis—from Karl Marx to John Maynard Keynes to Larry Summers—James shows how the uneven course of globalization has led to new economic thinking, and how understanding this history can help us better prepare for the future.
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by Helma Lutz | Published May 2025 by Pluto Press
What is it like to care for another family, while yours remains in a different country? In today's capitalist society, migrant women performing care work in private households experience the painful tension of caring for both, often under precarious conditions.
Characterised as the 'backstage' family, the carer's remote relationship with their loved ones at home is often purely digital, with the double dilemmas of migrant motherhood and stay-behind fathers - exposing the pitfalls of transnational employment relations and the growth of social inequality.
Here, Helma Lutz explores the debates around this issue, focusing on carers from Eastern Europe working in the West. She unpacks questions around feminist critiques of capitalism and the commodification of emotional labour, exploring how gender justice and the search for socialist feminist utopias can shape how we see a future - not only for the improvement of the carers' working and living conditions but also for a new way of dealing with care work.
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by Jorge Grespan | published May 2025 by Haymarket Books
What are economic crises? Are they only possible or inevitable? Are they caused by chronic under-consumption, inter-sectoral disproportionality, or a fall in the profit rate? In his study of the concept of crisis in Marx’s Capital, Jorge Grespan sets out to answer these questions.
Marx’s complex exposition of the concept of economic crisis in Capital and its preparatory manuscripts gave rise to different interpretations about the causes and modalities of capitalist crises. The Negative of Capital renews these urgent debates by treating the concept of crisis as the negative of the concept of capital. In this thoroughgoing exposition of Marx’s masterwork, Jorge Grespan reconstitutes the steps by which Capital’s exposition progressively enriches its content and form. To this end, dialectical categories such as measurelessness and relative necessity are mobilised and developed.
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by Ryan Davey | Bristol University Press, 2025
As the cost of living rises, British households face unprecedented levels of debt. But many commentators characterise those who stash away envelopes, leave telephones ringing, or hide from debt collectors as irresponsible.
The first full-length ethnography of debt problems in Britain, this book uses long-term fieldwork on a southern English housing estate to give a sensitive retelling of the everyday lives of indebted people.
It argues that the inequalities of debt go beyond economic questions to include the way state coercion hinders people’s efforts to define what they truly value. Indeed, from finance to housing and even parenthood, the potential for dispossession has become a pervasive method of power that strikes at the heart of personal life.
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by Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira | published 06 March 2025 by Oxford University Press
The Rise and Fall of Neoliberal Rentier Capitalism is an account of the political economy of capitalism in the 20th and 21st centuries. Capitalism is an unjust form of economic organisation; it is a culture of exacerbated individualism justified by the glorification of individual competition. Today, after 40 years of neoliberalism, capitalism faces again a legitimation crisis.
The book discusses capitalism after two revolutions - the Organisational Revolution and the Democratic Revolution. It views capitalism since the New Deal in the US and the post-war as a progressive and developmental era and the Neoliberal Turn as the change from social democracy to radical and regressive global neoliberalism, which was a regressive time for almost forty years. In the Neoliberal Years, rentiers replaced entrepreneurs in the command of the economy and called on the financiers to manage their wealth and serve as organic intellectuals, and both mounted an attack to the state, which is the main capitalist institution.
The global crisis and, in 2020, the Covid pandemic showed that the state remains the nations' resource of last instance. The transition of China from statism to an active developmentalism resulted in an extraordinary growth. Given such realities, in 2021 we saw the collapse of neoliberalism, and in the United States, a Developmental Turn - the state is back in the economy.
The transition phase we live in is characterised by three main forces - economic liberalism, managerialism, and democracy. Economic liberalism is the great defeated, managerialism became powerful and is developmental, and democracy is the stronger force. It was attacked by neoliberalism and is now being attacked by right-wing populism, but resisted and resists brilliantly, proving that it was a conquest of the popular classes that became a universal value counting on the support of all social classes.
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by David Balzer | Published May 2025 by Pluto Press
What does it mean to call something 'new'? Why is Western culture, even after postmodernism, still so obsessed with the concept? What are the political consequences of relying on this culture to bring about social change?
In this provocative book, David Balzer argues that Western culture was never designed to produce truly new or original artefacts. Rather, the West moves from fixation to fixation, trend to trend—a cycle of creation and destruction with deep origins in Judeo-Christianity and the paganism that preceded it. The culture industry is rooted in a resource-scarce economy, which promises its own form of change while preserving many other things exactly as they are.
From the New Jerusalem to the New Left, Vannevar Bush to Kate Bush, This Is Not New takes a dynamic approach, asking difficult questions about the role of culture not in making change, but in delaying—even preventing—it. Balzer urges us to look at the Western culture industry for what it is, lest it become all there is.
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by Randall Wray | Edward Elgar, 2025
In this illuminating book, Randall Wray explores the origins, nature, and evolution of money, emphasizing the critical role played by both credit and state money in capitalism. Integrating and updating the influential theories presented in Wray’s previous books, Money and Credit in Capitalist Economies and Understanding Modern Money, this new book addresses key questions in modern economic theory and policy.
Wray adopts the monetary theory of production shared by the three principle heterodox traditions, Marxism, Institutionalism and Keynesianism to highlight the role played by money in the capitalist system. He applies Keynes''s liquidity preference theory and Marx''s labor theory of value to examine the determinants of the value of money and uncover the systemic properties driving capitalist production. He provides insights into the vital role of the state in the development and regulation of the modern monetary system. Finally, he identifies how monetary and fiscal policy can be improved to mitigate future challenges and promote economic, social and environmental sustainability.
Students and scholars of heterodox approaches to economic theory, the endogenous approach to money and banking, and fiscal and monetary policy will greatly benefit from this valuable book. It is also a vital resource for academics studying the social sciences, such as sociology, political science and anthropology.
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URPE invites doctoral candidates in any discipline with an approved dissertation proposal in the area of radical political economics to apply for the URPE Dissertation Fellowship. The fellowship is typically awarded to candidates whose dissertations contribute directly to radical political economics and URPE's mission, as well as on the basis of need.
The URPE dissertation fellow will receive $6500 to support their dissertation writing during the 2025-2026 academic year.
Applicants should submit:
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We invite established scholars in economic and business history to spend a period of time in residence at the University of Bonn – Center for Advanced Studies “Finance & Inequality” (www.casfi.uni-bonn.de). The fellow is expected to interact with faculty and researchers, present work at our workshops, actively participate in workshops and conferences, and conduct historical research in the fields finance and / or inequality.
Fellowships have a duration of 3 to 6 months. Recipients receive a monthly fellowship of €5,000 to cover the additional living costs for a stay in Bonn. Furthermore, they will receive work space, an e-mail account, a computer, and access to the University’s libraries and to the intranet for the duration of the appointment. Moreover, we also reimburse reasonable travel expenses incurred for the trip to Bonn and the trip home at the end of the scholarship.
In the newly founded Centre for Advanced Studies “Finance & Inequality” (CASFI), led by Professor Carsten Burhop (Economic history) and Professor Christian Bayer (Economics), a number of early career and established researchers will come together to explore the broadly defined topic finance and inequality that also leaves them scope for their individual research ideas. In particular, researchers are looking at the multiple relationships between the development of the financial sector and the evolution of income and wealth inequality from a historical angle.
How to apply:
Applicants should indicate when they would like to join us during the academic year 2025/26. Applicants should hold a PhD for at least five years by the time of the start of the fellowship.
To apply for the fellowship please submit the following:
The application should be sent via email to: casfi@uni-bonn.de.
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Application Deadline: June 15, 2025
Starting this upcomoing winter term 2025/26, the Chemnitz University of Technology will offer an English-language master programme M.Sc. Business & Economics with a significant focus on pluralist economics and sustainability. It follows the principles for responsible management education (PRME) and the sustainable development goals (SDG) of the United Nations.
The program is designed to offer a maximum of flexibility with possible specializations in a range of topics in economics and management as well as the possibility to combind these and to complement the studies in Chemnitz with a term abroad or an internship. Fields of specializations are:
(1) Strategy, Leadership & Economics
(2) Sustainability, Innovation & Marketing
(3) Finance, Taxation & Controlling
(4) Empirical and Applied Economics
The programme MSc. Business & Economics is in the final stages of being independently accredited in the system of the German Accreditation Council. It will be the first degree programme of the department that is taught fully in English.
The department also offers an explicitly pluralist master programme in economics (M.Sc. Economics), which was already independently accredited in 2023. Based on the principle of the 3P (practical relevance, problem-orientedness, pluralism), this programme combines a broad theoretical and methodological foundation (also including pluralist perspectives) with specializations focused on cutting-edge topics in pluralist economics:
(1) Inequality,
(2) Climate change,
(3) Technological and structural change,
(4) Computational economics,
(5) History of economic thought, and
(6) Monetary economics.
TU Chemnitz is a medium-sized university known for innovativeness, diversity and an international student body. It is located in Chemnitz - one of the European cultural capitals for the year 2025 - not far from Leipzig.
For more information, see:
https://www.tu-chemnitz.de/wirtschaft/studium/master/be/ (M.Sc. Business & Economics)
https://www.tu-chemnitz.de/wirtschaft/studium/master/eco/ (M.Sc. Economics)
https://www.instagram.com/economics.tuc/ (Instagram page of the M.Sc. Economics)
Centro Sraffa is pleased to share the news that the Archive of Luigi Lodovico Pasinetti’s papers is now open to scholars. You can find the digital archive here.
This website serves as a digital preservation platform for Luigi L. Pasinetti's manuscripts and research notes. The archive contains scanned documents organized according to Pasinetti's original classification system.
The Japanese government plans to enact a new “Act on the Science Council of Japan” during the current Diet session. The bill aims to abolish the current Science Council of Japan (SCJ), the nation's equivalent of the national science academy since 1949, which has offered scientific advice to the government quite independently, and replace it with a new one to which the government can intervene and control by incorporation.
Normally, incorporation grants greater managerial independence. However, the bill introduces several surveillance mechanisms enabling government intervention and control over the SCJ.
The SCJ was established in 1949. Reflecting on the bitter experience of war time Japan, in the course of which scientists had been moblized for militery purposes, it was established, "based on the the consensus of scientists" as an institution whose mission is “to contribute to the peaceful reconstruction of our country, the welfare of human society, and the advancement of science in cooperation with the global academic community.” (The preamble of the current Act on SCJ, 1948). It has responded to governmental inquiries, made recommendations and proposals, and has played an active role in the welfare of Japanese society and the advancement of science.
Nowadays we are faced with numerous issues which should be tackled with and overcome from a global perspective, such as climate crisis, frequent and large-scale natural disasters, COVID-19 andthe other pandemics, wars in Ukraine and Gaza, and socio-economic (in case of Japan, the “loss of momentum of economic growth" for the past 30 Years!). Under such circumstances, the role of the SCJ, which can offer proposals and possible solutions based on scientific knowledge, independently of the government, is getting more important.
However, ever since the notorious incident in 2020, when Prime Minister Mr. Yoshihide Suga quite unlawfully refused to appoint the six candidates for the SCJ membership (duly recommended by the SCJ), the Japanese government has been continuously ignoring the SCJ’s independence, trying to intervene. Now, it plans to enact a new law for the "incorporation" of SCJ. It aims to deprive the SCJ of its independence and autonomy, and transform it into an organisation subjected to governmental control, which will be exercised various devices, such as "auditors" appointed by the Prime Minister, the "review committee" established in the Cabinet Office, and the “advisory committee for the selection of members” organised by outsiders.
It is unacceptable that the present government, which has no majority in the Diet, dares to enact such a bill aimed at totally dismantling the SCJ so hastily, without any substantial discussion in the Diet. If we citizens raise our voices and the opposition parties work closely together, we can put pressure on the government and compel it to withdraw this bill. Together, we have the power to influence the Diet and defeat this bill, but we need your support to make it happen.
If you agree with the above purpose, please express your support for our initiative by signing this petition.
Please note that the names of the signatories will be made public. In case you do not wish your name to be publicised, please indicate it by checking the appropriate box.
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The EuroMemo Group (European Economists for an Alternative Economic Policy in Europe) have published their annual report, which is titled “EUROPE AND THE WORLD BEYOND THE POLYCRISIS: POSSIBLE FUTURES”.
In 2024, the EU produced a host of reports that analyse developments over the longer term, forecast and strategize well into the future. This includes the Strategic Agenda of the European Council, the Political Guidelines of the President of the European Commission, the Letta Report and above all the Draghi Report. Hence, our 2025 Report considers developments within a broader timescale, in addition to our usual one-year timeframe of analysis. More specifically, the first Chapter of the Report examines developments in the EU economic, industrial and social policy in 2024 and proposes alternatives. Chapter 2 offers a broader critique of the EU’s strategic planning, imagining alternative futures, while Chapter 3 focuses on the Euro, its effects in the 25 years of its existence and the implications of EU policy over the next 25 years. Chapter 4 analyses the challenges of sustainable development, while Chapter 5 discusses the conditions for moving beyond Eurocentrism. We invite the community of heterodox social scientists to support our report, making our voice stronger in critiquing the EU policies and proposing alternatives.
The WINRA project ('Knowledge Archive') is conducting disciplinary surveys of racism research in Germany/Switzerland/Austria.
Request for Course Information Please provide information on courses addressing racism from the past 10 years, including semester, title, and lecturer name (optional but preferred).
The survey seeks courses that:
Request for Research Project Information Research projects should be registered following the same criteria. Please include:
Additional Materials Abstracts describing seminar content or research projects would be valuable additions, though not essential if unavailable.
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A collection of free articles, chapters and open access titles in Decolonisation studies has been assembled to support academic research and teaching. This resource is available for sharing with students and colleagues.
Highlights from the collection include:
If you are interested in trying out more content from the Sociologylist or Global Social Challenges collections, ask your librarian to sign up for a free trial.
Publishing inquiries in this field, including open access options, may be directed to Emily.Ross@bristol.ac.uk to explore opportunities with an ethical university press.
Here you can find the General Reading List for Students of Economics by John F. Henry.
John Forrest Henry was a heterodox economist, a perspicacious historian of economic thought, a trenchant social critic, an eloquent writer, and an amiable colleague and mentor.
He was born in Red Hill, Pennsylvania in April 1943 and died in Kansas City, Missouri in September 2020. He went to Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA (BA in Economics, 1965) and to McGill University, Montreal, Canada (MA and PhD in Economics, 1967 and 1974 respectively). Henry's PhD adviser was Professor Athanasios (Tom) Asimakopulos.
Henry worked at California State University-Sacramento (1970-2004), University of Missouri-Kansas City (2001-2014), and Levy Economics Institute of Bard College until 2020. In 2017 he received the Veblen-Commons Award from the Association for Evolutionary Economics, the highest scholarly honor recognized by the international organization of original institutional economists. He was the president of the Association for Institutional Thought (2007). He is the author of two books, The Making of Neoclassical Economics (1990, Unwin Hyman; 2011, Routledge) and John Bates Clark (1995, Macmillan). For further information visit his website.