Issue 354 January 26, 2026 web pdf Heterodox Economics Directory
The probably most funny (although somewhat implicit) assumption in Ricardo’s model of comparative advantage is the supposition that all sectors are essentially equivalent in terms of development: as specialization is determined by short-run costs, the long-run consequences of sectoral lock-ins are bracketed out. It is, hence, not without irony that Ricardo’s original example relies on comparing cloth and wine, where the former lies at the roots of industrialization, while specializing in wine is surely a tasty, but nonetheless somewhat stagnant development strategy ;-) In a similar vein, standard mainstream approaches to international trade do treat sectors as intrinsically equivalent and thereby overlook how some sectors are more conducive to economic development than others.
Therefore, a key reason why sectoral heterogeneity matters is that some sectors are more conducive to economies of scale than others and contribute more to overall productivity.* As already noted by Adam Smith, a key constraint for exploiting such economics of scale is the „size of the market“, that is, effective (global) demand for manufactured goods. These indications explain why global competition is, in large parts, a competition for (global) market shares in industrial sectors as the latter allow for reaping the benefits of associated productivity increases. And it is for these reasons that I regularly tell my students that until the 1980s or so no country ever became rich without industrial development (which is also key to understanding what is called the Great Divergence).
However, the opening-up of global economy, that goes back to the implosion of the Bretton Woods System in the 1970s, climaxed with the foundation of the WTO in the 1990s and is now seemingly at crossroads, intensified global competition in a way that both, reaffirms as well as challenges, heterodox analysis and policy advice in several contexts.
For one, in a globally integrated economy being strong on industrial production can no longer be considered a necessary condition for being rich. Rather, increased international integration led to a more nuanced division of labor between countries, which coincided with the emergence of more heterogenous development models (see, e.g., here and here for some related applications). While these development models still reflect the traditional dichotomy between an industrialized core and a periphery focusing on providing primary products, corresponding analyses also indicate how specific development models – especially those focusing fossil resource provisioning, tax evasion & profit shifting as well as financial sector services – can be associated with significant increases in real GDP. The key reason for this emerging pattern is, probably, that these countries provide inputs and services that are highly complementary to a capitalist economy, that is in large parts based on fossil energy sources and dominated by multinational corporations.
For another, the rise of China seems paradoxical for many mainstream observers – as China was quite successful in its stated attempt to become the (main) industrial workbench of the global economy by deviating from mainstream policy prescriptions. The success of China came with many notions – like the use of subsidies, the selective opening of markets or restriction on foreign investments – that are close to heterodox trade policy advice that starts from arguments on economies of scale and the size of the market to better understand how capturing single sectors or industries might translate into cumulative advantage in the medium-run (see, e.g., here or here)
Finally, heterodox analyses of international trade will become even more informative should current scenarios of a fragmentation of global value chains and a corresponding reorganization of international trade truly materialize. In such an environment of economic fragmentation parallel to geo-political cleavages, mercantilist notions of dominance via trade, finance and ownership would become more important. Also, and as discussed in some past editorials (see, e.g., here & here), trade & industrial policy would become much more entangled with concerns for structural autonomy and military capacities.
In my view the practical real-world focus on production processes encapsulated by heterodox economics, will be instrumental for understanding new economic configurations. At the same time, heterodox alternatives for a global economic policy that endows all countries with realistic prospects for beneficial socio-economic development, while fostering peace, stability and international exchange, will probably not be in high demand in such a context. Nonetheless, and somewhat paradoxically, such alternatives will still highly be needed.
In short, while the world might change, what remains constant is that the capacity of heterodox ideas and approaches to illuminate society – and, especially, how&why it changes ;-)
All the best and keep up the good work!
Jakob
* In my humble view, this lesson is also at the heart of a Baumol’s argument on ‚cost disease‘.
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1-2 June, 2026 | Budapest, Hungary
Conference Theme: New Perspectives on (New) Industrial policies in the Era of Geoeconomic Shifts
Industrial policy was once described as “the policy that shall not be named” (Cherif and Hasanov, 2019), but it has re-emerged as a widely embraced, almost universal remedy to economic challenges, triggering intense academic and policy debates.
An age of ‘new industrial policy’ (Juhász – Lane – Rodrik, 2024, Juhász – Lane, 2024) has thus dawned. Its aim is “to steer a sustainable structural change of our economies and societies towards sustainable human development” in the post-COVID era (Ferrannini et al, 2021: 1). Redesigned and reformulated industrial policy has become “limitless” (Voszka, 2019), as today (1) it extends beyond what was its traditional sector, manufacturing; (2) its geographical scope has expanded from ‘latecomer economies’ to developed ones, such as the United States and the European Union; (3) territorial focus moved beyond the national level to include local and supranational initiatives; and (4) main objectives have expanded beyond structural transformation to include social aspects, sustainability and the green transition, techno-nationalism, as well as geopolitical and geoeconomic rivalry in addition to the spread of artificial intelligence which provides momentum for disruptive change (Acemoglu, 2025).
The conference contributes to ongoing theoretical and policy debates as well as advanced empirical research in comparative and international political economy on (re-)industrialization and industrial policy. It has a particularly strong focus on the challenges of the green and digital transitions as well as the implications of techno-nationalist and geoeconomic rivalries.
The 12th SVOC International Conference invites scholars to present novel work on industrial transformations and their broader implications for economies, societies, and political regimes. The organizers encourage submissions that adopt different levels of analysis, including the global, national, local, and sectoral levels. The organizers welcome contributions that offer a better understanding of new industrial policies, especially in relation to structural change, infrastructural development, the green transition, and other dimensions of inclusive and sustainable development.
In addition, the organizers encourage interested researchers to submit papers especially (but not exclusively) on the following themes:
Abstracts (max. 300 words) are welcome until 20 February 2026. Please, send the title and the abstract to svoc@krtk.elte.hu. Notifications of acceptance will be sent by the 6 March 2026.
Please find more info here.
Submission Deadline: 20 February 2026
23-24 October, 2026 | Gothenburg, Sweden
The African Economic History Network (AEHN), in collaboration with the Unit for Economic History at the University of Gothenburg, invites submissions for its 19th Annual Meeting to be held at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, on the 23-24 October 2026.
This year’s conference will not be organized around a specific theme. The organizers warmly welcome proposals on any aspect of African economic history, encompassing all regions of the continent and covering any historical period. Submissions that engage with diverse methodologies, sources, and interdisciplinary perspectives are especially encouraged.
Please find more info here.
The organising committee has been able to secure funding for a limited amount of bursaries covering travel and accommodation costs for participants. Please indicate if you would require a bursary in the dedicated section of the submission form. Priority will be given to early career scholars' from African Universities.
Submission Deadline: 31 March 2026
25-27 June, 2026 | Napoli, Italy
Conference Theme: Causes and Consequences of Deindustrialisation. Structural change, globalisation, and labour productivity
Over the past decades, the share of output and employment generated by manufacturing has declined, especially in the most capitalistically advanced countries. This shift towards service-based sectors has been attributed to several factors. Some of these relate to changes in consumption habits as per capita income levels rise. Others emphasise the different dynamics of productivity between manufacturing and services. A third perspective involves foreign trade and international capital flows, viewing the phenomenon either as an efficient form of productivity specialisation driven by comparative advantages or as a harmful consequence of the unchecked tendency of more mature economies to invest in and purchase manufactured goods from low-labour-cost countries. All these explanations centre, in one way or another, on the complex interaction between sectoral change, technological innovation, income distribution, demand patterns, and the ultimate determinants of the growth process. The reasons behind the increasing share held by the financial sector (and more broadly, the so-called FIRE—financial, insurance, and real estate—sector) merit separate mention, as the peculiarities of this sector highlight a range of explanations closely linked to the role of money and credit in the economy and the process of rent creation.
The overall perspective emerging from these analyses is that deindustrialisation is not a negative development but a sign of a more advanced stage of economic progress. However, more recently, some second thoughts have arisen, and the argument that a robust manufacturing sector is vital for sustained long-term growth is gaining popularity again.
The 23rd STOREP Annual Conference aims to foster a debate on all the issues related to “Causes and Consequences of Deindustrialization. Structural Change, Globalisation, and
Labour Productivity”, like income distribution, relative prices, and the determination of activity and employment levels both in the short and long run. The analysis can be approached from various perspectives (theoretical, applied, historical), as long as it focuses on the sectoral structure of the economy and is framed within a perspective that highlights the significance of the history of economic thought. Researchers engaged with these issues within economic policy are particularly encouraged, as the significance of public interventions to support manufacturing is increasingly acknowledged in many key aspects of the State’s involvement in a private market economy.
Possible focuses of interest include, but are not limited to:
Paper proposals are welcome in all fields adopting historical and/or theoretical approaches from multiple perspectives (Marxian, Post Keynesian, Neo-Ricardian, Neo Schumpeterian, Institutional, Austrian economics, Stock-flow consistent and agent-based modeling, input-output analysis). Empirical approaches (both quantitative and qualitative) are considered, provided that they are appropriately framed in a historical or theoretical perspective.
STOREP invites proposals for special sessions organized in collaboration with other scientific associations, NGOs, and policy-making institutions. As in the past, the 23rd STOREP Conference will jointly organize initiatives and special sessions with the Institute for New Economic Thinking, the “Young Scholars Initiative”, and with students and researchers of the international network Rethinking Economics.
Please find more info here.
Submission Deadline: 16 March 2026
9-11 September, 2026 | Lausanne, Switzerland
Conference Theme: Global Transformations of Labour
The theme “Global Transformations of Labour” addresses pressing concerns surrounding the profound changes currently reshaping work worldwide. From the disruptive impact of automation and artificial intelligence to the challenges of democratic participation in economic life, social-ecological transitions, and geopolitical tensions labour is at the heart of global transformations. This year’s conference organizers invite submissions that explore theoretical, historical, empirical, and policy-oriented perspectives on global transformations of labour, especially regarding the following sub-themes:
The conference also welcomes papers beyond the main theme, provided they fall within one of the EAEPE Research Areas (RA) or are part of a Special Session sponsored by the society.
Abstracts for individual papers (250-500 words) should include the following information: authors’ names, email addresses and, affiliations, and name and code of the relevant RA. Following notification of acceptance, you will be invited to submit the full paper. Please note that only one presentation per author is permitted; additional papers can be submitted by the same author but will need to be presented by a registered co-author, if accepted by the scientific committee.
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Submission Deadline: 1 March 2026
19-22 November, 2026 | Atlanta, Georgia (US)
Conference Theme: Decentering Modernity
Since the inception of social science disciplines in the nineteenth century, modernity has been viewed as a unique phenomenon originating in the West and radiating to the rest of the world. This understanding of modernity has served as the foundation of modern social sciences. It has also been embraced by both Western imperialists, who believed in their “civilizing mission,” and postcolonial nationalist elites striving to implement “modernizing programs” in their new nations.
Over the last three decades, social science history has witnessed a flourishing of works that challenge this Western-centric notion of world development. They demonstrate that modernizing processes that have long been assumed to be unique to early modern Europe – such as the rationalization and centralization of the state, marketization of the economy, the rise of new ideologies pursuing individual freedom and political representation, and the transition away from the demographic ancien régime – have been parallel processes across different civilizations in the post-Mongol world. Embedded in diverging cultural idioms and manifesting local variations, the multiple forms of early modernities interacted with one another in the integrated global economy from the sixteenth through the eighteenth century. As such, the rising domination of the Western form of modernity in the Age of Imperialism is far from a unidirectional imposition of Western institutions, but a constant process of power, resistance, hybridization, and negotiation.
In today’s world, we see the center of gravity of capitalist development moving away from traditional Western countries with the emergence of new centers of capital accumulation in the Global East and Global South. While the ongoing democratic backsliding does not spare many traditional Western democratic nations, many young democracies in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and Eastern Europe have shown striking resilience. Amidst the current reconfiguration of the global political and economic order, we need new historical perspectives that avoid both the assumption of the universality of the Western form of modernity and the Orientalist gaze that essentializes non-Western civilizations as unchanging traditions antithetical to modernity.
In this Social Science History annual meeting, the organizers invite interdisciplinary papers and panels that address social, political, economic, and cultural processes from a historical perspective, broadly defined. In particular, the organizers welcome works that examine the convergence, divergence, and connections between multiple forms of modernity across the world, spanning long, medium, or short historical timeframes. The organizers also encourage submissions that connect historical analyses to contemporary issues.
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Submission Deadline: 1 March 2026
This important and timely series brings together critical and thought-provoking contributions on the most pressing topics and global issues related to sustainable development, including the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Comprising specially-commissioned books from leading academics, books in this comprehensive series seek to mobilize scientific, technical, and financial expertise from the over 2,000 institutions including universities, think tanks, businesses and governments of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN). This dynamic global network is committed to research, education, policy innovation, and practical solutions for sustainable development.
Equally useful as high-level intellectual contributions to specific topics, issues, approaches, innovations and debates around sustainable development, the Elgar Series on Sustainable Development features cutting-edge research and pragmatic policy responses seeking to accelerate progress toward addressing the world’s most pressing development challenges.
For further information about the series or if you would like to discuss a potential proposal, please contact:
Series Editors:
M. Kenneth Holt
Phoebe Koundouri
Guillaume Lafortune
Nikolaos Karagiannis
Edward Elgar Editor:
9 -11 September, 2026 | Brussels, Belgium
The Sustainable Welfare and Eco-Social Policy Network will hold its first-ever in-person conference wich is preceded by the third edition of the Network’s summer school from 7-9 September 2026. The event is hosted by the Université libre de Bruxelles and jointly organized by the Network, ULB, the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI), the MERGE project, and the WELRISCC project.
The organizers invite contributions that address the eco-social topics in a broad sense in its political, social, economic, and epistemic dimensions.
The following themes may serve as inspiration, but contributions can also cover other topics:
Who bears the costs and who reaps the benefits of eco-social transformation? How do class, gender, race, and geography shape pathways toward (or away from) justice — and what policies can mitigate and prevent new inequalities?
How do ecological degradation, climate impacts, and socio-economic inequalities intersect to produce new patterns of risk, vulnerabilities and precarity? What are the implications for social protection, wellbeing, and political stability across regions?
How do EU institutions, international organizations, and transnational policy networks shape eco-social change? What tensions arise between national welfare models, supranational regulation, and global justice concerns?
How can states navigate the tension between economic growth, ecological limits, and social justice? What capacities, forms of legitimacy, or political constraints shape their role in eco-social transformations — from national welfare systems to global governance
What social forces drive or resist eco-social transformation? How do conflicts — within and across movements, parties, and policy fields — shape the politics of transition?
How must welfare systems be transformed to function growth-independently? How can welfare systems support environmental-friendly living and reduce environmental impacts
How are ecological and social objectives integrated — or kept apart — in contemporary policy-making? What institutional mechanisms, policy mixes, or governance innovations facilitate coordination across welfare, environmental, and economic domains? Which eco-social policies could enhance inclusive wellbeing within planetary boundaries
How can welfare institutions, public services, or commons be redesigned to meet human needs within ecological boundaries? What frameworks, indicators, or governance arrangements support this reorientation
How do we balance analysis, advocacy and normative visions in times of crisis? What is at stake when research claims neutrality — and who benefits from it
How do scholars engage with social movements and policy arenas without losing credibility or autonomy? Can academic and activist practices reinforce one another in transformative ways?
These themes are guidelines rather than fixed tracks. Applicants may indicate which theme(s) their paper resonates with, but panels will be curated flexibly to foster dialogue across boundaries. The organizers also welcome new themes that challenge, expand, or reconfigure existing debates.
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Submission Deadline: 13 February, 2026
Evolutionary and Institutional Economics Review opens a call for papers for a special issue on "Japanese Capitalism Evolving with Uncertain Institutional Transformation and Growth Regimes", which will be published in April 2027 Issue.
Since the collapse of the asset price bubble in the early 1990s, Japanese capitalism has experienced prolonged low growth while undergoing significant institutional and structural transformations. These include demographic ageing, the expansion of non-regular employment and wage stagnation, financialisation and increased earnings retention, digitalisation and AI-driven platformisation, the reorganisation of global and regional value chains, rising outward investment, and mounting environmental and energy challenges.
Recent inflationary developments suggest a potential turning point, yet concerns over social security sustainability and large public debt persist. Japan’s pre–global financial crisis export-led growth regime has collapsed, replaced by persistent trade deficits alongside income surpluses. Together, these changes raise fundamental questions regarding the evolution of institutional coordination, market mechanisms, and policy regimes, and their capacity to underpin a new and resilient growth regime in an increasingly unstable global environment.
Building on evolutionary and institutional political economy, varieties of capitalism, and Régulation theory, this special issue aims to clarify how Japanese capitalism has evolved amid uncertain institutional transformation and fragile growth regimes, particularly in the post–global financial crisis era.
This special issue seeks to:
Contributions may address, but are not limited to:
Please follow the Instructions for Authors when preparing your manuscript. Please select “Yes” for the question “Does this manuscript belong to a special issue?” found at the bottom of the Additional Information tab and then select the special issue “Japanese capitalism evolving with uncertain institutional transformation and growth regimes” during the submission process. Also please write "Japanese capitalism evolving with uncertain institutional transformation and growth regimes" field during the submission process.
15 May, 2026 | Suzhou, China
Conference Theme: Politics, Economics, and Society in Global Public Policy
The organizers invite submissions of papers for the Conference "Forging the Future: Politics, Economics, and Society in Global Public Policy", taking place on 15 May 2026 at the Xi-an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU) In Suzhou, China. This is an event organised in collaboration with the Department of International Studies at XJTLU.
Confirmed Keynote Speaker: Prof. Jeffrey Sachs (Columbia University)
This Call for Papers invites original contributions that examine the political, economic, and social dimensions of providing global public goods while addressing global policy issues from diverse perspectives such as political science, political economy, economics, sociology, and related fields.
The organizers welcome submissions on the following topics, including but not limited to:
Please submit an abstract (no longer than 500 words) or full paper as a PDF via email. The first page of the submitted material must contain:
The language of the conference is English. Selected high-quality papers will be considered for publication in a special issue/section on Global Public Policy in an international academic journal, with selected contributions also featured in an edited volume.
Best Paper Award for Early-Career Scholars
The conference will present a Best Paper Award, accompanied by a prize of CNY 2,500. Eligibility is limited to current PG and PhD students and those who have completed their PhD within the past three years.
Registration and Fees
Participants wishing to present a paper must register and pay the submission fee by 10 April 2026. The payment link will be activated on 15 March 2026.
Important Dates
Any general request for information should be sent to InternationalStudies@xjtlu.edu.cn
Please find the submission form here.
Submission Deadline: 1 March 2026
17-19 June, 2026 | Konstanz, Germany
Environmental research indicates that planetary boundaries in several domains have been exceeded. Climate change, the loss of biodiversity, and the depletion of the Earth’s natural resources are among the largest challenges humanity currently faces. Ambitious policies that affect technological innovation, human behavior, and their interplay with socioeconomic conditions are needed to counteract the current trends. Yet, many governments are reluctant to implement the policies needed and communicate the pressing urgency of decarbonization.
The social sciences are key to understanding how climate policies can be successfully implemented and how corporate and individual environmental behavior relates to structural parameters as well as individual knowledge and environmental concern, social norms, lifestyles, and quality of life.
In light of this, the German Longitudinal Environmental Study (GLEN) project started in 2024 aim at investigating the incentives, restrictions, attitudes, beliefs, and psychological dispositions that underlie human-environment interactions. The question program includes indicators of health and environmental justice issues, carbon emissions in the areas of housing, mobility, consumption and nutrition, and questions on policy acceptance, political attitudes, and climate change denial. In doing so, the GLEN project provides a foundation for evidence-based environmental policy assessments and guidance. The project is building up a large-scale longitudinal panel study of the adult population in Germany in which the same individuals will be repeatedly observed over time using a standardized and stable survey instrument (online and paper in push-to-web setting). With this design, GLEN will meet the urgent need for data suitable for causal research in the environmental social sciences. With occasionally refreshed samples, it will also allow for monitoring trends on environmental concern and behavior, focusing on social, political, economic, and psychological aspects. As a long-term project, GLEN will cover the period between 2024 and 2036, and thus the period in which decisive policy measures to replace fossil fuels need to be implemented in accordance with international agreements. Five data sets, including the first two panel waves, will be published in June 2026 ready to use for the scientific community.
The GLEN survey team invites researchers from all fields of the social sciences to present their work on the international conference “Environment and Society” at the University of Konstanz, June 17th to 19th, 2026.
Submissions are not limited to GLEN data. Analyses using other suitable data sets are very welcome. Submissions may address but are not limited to the following topics:
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Submission Deadline: 15 February 2026
10-12 June, 2026 | Jyväskylä, Finland
The Baltic Connections 2026: A Conference in Social Science History will be organized in collaboration with the Annual Conference of the Scandinavian Society for Economic and Social History.
The organizers invite scholars in economic, social, and business history—as well as related social sciences—to explore a wide range of themes focusing on the Nordic and Baltic regions and beyond. The conference seeks to foster interdisciplinary dialogue and collaboration among researchers from Western, Nordic, Central, and Eastern Europe, as well as from around the world.
The organizers welcome proposals addressing topics in economic, social, and business history. Possible themes include, but are not limited to, comparative and transnational “East–West” historical processes, trade, migration, comparative development, international political economy, and the diffusion of institutions, ideas, and cultural influences. We also encourage work on demographic and labor history, theoretical and methodological questions, the use of digital tools, and proposals for thematic sessions and roundtrounables.
The conference will feature two keynote lectures: Joyce Burnette (Wabash College), delivering the seventh Riitta Hjerppe Lecture in Social Science History, and Marcelo Bucheli (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign).
In addition to individual papers, we also welcome proposals for complete three- to four paper sessions. Participants will be notified of acceptance by March 10, 2026, at the latest.
To ensure full consideration, please include:
Proposals for individual papers should be up to 500 words.
Panel proposals should include a panel description of up to 500 words, plus a list of papers and/or presenters with brief 150-word abstracts for each paper.
Please submit proposals via the conference website.
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Submission Deadline: 15 February 2026
Oikonomos: A Journal of Student Research in the History of Economic Thought is accepting submissions of papers for a special issue on Adam Smith and the Wealth of Nations to be published in Fall 2026.
Undergraduate and graduate students are encouraged to submit their papers on any aspect of Smith's life and work and/or any aspect of the Wealth of Nations and its context that they choose to address. In addition to research papers, shorter essays and book reviews on Smith and the Wealth of Nations and related subjects are also welcome.
The submission guidelines can be found here.
Deadline for submissions: April 30th.
9 -12 September, 2026 | Lisbon, Portugal
Please find the full post about the 16th Annual IIPPE Conference, along with Calls for Papers from other Working Groups, here.
Political Economy of Industrial Development (PEID) Working Group
The Political Economy of Industrial Development (PEID) Working Group invites proposals for individual papers or panels on themes related to the Politics of Contemporary Late Development, Inclusive and Sustainable Industrial Development, Green Transition and Green Industrial Policy. Proposals addressing the Political Economy implications of Industrial Development and Industrial Policy in Global South contexts will be particularly welcome; proposals addressing the increasing shift of Industrial Policy towards Defence and the War Industry, and the Geopolitics of such transition, will be particularly timely.
Specifically, the working group would welcome papers and panels focusing on the following issues:
The working group welcomes panel proposals and single paper proposals. If you are proposing a panel, all papers need to be submitted individually via the link below and sent also by email to the working group coordinator with the titles of all papers.
For further in formation please click here.
If you have any questions, please contact the Working Group Coordinators Lorenza Monaco and Pritish Behuria.
IMPORTANT: Please state clearly that you submitting to this call by selecting "Political Economy of Industrial Development" in your submission.
Submission Deadline: 15 February 2026
June & October-November, 2026 | Online
The Associazione Italiana Storia del Pensiero Economico (AISPE) invites post-doc researchers and scholars in History of Economics to make proposals for the presentation of a paper to be discussed during the Colloquia Doctoralia / Post-doc Webinars organized within the scientific community. The webinars will be held in two sessions: June and October-November. Authors will be asked to provide a provisional draft of the paper to our scientific committee 3 weeks before their presentation. The webinar may be held either in English or in Italian.
A general abstract of maximum 500 words and a personal CV must be submitted to our scientific committee by February 28, 2026. The list of accepted proposals will be communicated by March 15, 2026.
Proposals must be sent to aispesegreteria@gmail.com.
Submission Deadline: 28 February 2026
The Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics is inviting manuscripts for a special issue on the debates, issues, implications, and progress of Austrian economics over the last 100 years.
The year 2027 marks the centennial of the Austrian Institute for Business Cycle Research (Institut für Konjunkturforschung), founded in 1927 by Mises and directed by Hayek. The Institute marks the start of the Austrian masters' decades-long collaboration in continuing to develop and extend Austrian theory. Their work constitutes the core of the Austrian corpus today and their contributions secured the School's theoretical relevance throughout the 20th century and beyond. Hayek's work at the Institute also led to his winning the economics "Nobel" in 1974.
This special issue of the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics celebrates this milestone and, especially, the works by Mises and Hayek and the ideas, theories, and literature they inspired in the past century. It serves as a fitting tribute to the intellectual achievements of these two economists and their enduring influence within and beyond economics. By fostering dialogue across generations and disciplines, the issue will contribute to the ongoing vitality of Austrian economics.
The objectives of the special issue are:
The editors invite articles on topics such as (but not limited to):
Submissions to the special issue will be accepted through June 30, 2026 and will undergo peer review. All requirements and recommendations stated in the journal's For Authors page apply. Accepted articles are expected to be published in volume 30, issue 1 in 2027.
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Submission Deadline: 30 June 2026
18 – 22 May, 2026 | Dubrovnik, Croatia
In view of the polycrisis in the economy, society and the environment, resilience is the new magic word, and not only in organisational sciences. However, this is by no means new territory for organisational theory. Instead, the problem of adaptation and contingency in the (organisational) environment has been one of, if not the central issue in organisational theory for more than half a century. Flat hierarchies, decentralisation and the organisation of networks and value chains are just as much part of old and new research catalogues as strategic planning, the creation of redundancy and the management of innovation. Finally, Karl Weick’s groundbreaking work on high-security organisations, which brought the management of the unexpected to the forefront of attention, should also be mentioned. Conceptually, organisational theory is therefore not unprepared. However, it is necessary to
examine which of the concepts are still viable, what further and new developments the theory has to offer, and which gaps need to be closed. In the context of permacrisis conditions – climate stress, geopolitical instability, demographic shifts, technological disruption, and legitimacy crises – it becomes essential to ask how organisations and social systems adapt, transform, and sometimes fail.
Above all, however, there is also the empirical question of the extent to which organisations could not only be resilient in theory, but also (are able to) manage risks, uncertainty and the unexpected in practice. The organizers particularly invite work that interrogates the tensions between resilience discourse and resilience reality, including performative uses of resilience, its managerialisation, and potential unintended consequences. In this context, it will be necessary to take into account, both theoretically and empirically, that functional failure in societies under stress not only endangers organisations, but also social (sub)systems and calls into question the legitimacy of organisational society as a whole.
Against this background, the organizers want to present and discuss topics such as
The list of keywords is by no means exhaustive; it serves as an invitation for theoretical, conceptual, and empirical contributions across sociology, management studies, public administration, economics, psychology and related disciplines.
Abstract: 1.000 -1.500 words
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Submission Deadline: 15 Feburary 2026
1-3 July, 2026 | İzmir, Turkey
Please find more info about EWIS 2026 and a full list of workshops here.
Workshop Theme: Making Sense of 'Austerity Militarism': Welfare Cuts and the New Politics of Sacrifice in a Time of Defence Spending
The workshop will explore ‘austerity militarism’ and how it complicates claims of a rising ‘new state capitalism’ around expanded industrial policy as states struggle to rectify decades of underfunding infrastructure and justify military investments and concurrent welfare cuts to their electorates. It discusses the legacy of austerity and post-crisis neoliberalism, the political economy and geopolitics of the current conjuncture, and how states develop the capacity required to implement, and build legitimacy for, these new differential investment programmes.
The organizers invite contributors to the workshop to approach this problematique from a diverse range of theoretical and/or empirical perspectives. The organizers are interested in work from across disciplines, scales and methodologies, including, but not limited to, geopolitical analyses, macroeconomic and fiscal perspectives, moral economic lenses, and everyday political economy.
Pertinent questions include:
Please find the complete call for papers here.
Abstracts must be submitted electronically via the online submission system.
Submission Deadline: 11 February 2026
24-29 August, 2026 | Berlin, Germany
Keynesian Macroeconomics and European Economic Policies
The summer school aims at providing an introduction to Keynesian macroeconomics and to the problems of European economic policies to interested graduate students (MA and PhD) and junior researchers. It will consist of overview lectures, a panel discussion, student study groups, an SFC lab, and a poster session. The summer school will feature leading international researchers like Yannis Dafermos (United Kingdom), Leila Davis (United States of America), Sebastian Gechert (Germany), Eckhard Hein (Germany), Heike Joebges (Germany), Marc Lavoie (Canada), Maria Nikolaidi (United Kingdom), Miriam Rehm (Austria) and Mark Setterfield (United States of America), covering the following areas:
The summer school's language is English. Participants will be provided with accommodation and meals during the summer school.
Please find more info here.
Application Deadline: 28 February 2026
7-9 June, 2026 | Jyväskylä, Finland
The annual Summer School in Social Science History in Jyväskylä is designed to support doctoral research in the empirical historical social sciences, especially economic and social history projects. The organizers will address the basic assumptions and underlying logics of empirical research, as well as work with examples to support student projects. The goals of the workshop are (1) to examine the steps required to frame an empirical research question guided by theory, (2) to consider the range of research methodologies used by social scientists, (3) to address some strengths and limitations of each, and (4) to practice some of the steps involved in research design and implementation.
The organizers offer postgraduate students the opportunity to develop their knowledge of research methods and to test methodological choices in their dissertation research with top researchers and teachers in the field of social science history. The Summer School in Social Science History has become an annual tradition after getting excellent feedback from participants who have found the Summer School useful for their research and a great forum for networking.
All topics of research are welcome. Students in the early stages of their PhD work benefit most from the summer school guidance.
The summer school consists of a workshop, lectures on methods, and individual guidance. The organizers expect each participant to prepare a paper in advance reflecting on their own methodological choices. The paper may be intended as part of the dissertation manuscript or a separate presentation. The course will moreover introduce literature for participants to explore in advance. Summer school offers an excellent opportunity to meet other postgraduate students, as well as senior scholars in the field. Our social program will enable you to discover the summery city of Jyväskylä and its life and beautiful surroundings.
The teacher at the summer school is Professor Anne E. C. McCants (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States) along with teachers of the Department of History and Ethnology at the University of Jyväskylä.
Applications are welcome until March 20, 2026. Decisions on applications submitted will be sent out on April 10, 2026, at the latest. You can submit your application here.
In the application form, you are asked to write a short abstract of your research topic (150-200 words). In addition, you need to enclose an application letter (400-500 words) that includes a brief description of your methodological choices and challenges and a short personal introduction (CV) including the phase of your doctoral dissertation and name of your supervisor(s).
For further information, please contact summerschool-hela@jyu.fi.
Application Deadline: 20 March 2026
13-31 July, 2026 | Vienna, Austria
The AEMS Summer University presents and discusses the state of the art in alternative economic and monetary systems. There is overwhelming evidence that the current economic model based on everlasting economic growth is destroying the ecosystem of our planet and contributing to the global climate crisis. Therefore, the summer university wants to shed light on approaches and reform proposals that can make a real difference. AEMS offers room for critical thinking and the possibility to openly discuss and deconstruct ideas and concepts with distinguished experts from various scientific fields. Lectures, workshops and discussion panels enable the participants to acquire a deeper understanding of the intricate interactions of society, ecology and economy.
After successful completion, the international participants receive a certificate from BOKU University, awarding them with 5 ECTS points, which equals 125 study hours.
Modules
Please find more info here.
Join the Online Info Session on 18 February, 2026 here.
Early Bird Deadline: 8 March 2026
15-17 April, 2026 | Online / Leeds, United Kingdom
Applications are open for places at the annual Association for Heterodox Economics (AHE) postgraduate workshop on advanced research methods in economics. The workshop will be conducted in English. The workshop is open to anyone studying a PhD on any economics topics, from anywhere in the world. The organizers strongly encourage applications from women and ethnically-minoritised groups.
The workshop is free to attend plus we can offer limited travel support to those attending in-person.
Learning in the interactive sessions will be supported by pre-reading and dedicated video recordings by leading scholars.
Workshop topics include:
Please do not apply if you are not currently registered on a PhD programme. Students who have previously attended are not eligible to apply.
To allow in-person interaction but also retain a broad representation of students, the workshop will be held for the first time in a hybrid format, with some participants in-person and some online. It will be held over three short days, running from 10:30-15:30 UTC. Please bear in mind these timings: if you cannot realistically attend the whole workshop, please do not apply as you may be reducing the opportunities for others who can.
To apply, please complete the form here. Please complete all sections of the form as fully as you can. Applications will be evaluated in terms of the strength of the case you make for wanting to attend the workshop, and your need to attend (and its potential benefit).
Please direct any queries either to Andrew Mearman or Bianca Orsi.
Application Deadline: 18 February 2026
2-11 June, 2026 | Durham, North Carolina, USA
The 2026 Summer Institute on the History of Economics will take place at Duke University from June 2, through June 11, 2026. The Institute will focus on giving participants the tools to set up and teach their own undergraduate course in the history of economic thought. There will also be sessions devoted to demonstrating how concepts and ideas from the history of economics might be introduced into other classes. The sessions will be run by Duke faculty members.
Duke, which boasts five specialists in the field on its faculty, is home to the Center for History of Political Economy, a center whose mission is to promote and support research in, and the teaching of, the history of political economy. The premier journal in the field, History of Political Economy, is published here.
The Summer Institute programs are designed primarily for PhD graduate students in economics programs in North America. However, applications from students and scholars from other fields and from overseas will be welcomed.
The Institute's faculty will assess applications with regard to:
Please find more info here.
Application Deadline: 9 March 2026
6-8 September, 2026 | Brussels, Belgium
Theme: Welfare states in sustainability transformation: work, inequalities, and eco-social policies?
The Third Edition of the Summer School titled “Welfare states in sustainability transformation: work, inequalities, and eco-social policies?” brings together PhD candidates and early-stage researchers for an intensive and intellectually engaging programme on climate transitions, welfare states and the future of work.
This year the organizers focus on three themes:
These themes will run throughout the programme, framing collective reflection as well as the individual research contributions of participants.
The organizers welcome applications from doctoral researchers and early-career academics working on eco-social issues broadly conceived, including climate policy, social policy, labour studies, and related fields. The summer school admits a limited number of participants to ensure space for dialogue and individual feedback.
Please find more info here.
Application Deadline: 13 February 2026
March 16 – 20, 2026 | Scuola Normale Superiore, Florence
Spring School on Political economy of production and labour
The aim of the Spring School is to address economic and social issues with a perspective that combines political economy and labour studies. The School will have an interdisciplinary approach presenting insights from Economics, International political economy, Labour sociology, Industrial relations, Gender studies and Political science.The School will offer conceptual and empirical tools for understanding and researching economic and labour issues. Themes of the School will include the models of capitalism and the instability of the world economy, global production systems, the dynamics of employment, wages and inequality, gender issues, the transformations of work and labour in the digital age, new forms of labour activism and the policy alternatives for the economy, production and labour.
Organised over five days, each day will address a specific theme, with lectures by senior scholars and presentations by experts on case studies. PhD students may have the opportunity to present and discuss their reasearch project with lecturers and participants.
The Summer School fills a gap in the landscape of university courses and research programmes based on disciplinary boundaries. The Summer School is designed for researchers, PhD and Master students, as well as for civil society professionals and policy makers. Participation is open in particular to PhD students in Economic, Sociology and Political science programmes, and to the PhD and MSc students of Scuola Normale Superiore. Participants are asked to read course material in advance, participate actively in discussions and laboratories during the School, and write a short essay on a topic to be agreed with the instructors. They will obtain a certificate of attendance. For PhD students, participation to the School could be recognised as a part of the requirements for their PhD programme.
The Summer School is organised at the Scuola Normale Superiore, in the centre of Florence. There is no registration fee, participants are asked to cover their own travel and accommodation costs. Applicants will have to fill a registration form online and send a CV. A maximum of 50 participants will be admitted. For people interested in attending single days of the School, there is the possibility of being admitted as auditors.
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29 January 2026 | BOKU University (online Seminar)
The organizers are pleased to invite you to the webinar series “A Dignified Life for All Within Planetary Boundaries”, exploring the intersection of human wellbeing and ecological system stability.
This series is designed for MSc students, PhD candidates, and Junior Researchers interested in questions of Decent Living Standards, Ecological Unequal Exchange, and Ecological Limits, and looking for concrete ways to apply these concepts in their research.
Participants will have the opportunity to learn from and engage in discussion with established scholars in the field, including Jan Streeck (BOKU University), Crelis Rammelt (University of Amsterdam) and Johan Veléz-Henao (University of Freiburg)
Workshop 1: 29 January 2026 | 09:00–11:00 CET
Core Concepts and Frameworks - Basic Elements of Decent Living Standards (DLS), Ecologically Unequal Exchange (EUE), and Environmental Pressures (EP)
Workshop 2: Date: TBC
Research in Practice - Interactive Session with Experts
For further information and registration please click here.
26 May, 2026 | Araraquara, Brazil
The YSI Pre-Conference Workshop @ AFEE South American Conference will be dedicated to a central and thought-provoking segment of Original Institutional Economics (OIE): Radical Institutionalism. This tradition reengages with the foundational insights of early institutionalists and their far-reaching critiques of the capitalist structuring of economic life. In recent years, Radical Institutionalism has become an increasingly prominent branch within OIE. As global capitalism again reaches a critical crossroads, gaining a solid understanding of the history, meaning, and propositions of Radical Institutionalism offers an important pathway for grasping both (1) a key current within OIE and (2) the problems and challenges facing contemporary capitalism.
Radical Institutionalism has been shaped by scholars around the world, with particularly influential contributions emerging from the United States and Brazil. Reflecting this intellectual lineage, the workshop’s speakers are primarily leading institutionalists from both countries. Among them, William Waller stands out as a central figure in the field, a committed radical institutionalist since the 1980s, a key voice in contemporary Original Institutional Economics, and the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Economic Issues, the discipline’s flagship journal. The workshop will conclude with a special round table dedicated to guiding participants on how to prepare and position their research for submission to high-quality heterodox journals.
Workshop sessions include:
Applicants must submit a Statement of Purpose (400–500 words) outlining academic interests, motivation, and the connection to their research agenda.
Please find more info here.
Application Deadline: 28 February 2026
12 March, 2026 | Pisa, Italy
Workshop Theme: Postcapitalist Perspectives: Present Realities and Future Possibilities
Decades of rising inequality, precarious work, and ecological destruction—worsened by recurring crises that disproportionately impact marginalized groups—have fueled growing skepticism about our economic system. While capitalism is widely critiqued, fewer efforts focus on constructing alternatives that serve the many rather than the privileged few. Reform attempts often address only symptoms, leaving structural flaws intact. Building on a year-long, self organized reading group on postcapitalist economics involving PhD students from Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa, University of Pisa and University of Siena, we aim to expand that collaborative space by fostering a pluralistic and international in-person exchange on contemporary realities and postcapitalist perspectives. Our goal is to empower early-career scholars committed to transformative economic theories, moving beyond capitalism critiques and actively engaging with alternative socio-economic frameworks and models that transcend existing paradigms.
The workshop will span two days and be structured around three key thematic streams:
1. The Future of AI and Big Data: From Surveillance Capitalism to Cooperative and Human-Centered Visions
2. Contemporary Ecological Crises and a New Politics of Life
3. Postcapitalist Pathways for Transitioning Economies
In this workshop, taking place on the 12th and 13th of March 2026, the organizers aim to alternate sessions led by senior speakers with presentations from young scholars eager to share their work and receive feedback. Anyone interested in the topic is encouraged to apply and submit an abstract. The organizers are able to offer accommodation for two nights and travel funding for up to ten participants, but please complete the application form even if you do not require financial support.
For further information please click here.
Application Deadline: 30 January 2026.
Conference Theme: Europe Quo Vadis: Militarisation or socio-ecological transformation
Please find recordings of the plenary presentations held by the invited speakers here.
Conference Papers
Workshop 1: The changing role of the state, EU’s militarisation strategy and the future of European integration
Bastian Gabriel Henriquez Blauth: The Strange “Return” of the Interventionist State in Germany: Increased Mercantilism internationally combined with Harsh Neoliberalism at Home?
Alexandros Papamichalopoulos: The State and the Socio-Ecological Transformation: Capacities, Constraints, and Strategic Possibilities.
Christakis Georgiou: From a regulatory to a fiscal and military state? Federationist tendencies in European integration in the current conjuncture.
Yiannis Tolios: Foreign policy and Re-Arm Europe. Is there a promising perspective for the EU?
Yannis Gounaris: NATOisation of the EU or Europeanisation of NATO? The Impact of “ReArm Europe” on European Strategic Autonomy.
Anna Charitou: Peripheral Militarization in the European Core: Greece’s Role in Sustaining the Franco-German Arms Industry.
Anton Filipenko: The Ukrainian Triangle: Political Economy of Ukraine’s Relations with the EU, the USA and Russia.
Workshop 2: Social-ecological transformation, industrial policy and state regulation
Merka Hautala: A Reassessment of the Productivity Gap Between the U.S. and Europe.
David Flacher and Nathalie Coutinet: Amazon, Google and the Manufacturing Sector.
François Bost and others: Hindrances, obstacles and challenges to Europe’s industrial Renaissance.
Viktor Skyrman: Progressive Derisking and the Financing of Europe’s Green Industrial Policies.
Ronan O’Brien: The rise of the right, the attack on regulations, and achieving progress in socio-ecological transformation.
Judith Dellheim: Ecological modernisation versus socio-ecological transformation?
Workshop 3: Employment and social policy, social inequalities and socio-ecological transformation
Zefi Dimadama: Between Sustainable Development and the Reality of Militarisation: A Feminist Reappraisal of the EU’s Just Transition.
Anna Ząbkowicz: Interest-Centred Explanation of Pension Reforms.
Ioanna Zotou: Educational Dispossession and Youth Exclusion in the EU Periphery: The Case of Post-Crisis Greece.
Lida Vandorou: Financialization, collective bargaining and inequality.
Georgia Kaplanoglou and others: Education and reproduction of inequality: The case of Greece.
Dany Lang: The Green New Deal needs green job guarantee policies.
Anne Eydoux: Social-ecological transformation and employment regulations
Workshop 4: Sustainability, economic democracy and alternative economic forms
Mikael Stigendal: A Conjunctural Analysis, Contributing to Collective Empowerment and a Needs-Driven Turn of the Economy.
Vaggelis Papadimitropoulos: Sustainable, post-capitalist economic models: the role of open-source technologies and digital commons.
Georgios Anagnostopoulos: Residualization or transformation? An exploration of the transformative potential of Social and Solidarity Economy initiatives in the just energy transition.
Stylianos Katomeris: The Sociability of the Economy: Ideological shifting in the 20th and 21st Centuries.
Bryn Jones: The End of Democracy? Imperatives for Labour and Civil Society.
Maryse Salles and others: Democracy within organisations as a condition for the vitality of democracy in society. The special role of digital information systems.
Workshop 5: EU policy and international competition in the global economy
Jacques Mazier and Pascal Petit: European scenarios and climate policy in a new global context.
Aurèlia Mañé-Estrada and others: Food, Energy, and Value Chains: The EU’s Pursuit of Strategic Autonomy.
Rosaria Rita Canale and Claudio Cozza: External conflict and currency competition in a globalized world.
Lois Labrianidis: Hegemonic Autumn: Europe’s Strategic Dilemma in a Shifting Global Order.
Job description: PROFESSORSHIP (W3) Social-Ecological Transformation of Economy and Work (Sozial-ökologische Transformation von Wirtschaft und Arbeit)
We are looking for a personality who excels in research and teaching in the social sciences with a focus on socio-ecological transformation and the future of the economy and work. In research, the professorship should contribute to the university's main research areas and deal with the fundamentals of sociology and its specialisations in at least two of the following areas:
We are looking for:
Applicants who have demonstrated outstanding scientific achievements (as evidenced in particular by publications and independently acquired third-party funding) in at least two of the above-mentioned subject areas.
An internationally visible research profile is required. Experience with interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research projects and research and teaching using empirical social research methods is also expected; experience with digital methods is particularly desirable. Interest in and aptitude for leading the research cluster "Transformation Arena Labour Market" at the Centre for Structural Change and Regional Development at BTU is expected. Internationalisation is a high priority for the university profile of BTU Cottbus–Senftenberg. International research experience is therefore desirable. Experience in teaching, including in English, and a willingness to take on the role of programme director for the Bachelor's programme in Digital Society are prerequisites.
The professorship is expected to represent the above-mentioned areas in research and teaching and to perform teaching duties in the form of compulsory and elective courses for German and English-language Bachelor's and Master's programmes at the faculty. Offers are expected in new or planned degree programmes in the field of transformation design and socio-ecological transformation, as well as offers for interdisciplinary teaching in other planning, technology and environment-related degree programmes. Proven pedagogical and university teaching skills are desirable. If sufficient German language skills are not available, a willingness to learn German at short notice is required to ensure participation in the management of the institute, the faculty and in university and non-university committees, as well as teaching the Bachelor's programmes in German.
Profile:
As a future professor, you can demonstrate the following requirements in accordance with Section 43 (1) Nos. 1 to 4a of the Brandenburg Higher Education Act (BbgHG):
In addition, you have proven experience in acquiring third-party funding and in carrying out third-party funded projects, with experience in DFG or EU projects being particularly desirable.
Your teaching experience enables you to provide excellent instruction in the subject area to be filled here. You have the ability to teach at all curricular levels from bachelor's to doctoral degrees, supervise theses and promote young academics. Your knowledge and experience enable you to participate in academic self-administration and in raising the profile of the faculty.
We offer:
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Application Deadline: 25 Feburary, 2026
Job title: Research Scholar
The Levy Economics Institute of Bard College seeks a Research Scholar to join the research program on Money and Financial Structure. The scholar will be expected to collaborate with other Levy researchers on ongoing research programs as well as teach one to two courses per year in the Levy Institute Master’s in Economic Theory and Policy program.
The main research area to which the scholar will contribute will be analyses of macroeconomic and financial instability. The scholar will primarily be responsible for studying and analyzing the evolution of financial institutions and current developments in financial markets, preferably with an eye to developments in AI and/or energy and climate finance. Researcher’s methodology must be commensurate with the Levy Institute’s pluralistic/heterodox approaches.
Qualifications
Please find more info here.
To apply please submit a letter of application, CV, writing sample, and two letters of recommendation here.
Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled.
Job title: Doctoral position in Economic History
Doctoral student in Economic History – Taxation and Income Inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa
The Department of Economic History is a research-intensive department that employs about 80 people: researchers, teachers, technical/administrative staff, and Ph.D. candidates. The department has a large PhD programme and co-ordinates three international Master programmes. The Department has a well-established reputation for wide-ranging research with an emphasis on long-term processes, and with economic theory and quantitative methods as important methodological tools. Strong research areas at the department include economic growth and structural change, innovation, energy and sustainability, development economics, and economic demography, as well as financial history and education and the labour market. More information is available at the Department’s website.
Project
The aim of this project is to understand the conditions that promote more effective use of tax revenue for reducing inequality in sub-Saharan Africa using a historical-comparative approach. The project identifies factors that explain differences in the inequality-reducing role of taxation and strategies that are more likely to promote broader gains from taxation across time and space. The PhD candidate will contribute to the project through research on one or more country case studies, examining historical and contemporary mechanisms linking taxation and inequality, and their implications for inclusive development.
Terms of employment
Application Deadline: 15 Feburary 2026
In 2026 the Jörg-Huffschmid-Prize will be awarded again to outstanding work in critical political economy at master/diploma/PhD level.
The Jörg-Huffschmid Prize was established in memory of an economist whose knowledge and social engagement are particularly sorely missed in the current global situation. In 2023, the prize, awarded for outstanding work in the field of Critical Political Economy, will be presented for the seventh time. It aims especially to encourage young scholars to pursue critical research in the spirit of this pioneering economist’s work.
Jörg Huffschmid, who died in December 2009 at the age of 69, combined incisive analysis with critique of capitalism and political reason in his work. As one of the founders of the Arbeitsgruppe Alternative Wirtschaftspolitik (Working Group on Alternative Economic Policy) and the EuroMemo Group, and through his involvement in the Scientific Advisory Boards of Attac and the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung, his personal, political and academic goal was a socially just society — against the supposed inevitability of mainstream economics. These four organisations have therefore jointly awarded the prize every two years since 2011.
In addition to doctoral dissertations, Magister, Master’s, Diplom and Staatsexamen theses may be submitted in the thesis category. The prize money is €1,500 for dissertations and €500 for other theses. Submissions should address topics from the broad field of Political Economy, including in particular:
The organizers explicitly encourage the submission of interdisciplinary work combining economic approaches with social science, political science or cultural studies perspectives.
Please submit your complete application exclusively in electronic form to Dr. Mario Candeias.
The award ceremony is scheduled for 21 November 2026 in Berlin, as part of the conference “Green Socialism: On the Political Economy of a Social-Ecological System Change”, taking place 21–22 November 2026 at the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung.
Please find more info here.
Application Deadline: 1 April 2026
Giorgio Varanini and Peter H. Feindt: Policy design for resilience? An assessment of the bioeconomy policy mix addressing the maize bio-based production system in Italy
Paul Stainier: Occupational mobility and climate adaptation: Evidence from France
Anders Boman and others: Ethical trade-offs in fast fashion: Exploring social, environmental, and health dimensions in clothing consumption
David Soto-Oñate and others: Post-growth meets polycentric governance: Toward an interdisciplinary research program
Isabela P. Bucher and others: Do payments for environmental services impact forest cover? An evaluation of the reflorestar program
Alice Pizzo and others: Informational nudges or incentives? A field experiment on vegetarian choices.
Jialiang Zhu and others: Toxic neighbors: E-waste dumps and the decline of social capital
Tomas Rosenfeld and others: Local development based on non-timber forest products: Revisiting the case of São Francisco do Iratapuru in the Brazilian Amazon
Federico Savini and others: Socio-ecological inequalities in housing consumption: How income, urban form, and tenure drive carbon footprints
Alessandra Drigo: “Environmental inequalities in Italy: The role of industrial agglomerations and regional pollution dispersion capacity”
Juan Liu and others: Ecological damage compensation in oil spills: A comparative analysis of monetary valuation and ecological restoration based on the 2021 A Symphony incident
Abdullah Emre Caglar and others: Green Kaldorian growth: A framework for linking manufacturing, innovation, and sustainability
Cheng-Hsiang Shei and others: Equity in carbon pricing: Impacts on household carbon burdens across different demographics
Jiaqi Li and others: The impact of green credit guidelines on green lending and environmental outcomes: Evidence from Chinese banks
Xiangyu Jia and others: Alienable or inalienable, and how? Individual property rights in commons governance
Raffaele Guarino and others: Debunking competition - Global ecologically unequal exchange explained by exploitation and control relations
Gabriel Santos Carneiro and others: Leveraging international trade for the ecological transition: Quantifying the drivers of planetary boundaries
Antonio Abatemarco and others: Measuring equity in environmental care: Methodology and an application to traffic-related air pollution
Heng Luo and others: Impacts of conservation easements on perceived land tenure security
Peigong Li and Umeair Shahzad: Corporate biodiversity risk exposure in China: A system-based perspective from natural capital theory using machine and deep learning algorithms
Oussama Chaabouni and Richard Bärnthaler: Integrating post-growth economics into transformative adaptation: Property relations, capital, and democratic planning
Kristopher L. Nichols and others: Do risk, time, and social preferences predict sustainable behavior? Evidence from a qualitative synthesis and meta-analysis
Stella Whittaker and others: From grand challenges to bold solutions: Investor perspectives on financing urban climate change adaptation
Kit England and others: Using a dedicated adaptation financing process to close subnational adaptation finance gaps in Europe
Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn and Matthias Kranke: (Post-)growth infrastructures
Eric Cezne and Kei Otsuki: The Amazon’s road to growth? Infrastructural imaginaries of Brazil’s BR-319 Highway
Aslı Yürük and Ozan Karaman: Cruising towards growth: Redefining public benefit through privatized transport infrastructure
Daniel Durrant: Megaprojects and the transition to post-growth infrastructure
Senka Neuman Stanivuković: Rhythms of growth: Unpacking infrastructure and geopolitics in the Balkans
Kathryn Furlong: Debt/growth infrastructures: Financialization and state capitalism in Medellín
Sylvain Maechler and Valérie Boisvert: Fixing the ecological crisis: The promises and pitfalls of green accounting infrastructures
Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn and Matthias Kranke: Post-growth tokens or token post-growth? Bitcoin, alt-coins and infrastructural evolution in digital finance
Clemens Hoffmann: Decarbonization rush? The problem of speed in the energy transition
Dirk Messner: Die Zukunft des European Green Deal – vier Weichenstellungen
Nicole Redvers: 12 Questions to Nicole Redvers
Klaus Geiselhart, Timo Falkenberg: Planetary Health and social-ecological research in the Anthropocene.
Henning Füller, Iris Dzudzek, Thomas Kistemann, Timo Falkenberg: Planetary Health policy?
Maria Luisa Espinel-Ramos, Timo Falkenberg: One Health, Global Health, Planetary Health, and Social Ecology in vector-borne disease research.
Klaus Geiselhart: Vital Entanglements on Planet Earth.
Greta Sievert, Sophie Gepp: Protecting and promoting health within Planetary Boundaries.
David Spenger, Leah Burgard: Pathways to Planetary Health-oriented urban planning: Moving from silos to systems
Bastian Lange, Henning Nuissl: Towards a regional geography of health: Social innovation in peripheral care systems
Susan Thomschke, Lena Schmeyers, Steffen Fleßa, Daniel Schiller: Toward a One Health Region: Stakeholder insights from Western Pomerania’s Innovation Alliance in Germany
Jaqueline Hildebrand, Ana Maria Perez Arredondo, Thomas Kistemann, Timo Falkenberg: Climate-sensitive health counselling for Planetary Health.
Anna-Maria Grabowski, Frank Meyer: Negotiating Planetary Health, agency, and human tissue demand in the Anthropocene.
Heike Mayer: Universitäten in der Nachhaltigkeitstransformation: Es braucht Willen und Zeit
Rebecca Froese, Dorota Stasiak, David Löw Beer: The many “co”s of co-creation.
Markus Kühlert, Julia Brandt, Kurt-Georg Ciesinger, Andreas Franke: Unternehmerische Transformation zukunftssicher gestalten.
Gabriele Harrer-Puchner, Karl-Heinz Simon, Thomas Göllinger: Frederic Vester als Humanökologe und Systemdenker
Stefan Gröschner: Wege zu inklusiver und umweltfreundlicher Stadtmobilität.
Christoph Kueffer, Marcus Hall, Philippe Forêt, Samer Angelone, Flurina Gradin, Federico Luisetti, Juanita Schlaepfer-Miller, Caroline Wiedmer: Environmental Humanities Switzerland – a decade in retrospect
Birgit Huebener, Doris Ingrisch, Michael Kneihs: Radikale Kreativität. Von Cornflakes und revolutionären Kühen.
Christoph Bühler, Sarah Richman: Am selben Strang ziehen für die Erhaltung der Biodiversität.
Themed Section: Artificial Intelligence Policy Observatory for the World of Work (AIPOWW) Symposium
Phoebe V. Moore and others: Artificial Intelligence Policy Observatory for the World of Work (AIPOWW) Symposium Editorial
Carlo Petrucci and others: AI regulation in the EU and the world of work: critiquing inevitability, for resistance
Rafael Grohmann and others: AI policy debates in Brazil: struggles over regulation, governance and labour
Chandrima Roy and Koushik Das Sarma: India’s fragmented landscape of AI regulation and governance and the work and employment scenario
Robert Donoghue: AI regulation, development and governance: the case of China
Kai-Hsin Hung and others: Canada’s high-stakes artificial intelligence gamble: innovation policy, techno-nationalism and the political economy of jobs
Research Articles
Paul Cammack and Martha E. Gimenez: The permanent global crisis of working-class social reproduction: ten propositions
Minh T.N. Nguyen and others: The privilege of being exploited? Overtime work in global factories of market socialist China and Vietnam
Adrienne Roberts: ‘Protecting people’s lives and livelihoods’: gender, social reproduction and fiscal policy during the UK COVID-19 crisis
Kayhan Valadbaygi and Theresa Fleitz: Unravelling the EU’s promotional integration strategy in the MENA region: a dialectical analysis of the Agadir and GAFTA Agreements
Dhruv Golani: Reconstructing Classical Debates on Imperialism: 1902–1945
Joe Pateman: V. I. Lenin’s Anti-racism
Radhika Desai: DeepSeek Upends Silicon Valley’s Sci-Fin-Fi Business Model
Symposium: Xi Jinping Thought on Ecological Civilization and Global Sustainable Development
Chuanhua Wu and He Ling: Xi Jinping Thought on Ecological Civilization and China-Africa Green Development Cooperation
Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro and Siqi Li: Ecological Civilisation in China: Evaluating the Environmental Repercussions of Socialist Modernisation
Efe Can Gürcan: Socialist China’s Ecological Civilization: A New Dawn of Sustainable Development?
Wang An'na and others: China’s New Energy Vehicles: Carbon Neutrality Solutions with Global Implications
Raju J Das: Climate Change Mitigation, Capitalism, and the Capitalist State: Towards a Theoretical Approach
Servaas Storm: The U.S. Is Betting the Economy on ‘Scaling’ AI: Where Is the Intelligence When One Needs It?
Daniel Feliciano and others: Exploring the Relationship Between Growth Regimes and Growth Drivers Under Finance-Dominated Capitalism: A Study-Case of European Economies
Massimo Cingolani and Eugenio Leanza: SDGs and Public Banks: What Additionality Should Development Finance Aim For?
Efrén Danilo Ariza Ruiz and Nestor Garza: Neoliberalism and the Revolving Doors of Economists in Academia, Government and Think Tanks
Hernán Ramírez: The German Influence on Brazilian Economic Thought and Policies: From the 1950s to the 1970s
Ana Karen Díaz Méndez and Bruno Martorano: The Gender Inequality Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Nigerian Labour Market
Amadou Boly and Éric N Kéré: Terrorism and Military Expenditure in Africa: An Analysis of Spillover Effects
Iva Mihaylova: Legacy Is Not Destiny: Historical Ethno-Linguistic Diversity and Contemporary Deforestation across Africa
Carlos Gradín: Spatial Consumption Inequality in Mozambique
Subha Mani and Katherine Theiss: A Systematic Review of Pre-primary Education Interventions in Africa
Christa Noel Brunnschweiler and Samuel Kwabena Obeng: Rewarding Allegiance? Political Alignment and Fiscal Outcomes in Local Government
Dereje Yohannes and others: Effects of Rainfall Shocks on Child Labour: Panel Data Evidence from Ethiopia
Benjamin D Keen and Christine O Strong: Ethnic Politics and Fiscal Dominance: Implications for Currency Union Formation in Sub-Saharan Africa
Günseli Berik and Mieke Meurs: The Legacy of Carmen Diana Deere: Gender, Households, and Market Integration—An Introduction
Sirisha Naidu and Smriti Rao: Revisiting class: A feminist political economy analysis of the Indian Time Use Survey
A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi: ‘Women stay behind and grow the food’: Agricultural productivity and the interstices of petty commodity production and reproductive labour in Tanzania
Natalia Landívar and Lynne Phillips: Revisiting Deere in an Extractivist Era: Agrarian Reform and Feminist Legacies in Coastal Ecuador
Abena D. Oduro: Examining Land Inheritance Patterns in Ghana Through a Gender Lens
Cheryl Doss and Helena Mika: Institutions and the Gender Land Gap: A Comparative Analysis
Suchitra Jy and others: Who Is Responding? Spousal Perspectives on Agricultural Decision‐Making in India
S. Ryan Isakson: Cultivating Climate Precarity: Mechanisms of Surplus Capture and Immiserizing Growth in Guatemala's Horticultural Export Sector
Federica Bono and John C. Finn: A Polanyian Framework for Analyzing a Diverse Black‐Market Economy in Cuba
Yıldız Atasoy: Small‐Scale Village Farmers, Farming Imaginaries and Enrichment Value Creation in Ankara, Turkey
Victor Mbande and others: Growing From Below: Accumulation and Differentiation in Publicly Supported Irrigation Schemes in the Kilombero Valley, Tanzania
Ludivine Eloy and others: Behind the Myth: Land Sparing and Deforestation in Brazil
Mateo Crossa and Iván Lopez Ovalle: Labour Regimes and Rural Classes of Labour in the Automotive Industry in Mexico
Uwe Cantner, Bart Verspagen: Jevons Stanley (Stan) Metcalfe and his contributions to the Journal of Evolutionary Economics
Uwe Cantner, Bart Verspagen: The 2025 sveriges riksbank prize in economic sciences in memory of Alfred Nobel
Breno Valente Fontes Araújo, Ana Claudia Azevedo, Marco Aurélio Marques Ferreira: The relationship between the pillars of national innovation systems and economic complexity: An international empirical analysis
Anna D’Ambrosio, Matteo Migheli: Regional resilience through the lenses of the capability approach
R. Donangelo, H. Fort: The Fisher/Price theorem applied to companies across various industries: Natural selection and environment change
Radeef Chundakkadan, Subash Sasidharan, Kausik Chaudhuri: Automation, firm performance, and employment: Evidence from developing countries
Samuele Bibi, Luis Villanueva, Christian Bucio: Mexico: A Minskyian case of financial fragility shaken by Covid-19
Mark Setterfield, George Wheaton: Animal Spirits and the Goodwin Pattern
Marina da Silva Sanches: Distributive Cycles and Earnings Inequality: A Kaleckian Goodwinian‐Inspired Model
Leonardo Barros-Torres, Gilberto Tadeu Lima, Jaylson Jair da Silveira: Endogenous Tax Compliance and Macroeconomic Performance Driven by Satisficing Evolutionary Dynamics
Toyoki Matsue, Mitsuru Ueshina, Hiroki Aso: Dynamic Analysis of the Effect of Minimum Wage on Economic Growth, Public Debt, and Welfare
Claudio De Vincenti: Entry Deterrence, Macroeconomic Equilibria and Pro‐Competitive Policies
Salaheddine El Omari, Jalal Qanas: Monetary Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium Models and Inflation Persistence
Ariel Dvoskin, Emiliano Libman: The Interest Rate as an Artifact of Self‐Validating Beliefs Under Different Price‐Quantity Interactions
Centring Exploitation in Global Political Economy
Nick Bernards: Centring exploitation in global political economy
Bridget Kenny: Exploiting the labour of logistics: circulation and the reproduction of racialised capitalism in Gauteng, South Africa
Benjamin Selwyn: Eco-social foundations of capitalist value chains
Shae Frydenlund: Rethinking refugee surplus populations: exploitation and dialectical disposability in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Nick Bernards: Exploitation, colonial capitalism, and the deep roots of climate vulnerability in West Africa
Research Articles
Andonis Ragusis: Reviving political economy in pursuit of human emancipation: the case of Amartya Sen and Cambridge Social Ontology
Benedicte Bull and Antulio Rosales: Chinese impact on development in Venezuela: the dynamics of structural stagnation
Dirk Bezemer and others: Exploring the capital gains economy: the case of the UK
Stefan Sękowski: Party state capture and democratic backsliding. The case of state-owned enterprises in Poland
Wesley C. Marshall and others: The nature of central banking
Ivan Trofimov: The lead-lag relationships between profits, investment and output: The evidence from Germany
Tatiana Silveira Camacho and Guilherme Jonas da Silva: Bitcoin Halvings and Institutional Investors: A Wavelet Analysis
Reginald Cline-Cole: Revisiting cracks and crises in capitalism’s edifice
Hengameh Ziai: Debt as a political technology: rubber, Firestone and the temporalities of settler colonialism in Liberia
Victor Iwuoha and Martin Doevenspeck: The coloniality of biometric power: global digital empire, biometric state and the control of digital subjects in Nigeria
Sara Caria and Stefano Ghinoi: Evolving and differentiated strategy? A network approach to understand Chinese development finance
Liu Ye: Issa Shivji: socialism in Tanzania between Arusha and Mwongozo
Ambrose Egwim: The changing dynamics of Nigeria’s petroleum and politics
Colin Leys: Money, value and the state: sovereignty and citizenship in East Africa
Roger McKenzie: ‘Go south’: union organising in the 21st century
R. Ramakumar: The Contentious Legacy of Dr Manmohan Singh
Daya Susan Thomas and Madhura Swaminathan: Educational Achievements and Gaps: Insights from Longitudinal Village Studies in Uttar Pradesh
P. C. Mohanan and Aloke Kar: Growth of Unorganised Manufacturing in India: Implications for Women Workers
Mehak Majeed: Gujjars of Jammu and Kashmir: Evidence from a Field Survey
Ritam Dutta: Financial Inclusion from a Gender and Caste Perspective: Evidence from Two Villages in Uttar Pradesh
Maria Luisa Villalba, Danilo Spinola, Walter Ruiz: Unlocking coevolution and inclusive innovations: dynamics of marginalised agents in immature innovation systems
Patrick Llerena, Corentin Lobet, André Lorentz: Two halves don’t make a whole: instability and idleness emerging from the co-evolution of the production and innovation processes
Franklin Obeng-Odoom: Ecology and power: from environmental and ecological economics to stratification economics
Juan Manuel Campana, Eckhard Hein: Eurozone governance and the German demand and growth regimes, 1999–2024
Brigitte Young: The extractive business model of private equity firms in the German healthcare sector and the crisis in social reproduction
Matteo Giordano: Tiered Euro-monies: perpetrating monetary hierarchies from the ECU to the Euro
Philipp Heimberger: Fiscal consolidation and its growth effects in euro area countries: past, present and future outlook
William Waller: Emergence as a magic word and missing middle in economics
Hassan Bougrine: The Perverse Evolution of Money: Shadow Banking, Wealth Accumulation and the Real Economy
Julio César Chamorro-Futinico: Boom and Bust: Dynamics of Systemic Financial Instability in Financialized Emerging Economies
Claude Gnos: Keynes’ Theory of a Monetary Economy of Production, a Timeless Analysis of Capitalism?
Rosa Canelli and others: Keynes, Graziani, and Non-Bank Financial Intermediaries: A Stock-Flow Consistent Analysis
Bruno De Conti and Robert Guttmann: Digital Money: Fragmentation of the Monetary Regime
Sylvio Antonio Kappes: Repurchase Agreements and the Paradox of Risk
Sergio Rossi: Financialization and Shadow Banking in a Monetary Theory of Production
Louis-Philippe Rochon and Domenica Tropeano: Some Unexplored Financial Issues in the Monetary Circuit since the Financial Crisis
Massimo Cingolani: What Dynamics for the Monetary Circuit? Historical Time, Path Dependence, and Bayes’ Theorem
Iván Weigandi: Non-Bank Financial Institutions in the Extended Banking System: A Functional Taxonomy
Alvaro Cencini and Sergio Rossi: Bernard Schmitt and the Dijon–Fribourg School of Monetary Circuit Analysis
Valentina Erasmo and Steven Pressman: Understanding Moral Sentiments from a Darwinian Perspective: Vivian Charles Walsh's ‘Darwinism and Dichotomies’
Vivian C. Walsh: Darwinisms and Dichotomies
Anne Löscher and Ferdindand Wenzlaff: Overcoming Recession and Financial Instability in a Global Financialised Economy? The Contribution of the ‘Crank Heretic’ Robert Eisler
João Paiva-Silva and Nuno Martins: ‘If it Ain’t Broke, Don’t Fix it’: A Critical Realist Approach to Industrial Policy
Davide Romaniello: The Longer, the Weaker? Considering the Role of Long-Term Unemployment in an ‘Original’ Phillips Curve
Stefanos Ioannou and others: Too-Big-to-Fail Banking in Europe: An Enduring Challenge
Dirk H. Ehnts and L. Randall Wray: Revisiting MMT, Sovereign Currencies and the Eurozone: A Reply to Marc Lavoie
Suranjana Nabar-Bhaduri and Matías Vernengo: Economic Growth and Technological Progress in Developing Economies: Okun and Kaldor-Verdoorn Effects in China and India (1991–2019)
Raymond C. Niles: A heroic theory of the business cycle: Incorporating Schumpeterian insights into Austrian business cycle theory
Eduard Braun: Capital is not a factor of production but organizes the allocation and distribution of resources in capitalism
Mark W. Hodgins: The perils of cybersecurity regulation
Pedro Calais, João Fernando Rossi Mazzoni, Mariana Piaia Abreu: Contemporary Austrian School as a research program: What can bibliometrics teach us?
Kurtis Hingl: Contingency and increasing returns: a review essay of the Corporation and the Twentieth Century
Christian Bessy: The Transformation of Conventions for Artistic Quality. The Case of the One Percent-for-Art Program in France (1951-2022)
Florence Jany-Catrice and Rabih Zotti: The Ottawa Group's Contributions to Consumer Price Index Methodology: Institutional Contexts, Epistemic Shifts, and Quality Adjustment Debates (1994-2024)
Zachary Griffen: From “Quality, Not Quantity” to “Quality as Quantity”: How the “Care Economy” Became Valuable
Julien Gradoz and Jacques-François Thisse: An Itinerary in the Theory of Product Differentiation. An Interview with Jacques-François Thisse
edited by Per L. Bylund, Johnny D. | 2024, Edward Elgar Publishing
This Modern Guide explores central ideas, concepts, and themes in the Austrian school of economics, with a focus on how both the school and the overall theory have evolved over recent decades. Leading scholars offer their insights into potential directions of future research in the field, pointing towards contemporary debates and their potential conclusions, underdeveloped aspects and extensions of theory, and current applications of interest.
Spanning theories of entrepreneurship to the theory of the business cycle, from methodology to sociology, and from cryptocurrencies to culture, this clear and concise Modern Guide provides an expert curation of the topic. Chapters offer an overview of the present state of scholarship in the field, including discussions on praxeology, the function of entrepreneurship in the market process, spontaneous orders, the Austrian theory of money, and banking.
Written in an accessible style, this will be an invigorating read for economics scholars looking for an alternative to mainstream approaches. It will also be useful for scholars and practitioners seeking an introduction to Austrian economics.
Please find a link to the book here.
by Benjamin Selwyn and Christin Bernhold | 2025, Oxford University Press
Is it true that Global Value Chains (GVCs) 'boost incomes, create better jobs, and reduce poverty', as commonly claimed? In this compelling book, Selwyn and Bernhold show how the mainstream notion of GVCs obscures their capitalist character. To transcend this shortcoming, the authors introduce the concept of Capitalist Value Chains (CVCs). They explore how and why CVCs generate many highly exploitative jobs, new forms of poverty, are stunting real human development, and are destroying the world's environment.
CVCs are a historically-specific configuration of capitalist class relations that have been restructured and bolstered through geopolitics. The authors argue that rather than waiting for the elusive benefits of 'economic, social, and environmental upgrading' as promoted in mainstream GVC scholarship, workers' collective actions can improve their pay and conditions-under historically and geographically specific conditions of uneven development. The authors clearly explain how, instead of striving to make CVCs more 'resilient', progressive political economists need to envision a world beyond these capitalist relations of generalized exploitation and appropriation.
Please find a link to the book here.
by Luiz Fernando de Paula and others | 2026, Elgar Publishing
This insightful book investigates how financial globalisation shapes the hierarchical order of currencies in the international monetary system, evaluating the implications for peripheral countries.
Authors Luiz Fernando de Paula, Barbara Fritz and Daniela Magalhães Prates explore currency hierarchy through a new Keynesian-Structuralist perspective, highlighting how peripheral economies are subject to greater macroeconomic and financial volatility. They outline how the current hierarchy fosters global and national inequalities, limiting peripheral countries’ capacity to implement social and redistributive policies, and preventing them from achieving income parity. The book traces the historical evolution of the global monetary order, examines a new channel of external vulnerability, and illustrates the asymmetries between the two groups of peripheral countries,namely emerging market economies and frontier market economies. Adopting a forward-thinking approach, this book assesses potential policy shifts and their effectiveness in fostering growth, sustainability and equity.
Currency Hierarchy and Financial Globalisation is a valuable resource for scholars and students in the fields of financial and international economics. The financial analysis and empirical research presented in this book will also be of great benefit to policy makers and practitioners.
Please find a link to the book here.
by Benjamin Fine | 2025, Brill
The reasons for South Africa’s full and rapid post-apartheid embrace of neoliberal economic policy remain controversial. Drawing on the author’s own participation in policy debates, this volume establishes there were alternatives available that were either dismissed or not even considered. Explanations for policy failings have to be sought in determinants such as globalisation, financialisation, capital flight, corporate restructuring and Black Economic Empowerment. The text offers extensive surveys of relevant literature including the developmental state, industrial and social policy, privatisation, trade policy, the Harvard School, comparative experience and the deficiencies in the country’s National Development Plan and New Growth Path.
Please find a link to the book here.
by Lenore Palladino | 2024, Chicago University Press
In an era of shareholder primacy, share price is king. Businesses operate with short-term goals to deliver profits to shareholders, enjoying stability (and bonuses) in the process. While the public bemoans the doctrine for its insularity and wealth-consolidating effects, its influence over corporate governance persists. Good Company offers an exacting argument for why shareholder primacy was never the right model to follow for truly understanding how corporations operate.
Lenore Palladino shows that corporations draw power from public charters—agreements that allow corporations to enjoy all manner of operational benefits. In return, companies are meant to innovate for the betterment of the societies that support them. However, that debt—increasingly wielded for stock buybacks and shareholder bonuses—is not being repaid. Palladino theorizes a modern corporation that plays its intended role while delivering social and economic good in the process and offers tangible policy solutions to make this a reality. Good Company is both an expert introduction to the political economy of the firm—as it was, as it is, as it can be—and a calibrating examination of how public policy can shape companies, and societies, for the better.
Please find a link to the book here.
by Jesús Muñoz-Bandala | 2026, Cambridge Scholars Publishing
The book chronicles the way Marx’s awareness evolved in consonance with human needs. From a youngster reflecting on the otherworldly oeuvres of Hegel or Proudhon, to raising his voice in sociology and philosophy, to laying the role of innovator in political economy, to taking a stance as a revolutionary, historiographer and anthropologist, Marx’s contributions re-dimension final abstraction. Only Marx’s and Engels’s wholesome, dynamic and practical philosophy captured the gist of the events that occurred at the onset of the 20th Century.
The book dissects the post-Marxists perspectives on the sequence observation-abstraction-concreteness of Ilyenkov, Lukács, the Western Marxists, Sohn-Rethel, Postone, Wolff, or Oliva et al., etc. Such respects as transition, implementation and political economy-on the dyad labour-capital-are scrutinised apropos their elaborate concreteness. This Marx finding illuminates such notions as the equality and growth of income or liberty -obscurity sustains exploitation. Subtly, the book tells how Marx’s concreteness may sustain new slants facing recurring crises.
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edited by Vishal K. Gupta & Per L. Bylund, Johnny D. | 2025, Edward Egar Publishing
In this Research Handbook, global experts explore how the field of Austrian economics has been adopted and applied in management and entrepreneurship. They outline its current state in economic thinking, presenting a framework for understanding the market as a process motivated by subjective valuations.
The authors investigate how the rich theories of Austrian economics can be used to advance management and entrepreneurship scholarship, as well as proposing potential applications beyond prior studies in this area. Contributors apply Austrian economics to contexts such as effectuation and the logic of action, women’s entrepreneurship, and agent-based modelling. They critically analyse and challenge the use of Austrian ideas in management and entrepreneurship and assess their theoretical and practical applications, as well as highlighting potential avenues for future research.
Presenting valuable insights, this Research Handbook is an enlightening read for scholars and students of management and entrepreneurship, as well as economics and finance. Practitioners in business and policymakers will also benefit from its actionable advice.
Plese find a link to the book here.
by Benjamin Fine | 2026, Brill
South Africa’s political economy is commonly understood as a Minerals-Energy (and Financial) Complex, ME(F)C. But the MEC has been misunderstood. Specifying the MEFC as a system of accumulation and drawing upon extensive research and engaging in critical debates, the originator of the term, traces the MEFC from apartheid origins, through the ANC’s failure to adopt coherent and coordinated policies, ultimately leading to degeneration into state capture and beyond. Emphasis is placed upon the interaction between South African specificities and globalisation, neoliberalisation and financialisation, anchoring economic and social reproduction in “five lows” across investment, productivity, wages, employment and social provision.
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by Benjamin Fine | 2025, Brill
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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PhD Project: Justice implications of the UK's net zero carbon policies
One full scholarship is available in the School of Earth, Environment and Sustainability, starting in October 2026. This scholarship is open to UK applicants and covers tuition fees plus UKRI-level maintenance.
This fully funded PhD place provides an exciting opportunity to pursue postgraduate research on the justice implications of the UK’s net zero carbon policies. The scholarship will be part of the Production and Consumption Transformations (PACT) Centre which is funded by UK Research and Innovation and the UK Government Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ). The Centre is interested in projects that examine justice implications of policies that go beyond electrification and the generation of green electricity but that support deeper transformations of production and consumption in the UK, with a focus on demand-reduction policies. The project will investigate justice implications not only across income groups in the UK but also across other socio-economic characteristics and geographies, and it can cover justice implications in other countries which are linked to UK production and consumption through supply chains. One aspect of the project can also be a justice assessment of the policy options that the PACT Centre will put forward to DESNZ.
The project will utilise different secondary datasets, for instance the Living Costs and Food Survey, Understanding Society, the Census, or the UK housing surveys, and apply statistical analysis and/or input-output analysis. Mixed methods projects which combine this analysis with qualitative research or other mixed methods such as multi-criteria analysis, Delphi processes or Q-Methods are also welcome.
As part of this PhD scholarship, there is an option to spend up to six months at DESNZ through a secondment.
Applicants are asked to describe the methods they wish to use in their research proposal. Please submit a research proposal with your application (up to 6 pages), outlining the focus of your project and the methods and data that you would use.
Please find more info here.
Application Deadline: 6 March 2026
by Pooya Karambakhsh | 2024, University of Sydney
Profitability is the driver of capital accumulation and a key factor, globally and nationally, for economic growth and crisis. This thesis explores the long-term trend of profitability, which is one of the main questions in Marxian political economy. To control for the impacts of scope, definition, and data sources on the results, the thesis maps four different definitions to different data sources to derive the world rate of profit. A downward trend for the rate is consistently found, from the mid-twentieth century to nearly the end of the second decade of the twenty-first century (1952 to 2019).
Although several previous world rate of profit studies have reached similar conclusions, they suffer from limitations that this study seeks to address. This study covers the largest number of countries (32) over a 68-year period for which data is available; it applies four definitions of the rate of profit and maps each definition against multiple data sources; it assesses a wider range of impacting factors compared to previous studies; and, more importantly, it includes the Marxian concept of productive labour. Previous studies have ignored the distinction between productive and unproductive activities, treating the total amount paid in wages as the equivalent of variable capital. By contrast, this study distinguishes productive labour as the labour employed by capital to produce use values and surplus value.
The results of this study demonstrate that the driver of the fall in the world rate of profit is faster growth of the composition of capital compared to the change in the rate of surplus value. In other words, the investment in labour-saving technologies has raised surplus value per hour of paid work but at a slower pace than the growth of advanced capital. Nevertheless, there have been periods of recovery, e.g. 1982–1997, in which higher growth of the rate of surplus value prevailed and led to a temporary recovery of the world rate of profit.
The long-term trend of the falling rate of profit is not due to a profit squeeze. In fact, the share of global value added appropriated by workers has fallen since the mid-twentieth century, although this fall has not translated into a substantial rise in the profit share. The growth of depreciation has absorbed an increasingly larger portion of the value added. During the period examined, the fall in the output-to-capital ratio has contributed more to the fall of the world profit rate.
The trends of national profit rates were found to vary across studied countries. Developing countries are more likely to have higher profit rates than developed countries. However, most countries have falling rates of profit, irrespective of their development status. Here, the main driver of the fall is also technological change.
The latest downward phase of the world profit rate began in the mid-1990s, well before the 2007–2009 global financial, and ensuing economic, crisis. This result confirms the hypothesis that the most recent global economic crisis was rooted in profitability. The downward phase of the rate of profit did not end after this crisis, indicating that the period of recovery has not been discernible in recent years.
In short, the results of this research confirm that the Marxian law of the tendential fall in the rate of profit is evidenced over the 70-year period to 2019. The most recent downward phase of the rate of profit, accompanied by the declining rate of worked hours since the 1970s, the declining share of productive labour of the total worked hours, and the allocation of new investment to unproductive activities, point to a slower growth rate. Without a destruction or devaluation of capital on a large scale, a reversal of the world rate of profitability trend is unlikely in the foreseeable future.
Please find a link to the dissertation here.
Christian R. Proaño (University of Bamberg) initiaded together with several colleagues an open letter adressed to the President of the New School, Joel Towers. The letter aims to express solidarity with the affected faculty members of the School's financial crisis and to advocate for the preservation of the Economics Department in its current form. Among the initiators and signatories are academics from various institutions, including Hagen Krämer, Heinz Kurz, and Willi Semmler.
Please find a link to the open letter here.