From the Editor
Sometimes I wish for a
quite couple of weeks when I do not get much
copy for the Newsletter and relax a little bit.
But do heterodox economics agree with this?
Noooooo. This past couple of weeks I received
numerous calls for papers for conferences I
never heard of from places I never realized had
heterodox activities going on. Then there were
many e-mails about seminars, jobs, books,
journals, and even a new interdisciplinary
doctoral program in Marxism. So the invisible
hands of heterodox economists are making sure I
never get a break.
The FYI section of the Newsletter is for
miscellaneous material which may be of interest
to heterodox economists. Thus, it includes such
items as information about prizes, lectures, and
different kinds of political-economic
activities. It is always worth a quick glance
because among its varied items you might find
something really interesting. The FYI section is
also the place obituaries are put; and it
saddens me to point out the obituary of Charles
Craypo, a very nice and important heterodox
economist who was for many years a major
contributor to the heterodox program at Notre
Dame.
Fred Lee
In
this issue:
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Call for Papers |
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- What is the
Common?
- Second International Gathering on "The Workers' Economy"
- II Jornadas de Economía Crítica
- 6th International Marx & Engels Colloquium
- Marxist Literary Group
- Labour, Capital and Society/Travail, capital et société
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Historical Materialism Sixth Annual Conference, 27-29
November 2009, Central London
- URPE Summer Conference August 15 – 18, 2009
- The HETSA 2009 Conference
- Methodology of Economics Research Area
- “Oportunidades y Obstáculos para el Desarrollo de
Argentina. Lecciones de la post-convertibilidad”
- FIRB-RISC Conference
- New Marxian Times
- EAEPE Conference 2009
- The Society of Government Economists (SGE)
- 41st UK History of Economic Thought Conference
- "Work & Inequality in the Global Economy: China, Mexico,
US"
- Colloque au CEPN
- The International Network of Economic Methodology (INEM)
- Capital as Power
- Bulletin of Political Economy
- Second Conference on Early Economic
Developments |
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Conferences, Seminars and Lectures |
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- The Japanese
Society for Post Keynesian Economics
- International Initiative for Promoting Political Economy
- Association of Heterodox Economics
- Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture
- H2S Workshop Series
- Innovazione, crescita, occupazione, produzione
internazionale
- What Lies Behind: Causes and Consequences of the World
Economic Crisis
- "American Marxism: Lessons in Movement Building from
Oklahoma Socialists"
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Job Postings for Heterodox Economists |
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- Economic and Fiscal Policy Officer
- Gettysburg College
- Community Division Organizer - Common Good Banks
- The University of Manitoba
- Purchase College SUNY
- Hampshire College
- Institute of Social Studies
- Farmingdale State College
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Heterodox Conference Papers and
Reports and Articles |
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- GDAE |
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Heterodox Journals and Newsletters |
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- MARXISM 21
- Journal of Economic Methodology
- The Revista de Economia del Caribe
- Challenge
- New Political Economy
- Bulletin of Political Economy
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Heterodox Books and Book Series |
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- The Official History of Privatisation
Vol. I
- Hegel's Logic
- The Myth of the Free Market
- Keynes And Macroeconomics After 70
- Nature, Social Relations and Human Needs
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Heterodox Graduate Program and
Scholarships |
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- Gyeongsang National University |
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For
Your Information |
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- 2009 Daniel Singer Essay Contest and
Prize
- Charles Craypo
- Permanent Jobs Program for the U.S.
- Joan Robinson Lectures
- The Bourbons of Global
- International Conference on Peer Reviewing
- Crisis Observer
- The Solidarity Economy Movement Emerges in Its First U.S.
Conference
- Interview de Sergio Rossi
- Computational Economics Clashes with Mainstream Economics
- First Factory Tour for Economics Graduate Students and
Faculty |
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Call for Papers
What is the Common?
An International Conference
10-11 October 2009
University of Gothenburg
in cooperation with Collegium, University of Gothenburg & Kurrents
Association
Sweden
Submission deadline: September 5
Contact: info@kurrents.org
Full details:
http://www.kurrents.org/conf
Keynotes (The list of keynotes will be extended)
Jacques Rancière
David Harvey
In the shadow of the global crisis of capitalism, the common,
somehow obliterated in the recent past, has emerged as an
indispensable and central notion. The conference addresses this
notion both as a real movement and as an already present horizon, a
dynamic principle, for societal life. The common is a critical topic
today, not only because the public, administrated by the state, is
reduced to expendable assets for regulating a supposedly
self-regulating machine called Market, but more importantly because
the emerging forms of the common impose themselves with an
unprecedented acuity and in opposition to the doxa of the private
property.
The common refers not only to primary resources, such as water or
ecological conditions on a planetary level, but it is at the same
time a political force that traverses diverse fields of tension such
as art and culture, law and gender relations. The question "What is
the Common?" is addressed as a real agenda that conditions the
thought. The Marxian notion of Kommunistische Gesellschaft is a
central point of reference for the conference.
The conference is a program that extends over 4 years. Each year
will treat two themes. The conference 2009 will welcome papers
related to the following two axes:
1. The Common and the Economy
Which are the specific emerging forms of the common today and what
defines its relation to the material conditions of production of
values in contemporary capitalism? Under this axis, both theoretical
discussions and case-specific investigations in areas such as
autonomous popular organisations, regional movements or global
changes in one specific economic sector are welcome.
2. The Philosophical Understanding of what the Common Is
The common has since Plato's Republic been a central question for
the philosophical thinking. What is the relation or non-relation
between the common and the totality of social relations? In which
form and based upon what ontological or existential categories does
it emerge? What is the difference between the common as the name of
a real movement and the nostalgies of the return to a simple life?
Submission Guidelines
We are welcoming papers from all disciplines regardless academic
affiliation or other background. All Interested researchers are
required to submit an abstract of no more than 500 words, not later
than September 5. For full details, please see the homepage for the
conference http://www.kurrents.org/conf .
About the Organization
The conference is organized upon an original proposal by Dariush
Moaven Doust. He is also responsible for the organization of the
conference and the head of the Scientific committee (Collegium) in
which Tomas Jonsson, researcher, Professor emeritus Sven-Eric
Liedman, History of Ideas, Professor Lennart Nilsson, CEFOS,
Professor emeritus Jan Ling, Sylva Frisk, Director of Studies at the
School of Global Studies participate. The host for the conference is
the School of Global Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences. The
association Kurrents is supported for this project by Cultural
Affairs in West Sweden Region.
Second International Gathering on
"The Workers' Economy"
“WORK AND SELF-MANAGEMENT IN TIMES OF GLOBAL CRISIS”
Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, University of Buenos Aires
Dates: July 29-August 1, 2009
Location: University of Buenos Aires, Faculty of Philosophy and
Letters, Puan 470, Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Please send a 250-word (max) abstract by May 31, 2009. All completed
papers must be received by June 20, 2009 (see below for paper
formats)
Send abstracts, papers, and all correspondence to:
in Spanish:
fabierta@filo.uba.ar or
centrodoc@gmail.com.
in English:
UBA.selfmanagement@gmail.com
Click
here for detailed information.
II Jornadas de Economía Crítica
“Crisis mundial y nacional. Alternativas teóricas y políticas frente
a la ortodoxia”
www.jornadaseconomiacritica.blogspot.com
Llamado a Presentación de Ponencias
15, 16 y 17 de octubre de 2009, Bahía Blanca
Se invita a estudiantes, docentes, investigadores y graduados/as en
Ciencias Económicas, Sociales y afines a participar en las Segundas
Jornadas de Economía Crítica (JEC).
El éxito de las Primeras JEC, realizadas en La Plata durante dos
días de octubre de 2007, evidenció la previa ausencia de un ámbito
de discusión de teoría económica alternativa al esquema de
pensamiento neoliberal. La riqueza de los debates allí surgidos y la
confluencia de alrededor de 150 economistas de las más variadas
vertientes teóricas energizó muchas de las investigaciones
y trabajos encarados desde entonces.
Las JEC prestaron su lugar y organización en 2008 al IV Coloquio
Internacional de la Sociedad de Economía Política y Pensamiento
Crítico de América Latina (SEPLA), en Buenos Aires, que contó con
más de 700 economistas de 20 países de todo el mundo.
6th International Marx & Engels
Colloquium
Center for Marxist Studies (Centro de Estudos Marxistas -Cemarx) at
the University of Campinas (Unicamp)
Campinas (SP)
Brazil
November 2009
The Institute of Humanities’ Center for Marxist Studies at the
University of Campinas has begun the call for papers for the 6th
INTERNATIONAL MARX & ENGELS COLLOQUIM. Papers should be submitted
between March 2 and June 15, 2009.
Click here
for detailed information.
Marxist Literary Group
Annual Institute on Culture and Society “Marxism and Contemporary
Political Economy”
2009 CFP deadline next week, March 31
The Marxist Literary Group's annual Institute on Culture and Society
(MLG-ICS) will convene this summer in Portland, Oregon, June 16-20,
on the campus of Portland State University. The four-day Institute
will feature an intensive workshop on the current economic crisis
featuring Martin Hart-Landsberg (Monthly Review/Lewis & Clark
College), Robin Hahnel (American University/Portland State), and
Doug Henwood (Left Business Observer).
Reading groups will be held on the French Regulation School led by
Mathias Nilges; on Marx, fictional capital and the Wertkritik School
led by Neil Larsen; and on Participatory Economics by Robin Hahnel.
As always, intensive reading groups on selections from Marx's
Capital are planned (volunteers are invited). The institute features
consecutive (as opposed to simultaneous) panels.
The organizing committee is now accepting submissions for panel and
paper proposals. As always, any work that engages seriously with the
Marxist tradition will be considered. The special topic of this
year’s ICS is “Marxism and Contemporary Political Economy.” Papers
that deal with this topic are especially welcome, though not
required. Selected papers will be published in the online journal
mediations.
Paper abstracts should be less than 250 words. Panel proposals
should include the name and contact information of the panel
organizer, a rationale for the panel, presenters' names,
affiliations, paper titles, and abstracts of no more than 250 words.
Please send submissions (preferably as MS Word or standard e-mail
text files) with a cover email including presenter or panel
organizer contact information to medovoi@pdx.edu by March 31 2009.
Housing options will include both local hotels (approximately $89 a
room for up to two) and a dormitory option (approximately $40 a room
for up to two). Please indicate a housing preference if you expect
to need one, so we can estimate our needs.
Leerom Medovoi
Associate Professor of English
Director, Portland Center for Public Humanities Portland State
University
Phone: (503) 725-4946
www.publichumanities.pdx.edu
Labour, Capital and Society/Travail,
capital et société
Special Issue
Natural resources, workers and communities
The rapid expansion of resource companies in the worldwide search
for new deposits raises the question once again of the development
potential of the encounter between multinational corporations and
vulnerable rural communities. Is the result inevitably another
‘resource curse’? Can the current emphasis on corporate social
responsibility and voluntary mechanisms prevent this curse and
contribute to meaningful development? Can rural livelihoods survive?
Significantly though, while academics and advocacy groups have drawn
attention to the cultural and livelihood survivals of subsistence
communities, little attention has been paid to workers in this
situation. While a small number of workers are hired locally, most
are experienced miners, oil workers, and others brought to the area
to assure efficient production and who then live within the
surrounding community. This raises the questions of the labour
movement’s role within workplace and community struggles and
especially the possibility of alliances between workers and
community.
While these questions are not new, the scope of activity and the
current context provide a new and rich terrain of analysis. The
context in which extractive activities in developing areas are
undertaken is guided by a model developed by multilateral donors,
aimed at preventing the ‘resource curse’. These are formulated
within the dominant governance framework in which state involvement
is reduced to a minimal regulatory role, leaving significant
regulatory activity in the hands of corporations. Using an approach
of ‘corporate social responsibility’, companies pledge to contribute
to national and local development through voluntary self-regulation.
National development is to be achieved via royalty and tax payments
to the central state which in turn will invest in country-wide
poverty-alleviation programmes. Local development is targeted so
that significant benefits accrue to those most affected by resource
extraction and are to be undertaken by the companies in partnership
with participating communities.
Papers are sought on a wide variety of topics within this theme.
They can either present empirical findings in an academic vein; or
recount the experiences of workers or communities dealing with
resource industries from an activist perspective; or engage in
reflections on actions and alliances. Other issues such as housing,
environment, the role of the state, trade unions, non-governmental
organisations and corporations engaged in social responsibility
activity are also welcome.
Timeline: Proposal due April 1st,, 2009. Articles
due August 1st, 2009.
Expected date of publication: December 2009
Historical Materialism Sixth Annual Conference, 27-29
November 2009, Central London
The world economy is traversing a sweeping crisis whose outcomes are
still uncertain, but whose scope is undeniable. The name of Marx is
now occasionally, if nervously, invoked in the financial press. The
neo-liberal project is being reconfigured, and some have even rushed
to pronounce it dead. Imperial strategies are being redrawn, while
ecological and food crises deepen on a global scale. This situation
of instability and uncertainty unquestionably lends itself to
incisive analyses drawing upon and critically innovating the
traditions of historical materialism. Critical Marxist theorists
have already shed considerable light on the mechanisms and
tendencies underlying the current crises and emphasised the
conflicts and contradictions that are emerging as they develop.
Following upon previous annual conferences which worked towards a
recomposition of an international Marxist intellectual sphere, this
year’s Historical Materialism conference hopes to serve as a forum
for papers and debates that will gauge the capacity of contemporary
Marxism to confront this critical conjuncture and its multiple
facets, both analytically and politically. We hope that the
conference will serve not only as a collective investigation into
the numerous global scenarios of capitalist crisis, but also as the
opportunity to inquire – drawing on the political and conceptual
reservoir of many Marxist traditions – into the class formations,
political forces and organisational forms capable of responding
combatively and inventively to the current situation. While the
hegemony of a one-dimensional neo- liberalism demanded the
affirmation that other worlds were possible, the current crises
require arguments to demonstrate how we might achieve the other
world that is now more than ever necessary.
In keeping with the multi-disciplinary and exploratory character of
the journal, we welcome abstracts on any matter of relevance to
critical Marxist theory, but will especially welcome papers
responding directly to the call, or dealing with some of the
following issues
- Theories of crisis, and their history
- Neo-liberalism in retreat?
- Histories of class struggle, crisis, and revolution
- Socialist Feminist Responses to Crisis
- The future of the new imperialism
- ‘Neo-Keynesian’ responses to the crisis
- Environmental crisis and eco-socialism
- Left interventions in the crisis
- Utopian and non-utopian Marxisms
- Political agency and subjectivity
- Theories of political organisation
- Political economy and labour in contemporary cultural theory
- Class struggle and class composition today
- The geography and urbanisation of contemporary capitalism
- Non-Marxist traditions on the Left
- Marxist perspectives contemporary art, art history and visual
culture
- Displacing crisis onto the Global South
- War, militarism, insecurity, and violence
- Immigration, migrant labour, and anti-racism
- Socialism in the Twenty-First Century
Note to all those who wish to propose papers and panels:
instructions will follow shortly on the procedure for proposals.
Preference will be given to subscribers to the journal.
Please note also that participants are expected to attend the whole
conference - special arrangements for speaking on certain days only
cannot be made, except for very extreme circumstances.
Deadline for abstracts: 1 May 2009.
URPE Summer Conference August 15 –
18, 2009
Papers and workshops proposals are being accepted for the URPE 2009
Annual Summer Conference held August 15 - 18, 2009. The theme of
this year’s conference is “Economic Crises: Opportunities for
Radical Change.” Now is the time for Heterodox Economists of all
persuasions to find creative solutions and to do serious analysis
and speak out about the domestic and global economic recession and
financial crisis! As always we are looking for Political Economy
papers from all disciplines (including at least sociology, political
science, urban studies, and anthropology in addition to economics).
The conference always has a mix of relatively more technical
presentations of Political Economy research from scholars and
graduate students in all stages of development with more popular and
activist oriented presentations. Political Economy papers that
address the current economic crises are encouraged, especially those
that say something about how the current crisis provides
opportunities for radical change. More general political economy
submissions are of course as every year warmly welcomed as well !!
Please consider forming a workshop with 2 to 4 papers on a common
theme that your and colleagues might be working on. Or just submit a
paper. Please send all submissions to:
laura.ebert@marist.edu .
Workshops and papers will be accepted until all space is filled…
while last minute submissions are welcome they might not be accepted
if there is no space , so please get your submission in early.
The HETSA 2009 Conference
The HETSA 2009 Conference is the 22nd Conference of the History of
Economic Thought Society of Australia. It is to be held on 14-17
July 2009 on the Fremantle Campus of The University of Notre Dame,
Australia. Ray Petridis will act as the Master of Ceremonies.
The keynote speaker will be Donald Winch and guest speakers include,
amongst others, David Harper (NYU), Peter Groenewegen (Sydney) and
Jeremy Shearmur (ANU).
The themes of the 22nd HETSA Conference will be: Australian
Contributions to the Modelling of the Small Open Economy; the
History of Austrian Economics; and the History of Economics in
Western Australia. The conference committee will also, obviously,
welcome papers that are unrelated to these themes.
The formal Deadline for Abstracts is 25 April 2009 and Deadline for
Papers: 30 May 2009.
For further details, please see the website:
http://hetsa2009.com/
Or contact:
Gregory C. G. Moore
Chair of the Conference Committee
The University of Notre Dame, Australia
19 Mouat Street (PO Box 1225)
Fremantle, Western Australia 6959
Tel: +61 8 9433 0914
Fax: +61 8 9433 0640
Email: gmoore@nd.edu.au
Internet: http://www.nd.edu.au
Methodology of Economics Research Area
EAEPE 2009 Conference in
Amsterdam, 6-8 November 2009
EAEPE Conference 2009 will be organized in Amsterdam from Friday 6
until Sunday 8 November. Methodology of Economics Research Area
invites paper proposals for the EAEPE 2009 Conference. The proposals
should be in line with the themes of the research area (see below).
The abstract should clearly mention (i) the title of the paper, (ii)
name of the author(s) and full address of the corresponding author
(postal address, phone, fax and email) (iii) the aim and the main
argument of the paper, and (iv) keywords and relevant JEL Codes. The
abstract should consist of 600-700 words. The proposal should be
uploaded to the EAEPE Web site. Visit the conference page for
instructions: http://eaepe.org/eaepe-conference-2008
Important deadlines: Deadline for abstract
submission: May 1, 2009 // Notification for abstract acceptance: May
30, 2009 // Deadline for paper submission: September 20, 2009
Please contact the Methodology of Economics Research Area
Coordinators Uskali Mäki
( uskali.maki@helsinki.fi
) and N. Emrah Aydinonat
( aydinonat@gmail.com ) if
you have any questions.
Best regards,
Uskali Mäki,
uskali.maki@helsinki.fi
N. Emrah Aydinonat,
aydinonat@gmail.com
PS: For more information about the conference and about other
research areas please visit the EAEPE website:
http://eaepe.org/
Click here
for detailed information.
“Oportunidades y Obstáculos para el
Desarrollo de Argentina. Lecciones de la post-convertibilidad”
Buenos Aires - 7 y 8 de Julio
Como planteamos en la
presentación de
AEDA, la consolidación de un modelo de desarrollo sustentable e
inclusivo necesita la renovación de ideas y de propuestas dentro del
pensamiento económico. Con el objeto de promover y enriquecer el
debate, los invitamos a participar en el primer Congreso Anual de
AEDA, a realizarse el 7 y 8 de julio de 2009.
Esperamos contar con la participación de todos ustedes.
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CONVOCATORIA
Invitamos a presentar ponencias para participar en el Congreso Anual
de AEDA. El Congreso tendrá como eje central el tópico que hemos
elegido como título pero serán igualmente bienvenidas aquellas
contribuciones de carácter teórico, así como relativas a
otros países de América Latina u otras etapas históricas que
contribuyan al debate.
FIRB-RISC Conference
Research and entrepreneurship in the knowledge-based economy
Milan, September 7-8, 2009
organised by
KITeS-Cespri, Bocconi University, Milan, Italy
Keynote speakers
Giovanni Dosi (Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies)
Dominique Foray (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
Franco Malerba (KITeS, Bocconi University)
Pascal Petit (EAEPE European Association for Evolutionary Political
Economy)
Rehinilde Veuglers (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
Submission of extended abstract by April 30, 2009
Click here
for detailed information.
New Marxian Times
New Marxian Times will be held over four days, beginning on Thursday
evening, 5 November 2009 and ending on Sunday afternoon, 8 November
2009. In addition to two plenary sessions and an art exhibition,
there will be concurrent panels, workshops, and art/cultural events.
We invite the submission of organized sessions that follow
traditional or non-traditional formats (such as workshops,
roundtables, and dialogue among and between presenters and audience)
as well as individual presentations. Since Marxism covers a wide
variety of fields, from literature to public health and forms of
political practice, from environmental organizing to opposing global
inequality and envisioning new economic and social practice, anyone
engaging with Marxism in any discipline or form of activism is
encouraged to submit paper and panel proposals. We encourage those
working in areas that intersect with Marxism, such as critical race
theory, feminism, political economy, anarchist studies, cultural and
literary studies, queer theory, working-class and labor studies,
postcolonial studies, geography and urban studies, psychoanalysis,
social and natural sciences, philosophy, and around issues of class,
race, ethnicity, nationality, gender, sexuality, and disability, to
submit proposals. We also welcome video, poetry, performance, and
all other modes of presentation and cultural expression.
http://www.rethinkingmarxism.org/conf/index.php/gala/NewMarxianTimes
SUBMISSION OF PROPOSALS
Proposals for papers, films, or other formats should include:
- Paper title
- Presenter's name and contact information (mail, email, phone,
affiliations)
- Brief abstract (no more than 200 words)
- Technology needs for presentation
Proposals for panels should include:
- Panel title
- Name, contact information, and paper title for each presenter
- Brief abstract (no more than 200 words) explaining the panel's
focus
- Brief abstract for each paper (no more than 200 words)
- Names and contact information for any discussant(s) or
respondent(s)
- Technology needs of presenters
- Title, contact, and address for any sponsoring organization or
journal
The appropriate preregistration fee must accompany all proposal
submissions.
Unfortunately, any proposal not accompanied by the appropriate
preregistration fee cannot be considered. Proposals that are not
accepted will have their preregistration fees returned in full. If
you are submitting a proposal for an entire panel, please make sure
you include the preregistration fee for all members of the panel.
The deadline for proposal submission is 1 August 2009.
EAEPE 2009 Conference
European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy (EAEPE) 2009
Conference
6-8 November 2009
Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Institutional History of Economics Research Area
EAEPE's Institutional History of Economics Research Area invites
paper proposals that contribute to one of its following seven
theoretical perspectives:
(1) The approach to analysis is based on an evaluation of relevant
tendencies and linkages in actual economics - instead of a
methodology that sanctifies fictions and diverts attention from the
difficult task of analyzing the practice and culture of economics.
(2) The analysis is open-ended and interdisciplinary in that it
draws upon relevant material in psychology, anthropology, politics,
and history - instead of a definition of history of economics in
terms of a rigid method that is applied indiscriminately to a wide
variety of economic approaches.
(3) The conception of economics is of a cumulative and evolutionary
process unfolding in historical time in which economists are faced
with chronic information problems and radical uncertainty about the
future - instead of approaches to theorizing that focus exclusively
on the product of this process.
(4) The concern is to address and encompass the interactive, social
process through which economics is formed and changed - instead of a
theoretical framework that takes economists and their interests as
given.
(5) It is appropriate to regard economics itself as a social
institution, necessarily supported by a network of other social
institutions - instead of an orientation that takes economics itself
as an ideal or natural order and as a mere aggregation of individual
economists.
(6) It is evaluated how the socio-economic system is embedded in a
complex ecological and environmental system - instead of a
widespread tendency to ignore ecological and environmental
considerations or consequences in the history of economics.
(7) The inquiry seeks to contribute not only to history of economics
but also to economics - instead of an orthodox outlook that ignores
the possibility of such cross-fertilization.
Preference will be given to original accounts, based on detailed
archival or other research, aimed at yielding rich, sophisticated,
understandings. Hence, papers that "do it" instead of those that
"talk about doing it" are favored.
To participate, please submit a proposal containing 600-700 words
and indicating clearly the sense in which the paper contributes to
one of the theoretical perspectives of the research area.
The deadline for the submission of paper proposals is 1 MAY 2009.
Notice of acceptance or rejection will be sent on or before 30 MAY
2009. Completed papers are due on 20 SEPTEMBER 2009.
For further information on the EAEPE 2009 conference and to upload
your proposal, please visit
http://eaepe.org/eaepe-conference-2008 (no, the 2008 is
not a typo here)
Please contact Esther-Mirjam Sent,
e.m.sent@fm.ru.nl , if
you have any questions.
The Society of Government Economists
(SGE)
The Society of Government Economists (SGE) is now launching a Call
for Papers and Sessions for the upcoming American Economic
Association meetings in January 3-5, 2010 in Atlanta. Our deadline
for proposals is May 22, 2009, which requires an abstract of not
more than 500 words and a supporting essay of not more than 300
words for each proposed paper. The SGE has been allotted several
sessions by the AEA, and we are committed to filling these sessions
with high quality papers based on the broad criteria that are
specified in the attached notice.
Please note: The application is free, and all researchers with
interesting economics papers are encouraged to apply.
Click here for
detailed information.
41st UK History of Economic Thought
Conference
University of Manchester (Chancellors Hotel and Conference Centre),
2-4 September 2009.
Abstracts (not exceeding 500 words) should be submitted to the
conference organiser (details below) no later than 18 May. Accepted
papers will be required for posting on the (forthcoming) conference
website by 1 August. For those unfamiliar with the UK conference,
each paper is allotted approximately 45 minutes for presentation and
discussion. Contributions are welcome on all aspects of history of
economic thought (including methodology), from all perspectives.
Further details of the conference will be made available on the
conference website, scheduled to be online in early May.
Terry Peach
Conference Organiser
Terry.Peach@manchester.ac.uk
"Work & Inequality in the Global
Economy: China, Mexico, US"
UCLA, Oct. 2009
We invite you to submit proposals for this conference, to take place
October 7-9, 2009 at UCLA in Los Angeles, California. We will focus
on comparisons and connections between China, Mexico, and the United
States. Speakers at the conference will include scholars and
activists from all three countries.
Major themes of the conference include:
- The impact of economic and environmental crisis on workers
- The role of TNCs
- Migration trends and impacts
- Prospects for labor law reform and labor rights
- Strategies for overcoming inequality
For more information, please visit
http://irle.ucla.edu/workandinequality2009.htm
Colloque au CEPN
Je vous signale ce colloque au CPEN les 17 et 18 septembre organisé
par B. Coriat et O. Weinstein sur l'économie de la firme (tendance
hétérodoxe):
"Institutional
complementarities and the firm: financialisation, globalisation and
beyond"
La date limite de soumission est repoussée au 30 avril.
The International
Network of Economic Methodology (INEM)
The International Network of Economic Methodology seeks paper and
session proposals for 2010 ASSA meetings in Atlanta. INEM is alloted
two sessions, one 2 hours and the other 1:45 minutes. Session and
paper proposals that might have a broad appeal to those not already
members of INEM are especially encouraged. Abstracts of at least 250
words are due by May 10th. Send to:
Harold Kincaid kincaid@uab.edu
or
Department of Philosophy
University of Alabama at Birmingham
900 13th St. So.
Birmingham, Al 35294
Capital as Power
The present global crisis opens the door for theoretical
alternatives.
The two main paradigms of capital accumulation - the neoclassical
utility theory of value and the Marxist labour theory of value - are
in disarray. Many leading neoclassicists now concede that their
"world is broken" and that their utilitarian "pillars of faith" have
collapsed.
Marxists have been content to see these confessions, but they remain
unable to offer a convincing alternative based on labour values.
These failures call for a new theoretical, methodological and
empirical framework for rethinking capitalist valuation and
accumulation - a framework based not on utility or labour time, but
on power.
We are calling for paper presentations to be organized in several
related panels under the general heading of "Capital as Power." The
papers can be theoretical, methodological or empirical, and they can
examine any aspect of capital as power. The panels will be included
as part of the upcoming "Rethinking Marxism" Conference, to be held
on November 5-8, 2009, at the University of Amherst Massachusetts.
http://rethinkingmarxism.org/conf/index.php/gala/NewMarxianTimes
If you wish to present a paper on one of these panels, please write
to Jonathan Nitzan (
nitzan@yorku.ca ). The conference registration deadline is
August 1, 2009. In order to set up our panels in a timely fashion,
we request your proposal (title and a 200 word abstract) to be sent
in to Nitzan by June 1, 2009.
Bulletin of
Political Economy
http://www.serialspublications.com/journals1.asp?jid=457&jtype=2
Call for Papers
This journal aims to promote research in the areas of Classical,
Marxian, Sraffian and Post Keynesian traditions. Articles that
subject to empirical testing new theoretical developments or
alternative theoretical approaches with the use of econometric and
input-output techniques are particularly welcomed. All contributions
go through a refereeing process to determine their suitability for
publication.
Instructions for contributors
The title page should contain the name(s), the institutional
affiliation of the author(s), the present address(s), e-mail
addresses and acknowledgement(s) or credits, if any, followed by an
abstract of the paper using no more than 100 words.
Footnotes should be kept to a minimum and numbered consecutively
throughout the text with superscript numerals. They should appear at
the end of the main text and should not include tables, figures or
formulae.
Tables should be kept short and numbered sequentially through the
text. They should be presented on separate page(s) of the
manuscript, not in the text.
Formulae should be numbered consecutively throughout the manuscript
against the right-hand margin of the page. If the derivation of the
formulae has been abbreviated, the full derivation should be
presented in an appendix.
All figures should be made to fit the journal’s page size. All lines
should be clear. All illustrations should be suitable for printing
in black and white, and should be numbered according to their
sequence in the text.
Reference should appear in the text as (Sraffa, 1960), (Baran and
Sweezy, 1966), (Gordon et al., 1982).
Use the following style of references:
Journal articles: Morishima, M. (1974) ‘Marx in the Light of Modern
Economic Theory’, Econometrica 42 (4): 611-32.
Articles in edited works: Goodwin, R. (1967) ‘A Growth Cycle’ in
Feinstein, C.H. (ed.) Socialism, Capitalism and Economic Growth,
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Books: Minsky, H. (1986) Stabilizing an Unstable Economy, New Haven
and London: Yale University Press.
If there are more than two authors use the name of the first,
followed by ‘et al.’. When more than two references are cited
together in the text, they should be arranged chronologically.
Publication by the same author(s) in the same year should be listed
as 2001a; 2001b, etc.
Any manuscript, which does not confirm to the above instructions,
may be returned for the necessary revision before publication.
Authors should ensure that they are not infringing copyright.
Submission of a paper is understood to imply that the work is
original and unpublished and is not being considered for publication
elsewhere.
Submission of manuscripts
All submissions for publication should be sent electronically as a
Word file to the address: bpe@uom.gr.
The Bulletin of Political Economy is published twice a year by
SERIALS PUBLICATIONS; www.serialspublications.com. Subscriptions and
other inquiries should be directed to the Publisher, Serial
Publications. 4830/24, Prahlad Street, Ansari Road, Darya Ganj, New
Delhi-110002, INDIA. Phone: 91-11-23245225, Fax: 91-11-23272135,
E-mail: serials@satyam.net.in
Second Conference
on Early Economic Developments
July 24-26, 2009
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
This conference is a meeting for scholars interested in economic
aspects of prehistoric events. The organizers welcome proposals for
papers on topics at the boundaries among economics, archaeology, and
anthropology. Topics can include economic prehistory, the economics
of human biological evolution; pre-industrial economic history; and
the evolution of economic, social, and political institutions.
PAPER SUBMISSION PROCEDURE:
Anyone wishing to present a paper at this conference should submit a
detailed abstract by April 15, 2009 (see procedures at the website
below). Abstracts should be 1-2 pages (drafts of papers are also
acceptable). All participants must register through the following
website: http://earlyeconomics.org
FURTHER INFORMATION:
Questions can be directed to:
CONTACT: Greg Dow
Email: gdow@sfu.ca
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Conferences, Seminars
and Lectures
The Japanese Society for Post
Keynesian Economics
The Japanese Society for Post Keynesian Economics was established in
April 1980 in order to promote the researches on Post Keynesian
Economics in Japan and to activate communications among scholars who
have interests in Post Keynesian Economics. The Society holds
seminars(or Meetings) about three times a year. The Society has a
good partnership with Nihon Keizai Hyoronsha Ltd, a well-known
publisher in Japan, which publishes a translation series on Post
Keynesian Economics ( 34 books were translated into Japanese and
published since 1978 by Nihon Keizai Hyoronsha Ltd:
http://www.nikkeihyo.co.jp/
).
News : Forthcomming Seminar: 14-15 March 2009
Date: 14-15 March 2009
Conference Venue: Nishogakusha University,
6-16 Sanban-cho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Click
here for detailed information.
International Initiative for
Promoting Political Economy
Inaugural Day Conference of the ‘Political Economy of Work’ Working
Group
University of Leeds, 5th May 2009
Programme
11:00 Reflections on the ‘International Initiative for Promoting
Political Economy’
Ben Fine, SOAS
11:30 Towards a ‘Political Economy of Work’
Andrew Brown and David Spencer, LUBS / CERIC
Discussant: Damian Grimshaw, University of Manchester
12:45 Lunch
1:30 – 4:00 Focus on Well-Being at Work
1:30 Labour, Nature and Dependence
John O’Neill, University of Manchester
2:30 Coffee
3:00 Job Quality in Europe
Francis Green, University of Kent
Cost: £20 including lunch, tea and coffee.
To Register Contact:
Miss Gaynor Dodsworth (
g.l.dodsworth@lubs.leeds.ac.uk ) (0113 3436839)
This event is sponsored by the Centre for Employment Relations
Innovation and Change
Association of Heterodox Economics
funded post graduate workshop on advanced research methods
8th-9th July 2009
Kingston University
London, U.K.
There are funded places available for UK registered PhD students to
cover UK travel, accommodation and subsistence expenses for the
above event. The workshop covers topics in research not typically
covered in economics training.
Workshop topics include:
- Reorienting economics to match method with social material
- Open system methodology in Economics
- Grounded theory in Economics
- Mixing quantitative and qualitative data
- Qualitative data analysis
Speakers:
Dr Paul Downward- Loughborough University
Professor Fred Lee- University of Missouri – Kansas City
Dr Ioana Negru- Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge
Dr Wendy Olsen- The Cathie Marsh Centre for Census and Survey
Research, Manchester University
Further details (deadline for applications 18th May, 2009)
For information on how to apply, and for further details, please
contact
Dr Andrew Mearman:
Andrew.Mearman@uwe.ac.uk
Bristol Business School
University of the West of England
BS16 1QY U.K.
Marxism and the Interpretation of
Culture
PROGRAMME FOR SUMMER TERM 2009
Friday 01 May
Edward Carpenter and the Socialist and Anarchist Movements of the
late 19th and early 20th Centuries Sheila Rowbotham (University of
Manchester)
Friday 15 May
The Cinema of John Sayles: From Billy Zane to Brecht and Bahktin,
and back again Mark Bould (University of the West of England)
This seminar is in L103 in the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies,
17 Russell Square
Friday 29 May
Bourgeois Behaviours: Accumulation & Waste in 19th Century Newspaper
Consumption Tom Gretton (University College London) This seminar
will take place in NG15 in the North Block, Senate House
Friday 12 June
Jorg Immendorf’s Cafe Deutschland
Norbert Schneider (University of Karlsruhe)
All seminars start at 5.30pm, and are held in the Wolfson Room
(unless otherwise indicated) at the Institute of Historical Research
in Senate House, Malet St, London. The seminar closes at 7.30pm and
retires to the bar.
Organisers: Matthew Beaumont, Warren Carter, Steve Edwards, Andrew
Hemingway, Esther Leslie, & Frances Stracey.
For further information, contact Andrew Hemingway, at:
a.hemingway@ucl.ac.uk
or Esther Leslie at:
e.leslie@bbk.ac.uk
H2S Workshop Series
Economic History and History of Economics Workshop
http://economix.u-paris10.fr/fr/activites/ws/?id=85
Thursday, 2 April 2009
École normale supérieure (Jourdan)
48, bd Jourdan, 75014 Paris
Morning session: 10.00-12.30 - Room #A2
V. Markham Lester (Birmigham-Southern College, Birmingham, Alabama)
Bankrupt women entrepreneurs: Observations on women-owned and
operated businesses in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century
England
Paolo Di Martino (University of Manchester) & Pierre-Cyrille
Hautcoeur (EHESS) Insolvency law and practice in historical
perspective: A European comparative view (c.1880-1913)
Afternoon session: 14.00-17.30 - Room #10
Loïc Charles (Université de Reims & INED) & Guillaume Daudin (Université
de Lille & OFCE) The Bureau of the balance of trade and the
production of foreign trade statistics in France during the 18th
century
Jean-Pierre Beaud & Jean-Guy Prévost (Université du Québec à
Montréal) The politics of objectivity: Canada's statistical regimes,
1800-2008
Emmanuel Didier (CNRS, CESDIP, Paris)
Counting ears: Democracy, statistics and the making of the New Deal
Contact: Claire Lemercier (
Claire.Lemercier@ens.fr )
Innovazione, crescita, occupazione,
produzione internazionale
Advanced Course (in Italian) on Innovazione, crescita, occupazione,
produzione internazionale.
Modelli e analisi dei dati
Roma, 20-24 aprile 2009
Organised by
Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Urbino “Carlo Bo”
Dipartimento di Economia Pubblica, Università di Roma “La Sapienza”,
Scuola di Dottorato in Economia
info:
www.econ.uniurb.it/corsoavanzato2009/index.htm
What Lies Behind: Causes and
Consequences of the World Economic Crisis
SPEAKERS & TALKS
----------------
- Radhika Desai (Professor, Department of Political Studies,
University of Manitoba): "The dollar: US currency, world's problem"
- Alan Freeman (Visiting Research Fellow, University of Manitoba):
"How bad can it get? 1929 and all that"
- Andrew Kliman (Professor, Department of Economics, Pace University
- Pleasantville): "Roots of the Crisis and Proposed
Solutions"
TIME & PLACE
------------
Tuesday April 14 at 6:00 p.m.
Pace University
18th floor Conference Room
One Pace Plaza
Manhattan (New York City)
(Just east of City Hall, just south of Brooklyn Bridge. Near 2, 3,
4, 5, 6, A, C, J, M, Z, N, and R subway lines + bus routes. For more
detailed directions, visit http://www.pace.edu/page.cfm?doc_id=16157
or call Pace University at (212) 346-1200.)
Radhika Desai is the author of _Slouching Towards Ayodhya: From
Congress to Hindutva in Indian Politics_ (2004). She is working on
two books, _When Was Globalization? Origin and End of a US Strategy_
and _The Making of the Indian Capitalist Class_.
Alan Freeman has published 52 articles on economics and politics. He
has co-edited four books including _Marx, Ricardo, Sraffa_ with
Ernest Mandel, and _The Politics of Empire and the Crisis of
Globalisation_ with Boris Kagarlitsky. With Radhika Desai he is
launching a new book series to be entitled _The Future of World
Capitalism_.
Andrew Kliman is the author of _Reclaiming Marx's "Capital": A
refutation of the myth of inconsistency_ (2007). His writings,
talks, and interviews on the current economic crisis are available
at
http://akliman.squarespace.com/crisis-intervention
"American Marxism: Lessons in
Movement Building from Oklahoma Socialists"
An evening with Jim Bissett, Chair and Professor Department of
History and Geography, Elon University, North Carolina
Introductory Comments by Scott Carter, Assistant Professor,
Department of Economics, The University of Tulsa
WHEN AND WHERE:
April 20, 2009
7 PM
Lecture Hall Helmerich #219
Collins Business Building, The University of Tulsa
800 South Tucker Drive, Tulsa, OK 74104
In his provocative book "Agrarian Socialism in America: Marx,
Jefferson, and Jesus in the Oklahoma Countryside, 1904-1920",
Professor Bissett chronicles the rise and fall of the Socialist
Party of Oklahoma during the first two decades of the twentieth
century, when socialism in the United States enjoyed its golden age.
To explain socialism's popularity in Oklahoma, Bissett looks back to
the state's strong tradition of agrarian reform. Drawing most of its
support from working farmers, the Socialist Party of Oklahoma was
rooted in such well-established organizations as the Farmers
Alliance and the Indiahoma Farmers Union. And to broaden its appeal,
the Party borrowed from the ideologies of both the American
Revolution and Christianity. By making Marxism speak in American
terms, the author argues, Party activists counteracted the
prevailing notion that socialism was un-American.
Come hear Professor Bissett speak about this fascinating history and
the lessons that can be drawn from it for 21st Century movement
building.
Sponsored by the Social Science Interest Group of The University of
Tulsa
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Job Postings for
Heterodox Economists
Economic and Fiscal Policy Officer
Position: Economic and Fiscal Policy Officer - Permanent, Full-Time
Position
Location: NDP Caucus and Leader's Office, 131 Queen Street, Suite
10-02, Ottawa
Objectives: This position is part of the Leader's Office research
and policy department which provides research and policy support to
parliamentary and extra parliamentary initiatives that are
consistent with the legislative goals of the Party, Leader and
Caucus. The incumbent will be expected to contribute to building the
capacity of the Party to be credible on economic and fiscal policy
issues.
This position is a bargaining unit position, supervised by the
Director of Research and Policy. The day to day duties may vary
depending on the priorities of the Leader, the Caucus, the issues of
the day, and the specific period of the Parliamentary cycle.
Responsibilities:
- Provide economic and fiscal policy research and analysis to
support legislative initiatives that reflect the policies and
priorities of the Party, Leader and Caucus
- Provide economic and fiscal policy background on issues as they
arise to members of senior staff, the Leader and the NDP caucus
- Assist the Leader and Caucus in developing and mounting campaigns
on
economic and fiscal issues
- Provide analysis and monitoring of the federal budget and
government accounts, assist with question period preparation, and
review of legislation (government and opposition)
- Take on research projects, including analysis and monitoring
government and opposition legislative business with respect to
budgetary and fiscal policy
- Provide economic and fiscal policy advice
- Liaise with economists and fiscal policy experts, economic
think-tanks and Party committees for input on policy and emerging
issues
- Identify and brief Party spokespeople on economic issues, and act
as Party spokesperson as required
- Identify recent and emerging social democratic economic
initiatives and recommend party positions on them
- Lead on development of core economic platform
Qualifications:
- Master's degree in economics or related subject, or equivalent
experience
- Minimum of 5 years experience in economic or fiscal policy
analysis, preferably in a government setting
- Experience working for an elected representative, or in a research
or policy capacity in the government/private sector/NGO/trade
union/non-profit sectors
- Strong knowledge of the legislative process and of Canadian
economic experts
- Strong political and strategic skills and understanding
- Ability to meet deadlines and work productively under pressure
- Strong written ability and oral language skills
- Excellent computer skills
- Ability to work well in a team environment
- Sound knowledge of the Federal NDP, its policies, programme and
structure.
- Bilingualism is an asset
Annual Salary: $50,760 minimum
The salary levels are subject to clauses 12 and 21 of the collective
agreement
Commencing date: As soon as possible
Send Application to:
Jess Turk-Browne, Director of Operations
131 Queen Street, Suite 10-02
Ottawa, ON K1A 0A6
Or e-mail: sicema@parl.gc.ca
Note: A collective agreement is in effect between the
Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada (local 232)
and the Federal New Democratic Party Caucus. A ten working day
appeal period outlined in article 15.05 applies to this position.
All terms and conditions in the Collective Agreement apply to this
posting and this position
All applications will be received and held in confidence. Present
and former members of CEP Local 232 should so indicate on the
application.
The NDP is an employment equity employer. Women, persons of colour,
Aboriginal persons, persons with disabilities, gay, lesbian,
bisexual and transgendered persons are encouraged to apply for this
position.
If you are a member of an equity-seeking group, you may choose to
identify as such in your application.
Only those selected for further consideration will be contacted.
Gettysburg College
AF Any Field
The Department of Economics seeks candidates for a full-time one
year sabbatical replacement position beginning in August 2009.
Candidates in all economic fields will be considered. Teaching
responsibilities will include Introductory Economics and upper-level
courses in the candidate's area of expertise. Ph.D. or ABD
preferred.
Gettysburg College is a highly selective liberal arts college
located within 90 minutes of the Baltimore/Washington metropolitan
area. Established in 1832, the College has a rich history and is
situated on a 220-acre campus with an enrollment of over 2,500
students. It is consistently ranked in the top 50 liberal arts
colleges in the nation. Gettysburg College celebrates and seeks to
enhance its diversity. An equal opportunity - affirmative action
employer. You may learn more about the College and the department
through the Website:
www.gettysburg.edu
Applications will be considered until the position is filled. Send a
letter of application, three reference letters, a writing sample,
and curriculum vitae to: Visiting Position Search Committee,
Department of Economics, Box 391, Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, PA
17325. Electronic submissions may be sent to
sholz@gettysburg.edu
Community Division Organizer - Common
Good Banks
Common Good Finance is looking for experienced community organizers
to start common good bank community divisions anywhere in the world.
At first, each organizer will be responsible for starting a
community division just in his or her own community, full or part
time over the course of a month or two. Successful organizers will
likely be invited to continue this work in nearby communities.
WHAT IS A COMMON GOOD BANK™?
Not just another bank with a social agenda. This is a social agenda
with a bank!
- Profits go to local schools and nonprofits.
- Depositors decide what the bank should invest in.
- Free local credit card processing for local businesses.
- Micro-loans for new businesses and community projects.
- A full range of secure, FDIC-insured banking services.
- Committed to sustainability and economic justice.
Once the first common good bank opens, any community ANYWHERE can
start one in just a few days, with no need for a bank building.
THE WORK
- Promote the common good bank concept locally
- Get 65+ people to sign up as future depositors
- Raise $2,000 to $4,000 in donations
- Find a local nonprofit partner
- Find 5 local business partners
- Find accredited investors who will invest a total of $30,000
- Report progress and share ideas with other Community Division
Organizers
- Other tasks that may arise (optional)
WHAT IT TAKES
- Courage
- Integrity
- Respect and friendliness
- Passionate commitment to social and economic justice
- Enthusiasm about the common good bank idea
- Can work independently and as part of a team
- Can talk easily with anyone and can say things simply and clearly
- Basic computer skills
SUPPORT
Common Good Finance and the other Community Division Organizers will
supply:
- promotional materials (model posters, business cards, handout
cards, press releases, emails, displays and videos)
- step-by-step suggestions for each task
- web-based training session on the common good bank idea
- ongoing advice, encouragement and feedback
PAY
Community Division Organizers will work as independent contractors.
(That means no insurance benefits and different income tax forms.)
Common Good Finance is prepared to pay $10 to $20 an hour for
100-200 hours, plus expenses, to be negotiated based on the
contractor's experience, needs and speed.
TO APPLY
For more information, visit commongoodbank.com
Tell us your experience and why you want to do this work.
Email your letter, resume and references to: info@commongoodbank.com
ABOUT COMMON GOOD FINANCE
Common Good Finance is a partnership of many organizations, working
together to design and create a global network of common good banks.
Partner organizations include:
- American Banking Financial Institution Consultants
- The Brick House
- Class Action
- Co-op Power
- Earth Action
- Gasoline Alley Foundation
- Living Learning In Faith Everyday
- Meadowbrook Lane Capital (MBLC) Investment Bank
- New England Small Farm Institute
- Peace Development Fund
- Post Oil Solutions
- Society to Benefit Everyone
- United for a Fair Economy
- many more, informally
--
William Spademan
President
Common Good Finance Corporation
democratic economics for a sustainable world
PO Box 21, Ashfield, MA 01330 USA
+1 413-628-3336
The University of Manitoba
The Department of Economics, Faculty of Arts at The University of
Manitoba invites applications and nominations for the position of
Head of the Department of Economics.
Department of Economics Headship Faculty of Arts University of
Manitoba Position Vacancy # CA666 & 06727 The Department of
Economics, Faculty of Arts at The University of Manitoba invites
applications and nominations for the position of Head of the
Department of Economics. The successful candidate must hold a PhD
and be eligible for appointment as a tenured position within
Economics at the rank of Associate Professor or Professor
commensurate with qualifications and experience. The appointment as
Head is normally for a five year period to begin January 1, 2010 or
as soon thereafter. The administrative duties of Department Heads in
the Faculty of Arts are governed by University Policy 1009 and also
by the terms of collective agreements and the policies and protocols
of the Faculty of Arts. The criteria to be used in assessing
candidates for the Headship will include the applicant's or
nominee's excellence in research (field and specialization are
open), performance in teaching, and service, the ability to
represent the interests of the Department in working with the Dean
and other Heads of Departments, the ability to foster and promote
the success of the Department's academic staff, the ability to
sustain apositive working environment for faculty, support staff and
graduate students, and the ability to respond effectively to both
undergraduate and graduate student issues. Evidence of strong
administrative leadership skills are required. Short-listed
candidates for the position will be expected to address a public
forum of faculty, support staff, and students, and make a research
presentation. The University of Manitoba encourages applications
from qualified women and men, including members of visible
minorities, Aboriginal peoples, and persons with disabilities. All
qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and
permanent residents will be given priority. Confidential
applications and nominations should include a curriculum vitae, a
letter of intent and three confidential letters of reference and
should be received no later than noon (CST) on August 15, 2009
(please note this is a new closing date). All materials should be
sent to: Dr. Janice Ristock, Chair Economics Headship Search
Advisory Committee Dean’s Office, Faculty of Arts University of
Manitoba 310 Fletcher Argue Building Winnipeg, Manitoba R3T 2N2
Further information concerning the Department and the University may
be obtained from
http://www.umanitoba.ca/faculty/arts/economics.
Application materials, including letters of reference, will be
handled in accordance with the Freedom of Information and Protection
of Privacy Act (Manitoba). Please note that curriculum vitas may be
provided to participating members of the search.
Purchase College SUNY
Assistant Professor of Economics (Part-time)
Department: School of Natural & Social Sciences
Deadline: Until Filled
Description: The Economics program at Purchase College SUNY seeks an
economist to fill a one-year, half-time position. The teaching load
is one course per semester plus advising and supervision of six
senior projects. Candidates should have experience teaching
financial economics, managerial economics, economics of the arts,
and economics of art and entertainment and be able to contribute to
the college’s Arts Management program.
Qualifications: The successful candidate should have completed a PhD
in economics by the date of appointment.
Salary: $22,500 (Subject to budgetary approval)
Start Date: September 1, 2009
Review of candidates will begin immediately and will continue until
the search committee determines a final pool. Women and minorities
are strongly encouraged to apply. Purchase College is an Equal
Opportunity/Affirmative action employer.
To apply, please send statement of interest referencing Job Code
ECO031609 and current CV (including names of three references) to:
Affirmative Action Officer
Purchase College SUNY
735 Anderson Hill Road
Purchase, NY 10577
Fax 914-251-5977
Email:
human.resources@purchase.edu (preferred method)
Hampshire College
Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics
Hampshire College, an independent, innovative liberal arts
institution and member of the Five College consortium, is accepting
applications for a one year Visiting Assistant Professor of
Economics position with the possibility of an additional year
depending on future funding. The School of Social Science seeks a
general economist with a strong commitment to teaching. Applicants
with a focus on heterodox approaches to theory and practice, U.S.
economics/financial markets, economic development, and feminist
economics are particularly encouraged to apply.
Teaching load is two courses per semester and one course during
January Term.
Interest in assisting students with their own independent research
projects is expected. Interdisciplinary approaches encouraged. Ph.D.
preferred.
Hampshire College is committed to building a culturally diverse
intellectual community and strongly encourages applications from
women and minority candidates.
This position begins fall 2009, pending budgetary approval. We offer
a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits program. Review of
applications begins April 15, 2009. Applicants should submit a
statement of educational philosophy, teaching and research
interests, curriculum vita, sample of written work, and three
letters of recommendation to:
Economics Search Committee
School of Social Science
Hampshire College
893 West Street
Amherst, MA 01002-3359
www.hampshire.edu
Hampshire College is an equal opportunity institution, committed to
diversity in education and employment.
Institute of Social Studies
Vacancy for Professor of Political Economy and Human Rights
The Professor of Political Economy and Human Rights is expected to
take a leading role, both within the staff group ‘States, Societies
and World Development’ and the Institute of Social Studies (ISS), in
reshaping and strengthening the research, teaching and capacity
development programmes.
The appointee’s tasks involve research, teaching, and capacity
development at the intersection of:
- political economy of the (re)distribution of power and resources
- human rights-based approaches to development.
For more information and the profile, check the website of the ISS:
http://www.iss.nl/About-ISS/ISS-Vacancies/Vacancy-for-Professor-of-Political-Economy-and-Human-Rights
Prof. Dr. Irene van Staveren
Feminist Development Economics (Institute of Social Studies)
Economics and Christian Ethics (Nijmegen University)
ISS
P.O. Box 29776
2502 LT THE HAGUE
THE NETHERLANDS
phone: (31) 70 42 60 602
fax: (31) 70 42 60 799
e-mail: staveren@iss.nl
www.iss.nl/weg
Farmingdale State College
Farmingdale, NY
EO Macroeconomics
CO Mathematical and Quantitative Methods
H0 Public Economics
G0 Financial Economics
Assistant Professor of Economics. Farmingdale State College is
seeking to hire a tenure track assistant professor in economics. Job
duties include normal teaching load in general and specialty areas (
introductory, intermediate, and advanced courses in macroeconomics,
quantitative analysis, and in areas of individual interest/research
such as International Finance, Financial Economics, and Public
Finance/Public Sector Economics, research leading to publication in
academic journals, student advisement and recruitment activities,
and college service activities. Required qualifications: Ph.D. by
date of appointment, one year of teaching experience, developed
research agenda. Generalist with fields of interest - E0,
Macroeconomics, C0 Mathematical and Quantitative Methods, H0 Public
Economics, G0 Financial Economics Preferred qualifications: Ph.D.
already awarded, established record of scholarship and publications,
specialization in at least one of the fields of interest. Experience
with course instructional technologies such as Blackboard, Angel,
and online course management systems. To apply, submit a letter of
application, c.v., a separate statement of teaching philisophy and
methodology, teaching evaluations, unofficial copy of graduate
transcripts, one short writing sample (no more than 15 pages), names
and contact information of three references. Candidates invited for
interviews will be asked to make a presentation on their research as
well as a separate teaching demonstration. Apply to: Economics
Search, HEP, Farmingdale State College, 2350 Broadhollow Road,
Farmingdale, NY 11735. Only fully complete application packages will
be reviewed. Review of applications begins April 24, 2009 and
continues until the position is filled. For more information go to
Human Resources at
www.farmingdale.edu.
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Heterodox Conference Papers and Reports and Articles
GDAE Papers
The G-20 group of industrialized and developing country leaders
meets April 2 to address the global economic crisis. Two new
publications from GDAE’s Globalization and Sustainable Development
Program highlight the need to go beyond platitudes about trade and
financial system reform.
“Global Crisis in Need of Global Solutions”
by Kevin P. Gallagher, in Latin American Trade Network LATN Nexos 7,
March 2009.
In this short essay for a special issue from the Latin American
Trade Network on the challenges facing the upcoming G-20 meetings,
Kevin P. Gallagher highlights the urgent need for a global response
to the economic crisis that recognizes that expansionary government
stimulus policies cannot be just for the wealthy countries. He
points out that the IMF in its emergency assistance plans for
developing countries is still imposing harsh conditionalities that
limit rather than expand government spending. If the IMF is to
receive significantly higher lending authority, it should be forced
to abandon its draconian austerity policies, which are more
inappropriate than ever in the current crisis.
Read essay here
Click here for the full LATN issue on the G-20, with Spanish and
English contributions
“Trading our way out of the financial crisis:
The need for WTO reform”
By Kevin P. Gallagher and Timothy A. Wise
in Rebuilding Global Trade: Toward a Fairer, More Sustainable
Future, International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development
(ICTSD) and the Global Economic Governance Programme (GEG),
University College, Oxford.
In the context of the deepening global crisis that is pushing
millions more into poverty in developing countries, development
should be the centerpiece of reforming the global financial
architecture. Pressing to conclude a World Trade Organization (WTO)
deal based on the current proposals in Geneva would be
counterproductive. This essay offers five policies toward reforming
global trade that will enable economic development and stimulate
global demand during the crisis.
Read essay here
See full collection of essays
(Note that a version of this article was published by the Americas
Program of the Center for International Policy, in English and in
Spanish:
http://www.ircamericas.org/esp/5943 )
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Heterodox Journals and
Newsletters
MARXISM 21
MARXISM 21 was founded as a semi-annual academic journal specialized
in Marxist studies in 2004. MARXISM 21 has been selected as a Korean
Research Foundation Listed-Candidate Journal and published on a
quarterly basis since 2008. After 2009 MARXISM 21 starts to publish
articles in English as well as in Korean, with its Editorial Board
expanded to some worldly-renounced Marxist scholars.
MARXISM 21 publishes the academic works on following areas:
- studies in the thoughts of Karl Marx and the classical Marxist
tradition
- Marxist analysis of the contemporary capitalism and class
struggles
- Debates between the various currents of Marxism
MARXISM 21 welcome the original and creative contributions from all
the related disciplines, including economics, political science,
sociology, literary critics, history, philosophy, cultural studies,
etc. Your contributions and subscriptions will be greatly
appreciated!
For more information:
http://nongae.gnu.ac.kr/~issmarx/eng/eng_intro.php
http://nongae.gnu.ac.kr/~issmarx/
Journal of Economic Methodology
Volume 16 Issue 1 is now available online at
http://www.informaworld.com
This new issue contains the following articles:
- Is individual rationality essential to market price formation? The
contribution of zero-intelligence agent trading models
Author: Paola Tubaro
- Explaining the inability of economists to practice what they
preach: the funding of the American Economic Review with author
charges
Author: Thomas David Scheiding
- Creativity, probability and uncertainty
Author: Matthew C. Wilson
- Fuzzy logic and Keynes's speculative demand for money
Authors: Sheila C. Dow; Dipak Ghosh
- Behavioral experiments: how and what can we learn about human
behavior
Author: Ana C. Santos
- BOOK REVIEWS, Pages 89 - 96
- Notes on contributors
- International Network for Economic Methodology Conference
The Revista de Economia del Caribe
The Revista de Economia del Caribe is a semiannual journal of the
Economics Department of the Instituto de Estudios Económicos del
Caribe (IEEC) of the Universidad del Norte in Barranquilla-Colombia.
Its main purpose is to publish research developed in the Colombian
Caribbean in the area of Economics but it also includes general
works on Economic Micro and macro theory and any other fields of
Economics. The journal is opened to different strands of Economic
thought. Topics about regional development, institutional economics,
health education, labor economics are also welcomed.
http://www.uninorte.edu.co/publicaciones/economia_caribe/index.asp
Challenge
Volume 52 Number 2 / March - April 2009 of Challenge is now
available at
http://mesharpe.metapress.com.
This issue contains:
- Letter from the Editor
Jeff Madrick
- Macroeconomic Policy Challenges and Choices in a Time of Crises
Allen Sinai
- Bailouts, Buy-Ins, and Ballyhoo
Robert Hockett
- Bailing Out the World's Poorest
Martin Ravallion
- The Limits of Work-Based Social Support in the United States
Heather Boushey, Chris Tilly
- Children of the New Millennium: Big Government, the Predator
State, and Stagflation
Mark Skousen
- What Keynes Knew
Mike Sharpe
New Political Economy
Volume 14 Issue 1 is now available online at informaworld
http://www.informaworld.com.
This new issue contains the following articles:
The Pursuit of (Past) Happiness? Middle-class Indebtedness and
American Financialisation
Author: Johnna Montgomerie
Accountability Gone Wrong: The World Bank, Non-governmental
Organisations and the US Government in a Fight over China
Author: Robert H. Wade
Social Partnership and Democratic Legitimacy in Ireland
Authors: Paul Teague; Jimmy Donaghey
Chinese Capitalism in the OECD Mirror
Author: Richard W. Carney
Tax Reform Paralysis in Post-Conflict Guatemala
Author: Omar Sanchez
The North American Free Trade Agreement
Author: Carol Wise
Giovanni Arrighi - Adam Smith in Beijing: Lineages of the
Twenty-First Century (Verso, 2007)
Author: John M. Hobson
The Bulletin of Political Economy
Volume 1 No. 1 June 2007
The Bulletin of Political Economy is published twice a year by
SERIALS PUBLICATIONS. Subscriptions and other inquiries should be
directed to the Publisher, Serial Publications. 4830/24, Prahlad
Street, Ansari Road, Darya Ganj, New Delhi-110002, INDIA. Phone:
91-11-23245225, Fax: 91-11-23272135, E-mail:
serials@satyam.net.in.
All submissions for publication should be sent
electronically as a Word file to the address:
bpe@uom.gr.
Click here to download the
content.
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Heterodox
Books and Book Series
The Official
History of Privatisation Vol. I
http://www.routledge.com/books/The-Official-History-of-Privatisation-Vol-I-isbn9780415469166
This first volume of the Official History studies the background to
privatisation, and the privatisations of the first two Conservative
Governments led by Margaret Thatcher from May 1979 to June 1987.
First commissioned by the then Prime Minister Tony Blair as an
authoritative history, this volume addresses a number of key
questions:
- To what extent was privatisation a clear policy commitment within
the Thatcher Governments of the 1980s - or did Government simply
stumble on the idea?
- Why were particular public corporations sold early in the 1980s
and other sales delayed until well into the 1990s?
- What were the privatisation objectives and how did they change
over time, if at all?
- How was each privatisation planned and executed, how were
different City advisers appointed and remunerated, what precise
roles did they play?
- How was each privatisation administered; in what ways did the
methods evolve and change and why? How were sale prices determined?
- Which government departments took the lead role; what was the
input of the Treasury and Bank of England; and what was the
relationship between Ministers and civil servants?
The study draws heavily from the official records of the British
Government to which the author was given full access and from
interviews with leading figures involved in each of the
privatisations – including ex-Ministers, civil servants, business
and City figures, as well as academics that have studied the
subject. This new official history will be of much interest to
students of British political history, economics and business
studies.
Hegel's Logic
The Marxists Internet Archive has just published Hegel's Logic with
a Foreword by Andy Blunden, available from Erythros Press
http://www.erythrospress.com/.
The Foreword introduces the reader to Hegel's life and times and a
Marxist reading of the Logic. The main text is the popular 1873 Wm
Wallace translation of the Encyclopedia, or Shorter Logic,
representing simultaneously, the most accessible and developed
presentation of Hegel's thought.
The foreword shines a light on how Marx used the Logic in the
development of Das Kapital and includes a synopsis of the main
criticisms of Hegel by Marx.
If you don't have a copy of the Shorter Logic, you must get this
book. You are unlikely to find a cheaper or better edition. If
you've got one already, then buy this one just for the Marxist
Foreword, and contribute to the MIA at the same time.
The book may be purchased from
http://www.erythrospress.com/ for US$25 plus postage, $5
US or $13 elsewhere. Profits go to the Marxists Internet Archive to
allow it to continue bringing the classics of Marxism for free
access over the internet.
The Myth of the Free Market
The Role of the State in a Capitalist Economy
Mark A. Martinez
http://www.styluspub.com/Books/BookDetail.aspx?productID=194259
“In this thoughtful and erudite book, Mark Martinez forces us to
re-examine the myth of the 'natural' free market order. Using very
intelligently a wide range of fascinating historical and
contemporary examples, he takes us through many important economic,
political, and philosophical reflections about the true nature of
the market system and its important but limited role in the
construction of a civilized society.”
-- Ha-Joon Chang, University of Cambridge, author of Kicking Away
the Ladder and Bad Samaritans.
"A fast-moving primer bursting with relevant examples, The Myth of
the Free Market is---to put it mildly---eye-opening. Mark Martinez's
insight could not have arrived at a more important time. Compelling
from cover to cover."
-- Bill Harnsberger, Featured Writer, Daily Kos
Keynes And
Macroeconomics After 70
Critical Assessments of The General Theory
Edited by L. Randall Wray, Professor of Economics and Research
Director, Center for Full Employment and Price Stability, University
of Missouri – Kansas City, US and Mathew Forstater, Associate
Professor of Economics and Director, Center for Full Employment and
Price Stability, University of Missouri – Kansas City, US
http://www.e-elgar.co.uk/Bookentry_DESCRIPTION.lasso?id=12915
In this substantial new collection, esteemed Post-Keynesian scholars
reassess the relevance of Keynes’s The General Theory to a broad
array of topic areas, ranging from the environment, investment
finance, exchange rates, and socialism, as well as inquiries into
general Post-Keynesian theory.
In response to the current economic crisis, many people looking for
new solutions are excitedly re-discovering the Post-Keynesian
tradition of money modeling and theory. This book offers a broad
array of recent Post-Keynesian scholarship, providing a good
contextual understanding of the current state of the field from
which innovative money solutions are springing. Topics covered here
include: Keynes and heterodox economics, the founding fathers of
Post-Keynesian economics, Keynesian models, Keynesian policy, and
the modern development and extensions of Keynesian economics.
Academics and practitioners eager for a solid heterodox approach to
economics and money theory, the environment, finance, and political
science will find the book an invaluable addition to their
collection.
Nature, Social Relations and Human
Needs
S. Moog & R. Stones (ed) 2008 Nature, Social Relations and Human
Needs: essays in honour of Ted Benton.
http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=285605
Bringing together some of the most eminent thinkers in the field,
this book celebrates the seminal contribution of Ted Benton to the
pressing themes of nature, social relations and human needs. An
introductory overview of the writings of Ted Benton focuses on the
subtle ways in which he has combined the concerns of biology and
sociology, and more broadly, the life sciences and social sciences.
The following chapters are divided into four parts, all of which
have been central to Benton's work; examining realism, naturalism
and the philosophy of the social sciences; the continuing relevance
of Marxism; philosophical anthropology and human needs; ecology,
society and natural limits. The concluding chapter is a stimulating
and important rejoinder by Ted Benton; variously clarifying,
conceding, defending, and insisting, but most of all savouring the
opportunity to further develop pressing lines of thought. With
chapters by leading sociologists, this study, the first to
critically assess the impact of Benton's work, will be invaluable to
all those concerned with the relation between the natural and social
worlds. Download the
flyer.
Routledge Advances in Heterodox Economics Series
New & Published Titles:
A History of Heterodox Economics
Challenging the Mainstream in the Twentieth Century
By Frederic S. Lee
ISBN: 978-0-415-77714-8 / Pub Date: February 2009 / $150.00
This book presents a social qua community history of heterodox
economics. The author provides the best and most thorough account of
the rise of heterodoxy and the response of orthodoxy within
economics.
Radical Economics and Labor
Edited by Frederic S. Lee, Jon Bekken
ISBN: 978-0-415-77723-0 / Pub Date: January 2009 / $140.00
This book speaks both to those in the labor movement, and point to
fruitful ways in which these radical heterodox traditions have
engaged and continue to engage each other and with the labor
movement.
Currencies, Capital Flows and Crises
A Post Keynesian Analysis of Exchange Rate Determination
By John T. Harvey
ISBN: 978-0-415-77763-6 / Pub Date: December 2008 / $125.00
This unique book examines exchange rates and portfolio capital flows
from an objective perspective and the result is a book which will be
of use to financial economists all over the world.
Ontology and Economics
Tony Lawson and His Critics
Edited by Edward Fullbrook
ISBN: 978-0-415-47613-3 / Pub Date: October 2008 / $150.00
ISBN Paperback direct: 978-0-415-54649-2 / $44.95
This original book brings together some of the world's leading
critics of economics orthodoxy to debate Lawson's contribution to
the economics literature. In this collection scholars such as Bruce
Caldwell, John Davis and Geoffrey Hodgson present their thoughtful
criticisms of Lawson's work while Lawson himself presents his
reactions.
Click
here for detailed information.
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Heterodox Graduate Program and PhD
Scholarships
Gyeongsang National University
Graduate Program of Political Economy (GPPE) at Gyeongsang National
University in Korea, established in 2009, provides M.A. and Ph.D.
degree education in interdisciplinary studies in Marxist political
economy, covering majors such as economics, political sciences,
sociology and history. GPPE aims to educate scholars so that they
become specialists on Marxism and so equipped with critical tools
for analyzing the contemporary capitalism and a creative vision of
modeling post-capitalist alternative systems. GPPE faculty's
unrivalled edge in the Marxist studies is widely known in Korea
through the activities of its two core institutions, the Institute
for Social Sciences and the MARXISM 21 journal. GPPE attempts to
develop and apply the classical Marxist method, including the
theories and practices of Marx, Engels, Lenin, Luxemburg, Trotsky
and Gramsci, in analyzing the modern capitalism and configuring the
alternative socioeconomic system. GPPE carries out on the
interdisciplinary Marxist studies on the structures and
contradictions of the contemporary global capitalism. In particular,
GPPE studies the problems of modern capitalism such as global
economic crisis, uneven development, neoliberalism, global warming
and ecological problems etc., and tries to provide feasible
post-capitalist solutions to them. GPPE studies the characteristics,
limitations and future tasks of the contemporary social movements
including labor, peasants, peace, environmental and
alterglobalization movements through interdisciplinary approaches.
By drawing upon the experiences of the revolutionary movements in
the classical Marxist tradition and integrating them with the
current anti-capitalist movements, GPPE develops new post-capitalist
socioeconomic models and strategies to achieve them.
For more information:
http://marxism.gnu.ac.kr
http://marxism.gnu.ac.kr/english/1_intro_1_greeting.php
Contact Seongjin Jeong:
seongjin@gsnu.ac.kr
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For Your Information
2009 Daniel
Singer Essay Contest and Prize
Topic: "The global economic crisis has revealed capitalism's
inability to meet the needs of the vast majority of the world's
population. Given the experience of the last century, how can a case
for socialism be made?"
What: 5,000 word essay in English, French or Spanish
Due date for essays -- July 31, 2009
Prize money for the winning essay is $2,500.00.
Click here
for detailed information.
Charles Craypo
Charles Craypo, professor emeritus of economics at the University of
Notre Dame, died Sunday. He was 73.
A native of Jackson, Mich., Craypo served for two years in the
Marines before attending Michigan State University where he earned
bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees in economics. He joined
the Notre Dame faculty in 1978 as an associate professor of
economics leaving in 1982 for Cornell University, where he was a
professor of industrial and labor relations until 1984. He returned
that year to Notre Dame to serve as chairman of the department of
economics. In 1993, he became first director of Notre Dame’s Higgins
Labor Studies Program, which supports research, teaching, discussion
and publication on labor and the economy based on Craypo’s premise
that “an understanding that social justice and efficiency are
essential ingredients of a truly successful economy.”
“I have known Chuck Craypo for almost 30 years,” said Charles K.
Wilber, professor emeritus of economics and Craypo’s predecessor as
Notre Dame’s economics chair. “In addition to being a first class
teacher, he did path-breaking research on labor relations within the
context of industrial organization. He was a great mentor to our
doctoral students, directing many dissertations and aiding the new
graduates to obtain excellent positions in academia, government and
labor organizations. He always had time for colleagues and students
alike. He will be sorely missed.”
Craypo was engaged in community-based research for many years,
writing and editing numerous books and articles on industrial and
labor relations and frequently testifying before federal legislative
committees including the U.S. House Committee on Labor; the Senate
Judiciary Committee; and the House Committee on Banking, Finance and
Urban Affairs. His study in the late 1980s of the effects of
de-industrialization in “Rust Belt” cities examined in particular
the closure of the Studebaker Corporation in South Bend. In the
1990s he was commissioned by the United Way of St. Joseph County to
conduct a study of the “working poor,” the results of which were
featured in a widely viewed video production entitled “Climbing the
Down Escalator.”
Chuck is survived by his wife, Mary, their son, Jack, their
daughters, Carrie Leitzell and Sue Storms, and three granddaughters.
A private memorial service was held on March 24. Condolences may be
sent via an online guest book at www.hooverfuneralhome.com, and the
family has asked that contributions in Craypo’s memory be made to
the Higgins Labor Studies Program, 511 Flanner Hall, Notre Dame, IN
46556.
Permanent Jobs Program for
the U.S.
We are currently working with the National Jobs For All Coalition
(NJFAC) and others for a permament full employment program that
would be fully funded from taxes on finance, the wealthy,
environmentally unsustainable production, and normal money supply
increases. Our (revised) "Permanent Jobs Program for the U.S.:
Economic Restructuring to Meet Human Needs" is available at:
http://www.chicagodsa.org/jobs.pdf
We believe that in addition to continued short-term "stimulus", a
permanent and far- reaching restructuring of the real economy is
necessary for lasting and sustainable economic revitalization rather
than continued efforts to reinflate the financial bubble and hope
for "trickle down"!
In Solidarity,
Ron Baiman
For the Chicago Political Economy Group (CPEG)
Joan Robinson Lectures
Bob Marks has very kindly put up audio tapes of a series of lectures
Joan Robinson gave at Stanford in May 1974.
The topics of the lectures are:
1. "What is Wrong with Neoclassical Economics?" introduced by Don
Harris,
2. "Traditional Economics is Inappropriate for Developing
Economics," introduced by John Gurley and Don Harris,
3. "Socialist Economies and Consumer Sovereignty,"
The link is:
http://www.agsm.edu.au/bobm/iows/jrobinson.html
The Bourbons of Global
by Howard Stein and Claudia Kedar
http://www.guatemala-times.com/opinion/syndicated/the-frontiers-of-growth/905-the-bourbons-of-global-finance.html
International Conference on
Peer Reviewing
Final set of deadlines for The 2nd International Symposium of
Academic Globalization: AG 2009 (
http://www.ICTconfer.org/ag ), and
The International Symposium on Peer Reviewing: ISPR 2009
( http://www.ICTconfer.org/ispr )
(Orlando, Florida, USA. July 10th-13th, 2009)
Deadlines for Regular Face-to-Face Participation Papers/abstracts
submissions and Invited Sessions Proposals: April 15th, 2009 Authors
Notification: May 6th, 2009 Camera ready, full papers: May 27th,
2009
Deadlines for Virtual Participation Papers/abstracts submissions and
Invited Sessions Proposals: May 6th, 2009 Authors Notification: June
1st, 2009 Camera ready, full papers: June 22nd, 2009
Crisis Observer
Dear member of the American Economic Association,
I am writing you to let you know about
Crisis Observer, an new
online collaborative initiative aimed at contributing to making
sense of the developing global financial crisis.
Cedites, a non-profit organization based in Milan, Italy,
coordinates a group of journalists and economists in several
countries who monitor a growing number of newspapers, magazines,
blogs and online resources on a daily basis to select the most
important and best international stories that will help readers to
understand the global scenario.
Crisis Observer is not a simple online news aggregator: it does not
suggest readers each and every story on the Net, but only a short
selection of the Must-Reads, to allow them to know the essentials in
just half an hour every day.
This website sports a growing, global readership among bankers,
investors, journalists, bloggers and other people interested in
understanding the financial crisis from a broader point of view.
I hope you will find Crisis Observer useful and I apologize if this
email has reached you by mistake.
Finally, we are always interested in increasing our network of
collaborators. If you are interested, please send an email to
info@crisisobserver.com.
Paolo C. Conti
Editor in Chief of Crisis Observer
www.crisisobserver.com
The Solidarity Economy
Movement Emerges in Its First U.S. Conference
By Carl Davidson
SolidarityEconomy.Net
Nearly 400 organizers and activists gathered at the University of
Massachusetts in Amherst March 19-22 for the first national
gathering of the U.S. Solidarity Economy Network, exceeding the
expectations of its organizers.
The deepening economic crisis made the meeting quite timely. The
overall theme was 'Building Another World,' and drew participants
from the East Coast, South and Midwest of the US, even Alaska and
Puerto Rico. Internationally, delegations came from Quebec,
Venezuela, Peru, Mexico, and Canada. People represented economic
justice and green jobs projects, food coops and credit unions,
worker coops and labor unions, and peace and justice organizing
efforts.
"Our diversity was very dynamic and creative," said Julie Matthaei,
a USSEN coordinating committee member. "It served us well in
affirming our unity, discussing differences, and helping us reach a
deeper understanding of the solidarity economy in our context."
Please read the rest of this article at:
http://www.solidarityeconomy.net/
Interview de Sergio Rossi
Suite à la petite discussion issue du "ralliement" du gouverneur de
la banque centrale de Chine au Plan Keynes et au bancor, puis à
l'interprétation de Posen, voici une interview de Sergio Rossi,
membre de l'ADEK, parue aujourd'hui dans la "Tribune de Genève" sur
le G20 et la monnaie internationale.
http://www.tdg.ch/actu/economie/abandonner-dollar-reference-universelle-2009-04-01
Computational Economics
Clashes with Mainstream Economics
Dear Colleagues,
As you all know, the so-called leaders of the academic economics
have little respect for efforts to bring modern numerical and
computationalmethods to economics. I have created a website that
discusses and documents my experiences, particularly with journals.
I have no illusions about the likelihood of this changing their
behavior, but it does clearly show their attitude. It may also help
you deal with colleagues who similarly oppose building computational
expertise in economics and inflate the value of publications in
particular journals.
The website is at
http://sites.google.com/site/economicsandcomputation/
I know that some will not be comfortable with this confrontational
approach. In my opinion, this is appropriate given the insulting and
hostile treatment that computational economists frequently
experience.
Ken
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/computational_economics/message/71
First Factory Tour for
Economics Graduate Students and Faculty
The first in a planned series of factory tours for economics
graduate students and faculty has now been set up.
The tour will take place on May 8, 2009 in Grand Island, Nebraska.
The plants visited will be Dramco Tool and Die (the largest
fully-equipped machine shop between Chicago and Denver), Hornady
Manufacturing (ammunition), and Penrose Manufacturing (tractors and
front-loaders).
Leading the tour at Dramco will be Larry Patten, owner of the
company and a man with a very thoughtful perspective on the
economics of real industry.
There is a group of graduate students from the University of
Missouri at Kansas City already planning to go; if you wish to join
them, please write to Ian Fletcher at ian.fletcher@usbic.net.
Best Regards,
Ian Fletcher
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