From the Editor
There are a number of very
interesting conferences, seminars, and lectures
listed in the Newsletter, so it is not possible
to name them all. I have already mentioned the
EAEPE conference and there are the Rethinking
Marxism events, New Deal for the 21st century
conference, and the Cachan-Amsterdam History of
Economics as History of Science Workshop. There
is also an interesting paper by Jamie Galbraith
on the collapse of monetarism, the web site of
the Japanese Post Keynesian Group, and a note on
the award of the first John Kenneth Galbraith
Prize in economics to Mel Watkins and Kari
Polanyi Levitt.
Producing the Newsletter is not a costless
activity. For example, the work is needed to
improve the presentation and the coverage of the
Newsletter. Up to now I have not had the
financial resources to do this. But this month,
I am receiving a 15,000 euro grant from the
Charles Leopold Mayer Foundation for the
Progress of Humankind (FPH)(
www.fph.ch ) to
be used to improve the Newsletter and its
distribution and impact. In return, I have
agreed to produce book and article reviews on
the following themes: rethinking trade regimes,
rethinking the regulation of goods and services,
the role of currency and finance, and diversity
of economic approaches—further information about
the themes and the reviews is attached. Over the
next few weeks a preliminary list of articles,
books, book chapters, theses, dissertations,
government reports and other material will be
compiled with consultation of heterodox
economists who will be given a modest honorarium
for their work. Given the list, reviewers will
be solicited and perhaps in some cases
honorariums paid (but this part has not been
completely worked out yet). If you are
interested in contributing to and reviewing
material for the
Newsletter-FPH project, please contact me by
e-mail(
leefs@umkc.edu ).
Fred Lee
In
this issue:
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Call for Papers |
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- World Association for Political
Economy
- EAEPE Annual Conference
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Conferences, Seminars and Lectures |
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- Rethinking Marxism
- Cachan-Amsterdam History of Economics as History of
Science Workshop
- Marx Memorial Library Summer Lecture
- Annual Stone Lecture Series 2008
- Economic Expertise in the NYT and WSJ in 1971-1974
- Seminaire Arc 2
- Poverty and Inequality in the UK: 2008
- Twelfth Annual British Academy Lecture
- Grande édition Marx-Engels (GEME)
- Markets as Institutions: History and Theory
- Clone Towns?: The High Street in Historical Perspective
- Engines of Growth: Innovation, Creative Destruction, and
Human Capital Accumulation
- Industrial History, Industrial Culture: Representations
Past, Present, Future
- A New Deal for the 21st Century Conference
- J'organise une conférence à Bordeaux le 23 avril 2008
- 17th Annual Hyman P. Minsky Conference
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Job Postings for Heterodox Economists |
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- University of Amsterdam
- University of Queensland, Austria
- Portland State University, Portland, OR
- University of Bath
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Heterodox Conference Papers and
Reports and Articles |
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- The Collapse of Monetarism and the
Irrelevance of the New Monetary Consensus
- Financial Markets Meltdown: What Can We Learn from Minsky?
- Financial Flows and International Balances—The Role of
Catching Up by Late-industrializing Developing Countries |
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Heterodox Journals and Newsletters |
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- International Review of Applied
Economics
- Journal of Economic Methodology
- Review of Political Economy
- The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought
- Metroeconomica
- The Essays in Political Economy (EPE)
- IDEAs
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Heterodox Books and Book Series |
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- Routledge Frontiers of Political
Economy Series
- Behaviour and Rationality in Corporate Governance
- Palgrave Dictionary of Economics
- Historical Materialism Book Series
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Heterodox Websites and Blogs |
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- Japanese Post Keynesian Group |
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For
Your Information |
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- John Kenneth Galbraith Prize in
Economics
- Radical Statistics 4th Biennial Critical Essay Competition
- The "embedded" capitalism of Joseph Schumpeter and John
Kenneth Galbraith
- A Conversation with Milton Friedman |
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Call for Papers
World Association for Political
Economy
Third Forum of the open minded World Association for Political
Economy (WAPE) - May 24-25, 2008 at Langfang City/Beijing, China
(Hosted by the Academy of Marxism, Chinese Academy of Social
Sciences (CASS) The School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua
University, and The U.S. journal Nature, Society, and Thought)
The main theme is "Marxism and Sustainable Development"
The deadline for the proposal of papers currently was extended to
April 25, 2008
See also www.wape2006.org
(2006 was the first WAPE Forum in Shanghai)
EAEPE Annual
Conference
Rome, 6-8 November 2008
*DEADLINE EXTENDED TO WEDNESDAY, 30th APRIL 2008*
In order to harmonise with the deadlines of the Call for Paper by
the Research Area Coordinators, we have extended the deadline for
the EAEPE Annual Conference 2008, "LABOUR, INSTITUTIONS AND GROWTH
IN A GLOBAL KNOWLEDGE BASED ECONOMY" to 30th April 2008.
Please upload a 600-1000 word abstract to
http://eaepe2008.eco.uniroma3.it
by April 30 2008.
The abstract should clearly mention:
* Title of the paper
* Name of the author(s) and full address of the corresponding author
(postal address, phone, fax and email)
* the aim of the study and methodology
* (expected) results and/or conclusions
* up to 5 keywords and code of the (closest) EAEPE research area
Complete session proposal (four abstracts):
Please send your session proposal to
eaepe2008@uniroma3.it
and upload separately the abstracts of the session papers on the
Conference web site stating explicitly in the abstract page that the
papers are part of a session proposal
http://eaepe2008.eco.uniroma3.it
All the submitted abstracts will be refereed by the scientific
committee.
Important datelines:
Deadline for abstract submission:30th April, 2008
Notification for abstract acceptance: 30th May, 2008
Deadline for paper submission: 20th September, 2008
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Conferences, Seminars
and Lectures
Rethinking Marxism
20th Anniversary Events
20th Anniversary Issue of Rethinking Marxism
Volume 20, Issue 4 (October 2008)
The special issue commemorating 20 years of Rethinking Marxism’s
publication will include contributions
from Etienne Balibar, Stephen Resnick & Richard Wolff, Kojin
Karatani, J. K. Gibson-Graham, Antonio
Negri, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak & Benjamin Baer, Susan Jahoda &
Jesal Kapadia.
The issue will also contain a special interview with the past and
present editors, in which they discuss
some of the ideas and issues shaping both the emergence and
trajectory of the journal.
Special sessions will be held at each of the following four
conferences addressing the status of Marxism
in contemporary politics, and the particular role of the journal
Rethinking Marxism:
Surplus/Excess
University of California-Riverside (4-5 April 2008)
“Exceedance: 20 Years of Rethinking Marxism,”
The session’s participants will be Jack Amariglio, Joseph Childers,
Philip Kozel, Susan Jahoda, Erik
Olsen, and David F. Ruccio
Routledge and Rethinking Marxism will also sponsor a 20th
anniversary reception at the conference.
For more information:
http://rethinkingmarxism.org/cms/node/1072
Cultural Studies Association
(22-24 May 2008)
“Culture/Economy: 20 Years of Rethinking Marxism,”
The session’s participants will be: S. Charusheela, Susan Jahoda,
Jesal Kapadia, Yahya Madra, Richard
Wolff, Maliha Safri, and Joseph Childers.
AESA Conference/Celebration
(September 2008,TBA)
The Association for Economic and Social Analysis will sponsor a
conference in Amherst, MA celebrating 20
years of Rethinking Marxism.
Cachan-Amsterdam
History of Economics as History of Science Workshop
This is to inform you that the programme of the 5th "Cachan-Amsterdam
History of Economics as History of Science Workshop" is available
at:
http://economix.u-paris10.fr/fr/activites/ws/?id=58
Marx Memorial
Library Summer Lecture
Monday 12 May 7.00 pm
"Materialism and Emperiocriticism: Lenin, Bogdanov and the fight for
a distinct Bolshevik philosophy"
Dr Peter Jones, Sheffield Hallam University, speaks on the origins
of Bolshevik philosophy and the clash
between Lenin and Bogdanov in 1908.
Admission £1, 50p concessions
Marxhouse
37a Clerkenwell Green
London EC1R 0DU
Telephone 020 7253 1485
Annual Stone Lecture Series 2008
'Economic Data and the Distribution of Income'
Sir Tony Atkinson, FBA
The Sir Richard Stone lecture series is a joint initiative between
the National Institute of Economic
and Social Research and Cambridge University Press. It is a series
of lectures by the world's leading
academic economists.
- Stone Lecture 'The Distribution of Income: the n+ U hypothesis'
Tuesday 15 April 2008
5pm - 7.30 pm
National Institute of Economic and Social Research
2 Dean Trench Street, Smith Square
London SW1P 3HE
Chair: Dr Martin Weale, Director of NIESR
- Stone Lecture 'Economic Data and Data in Economics'
Wednesday 16 April 2008
5pm - 7.30pm
Bank of England,Conference Centre, Museum Entrance
Bartholomew Lane
London EC2R 8AH
Chair: Professor Charlie Bean, Executive Director and Chief
Economist at the Bank of England
A reception will follow both lectures to facilitate more informal
discussion.
Though admission to the lectures is free, advanced booking is
required.
To reserve seats, RSVP to Johanna Juselius by
email: j.juselius@niesr.ac.uk or
phone: 020 7654 1931 or you can write to us at
2 Dean Trench St, Smith Square, London SW1P 3HE
Economic Expertise in the NYT and WSJ
in 1971-1974
Writing About the Dollar: Economic Expertise in the New York Times
and Wall Street Journal in 1971-74 on May 13, 2008 at the Ecole
Normale Supérieure de Cachan (France) is part of the H2S seminar
program on History, Economics, and the Economy.
Seminaire Arc 2
ACCUMULATION, REGULATION, CROISSANCE ET CRISE
CEPREMAP - GERME (Paris VII) - IRISES (Paris IX)
CEPN (PARIS XIII) - MATISSE (PARIS I)
Lundi 14 avril (15h-19h)
Salle 216, Centre Panthéon
Accès :
http://www.univ-paris1.fr/universite/campus/article52.html
"Les réformes des universités européennes "
15h00- 16h00 : François Castaing (Institut Maghreb-Europe/Erasme ,
Université de Paris 8)
Le poids de la concurrence universitaire en France : intérêts et
limites d’une approche en termes de «
marchandisation »
16h 00 - 17h00 Fabio Montobbio (Associate Professor of Economics -
University of Insubria – Varese,
CESPRI - Università Bocconi)
Transfert de technologie et propriété intellectuelle: quelques
enseignements du modèle universitaire
américain pour l'Europe
17h00 17h15 Pause
17H15 -18h30 Panel sur les réformes des universités euorpéennes
(C.Charle (U.Paris 1), T.Chevaillier (U.Bourgogne ) , C Dutertre (U.Paris
7), T Lamarche (U.Lille), ..
Le calendrier du séminaire ARC2 est disponible sur les deux sites
suivants :
http://www.paris-jourdan.ens.fr/semin/index4.php?option=agenda&code=ACCRCCR
http://www.arc2.org
Prochaine séance :
16 juin
Finance et économie de la connaissance
Organisée par E. M. Mouhoud, B. Paulré, D. Plihon
Poverty and Inequality in the UK:
2008
10.30 - 12.30 (registration and coffee from 10am), 6 May 2008
Venue: Institute for Fiscal Studies
The Government's latest figures on the distribution of income and
the extent of relative poverty in the
UK will be released by the Department for Work and Pensions on
Friday 2 May. The IFS will be releasing a
report on the latest figures and recent trends on Tuesday 6 May.
This briefing will assess:
- How average incomes in Britain have continued to change and what
has been happening to the gap between
rich and poor;
- Whether the surprise rise in child poverty evident in the previous
year of data was a one-off or the
start of a new trend;
- The latest trends in pensioner poverty, and what has happened to
poverty amongst groups less favoured
by Government tax and benefit policies.
- How the level and changes in living standards and poverty rates
vary across the regions of the United
Kingdom What we can learn from the new material deprivation measure
of child poverty
- This report will be launched on Tuesday 6 May at the IFS offices
in Ridgmount Street, London. The
briefing will start at 10:30am and is expected to conclude by
12.30pm.
Places at this briefing are free of charge and will be allocated on
a first-come first-served basis.
The IFS will also be issuing a press release commenting on the
official Households Below Average Income
report, and this will be available from the morning on Friday 2 May.
Twelfth Annual British Academy
Lecture
What is the State?
Professor Quentin Skinner FBA
University of Cambridge
Tuesday, 13 May 2008
5.30pm - 6.30pm, followed by a drinks reception
The British Academy, 10 Carlton House Terrace,
London, SW1Y 5AH
Free Admittance
The state is the name normally assigned to the agency that wields
sovereign power over some determinate
territory. To understand the concept, however, we need in addition
to know whose actions properly count
as actions of this agency, and hence as authentic expressions of the
sovereign authority of the state.
The lecture proceeds by way of offering a genealogy of various rival
answers that have been given to
this question in modern Anglophone legal and political thought,
concluding with an assessment of the
prevalent view that we may now be moving into a 'post sovereignty'
era beyond the state.
Professor Quentin Skinner was elected a Fellow of the Academy in
1981. The author or co-author of more
than twenty books, his works have been very widely translated, and
his two-volume study, The Foundations
of Modern Political Thought, was named by the Times Literary
Supplement in 1996 as one of the hundred
most influential books published since the second world war.
The Annual keynote British Academy Lecture was established to mark
the Academy's move to new
headquarters in Carlton House Terrace in 1998.
A poster for your notice board can be downloaded here:
Please visit our website for full details of our forthcoming events.
Telephone enquiries: 020 7969 5246 / Email:
lectures@britac.ac.uk
Please note our ticketing and seating policy:
British Academy Lectures are freely open to the general public and
everyone is welcome; there is no
charge for admission, no tickets will be issued, and seats cannot be
reserved. The Lecture Room is
opened at 5.00pm, and the first 100 audience members arriving at the
Academy will be offered a seat in
the Lecture Room; the next 50 people to arrive will be offered a
seat in the Overflow Room, which has a
video and audio link to the Lecture Room. Lectures are followed by a
reception at 6.30pm, to which
members of the audience are invited.
Grande édition Marx-Engels (GEME)
Le projet de Grande édition de Marx et d’Engels en français, la GEME,
se propose de réaliser le projet
jusqu’ici souvent initié mais jamais abouti d’une édition complète
des oeuvres des deux auteurs, ainsi
que des outils nécessaire au travail scientifique sur leurs écrits
(index des concepts, etc).
Aujourd’hui, ce travail est notamment rendu possible grâce au projet
Marx-Engels Gesamtausgabe (MEGA),
qui a publié près de soixante tomes des écrits de Marx et Engels,
soit plus de la moitié de l’ensemble
prévu.
http://www.gabrielperi.fr/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=284
Cette initiative est conduite en partenariat avec les Éditions
sociales, l’association GEME,
l’Université de Bourgogne et la Fondation Gabriel Péri.
L’Université de Bourgogne organise une série de séminaires qui se
proposent, « dans le cadre du travail
critique qui accompagne cette entreprise de traduction, d’ouvrir de
nouvelles perspectives de recherches
philologiques et historiques ». Le premier séminaire aura lieu le 28
mai 2008 (plus d’informations ici)
Lancement officiel du projet : mercredi 16 avril à La Sorbonne
Avec les interventions de :
• Jean Salem, professeur à l’Université de Paris-I, directeur du
Centre d’Histoire des Systèmes de
Pensée Moderne ;
• Isabelle Garo, présidente de l’association GEME, professeur en
classes préparatoires, Lycée Faidherbe
(Lille),
• Serge Wolikow, professeur à l’Université de Bourgogne, président
du réseau des MSH ;
• Michael Krätke, représentant de la MEGA (Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe),
professeur à l’Université
d’Amsterdam ;
• Robert Hue, président de la fondation Gabriel Péri, sénateur.
Mercredi 16 avril 2008, 19h
La Sorbonne (Université Paris-I)
Amphithéâtre Lefebvre
17, rue de la Sorbonne - Paris 5e
Lors de cette soirée sera présentée le premier volume de la Grande
Edition Marx-Engels en français, la
Critique du programme de Gotha de Karl Marx. Ce volume est présenté
et traduit par Sonia Dayan-Herzbrun
et Jean-Numa Ducange.
Markets as Institutions: History and
Theory
The 3rd European Association of Evolutionary Political Economy
symposium, Markets
as Institutions: History and Theory, is to be held on September
5 and 6, 2008 in collaboration with the Economic Policy Laboratory
of Athens University of Economics and Business.
Clone Towns?: The High Street in
Historical Perspective
Clone Towns? The
High Street in Historical Perspective on September 10 and 11,
2008 at the University of Wolverhampton, UK is a Centre for the
History of Retailing and Distribution conference exploring the
changing nature of the high street from the medieval to the
contemporary period in Britain and elsewhere.
Engines of Growth: Innovation,
Creative Destruction, and Human Capital Accumulation
A number of sessions at the
Economic History Association Meetings in New Haven, Connecticut
on September 12-14, 2008 are devoted to the theme "The Engines of
Growth: Innovation, Creative Destruction, and Human Capital
Accumulation" but papers on all subjects in economic history are
welcome.
Industrial History, Industrial
Culture: Representations Past, Present, Future
A European Graduate School for Training in Economic and Social
Historical Research advanced seminar at the University of Swansea,
UK on September 17-20, 2008 seeks to bring together students from
different backgrounds to discuss
Industrial History, Industrial Culture: Representations Past,
Present, Future and related issues.
A New Deal for the
21st Century Conference
As income and wealth inequality approach levels not seen since the
dawn of the Great Depression, we invite you to participate in a one-
day conference on April 9: A New Deal for the 21st Century.
Our partners at the Roosevelt Institution are marking the 75th
anniversary of the New Deal by exploring policy ideas that will make
up a new social contract for future generations, and EPI is honored
to be among the event's co-sponsors.
The lineup of speakers is impressive and includes our President, Dr.
Lawrence Mishel. Best of all, registration is free!
Join us on April 9 and spread the word to all who would be
interested.
Christian Dorsey
EPI Outreach Coordinator
A New Deal for the 21st Century One-Day Conference
Speakers include:
Rep. Paul Kanjorski (D-PA)
Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-VT)
William Leuchtenberg
Katrina vanden Heuvel
Jonathan Alter
Robert Borosage
Eric Alterman
Registration and agenda available at:
www.rooseveltinstitution.org/newdeal
Following the conference, the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt
Institute presents the FDR Distinguished Public Service Award to
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry
Reid at a gala dinner. Contact: Marianne Sherow,
msherow@feri.org.
Event co-sponsors include:
The Nation
The Economic Policy Institute
The Center for Community Change
NDN
Campaign for America's Future
Demos
The Progressive States Network
The Drum Major Institute
The American Prospect
J'organise une
conférence à Bordeaux le 23 avril 2008
Le sujet "la délibération au sein des conseils de politique
monétaire des banques centrales indépendantes" et cette journée
entrent dans le cadre d'un financement obtenu de la région Aquitaine
dans le cadre d'un programme de recherches (2006-2009) regroupant
les différents centre de recherches de Sciences Po Bordeaux sur le
thème des "nouveaux lieux de gouvernance et de délibération".
Cette journée est ouverte à tous.
Elle servira également à présenter le nouvel ouvrage "Les banques
centrales doivent-elles être indépendantes?" que j'ai co-écrit avec
Philippe Moutot, directeur de la politique monétaire à la BCE, et
qui vient juste de paraître aux éditions Prométhée dans la
collection Pour ou Contre.
Gouvernance et délibération
23 avril 2008
Gouvernance et délibération au sein des Conseils de Politique
monétaire des banques centrales indépendantes Sciences Po Bordeaux –
Université de Bordeaux
10 H - 11H Faucons versus colombes au conseil de politique monétaire
de la Banque d’Angleterre ?
Emmanuel Carré Sciences Po Bordeaux - GREThA
11 H - 12H Conseil de politique monétaire : délibération et design
institutionnel
Edwin Le Heron Sciences Po Bordeaux - SPIRIT
14 H - 15 H The Dutch disease and its neutralization: a Ricardian
approach
Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira Fondation Getulio Vargas – Ancien
ministre du Brésil
15 H - 16 H Monetary policy preparations and decision-making:
selected issues
Philippe Moutot Directeur Politique Monétaire à la BCE
16 H - 17 H Table ronde sur la délibération dans les conseils de
politique monétaire des banques centrales indépendantes
Avec Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira, Emmanuel Carré, Edwin Le
Heron, Philippe Moutot
17th Annual Hyman
P. Minsky Conference
Credit, Markets, and the Real Economy: Is the Financial System
Working?
April 17–18, 2008
Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y.
Program and registration information is available at
www.levy.org.
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Job Postings for
Heterodox Economists
University of Amsterdam
The University of Amsterdam (UvA) is a university with an
internationally acclaimed profile, located at
the heart of the Dutch capital. As well as a world center for
business and research, Amsterdam is a hub
of cultural and media activities. The UvA is a member of the League
of European Research Universities.
The Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB) at the University of
Amsterdam (UvA) consists of the
Amsterdam Business School and the Amsterdam School of Economics. The
Amsterdam School of economics (ASE)
has the following vacancy:
Assistant Professor in History and Methodology of Economics full
time vacancy number 08-5008 For both
internal and external candidates The successful applicant will
undertake and help coordinate teaching in
history and methodology of economics to economics and business
students at undergraduate (BSc) and
graduate (MSc) level. The teaching task will include supervision of
BSc and MSc theses.
The Amsterdam School of Economics (ASE) fosters a stimulating
academic climate. The School is among the
top economics research institutes in Europe. The most recent ranking
by the Journal of the European
Economic Association puts the ASE in the top 10. For her/his
research the new faculty member will
participate in the ‘History and Methodology of Economics' research
group, which is one of the
internationally leading groups in this field.
Research of the new faculty member will be evaluated according to
international standards. Extension of
the appointment will be decided after a period of two years and in
light of research and teaching
evaluations.
Requirements
Requirements are a PhD in economics, history of (social) sciences,
philosophy, or other relevant
discipline, the proven ability to initiate and implement research of
international standards, the
ability to stimulate and encourage the research of others,
demonstrated teaching excellence, and the
ability (or stated intention) to teach in both Dutch and English.
Shortlisted candidates will be asked
to present one of their papers at a seminar.
More information
Applicants who require further information should contact Prof. John
Davis j.b.davis@uva.nl.
The
research profile of the History and Methodology group can be found
at http://www.fee.uva.nl/hme/.
The Faculty of Economics and Business is located in the centre of
Amsterdam. For more information on its
School of Economics, please visit
www.ase.uva.nl.
Appointment
The salary will be based on the salary scale for assistant
professors at Dutch universities and will be
in accordance with the collective agreement regulating employment
conditions at Dutch universities. The
starting date of the appointment is 1 September 2008. The
appointment will be made for an initial period
of two years, with possible extension for a two year period.
Official Dutch scales for assistant professors range from € 2330
(minimum scale 10) to € 4868 (max scale
12) gross per month. Favourable tax agreements may apply to
non-Dutch applicants. The University of
Amsterdam offers a very attractive pension scheme.
Job application
Applicants should send their CV, together with two letters of
reference, a research paper and a covering
letter indicating how her/his research fits in with the research
interests of the group: University of
Amsterdam, Personnel Department, Roetersstraat 11, 1018 WB
Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Applications may
also be emailed to: applications-feb@uva.nl. Please include the job
reference code.
The closing date for applications is 30 April 2008.
Refer to
Amsterdam Business School <http://www.abs.uva.nl/abshome/home.cfm>
History and Methodology Group <http://www.fee.uva.nl/hme/>
Faculty of Economics and Business
<http://www.feb.uva.nl/english/>
University of Queensland, Austria
Macroeconomics, Development, and Econometrics
Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Economics
SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS
Excellent career advancement opportunity for academics with teaching
and research interests in
macroeconomics, econometrics or development economics.
The School of Economics is a premier provider of undergraduate and
postgraduate economics education in
Australia. The School has an established reputation for excellence
in teaching and research and is
extremely well positioned to foster collaborative research and
training activities on a national and
international level. The School actively engages with business,
industry, professional bodies and the
wider community with the aim of sharing knowledge and expertise and
developing mutually beneficial
partnerships.
The role: The successful appointee/s will be required to teach at
all levels, preferably in
macroeconomics, econometrics or development economics, and be
capable of supervising honours and
postgraduate students undertaking research in these fields. The
appointee/s will also be expected to
engage in individual and/or group research in economics leading to
publication of scholarly papers in
high quality journals and to seek competitive research funding. The
role includes administrative
responsibilities such as course coordination duties and
participation in relevant committees.
The person: Applicants should possess a PhD in Economics with recent
and relevant teaching experience,
preferably in macroeconomics, econometrics or development economics.
You should also have a solid
background in research as demonstrated by published papers in
national and international academic
journals. Applicants must have a strong commitment to contributing
to the continuous improvement of the
School’s academic programs and to developing a coherent and high
quality research program.
Remuneration: The remuneration package will be in the range $68,239
to $81,034 (Lecturer) or $83,592 to
$96,387 (Senior Lecturer) p.a., plus employer superannuation
contributions of 17%. This is a full-time,
continuing appointment at Academic level B or Academic level C.
Contact: Obtain the position description and selection criteria
online . To discuss the role contact
Professor John Foster, telephone (+617) 33656780 or email
m.cowan@economics.uq.edu.au.
Send applications to: Human Resources, Faculty of Business,
Economics and Law, The University of
Queensland, St Lucia, Qld 4072, or email
applications@bel.uq.edu.au
Applications close: 30 May 2008.
Reference No: 1304245
Applications are to be sent to the email address specified above or
to the name and organisation unit
shown at the address: University of Queensland, Brisbane, Qld 4072.
Please quote the Reference Number
and include
- a covering letter that includes the vacancy reference number, your
contact address and telephone
number; and
- a curriculum vitae, that includes details of education and
qualifications and the names and contact
details of three referees;
- where required by the application process outlined in the position
description and selection criteria,
a statement addressing how each of the selection criteria has been
met must also be included.
http://seek.com.au/users/apply/index.ascx?Sequence=19&PageNumber=1&JobID=12320297
Whilst the UQ School of Economics isn’t primarily heterodox, it does
have a number of heterodox
economists with interests in evolutionary, behavioural, Austrian and
Post Keynesian theory and currently
has a heterodox head, John Foster, who would be very keen to see
applications from good heterodox
candidates. Macro, development and econometrics are the main areas
of need due to a big growth in
student numbers but we also haven’t yet replaced a departed history
of economic thought/economic history
specialist.
Portland State University, Portland,
OR
D0 Microeconomics
Q5 Environmental Economics
The Department of Economics at Portland State University is seeking
to fill one two-year visiting
Assistant Professor positions in the area of microeconomics.
Preference given to candidates with
secondary field in environmental or natural resource economics.
Teaching load includes courses in
candidates’ areas of specialization at the undergraduate and
graduate levels and economic principles.
Candidates engage with faculty members and conduct research, but are
also expected to display
exceptional ability to teach a diverse student body at an urban
university. Ph.D. preferred, but will
consider exceptional candidates who are A.B.D. Competitive salary
commensurate with qualifications and
experience. Includes an excellent benefits package. Portland State
University is an Affirmative
Action, Equal Opportunity institution and welcomes applications from
diverse candidates and candidates
who support diversity. Review of applications will begin May 1 and
continue until finalists have been
identified. Send curriculum vita with cover letter, writing sample,
teaching evaluations or other
evidence of high-caliber teaching and 3 letters of professional
recommendation. Apply to: Randall
Bluffstone, Chair, Dept. of Economics, Portland State University,
P.O. Box 751, Portland, OR 97207-0751.
F1 Trade
J0 Labor
L0 Industrial Organization and Regulation
O1 Development
Q5 Environmental Economics
Q56 Environment and Development
The Department of Economics at Portland State University is seeking
to fill three one year Visiting
Assistant Professor openings in the areas of environmental
economics, development and applied
microeconomics (industrial organization, labor or trade). All
positions carry the possibility of
renewal. Teaching load includes courses in candidates’ areas of
specialization at the undergraduate and
graduate levels and economic principles. Candidates engage with
faculty members and conduct research,
but are also expected to display exceptional ability to teach a
diverse student body at an urban
university. Ph.D. preferred, but will consider exceptional
candidates who are A.B.D. Competitive
salary commensurate with qualifications and experience. Includes and
excellent benefits package.
Portland State University is an Affirmative Action, Equal
Opportunity institution and welcomes
applications from diverse candidates and candidates who support
diversity. Review of applications will
begin May 1 and continue until finalists have been identified. Send
curriculum vita with cover letter,
writing sample, teaching evaluations or other evidence of
high-caliber teaching and 3 letters of
professional recommendation. Apply to: Randall Bluffstone, Chair,
Dept. of Economics, Portland State
University, P.O. Box 751, Portland, OR 97207-0751.
The University of
Bath
DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS AND INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Professor in International Development - Ref 08H110A
The University of Bath, ranked among the top ten UK Universities, is
seeking to recruit a professor of international development.
Applicants should have an outstanding record of research and
teaching in the field of international development, and be committed
to multidisciplinary approaches. In addition to strong international
standing as a scholar, the successful candidate should have the
vision, leadership qualities and management skills to provide
strategic direction to the ID Group
within the Department of Economics and International Development.
The ID Group currently comprises ten staff with backgrounds in
social anthropology, economics, politics and sociology. DEID is also
home for the Economics Group, comprising 24 economists. Further
information about the Department, including undergraduate and
postgraduate teaching programmes and research can be obtained from
the websites at
http://www.bath.ac.uk/econ-dev/index.htm and
http://www.bath.ac.uk/cds.
Informal enquiries about the post can be made to the Head of
Department of Economics and International Development, Dr James
Copestake at J.Copestake@bath.ac.uk
or on +44(0) 1225 383859.
Application forms and further details may be obtained from the Human
Resources Department, University of Bath, Claverton Down, Bath BA2
7AY, email jobs@bath.ac.uk
or contact +44 (0)1225 386873 quoting Ref No 08H110A. See
www.bath.ac.uk/jobs.
Alternatively, please phone the 24 hr answer-phone service on
(01225) 386924, textphone (01225) 386039 quoting Ref No 08H110A
Closing date for receipt of applications: Monday 12 May 2008
Interview dates: Monday 9 June 2008
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Heterodox Conference Papers and Reports and Articles
The Collapse of Monetarism and the
Irrelevance of the New Monetary Consensus
By James K. Galbraith
Click here to download the paper.
Financial Markets Meltdown: What Can
We Learn from Minsky?
L. RANDALL WRAY
Public Policy Brief No. 94, 2008
www.levy.org/pubs/ppb_94.pdf
According to Minsky, government should act as the employer of last
resort and policy should promote small- to medium-size financial
institutions, with a bias toward market segmentation. Senior Scholar
L. Randall Wray explains today’s complex and fragile financial
system, and how the seeds of crisis were sown by lax oversight,
deregulation, and risky innovations such as securitization. He
estimates that the combined losses throughout the entire financial
sector could amount to several trillion dollars, and that the United
States will feel the effects of the crisis for some time—perhaps a
decade or more.
Wray recommends enhanced oversight of financial institutions, much
larger stimulus packages, and creation of a new institution in line
with President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Home Owners’ Loan
Corporation.
Financial Flows and
International Balances—The Role of Catching Up by
Late-industrializing Developing Countries
JAN KREGEL
Working Paper No. 528
www.levy.org/pubs/wp_528.pdf
Senior Scholar Jan Kregel reviews the basis of the historically high
international trade and financial imbalances. He finds that
traditional balance-of-payments adjustment theory does not apply to
industrializing developing countries, and that we do not have a
clear idea of the dimension of the problem. The important question
is how to manage the imbalances and support the policies of
developing countries so that they can integrate into the global
trade and financial system.
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International Review of Applied Economics
Volume 22 Issue 2 is now available online at informaworld (
http://www.informaworld.com
).
Special Issue: Inflation Targeting, Employment Creation and Economic
Development: Assessing the Impacts
and Policy Alternatives
This new issue contains the following articles:
- Inflation Targeting, Employment Creation and Economic Development:
Assessing the Impacts and Policy
Alternatives
Authors: Gerald Epstein; Erinc Yeldan
- Economic growth under alternative monetary regimes: inflation
targeting vs real exchange rate
targeting
Authors: Jose Antonio Cordero
- The class content of preferences towards anti-inflation and
anti-unemployment policies
Authors: Arjun Jayadev
- Gender bias and central bank policy: employment and inflation
reduction
Authors: Elissa Braunstein; James Heintz
- Inflation targeting in Brazil: 1999–2006
Authors: Nelson H. Barbosa-Filho
- Alternatives to inflation targeting in Mexico
Authors: Luis Miguel Galindo; Jaime Ros
- Five years of competitive and stable real exchange rate in
Argentina, 2002–2007
Authors: Roberto Frenkel; Martín Rapetti
- Macroeconomics of twin-targeting in Turkey: analytics of a
financial computable general equilibrium
model
Authors: Cagatay Telli; Ebru Voyvoda; Erinc Yeldan
- An employment targeting framework for central bank policy in South
Africa
Authors: Gerald Epstein
- Inflation targeting in India: issues and prospects
Authors: Raghbendra Jha
- Central banking in the Philippines: from inflation targeting to
financing development
Authors: Joseph Lim
Journal of Economic Methodology
Volume 15 Issue 1 is now available online at informaworld (
http://www.informaworld.com
).
This new issue contains the following articles:
- Sound and fury: McCloskey and significance testing in economics
Authors: Kevin D. Hoover; Mark V. Siegler
- Signifying nothing: reply to Hoover and Siegler
Authors: Deirdre N. McCloskey; Stephen T. Ziliak
- The rhetoric of ‘Signifying nothing’: a rejoinder to Ziliak and
McCloskey
Authors: Kevin D. Hoover; Mark V. Siegler
- Idealization, abstraction, and the policy relevance of economic
theories
Authors: Menno Rol
- The role of data/code archives in the future of economic research
p. 99
Authors: Richard G. Anderson; William H. Greene; B. D. McCullough;
H. D. Vinod
Review of Political Economy
Volume 20 Issue 2 is now available online at informaworld (
http://www.informaworld.com
).
Special Issue: ETHICS AND VALUES
This new issue contains the following articles:
- Introduction to the Special Issue on Ethics and Economics
Authors: Irene Van Staveren
- The ‘Dismal Science’ – Still? Economics and Human Flourishing
Authors: Mark A. Lutz
- Not by P Alone: A Virtuous Economy
Authors: Deirdre N. Mccloskey
- Freedom, Values and Sen: Towards a Morally Enriched Classical
Economic Theory
Authors: Vivian Walsh
- From ‘Hume's Law’ to Problem- and Policy-Analysis for Human
Development. Sen after Dewey, Myrdal,
Streeten, Stretton and Haq
Authors: Des Gasper
- The Efficiency of Equity
Authors: Stephan Klasen
- Two Views of Corruption and Democracy
Authors: Mozaffar Qizilbash
The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought
Volume 15 Issue 1 is now available online at informaworld (
http://www.informaworld.com
).
This new issue contains the following articles:
- Interest, sensationism and the science of the legislator: French ‘philosophie
économique’, 1695–1830
Authors: Gilbert Faccarello; Philippe Steiner
- Rawls with Hegel: The concept of ‘Liberalism of freedom’
Authors: Ragip Ege; Herrade Igersheim
- Thomas Tooke on the Bullionist controversies
Authors: Matthew Smith
- Contesting the autonomy of political economy: The early positivist
criticism of economic knowledge
Authors: Michel S. Zouboulakis
- On the microeconomic foundations of macroeconomics in the
Hayek–Keynes controversy
Authors: Abdallah Zouache
- A. W. Bob Coats, 1924–2007
Authors: John Maloney
- A theory of socialism inoculated against Hayek?
Authors: Warren J. Samuels
Metroeconomica
Volume 59, Issue 2, May 2008 is available at
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/toc/meca/59/2?cookieSet=1
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The Essays in Political Economy (EPE) welcomes submissions from
academics, practitioners and students of
all levels seeking to broaden and strengthen the foundational
structure of the study of economic
systems. The EPE sees itself primarily as a journal of
opinion-based, interdisciplinary political
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Submissions can be in the form of but not limited to, scholarly
articles, book reviews, guest
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that you keep the following
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Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy
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Culture and
Economic Explanation
Donald W. Katzner, University of Massachusetts, USA
Culture plays an important role in shaping the nature and content of
economics. This fascinating book compares the two cultures of Japan
and the United States and provides insights into the economic
workings and differences between the two nations.
February 2008: 234x156: 208pp
Hb: 978-0-415-77479-6:
£65.00
For further information about this title please click
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Economic
Policy and Performance in Industrial Democracies
Takayuki Sakamoto, Southern Methodist University,
USA
This book is the first systematic study of how the interdependence
of fiscal and monetary policies and the interaction of party
governments and central banks affect the fiscal-policy mix in
eighteen industrial democracies in America, Europe and Asia.
February 2008: 234x156: 368pp
Hb: 978-0-415-77414-7: £90.00
For further information about this title please click
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Economics of
American Judaism
Carmel Chiswick, University of Illinois, USA
Covering areas such as Jewish Studies, Economics of Religion,
Sociology of Religion and Immigrant Religion, this book is required
reading for all those interested in how economic environment
influences the practice of Judaism in the United States.
February 2008: 234x156: 208pp
Hb: 978-0-415-70157-0: £65.00
For further information about this title please click
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Feminism,
Economics and Utopia
Karin Schonpflug
Answering a range of questions and written by a rising star in
feminist economics, this book provides explanations of the different
kinds of feminism, the evolution of feminist thought and, the
history and sources of utopias as a theoretical and/or literary
tool.
March 2008: 234x156: 264pp
Hb: 978-0-415-41784-6: £70.00
For further information about this title please click
here
Advances on
Income Inequality and Concentration Measures
Edited by
Gianni Betti and
Achille Lemmi both at
University of Siena, Italy
This impressive collection from leading distributional analysts
provides an overview of a wide range of economic, statistical and
sociological relationships. The resulting book deserves its place on
the bookshelf of serious mathematical economists everywhere.
April 2008: 234x156: 288pp
Hb: 978-0-415-44337-1:
£75.00
For further information about this title please click
here
Economic
Representations
Edited by
David F Ruccio, University of Notre Dame, USA
The editors of this book bring together scholars from numerous
disciplines, along with non-academics to address the question of
economic representation from a variety of perspectives, ranging from
the question of globalization to cultural economies.
May 2008: 234x156: 352pp
Hb: 978-0-415-77453-6:
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The Keynesian
Multiplier
Edited by
Claude Gnos, Université de Bourgogne, France and
Louis-Philippe Rochon, Laurentian University, Canada
This book explores both the pros and cons of the multiplier from a
strictly post-Keynesian - and Kaleckian - approach. It offers a
lively discussion from a number of well-known post-Keynesians from a
variety of perspectives.
June 2008: 234x156: 224pp
Hb: 978-0-415-32013-9:£65.00
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Hahn and
Economic Methodology
Edited by
Thomas Boylan and
Paschal O'Gorman both at
National University of Ireland
Frank Hahn's powerful critiques of current economic methodology and
innovative reconstructions of economic theorizing have long
challenged the views of practising economists. This is the first
book-length study of Hahn's methodological writings, and is
essential reading for any scholar with an interest in the philosophy
of economics.
July 2008: 234x156: 256pp
Hb: 978-0-415-21348-6:
£55.00
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Karl Marx's
Grundrisse
Edited by
Marcello Musto
This collection examines the reflections developed exclusively
in the Grundrisse to present an author in many ways radically
different from the one presented by the dominant currents of
twentieth century 'Marxism'.
July 2008: 234x156: 272pp
Hb: 978-0-415-43749-3:
£65.00
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The Political
Economy of Families, Work and Globalization
Edited by
Drucilla
Barker,
Hollins University, USA and
Susan Feiner, University of Southern Maine, USA
An interdisciplinary reader of scholarship relevant to feminist
political economy, the selections in this book cover themes such as:
feminism and the history of economic thought, and the feminization
of poverty and welfare state policies.
July 2008: 234x156: 288pp
Hb: 978-0-415-77287-7:
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Behaviour and
Rationality in Corporate Governance
Oliver Marnet, University of Wales, UK
March 2008: 234x156: 311pp
Hb: 978-0-415-43752-3: £70.00
Corporate scandals due to bad accounting happen far too frequently
for a system of corporate governance to be deemed effective. This
book tells why the safeguards designed to prevent bad accounting so
often fail. By studying why the auditors and members of a board of
directors regularly fail to deliver the truth about a company's
financial state of affairs, this provocative book explores a serious
problem in the system of reporting financial information.
This book is unique in that it draws together various strands of the
literature on corporate governance, accounting, law, cognitive
research, psychology, behavioural economics and conventional
economics to shed light on questions regarding the feasibility of
independence and impartiality of boards of directors and external
auditors as monitors and gatekeepers in corporate governance. The
book is essential reading for professional accountants and auditors,
directors, regulators, law makers, corporate lawyers, and investment
bankers. It will appeal to all those interested in behavioural
economics and corporate governance.
Contents: 1. Introduction 2. Overview of Corporate Governance 2.1.
Definitions of Corporate Governance 2.2 The Need for Corporate
Governance 2.3 Implementing Corporate Governance 2.4 Means of
Managerial Control 2.5 Specific Corporate Governance Mechanisms 2.6
Summary 3. Earnings Management 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Definitions of
Earnings Management 3.3 Incentives for Engaging in Earnings
Management 3.4 Other Reasons for Divergences from Truthful Reporting
3.5 Accruals Accounting in Financial Reporting and Research 3.6
Detecting and Measuring Earnings Management 3.7 The Incidence and
Cost of Earnings Management 3.8 Does Earnings Management Fool
Investors? 3.9 Summary 4. Rationality or Rational Behaviour? 4.1 The
Rational Actor 4.2 Alternative Interpretations of Rational Behaviour
4.3 Specific Challenges to the Rational Model 4.4 Heuristics and
Biases 4.5 Biases in Judgement 4.6 Is Maximizing Utility the Correct
Model? 4.7 A Critique of the Behavioural View 4.8 Rationality and
Mental Health 4.9 Summary 5. Behaviour and Rationality in Corporate
Governance 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Behaviour in Corporate Governance
5.3 The Intrusion of Behaviour 5.4 Monitors and Rationality 5.5
Summary 6. Independence of Auditors and Directors 6.1 Introduction
6.2 Partial Solutions to the Problem I: The Board of Directors 6.3
Partial Solutions to the Problem II: Auditors 6.4 Summary 7. Recent
Corporate Governance Failures 7.1 Introduction 7.2 The Asian
Financial Crisis of 1997/1998 7.3 Enron 7.4 Germany's Neuer Markt
7.5 Parmalat 7.6 Summary 8. Implications for Governance Policy 8.1
Introduction 8.2 Bankers and Lawyers in Corporate Governance 8.3
Causes of Gatekeeper Failure 8.4 Specific Policy Recommendations 8.5
Concluding Thoughts and Caveats 9. Conclusion
To find out more about this book, simply click
here.
Palgrave
Dictionary of Economics
Historical
Materialism Book Series
http://www.brill.nl/default.aspx?partid=73&pid=10613
Lenin Rediscovered: What Is To Be Done? in
Context
Lars T. Lih
In this impressive work, Lih presents an innovative challenge to the
prevailing perspectives on one of Russian revolutionary V. I.
Lenin's most important essays. While conventional wisdom has been
contented to caricature What is to Be Done? as the definitive
example of Lenin's authoritarian and elitist method, Lih traces this
document's roots in the social and political debates of Russia's
emerging socialist movement, and reinvigorates the debate unfolding
today by introducing a comprehensive new translation of Lenin's
original text.
9781931859585 | $50.00 | Paper | 880 pages | May 2008
The Revolution and the Civil War in Spain
Pierre Broué and Emile Témime
In the 1930s, Spanish workers and peasants captured the world's
attention, bursting out in rebellion against poverty, oppression,
and a monarchy frequently dependent on military repression for its
survival. But the Spanish revolution quickly encountered critical
challenges-from its leadership's confusion over their final goal to
the rising of a fascist army led by Francisco Franco. In their
unparalleled study, Broué and Témime detail the internal dynamics
and the external obstacles that led one of the world's most
promising movements for human liberation to fascist defeat.
9781931859516 | $50.00 | Paper | 700 pages | May 2008
The German Revolution: 1917-1923
Pierre Broué
In the wake of a victorious worker's revolt in Russia, a
revolutionary tide shook Europe, and in Germany, the worker's
struggle appeared likely to succeed. In this magisterial work, first
published in 1971 and still unsurpassed, Pierre Broué meticulously
reconstitutes the six years during which-between "ultra-leftism" and
"opportunism," "sectarianism" and "revisionism," "activism" and
"passivity"-the German revolutionaries attempted to begin a new
chapter in the history of the working class. Their defeat merits
close attention, both for its role in the tragic direction in which
German history proceeded, and for its lessons for Marxists and
progressives today.
9781931859325 | $50.00 | Paper | 980 pages
The Theory of Revolution in the Young Marx
Michael Löwy
In the 1840s, the young German journalist Karl Marx developed ideas
about modern society that remain as relevant today as when they were
first developed. Here, Löwy shows the lasting force of Marx's early
writings on alienation and emancipation, and traces their genealogy
among the intellectual currents of the day. By contextualizing
Marx's unique reconciliation of materialism with dialectics among
the intellectual debates and nascent workers struggles of the era,
Löwy brings to life the founding ideas of one of the world's
foremost social theorists.
9781931859196 | $15.00 | Paper | 216 pages
Between Equal Rights: A Marxist Theory of
International Law
China Miéville
Drawing on Marxist theory and a critical history of international
law from the sixteenth century to the present day, Miéville examines
international legal norms and shows that they have always been
complicit with the violence of empires.
"Miéville's brilliantly original book is an indispensable guide for
anyone concerned with international law. It is the most
comprehensive scholarly account available of the central theoretical
debates about the foundations of international law. It offers a
guide for the lay reader into the central texts in the field and it
mounts a formidable challenge to experts to address fundamental
theoretical issues about the subject, which are too often simply
ignored."
-Peter Gowan, Professor of International Relations, London
Metropolitan University
9781931859332 | $18.00 | Paper | 380 pages
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Websites and Blogs
Japanese Post Keynesian Group
http://www.si.gunma-u.ac.jp/~yagi/pke.htm.
Professor Takashi Yagi chairs the Group and he can be contacted at
yagi@si.gunma-u.ac.jp.
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For Your Information
John Kenneth
Galbraith Prize in Economics
It is my great pleasure to announce the winners of the first John
Kenneth Galbraith Prize in Economics: Mel Watkins and Kari Polanyi
Levitt will share the Prize. The award was largely on the basis of
their pioneering work around foreign (US) investment and ownership
and multinational corporations back in the 1960s and 1970s.
Both Kari and Mel will be in Vancouver for the CEA meetings and will
co-deliver the JKG Lecture. We are still awaiting final confirmation
of time slots but we anticipate that the event will be held on
Sunday, June 8, in the final slot of the CEA conference (10:30 am).
Please join us for this and our five other PEF panels this year.
The JKG Prize will be awarded every two years and is based on a
demonstrated contribution combining economic analysis with a
commitment to social justice, and whose work exemplifies the goals
and objectives of the PEF.
The Prize was inaugurated last year at the CEA meetings in Halifax
by Jamie Galbraith. His lecture is available here:
http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2007/06/04/the-inaugural-john-kenneth-galbraith-lecture/
More information on the JKG Prize is available on the PEF website:
http://www.progressive-economics.ca/cea-meetings-and-jkg-prize/
In addition to Mel and Kari, the other nominees were Gideon
Rosenbluth, John Loxley, Lars Osberg, Mark Setterfield and Marc
Lavoie. Thanks to all who submitted nominations.
The award was determined by a selection committee of Mario
Seccareccia, Brenda Spotton Visano, Fletcher Barager, Andrew Jackson
and Marc Lee.
Radical Statistics 4th
Biennial Critical Essay Competition
Submit an original essay (3,000 words maximum) by 1st July 2008 that
addresses a current social research/policy question with critical
use and interpretation of relevant data sources.
Judges are:
Professor Danny Dorling, University of Sheffield, Dr Eileen Magnello,
University College London, Dr Ben Goldacre, journalist and medical
doctor.
First prize £300
Second prize £200
More information overleaf and on the website www.radstats.org.uk
Fourth Radical Statistics Critical Essay Competition 2008
* There are two categories:
Student: undergraduate or postgraduate
Open: any non-student both may be awarded 1st & 2nd prizes
* Your submission must be unpublished & unaided original work:
Either specifically produced for the competition, or originating
from your course of study.
* It could address a current social research policy/question with
critical use and interpretation of relevant data sources, or be a
critique of statistical methodology in an applied context.
* In some circumstances the submission may be the work of more than
one person, in which case any prize awarded would be shared.
* Prizes will be awarded on the basis of readability, clear
presentation of statistical material, critical perspective and
convincing argument.
Note: where a submission originates from course work, written
consent of the tutor responsible will be required.
The deadline for submission is 1st July and decisions will be made
by 1st September 2008.
Winning essays will be featured on the website and published in a
special issue of Radical Statistics.
Enter, by sending your essay, subject line:
RadStats Critical Essay, including full name, email and postal
address, and institution at which you are studying or engaged in
statistics, social research, or the social sciences to
essay@radstats.org.uk.
The "embedded"
capitalism of Joseph Schumpeter and John Kenneth Galbraith
Deirdre McCloskey | October 2007 Print Edition
Prophet of Innovation: Joseph Schumpeter and Creative Destruction,
by Thomas K. McCraw, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 719 pages,
$35
The New Industrial State, by John K. Galbraith, Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 518 pages, $24.95
Most of us get our politics in our early 20s and then never change.
Saul Bellow said of his youthful Trotskyism, “Like everyone else who
invests in doctrines at a young age, I couldn’t give them up.” A
young adult hates the bourgeoisie or loves capitalism or believes
passionately in the welfare state. Her politics becomes a cherished
identity, a faith. Here I stand. I can no other.
The vintage matters. Someone who invested in doctrines when world
capitalism seemed to be working just fine—on the eve of World War I,
say—had a good chance of keeping for life an optimistic opinion of
markets and entrepreneurs. So it was with one of the best-known
economists of the last century, Joseph Alois Schumpeter (1883–1950)
of Vienna, Bonn, and Harvard.
But someone who invested in his human capital when things were
dismal and chaotic—early in the Great Depression, say—was likely to
take a less cheerful view (cont.)
A Conversation
with Milton Friedman
As Interviewed by Richard W. Fisher
Dallas Fed president and CEO Richard W. Fisher sat down with
economist Milton Friedman on October 19, 2005, as part of ongoing
discussions with the Nobel Prize winner. In a wide-ranging
interview, Friedman and Fisher discuss a myriad of topics, including
globalization, China, the Federal Reserve, free trade, government
spending and education reform.
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