I have little to report.
There are many new calls for papers and some
really interesting seminar announcements.
Moreover there is a new journal I want to call
attention to: Bulletin of Political Economy;
and I should also note Professor Pasinetti’s new
book, Keynes and the Cambridge Keynesians,
and John Harvey and Rob Garnett’s long awaited
book, Future Directions in Heterodox
Economics. In addition, Peter Earl has made
available the conference papers of the 20th
Conference of the History of Economic Thought
Society of Australia and the past issues of the
History of Economics Review are now
online. Finally, you might find the entries
under Heterodox Websites and Blogs particularly
interesting.
I will be quite busy for the next three weeks so
I expect that the next issue of the Newsletter
will be in the first week of April.
- The 10th International Post Keynesian
Conference
- Graduate Summer School in Post Keynesian Economics
- 2009 Association for Social Economics Annual Meeting
- Alternatives to Neo-liberalism: Country Experiences
- IVth International Conference on the Work of Karl Marx and
the challenges of the 21st century
- EAEPE 2008 Annual Conference, 6-8 November 2008
- 2008 Society for the Development of Austrian Economics
- Second International Conference: "The Austrian School in
the XXI Century"
- Ethics Justice and Gender
- Structural Change and Development Policies
- Macroeconomic Policies on Shaky Foundations
- 5th Euroframe Conference on Economic Policy Issues in the
European Union
- The 40th Annual UK History of Economic Thought Conference
- Developments in Economic Theory and Policy
- European Political Economy and Society in the World
- International Network for Economic Method Conference
- SOAS Seminar Series
- Behavioural Economics: Common Mistakes in Daily Decisions
- The Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) Summer Workshop
- The Art of Rent
- 40th anniversary of the student revolt in 1968
- The 9th Annual Conference of the Sir Arthur Lewis
Institute of Social and Economic Studies (SALISES)
- The Colours of Money Seminar
- Financialization: Post-Keynesian Approaches
- Probabilistic Political Economy: "Laws of Chaos" in the
21st Century
- Post Keynesian Economics Study Group
- SOAS Seminars
- International Workshop: "Marshall and the Marshallians on
Industrial Economics"
- GDAE’s Climate Change Program
- Latin America's MDG Progress on Gender Equality: Poor
Women Still Lag Behind
- Proceedings of the 20th Conference of the History of
Economic Thought Society of Australia
- Bulletin of Political Economy
- Revue internationale du Travail
- International Journal of Political Economy
- Journal of Post Keynesian Economics
- Nova Economia
- La Revue de la Régulation
- History of Economics Review
- Globalization and Economic Ethics:
Distributive Justice in the Knowledge Economy
- Keynes and the Cambridge Keynesians
- La Nueva Desigualdad Social Mexicana
- Future Directions for Heterodox Economics
Graduate Summer School in Post
Keynesian Economics
Call for Students and Faculty
June 26-28, 2008
University of Missouri- Kansas City and Center for Full Employment
and Price Stability (CFEPS)
For more information go to
www.pksummerschool.org
Contact: Heather Starzynski (
pksummerschool@umkc.edu )
2009 Association
for Social Economics Annual Meeting
San Francisco, January 2-5, 2009 (Friday Evening, Saturday, Sunday &
Monday)
Markets, Rights, Capabilities, and Economic Justice
Please submit a copy of the paper title and abstract (up to 250
words) to Morris Altman, President-Elect of the ASE:
Morris.altman@usask.ca
no later than April 30, 2008.
For information of the ASE, please refer to:
http://www.socialeconomics.org/
Papers from different perspectives and addressing varieties of
issues are welcome, but the focus of next year’s conferences will
relate to: Markets, Rights, Capabilities, and Economic Justice
Click
here
for detailed information.
Alternatives to Neo-liberalism:
Country Experiences
You are invited to consider contributing to "Alternatives to
Neo-liberalism: Country experiences"
Edited by Turan Subasat (University of Bath, UK and Izmir University
of Economics, Turkey)
You are invited to contribute original articles to this book which
investigates the country experiences of alternatives to
neo-liberalism. It covers ‘non neo-liberal’ country experiences such
as Cuba, Argentina, Venezuela, Bolivia, China, Iran ect and aims to
answer the following questions for each country:
1. Can the experiences of these countries be seen as credible
alternatives to neo-liberalism?
2. To what extent have they been successful?
3. Are they likely to survive against the neo-liberal challenge?
So far we have the commitments of academics such as Alfredo Saad
Filho and Al Campbell. If you can contribute a chapter to this book
please email Turan Subasat at:
t.subasat@bath.ac.uk
You are also invited to provide comments and suggestions
particularly regarding which countries should be included in the
book. Please attach a CV to your email.
IVth International Conference on the
Work of Karl Marx and the challenges of the 21st century
Havana, Cuba May 5th to 8th
Venue: Palacio de Convenciones
This conference celebrates the 50th anniversary of the triumph of
the Cuban Revolution which occurred on January 1, 1959.
Click
here for detailed information.
EAEPE 2008 Annual Conference, 6-8
November 2008
LABOUR, INSTITUTIONS AND GROWTH IN A GLOBAL KNOWLEDGE BASED ECONOMY.
Venue:
University of Roma Tre, Faculty of Economics,
Via Silvio D’amico 77, - 00145 Rome, Italy
Tel. 0039 06 57335603/5722 - Fax 0039 06 57335609/5771
Email: eaepe2008@uniroma3.it
Conference web site:
http://eaepe2008.eco.uniroma3.it
The 2008 annual EAEPE Conference will be held in Rome at the Faculty
of Economics of the University of Roma Tre. We invite proposals for
papers or sessions that address either the general theme of this
year conference "Labour, Institutions and Growth in a Global
Knowledge-Based Economy" or the topic of one of the Research Areas
or both.
Click
here for detailed information.
2008 Society for the Development of
Austrian Economics
Panels at the Southern Economic Association in Washington, DC,
November 20-23, 2008 (Thurs-Sun).
The SDAE invites paper and whole session proposals for its sessions
at the Southern meetings this fall. Papers and whole sessions on a
broad range of topics of relevance to Austrian economics and related
approaches will be considered. If there is an excess supply of good
proposals, priority goes to current members of the Society.
Membership is only $20, which also entitles you to a steeply
discounted price of $38 on the Review of Austrian Economics.
Membership forms can be found here (Paypal accepted):
http://it.stlawu.edu/sdae/apply.htm
Persons interested in presenting papers, serving as
chairs/discussants, or proposing entire panels should submit
proposals by April 1st. Please note that this submission date is one
month earlier than last year. The SEA has given us 12 sessions, so
there are many opportunities for participation. With all
submissions, please include the following information for each
participant, including non-attending co-authors:
Name
Affiliation
Street address
Phone
Fax
Email address
If you are proposing a paper for presentation, please also indicate
your willingness to serve as a chair or discussant. If you are
proposing an entire panel, please have all the contact information
for all the participants when you send the materials. If you wish
only to serve as a chair or discussant, please indicate so in your
submission.
Please send your submissions to Emily Chamlee-Wright, SDAE
President-elect at:
Emily Chamlee-Wright
Department of Economics
Beloit College
700 College St.
Beloit, WI 53511
Or email to: chamlee@beloit.edu
Second International Conference: "The
Austrian School in the XXI Century"
First Information Document
Bases Foundation (Rosario City, Argentina) and Hayek Foundation
(Buenos Aires City, Argentina) announce the Second International
Conference "The Austrian School of Economics in the 21st Century".
Date: August 7th, 8th and 9th - 2008
Venue: Chancellor's Goverment Building of the Rosario National
University (Rosario City, Argentina)
Thematic Areas:
- Economics
- Epistemology
- Methodology
- Political Philosophy
- Readings on the Austrian School of Economics
Deadline for abstract reception is June 24th - 2008
Deadline for reception of lectures is July 1st - 2008
A workshop organized by the the Urrutia Elejalde Foundation at the
Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia
Madrid, September 11 2008
Coordinator: Diana Strassman (Rice University)
Speakers: Diana Strassmann (Rice University), Alison Jaggar
(University of Colorado, Boulder), Ingrid Robeyns (Radbound
Universiteit Nijmegen), and Stephanie Seguino (University of
Vermont)
CALL FOR PAPERS
Although economists have long treated social justice and ethics as
beyond its disciplinary boundaries, standard theories provide
inadequate explanations of human deprivations and inequalities. With
gender inequality pervasive in societies around the world, better
understandings of women’s economic lives could lead to a more
illuminating, useful and accountable economics. Scholarship on
gender has been particularly hampered by theories that
insufficiently acknowledge how power relations and social norms
influence women’s access to economic resources, health, education,
and political agency.
How can philosophical tools and theories inform the work of
economists seeking to address gender inequality? More generally, how
might greater sensitivity to concerns of ethics and justice enable
more comprehensive economic analyses that better contribute to the
struggle for a gender-just world? And how can advances in feminist
economics inform philosophical theories of justice, ethics, and
epistemology? Papers may draw from a wide range of philosophical and
economic ideas and scholarship in addressing issues relating to
gender, economics, human deprivations, capabilities, and justice.
Submissions: Paper proposals should consist of a 1000 word abstract,
together with the contact details of the author (Name, affiliation,
email address). The abstract should be attached to an email message
to David Teira (dteira [at] fsof.uned.es). Deadline for submissions
is March 15th 2008. Acceptance will be communicated by April 15th
2008. If accepted, accommodation expenses will be covered by the
organization..
INEM 2008
Notice that this event takes place immediately before the
International Network for Economic 2008 Conference (Madrid, 12-13
September)
The Academic Working Group on Macroeconomic Dynamics, Price Theory
and Structural Change, The Division of Social Science and
Humanities, Xochimilco Campus and The General Rector of the
Metropolitan Autonomous University
Issue this call for papers for an International Symposium on
STRUCTURAL CHANGE AND DEVELOPMENT POLICIES: EVALUATION AND NEW
AVENUES FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF SUSTAINABLE AND VIABLE ALTERNATIVES
Dates: May 19-22, 2008
To be held in the
Central Rectory of the UAM
The *Research Network Macroeconomics and Macroeconomic Policies*
would like to invite you to submit a paper for its 12th conference
on
*Macroeconomic Policies on Shaky Foundations*
*-- Whither Mainstream Economics?*
31 October - 1 November 2008, in Berlin.
Mainstream economics seems to be changing. The homo economicus has
repeatedly been called into questions; many macroeconomic models are
not based on a market clearing equilibrium any more. How profound
are these changes in mainstream economics? What, if any, is the new
orthodoxy in macroeconomics? What are the implications for
Post-Keynesian macroeconomics? And how is the relationship between
these developments and macroeconomic policies? The 12th conference
of the Research Network will address these developments and
questions.
The submission of papers in the following areas is encouraged:
- Orthodoxy/Mainstream/Heterodoxy. Past and Present Developments
- Is there Common Ground for Heterodox Economics?
- What Can Macroeconomists Learn From Institutional, Experimental
and Post Walrasian Economics?
- Post-Keynesianism and the New Consensus Model
- Towards a Post-Keynesian Consensus?
- Monetary Policy under the Conditions of Ambiguous Theoretical
Grounds
- The Return of Discretionary Fiscal Policy?
For the open part of the conference the submission of papers on the
general subject of the Research Network is encouraged as well. We
also encourage the submission of papers for graduate student
sessions, on the specific subject of this conference or on the
general subject of the Research Network.
Conference language is English. Selected papers (in English or in
German) will be published after the conference.
The *deadline* for paper proposals is *30 June 2008*. Please send an
abstract (one page) to Torsten Niechoj (torsten-niechoj@boeckler.de
). Decisions will be made until the end of July. Accepted papers
should be sent in by 15 October to be posted on the conference web
page.
The Research Network is organised by Sebastian Dullien (FHTW
Berlin), Trevor Evans (FHW Berlin), Jochen Hartwig (KOF/ETH Zürich),
Eckhard Hein (IMK, Düsseldorf), Hansjörg Herr (FHW Berlin), Torsten
Niechoj (IMK, Düsseldorf), Jan Priewe (FHTW Berlin), Peter Spahn
(University of Hohenheim), Engelbert Stockhammer (WU Wien), Claus
Thomasberger (FHTW Berlin) and Achim Truger (IMK, Düsseldorf) with
financial support from the Hans Böckler Foundation.
5th Euroframe Conference on Economic
Policy Issues in the European Union
Ten years of a common currency: achievements and policy challenges
in the euro area
Friday, 6 June 2008, Dublin,
CALL FOR PAPERS
The EUROFRAME group of research institutes (CASE, CPB, DIW, ESRI,
ETLA, IfW, NIESR, OFCE, PROMETEIA, WIFO) will hold its fifth annual
Conference on Economic Policy Issues in the European Union in Dublin
on 6 June 2008. The aim of the conference is to provide an academic
forum for debate on economic policy issues relevant in the European
context. The Conference will focus this year on assessing the ten
years of common currency in the euro area and will address prospects
and challenges ahead. Contributions should address in particular
issues related to: the ECB's strategy and governance, real effects
of a common currency, diversity issues, developments in the banking
and financial systems, banking regulation, monetary and financial
stability, exchange rate developments and their determinants,
capital flows and financial integration, the role of euro as an
international currency, the future enlargement of the euro area.
Submission Procedure
Abstracts should be submitted by e-mail before 17 March to
catherine.mathieu@ofce.sciences-po.fr.
Abstracts (2 pages) should mention: title of communication, name(s)
of the author(s), affiliation, corresponding author’s e-mail
address, postal address, telephone number.
The corresponding authors will be informed of the decision of the
scientific committee by mid-April.
Full papers should be received by e-mail by 19 May.
Scientific Committee
Karl Aiginger (WIFO), Ray Barrell (NIESR), Marek Dabrowski (CASE),
Christian Dreger (DIW), Markku Kotilainen (ETLA), Paolo Onofri (PROMETEIA),
Joachim Scheide (IfW), Henri Sterdyniak (OFCE), Iulia
Traistaru-Siedschlag (ESRI), Bas ter Weel (CPB), Catherine Mathieu (OFCE,
Scientific Secretary)
Local Organising Committee (ESRI, Dublin)
John Fitz Gerald, Iulia Traistaru-Siedschlag
Contact - Abstract and paper submissions
Catherine Mathieu:
catherine.mathieu@ofce.sciences-po.fr, tel.: +33 (0) 1 44
18 54 37
The 40th Annual UK History of
Economic Thought Conference
The 40th annual UK History of Economic Thought Conference will be
held at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, over 3-5 September,
2008. The conference will retain its traditional intimate format,
with substantial time devoted to the presentation and discussion of
each of the papers.
Papers on all aspects of the history of economics and economic
thought are welcome.
Those wishing to present a paper at the conference should send an
abstract of five hundred words to the conference organizer,
Professor Steven Medema, by email at
steven.medema@cudenver.edu or via the post to Department
of Economics, CB 181, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, CO
80217-3364, USA. The deadline for receipt of proposals is April 1,
2008, and decisions will be made by April 15, 2008. Further
information about the conference will be made available in the
coming months.
Developments in Economic Theory and
Policy
The Department of Applied Economics V of the University of the
Basque Country and the Cambridge Centre for Economic and Public
Policy, Department of Land Economy, of the University of Cambridge
are organizing the 5th International Conference “Developments in
Economic Theory and Policy”. The Conference will be held in Bilbao
(Spain), in July 10-11, 2008, at the Faculty of Economics and
Business of the University of the Basque Country.
Although papers are invited on all areas of economics, the priority
areas are the following ones:
- New Consensus in Macroeconomics
- Spatial Economics
- European Convergence
- Policy/Path Dependence and Macroeconomics
Special Sessions with Invited Speakers will be organized about these
four topics. In the conference website you can see more details
about the Special Sessions and the Invited Speakers.
Suggestions for ‘Organized Sessions’ are encouraged. An Organized
Session is one session constructed in its entirety by a Session
Organizer and submitted to the conference organizers as a complete
package. Session organizers must provide the following information:
- Title of the session, name and affiliation of the organizer, name
and affiliation of chair (if different than organizer)
- Titles of the papers, name(s) and affiliation(s) of author(s)
In addition, contact information must be provided for each
participant (name, address, telephone and fax numbers, email
address).
Those people that wish to organize a session on a specific topic and
want to contact with other people interested in participating
presenting a paper in that session can get in touch with Jesus
Ferreiro (jesus.ferreiro@ehu.es) submitting the following data:
- Organizer’s name and affiliation
- Title of the proposed sessions and JEL classification
- E-mail address
These data will be published in this web page. People interested
will be able to contact with the session’s proposer to organize the
session.
The deadline to submit papers and ‘Organized Sessions’ is 30th May
2008.
European Political Economy and
Society in the World
Mid-Term Workshop
Critical Political Economy Research Network (RN 6)
European Sociological Association
September 12-14, 2008
Oxford Brookes University
Oxford, United Kingdom
http://criticalpoliticaleconomy.blogspot.com
This workshop builds on the proceedings of the previous workshops,
which have all eschewed a sui generic conception of 'Europe' and the
European Union in favour of a perspective that views Europe and the
EU against the broader context of transnational developments of the
capitalist world-economy. As Eric Wolf argued in Europe and the
People without History (California UP, 1982) this is the logical and
empirical implication of political economy research, which is
concerned with the co-constitution of production and power broadly
conceived. Such research, Wolf argued, constituted a profound
challenge to 'the habit of treating named entities such as the
Iroquois, Greece, Persia or the United States ..[and we might add,
the EU and 'its' states]…as fixed entities opposed to one another by
stable internal architecture and external boundaries..' (p. 7).
International
Network for Economic Method Conference
Madrid, 12-13 Sept. 2008
2nd CALL FOR PAPERS (Deadline: April 1st)
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
Roger Backhouse (University of Birmingham), Partha Dasgupta
(Cambridge University)
PLENARY PANEL SESSIONS:
- Neuroeconomics, coordinated by Don Ross (U. of Alabama at
Birmingham & U.of Cape Town)
- Neoliberalism as Philosophy and Politics, coordinated by Philip
Mirowski (University of Notre Dame)
The sixth INEM conference will be hosted by the Universidad Nacional
de Educacion a Distancia (UNED) and the Urrutia Elejalde Foundation.
Contributed papers are welcome in all areas of economic methodology
and cognate disciplines, including papers on conceptual issues in
economics, the methodological analysis and appraisal of theories and
techniques, methodological issues in applied fields, the history of
methodological thought in economics, the sociology of economic
science, the rhetoric of economics, the relationship between
economics and other disciplines, the philosophy and history of
science, social epistemology, and the economics of science.
PAPER PROPOSALS: They should consist of a 500 word abstract,
together with the contact details of the author (Name, affiliation,
email address).
SESSION PROPOSALS: We welcome panel proposals for 90 minute sessions
(three speakers, at least). They should consist of a 1000 word
abstract stating the aim of the session and their respective
contribution, together with the contact details of the coordinator
and speakers (Name, affiliation, email address). We welcome panels
on books in the format "Author meets the critics"
The abstract should be attached to an email message to inem2008 [at]
gmail.com.
DEADLINE for submissions is April 1st 2008. Acceptance will be
communicated by May 1st 2008.
Scientific Committee: Uskali Mäki (Academy of Finland, Chair), Roger
Backhouse (U. Birmingham), D. Wade Hands (U. Puget Sound), Esther-Mirjam
Sent (U. Nijmegen), Bruce Caldwell (U. N. Carolina Greensboro),
Matthias Klaes (Keele U.), Jesus Zamora-Bonilla (UNED).
Organizing Committee: J. Francisco Alvarez (UNED), Miranda del
Corral (UNED), Juan Carlos García-Bermejo (UAM, Chair), Maria
Jimenez Buedo (UNED), Julian Reiss (EIPE), David Teira (UNED), Juan
Urrutia (UEF) Jesus Zamora-Bonilla (UNED, INEM representative)
For further information, email INEM2008 [at] gmail.com
School of Oriental and African Studies
London International Development Centre Seminar Series
Scholarship, Advocacy and Policy [after Deaton]: The World Bank
through the Looking Glass
Jeff Waage: An Introduction to LIDC
and
Ben Fine: Social Capital and Health
Wednesday 12th March 2008, 2.30 – 4.30pm
Clore Lecture Theatre, Clore Management Centre, Birkbeck College,
University of London, Torrington Square, London. WC1
In light of the recent evaluation of World Bank research led by
Angus Deaton, it is time to take stock of the direction of
development research and its effect on policy and advocacy. Ben
Fine, Professor of Economics at SOAS, presents the first in a series
of seminars that will critically examine the implications and
limitations of Deaton and the way to move on, looking first at the
application of social capital to health.
This seminar series also aims to bring together the unrivalled
expertise in the six colleges of the newly created London
International Development Centre, LIDC. The goal is to encourage
dialogue between the constituent colleges, establishing common
interests and future collaboration, as well as highlighting the
future role of LIDC. Jeff Waage, Director of LIDC, will set out the
anticipated role of LIDC within the development community.
Everyone welcome from 2pm onwards.
For more information and to be included on the mailing list for
details of future seminars please email Kate Bayliss:
kb6@soas.ac.uk
Behavioural Economics: Common
Mistakes in Daily Decisions
LSE PUBLIC LECTURE
Behavioural Economics: Common Mistakes in Daily Decisions
Date: Monday 17 March 2008, 6.30-8pm
Speaker: Professor Dan Ariely
Why do smart people make irrational decisions every day? Why do we
repeatedly make the same mistakes when we make our selections? How
do our expectations influence our actual opinions and decisions? The
answers, as revealed by behavioural economist Professor Dan Ariely
of MIT, will surprise you.
2008 LUXEMBOURG INCOME STUDY INTRODUCTORY WORKSHOP
The Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) Summer Workshop is a one week
workshop designed to introduce researchers in the social sciences to
comparative research in income distribution, employment and social
policy using the LIS database. We welcome applications from
researchers with varying levels of knowledge and experience. The
language of instruction is English.
The Luxembourg Income Study has made comparable over 160 large
microdata sets that contain comprehensive measures of income,
employment and household characteristics for 30 industrialized
countries (Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, the Czech Republic,
Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary,
Ireland, Israel, Italy, Luxembourg, Mexico, the Netherlands, Norway,
Poland, Romania, Russia, the Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain,
Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, the United Kingdom and the United
States).
By the end of the workshop, attendees will be fully trained to use
the database independently. Workshop faculty includes the LIS
directors, Janet Gornick and Markus Jäntti, the LIS staff and guest
lecturers. In addition, the winner of the annual Aldi Hagenaars
Memorial Award will present his/her paper (see Aldi Hagenaars
Memorial Award page:
http://www.lisproject.org/workshop/aldiaward.htm ). The workshop
format includes a mixture of lectures on comparative research,
laboratory sessions and individual one-on-one advisory sessions.
Attendees will also be introduced to the new Luxembourg Wealth Study
(
http://www.lisproject.org/lws.htm ).
Tuition of €1,400 covers instructional materials, single-occupancy
accommodations, and full board. Transportation to and from
Luxembourg is the responsibility of the student.
The 2008 workshop will be held from July 7 to July 12, 2008 (with
departure on July 13).
Download application (
http://www.lisproject.org/workshop/2008application.pdf ) and
return it to Caroline de Tombeur by April 4, 2008.
Send your completed application by email (
caroline@lisproject.org
) or fax: +352-26 00 30 30.
For information about LIS, see
http://www.lisproject.org.
As part of an ongoing collective project, the organisers of this
seminar series seek to promote a discussion on the rise of rent as a
form of capitalist appropriation and the way that new levels of
association in the arts and culture, in information and
communication, in public taste and ambience have made this rise
possible, and from the perspective of private accumulation,
necessary. To this end, the seminar brings together various
perspectives on the Art of Rent taking in analysis of cognitive
capitalism, of the financialisation of the quotidian and the bodily,
of gentrification and the metroversity, of new international
division of labour and of governance. The seminar will conclude with
a special two-day event in September on the cultural industries.
Behind this series is the sense that the Art of Rent is a reaction
to a new collective power among bodies assembled to labour and a
capacity for ensemble in the social individual, all provoked by the
migrations of work into culture, language, and affect and the work
of migrations into these registers of life. For those who work in
the university, in the arts, and in politics long seeking to subvert
the relationship between innovation and wage, the rise of the
relationship between innovation and rent calls not for subversion
but sabotage of the creative process.
Seminars will feature presentation from the speakers followed by
structured discussion and questions and answers.
All the seminars are free and all are welcome
All seminars (except for February 29th) 16:00-18:00 Room 4.08
Francis Bancroft Building, Queen Mary University of London, Mile
End.
Friday February 29th, 2008
The Art of Rent
16:00 – 18:00 Room 602 Physics Building, Queen Mary University of
London, Mile End
• Carlo Vercellone, University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne
• Matteo Pasquinelli, Queen Mary University
Friday March 28th, 2008
Crisis and Financialization
• Christian Marazzi, University of Southern Switzerland
• Randy Martin, New York University
• Costas Lapavitsas, SOAS London
Thursday May 15th, 2008
New international division of labour
• Sandro Mezzadra, University of Bologna
• Xiang Biao, Oxford University
Thursday June 5th, 2008
Governance, resistance, production of common
• Judith Revel, Sorbonne University, Paris
• Stefano Harney, Queen Mary University
Space is limited; those planning to attend to should send a message
to artofrent@gmail.com
the student organization Die Linke.SDS (the student organization of
the left party) and the youth organization Linksjugend Solid invite
you kindly to participate at our congress "40th anniversary of the
student revolt in 1968 - we will win the next struggle".
From the second until the 4th of may we will discuss the
implications of the emergence of a new left in 1968 for nowadays.
The range of issues will be widespread: From the protests in higher
education to cultural liberation and the revival of marxist and
critical theory.
Among our speakers are veterans of the 68 student revolt as well as
critical scientists and political activists from today (e.g. Oskar
Lafontaine(president of Die Linke), Leo Panitch (University of
Toronto), Rossana Rossanda, Elmar Altvater (University of Berlin),
Sabine Zimpel (ATTAC Germany), Alain Krivine (LCR) and Hans-Jürgen
Urban(vice-president of trade union IG Metall) Alex Callinicos
(Kings College London). There are already more than 40 Speakers
confirmed (which you can see on the website www.1968kongress.de)
There will be about more than 50 workshops and panels and we attend
up to 1000 participants - mainly students and young people - from
all around Germany.
Of course the left renewal in 1968 had a european and international
dimension: We would be glad to welcome you in Berlin for our
congress and for the "Euromayday" on the first of may in Berlin
which we are organizing together with social movements, trade unions
and media activists.
The congress costs are 10 Euros for students and 20 euros for people
on a living wage. in the ticket are included 3 days of congress,
concerts and cinema AND a free place to sleep in a school or
comparable venue. the sleeping places are available from 31.april to
4th of may.
Best regards,
The seminar will be presented by Christopher Houghton Budd, an
economic historian with a doctorate in banking and international
finance. He specialises intopics ranging from sustainability to the
financial markets and has a special interest in bridging between
Rudolf Steiner's work and current understandings. Based in
Canterbury, England, he travels widely as an educator and consultant
working with colleagues around the world.
Venue: Upper Grange, Loveday's Mead, GL5 1XB, Stroud,UK
Cost: Seminar - £120, excluding meals & accommodation.
Evening Lectures - £5 per lecture.
Registration: Payment by March 1st - Contact Arthur Edwards for more
details Tel: 0044 (1453) 756728 /
07979 935359
Email:
mail@arthuredwards.net
Financialization: Post-Keynesian
Approaches
Symposium
29 April, Lille
(Cité Scientifique, SH2 Building, Council Room, First Floor)
Registration is now open for this conference, organised to celebrate
the 25th anniversary of the publication in 1983 of "Laws of Chaos: a
probabilistic approach to political economy" by Emmanuel Farjoun and
Moshé Machover.
The conference will open at 11.30 a.m. on Monday, July 14 and will
continue through to a reception and gala dinner on the evening of
Wednesday, July 16.
Post Keynesian Economics Study Group
The date of the Stirling meeting has been moved from Friday 31
October 2008 to Saturday 20 September 2008. A lovely month in
Scotland!
The call for participants for the Oxford meeting on 4 April 2008
will be issued shortly. We expect to have an afternoon session with
a dinner in the evening.
SOAS Seminars
International Initiative for Promotion of Political Economy and SOAS
Money Finance and Development seminar series
(convenors Costas Lapavitsas and Jan Toporowski)
School of Social Work
Labor Studies Program
Bloomington and Indianapolis Campuses
Two Faculty Positions
The Labor Studies Program at Indiana University is one of the
leading university labor education programs in North America and is
administered by the School of Social Work. The program caters to a
diverse population of traditional, non-traditional, and labor union
learners. The program offers a Certificate, Associate, and Bachelor
of Science degrees in Labor Studies, as well as a variety of
non-credit courses. The Labor Studies Program is a state-wide
program presently based on six of the eight Indiana University
campuses.
We seek candidates for two tenure-track positions. One position is
located on the Bloomington (IUB) campus and the other on the
Indianapolis (IUPUI) campus.
Responsibilities
Teach labor studies courses both online and in the classroom, with
particular attention to the changing needs and growing diversity of
the labor movement; carry out research and labor related service;
maintain working relationships with Labor Studies faculty on other
IU campuses and with labor organizations; and develop and teach
non-credit courses in areas of specialization. Some travel is
expected.
Qualifications
A doctorate in a field closely related to labor studies is required.
Candidates must possess significant research potential and
demonstrate knowledge of and commitment to working in areas relevant
to organized labor. Special consideration will be given to
applicants with direct experience in labor unions or community
organizations, and/or who have expertise in Latino workers’ issues,
and public sector labor issues. Knowledge and skills of online
education are desired.
Salary
Commensurate with qualifications and experience. Indiana University
offers an excellent benefits package.
Application Procedures
A complete application must include: letter of interest, curriculum
vita, and names of three references. The letter of interest should
include a description of one’s concept of the discipline of labor
studies; how one’s strengths and competencies match the desired
position; teaching philosophy, and labor movement experience. Please
specify the campus of application (Bloomington, Indianapolis, or
both).
Screening of applications will begin February 15, 2008 and continue
until an offer is made, with an anticipated appointment date of
August 2008. All applications should be submitted electronically to:
Sarah Bailey Labor Studies Recorder, IU Bloomington
schilder@indiana.edu.
Indiana University is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative
Action Institution and it is committed to achieving excellence
through diversity. The Labor Studies Program seeks qualified
applicants from women, people of color, and other underrepresented
groups.
St. Francis College, Brooklyn
Assistant Professor of Economics - tenure track position
The Department of Economics, History and Political Science at St.
Francis College, Brooklyn invites applications for a tenure-track
position as Assistant Professor of Economics beginning in Fall 2008.
Applicants should have a Ph.D. in Economics and show a commitment to
teaching. The college offers a B.A. degree in Economics, and is also
responsible for teaching introductory courses to non-majors. St.
Francis College is a small, non-residential, independent college
whose mission focuses on the provision of education to the community
of Brooklyn and adjacent areas. Potential applicants are encouraged
to review the college's website, www.stfranciscollege.edu prior to
applying for the position. Additional information may be obtained by
writing to the Chairperson of the department, Paddy Quick, at
pquick@stfranciscollege.edu.
Send resume and cover letter to:
hr@stfranciscollege.edu
POSITION DESCRIPTION Description/Primary Responsibilities: The
Department of Economics at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
seeks qualified candidates for two full-time instructional academic
staff positions to teach principles of micro- and macro-economics at
the undergraduate level for the 2008-2009 academic year. Secondary
consideration will be given to the ability to teach undergraduate
business research methods. Candidates are expected to be effective
teachers, have a commitment to high quality student-focused
instruction, have an interest in and concern for students, and
demonstrate enthusiasm for teaching introductory economics.
Responsibilities will include teaching four sections per semester
and participating in department business.
Qualifications (minimum and desirable): The minimum educational
requirement is a Master's Degree in Economics; Ph.D. or ABD
preferred. Consideration will be given to teaching experience. Also,
consideration will be given to applicants with a Master's Degree in
a business related field and with at least two years of experience
teaching economics.
APPOINTMENT % of appointment - annual or academic year: 100%
Rank: will be at the associate lecturer or lecturer level with
competitive salary.
Starting Date: August 25, 2008
Excellent fringe benefitsand insurance programs:
http://perth.uwlax.edu/hr/bene.html
APPLICATION INFORMATION
Refer to Recruitment Number "09ECO01" when applying for or inquiring
about this position.
Application Procedure: To receive full consideration, a resume,
three letters of recommendation that address teaching ability, and
teaching evaluations must be submitted to the chair of the search
and screen committee. The Economics Department is in the College of
Business Administration, which is fully accredited by AACSB
International. More information about the department may be found at
http://www.uwlax.edu/ba/eco/.
Contact:
Chair, Search and Screen Committee
Department of Economics
UW-La Crosse
1725 State St.
La Crosse WI 54601
Application Deadline: Preference will be given to complete
applications that are received by April 7, 2008. The position will
remain open until filled.
GDAE announces two publications from its new program on the
Economics of Climate Change. For more on the Institute's efforts to
develop economic theory, policy analysis, and educational materials
better suited to addressing the challenges posed by global climate
change, visit our program web page:
http://www.ase.tufts.edu/gdae/ClimateChange.html
Economic Vitality in a Transition to
Sustainability
This booklet by Neva Goodwin surveys how economies will need to
change, both to minimize the extent of expected climate change, and
to respond to climate-related events that cannot, or will not, be
prevented. Reforms are needed not only to reduce emissions of
greenhouse gasses, but also to encourage greater social resilience,
to minimize the suffering from climate-related emergencies.
Increased social resilience requires poverty alleviation, widely
available education, robust social systems for emergency health and
other relief responses, and greater equality of power and resources.
A number of systemic changes will be needed to move in these
directions. Most urgent to discover or invent are the institutional
and regulatory structures, as well as financial and cultural
incentives, that will align the goals of corporations with the
common good.
This booklet is part of Growing the Economy through Global Warming
Solutions, a series of papers published by the Civil Society
Institute to explore the implications of the transition from a
fossil-energy dependent economy to a climate-stable global economic
system.
Read the full booklet here:
http://www.ase.tufts.edu/gdae/Pubs/te/GEGWS-GoodwinChapter.pdf
Hot, It’s Not: Reflections on Cool It!, by
Bjorn Lomborg
In this review, forthcoming in Climatic Change, Frank Ackerman
reviews and rebuts the dismissive treatment of climate change in
Bjorn Lomborg’s latest book. Lomborg, the self-described “skeptical
environmentalist,” claims that economics proves that many climate
policy proposals are hopelessly expensive and unnecessary. Ackerman
demonstrates that Lomborg relies on a biased reading of the
scientific evidence and a rigidly conservative interpretation of
economics; Ackerman’s conclusion sketches a better approach to
climate economics.
Read the full article here:
http://www.ase.tufts.edu/gdae/Pubs/rp/Ackerman_CoolIt.pdf
Latin America's MDG Progress on
Gender Equality: Poor Women Still Lag Behind
We are pleased to announce the publication of IPC One Pager #49,
"Latin America's MDG Progress on Gender Equality: Poor Women Still
Lag Behind". The author, Eduardo Zepeda, recently a senior
researcher at IPC, notes that Latin America and the Caribbean has
shown notable progress on MDG indicators for gender equality. But he
emphasizes that when national averages are disaggregated, the
picture is less impressive, particularly for poor women workers.
They are not, in fact, making significant progress in securing
decent wage employment in the non-agricultural sector.
See the recent related Issue No. 13 of IPC's Poverty In Focus
magazine, "Gender
Equality".
Volume 1 No. 1 June 2007
CONTENTS
The Big Picture: Britain and China and the Future of Capitalism
Paul Cockshott
The Rate of Surplus Value, the Composition of Capital, and the Rate
of Profit in the Chinese Manufacturing Industry: 1978-2004
Zhang Yu and Zhao Feng
Reform, Reform the Reforms or Simply Regression? The ‘Washington
Consensus’ and its Critics
Stavros D. Mavroudeas and Demophanes Papadatos
Intersectoral Linkages and Key Sectors in the Greek Economy
Eleftheria Rodousaki
Theoretical Considerations of the Endogenous Money Hypothesis: The
Turkish Experience
Constantinos Alexiou and George Anastasiadis
Volume 1 No. 2 December 2007
CONTENTS
Relative Prices in the Classical Theory: Facts and Figures
Christian Bidard and Hans G. Ehrbar
Formulating Non-Proportionally Growing Economies: A Generalisation
of Pasinetti’s Analysis
Sobei H. Oda
A Reformulation of Demand-Led Growth: Transformational Growth and
the Consumption-Growth Relationship
Davide Gualerzi
Country Risk, Government Effectiveness, and Government Religious
Regulation
William R. DiPietro
John Stuart Mill and Wicksell’s Cumulative Process
Dimitris Sotiropoulos
The evolution of labour law: Calibrating and comparing regulatory
regimes
L'évolution du droit du travail: évaluation et comparaison des
régimes réglementaires
Evolución del derecho laboral. Análisis comparado de algunos
regímenes
Simon DEAKIN, Priya LELE and Mathias SIEMS
Monopsony as a metaphor for the emerging post-union labour market
Les nouveaux marchés du travail: monopsone et faiblesse syndicale
El monopsonismo, metáfora del nuevo mercado de trabajo postsindical
Christopher L. ERICKSON and Daniel J.B. MITCHELL
The right to work: Linking human rights and employment policy
Le droit au travail: coupler droits de l'homme et politique de
l'emploi
Derecho al trabajo. Conjugar derechos humanos y política de empleo
Guy MUNDLAK
Intermittent child employment and its implications for estimates of
child labour
L'intermittence du travail des enfants: quelles conséquences sur les
estimations
El trabajo infantil intermitente, su medición y su importancia
Deborah LEVISON, Jasper HOEK, David LAM and Suzanne DURYEA
European employment models under pressure to change
Les modèles européens de l'emploi soumis à des pressions vers le
changement
Los modelos de empleo europeos, agitados por vientos de cambio
Gerhard BOSCH, Jill RUBERY and Steffen LEHNDORFF
Informality, the State and the social contract in Latin America: A
preliminary exploration
Informalité, Etat et contrat social en Amérique latine: étude
préliminaire
<<Informalidad>> , Estado y contrato social en América Latina.
Estudio preliminar
Jaime SAAVEDRA and Mariano TOMMASI
This issue contains:
Editor's Introduction
Mario Seccareccia
Global Imbalances and Economic Development
Esteban Pérez Caldentey, Matías Vernengo
U. S. Debt and Global Imbalances
Jane D'Arista
The Fallacy of the Revised Bretton Woods Hypothesis: Why Today's
Global Financial System Is Unsustainable and Suggestions for
a Replacement
Thomas I. Palley
Global Imbalances and Economic Development: Economic Policymaking by
Leftist Governments in Latin America
Igor Paunovic, Juan Carlos Moreno-Brid
The Instability and Inequities of the Global Reserve System
José Antonio Ocampo
Author Index to International Journal of Political Economy Volume 36
(Spring 2007-Winter 2007-8)
This issue contains:
Teaching Post Keynesian exchange rate theory
John T. Harvey
Neoclassical versus Post Keynesian models of exchange rate
determination: a comparison based on nonnested model selection
tests and predictive accuracy
Imad A. Moosa
Inheriting inequality: institutional influences on the distribution
of wealth
Alan G. Isaac
Market structure-driven discrimination and the earnings of
subordinate managers: an analysis by union density
Jacqueline Agesa, Richard U. Agesa
The case for the Swedish wage-earner funds: a Post Keynesian
solution to the dynamic inefficiency of capitalism through the
socialization of investment
Philip B. Whyman
A Keynesian angle for the Taylor rule: mortgage rates, monthly
payment illusion, and the scarecrow effect of inflation
Alan Day Haight
Neoclassical, mainstream, orthodox, and heterodox economics
David Dequech
Live and dead issues in the methodology of economics
David Colander, Richard P.F. Holt, J. Barkley Rosser, Jr.
Nova Economia
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Seguindo a tradição acadêmica do Departamento, Nova Economia adota
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The new issue contains the following articles. It also contains
interviews with Geoffrey Hodgson and Frederic Lordon. Please note
that the former issue contained an interview with Marc Lavoie at
http://regulation.revues.org/document1305.html .
Articles
Frédéric Varone, Stéphane Nahrath et Jean-David Gerber
Régimes institutionnels de ressources et théorie de la régulation
Florence Palpacuer
Firme-réseau globale et réseaux transnationaux d’ONG : Vers un
nouveau mode de régulation ?
Yannick Lung
Modèles de firme et formes du capitalisme :Penser la diversité comme
agenda de recherche pour la TR
Anne Fretel
L’association comme réponse à la question sociale du XIXe au XXe
siècle
Bernard Billaudot
Une théorie de l’Etat social
Opinions - débats
Annie Vinokur
La loi relative aux libertés et responsabilités des universités :essai
de mise en perspective
Marie Coris et Alain Rallet
Les pays émergents à la conquête des marchés mondiaux Une lecture
des trajectoires indienne et chinoise dans le secteur du
logiciel
Entretien avec Frédéric Lordon
Pour une socionoétique des objets économiques.
Entretien avec Geoffrey Hodgson
Fostering Variety in Economics.
Notes de lecture
Martino Nieddu
Edith Heurgon (Coord.) /Le développement durable (c’est enfin du
bonheur)/, (colloque de Cerisy) ed. de l’aube, essai, 2006.
Agnès Labrousse Caroline Dufy et Florence Weber, /L’ethnographie
économique/, La Découverte, Repères, Paris, 2007, 122 p.
Nicolas Postel
Bernard Chavance, /L’économie institutionnelle, /La/ /Découverte,Repères,
Paris, 2007, 120 p.
Agnès Labrousse
Petia Koleva, Nathalie Rodet-Kroichvili et Julien Vercueil (dir.),/Nouvelles
Europes. Trajectoires et enjeux
économiques,/Belfort-Montbéliard, Presses de l’UTBM, 2006, 321 p.
Présentation de Thèses
Revue de la régulation. Capitalisme, Institutions, Pouvoirs.
Http://regulation.revues.org
History of Economics Review
Articles published in the History of Economics Review between 1982
(Issue No. 2) to 1999 (Issue No. 30) are now available at:
While the most recent years of the History of Economics Review are
only available in hard copy, issues published between 2000 (issue
No. 31) and
2005 (Issue No. 42) continue to be available at:
What is the appropriate criterion to use for distributive justice?
Is it efficiency, need, contribution, entitlement, equality, effort,
or ability? Globalization and Economic Ethics maintains that far
from being rival principles of distributive justice, efficiency and
need satisfaction are, in fact, complementary norms in our emerging
knowledge economy. After all, human capital plays the central role
in effecting and sustaining long-term efficiency in the Digital Age.
This book explores the vital link between human capital formation
and allocative efficiency using the properties of the market and the
knowledge economy as analytical tools.
Table of Contents:
Overlapping Questions: Globalization and Distributive Justice * PART
I: THE KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY * Chapter 1 Microelectronics and Market
Efficiency * Chapter 2 Requisite Agility * PART II: EFFICIENCY AS A
CRITERION OF DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE * Chapter 3 Efficiency Matters
Even More in the Information Age * Chapter 4 Considering the
Distributive Dimension of Price * PART III: NEED AS A CRITERION OF
DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE * Chapter 5 Need Satisfaction as a Necessary
Condition of Efficiency * Chapter 6 Broader Base for Market
Initiative, Creativity, and Stability * PART IV: ENTITLEMENT AS A
CRITERION OF DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE * Chapter 7 Ownership
Externalities * Chapter 8 Summary and Conclusions: Distributive
Justice in the Knowledge Economy
Doctor en Bienestar Social y Desigualdades por la Universidad de
Alicante, España.
Miembro del Sistema Nacional de Investigadores Nivel 1.
La nueva desigualdad social mexicana no solamente tiene como causa
un ingreso precario, generado por el desarrollo de una actividad
remunerada, perteneciente a la economía formal o informal; sino, por
la multiplicación de una diversidad de situaciones, que han creado
en México desigualdades, que tienen como base el género, la edad, la
raza, las creencias, el acceso limitado o nulo a los servicios
públicos, lo cual significa que las instituciones estatales,
consideradas como protectoras sociales, han tenido un funcionamiento
deficiente para garantizar el bienestar universal. Esto es resultado
de la transformación de las políticas públicas de bienestar social
en programas de asistencia social de tipo focal, puestos en marcha
por los gobiernos emanados de los diferentes partidos políticos,
transformados en un medio de legitimación de su desempeño, ante la
expansión de la pobreza y la miseria.
The book may be obtained by e-mailing Miguel Vite and asking for a
copy: miguelvite@yahoo.com.
Future
Directions for Heterodox Economics
John T. Harvey and Robert F. Garnett, Jr., Editors
A comprehensive survey of the current state—and future direction—of
heterodox economic thought
About the Book
Twenty-first-century economists will have to understand and improve
a post-Cold War world in which no single economic theory or system
holds the key to human betterment. Heterodox economists have much to
contribute to this effort, as a wave of pluralism spawns new lines
of research and new dialogues among non-mainstream economists.
Future Directions for Heterodox Economics showcases a range of
contributions to contemporary economic theory and policy, bringing
together essays that range from mathematical to philosophical,
critical to positive, and pro-market to socialist and making
innovative connections between formerly separate theoretical
traditions---Marxian, Austrian, feminist, ecological, Sraffian,
institutionalist, and post-Keynesian. Unlike any previous
collection, this volume shows the surprising extent to which
pluralism is engendering controversy, critical dialogue, and
innovative new directions within heterodox economics.
"This book provides an excellent sampler of work from the cutting
edge of heterodox economics. People looking for fresh ideas about
how the discipline can reinvent itself, so as to broaden and
modernize its knowledge practices and reprioritize questions of how
economic knowledge can be used to promote the common good, will find
much of interest in this well-constructed book."
---Martha A. Starr, Professor of Economics, American University, and
coeditor of the Review of Social Economy
"Those interested in recent developments and controversies in
non-mainstream economics will find this volume a most welcome
addition to the literature. The editors have chosen papers wisely,
selecting those that allow both initiates and more seasoned
individuals a good introduction to the nature and range of heterodox
economics, the issues that constitute the basis of ongoing debate
among economists of these stripes, and the arguments that have been
developed to support pleas for a pluralist or a monist path of
development."
---John F. Henry, Department of Economics, University of Missouri,
Kansas City
"After sixty years, economics' formalist neoclassical mainstream is
in terminal decline. The future is heterodox. Harvey and Garnett's
book is the best guide to that future that you will find. It should
be read cover to cover."
---Edward Fullbrook, Professor of Economics, University of the West
of England
John T. Harvey is Professor and Chair, Department of Economics,
Texas Christian University. Visit Harvey's website at:
http://www.econ.tcu.edu/harvey.html.
Robert F. Garnett, Jr., is Associate Professor, Department of
Economics, Texas Christian University. Visit Garnett's website at:
http://www.econ.tcu.edu/garnett.html.
The Cathie Marsh Centre is proud to announce that it has at least 7
PhD studentships from the ESRC and elsewhere for entry in 2008. We
invite candidates from any of the social sciences as well as from
policy or professional backgrounds to apply.
The Cathie Marsh Centre is a unique multidisciplinary cluster of
social statisticians and researchers. Our policy impact,
transferable skills, and impact on cutting-edge research methods are
widely recognised as being of the highest quality.
Doing a PhD in the Cathie Marsh Centre involves doing independent
research as well as attending occasional training courses or Masters
level course units. Our students also attend conferences, make
presentations, and work on team projects where appropriate. Most
PhDs in the CCSR use national or international data sets. We provide
full training in the use of such data. The Centre is an excellent
research environment with a supportive atmosphere.
Our Masters degree in Social Research Methods and Statistics is
integrally related to the PhD programme. Posters are enclosed (or
see it at
www.ccsr.ac.uk/masters ) about the Masters degree, for which
applications are welcome at any time.
Candidates must have a good degree in a social science or related
subject. If they need to do a Masters degree, as part of a 4 year
PhD arrangement, this can be part of the ESRC funding for those
eligible.
ESRC studentships pay the fees and a maintenance stipend to each
recipient on their PhD or MSc+PHD (1+3) programme. The ESRC awards
are available to students from the European Union. To qualify for
the maintenance stipend, it is necessary to have been resident
(domiciled) in the UK for the previous three years; otherwise the
award covers fees only.
1-year scholarships are not at present available from CCSR. However
those who do the Masters degree will have an ESRC-recognised
qualification. Part-Time students are very welcome. Our Masters
students are competitive in applying for PhD funding or entering the
job market after their Masters.
Other studentships, besides those funded by the ESRC, are advertised
in detail on our website and some of these are available to
international applicants. Therefore please visit: www.ccsr.ac.uk or for the
Masters Degree in Social Research Methods and Statistics, see
www.ccsr.ac.uk/masters
Tufts Institute Awards Annual Economics Prize to José Antonio Ocampo
and Robert Wade
Fall event on “New Visions for Trade and Development”
February 25, 2008
Tufts University’s Global Development and Environment Institute
announced today that it will award its annual Leontief Prize for
Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought to José Antonio Ocampo
of Columbia University and Robert Wade of the London School of
Economics. The award ceremony will take place November 17 at Tufts
University and will feature lectures by the prize winners on the
topic, “Beyond the Washington Consensus: New Visions for Trade and
Development.”
The Global Development And Environment Institute (GDAE), which is
jointly affiliated with Tufts’ Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, inaugurated its economics
award in 2000 in memory of Nobel Prize-winning economist and
Institute advisory board member Wassily Leontief, who had passed
away the previous year. The Leontief Prize for Advancing the
Frontiers of Economic Thought recognizes economists whose work, like
that of the institute and Leontief himself, combines theoretical and
empirical research that can promote a more comprehensive
understanding of social and environmental processes. The inaugural
prizes were awarded in 2000 to John Kenneth Galbraith and Nobel
Prize winner Amartya Sen.
“There is no longer any consensus, in Washington or elsewhere, that
free trade, unregulated by government intervention, can produce
broad-based sustainable development,” says GDAE Co-director Neva
Goodwin. “José Antonio Ocampo and Robert Wade are among the most
creative economic thinkers, combining rigorous analysis with
empirically grounded research. Each of them is laying critical
pieces of the groundwork that’s needed for solving global problems
in ways that will genuinely improve the lives of the world’s poor
majority.”
José Antonio Ocampo is one of the deans of Latin American economics.
His numerous articles, books, and reports have made major
contributions to development scholarship, and policy. He is a
leading thinker on the reform of the international financial
architecture and on macroeconomic policies to reduce the
vulnerability of developing countries to international financial
volatility. He worked in the United Nations, as
Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs and
Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and
the Caribbean, and held several cabinet-level government posts in
his native Colombia. He currently serves as Professor and
Co-director with Joseph Stiglitz of Columbia University's Initiative
for Policy Dialogue. His many books include Globalization and
Development: A Latin American and Caribbean Perspective, Regional
Financial Cooperation, and the forthcoming volume on Capital Market
Liberalization and Development.
Robert Wade has made seminal contributions to several fields of
study. His book Governing the Market, on the state's role in East
Asian development, won the American Political Science Association’s
prize for Best Book in Political Economy. His Village Republics:
Economic Conditions for Collective Action in South India, showed
that the tragedy of the commons does not always hold true and that
collective action can be an alternative to privatization and state
control in the management of common property resources. More
recently he has emerged as a leading critic of the view that
globalization reduces global inequality and global poverty, and a
leading contributor to rethinking development policy and the
international policy framework.
The Global Development And Environment Institute was founded in 1993
with the goal of promoting a better understanding of how societies
can pursue their economic and community goals in an environmentally
and socially sustainable manner. The Institute develops textbooks
and course materials that incorporate a broad understanding of
social, financial and environmental sustainability. The Institute
also carries out policy-relevant research on globalization, climate
change, and the role of the market in environmental policy.
In addition to Amartya Sen and John Kenneth Galbraith, GDAE has
awarded the Leontief Prize to Paul Streeten, Herman Daly, Alice
Amsden, Dani Rodrik, Nancy Folbre, Robert Frank, Richard Nelson, Ha-Joon
Chang, Samuel Bowles, Juliet Schor, Jomo Kwame Sundaram, and Stephen
DeCanio.
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For those of you who may have missed this year's Robert Heilbroner
Memorial Lecture on the Future of Capitalism featuring Stephen A.
Marglin, a webcast of this event is now available online. Please
visit our website at
www.newschool.edu/cepa to watch the event, and stay tuned
for more events and research from the Schwartz Center for Economic
Policy Analysis (SCEPA).
