Issue 345 June 23, 2025 web pdf Heterodox Economics Directory
Joseph Schumpeter's iconic description of the entrepreneur, as an ideal-type for the passionate, adventurous, and smart characters that coin the history of industry, can, of course, be contested in many ways: it's a little reductionist, it's a little essentialist, its framing is overly sexist... and so on. Nonetheless, I would admit that the intuition that some actors are driven by an intrinsic desire to passionately follow their convictions – thereby often neglecting short-term risks and costs – bears some resonance with me. Without a certain passion for stuff like understanding complex systems, fostering human well-being, or supporting democratic governance, I would, for instance, most probably not have become a heterodox economist.
Similarly, Frederic S. Lee, the founder of this Newsletter, always made an entrepreneurial impression on me: Fred was an eager networker, a stringent community organizer, a devoted scholar, and dedicated to foster heterodoxy till his last breath. Relatedly, the work of the large majority of assistants and volunteers that helped manage and develop the Newsletter over the years was driven by similarly passionate motives. The Newsletter would indeed not be possible without their – paid as well as unpaid – contributions, which are truly essential in many respects.
In this spirit, I wanted to take the opportunity to highlight the tireless and meritful work of Niklas Klann and Johanna Rath, who have served as the two main assistants over the last years and were the true pillars on which this scientific community service rested. Without their contribution, I would have failed miserably as an editor, and the possibility of relying on their relentless, careful, and observant capacities made my life as an editor easy, sometimes even close to comfortable ;-)
Niklas is soon to complete his MA in Socio-Economics at the University of Duisburg-Essen, while Johanna plans to finish her PhD at Johannes Kepler University Linz – both are getting set for making the next big steps in their journey and I wish them all the best for doing so. Although the prospect of their future absence admittedly scares me a little, the outlook to work with new colleagues, like Till Aperdannier or Mo Laufkötter, on this ambitious project excites me. Welcome to the team and let's have a good time rocking heterodox economics ;-)
Aside from (paid) assistants I manage to employ here or there, the Newsletter also draws on contributions from (unpaid) volunteers, like, most notably, Alam Gabriel Galicia Robles, whose efforts not only help us to get the editorial workload done, but are also essential to broaden our vista and show greater sensitivity to different priorities in different world regions. In this spirit I would like to renew our long-standing call for international volunteers that would like to support the Newsletter's work – if you are interested in joining our somewhat chaotic, but very kind&friendly team to keep the world informed about heterodox economics, gladly let us know via email.
Although this organizational setup worked well in the past, I have to admit that I always struggled with one key drawback, namely that it reproduces existing global asymmetries: my assistants in the Global North typically enjoy paid jobs, while our volunteers from the Global South have contributed for free. To remedy this key aspect I decided to create a formal association to provide more flexible institutional support for the Heterodox Economics Newsletter with the main idea to allow for paying financial remunerations to volunteer contributors from the Global South. In my view this is a win-win strategy to confront our internal asymmetries and to improve our editorial sensibility for contributions and views outside the Global North context.
I would like to invite you, my dear readers, to become supporting members in this newly funded association – that is modestly labeled as "International Association for Heterodox Economics and Political Economy" ;-) – for a small annual contribution of 25 Euros. While the primary purpose of this association is to support the publication of the Heterodox Economics Newsletter, the provisional regulations would also allow for broadening the spectrum of planned activities given a reasonable number of people show interest. In case you are motivated to support this move towards a formalization of the inherent entrepreneurial passions driving the publication of the Newsletter by becoming a member, we would be truly cherished if you can send us a short note to newsletter@heterodoxnews.com. We will then provide you with an outlook on the current state and next steps of this project.
Many thanks for considering and all the best,
Jakob
© public domain
22-23 September 2025, 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 22nd– 23rd September 2025 (Monday - Tuesday) in Athens/Greece.
We would like to invite you to attend the conference and to submit paper proposals for contributions to the workshops. 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 together with a short abstract (maximum 250 words) should be submitted by 29 June 2025 to info@euromemo.eu. If possible, please indicate the topic which the proposal is intended for. Applications from young scientists, CEE and Balkan countries as from EU neighbourhood, and different networks of heterodox economists are highly welcomed. All submitted abstracts will be reviewed by the Steering Committee of the EuroMemo Group. Decisions will be made by the end of July. If accepted, completed papers should be submitted by 12 September 2025 to info@euromemo.eu. After acceptance, full papers will be posted on the conference webpage. There is also the possibility to publish selected papers in the EuroMemo Group Discussion Paper Series. We strongly encourage participants to submit short papers (5000 – 6000 words) and to explicitly address policy implications. Please note that there will be conference fees to cover the cost of the conference: €100 standard fee, €40s student fee, €150 for participants with institutional support. There will be a discount of 20% for members. You can become a member by clicking HERE. Please note that there is no deadline for registering for participation only. Registration details for the conference, practical information including hotel bookings and transport will be available soon via the conference web page, which you can visit HERE. Early booking is strongly recommended. For further questions, please contact: info@euromemo.eu
Submission Deadline: 12 September 2025
11–12 November 2025 | HSE University campus, 11 Pokrovsky Boulevard, Moscow, Russia
The Centre for the History and Methodology of Economic Science (CeHistMet) of HSE University together with the Faculty of Economics of Lomonosov Moscow State University, the Institute of Economics of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the New Economic Association invite you to take part in the conference Russia–USSR–Russia: Development of Russian Economic Thought in the 19th – Early 21st Centuries.
The Conference will include a presentation of the Russian Association of Historians of Economic Science. Selected conference papers may be part of the special issue in Russian Journal of economics (Scopus indexed) and a Springer monograph.
The acceptance decisions will be made on September 22, 2025. For those wishing to take part in the conference without a presentation, the deadline for registration is November 9, 2025. For more information see the conference website. For all questions, please contact the executive secretary of the conference Anton Galeev (agaleev@hse.ru or agaleev.hse@gmail.com)
Application Deadline: 7 July 2025
6-7 October 2025 | Bocconi University (Milan)
After many decades of relative neglect, in the last fifteen years or so long-term trends in economic inequality have become the object of considerable attention. This process has mostly involved Europe, also due to the relative abundance of usable historical documentation, and (for the modern age at least) the Americas, but researchers have been hard at work to expand our knowledge of historical trends in inequality in other world areas. The accumulation of knowledge about the past has had important consequences for the general debate about economic inequality. In fact, today it is absolutely clear that it is not possible to truly understand not only the origins, but also the consequences and the real implications, of economic inequality in human societies of any time without adopting a long-run perspective.
The Inequality & History conference is aimed at bringing together research teams that have been working to reconstruct long-term trends in inequality, in different world areas and periods – from prehistory up until the modern era. The conference aim is to provide an opportunity for comparing the wealth of new information about inequality which is being unearthed, to favour cooperation between international scholars, to establish some clear criteria about how information on inequality could best be collated and presented, to establish the landmarks (‘what we know about inequality in history’) as well as to indicate the path for future research (‘what we don’t know, but we should know’). The conference will be the first in a series of international gatherings on economic inequality hosted by the Dondena Centre at Bocconi University (Milan, Italy).
All proposals about historical levels or trends in inequality of wealth or income in any part of the world are welcome. Preference will be given to proposals presenting new evidence from large-scale projects, reconstructing long-term trends and/or covering large areas.
The conference will take place at Bocconi University (Milan, Italy), on 6-7 October 2025. The organizers will cover the travel expenses of all accepted participants.
Proposals, inclusive of a title and a short abstract (max 250 words), should be sent to Guido Alfani (guido.alfani@unibocconi.it) and Mattia Fochesato (mattia.fochesato@unibocconi.it) by 10 July 2025. The outcome of the proposals selection process will be communicated by July 31.
Submission Deadline: 10 July 2025
Value is a central category for understanding and analysing socio-economic activities (Chen and Galbraith, 2023). Economics, for which the historical division between objective and subjective economic value theories is still of importance (Pitts, 2021), has largely shaped the understanding of value (economic, but also other kinds of value such as social or public) and valuation, irrespective of different societal values and practices (Clark, 1936; Boltanski and Thévenot, 1999; Boltanski and Thévenot, 2006 [1991]; Heinich, 2020).
The influence of economics on value concepts and valuation practices is pervasive in a growing number of areas of social life (Zelizer, 1979; Mackenzie, 2006; Beckert and Aspers, 2011; Chiapello, 2015). A dichotomous view of market and non-market coordination, combined with the view that the market is the superior coordination mechanism, has promoted an exclusive mode in the economic analysis of value and valuation. For example, there is no room for dynamic analysis of value and valuation in economic choice models. Values other than those associated with the economic realm (e.g., justice, resilience, cognition) are often excluded from valuation processes or subordinated to monetary units of measurement (Greenwood, 2008). The benchmark or standard of many valuation practices is a universe of values (Jørgensen and Bozeman, 2007) reduced to a class of economic values, in particular efficiency and effectiveness.
The effects of valuations have been studied in political economy, economic sociology, public value, the sociology of critique, accounting and financialisation (of, e.g., housing, Fuller, 2021), power and corporate power, marketing, organisation studies, or philosophy of science. And Marxian theory of value is being questioned, bringing an additional contribution to the discussion of value (Beckenbach, 2020). According to value and valuation research in (economic) sociology or other fields of valuation studies, valuations are the activities or processes, partly methodologically based, that are undertaken to create or determine value. Thus, value is what can be brought about by valuations or valuation practices (Kornberger, 2017; Krüger and Peetz, 2025).
While there is already a substantial body of work on value and valuation in many disciplines or research areas, we still lack a fruitful exchange and integration of insights from different disciplines. We want to explore how interdisciplinary research lenses can identify blind spots and new research questions, develop new frameworks, or integrate existing ones, i.e. advance theoretical, empirical, and normative analyses of value and valuation and their social and political dimensions. This includes, for example, addressing the problem-solving capacity of value and valuation research; the sets of values used in valuations; the validity and reliability of value concepts; and the relevance of value concepts in different socio-economic contexts or policy areas (Maesse 2015). The role of theoretical abstraction (in economics, e.g. of axiological values) and modelling (in economics, e.g. of economic decisions), as well as fundamental distinctions such as subjective and objective in value and valuation research in general and in economics in particular require attention.
We invite scholars to examine core themes associated with the understanding and conceptualization of value and valuation, as well as practices and policies related to it.
For further information please click here.
Submission Deadline for abstracts: 31st January 2026
The Revue de la régulation has decided to extend the deadline for submitting articles for a future thematic issue entitled: "From Croesus to Nakamoto, how currencies emerge: between practice and theory"
From a multi-disciplinary perspective, this call for papers seeks to shed light on the emergence and conditions of existence of currencies and the mechanisms associated with them. Contributions should take the form of case studies (from very old to contemporary) and/or contribute to generalization, based on economic but also anthropological, historical, legal, political or sociological approaches.
This issue is supervized by Pierre Alary (Université de Lille – CLERSE) and Jérôme Blanc (Sciences Po Lyon). The full presentation of the call for papers can be found on the journal website.
Papers proposal have must be submitted via the submission online platform: https://ojs.openedition.org/index.php/regulation/about/submissions
You can contact us at:
New deadline for submitting articles: September 1, 2025
As institutional arrangements, social protection policies exhibit a form of permanence or persistence. The political economy of social protection produces stylized representations of social protection systems, contrasting contribution-based financing with tax-based financing, targeted benefits with universal benefits, and replacement income with lump-sum payments. These stylized representations are useful for structuring our thinking: everyone is familiar with the main typologies used for comparing social protection systems (Bismarck/Beveridge; Titmuss, 1974; Esping-Andersen, 1999; etc.). But these categories, which are taught and repeated, must be combined with an analysis of change if we are to account for the transformations in social protection.
The aim of this special issue is to seek to characterize institutional change within social protection analytically (André & Delorme, 1983; Boyer, 2003; Streeck & Thelen, 2005). The main questions behind this call for papers can be summarized as follows: What are the drivers of change? What forms does change take? What are the economic and political consequences of change?
National social protection systems are constantly changing, both at the aggregate level and on a scheme-by-scheme basis. This evolution is the result of multiple factors that can be discussed separately or jointly. In all countries, demographic dynamics are changing the type and prevalence of welfare needs (Razing et al., 2002; Elbaum, 2014). In recent years, the ageing of the population has been a major concern, but the place of young people is also worth considering (Carbonnier & Palier, 2022). Economic dynamics are often presented as the primary factor: social protection institutions both structure and are structured by the labour market (Boyer, 2015; Grégoire & Vivés, 2021). The habits and practices of agents (firms, households) are also likely to reshape social protection. Technological innovations are driving change in social protection because they create new needs or translate them into a new language that challenges traditional ways of doing things (dematerialization, platformization, etc.) (Kappler, 2023). Public policy decisions are, of course, at the heart of change. They are sometimes discreet, such as the transformation of the pension indexation method or the introduction of means testing for access to family allowances. They are sometimes introduced following the emergence of a clearly political power struggle, as was the case with the individualization of access to the adult disability allowance in France. Although social protection is often presented as the outcome of compromise, it owes much to conflict (Amable & Palombarini, 2017; Obinger et al., 2018). Richard Titmuss, for example, has emphasized the role of military conflict in the development of social protection in Europe (Titmuss, 2018). This issue is all the more important given that recent global geopolitical tensions tend to impose the idea of a trade-off between military and welfare spending on the theme of “guns or butter” (Gal, 2007; Skaperdas & Syropoulos, 2001). Economic theory tends to inform reform proposals and reforms themselves with a certain representation of how actors behave. This is the case, for example, with unemployment insurance, which can be seen as an obstacle to returning to work when individuals are viewed as rational calculators, i.e. potential fraudsters. In addition to the performative effects of economic theory, public debate can be shaped by a whole range of discourses that diverge from existing knowledge. This type of framing (or agenda) effect has been discussed in France in relation to the expression “trou de la Sécu” (the social security deficit) (Dubois, 2014; Duval, 2020), but there are many “preconceived ideas” about welfare policies in France (Dujarier, 2023) as in other countries (Jensen & Wenzelburger, 2021).
Changes in the social protection system can take various forms over time and across countries. The type of benefit may evolve, for example, with the trend, attributed to neoliberalism, of preferring cash transfers to transfers in kind in both northern and southern countries (Jäger & Zamora Vargas, 2023). The population affected by benefits may change significantly depending on whether public policy favours targeting or universalization. In particular, against a backdrop of rising right-wing extremism in Europe and much of the world, the place of foreigners, whether legally resident or not, in social protection systems needs to be questioned (Greve, 2021). The linkage between the private and public sectors remains a central focus of analyses of change in social protection: commodification, financialization, etc. The role of the domestic sphere (Morel, 2007; Théret, 1996) and that of non-profit organizations is also changing in response to fluctuations in the market and public services (Hély & Simonet, 2023; Krinsky & Simonet, 2017). These movements are redefining unpaid work, between a necessity that must be endured and a conscious choice to contribute differently to the collective well-being. Governance is another focal point of research on social protection transformations, particularly in Europe (Palier, 2010): nationalization, the role of occupational funds, municipalities and other local authorities. The financing of social protection is a major issue, with challenges surrounding the increasingly important role played by taxes versus social contributions, and the public-private split for new investments. Changing social protection also means rethinking its boundaries. In addition to the integration of dependency as an insurable social risk and the extension of social security at the expense of supplementary health insurance, social security projects covering food and climate risks have emerged in recent years.
Changes in social protection are part of the transformation of capitalism. Several theoretical approaches seek to understand the links between these two movements. For Regulation Theory in particular, social protection policies can facilitate capital accumulation within institutionalized compromises (André, 2002; Michel & Vallade, 2007). The upheavals in the field of social protection are therefore inseparable from the significant changes affecting the wage-labour nexus and other institutional forms of the current accumulation regime (Marie & Michel, 2024). The deterioration of the Fordist wage-labour nexus (unemployment, job insecurity, flexibility, platformization, etc.) inevitably puts pressure on traditional forms of social protection and calls for renewed institutional coherence. This can be seen at the macro level, for example in the anthropogenic capitalism hypothesis (Boyer, 2015), but also at the meso level, where original forms of production and protection are developing (Gallois, 2023; Lamarche & Richez-Battesti, 2023).
Contributions to this special issue may focus on a national social protection system or draw on international comparisons, offer reflections on social risk, or focus on a particular mechanism. The editorial board will pay particular attention to proposals that focus on the international level or on countries whose institutions are little known (e.g. Aadhaar in India or social credit in China). Contributions should seek to provide a methodical demonstration of the changes that have taken place and to characterize them analytically. They will also seek to identify the economic, political or ideological causes of the changes that have taken place and/or to measure the consequences of a specific change for the functioning of the economy or for economic agents. Social protection, for example, has an impact on the level and quality of wealth production, but also on income inequalities based on gender, ethnic origin, geographical location, etc. Proposals may draw on the wide range of theoretical approaches in economics (regulationist theory, economics of conventions, post-Keynesian economics, etc.), but they may also come from any social science discipline and employ quantitative or qualitative methods.
How to submit articles: https://ojs.openedition.org/index.php/regulation/index
If you have any questions, please write to the following address: revue.regulation@mshparisnord.fr
Please follow the instructions for authors carefully, including the editorial guidelines (formats and styles), which can be found on the website: https://journals.openedition.org/regulation/1701
For further information please click here.
Deadline for submission of articles: 28 February 2026
11-12 May 2026 | ZZF Potsdam, Germany
Since the 1970s, the financial sector has developed into a prime example of economic globalization due to exceptional growth and a rapid increase in international capital flows. Government actors were often overwhelmed by such developments as the collapse of the Bretton Woods system of fixed exchange rates, the return of high inflation rates and the experience of stagflation, against which Keynesian economic policy measures appeared powerless. One response was to liberalize the banking sector and capital movements with the aim of unleashing market forces in international competition. At the same time, Western central banks focused on high inflation rates, one of the most striking symptoms of the crisis of the 1970s. Restrictive monetary policies tended to push economic policy interventions into the background.
The narrative of the ostensibly inexorable rise of money as a result of the crises of the 1970s thus encompasses – at least at first glance – a withdrawal of state intervention. This aligns with the diagnosis of the financialization of many areas of society, from corporate and government financing to social security systems. German historians sometimes even describe such trends as a new era of ‘financial market capitalism.’
In reality, however, the development of the markets continued to require state regulation, indeed to an increasing extent. The international trend toward independent central banks, which were supposed to curb rising inflation, was also the result of political decisions rather than anonymous market forces. At the same time, changes in the functions of the state also altered the structure of public finances: in addition to the traditional tasks of balancing the budget and stimulating the economy new social demands had developed in Western welfare states during the boom phase. This resulted in rising government debt with new international financial interdependencies, increasing financialization of public debt, and the emergence of corresponding trading platforms with new financial products.
Focusing on the financial sector we want to examine how the relationship between the state, the economy, and society has been reconfigured since the 1970s. Ultimately, only such an integrative, internationally comparative contemporary history of financial markets can clarify the extent to which we are actually dealing with an ‘age of finance’ that continues to the present day. The conference aims to bring together recent research on the history of central and commercial banks, public finance and tax policy as well as on the social history of financialization, and to identify possible connections between these and other fields.
We welcome proposals for presentations on any of the following topics, as well as aspects that go beyond these subject areas:
1. Central banks as technocratic sovereigns?
Since the 1970s, central banks have become key players in financial markets, yet they do not operate entirely in a market-based manner, nor are they democratically legitimized. How has the role of central banks changed since the 1970s in the field of tension between monetary stability, political control, and the rise of market logic? What impact has the international trend toward institutional independence for central banks had on national economic policy options, and to what extent can this development be understood as a political response to the inflationary experiences and economic crises of the 1970s? What role did changing academic doctrine play, particularly in the temporary rise of monetarism and new theoretical syntheses?
2. Public debt as a business model
Public debt increasingly became part of global financial markets. At the same time, the integration of government debt securities into international capital markets permanently altered the balance of power between creditors and democratically legitimized debtors. What structural and political causes led to rising government debt in Western industrialized countries since the 1970s, and how did this change national and international financial relations? To what extent did the financialization of public debt contribute to the emergence of new financial markets and financial instruments, and what role did international lenders, investors, and rating agencies play in this process?
3. Fiscal policy in the context of global capital mobility
Despite neoliberal rhetoric, tax policy remained a central lever of state intervention in the economy and society. However, tax policy adjustments since the 1980s have tended to favor capital income over labor income, thereby exacerbating social inequality. How did states respond to increasing capital mobility and growing tax competition since the 1970s, and how did this development influence the long-term financial viability of welfare state services? What shifts occurred in the tax structure (e.g., between corporate, capital, and consumption taxes), and how did tax policy decisions influence social and economic inequality within and between countries?
4. Unlimited capital – limited politics? Stock exchanges and capital markets
Since the 1970s, an increasingly interconnected, globally operating capital market has emerged. In the process, stock exchanges have transformed from national trading venues into globally networked hubs of the financial markets. What specific role did stock exchanges play in this development, and how did their institutional structures, modes of operation, and regulatory mechanisms change? To what extent did technological innovations, new financial products, and the increasing international mobility of capital make stock exchanges central players in the global financial architecture, and what role did they play in spreading financial logic? How did international capital flows affect economic sovereignty, currency stability, and the strategic options of national (or European) financial and economic policy?
5. Social history of financialization
The partial outsourcing of pension provision to insurance companies and financial markets on the one hand, and growing private debt on the other, have led to financial markets becoming increasingly important for private households in recent decades. These processes have also been linked to product innovations in the financial sector. Who drove the emergence and development of these new business areas? Beyond their statistical aggregation, how can such financialization processes be historically understood at the level of the actors involved? When and why did they become the subject of political interest, receive state support, or come under critical scrutiny?
Travel and accommodation costs will be covered by the organizers. We kindly request that you submit topic proposals of no more than 200 words, together with a short CV (in one file), by August 31, 2025, to:
Submission Deadline: 31 August 2025
16-18 September 2025 | Utrecht University, Netherlands
We are delighted to invite you to the Workshop on History and Sustainable Finance. This event brings together historians and a small group of investors to examine the current historiography about the role of finance in history in shaping a modern economy which is bringing the world at the brink of an ecological and social collapse. Together, we will reflect on how these historical dynamics can inform the redesign of today’s financial systems supporting the development of a more sustainable economy and society. You are invited to present a paper on a topic of your choice. We are especially keen to receive contributions that examine the emergence and transformation of financial structures and instruments—such as bonds, joint-stock companies, or insurance schemes—the operations and influence of banks and credit networks in shaping global markets, and the evolution of shareholder capitalism, including its impact on governance and investment practices. We also welcome papers that analyze these developments through specific historical case studies or comparative approaches and encourage submissions that explore how these financial dynamics intersect with broader transitions and its economic, social, and ecological outcomes. Specific case studies are also welcome. Summaries of past or ongoing work are suitable, provided they engage with the workshop’s research questions.
For those interested:
Submission Deadline: 3 July 2025
3-5 September 2025 | Department of Economic and Social Sciences, Faculty of Economics "Giorgio Fuà", Piazzale Martelli, 8 - 60121 Ancona - Italy
The Department of Economic and Social Sciences of the Università Politecnica delle Marche (UNIVPM), in collaboration with the Department of Economics (Dipartimento di Eccellenza 2023-2027) of the Università degli Studi dell'Insubria, is organizing the 4th summer school on Agent-Based Stock-Flow Consistent (AB-SFC) macroeconomic modelling from the 3rd to the 5th of September 2025. The school will use a "hands-on" approach: frontal theoretical lectures will be combined with laboratories in which the participants will have the chance to work firsthand on codes supported by the school's lecturers. The aim of the school is to help the participants start developing the bulk of skills required to become autonomous researchers in this field.
Application info: The school is open to about 20 participants (typically first and second year PhD students) and it is free of charge: the participants will be provided with a welcome aperitif, coffee breaks, lunches, and a social dinner. Travels and accommodations are at the expenses of the participants.
How to apply: Send a CV, a motivation letter, and a recommendation letter by your supervisor to the following e-mail address: absfc2025@gmail.com.
For further information please click here.
Application Deadline: 10 July 2025
4 - 5 December 2025 | Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
For Early Career Researchers, publishing journal articles and books is essential, yet often daunting. How to set up your original research and speak to existing debates? How to tailor your writing to specific journals or publishers? How do peer review processes work? How to pitch a book project? Especially in interdisciplinary fields like International Political Economy (IPE) – where scholars work on diverse topics like sustainability, finance, trade or reproduction – this can be even more challenging. At the same time, pressures to publish have never been greater. Publishing can be a difficult, often frustrating task. Yet, it can also be very productive, improving the quality of one’s work.
This workshop attempts to tackle these issues head-on by providing detailed feedback on manuscripts, demystifying the peer review process and engaging in discussions with experienced book and journal editors on how to publish. Our aim is to work with manuscripts that are close to submission and – plainly speaking – “make them publishable” in what we hope will be an intellectually stimulating, productive, and supportive environment. To that end, we will work in small review groups to provide feedback. Participants are expected to read and give detailed written feedback on two papers assigned prior to the workshop, and to then discuss this with the authors. Moreover, experienced editors from IPE journals and book series will provide advice and answer questions about scope, requirements and peer-review processes.
Programme
The Workshop will be a 1.5-day event at the Goethe University Frankfurt, from 4-5 December 2025. It will include the following activities:
Submissions
Two types of works can be submitted for this workshop: papers and book proposals from the field of IPE.
We invite papers that are close to submission or have been submitted before but have not been accepted. Please submit an extended abstract (400-500 words). Please also include a one-page list of key references and indicate the targeted journal(s).
We also invite book proposals for monographs, especially from those who plan to revise their dissertation. Please submit a synopsis of your book (400-500 words). Please also include a paragraph that provides context for your book project (e.g. if you are revising a dissertation, if this is a new project, how complete the manuscript is) and indicate the targeted publisher(s).
Submissions for both paper and book proposals should include: (1) an outline of the research question; (2) a summary of key findings and contribution to the literature; (3) brief description of the methodological/theoretical framework; and (4) an indication of the empirical data used.
Submissions should be sent to ipoe@dvpw.de
Funding
Limited funding might be available to support unfunded participants. If you would like to apply for financial assistance, please include a short case for support (max. 200 words) when submitting your abstract.
For further information and application please click here.
Application deadline: 15 July 2025
16 – 18 July 2025 | UWA Business School, Perth, Australia
We are pleased to announce that the 2025 HETSA conference will be held from 16th July to 18th July 2025 at the University of Western Australia Business School, Perth, Australia. HETSA 2025 is being hosted by the UWA Business School’s Economic History & History of Economic Thought Research Network and theUniversity of Notre Dame Australia.
Registration fees are $250 for scholars, $100 for students. However, early bird rates are available until 30th June 2025 being $220 for scholars and $80 for students. All charges above are GST exclusive.
Please register here: https://payments.uwa.edu.au/HESTAConference2025
Any inquiries should be directed to David Gilchrist (david.gilchrist@uwa.edu.au) or Riko Stevens (rikostevens@live.com)
29 Sep 2025 - 03 Oct 2025 | UNU-MERIT, Maastricht
Aims and Objectives
Agent-based models (ABM) are a powerful and increasingly essential tool in economics and across other social sciences for studying complex systems and social challenges. This summer school addresses the critical need for researchers to master not only the conceptual underpinnings of ABM but also the practical challenges of programming, adhering robust protocols and effectively communicating model design and results.
This intensive, full-time course equips participants with the advanced theoretical understanding and skills to design, implement, validate and analyze robust agent-based models.
The course will provide attendees with the technical and methodological skills required to successfully develop and analyse simulation models in a research project, such as a PhD thesis, a high-quality academic paper, or a policy report.
What you will learn
Upon completion, participants will be able to:
Course Structure
The course combines expert-led lectures, hands-on coding exercises under the close supervision of dedicated teaching staff, interactive group discussions, and seminars showcasing advanced ABM applications by leading researchers. Participants will work on individual and group research projects throughout the week, culminating in presentations of their model prototype on the final day. Crucially, dedicated time each afternoon is reserved for individual consultations with faculty offering personalized feedback on your research ideas and projects.
Who Should Apply?
This course is designed for:
We particularly encourage applications from individuals eager to integrate computational modelling into their social science toolkit. Prior experience in programming is helpful but not required. The course welcomes and supports participants with limited or no prior programming experience.
Join us: Application, Participation and Fees
Places are limited to 12 participants to ensure a high-quality learning experience and ample interaction with faculty. We encourage early applications.
Interested applicants should submit a motivation letter (detailing research interests, how this course aligns with your current or future research goals, programming experience - if any, not a prerequisite, and career stage) and CV to ABMschool@merit.unu.edu by June 25th, 2025. Decisions will be communicated by July 4th, 2025.
The course will be held in person at UNU-MERIT, Maastricht (29 September-03 October 2025). Participants should bring their own laptops. We are committed to ensuring accessibility; please contact us to discuss any specific needs.
The participant fee is €350 for students and early-career researchers (postdocs within 2 years of PhD completion), and €500 for others. This covers tuition, course materials, lunch, coffee/tea breaks and a social dinner. Participants are responsible for their own travel and accommodation expenses. Information on affordable accommodation options in Maastricht
will be provided to accepted participants.
For further information please click here.
Application Deadline: 25 June 2025
Job title: PhD Positions on Urban Polluter Elites & Sufficiency
We are delighted to announce an open call for two fully funded, four-year PhD positions within the project “Governing just transitions from the top: Barriers and levers to align urban polluter elites with sufficiency corridors”, hosted by the Just Transitions Chair of Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) as part of the SWIFFT programme.
The successful candidates will be co-supervised by an interdisciplinary team: Chair holder Dr. Aurore Fransolet (ULB-SONYA), and co-coordinators Prof. Tom Bauler (ULB-SONYA) and Prof. Bas van Heur (VUB-COSMOPOLIS).
The Just Transitions Chair seeks to contribute to the emerging research agenda on polluter elites and sufficiency by investigating who urban polluter elites are, how they relate to other social-ecological classes, and what institutional, political, spatial, infrastructural, and cultural factors shape their engagement with sufficiency. This transdisciplinary project also explores governance pathways to advance sufficiency for a just transition.
Each PhD student will develop their own thesis project within this broader research agenda. We welcome applications from candidates with diverse disciplinary backgrounds who are interested in contributing to a cutting-edge topic of strong academic and societal relevance.
The full call for applications is attached and available via the following link.
We would be grateful if you could circulate this announcement within your networks or share it with potential candidates.
For further information, please do not hesitate to contact Aurore Fransolet (aurore.fransolet@ulb.be), Tom Bauler (tom.bauler@ulb.be) and/or Bas van Heur (bas.van.heur@vub.be).
Application Deadline: 15 August 2025
Job title: Professorship of Macroeconomics (W2)
Bard College Berlin seeks to appoint a tenure-track professor of Macroeconomics to begin in January 2026. The successful candidate will teach 5 undergraduate small-group seminars in macroeconomics per year (one course is 3 hours per week in a 14-week teaching semester).
Conditions of appointment are governed by §100 of the Berlin University Law.
Applications with letter of interest, CV with a list of publications, teaching evaluations, and copies of 3 recent publications should be sent to Jobs@berlin.bard.edu.
Application Deadline: 12 September 2025
Job title: Career Development Fellow in International Political Economy
Key responsibilities:
It should be noted that the precise content of each Career Development Fellowship will vary dependent on the experience of the role-holder, their career aspirations, and the business need of the Department.
At the outset of the Fellowship a personal development plan will be produced in discussion with the Head of Department, which will outline any training needs, or other experience the post-holder wishes to gain to develop their academic career.
The development plan is a tool to assist the post-holder's academic career progression and will be reviewed regularly during the Fellowship to ensure that development needs are being met.
During the course of the Career Development Fellowship the successful candidate will gain valuable experience in a wide spectrum of academic activities. Examples include:
Development
Education
Research/Scholarship
Working at Durham
How to Apply
We prefer to receive applications online.
To progress to the assessment stage, candidates must evidence each of the essential criteria required for the role in the person specification below. It will be at the discretion of the recruiting panel as to whether they will also consider any desirable criteria, but we would urge candidates to provide evidence of all criteria.
While some criteria will be considered at the shortlisting stage, other criteria may be considered later in the assessment process, such as questions at interview.
Please note that in submitting your application, we will be processing your data. We would ask you to consider the relevant University Privacy Statement https://www.dur.ac.uk/ig/dp/privacy/pnjobapplicants/ which provides information on the collation, storing and use of data.
For further information and application please click here.
Application deadline: 12. July 2025
Job title: Doctoral candidate (4 years, fully funded) on Swedish Early Modern Inequality
We are now hiring a doctoral candidate for the 4-year project "Early Modern Economic Inequality through HTR-read Wealth Taxation Registers", funded by the Swedish Research Council.
The aim of the project is to study economic inequality in Sweden and Finland during the 1500s and 1600s. By employing HTR technology we aim to study inequality at the household level, in order to see how it varied over time, between regions, and what wealth was composed of in different settings and social groups. The role of the doctoral student is to gather and process data, to develop methods and carry out quantitative analyses of the Early Modern inequality. The current focus of the project is the 1571 wealth taxation, which covered all of Sweden, Finland, and a part of Russia.
The doctoral student will work in the project closely together with Docent Martin Andersson, Head of the Division of Agrarian History at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Professor Kerstin Enflo at the Department of Economic History at Lund University, and Doctor Olof Karsvall at the Swedish National Archives.
The doctoral student will receive a salary and full Swedish employment benefits. The total time of the Ph.D. program is 4 years, including 75 HEC courses. For this position we want candidates with a master's degree in economic history, economics, or history, who has a solid track record of working with Early Modern handwritten sources, and who is fluent in English and who knowns Swedish or another closely-related language.
For details and how to apply, please see: https://www.slu.se/om-slu/jobba-pa-slu/lediga-jobb/doktorand4/
Application Deadline: 17 August 2025
Job title: Postdoctoral position on "Protecting Against the Social Risks Associated with Climate Change in Europe: a Comparative Perspective"
The PROTECCT research project team ("Protecting Against the Social Risks Associated with Climate Change in Europe: a Comparative Perspective" (ANR-24-CE41-7514) is recruiting a post-doctoral fellow for a full-time contract of 28 months.
Located at the CSO at Sciences Po and in close collaboration with the members of the team, the post-doctoral fellow will be mobilized as a researcher on the PROTECCT project to work on the mapping and analysis of policies developed by EU countries to protect populations against the socio-ecological risks related to droughts, flooding, coastal erosion and heat waves.
You can find more here: https://www.sciencespo.fr/cso/en/news/recruitment-post-doctoral-research-fellow-to-work-on-the-protecct-project/
Applications should be sent to Anne-Laure Beaussier: annelaure.beaussier@sciencespo.fr
Interviews will be conducted between July 8 and 16, 2025. The start date is scheduled for September 2025.
Application Deadline: 6 July 2025
Job title: Postdoctoral fellowship in Economic history
The Unit of Economic history is offering Browaldh postdoctoral fellowship with a thematic focus on risk and insurance. The scholarship is tenable for a period of three years, with the possibility of renewal for an additional three years. The successful candidate is expected to commence the fellowship in January 2026; however, the start date may be negotiated.
Project description
We are seeking a highly motivated early-career researcher who brings fresh and innovative perspectives to the study of the historical development and societal implications of insurance systems—both private and public. The successful candidate will contribute to advancing international research in this field and may explore topics including, but not limited to:
The appointee is expected to be based at the Unit for Economic History at Umeå University. However, it is possible to undertake research stays as a guest scholar at other academic institutions during the fellowship period. Stays exceeding six months must be approved by the funding bodies. There is an opportunity to apply for an extension of the fellowship for an additional three years, subject to a new application submitted to the funding bodies.
Qualifications
The applicant is required to have completed a doctoral degree or a foreign degree deemed equivalent to a doctoral degree in economic history, economics, history, or a closely related discipline. This qualification requirement must be fulfilled no later than at the time of the decision about scholarship recipient.
Priority should be given to candidates who completed their doctoral degree, according to what is stipulated in the paragraph above, no later than three years prior. If there are special reasons, candidates who completed their doctoral degree before that may also be eligible. Special reasons include absence due to illness, parental leave, appointments of trust in trade union organizations, military service, or similar circumstances, or other forms of appointment/assignment relevant to the subject area. Documented experience/knowledge of working with Python, R, Stata etc is not a requirement but an added merit for the position.
Applicants should demonstrate a strong research profile, a proven capacity for independent scholarly work, and a clear commitment to academic excellence. The successful candidate must also possess excellent collaborative skills, both within the research unit and in interdisciplinary or international settings. Particular emphasis will be placed on personal suitability for the fellowship.
Application
The application should be written in English or Swedish, and attached documents should be in Word or PDF format. The application should be registered via Umeå University’s e-recruitment system Varbi and submitted by the deadline 15 August 2025.
The application should include:
For further information, please contact Professor Lars Fredrik Andersson: lars-fredrik.andersson@umu.se
More information about the Unit of Economic history here
For further information and application please click here.
Application Deadline: 15.08.2025
Inclusive Economics Research Prize
Routledge, Taylor & Francis has a long-standing tradition of publishing reputable and pluralist Economics research that challenges mainstream perspectives. In an era where diversity and inclusion are more critical than ever, supporting research that confronts elitism and marginalisation remains a central priority. This initiative aims to encourage, promote, and help fund work that embraces diversity, plurality, and innovation in economic thought.
This prize is open to individuals at all career stages—PhD students, practitioners, professors, and full-time researchers.
The winner of the 2024 prize has now been announced. Details about the winning proposal and the impact of receiving the award can be found here.
Purpose and Scope
The Inclusive Economics Research Prize recognises research projects that align with at least one of the following goals:
Additionally, submitted research should align with principles of open science, including sharing data openly where possible.
Terms & Conditions
Prize Details
The winner(s) will receive:
Submission Process
To apply, please complete all fields in the application form and email the completed application to: inclusive-economics@tandf.co.uk
Deadline for submissions: 30 September 2025
John Cajas-Guijarro: A Classical Marxian Two‐Sector Endogenous Cycle Model
Toshio Watanabe: Bank Credit, Portfolio Selection, and Macrodynamics in a Small Open Economy
Peter Skott: Conflict Inflation: Keynesian Path Dependency or Marxian Cumulation?
Mingqing Xing, Sang-Ho Lee: Consumer Environmental Awareness in a Green Managerial Delegation Contract Under Common Ownership
Hong Yu Liu and Alex Chan Tsz Yuk: Emotions and solidarity in unionism: Farewell, Hong Kong Confederation
Angel Martin-Caballero: New regulations on platform work: Fragmented responses to issues of work fragmentation
Daniel Fitzpatrick: The moral economy of the English football crowd: The European Super League and the contingency of football fan activism
Tasos Travasaros: Vygotsky’s unit of analysis and dialectics in thinking and speech
Asaf Yakir, Doron Navot and Dani Filc: The political economy of populists in power, between policy and polity: Evidence from the Israeli case
Luis Arboledas-Lérida: From formal subsumption under capital to primitive accumulation of capital: On the separation of labour from the objective conditions of production in Marx’s Capital
Stella Medvedyuk and Dennis Raphael: Promoting social justice in the capitalist academy? Health equity and the Johns Hopkins University Michael Bloomberg School of Public Health
Juan Iñigo-Carrera: On the transformation of values into prices of production apropos of Moseley’s Money and Totality
Nicolás Grinberg: Global capital accumulation and national varieties of capitalism: The political economy of Argentina and Australia in comparative perspective
Esteban Robles Dávila, Luciana Manfredi, Juan Tomás Sayago-Gomez & Juan Manuel Franco Jurado: Show me who your friends are, and I will tell you who you are: network analysis of the senators of Colombia from 2010-2014 and 2014-2018 periods
Herton Castiglioni Lopes: Institutions, development and the Brazilian economy: A Veblenian note about Brazilian development since the 2000s
Jorge A. Rodríguez Soto: Behavioral economics and macroeconomics: Toward better microfoundations
Diana Marcela Jimenez & Boris Salazar Trujillo: Matching in the APE labor markets: Are they equally efficient?
Judith Vergara, Carlos Ricaurte Noriega & Henry Puerta Alvarez: World coffee price and its effect on the domestic price for Latin American countries
María del Rosario Demuner Flores: Resilience and innovation, performance drivers capabilities in service companies
Mónica Andrea Arango Arango: Estimation of interest rate risk in the insurance sector: Application of the Smith-Wilson model
Jesús Fernando Barrios Ordóñez: The relationship between trust and currency: A principal components and Poisson analysis
Victor Iturra Rivera & Susana Chacón Espejo: Gender wage gap: Assessing the role of unpaid household work in Chile
Yolanda Sánchez Torres, Aníbal Terrones Cordero & Eugenio Guzmán Soria: Analysis of public and private investment in Mexico, 1994-2020
Julio César Alonso Cifuentes & Viviana Chavarriaga Antonio: Using nonparametric techniques to measure short-term changes in the income distribution of Colombian households during the pandemic period
Joao Paulo Carvalho, Tatiana Figueiredo Breviglieri & Sebastião Neto Ribeiro Guedes: Furtado and Veblen: Theoretical approaches
Luis Francisco Laurente Blanco: Effect of microcredit on the informality of employment in Peru
Stanislas Rigal, Coralie Calvet, Léa Tardieu, Sébastien Roussel, Anne-Charlotte Vaissière: The hidden dimension of low-carbon public transport policies: From biodiversity conservation to user preferences
José Bruno R.T. Fevereiro, Andrea Genovese, Ben Purvis, Oriol Vallès Codina, Marco Veronese Passarella: Macroeconomic models for assessing the transition towards a circular economy: A systematic review
Daniela A. Miteva, Edward A. Ellis, Peter W. Ellis, et al.: Community sawmills can save forests: Forest regrowth and avoided deforestation due to vertical integration of wood production in Mexican community forests
Yunting Li, Yue Pu: Pattern evolution and dynamic formation mechanism of global scrap copper trade network: Based on temporal exponential random graph model
Martin Drechsler, Astrid Sturm: Model-based analysis of the agglomeration bonus for the conservation of twelve meadow bird species in an agricultural landscape
Hervé Bercegol: An equation for global energy efficiency gains in the long-run
Chiara Grazini: Analysis of the multidimensional energy poverty in Italy using the partially ordered set
João Santos, Tânia Sousa, André Serrenho, Tiago Domingos: An aggregate price for energy services: Useful exergy as an intermediate flow in a two-sector model of the economy
Zac Edwards: Degrowth: What's in it for the labour movement?
Grant Webster, Hannah Brenkert-Smith, Patricia A. Champ, et al.: Are wildfire risk mitigators more prepared to evacuate? Insights from communities in the Western United States
Geir Sogn-Grundvåg, Julia Bronnmann, Ingrid Kristine Pettersen, et al.: Can eco-labels tune a supply chain? The case of MSC-certified haddock from Norway
Marie Axt, Brian Baldassarre, Julian Kirchherr: Towards greater circularity in the hydrogen technology value chain
Kennet Uggeldahl, Søren Bøye Olsen, Thomas Lundhede, Jette Bredahl Jacobsen: Public perceptions of biodiversity and the value of its conservation
Xi Ji, Jie Lin, Qiuyin Ji: Biodiversity loss from land occupation: A prefecture- and county-level assessment of biodiversity footprints in China
Antonia Settle, Federico Zilio, Meladel Mistica, Usha Nattala: Climate-related disaster risk in Australia: Are risks higher for disadvantaged households?
Claudio Cattaneo, Mariana Morena Hanbury Lemos, Viktor Humpert, et al.: Ecological economics into action: Lessons from the Barcelona City doughnut
Johannes Fehrle: “Non-extractivist” extractivism:The valorization process of voluntary soil carbon schemes
Niko Howai, Kelvin Balcombe, Elizabeth J.Z. Robinson: Mangroves and economic development in Tobago: Incorporating payment horizons, choice certainty and ex-post interviews in discrete choice experiments
Verena Scherfranz, Henning Schaak, Jochen Kantelhardt, et al.: Farmers'perceived financial and non-financial costs of their biodiversity measures – Exploring viewpoints with Q-methodology
Andrés Ham, Emmanuel Vazquez, Monica Yanez-Pagans: Characterizing green and carbon-intensive employment in India
Severin Reissl, Luca E. Fierro, Francesco Lamperti, Andrea Roventini: The DSK stock-flow consistent agent-based integrated assessment model
Michael Papenfus, Matt A. Weber: Valuing wild salmon and steelhead recovery in Oregon’s most urbanized watershed
Joan Martinez-Alier: Review of “Territories of Life. Exploring Vitality of Governance for Conserved and Protected Areas” by Borrini-Feyerabend, G. and Jaeger, T.
Wei Xin, Lewis Grant, Ben Groom, Chendi Zhang: Noisy biodiversity: The impact of ESG biodiversity ratings on asset prices
Chiara Colesanti Senni, Skand Goel: Nature scenario plausibility: A dynamic Bayesian network approach
Neha Hui and Uma Kambhampati: The Political Economy of Indian Indentured Labor in the Nineteenth Century
Manfredi Alberti and Pier Francesco Asso:Hazel Kyrk and the Rise of Empirical Research in Interwar America
Robert L. Hetzel, Thomas M. Humphrey, and George S. Tavlas: Carl Snyder, the Real Bills Doctrine, and the New York Fed in the Great Depression
Daniel Kuehn: Before NBER: Warren Nutter’s Soviet Research at the CIA
Scott Scheall: The Vacuity of Ludwig von Mises’s Apriorism
Interview
D. Wade Hands: JHET Interviews: Philip Mirowski
Book Reviews
Andreas Tranvik:Alisa Zhulina, Theater of Capital: Modern Drama and Economic Life
Gábor István Bíró: Christopher Burke and Ádám Tamás Tuboly, Otto Neurath in Britain
Aashish Velkar:David R. Bellhouse, The Flawed Genius of William Playfair: The Story of the Father of Statistical Graphics
Stefan Bargheer: Gary Jaworski, Erving Goffman and the Cold War
Elena Gallego Abaroa: Begoña Pérez Calle, Flora Tristán, Pensamiento económico y comunicación social en tiempos del Romanticismo
Uma Rani & Nicolas Pons-Vignon: Introduction: power relations in the digital economy
Fikile Masikane & Edward Webster: Workers’ power and platform capitalism: the embryo towards an alternative
Uma Rani, Valeria Pulignano, Nora Gobel & Karol Muszyński: Challenging boundaries: exploring pricing strategies, and unpaid labour time to explain earning disparities in online labour markets
Paola Tubaro, Antonio A. Casilli, Maxime Cornet, Clément Le Ludec & Juana Torres Cierpe: Where does AI come from? A global case study across Europe, Africa, and Latin America
Prakriti Dasgupta, Ronan Carbery, Anthony McDonnell & Stefan Jooss: Social relations and worker resistance in the platform economy: towards a future research agenda
Jack Linchuan Qiu & Chris King-Chi Chan: SoftBank: empire-building, capital formation & power in Asian digital capitalism
Nicolas Pons-Vignon: Power resources and the last-mile problem in logistics: reflections on a Swiss labour struggle
Davide Schmid & Gemma Bird: Theorising the ‘migration fix’: workerisation and exclusion in the European border regime
James Jackson, Daniel Bailey & Matthew Paterson: Climate-related risks to central bank independence: the depoliticisation and repoliticisation of the Bank of England in the transition to net zero
Graeme Auld & Stefan Renckens: Rethinking capacities of regulatory market-assurance intermediaries: the case of seafood sustainability audits
Fabio Bulfone & Manuela Moschella: Is politics Bad for banking? how political ownership shaped the historical trajectory of Italian banks
Daniel Acland: Time-Horizon and Timescale Effects in the Quasi-Hyperbolic Discounting Model
Gary D. Lynne: Cargo-Cult Economics to Metaeconomics: Toward a Humanomics with a Theory
Jerémy Celse and Gilles Grolleau: The Influence of Street Name Gender on Perceptions of Location Quality and Rental Decisions
Bienmali Kombate and Jun Huang: The Implication of Investor Optimistic Sentiment on Future Stock Price Crashes
Vojtěch Kotrba: Fan or Player? Influence of Fandom on Profit Maximization in Fantasy Sport
Sylvio Kappes & Louis-Philippe Rochon: Monetary Policy and Income Distribution: The Pasinetti Index
Marc Lavoie & Mario Seccareccia: Where do the Pasinetti Rule and the Pasinetti Index Come from?
Pedro Hugo Clavijo Cortes, Sylvio Antonio Kappes & Louis-Philippe Rochon: Distributional Regimes in the US — The Pasinetti Index and the Monetary Policy Effects on Income Distribution
Lorenzo Nalin, Leonardo Rojas Rodriguez, Esteban Perez Caldentey & Giuliano Yajima: Monetary Policy and the Pasinetti Index: A Stock Flow Model for Latin American Economies
Guillermo Matamoros & Mario Seccareccia: Revisiting the Pasinetti Index: Understanding Its Cyclical and Long-Term Features and Its Important Implications for Macroeconomic Policy
Lucio Gobbi, Carlo D’Ippoliti & Jacopo Temperini: The Distributive Impact of Unconventional Monetary Policies: Old and New
Yuki Tada & Kazuhiro Kurose: The Pasinetti Index and the Rise of Inequality in the Age of Unconventional Monetary Policy in Japan
Enrico Sergio Levrero & Antonino Lofaro: Monetary Policy and Income Distribution: Some Reflections on the Pasinetti Rule
Diana V. Barrowclough & Thomas Marois: Public Banks and Public Purpose: From Pandemic Responses to Future Climate Prospects
Alejandro M. Danon, Rafael Tessone & Guido Zack: The Role of Public Development Banks During the Pandemic: Impact Evaluation of BICE's Innovative Credit Response
Ali Rıza Güngen: The Double Function of Turkey’s Public Banks and Reinterpretation of Mandates during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Nadine Reis & Germán Vargas Magaña: From State Developmentalism to Financial Populism: The ‘Bank of Welfare' and Mexico’s Moral Economy
Diana Barrowclough: Mandate Matters: Evolving Views and Counter-cyclical Surprises from the World’s Newest, Southern-led, Multilateral Development Banks*
Marco Carreras & Stephany Griffith-Jones: National and Multilateral Development Banks during the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Role of the IADB and CDC-BII during the Second Phase
Thomas Marois: Public Development Banks as Essential Infrastructure: Covid, the KfW, and Public Purpose
Anita Quas & Daniela Vandone: The Italian Development Bank: A Dynamic View of CDP’s Public Mission
Victoria Stadheim: Public Banking, Overlapping Emergencies, and the Eurozone Periphery: The Portuguese Case
Ricardo Summa & Salewa Olawoye: The Fourth International Workshop on Demand-Led Growth: Extensions from Conflict Inflation
Franklin Serrano, Gabriel Aidar & Gustavo Bhering: Tax Incidence and Distribution in a Sraffian Conflict Inflation Framework
Ramiro E. Alvarez: Distributive Conflict, High Inflation, and Stabilization Programs in a Small Open Economy Framework: The Case of Argentina in the 1980s
Pedro Romero Marques: Unraveling Growth Models in Peripheral Economies: Kalecki’s Political Business Cycle and Brazil’s ‘Pink Tide’ Experience
Sarah F. Small, Milena Dehn & Laura Beltran-Figueroa: Understanding the Intellectual Traditions of Claudia Goldin’s Nobel Winning Work on Gender and its Context in Feminist Economics
Domenica Tropeano: ECB policies Since the Financial Crisis: A Monetary Circuit and a Post-Keynesian Perspective
Eladio Febrero, Jorge Uxó & Óscar Dejuán: Did the ECB React Defensively During the Great Financial Crisis? A Reply to Tropeano
Domenica Tropeano: Are LTROs Monetary Policy Operations or Is the Central Bank Behaving as a Market Maker of Last Resort? A Reply to Febrero, Uxó and Dejuán
Serap Ayșe Kayatekin: Credit and Its Legal Context in Sharecropping Relations in Postbellum Mississippi Delta: From Ownership to Controlling of Laboring Bodies
Ramya Vijaya: Sovereign Credit Rating: Impact on Social Investment and Role in Financial Subordination
Eda Yilmaz and Serdal Bahçe: Effects of Income Distribution and Fiscal Policy on Growth in Turkey: A Kaleckian Analysis
Carlos A. Ibarra: Marx-Biased Technical Change and International Profit-Rate Convergence: The Case of Mexican Manufacturing
Simon Mair: The Relationship Between Energy and Capital: Insights from The Wealth of Nations
Symposium on the Political Economy of Occupation, Colonialism, and Conflict in Palestine
Surbhi Kesar and Don Goldstein: Introduction to the Symposium on Political Economy of Occupation, Colonialism, and Conflict in Palestine
Jennifer C. Olmsted: US Militarism and Sisyphian “Aid” to Israel/Palestine
Ibrahim Shikaki: Functional Distribution of Income in Palestine: Relevance, Measurement, and Political Economy Implications
Sachin Peddada: Imperialist Intervention and the Invention of Israel
Amir Locker-Biletzki: Settler-Colonialism and Empire-Building in Palestine/Israel, 1920–1956
Shir Hever: Shutdown Nation: The Political Economy of Self-Destruction
Maanik Nath & Tirthankar Roy: Editors’ Note
Anne Booth: The economy of Sri Lanka in the 20th century: Explaining success and failure
Latika Chaudhary: Charting longevity: India’s journey to increased life expectancy, 1940 to 1970
Maanik Nath: Law and the cooperative «movement» in India
Tirthankar Roy & Anand V. Swamy: Development policy and legal persistence: Evidence from India
Mathieu Dufour & on behalf of the SPE Editorial Executive Board: Studies in Political Economy est désormais bilingue!
Donna Baines & Catrina Brown: “We are limited by the structures we work in”: neoliberalism, feminist political economy, and the social justice dilemma in social work
Monique Lanoix: Workarounds as resistance
Janna Klostermann, Saro Bunting, Krys Maki & Anna Przednowek: Care containers: the multilayered politics of boundless work in Canada’s victim services sector
Adam Zvric: Essentiality during the COVID-19 pandemic: essential to what?
Noah Kathen: Paying to work: exploitation, profit, and class discipline in the US student loan system
Christian Pépin: La loyauté néolibérale du capital patient : le cas des institutions financières publiques québécoises
Research Articles
Nicolas Martelin, Jamie Ness & Philippe Bernard-Ciolfi: Interpreting the modern history of finance theory from Henri Poincaré’s perspective
Cléo Chassonnery-Zaïgouche & Aurélien Goutsmedt: Modelling intervention: Barbara Bergmann’s micro-to-macro simulation projects
Alexander Linsbichler & Marco P. Vianna Franco: Universal basic income in Viennese Late Enlightenment: rediscovering Josef Popper-Lynkeus and his in-kind social program
Symposium on general-equilibrium theory with rationing:
Alain Béraud: Symposium on general-equilibrium theory with rationing
Sylvie Rivot: The rise and fall of French disequilibrium macroeconomics: the case of Jean-Pascal Bénassy (1948–2022)
Romain Plassard: The applied general-equilibrium program of the ENSAE’s band
Rodolphe Dos Santos Ferreira: Malinvaud’s and Keynes’s unemployment typologies: do they coincide?
by Ole Peters and Alexander Adamou | London Mathematical Laboratory Press, 2025
This book summarizes key insights of ergodicity economics aiming to revise the formal core of economic theory and to reshape thinking about individual lives and society.
Please find a link to the book here.
Edited by Lara M. Espeter and Linda Hering | by Edward Elgar publishing 2025
This insightful book presents an overview of how external shocks affect commodity chains and their neighbouring systems. Expert authors employ diverse theoretical and methodological approaches to illustrate the extensive scope of this research area, exploring the impact of external shocks throughout various parts of the commodity chain.
Chapters investigate the intricate relationships between agricultural commodity chains and external shocks through interdisciplinary lenses, including geography, communication studies, economics, history, and sociology. They draw on case studies from around the world ranging from the Kenyan cut roses industry to sheep farming in the UK, providing individual and comparative analyses of the challenges caused by external forces. Examining the effects of both short- and long-term shocks, the book evaluates potential actor strategies, ultimately underscoring the need for increased collaboration across all scientific disciplines.
Presenting novel perspectives on the multiple social and spatial transformations associated with agricultural products, Commodity Chains Under Pressure is an invaluable read for students and scholars in global value chains, development studies, human geography, sociology, and agricultural economics. Its practical guidance is also beneficial for policymakers and practitioners in agriculture and supply chain analysis.
Please find a link to the book here.
by Nick Dyer-Witheford and Alessandra Mularoni | Verso Books, 2025
An anti-capitalist guide to breaking the power of Big Tech
Big Tech firms dominate the global economy. But what value do they actually produce? In this brilliant survey of global tech economy, Nick Dyer-Witheford and Alessandra Mularoni argue that the role of firms like Amazon and Google, Palantir and Uber, is in the automation of circulation. By applying digital technologies to processes of market exchange—everything from advertising and shopping, to logistics and financial services—Big Tech aims to subject these activities to the level of control and predictability that capital has secured in industrial production.
But there is a way out of the multiple crises that Big Tech has helped precipitate. If we are to break their grip on the global economy then it’ll take more than just antitrust legislation or reducing individual time online. By understanding the central role Big Tech plays in contemporary capitalism, Dyer-Witheford and Mularoni argue that what is required instead is a new, ambitious and comprehensive program of democratic collective planning that can move us beyond capitalism. Cybernetic Circulation Complex offers not only a compelling analysis of the power of Big Tech and their role in our current global crises, but a roadmap for a new form of life: biocommunism, a digital degrowth that can help us steer between the double boundaries of ecological sustainability and equitable social development.
Please find a link to the book here.
Edited by Anis Ben Brik | Publishd June 2025 by Edward Elgar
This insightful Handbook delves into public policy evaluation in the Global South. Drawing on in-depth case studies, it analyzes the complex interplay of historical, political, economic, and social factors that shape evaluation practices in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East.
Expert authors explore how colonial legacies, institutional frameworks, and international influences have molded public policy evaluation across diverse contexts. Chapters critically assess current challenges facing evaluators, including capacity constraints, political interference, and the tension between global standards and local realities. Integrating both political and technocratic perspectives, they consider emerging practices in the field, proposing innovative strategies for developing more effective and culturally responsive approaches to evaluation. Timely and perceptive, the Handbook ultimately emphasizes the need for more inclusive global discussions surrounding public policy evaluation.
This Handbook is an important resource for students and academics in public policy, public administration, political science, international development, and sociology. Policymakers, government officials, and professionals will also benefit from the book’s theoretical and practical insights.
Please find a link to the book here.
Edited by Eric Alston, Lee J. Alston, Bernardo Mueller | 2025, Edward Elgar
This innovative Handbook presents a comprehensive overview of the significance of complexity theory for understanding institutions. Eminent scholars analyse the key tools and concepts of the field, including emergence, networks, ergodicity, and modularity, exploring their contributions to institutional formulation and evolution.
Bridging the gap between complexity theory and mainstream economics, this pioneering Handbook reveals novel approaches to understanding institutional processes from the micro to the macro level. Chapters balance theoretical discussions with practical analysis, showcasing the relevance of complexity to specific areas such as cities, forests, religion, and historical development. Ultimately, the Handbook argues that viewing economies and societies as co-evolving, non-linear, path-dependent, and non-equilibrium systems can provide invaluable insights into the study of institutional emergence and impact.
Academics and students in economics, politics, public policy and other social sciences will benefit from the in-depth analyses in this prescient Handbook. It is also a valuable resource for policy-makers interested in the study of complex systems and their ever-growing applications.
Please find a link to the book here.
by Dominic Afscharian | 2025, Edward Elgar
In this prescient book, Dominic Afscharian outlines the meaning and implications of ‘social Europe’, questioning why citizens do not see a European Union with a ''human face'' in their everyday lives. Identifying the key political actors in the European Parliament and Commission, he explores the dominant ideologies that govern influential institutions and political parties and demonstrates how these inhibit political change.
Afscharian analyses the main proponents and opponents of European social integration, examining policy frameworks, the welfare state and social policy principles. He provides insight into ideational struggles in the EU, covering party conflict and opposing political alliances within the European Commission. Chapters set an agenda for how stalemates in European integration can be overcome, presenting an in-depth exploration of the history of European unemployment insurance as a key example. The book lauds the individuals who are determined to realise a disruptive vision of a Europe that protects its citizens, considering what this means for the future of European integration at large.
Ideas of Social Europe is an essential guide for scholars, academics and students in political science, social policy, sociology and economics. Its advocacy for a stronger social Europe, coupled with its theoretical and empirical approach, will also greatly benefit political strategists, policy organisations, think tanks and policy advisors.
Please find a link to the book here.
by Yves Citton | 2025 by Verso
Harnessing the power of storytelling for political progress.
Mythocracy examines the narrative mechanisms that script our lives through the stories we tell one another. Digging beneath common anxieties about fake news, Yves Citton looks at the attention economy, which organises our political perceptions around affective attractors. These are much more powerful than the truth value of any given narrative. The time has come for the left to reclaim the power of myth from reactionary populism.
Please find a link to the book here.
by Mark Neocleous | published Feburary 2025 by Verso
This provocative book offers the first sustained critique of the theory and practice of pacification.
In his new book, critical theorist Mark Neocleous engages in a sustained critique of the theory and practice of pacification. Combining philosophical analysis with historical detail, Neocleous analyses the development of pacification as a key concept through which capitalist modernity has been organised, offering readers the first book that treats pacification as an important concept in the history of state power and capitalism. Neocleous’s approach is fourfold, examining pacification as social warfare carried out through the ideology of peace; as a form of social police carried out through mechanisms of security; as law and order exercised through the permanent wars of class society; and as the myriad practices of power designed to counter insurgency.
Making use of official documents of state, the writings of counterinsurgency thinkers and the ideas perpetuated by practitioners of counterrevolution, the book unravels the complex ways through which pacification generates new forms of social war and new modes of policing that reproduce capitalist order and fabricate obedient subjects. Through expansive accounts of war and police, and engaging with a range of topics from debt to death, from stasis to civil war, and from the police kettle to the politics of fear, the book offers a provocative analysis of the ways in which state and capital combine to build a pacified social order.
Please find a link to the book here.
by Philip Arestis and Nikolaos Karagiannis | by Springer Nature Link 2025
This book examines the economic challenges facing the United States, the United Kingdom, and the European Monetary Union and discusses the macroeconomic policies pursued by their authorities in detail. It highlights a range of unsuccessful monetary and fiscal policies to establish financial stability and reduce inflation. By assessing the current threats to economic growth and stability, alternative ways in which governments and central banks can create coordinated responses and deliver better economic and social outcomes are outlined. The implications of Artificial Intelligence and cryptocurrencies are also discussed.
This book offers a practical framework for realistic modern economic policy that produces economic and environmental sustainability. It will be relevant to students, academics, researchers, and policymakers interested in the political economy, international economics, and economic policy.
Please find a link to the book here.
Edited by Martin Conyon and Lerong He | by Edward Elgar Publishing, 2025
The Research Handbook on Corporate Governance in China investigates the unique and rapidly evolving nature of the Chinese economy and explores the critical role played by corporate governance.
This Research Handbook examines the political economy and institutional context of corporate governance in China through the lens of internal corporate governance mechanisms; external corporate governance mechanisms; ownership and structural influences; and contemporary issues in corporate governance. Leading experts provide a wide variety of perspectives from economics, management, sociology, and political science. Importantly, this Research Handbook engages with recent and unprecedented changes in China’s economic landscape and presents a comprehensive and up-to-date examination of its corporate governance mechanisms.
This Research Handbook will benefit academics focusing on corporate governance, economics, and international business. Practitioners and policy makers will also find it insightful to gain a better understanding of how businesses operate and compete in China.
Please find a link to the book here.
By Daniel Friedman, R. Mark Isaac, Duncan James, Shyam Sunder | 2014, Routledge
For several decades, the orthodox economics approach to understanding choice under risk has been to assume that each individual person maximizes some sort of personal utility function defined over purchasing power. This new volume contests that even the best wisdom from the orthodox theory has not yet been able to do better than supposedly naïve models that use rules of thumb, or that focus on the consumption possibilities and economic constraints facing the individual.
The authors assert this by first revisiting the origins of orthodox theory. They then recount decades of failed attempts to obtain meaningful empirical validation or calibration of the theory. Estimated shapes and parameters of the "curves" have varied erratically from domain to domain (e.g., individual choice versus aggregate behavior), from context to context, from one elicitation mechanism to another, and even from the same individual at different time periods, sometimes just minutes apart.
This book proposes the return to a simpler sort of scientific theory of risky choice, one that focuses not upon unobservable curves but rather upon the potentially observable opportunities and constraints facing decision makers. It argues that such an opportunities-based model offers superior possibilities for scientific advancement. At the very least, linear utility – in the presence of constraints - is a useful bar for the "curved" alternatives to clear.
Please find a link to the book here.
Edited by Stefania Paredes | 2025 by Edward Elgar
Through this informative guide, the editor and contributing authors equip macroeconomics lecturers with tools and strategies to refresh their teaching content and practice. Building educators’ confidence and inspiring the next generation of passionate economists, it emphasises active learning, critical thinking, and real-world applications, moving beyond traditional lecture-based instruction.
Chapters explore innovative pedagogical approaches that incorporate critical contemporary topics, such as inequality and environmental challenges, into the macroeconomics curriculum. Expert authors provide guidance for instructors on how to update teaching models and to add historical context to holistically enhance student engagement with the subject. Furthermore, they provide strategies for engaging groups of students in large lectures, crafting problem sets that foster critical thinking and contribute to a more accessible and inclusive learning environment.
Teaching Macroeconomics is an invaluable guide for educators teaching economics and macroeconomics at university level, helping them to update their curriculums. Lecturers in other social science disciplines will also use the insights presented here to promote cross-disciplinary collaboration.
Please find a link to the book here.
by Leopoldina Fortunati | Published Feburary 2025 by Verso
The definitive feminist analysis of reproductive and ‘caring’ labor to emerge from Italian feminism of the 1970s.
Emerging from the great social upheavals that contested the sexual and racial divisions of labor globally in the 1970s, Leopoldina Fortunati’s classic work expands and transforms how we analyze the sphere of reproduction, redefining the value of the individual’s life and the labor performed in the home.
Released here for the first time in its unabridged form with historical notation and contemporary commentary, The Arcana of Reproduction is a foundational text and essential contribution to today’s discussions of social reproduction and the history of Italian feminism. Fortunati’s work provides some of the earliest theorizations of ‘immaterial,’ ‘affective,’ and ‘caring’ labor, and of the role of technology in reproduction, articulated decades before their popular reception in English academic literature. Reading this work some 50 years after its original publication gives us the tools to analyze the contemporary state of capitalist development and of women’s lives today. The text remains prefigurative and essential in our era of digital labor.
Please find a link to the book here.
by Martjin Konings | published by politiybooks October 2024
How did we end up in a world where social programs are routinely cut in the name of market discipline and fiscal austerity, yet large banks get bailed out whenever they get into trouble?
In The Bailout State, Martijn Konings exposes the inner workings of this sprawling infrastructure of government guarantees. Backstopping financial markets and securing banks’ balance sheets, this contemporary Leviathan manages the inflationary pressures that its generosity produces by tightening the financial screws on the rest of the population.
To a large extent, the bailout state was built by progressives seeking to buttress the institutions of the early postwar period. The resulting tide of capital gains fostered an asset-centered politics that experienced its heyday in the nineties. But ever since the financial crisis of 2007-08, promises of inclusive economic growth have looked increasingly thin. A colossus locked in place, the bailout state disburses its benefits to a rapidly shrinking group of property owners. Against the backdrop of a ferocious post-pandemic turn to anti-inflationary policy, the only remaining way to exit the logic of the bailout, Konings argues, is to challenge the monetary drivers at the heart of capitalist society.
Please find a link to the book here.
by Gilbert Achcar | by SAQI, June 2025
The destruction rained on Gaza has been seen by many as a vengeful overreaction to the reckless Hamas-led attack on 7 October 2023. However, the new catastrophe befalling the Palestinian people is the continuation of a decades-long course in which Israeli politics, policies and military strategies have inexorably shifted to the right. Gaza was the final nail in the coffin of the Atlanticist “international liberal order” before Donald Trump’s return to the White House.
The Gaza Catastrophe reckons with the lethal consequences and the significance of a war waged by an advanced military-industrial state – with full US participation and support from the West. Renowned political scientist Gilbert Achcar explores the dynamics of a complex historical process that culminated in the war on Gaza and wider conflict in the Middle East. He offers critical insights on the genocide’s regional and international ramifications, as well as radical critiques of Zionism, Hamas and other state and non-state actors.
This vital volume is essential to understanding the root causes of the violence destabilising the entire region and the wider world, as well as the conditions required to bring it to an end.
Please find a link to the book here.
by Michael A. McCarthy | by Verso January 2025
Finance serves the rich and powerful. We need to democratize it.
Why is democracy so broken and how might it be fixed? In The Master's Tools, award-winning author Michael A. McCarthy argues the answer can be found in the flows of credit and investment bound up with finance capital. Today, finance guides and constrains our politics, but there is no reason why this must be so. In this groundbreaking work, McCarthy develops a political and social theory of institutional transformation rooted in the interconnectedness of finance and democracy.
Inspired by ancient Athens, where small groups chosen by lottery were used to ensure democratic participation, he shows how democracy and working-class power can be strengthened by introducing new forms of financial governance, focusing on the inclusion of historically excluded groups. His proposals for democratic financial institutions point the way to imbuing finance with a socio-environmental purpose and the funding of a just green transition, social housing, and other necessary public goods. And these financial institutions might be the first step toward a whole new kind of economy.
Please find a link to the book here.
by L. Randall Wray | by Edward Elgar publishing, May 2025
In this illuminating book, Randall Wray emphasizes the critical role played by both credit and state money in capitalism and explores the origins and evolution of the modern monetary system. 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 practice.
Please find a link to the book here.
Job title: PhD in Contemporary Studies
The Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies (CEIS20) announces the PhD in Contemporary Studies (DEC), which prepares a new generation of researchers to better understand and act on the uncertainties of contemporary complexity, in an intense environment of interdisciplinary knowledge creation.
It brings together an ambitious, diverse and aggregating programme of different scientific areas:
DEC cultivates the investigation of interconnected knowledge, based on critical and inclusive thinking, bringing together a vast and outstanding faculty of researchers with a marked international profile.
Please follow this link to download the brochure and find out more. https://www.uc.pt/en/ceis20/training-outreach/phd-in-contemporary-studies/
Many of our most serious environmental and social problems arise because economic activity is treated as though it were independent of society and the environment. Ecological economics views them as deeply intertwined. That framing underpins analyses that address problems ranging from local concerns over justice and environmental governance to the global crises of climate change and biodiversity loss.
Our Ecological Economics MSc will equip you with expertise and skills to understand how economic activity gives rise to environmental and social problems. You’ll be introduced to some of the key tools to tackle those problems. This course takes a real-world approach to teaching economics, focusing on critical problems whilst integrating a range of different perspectives.
We offer two distinct pathways tailored to different interests and potential careers: Ecological Macroeconomics develops relevant skills used in policy analysis and finance; while the Values and Governance pathway has been developed for those interested in economic, social and environmental justice.
You’ll be taught by leading experts and academics from the School of Earth and Environment with some modules being delivered by the Leeds University Business School — both of which conduct internationally excellent research that feeds directly into the course.
This means you’ll be learning knowledge and developing a specialist skill set sought after by employers worldwide, opening the door to many career paths in areas like sustainability, policymaking, research, resource management — and beyond.
For further information please click here.
Application Deadline:
Job title: PhD scholarship on Female Entrepreneurship and the State in Asia
Overview
Dublin City University’s School of Law and Government (in collaboration with the DCU Ireland India Institute) invites applications for a fully funded, four-year PhD scholarship on female entrepreneurship focused on one or more of the following countries: Pakistan, Sri Lanka, the Maldives, the Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Laos, and Nepal.
The successful candidate will receive a stipend in line with Irish Government guidelines, plus additional funding for fieldwork and conference travel. Supervision will be provided by Prof. Abel Polese and Prof. Jivanta Schotti.
Supervisors: Prof. Abel Polese and Prof. Jivanta Schotti
Rationale and possible directions for the research
Across the globe, women face inferior income opportunities when compared with men. Women are less likely to work for income or to actively seek such work; they have fewer opportunities for business expansion or career progression; they are disproportionately more likely to be homemakers yet household labour is not remunerated nor considered to be ‘work’. Women make up around half of the economically active population, but are underrepresented in various fields, including entrepreneurship. According to a study by McKinsey (McKinsey Global Institute, 2015), if women continue to participate in the labour force at lower rates, the economy could lose out on over $28 trillion in potential gains, causing global GDP to reach only an estimated $108 trillion by 2025. Conversely, it has been estimated that if women had equal representation in all labour markets, GDP would have increased to approximately $136 trillion by 2025. According to World Bank data, in 2022 the global labour force participation rate for women was just over 50% compared to 80% for men. Globally, female labour force participation has not increased greatly over the last three decades and male/female disparities remain stark especially across large swathes of Asia.
Asia is regarded as the growth engine for the world economy. Women have played an increasingly significant role in the economic arena, emerging as entrepreneurs and leaders. In 2017 more than half of the 56 women on the Forbes’ 2017 list of female self-made billionaires were from Asia. However, the reality of female entrepreneurial activity differs substantially across Asia. The region includes some of the most and least entrepreneurial countries for women, ranging from high startup rates and smaller gaps in investment activity and size of investment between men and women to the reverse.
The proposed research should focus on economic entrepreneurship and its role as a means and outcome of female emancipation and empowerment. This includes political engagement and leadership. Taking the concept to be a socially embedded process the consortium draws on area expertise from across the length and breadth of Europe and Asia as well as multiple disciplinary perspectives (including political economy, sociology, anthropology, business and management studies, history and cultural studies). A geographical focus should be indicated covering one or more of the following countries included in a new EU-funded project: Pakistan, Sri Lanka, the Maldives, the Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Laos, Nepal.
The research project could involve a selection of case studies ranging from a focus on the individual actor, micro businesses or the large business organisation and the ways in which the state enables or impedes women entrepreneurs. Candidates are also encouraged to consider intersections with informality theory. Informality, as “the art of bypassing the state” (Polese 2023). This has been often conceived merely in terms of either unregulated forms of labor whose objectives were subsistence and survival in the “underworld”, or actual illegal business spanning from unofficial earning strategies and unregistered activities to smuggling, bribing, and corruption.
The project could be located within the so-called fourth wave of scholarship on female entrepreneurship where far greater importance is accorded to the socio-economic, political, market, and institutional contexts (Mc Adam and Cunningham 2021) within which entrepreneurial action occurs. A key concept of this growing body of research is that ‘entrepreneurial ecosystems’ vary drastically from one context to another. These systems are shaped by differing legal frameworks, educational access, varying gender-sensitive national policies along with differing cultural and religious norms.
Overall, we seek to deepen understandings of Asian women entrepreneurs and the heterogeneity observed within their entrepreneurial activities. The project will seek to refine conceptualisations of women’s entrepreneurship in Asia, addressing its complexity and diversity to foster more nuanced understandings of the phenomenon.
If you are interested, please send by the deadline the following list of documents to
Application Requirements
Please submit the following by 10 July 2025:
In one single PDF file to to
benjamin_bisimwa.cisagara@lu.lv
cc to abel.polese@dcu.ie and jivanta.schottli@dcu.ie
Deadline Application: 10 July 2025