Issue 346 July 21, 2025 web pdf Heterodox Economics Directory
In a world at the brink of darkness, the Heterodox Economics Newsletter is a beacon of hope – or at least that is what I tell myself to get me going writing editorials on weekends 😁. However, in my impression this issue truly lives up to this spirit as it is full of good news – so listen out and enjoy reading what follows:
For one, I am super-happy to announce that we managed to acquire funds for another round of our doctoral school in political economy and heterodox economics at the Institute for Socio-Economics at University of Duisburg-Essen, one of the institutional homes of the Newsletter. While our first cohort in this doctoral school focused on the "The Political Economy of Inequality", the second cohort will now be devoted to the "Political Economy of Socio-Ecological Transformation". Many thanks go out to my dear colleagues, who helped win this grant (specifically: Miriam Rehm, Till van Treeck, Achim Truger, Ute Klammer and Paul Marx 🎉) as well as to Hans Böckler Foundation for providing such kind of funding in the first place.
For another, I am equally -happy to report that we got much response to the call for support related to Heterodox Economics Newsletter itself that was published in our last issue's editorial. We received many declarations of interest for both, becoming members in our newly created association (that is dedicated to support HEN's activities – write us, if you want to jump in) as well as for volunteering to contribute to the Newsletter's production and editing process. While we will need some time to process all this input, the seemingly unconditional wave of support (+ many kind words) that reached our editorial office is likely to give our efforts another push 😎.
Moreover, I am indeed enthusiastic to report about a great comeback: as you might remember, a little more than a year ago I reported about the sad case of the Journal of Economic Surveys that fell to the prey of its once reputable publisher Wiley, which imposed editorial changes that threatened to deteriorate the journal's overall quality (see here). Back then this led to the resignation of the main editors, who were skeptical about the publisher's push to increase publishing charges by raising the number of published papers. However, one of those principled editors, Roberto Veneziani from Queen Mary University, recently informed me that there will be a "comeback in spirit" with the launch of the journal Reviews of Economic Literature, which is dedicated to provide reviews and surveys on economic issues including those written from a heterodox perspective or considering heterodox contributions. Moreover, Reviews of Economic Literature is a Diamond Open Access journal (aka it comes without fees for authors or readers) published by Stanford University Press, which is really, really neat. Congrats on all people involved managing this incredible turn of events 🚀.
Comparatively less important, but still neat is the fact that we have an update for the Heterodox Economics Directory scheduled – if you have any additions or corrections you want us to implement, please let us know so by August 10 via this email.
Finally, after more than decade of editing I found that our fantastic back-end system even manages to process emojis 🤩. I am very enthusiastic about this fact personally and this will be, officially, the first HEN-editorial that includes emojis. At this point I am not sure, whether this is really an improvement, but for today I am glad to have discovered this essential feature 😂😬.
With 💖 and all the best,
Jakob
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2 - 4 October | Bucknell University, Lewisburg
The Bucknell Institute for Public Policy (BIPP) is pleased to announce its inaugural conference, "Policy Challenges in a Complex World." We invite submissions from scholars engaged in public policy issues, particularly those addressing critical challenges such as inequality and climate change. These topics represent significant areas where public policy efforts, especially within the neoliberal era, have faced considerable limitations and failures. We are interested in interdisciplinary approaches and open to alternative and/or heterodox methodologies.
We are seeking original contributions that offer potential for publication. Accepted papers, following a peer-review process, are intended for inclusion in a forthcoming volume of essays or a special issue of a peer-reviewed journal (details to be determined). Working papers in their early stages will also be considered.
We are honored to announce that Darrick Hamilton, Chief Economist at the AFL-CIO, Henry Cohen Professor of Economics and Urban Policy, and Founding Director of the Institute for the Study of Race, Stratification and Political Economy at The New School, will deliver the keynote address. Professor Hamilton's groundbreaking research emphasizes the critical importance of wealth inequality, rather than solely income measures, as central to understanding the structural characteristics of inequality in the United States.
Please submit an abstract of no more than 300 words, outlining your research question, methodology, key findings, and policy implications. Submissions should be sent to m.vernengo@bcuknell.edu.
Abstract Submission Deadline:August 15, 2025
How do social movements transform the worlds they are embedded in? I'm excited to announce a new call for papers for the collectively-run open access journal ephemera, together with co-editors Ekaterina Chertkovskaya and Anna Kalinina:
Social movements have been at the forefront of societal changes throughout history, and today play an important role in the politics of socio-ecological transformation. However, attaining these demands is a part of a struggle, as movements confront corporate and state actors with opposing interests, with the power to ignore and deter action, as well as to repress, criminalise and co-opt. Driven by the question how social movements can gain power to foster systemic change, we call for engagement with the topic of strategy. How do social movements strategise? What strategies are being developed and deployed in the pursuit of more socially and ecologically just worlds? How can these strategies counter the status quo, characterised by rising authoritarianism and wars?
Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
We invite contributions from researchers, social movement actors, artists, and anyone else who can enrich our understanding of social movement strategies. In belief that different modes of engagement can open up our imaginaries, ephemera encourages contributions in a variety of formats – from articles, research, notes, interviews, roundtables and book reviews to photo essays, artistic work, short films, fictional stories, poems and other experimental modes of representation.
For further information please click here.
Submission Deadline: 27 February 2026
5 - 6 January 2026 | La Salle University, Philadelphia
In The Great Transformation (and other publications), Karl Polanyi argued that the harsh outcomes of unfettered markets would provoke precarity and resistance, and the resistance could take the form of fascism or socialism. The rise of right-wing populism in the U.S. under Trump and in much of the developed world has exposed the inadequacies of the neoliberal economic order and its inability to deal with any of the contemporary crises that are developing, just as Polanyi predicted. The emerging polycrisis includes the decline of living standards and increased precarity of blue-collar workers, spiraling inequality, environmental disasters, mass immigration from impoverished regions, mental health crises, and ongoing wars and conflicts. Meanwhile, the rapid rise of AI technology is expected to displace millions of workers, adding fuel to existing crises. This leads to the following key questions:
Since its founding, ICAPE has supported economists and other social scientists who have been marginalized by the American Economics Association. ICAPE is motivated by the philosophy that methodological pluralism and intellectual progress are complements: intellectual diversity allows for the development and dissemination of insights that would otherwise be overlooked.
For the January 2026 conference, ICAPE encourages submissions that explore the unique contributions of all major perspectives of heterodox/marginalized economists, while also discussing areas in which these approaches share similar insights. Are heterodox/marginalized economists moving toward a unified approach? Or, would a unified approach have disadvantages by reducing the rich variations and unique contributions of each school of thought? How does the work of economists from the National Economic Association and American Society of Hispanic Economists intersect with the work of feminist, institutionalist, social, Marxist and post-Keynesian economists? ICAPE welcomes submissions from any pluralist perspective on the conference themes or on any topic of relevance to pluralist economists.
Founding ICAPE associations are the International Association For Feminist Economics (IAFFE), the Union for Radical Political Economics (URPE), the Association For Evolutionary Economics (AFEE), the Association For Institutional Thought (AFIT), and the Association for Social Economics (ASE). Submissions from members of these organizations are particularly welcome. We also welcome work from all strands of heterodox economic theory, including evolutionary, ecological, complexity, institutional, feminist, Austrian, Marxian, Sraffian, Post-Keynesian, Modern Monetary Theory, behavioral/psychological, social, radical political, critical realism, agent-based modeling, stratification, and general heterodox economics. We are interested in research from any of the perspectives listed above, research by economists marginalized by the AEA, and research by mainstream economists open to incorporating a pluralistic approach. We are also looking for in material from graduate students, sessions on pluralistic teaching, and material on the state of pluralism in economics.
All papers presented at ICAPE are eligible for inclusion in the ICAPE proceedings issue of the American Review of Political Economy.
For further information please click here.
Submission Deadline: 8 September 2025
1 October 2025 | online
The Review of Evolutionary Political Economy (REPE) is welcoming submissions for an upcoming online workshop. This workshop is organized in association with the open Call for Papers for the special collection:
"Value and Valuation Research: Advancing Understanding, Conceptualization, Practice, and Policy through Interdisciplinary Lenses" Find here the full Call for Papers.
Purpose
The online workshop provides a dedicated space for scholars intending to submit to the Springer/Nature collection to present and discuss their ideas. It aims to foster critical dialogue and collaboration among researchers from economics, sociology, public policy, and related disciplines who are exploring themes of value and valuation. Attendance at the workshop is encouraged for those seeking feedback but is not mandatory for submission to the special issue.
Guest Editors
Abstract Submission
Send your abstract (up to 1,500 words) by August 4, 2025, to all four guest editors at:
Submissions are invited on theoretical, empirical, methodological, or policy-related topics with an interdisciplinary perspective on value and valuation.
Further Information
Details about the special article collection can be found on the Springer/Nature collection page and in the original newsletter announcement.
Timeline
CfP: Special Issue, ‘Reimagining the Critical in Innovation Studies’
This Special Issue, ‘Reimagining the Critical in Innovation Studies’, seeks to spur a discussion on the history, present and future of critical innovation studies. It aims to provide a platform for critically minded scholars, practitioners and civil society activists to exchange knowledge, broaden the critical discourse, and reshape the research agenda in a more critical yet socially impactful way than hitherto. Contemporary societies, from the Global North to the Global South, face numerous challenges (Lawton Smith and Leydesdorff, 2014; Kuhlmann and Rip, 2018; Isakensen et al., 2022; Voegtlin et al., 2022). These include global warming, growing inequalities, aggressive military operations resulting in frequent wars, prolonged economic crises, increasing urbanisation, housing crises, declining birth rates, ageing populations, rising obesity and health costs, and growing dissatisfaction with political institutions.
Traditionally, the field of innovation studies has been among the most prolific in producing knowledge for addressing societal challenges (Fagerberg et al., 2011; Lundvall, 2013; Martin, 2016a; Soete, 2019; Fragkandreas, 2022). However, contemporary innovation studies appear to be facing a ‘social relevance deficit’ (Martin, 2016a; Soete, 2019). They seem somewhat ill-equipped to identify the underlying structural causes that perpetuate many of the socio-economic challenges of our time. It is not an exaggeration to state that most contemporary innovation studies offer neither groundbreaking analytical insights nor promising practical implications that could make a significant difference in people’s lives. In this regard, contemporary innovation studies can hardly help us envision an environmentally and socially just world. Previous contributions have attributed this lack of social relevance to various factors. These include the (Kuhnian) maturity of the field (e.g. Steinmuller, 2013), intellectual lock-ins due to past successes (Fagerberg et al., 2013; Martin, 2016a), the influence of donors and sponsors in shaping the research agenda (e.g. Godin, 2004; 2009; 2012), the rise of superstar scholars who shape the research agenda in self-referential ways (Macdonald and Kam, 2011; Martin, 2016a, pp. 434–435), a ‘publish or perish’ culture in contemporary academia (Martin, 2016b), the increasing use of formal-deductivist methods in innovation research (Martin, 2016a; Fragkandreas, 2023), and a general lack of critical thought and research in the field (Godin and Vinck, 2017).
Although each of these factors have contributed to the gradual decline in the social relevance of innovation studies, this special issue revisits the question of critical innovation studies. We believe this is necessary for at least two major reasons. Firstly, previous contributions (e.g. Godin and Vinck, 2017) seem to have, in our opinion, wrongly portrayed the field of innovation studies as being overly uncritical. While it is true that innovation scholars have for several decades adopted, either explicitly or implicitly, ‘a naively Schumpeterian view’ (Dosi, 2013, p. 127), wherein innovation contributes, in one way or another, to economic progress (Freeman and Luca, 2001; Fragkandreas, 2017; Papaioannou and Srinivas, 2019), one must not overlook the fact that the field of innovation studies was born out of outspoken critique and opposition to the dominant paradigms in both academia and policy in the mid–late 20th century (Lundvall, 2004, 2007; Asheim et al., 2011; Fagerberg et al., 2011).
Secondly, we agree with Godin and Vinck (2017) and others (e.g. Perez, 2013; Flanagan and Uyarra, 2016; Fragkandreas, 2023) that creating relevant knowledge for addressing societal challenges presupposes an explicitly critical stance towards existing socio-economic structures, concepts, theories, methods, discourses and practices. To put it differently, generating knowledge that benefits society at large requires contemporary innovation scholars to deliberately embrace the original ‘critical spirit’ of the field. This special issue seeks to reignite interest in critical innovation studies. It aims to provide a platform for critically minded scholars, policymakers and activists to exchange knowledge on how innovation studies can reinvent itself in a critical, yet socially relevant and impactful way. Prometheus, with its long history of publishing critical innovation studies (Hall, 2003), is undoubtedly the ideal journal to host a much-needed discussion on the past, present and future of critical innovation studies.
We welcome papers of all types (i.e. conceptual, methodological, empirical) using either or both qualitative and/or quantitative methods and data on innovation. Submitted papers may cover one or more of the following topics:
For further information please click here.
Deadline Initial paper submission: 31 October 2024
Deadline Final paper submission: 30 September 2025
9-10 December 2025 | Gerhard Mercator House, University of Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg Campus
Time is an essential factor in the quality of life of individuals and households. Time use reveals social inequalities in the distribution of unpaid and paid work as well as free time and plays a central role in the analysis of poverty, prosperity, and social participation. An analytical examination of time use also reveals the gendered distribution of resources in society.
Unpaid care work significantly contributes to the welfare of households, ensuring their social and often also ecological sustainability, and thus makes a fundamental contribution to achieving and maintaining our standard of living. At the same time, it limits time resources and opportunities for social participation for people, still disproportionately often women, who perform a large part of the unpaid care work in society.
How we measure living standards, and whether time use is taken into account, is therefore crucial to the question of to what extent and in what way socio-economic development can contribute to a gender-equitable and socio-ecologically sustainable transformation of our society. Including time use in poverty and standard of living analysis, uncovers the economic and socio-ecological value of unpaid work, deepening our understanding of existing gender inequalities. This enables a well-founded analysis of the gender-specific effects of labor and family policies as well as gender roles in the labor market and the provision of unpaid care work.
The workshop “Time Use – Gender – Unpaid Work: Perspectives on Living Standards” therefore focuses on the importance of time use, in particular its limitation by unpaid work, to further develop its measurement and evaluation methodologically and theoretically. The workshop aims to provide an interdisciplinary space to discuss the methodological and theoretical integration of time use into measures of living standards. The focus is on how time use contributes to individual and social welfare and what implications this has for the measurement of living standards, the design of social and labor market policies, and the role of public infrastructure.
The workshop is designed as an interactive format, featuring roundtables with 5–7-minute inputs from participants, aimed at raising open questions and enabling discussion. Contributions at various stages are welcome – from initial ideas and concepts to ongoing or completed projects and papers. We encourage doctoral students and postdocs to actively contribute by presenting their work. The aim is to develop new perspectives across career stages and promote interdisciplinary exchange.
During the workshop, there will be an opportunity to discuss and classify the workshop results with regard to economic policy practice in a panel discussion with Prof. Dr. Achim Truger, member of the German Council of Economic Experts.
Examples of possible topics:
Submission & deadlines:
Please submit an abstract (in German or English) for short presentations (max. 400 words) by August 15, 2025 to franziska.dorn@uni-due.de. Please also include a specific question that you would like to bring up for discussion at the workshop. Feedback on participation will be provided by October 2025. If you have any questions, please contact: franziska.dorn@uni due.de.
You can find the original CfP here.
Application Deadline: 15.08.2025
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 – whose financial support is gratefully acknowledged –, 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 visit following website: absfc2025
Application Deadline: 25.07.2025
7 November 2025 | London, UK
The School of Economics and Finance at Queen Mary University of London is pleased to announce its Fourth international conference in Economics and Finance Education and Scholarship Research.
Proposals for presentations that demonstrate innovative pedagogy, new technology, curriculum development, equality and diversity analysis or other ways to improve Economics and/or Finance education at any level of higher education (undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate). Conference sessions and panel discussions will last 60 minutes. Each presenter/panelist will have 15-20 minutes to present. A dedicated symposium will be dedicated to Teaching with Historical Perspectives and to how to integrate the history of economic thought in the economics and finance teaching.
Acceptance will be notified by the end of September.
Attendance (both individual and panel presentations) can be in-person or remote.
There is limited availability for funding for in-person attendance.
For further questions, please email sef-scholarship@qmul.ac.uk.
Submission deadline: 20th of September 2025
2–3 October 2025 | University of Salerno, Fisciano (SA), Italy
We are pleased to announce the first edition of the workshop Macroeconometrics in Salerno, jointly organised by the Department of Economics and Statistics (DISES) at the University of Salerno and the Centre for Economic and Labour Policy Evaluation (CELPE). The event will take place on 2–3 October 2025 at the University of Salerno (Fisciano (SA), Italy).
Aims and Scope
This workshop aims to advance the use of macroeconometric tools to understand and address some of the most pressing challenges facing economies today. From rising inequality and environmental degradation to inflationary pressures and the diffusion of artificial intelligence, economies are undergoing rapid and complex transformations. Macroeconometric methods provide a powerful framework for analyzing these dynamics, quantifying their effects, and offering evidence-based guidance for policy design.
We welcome empirical contributions that use time series, structural models, panel data methods, machine learning, and DSGE approaches, among others. Interdisciplinary perspectives from economics, econometrics, and related fields are highly encouraged. The event brings together scholars and practitioners working at the intersection of macroeconomic modeling, empirical analysis, and real-world challenges.
We invite submissions that apply or develop macroeconometric techniques to explore a wide range of current issues, including but not limited to:
The workshop will feature both seminars delivered by well-known international scholars and poster and egg-timer presentations by early-career researchers.
We are pleased to confirm Luca Fanelli (University of Bologna), Michael Owyang (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis), and Barbara Rossi (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) as our keynote speakers.
Other senior presentations will be delivered by Alice Albonico (University of Milan Bicocca), Marco Bernardini (Bank of Italy), Sebastian Gechert (Technical University of Chemnitz), Martin Geiger (Liechtenstein Institute), Michele Lenza (European Central Bank), Mirela Sorina Miescu (Lancaster University), Giovanni Pellegrino (University of Padova), and Giuseppe Ragusa (Sapienza University of Rome). Others will follow soon.
The call is meant to gather proposals for poster and egg-timer presentations by early-career researchers, such as (but not limited to) post-doctoral researchers and PhD students.
Please find a link to more information here.
Practical Information
There is no registration fee. For a limited number of participants and subject to funding availability, we will be able to offer accommodation and/or travel expenses coverage. Priority will be given to young researchers. People willing to attend without presenting are kindly requested to contact the email account below.
The workshop will feature three types of sessions:
Submissions
Submit your contribution by 20 August 2025 by scanning the QR code or by sending your application to the following link:
https://forms.gle/HPSG7hrUjch2EbE79
Please submit an abstract (at least 500 words) outlining the research question, methodology, and main findings. Notifications of acceptance will be sent out by 31 August.
Submission Deadline: 20 August 2025
9 - 10 October | BOKU University Vienna
The multiple ecological and social crises of our time demand a fundamental, interdisciplinary rethinking of the relationship between society and nature. This workshop seeks tofoster such reflections by bringing together diverse research perspectives from both natural and social sciences. Its aim is to deepen our understanding of the structuring principles and dynamics of social metabolism, which ultimately form the conceptual ground to explore pathways for an urgently needed socio-ecological transformation.
Therefore, we will discuss various conceptualizations and operationalizations of the social metabolism in order to explore the entanglements between social structures and agency, technology, political power, and ecological processes. The concept of social metabolism is utilized to examine flows of resources within and between societies, as well as between societies and their natural environment. Both natural and social science make use of this concept, however, integrating each other's insights remains challenging.
While the former usually focuses on biophysical assessments, technological and infrastructural systems, as well as their lock-in effects, the latter emphasizes societal structures, actor constellations and power relations. Therefore, this workshop aims to bring together natural and social scientists to explore how social theory and metabolic analysis can be meaningfully integrated.
Together, we want to address questions such as:
For further information please click here.
Submission Deadline: 18 August 2025
Job Title: Full Professor of Transformative Sustainability Sciences
BOKU University, the Alma Mater Viridis, is the university of sustainability and life sciences. BOKU's mission is to contribute to securing the foundations of life for future generations through the diversity of its subject areas. By combining natural sciences, engineering, social sciences and economics, it increases knowledge for the sustainable use of natural resources. With 10,000 students and over 3,000 employees, BOKU is one of the leading sustainability universities in Europe. The professorship to be filled will be anchored in an organisational unit for transformative sustainability sciences that is currently under development. The primary task of the new organisational unit is to
support existing or emerging transformation processes and to initiate and implement transformative activities at BOKU. The following cross-departmental priorities are to be promoted in the new organisational unit:
Other tasks include involvement in public relations and third mission activities, as well as active participation in the self-administration of BOKU University.
Requirements:
Aplication Deadline: 15 September 2025
Job Title: Junior Professorship (W1) "Empirical Economics"
The successful candidate will represent the field “Empirical Economics” in research and teaching. Applicants should have completed a PhD in economics or a related field relevant to empirical economics. A research focus on applied macroeconometrics or microeconometrics is desired. Teaching should cover formal methods of empirical economics, as well as their practical implementation in statistics software like R. German language skills are required for some teaching duties.
Please find the full job posting at https://www.tu-chemnitz.de/verwaltung/personal/stellen/W1_Volkswirtschaftslehre.php
Application Deadline: 31 August 2025
Job title: Researcher / Project co-ordinator Sustainable Wellbeing
The successful candidate will contribute to the development of the People and Wellbeing Programme at Hot or Cool, providing research (particularly quantitative research) and project co-ordination skills for a range of projects.
Ongoing work in the Programme include:
(involvement in different projects will depend on skills of the successful candidate and the allocation of other team members across projects).
Where relevant, the new researcher/project co-ordinator would also be expected to work across the organisation, supporting work in other programmes such as the Sustainable Lifestyles programme.
Position Specification
Essential
Desirable
To apply, please send your CV with a minimum of 2 references and a covering letter (no longer than 2 pages) outlining your motivation and fulfilment of the position requirements to work@hotorcool.org. The successful applicant will work from the head office in Berlin.
For further information and application please click here.
Application Deadline: rolling application
Job Title: Assistant Researcher 'Political Economy'
CES is looking to hire an Assistant Researcher to carry out high quality research in the scientific and thematic area of Social Sciences and Humanities - “Political Economy”, based on an interdisciplinary approach, focusing on the following axes:
Why apply?
CES is an internationally recognized hub for critical social research, with a strong ethos rooted in pluralism, North–South dialogue, and social justice. The Centre encourages interdisciplinary work and offers a stimulating research environment in a UNESCO-listed university city.
Key details:
For further information please click here.
Application Deadline: 30 July 2025
Job title: PhD Position
The Department of Economic History is advertising at least three PhD positions, with starting date 12 January 2026. All three positions are part of specific research projects. Research level education comprises four years, full-time, corresponding to 240 higher education credits, of which the PhD thesis constitutes 165 credits and courses 75 credits. The education is financed through a combination of scholarship funds during year 1-3 followed by a doctoral student position during year 4.
The following projects are searching for one PhD student each:
Project 1. Creating value of hazardous waste: recycling in the automobile industry, 1970-2020s
While reuse and recycling have always been part of human practice, post-war consumerism led to an unprecedented increase in the volume of waste and made Sweden one of the leading per capita waste producers in Europe in the 1970s. Parallel to the growth of waste was the awakening of modern environmentalism and 30 years later, Sweden had transformed its economy to become a technological leader in advanced recycling services, not only for household waste, but also for complex industrial waste, such as the recycling of automobiles and household appliances. In today's large-scale transitions in the automotive industry, a deeper understanding of adaptability, flexibility, as well as inertia and inactivity, is central, especially in relation to complex and hazardous materialities such as battery cell production.
By looking at the dynamics of the past, this project intends to highlight the challenges and opportunities for future paths by examining the materialities, industrial organization and policies behind the growth and transformation of the recycling sector in the Swedish economy from 1970 to 2020. The project is based on a historical approach to understand the conditions for the recycling and manufacturing industries by uncovering long-term processes. The basis for this project is the construction and analysis of largely unexplored archival material as well as rich material in the form of a series of reports produced by the Swedish authorities. As a Ph D. student, you are expected to study the drivers behind the transformation of scrap trading and processing firms into high-tech recycling firms, and how the market has been consolidated into a limited number of large players. The scaling and consolidation of the market structure will be explored by focusing on the key players that have remained in business during the study period.
Project qualifications: background in economic history, history, history of ideas or similar disciplines. Documented experience of archival research and qualitative methods is qualifying for the position. More information: project leader Daniel Normark, Daniel.normark@ekhist.uu.se
Project 2. Economic Outcomes of the ´Entrepreneur´ during the Expansion of the Welfare State
To what extent do the self-employed represent a productive force in the economy? The share of self-employment—by contrast to wage earners—in the labor market over the past 100 years has followed a U-shaped curve: high levels before World War II, low levels during the mid-20th century welfare-state expansion, and then back to high levels again in recent decades. In this project, the PhD student will apply econometric techniques on micro-level data to investigate the causes of, and effects stemming from, the sharp decline in self-employment during the mid-20th century.
The project involves digitizing Stockholm’s tax and population registers, covering the entire population of Stockholm from 1940 to around 1970, in collaboration with other researchers at the Department of Economic History. These registers contain highly detailed individual-level information on income from self-employment and wage work, as well as occupation and industry. The data will be processed automatically using machine-learning methods through a model already developed within the project.
Project qualifications: A relevant background includes a degree in economic history, sociology, data science, economics, political science (or a related field). Documented skills in econometrics/statistics and/or data science are meritorious.
More information: project leader Jakob Molinder, jakob.molinder@ekhist.uu.se
Project 3. The managing of the Swedish banking crisis 1990-2005
Despite the fact that there is an extensive literature on government intervention in banking crises, we know very little about the work carried out by the hundreds of civil servants, lawyers, accountants, management consultants and other experts to implement the decisions on intervention made at the political level. This knowledge gap is problematic because the work, judgment, organization and decision of these individuals strongly influence the forms, scope, consequences and costs of state’s banking crisis management. In this project, this is investigated by studying the managing of the Swedish banking crisis in the early 1990s, based on extensive archival studies, interviews and witness seminars.
Project qualifications: Relevant background is a degree in economic history, business administration, history, political science, finance, sociology, economics, (or similar).
More information: project leader Mikael Wendschlag, mikael.wendschlag@ekhist.uu.se
For further information please click here.
Application Deadline: 15 September2026
The Centro di Ricerche e Documentazione “Piero Sraffa”, in accordance with the wishes of the family and with its financial support, establishes for the twelfth year a Prize in memory of Pierangelo Garegnani of the amount of € 3,000 (before tax), aimed at young scholars who are engaged or plan to engage in research in economic analysis along the lines of the work of Pierangelo Garegnani.
The Prize is awarded to researchers in the field of Economics who are attending a PhD course, or have defended since 2020 their PhD thesis, in Italian or foreign Universities.
The applications must be submitted no later than July 25, 2025 by electronic mail to: centro.sraffa@uniroma3.it
The application must be accompanied by the following documents:
The application and the attached documents must be written either in English or in Italian. If the language of the doctoral or graduate thesis is neither of them, an outline (6,000-9,000 words) of the thesis in English or Italian must be attached to the application.
The applications will be evaluated by a Committee of three members, appointed jointly by the Board of Directors of Centro Sraffa and the family of Pierangelo Garegnani. The members of the Committee will be preferably chosen among scholars belonging to academic institutions in which Pierangelo Garegnani carried out his research and teaching activities.
New Application Deadline: 25.07.2025
The Steering Committee of the Union for Radical Political Economics (URPE) is pleased to announce that the 2025 URPE Dissertation Fellow is Armando Alvarez, doctoral candidate in the Department of Economics at The New School for Social Research.
Armando's dissertation is titled “Value, Prices, Endogenous Money, and Financial Instability” and its main purpose is to provide a theoretical framework through post-Keynesian and Marxian economics to explain money, its endogenous character, and the possibility of financial crises and sustained inflation. The dissertation examines the role of money in enabling capitalism to function as a self-organizing mode of production, as well as the contradictions that arise from the social relations underlying money and its credit form.
The History of Economics Society is delighted to announce the winner of this year's Craufurd Goodwin Best Article on the History of Economics Prize.
The Goodwin Prize Committee, consisting of Alain Marciano (chair), Katia Caldari, and Gary Mongiovi, awarded the Prize for Best Article to Ian Kumekawa for “Measuring the Cost of Pollution: Economic Life, Economic Theory, and the Origins of Environmental Economics”, published in the Journal of Modern History 96(2), 2024.
Kumekawa’s paper proposes to reassess the intellectual history of environmental economics by focusing on A. C. Pigou’s work on externalities and situating it within a broad institutional framework. Kumekawa shows that economic thinking about environmental degradation was not simply the product of academic theory and intellectual innovation in isolation. It was also shaped by administrative actors, whose findings were later selectively appropriated by economists. Kumekawa argues—and shows—that the effort to measure the costs of pollution—often through detailed empirical studies conducted by local administrators, many of them women—not only preceded but also informed Pigou’s conceptualization of externalities.
The paper is extremely well written and tightly argued. It combines historical analysis with economic reasoning. The argument is thoroughly documented and draws on a wide range of sources, including secondary literature in economic history, environmental history, and political economy, as well as government reports, municipal records, and archival materials. Among these sources, particular emphasis is placed on the empirical work carried out by local institutions—most notably the Manchester Air Pollution Advisory Board—which sought to quantify the economic harm caused by industrial smoke and serves as the central focus of the article’s analysis.
This empirical material allows Kumekawa to reconstruct the complex interactions between economic theory and public policy. One of the article’s key contributions is to highlight a dimension often overlooked in the history of economic thought: the reciprocal relationship between abstract economic theorizing and the institutional and political constraints within which it emerges. More broadly, the article challenges the standard historiography of environmental economics by questioning the coherence of a singular intellectual lineage and emphasizing instead the fragmented, contested nature of its development.
Previous award winners can be found on the HES website at: https://historyofeconomics.org/awards-and-honors/best-article-prize/
To conclude our week of award announcements, the History of Economics Society is pleased to reveal the winner of this year's Distinguished Fellow Award.
The award committee, consisting of three past presidents of the Society -- Marcel Boumans, Evelyn Forget, and Jeff Biddle -- decided to honor Annie L. Cot as the 2025 HES Distinguished Fellow.
Below is an excerpt from the nominating letter, submitted by Harro Maas, Cléo Chassonnery-Zaïgouche and Steven Medema:
As the history and sociology of science over the past decades has taught us, no scientific field lives by its publications alone. It needs a community to keep scholarship alive. This was so from the 18th century Republic of Letters to our days. A community that fosters scholarly exchange does not fall from thin air; it needs an infrastructure to make it thrive. There is no person among us who did more to create the conditions to make our community thrive and grow than Annie Lou Cot, and it is for this accomplishment that it is our honor and our pleasure to nominate Professor Annie Lou Cot as Distinguished Fellow of the History of Economics Society.
Professor Cot has devoted much of her distinguished academic career to educate and mentor young and promising scholars. Having worked on the history of Chicago economics, Professor Cot was well aware of the central importance of the research seminar for the transmission and improvement of scholarly crafts. Over many years and under different names, and with Professor Jérôme Lallement of University Paris Descartes as her indefatigable sparring partner, Professor Cot organized regular seminars with young scholars still in the midst of their thesis (the Albert O. Hirschman seminar), or early career researchers (the Cournot seminar), to discuss their work in progress or projects for funding applications. These could be her own students, students that were supervised by others, or scholars who were sometimes only at the beginning of their own careers. Equally aware of the importance of the outsider’s gaze, Professor Cot invited a wide range of international scholars to participate in these seminars and to contribute to deepening the experience associated with her master’s program in history and epistemology of economics. The biweekly Thursday seminars where many of her invited scholars presented became regular fixtures in the agendas of many of us, and even more so after they turned hybrid these last years. Discussions at these seminars continued in the Paris bars and restaurants, and often at Professor Cot’s apartment which she ran as a French salon.
The intellectual climate Professor Cot thus created enabled her students, those of others, and her audience to freely explore and expand their scholarship, creating scores of professional opportunities in the process. As witnessed from her CV, Professor Cot easily tops the list of thesis supervisors in the history of economics (with more than 30 theses supervised). Many of her Ph.D. candidates went on to have distinguished careers of their own not only in France, but also in Columbia, Chile, Japan, Italy or Belgium, as she supervised thesis work in French, English and Spanish. Because of this, the influence of her contributions to sustaining, supporting, and growing the field have been felt around the world. The reach of her influence is remarkable.
It is right and good that the HES has used its Distinguished Fellow award to recognize people who have made extensive and pathbreaking contributions to the literature in the field. But one of the marks of a mature field of inquiry is that it recognizes those who have helped to build and support the field itself, to create networks (now so much the focus of our historical analysis), and who demonstrate an almost single-minded commitment to such efforts— particularly given that deep and influential involvements in such efforts will often come at the expense of their own scholarship. It is right and good that such work be not just celebrated, but honored, and it is with this in mind that we propose Professor Annie Lou Cot as Distinguished Fellow of our Society and urge you in the strongest terms to give her candidacy every consideration.
Previous award winners can be found on the HES website at:
https://historyofeconomics.org/awards-and-honors/distinguished-fellow/
The History of Economics Society is delighted to announce the winner of this year's Joseph Dorfman Best Dissertation on the History of Economics Prize.
The Dorfman Prize Committee, consisting of Jean-Baptiste Fleury (chair), Juan Carlos Acosta, and Marianne Johnson, awarded the Prize for Best Dissertation to Cyril Jung, for the work “ Economists and Historians in the United States: From Cooperation to Antagonism, 1880s–1990s".
Dr Cyril Jung’s dissertation is an ambitious project that provides a broad historical study of a century of exchanges between the disciplines of economics and history. Dr. Jung begins at the end of the 19th century, when the influence of the German Historical School on U.S. scholars such as Richard T. Ely facilitated a close relationship between the two disciplines. Dr. Jung then follows the evolution of the disciplines through the mid-century work of W.W. Rostow and on to Douglass North.
Jung’s exploration of this previously understudied cross-disciplinary relationship makes a distinctive contribution to our field by providing a balanced outlook that focuses equally on both the historian’s and the economist's side of the story. The dissertation explores how disciplinary identities and boundaries were shaped by intellectual and institutional work by both historians and economists. In doing so, Dr. Jung wrestles with many fundamental questions – the Methodenstreit, the role of positive science, the rise of mathematical formalism, the nature of neoclassical economics, science culture, economic imperialism, cliometrics – and how concepts travelled from one discipline to another, thus showing that economic history stood as a place for dialogue and cross-disciplinary collaboration.
The jury praised the ambition, breadth, depth and rigor of Jung’s work, which incidentally sheds light on the history of an understudied yet very influential movement within economics.
Previous award winners can be found on the HES website at: https://historyofeconomics.org/awards-and-honors/dorfman-dissertation-prize/
The History of Economics Society is delighted to announce the winner of this year's Joseph J. Spengler Best Book Prize.
The Spengler Prize committee, consisting of Alexandra Hyard (chair), Stephen Meardon, and Juan Pablo Couyoumdjian decided to award the prize to Branko Milanovic for the book Visions of Inequality from the French Revolution to the End of the Cold War (Harvard University Press, 2023).
Conceptions of inequality are relative to place and time – and their salience in the public debate and writings of political economists varies, diminishes and may be eclipsed for a time. This is the idea motivating Branko Milanović’s book. He invites the reader to join him in a telescopic rediscovery of the conditions of inequality during the lives of a selection of great economic thinkers, inspecting the narratives of inequality they composed.
More than a few of us got our first introduction to the history of economics, and even economics at large, from Heilbroner’s The Worldly Philosophers. Milanovic introduces readers similarly, with equal personal interest and glittering prose, to the visions of inequality of François Quesnay, Adam Smith, David Ricardo, Karl Marx, Vilfredo Pareto, and Simon Kuznets.
To Milanovic, “visions of inequality” has the double meaning of, first, the empirical facts of the moment as the economists beheld them; second, the theories they devised to explain those facts, their causes, and their consequences. Milanovic represents the economists’ visions in both respects. Adam Smith beheld a society with remarkable class distinctions – where, among paupers, workers, farmers, shop owners, capitalists, and the landed aristocracy, the workers amounted to upwards of half the population but accrued a family income that averaged one-tenth that of capitalists and one-thirtieth of the landlords. Smith made few comments about inequality as such, but his identification of the advancement of society with the “comeattibleness” of necessaries and conveniences of life for the many was an uncommon vision. What was common, though, was the idea that the functional income distribution among classes was what warranted attention, not the interpersonal or interhousehold distribution. Over a century and a half later, the vision of Simon Kuznets that posited declining interpersonal inequality beyond an intermediate stage of development was fundamentally different. In its way it was more optimistic – although, as later authors determined empirically, false. But Milanovic points out that Kuznets himself did not intend the curve he envisioned to end the discussion. He enjoined readers to venture into other fields of study to deal adequately with the consequences to inequality of demographic, technological, and institutional change.
Branko Milanovic shows that the history of economics is necessarily one of those fields. For his outstanding historical exposition of the empirical and theoretical visions of inequality that draws renewed appreciation to our field, his book is the worthy winner of this year’s Joseph J. Spengler Prize for the Best Book on the History of Economics.
Previous award winners can be found on the HES website at:
https://historyofeconomics.org/awards-and-honors/spengler-book-prize/
The History of Economics Society and the Journal of the History of Economic Thought are delighted to announce the winner of this year's JHET Early Career Scholar Award.
The selection committee, consisting of Verena Halsmayer (chair), Jeff Biddle, and Steven Medema, have decided to give this year's award to Adriana Calcagno, for the paper "How Industrialization Became the Core of Raúl Prebisch's Thought".
Adriana’s paper contributes to a growing literature on the history of Latin American economics and on the activities of economics in the policy realm—in this case, development policy via work done in national and international agencies. Adriana’s paper focuses on the intellectual path through which Raúl Prebisch placed industrialization at the center of his economic thought and policy recommendations, highlighting how the changing international context of the 1930s and 1940s made him depart from laissez-faire and adopt countercyclical policies, gradually abandoning the agrarian export-led growth model and finally embracing industrialization as the new growth strategy for Argentina and Latin America.
What particularly impressed the committee about Adriana’s paper is the attention that it draws to important contradictions and struggles within Prebisch’s writings. All too often, the history of thought seems to search for clean and unambiguous intellectual positions. What Adriana offers is a thorough reading of Prebisch’s work, which allows her to demonstrate the twists and turns in the evolution of his thought at the various intersections of policy-making and theorizing. All of this is nicely set in relief against the thicket of political and economic international settings that shaped his reasoning. In this sense it is a quite classic contribution to the history of economic theory, telling the pre-history of Prebisch’s development theory.
More information about the JHET Early Career Scholar Award can be found on the HES website at: https://historyofeconomics.org/awards-and-honors/jhet-early-career-scholar-award/
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by Sylvio Kappes, Louis-Philippe Rochon, Guillaume Vallet | by Edward Elgar Publishing 2025
This informative book discusses the evolution of monetary policy, particularly since the subprime crisis. The contributors analyse diverse examples of the implementation of monetary policies across a range of countries, from those with major central banks such as Canada and Switzerland to developing economies such as Brazil and Nigeria, exploring how the practical workings of these measures can vary.
The authors examine the different instruments that can be used to control base interest rates, such as open market operations, reserve requirements and remuneration and rediscount operations. Chapters delve into 11 different case studies, which include monetary policy implementations in China, a reconstruction of the monetary policy framework in Argentina during COVID-19 and an overview of the instruments and procedures used by the European Central Bank. This comprehensive book also provides an overview of the various challenges that can arise in the process of implementing novel strategies.
Students and scholars of financial economics and regulation, political economy and money and banking will greatly benefit from this book. With its theoretical insights, it is also a crucial resource for academics in post-Keynesian economics, as well as practitioners in central banking and the financial press.
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by Louis-Philippe Rochon, Sylvio Kappes, Guillaume Vallet | Edward Elgar Publishing, 2025
This timely book answers the question of whether central banks should specifically target the stability of financial systems and if so, what kind of policies should be adopted to prevent or mitigate financial instability.
Providing a critical perspective on both central banking and monetary policy, this book examines policies that are used and should be used to prevent instability in the future. Using examples from global financial markets, chapters investigate real-world events that have triggered instability including pandemics and how they have led to a crisis for inflation. Adapting both Minsky’s analysis and the viewpoints of post-Keynesians, the book concludes that central banks should assess their existing approach to targeting inflation as a way of stabilising financial markets.
With a particular focus on financial regulations and supervision, this book will be an essential read for academics in the fields of political economy and post-Keynesian economics as well as central bank policy makers.
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Edited by Sylvio Antonio Kappes and Andrés Arauz | Edward Elgar 2025
In this prescient book, expert contributors from academic and policymaking circles explore dollarization in both theoretical and practical terms. They provide a fundamental resource for understanding the many forms in which dollarization can occur.
Central Banking, Monetary Policy and the Political Economy of Dollarization analyzes important case studies from across continents including Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe. Through these findings, the book examines the political economy aspects of dollarization, critically assessing its potential outcomes. Contributors consider the role of central banks in dollarization, and provide a new perspective on the study of the phenomenon for a contemporary readership.
This book is beneficial to academics and students focusing on economic disciplines such as financial regulation, banking, political economy and post-Keynesian economics. Central bankers and those working in the financial press will also find it useful.
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by Lara M. Espeter, Linda Hering | 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.
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edeited by Arturo Hermann | 2025 by Routledge
Engagement with and between a plurality of progressive, non-neoclassical traditions is an important step in fostering a more capacious understanding of sustainability ― both as a concept and as a political objective. To that end, this book provides a far-reaching overview of the development of radical ecology and heterodox economics on the issues of sustainability, highlighting the presence of different but largely complementary perspectives and arguing that greater engagement between these schools of thought is required to help formulate viable alternatives to the prevailing neoliberal ideology.
The chapters of this volume demonstrate, from various theoretical perspectives of radical ecology and heterodox economics (in particular, degrowth, ecosocialism, original institutional economics, theories of complex systems), the conceptual, ontological, epistemological and political economic limitations of existing mainstream accounts of sustainability, grounded, as they are, in neoclassical environmental economics.
The international cast list of contributors argues in favour of heterodox theories to inform an alternative political economy of socially just sustainability by considering how these are grounded in a more realistic, holistic and critical economics. Each chapter in this section examines how the schools of thought under consideration articulate the political economic foundations of "sustainability" and, in turn, what these mean in-practice over how, in policy action, sustainability should be achieved.This volume is essential reading for anyone concerned with a viable alternative conception of sustainable economy, and in particular with readers from all strands of radical ecology and heterodox economics, policy makers, institutions and organisations dealing with the issues of sustainability.
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Edited by Ksenija Hanaček, Marula Tsagkari and Brototi Roy | Edward Elgar, 2025
This essential book explores a diverse array of perspectives on degrowth, a movement critical of the global capitalist system pursuing economic growth at all costs. Contributing authors provide insights into the connections between degrowth and fields such as art, architecture, literature, and post-development, setting an agenda for future research.
Bringing together theories from different research backgrounds, chapters engage with degrowth in the context of dance, migration, strategy games, fashion, and solarpunk among others. The book also investigates the impact of capitalist-colonial-patriarchal hierarchies on relationships at the personal and global level, reflecting on key forms of resistance and highlighting opportunities to break away from colonial legacies. Ultimately, authors emphasize the indispensable role of degrowth strategies in cultivating an inclusive and sustainable future based on justice and equity.
Students and scholars of economics, geography, politics, and sustainability studies will benefit from this book’s forward-thinking analysis of degrowth. Its interdisciplinary focus also makes this a valuable resource for academics in fields such as architecture, feminist and queer studies, and literary studies.
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Edited by Frank Moulaert, Pieter Van den Broeck, Pavlos-Μarinos Delladetsimas and Liana Simmons | Edward Elgar 2025
This book offers a comprehensive survey of the history of thought and practice of commoning of scarce land resources. Presenting a refreshing theoretical and historical perspective, it explores how social relations, ethics, and agencies have affected the building and development – but also the decline – of Landed Commons. Bringing together expert contributors from across the globe and investigating in depth three case studies, the book addresses how people have acquired or lost their rights to use land, the institutionalization processes that have shaped or destroyed these rights, and how Landed Commons can be built, developed, and sustained in a socially innovative way. Using concepts from the Théorie des Cités, it demonstrates how mutual aid-based action research can be seen as the way forward for communities to build and maintain equitable and sustainable human–land relations in Landed Commons.
Academics, researchers, and students in regulation and governance, politics and public policy, human geography, social work, law, and economics will benefit from this in-depth exploration of the human relevance of commoning in contemporary neoliberal times. Commoning activists, government officials, and practitioners will equally find this to be an invaluable read.
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by Tonia Warnecke| by Edward Elgar Publishing 2025
This thought-provoking book is a major examination of female entrepreneurship in China and India. It discusses gender inequalities, explores to what extent socio-economic factors determine access to entrepreneurial opportunities, and uses historical and contemporary employment patterns to challenge stereotypes surrounding female entrepreneurship.
Chapters show how good intentions do not necessarily translate into inclusive, effective female entrepreneurship programs. They highlight how corruption, discrimination, and legal failures impact women in business, discussing practical approaches to address diverse challenges such as unequal access to finance, digital literacy, and professional networks. Tonia Warnecke presents a framework for designing gender-sensitive programs, illustrating its application to female entrepreneurs in the informal sector. The book highlights the leadership of social enterprises in generating decent work opportunities for women, and considers the interrelationship of gender equality and environmental sustainability.
An important guide for academics and students in entrepreneurship, development studies, and gender studies, this book is also a valuable tool for government agencies, corporations, and other organizations seeking to implement female entrepreneurship programs.
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Edited by Paul Dragos Aligica and Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili | 2025, Edward Elgar
This book discusses the crisis in modern governance rooted in the social fragmentation of modern society, the expanding diversity of values, beliefs and lifestyles generated by globalization and the technological revolution. Chapters advocate for a convergence of the institutional theory of polycentricity and the political philosophy of modus vivendi – live and let live – as a basic conceptual framework to uphold a peaceful and tolerant society, while presenting detailed analysis of a wide range of case studies.
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by Benjamin Fine | by Brill, 2025
Long self-proclaimed as “Knowledge Bank”, the World Bank is as active as criticised in its endeavours across scholarship, ideology and policy in practice, serving US interests in the age of globalisation, neoliberalism and financialisation. This Volume focuses on the Bank’s scholarship, meticulously criticising it and assessing alternatives. Its analytical framing draws upon economics imperialism in general, and its evolution through three phases. Corresponding phases of new, newer and newest development economics are identified, with the World Bank taking a leading role in each, with implications for the expanding scope of development economics and its contestations with development studies.
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by G. E. M. de Ste. Croix | by Verso books
The Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World is an original and provocative reconstruction of 1,400 years of classical antiquity. Sharply written, it is a major intervention in Marxist theories of class, seeking to explain and illustrate the value of Marx’s general analysis of society to ancient Greek studies. G. E. M. de Ste. Croix makes slavery central to the achievements of the Greek city-states and wider classical civilisation. He traces the social origins of Athenian democracy and advances an innovative explanation for the decline and fall of the Roman Empire. Comparing the late Roman political system to a ‘vampire bat’, Ste. Croix argues that serfdom and a tightening fiscal screw left the peasant masses indifferent to the Empire’s fate.
Widely reviewed and debated, The Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World was hailed by the New York Review of Books as ‘the only work in a Western language that has ever attempted to tell the story of the greatest part of the ancient world with the interests of the lower classes as its central theme’.
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by Mehrdad Vahabi | published 2025 by Springer Nature
This book examines the intellectual legacy of economist Janos Kornai and explores his unique contribution to economics. It addresses the key themes within Kornai’s work and shows how his ideas relate to the leading figures within economics. After highlighting the influence of Marx and Hayek on Kornai, his major contribution to comparative economics and analysis of capitalist and socialist economic systems is examined. How they fed into his conceptualization of hard and soft budget constraints and complemented his work on economic theory, in particular debates around Walrasian and Marshallian equilibrium theory, is also discussed.
This book offers insight into the work of Janos Kornai and his impact upon economics. It will be of relevant to students and researchers interested in the history of economic thought and comparative economics.
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by Benjamin Fine | by Brill, 2025
South Africa’s post-apartheid transition has proven disastrous. It is marked by the emergence of a black elite of enriched capitalists out of the globalisation, neoliberalisation and financialisation of the economy in general and of its Minerals-Energy and Financial Complex in particular. By contrast, inequalities, poverty and failing social provision have persisted. Recent attention has shifted to how this disastrous trajectory was initiated, some suggesting a lack of available alternative policy options at the time of transition. This is shown to be false with a full range of progressive alternatives being rejected with corresponding consequences, from “state capture” to electoral defeat.
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by Anil Shah | Juny 2025, transcript
Financial inclusion appears as a timely development policy. Ostensibly, providing poor households with access to credit and other financial services contributes to sustainable development and poverty alleviation. Anil Shah reveals the colonial roots of microfinance and how these paved the way for its rise in the present. Drawing on empirical field research, he demonstrates how financial inclusion is the latest incarnation of a class-based mode of dominating and exploiting subaltern classes on the Indian subcontinent through gendered and racialised indebtedness. As such, he offers a vital resource for researchers, students, and policymakers working in the field of development finance.
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by Rémy Herrera | by Emerald Publishing Limited, 2025
This new volume of Research in Political Economy is devoted to themes related to various ‘trajectories of declining and destructive capitalism’, within the framework of contemporary Marxism. To discuss these themes, we brought together 15 texts, written by 20 social scientists from 10 countries. These authors are, for some, internationally renowned and experienced personalities and, for others, young researchers starting their careers, but all working in their own way to strengthen Marxism in order to apply its powerful methods to the interpretation and, above all, the transformation of the world. Their contributions deal with 12 economies, covering five continents: Germany, Great Britain, France, Spain, Senegal, South Africa, Lebanon, Iran, India, Papua New Guinea, Australia and Chile in the current period or very near past – plus two other countries, China and Cuba, in their more distant past preceding their respective socialist revolutions. In addition, the cases of Palestine and Israel, but also of Ukraine, are addressed in a final postscript written by Paul Zarembka.
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by Maurizio Lazzarato | by Verso Books, 2025
Maurizio Lazzarato’s War and Money explores the connections between capitalist expansion, international economic conflict, and war, via an analysis of the imperialism of the American dollar. He examines why contemporary left-wing theorists such as Michel Foucault and Antonio Negri have failed to recognize war as a fundamental aspect of capitalism. Renewed readings of Marx, Lenin, and Rosa Luxemburg argue for class struggle against capitalist war as a fundamental aspect of leftist theory.
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As part of the PhD program funded by the Hans Boeckler Foundation (HBS) at the Institute for Socio-Economics and the Institute for Work, Skills and Training (IAQ) at the University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE) up to eight doctoral scholarships will be awarded starting June 1, 2026. Successor to the HBS PhD program “Political Economy of Inequality”, the PhD program examines socio-economic inequalities in the causation of the climate crisis, the unequal impacts of ecological damage, inequalities in the context of alternative transformation strategies, and the distribution of the costs and benefits of transformation. The program's research practice is characterized by an interdisciplinary and applied socio-economic approach. It integrates economic inequality research, political economy, and economic sociology, as well as current economic and socio-political reform discourses.
The doctoral students will actively participate in the Institute's activities and have a variety of opportunities to gain further academic qualifications. In addition to academic enhancement, the PhD program aims to highlight the social relevance and concrete options for action in the field of socio-ecological transformation.
The PhD program is headed by Prof. Miriam Rehm, PhD (Institute for Socio Economics, UDE, spokesperson), Prof. Dr. Jakob Kapeller (Institute for Socio Economics, UDE), Prof. Dr. Ute Klammer (Institute for Work, Skills and Training, UDE), Prof. Dr. Paul Marx (Institute for Political Science and Sociology, University of Bonn), Prof. Dr. Till van Treeck (Institute for Socio-Economics, UDE) and Prof. Dr. Achim Truger.
The following research questions are the focus of the program:
Whatare the descriptive and causal links between economic inequality and the climate crisis?
How can climate policy and distribution policy be integrated?
What macroeconomic inequality implications and dynamics arise in the context of socio-ecological transformation?
Which actors, power relations and lines of conflict can enable progressive climate policy?
The accompanying program is offered by the Institute for Socio-Economics (IfSO) together with the Institute for Work, Skills and Training (IAQ) and other cooperation partners. It includes a regular colloquium, methods courses, summer schools, regular thematic mini-courses and workshops on science communication, as well as the opportunity for research stays at relevant institutions in Germany and abroad.
Doctoral students will receive a monthly grant of €1,750 (consisting of a basic grant of €1,650 and a research allowance of €100) starting winter semester 2025. In addition, up to €100 health insurance allowance and, if applicable, family allowances can be paid.
If the personal requirements are met, there is the option of supplementing the scholarship with a position at IfSO subject to social insurance contributions amounting to 25% of a full-time position (TVL-13).
The scholarships run for a maximum of three years. The scholarship holders are provided with workplaces at the University of Duisburg-Essen. A committed, high presence in Duisburg is expected in order to be able to use synergies between the research projects. The program language is German. Scholarship holders have access to the Hans Boeckler Foundation's extensive ideational support program.
The following documents must be submitted for the first selection round by September 10, 2025 at the latest:
Interviews will take place on September 17 and 18 2025 via zoom. In the second step, an application with a 10-page exposé and other application documents will be submitted to the HBS by November 2 in consultation with the potential supervising professors.
Decisions on the doctoral scholarships are made according to the BMBF guidelines and the HBS selection criteria. Applicants are expected to have a GPA above average and a proven track record of socio-political, union, or social involvement. Prerequisite for application is knowledge of the German language at B2 level, at the start of the program. Please send the application documents in electronic form by September 10, 2025 at the latest to: Prof. Miriam Rehm (e-mail: kolleg.ifso@uni-due.de).
Further information on the contents of the PhD program can be found here.
Application Deadline: 10. September 2025
Second call for applications – 41st cycle
The PhD programme in Economics of the Tuscan Universities announces a supplementary call for applications for the 41st cycle. Applications remain open until July 24, 2025, with an additional week permitted for reference letters.
The programme offers 5 positions with full scholarships, distributed as follows:
Candidates are required to apply to each type of position through separate procedures. Those applying to 'free topic' positions can submit a single application. For the two 'specific research themes', a separate application is necessary for each. The programme recommends that potential candidates apply first to the 'free topic' positions and adapt, when appropriate, their proposal to the thematic calls.
Specific Research Themes
1. Social Cohesion in the Ecological Transformation This scholarship supports research on how to integrate social equity into sustainable transition strategies. The candidate will contribute to the development of a regional-level macroeconomic model to assess the socio-economic impacts of environmental policies and identify inclusive policy pathways. The project combines sustainability analysis, policy evaluation, and distributive justice, with potential applications in both academic and policy-making environments.
2. Worker Voice, Wages and Technological Change: The Role of Collective Bargaining, Unions and Employee Representation This scholarship focuses on how digitalisation, automation, and artificial intelligence are reshaping labour relations, wage structures, and worker representation. The candidate will analyse the risks and opportunities associated with technological innovation, using both theoretical and empirical approaches. The research aims to contribute to the development of fair and inclusive strategies for governing technological change in the labour market.
General Information on the Programme
This three-year programme requires a full-time commitment and aims to train students for a career as economists in academia, private and public research institutions. The first year consists of intensive coursework, which provides PhD candidates with the knowledge and analytical skills needed to conduct high-level research. Courses are mainly held at the University of Siena, where students may apply for accommodation facilities.
In the second and third years, students are free to choose where to develop their research project — at the University of Florence, Pisa, or Siena — depending on personal interests and scholarship type. All students must complete a six-month visiting period in a foreign institution, which comes with a 50% increase in the scholarship.
Application Instructions
Applications must be submitted exclusively through the Online Secretariat. Instructions for submitting applications and further details on procedures are available in the dedicated Admissions section.
Required documents include:
Eligibility of foreign degrees is assessed by the selection committee in accordance with current regulations and international agreements. All documents must be submitted in English, Italian, or French.
Please click here for the Application and here for further information about the programm.
Deadline: 24 July 2025, at 2:00 pm (Central European Time); Reference letters: may be submitted within one additional week.
Job title: PhD Fellowship in Crisis Competence
What does the fellowship offer?
What do we expect from fellows?
What are potential research topics?
In the Agora project we are currently focusing on two topics:
But any research project related to crisis, crisis competence, resilience, or related areas in the urban context is welcome.
What are the formal requirements for applicants?
Application and Contact Information
Please send your CV and a short text describing your research interest - in one single pdf - for the fellowship to office@ccc.uzh.ch. Please do not hesitate to reach out if you have any questions. We evaluate applications on a rolling basis and the starting date will be determined jointly.
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A retiring author is seeking co-author(s) to collaborate on the next edition of a rather successful heterodox principles of economics textbook. The book is U.S. focused and is more data driven than theoretical. It has gone through multiple editions and now requires some updating in light of recent developments—including (but not limited to) trade wars and tariffs, the COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermath, inflation, the rise of populism, global conflicts with supply-chain disruptions, increases in government debt, global warming, and advances in artificial intelligence. Publication of the new edition is planned for 2028. Interested contributors with a commitment to heterodox approaches are encouraged to inquire.
Please send expressions of interest to: textbook2028@gmail.com.
Former editors of the Journal of Economic Surveys announce the launch of the first journal in the open access program by Stanford University Press (SUP) and Public Knowledge Project, Reviews of Economic Literature, which is accepting submissions now.
Reviews of Economic Literature (REL) is a peer reviewed journal that publishes articles on developments across the field of economics for economists and other interested readers. It is a Diamond Open Access journal (without fees for authors or readers) owned by an editorial nonprofit and published by Stanford University Press.
Subject areas include economics, econometrics, economic history, financial economics, business economics, and accounting.
The editors invite and encourage economists to consider preparing syntheses of recent research, bibliometric reviews, meta-analyses, and other forms of coverage for all aspects of the economic literature for submission to REL. Prospective authors are invited to register and submit work at https://rel.journals.sup.org/index.php/rel/about/submissions.
Four distinguished professors of economics lead the Reviews of Economic Literature editorial team: