From the Editor
Earlier this year the
editor of the
American Journal of Economics
and Sociology, Professor Larry Moss, died.
After a search for a new editor, the Journal’s
Board appointed me as the new editor, effective
1 July 2009—click
here for announcement. Continuing its
intellectual tradition, I welcome any
submissions that critically investigates the
social provisioning process utilizing different
theoretical and methodological approaches; that
engage in critical analysis and empirical
studies of current social-economic micro and
macro policies affecting the social provisioning
process; and that evaluate past and current
intellectual arguments and disciplinary
developments which had or currently have an
impact on understanding and investigating the
social provisioning process. Being editor of a
journal means that I will have to reorganize my
activities and commitments (see below with
regard to ICAPE). In particular, I will have to
give up my editorship of my Routledge Advances
in Heterodox Economics book series—I am working
on finding a replacement so that the book series
can continue. In addition, doing both this
Newsletter and being the editor of AJES may be
too difficult to manage, which means that there
will changes regarding the former. Only time
will tell.
The content of the Newsletter is again quite
remarkable for its diversity and activities,
such as the Minksy String Quartet (see FYI). The
conferences, seminars, papers books, and
journals noted below span the broad interest of
heterodox economists as well as brings them
together. In this regard, the pending new book
on Economics Pluralism, which
is the conference volume from the last ICAPE
conference, deserves attention. Finally, for
those who are interested in issues of ranking
journals, assessing research performances of
departments, and the future of heterodox
economics in Europe, you might want to
participate in the University of Bremen workshop
on Assessing Heterodox Economics in a
European Context—see below for details.
Fred Lee
In
this issue:
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Call for Papers |
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- Labour
Underutilisation - Unemployment & Underemployment
- Capital as Power
- Global Financial Crisis
- 3rd International Research Workshop in Political Economy
- The 2nd Conference of the International Forum for
Contemporary Chinese Studies (IFCCS)
- JSPE 57th Annual Conference, 2009
- Growth, Trade and Economic Development: Theory and
Evidence
- International Journal of Trade and Global Markets
- Research on Money and Finance Discussion Papers series
- RM2009: New Marxian Times |
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Conferences, Seminars and Lectures |
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- Séminaire CEPN et
MSH Paris Nor
- 2009 Summer Institute
- The Geopolitics of Global Energy
- The third History of Recent Economics (HISRECO) Conference
- 6th History of Economics as History of Social Science
Workshop
- Politique monétaire, règles de taux d'intérêt et
fonctionnement du marché monétaire
- IIPPE’s International Research Workshop
- Cambridge Seminar in the History of Economic Analysis
- Assessing Heterodox Economics in a European Context
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Job Postings for Heterodox Economists |
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- The Oregon Center for Public Policy
(OCPP)
- City University London |
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Heterodox Conference Papers and
Reports and Articles |
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- GDAE Papers
- LEVY Papers
- GDAE launches reports at LASA in Rio |
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Heterodox Journals and Newsletters |
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- Metroeconomica
- Review of Political Economy
- CIRCUS
- The Journal of Philosophical Economics
- Local Economy
- CASE Newsletter
- INTERNATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR PROMOTING POLITICAL ECONOMY
(IIPE) Newsletter
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Heterodox Books and Book Series |
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- The Political Economy of Consumer
Behavior: Contesting Consumption
- ZED Books
- Unravelling Capitalism: A Guide To Marxist Political
Economy
- Bankruptcies and Bailouts
- The Political Economy of Monetary Circuits
- Capital as Power: A Study of Order and Creorder
- Economic Pluralism
- The American Journal of Economics and Sociology Book
Series
- Social Inequality, Analytical Egalitarianism and the March
Towards Eugenic Explanations in the Social Sciences
- Henry George: Political Ideologue, Social Philosopher and
Economic Theorist
- Ernest Mandel: A Rebel’s Dream Deferred
- Routledge Advances in Heterodox Economics Series
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Heterodox Book Reviews |
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- The Life and Times of Raúl Prebisch,
1901-1986
- Economics in Russia: Studies in Intellectual History |
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Heterodox Web Sites and Associations |
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- Hasan Gurak |
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International Confederation of
Associations for Pluralism in Economics - News |
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- ICAPE News |
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For
Your Information |
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- The Minsky String Quartet
- Remarques préparées par Andrew Cornford pour l’occasion de
la publication du livre de Professor Paul Dembinski
- Toxic Textbooks
- The 2009 Routledge–GCP&S Essay Prize
- La Continuidad teórica entre Marx y Sraffa
- Corporate Governance Network (CGN)
- eInsight
- Revolutions fought & refought?
- Robert Rowthorn interviewed by Alan Macfarlane 13th June
2008 |
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Call for Papers
Labour
Underutilisation - Unemployment & Underemployment
This year will be the first for some time that official unemployment
rates will rise. The overall predictions are that there could be
around a million people unemployed in Australia by year’s end. The
underemployment rate will also rise.
The deadline for abstracts is Monday 13th July 2009. Please see our
CofFee Conference website which details all relevant deadlines,
available streams and formatting requirements for papers.
http://e1.newcastle.edu.au/coffee/conferences/2009/index.cfm
Click here for
detailed information.
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.
Global Financial Crisis
Global Change, Peace & Security is a leading peer
reviewed journal published by Routledge (UK) and based at La Trobe
University, Victoria, Australia.
GCP&S calls for research articles analysing the nature,
implications, and consequences of the Global Financial Crisis; a
crisis which has sparked the most widespread and severe global
recession since the 1930s.
We seek contributions from across the social sciences: particularly
from international relations, political economy, and peace and
conflict studies.
Global Change, Peace & Security is particularly interested in
research exploring:
- The nature of the Global Financial Crisis and theoretical
approaches to understanding the crisis within the international
economic and political systems of the 21st century
- The impact of the Global Financial Crisis on ongoing
international, regional and national conflicts and peace processes
- The consequences of the Global Financial Crisis for international
power dynamics, global institutions, and systems of governance
Other perspectives on the Global Financial Crisis and its
implications will be favourably received.
Contributions should be 6,000–10,000 words in length, comply with
all requirements of the GCP&S style guidelines, and be emailed as an
attachment (in Word, in English and with GFC in the subject heading)
to:
gcps@latrobe.edu.au
By 27th of November 2009
Style guidelines are available from:
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/journal.asp?issn=1478-1158&linktype=44.
Global Change, Peace & Security also publishes shorter reflective
pieces (4,000 words maximum), research reports, news commentaries
and replies to research articles.
GCP&S also welcomes regular contributions within the scope of the
journal.
For more information contact:
Dr Stephen James
Editor
Global Change, Peace & Security
Centre for Dialogue
La Trobe University
VIC 3086 AUSTRALIA
Tel: 61-3- 9479 1419
Email:
stephen.james@latrobe.edu.au
Global Change, Peace & Security is a scholarly journal that has, for
over twenty years, addressed the difficult practical and theoretical
questions posed by a rapidly globalising world. It is committed to
promoting research that explores the relationships between states,
economies, cultures and societies. For details, visit
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/gcps
3rd International Research Workshop
in Political Economy
Call for Abstracts from Research/Graduate Students
Ankara, September 14th and 15th, 2009
IIPPE invites applications to its 3rd Annual Research Workshop in
Ankara, Turkey on the 14-15th September 2009. The event is organised
with the support of TSSA (Turkish Social Sciences Association) under
the theme of “The Crisis, Interdisciplinarity and Alternatives”.
As with the previous two, highly successful workshops in Crete and
Procida (near Naples), the workshop is intended to give research
students the opportunity to share their research with one another
and to benefit from selective inputs from more senior academics.
Important networks have been created for IIPPE as well as its
working groups both newly formed or consolidated.
Those interested in participating are invited to send a one-page
abstract to 132590@soas.ac.uk
before the extended deadline of 30th May 2009 (with the subject:
IIPPE 3rd Research Workshop). We aim to inform successful
participants and attendees by 8th June. Participants are required to
provide a written paper in advance, the deadline for delivery of
which is the 14th August 2009.
IIPPE Working Groups are encouraged to put forward a collective
proposal for a session (usually 3-4 papers) within the Workshop.
Please submit such session proposals, indicating the names and
titles of the session papers to
132590@soas.ac.uk before the 30th May. Abstracts for these
papers, and the papers themselves, should then be sent separately as
above.
IIPPE is only able at most to cover basic accommodation and food
costs for most workshop participants. We therefore strongly urge you
to seek alternative sources of funding to cover the cost of travel
and other expenses, including a workshop fee, if available. Please
indicate whether you have such funding in place when sending your
abstract to us.
For further information regarding the event please contact
132590@soas.ac.uk.
The 2nd Conference of the
International Forum for Contemporary Chinese Studies (IFCCS)
Beyond Revolution and Reforms: the People’s Republic Looks Forward
at 60
7-9 September 2009, University of Nottingham, UK
Organiser:
School of Contemporary Chinese Studies (with its China Policy
Institute and
Nottingham Confucius Institute), University of Nottingham
Sponsors:
The Office of the Chinese Language Council International (HANBAN)
The Nature and Environment Research Council
The British Academy
The Leverhulme Centre for Research on Globalisation & Economic
Policy (GEP)
Click
here for detailed information.
JSPE 57th Annual Conference, 2009
The World Crisis of 2008 and the Future of Capitalism
To be held on November 22-23, 2009, at the University of Tokyo,
Hongo Campus in Tokyo, Japan
The 57th annual conference of the JAPAN SOCIETY OF POLITICAL ECONOMY
(JSPE) will be held on
November 22 (Sunday) and 23 (Monday), 2009, at the University of
Tokyo, Hongo Campus in Tokyo. The theme of the plenary session is:
The World Crisis of 2008 and the Future of Capitalism. In the last
annual conference at Kyushu University in 2008, we focused on the
global financial crisis caused by the subprime mortgage fiasco in
the United States in 2007. We analysed the causes and risks of the
subprime shock and discussed the financial situation just after the
bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers on September 15, 2008. Through
analysing this subprime mortgage crisis from multifaceted
perspectives, we tried to clarify where global capitalism was now
and where it was going.
Click
here for detailed information.
Growth, Trade and
Economic Development: Theory and Evidence
The School of Economics of the Instituto Politécnico Nacional at
Mexico City is organising the second annual conference ‘Growth,
Trade and Economic Development: Theory and Evidence’. I will
appreciate you pass the call for papers, which is available in the
link below, to colleagues and friends.
http://www.ese.ipn.mx/pdf/CALL_FOR_PAPERS,_September_2009.pdf
International Journal of Trade and
Global Markets
CALL FOR PAPERS
Guest Editor: Bruno Sergi & Aristidis P. Bitzenis
The International Journal of Trade and Global Markets is an
international journal. IJTGM fosters discussion on the various
interrelationships between economic growth at national and
international levels and international trade. The journal will
emphasise the implications that trade policy exerts on economic
growth and vice versa, as well the role of national governments,
international organisations and the business community on related
issues of worldwide concern.
The objectives of IJTGM are to become a main source of analyses and
perspectives on the issues of economics and trade in order to be an
effective channel of communication between policy-makers, government
agencies, academic and research institutions. It emphasises problems
of international significance and offers important lessons for
policy-makers and the wide audience which participates in the policy
debate in such a way that it promotes and coordinates developments
in the field of international trade and economic growth. The journal
will emphasise national, regional, international and global
realities.
IJTGM provides a vehicle to help professionals, leading professional
economists, researchers and policy makers, working in the field of
international economics, trade, and business.
The journal welcomes stimulating original articles that are clearly
written and draw upon contemporary policy-related research.
Preference on this special issue is given to:
FDI determinants and its impact on a political economy dimension
Impact of FDI on host and home countries
FDI and globalization
Privatization as a part of FDI and its impact on a host country
FDI and multinationals
FDI and European Economic Integration
FDI and European Union Enlargement
Trends of FDI under the new globalized worlds
FDI and migration
Trade and FDI as complements or substitutes
FDI, trade and Regional Integration (regional initiatives)
FDI as a foreign entry mode and its impact on the business
environment
Prospects of the Westerns Balkans to become EU members
No submission fee is required. The deadline is on 1st of January
2010.
Papers will pass a double-blind referee process supervised and
subject to the final approval of the guest Editors.
The International Journal of Trade and Global Markets also invites
graduate students to submit research papers. Proof of graduate
student status should be provided with the submission. While the
students’ papers will go through the regular review process and be
held to the same standards for acceptance as other submissions, the
panel of reviewers will serve a mentoring role to advise the student
to strengthen the paper.
Completed papers should be submitted as an email attachment to:
Dr. Bruno S. Sergi
University of Messina
DESMaS “V. Pareto"
Faculty of Political Science
Via T. Cannizzaro, 278
98122 Messina
ITALY
bsergi@unime.it
Research on Money and Finance
Discussion Papers series
We are pleased to announce the launch of the Research on Money and
Finance Discussion Papers series, available at
http://www.soas.ac.uk/rmf/papers/
The series invites discussion papers that may be in political
economy, heterodox economics, and economic sociology. We welcome
theoretical and empirical analysis without preference for particular
topics. Our aim is to accumulate a body of work that provides
insight into the development of contemporary capitalism. We also
welcome literature reviews and critical analyses of mainstream
economics provided they have a bearing on economic and social
development. Submissions are refereed by a panel of three.
Publication in the RMF series does not preclude submission to
journals. However, authors are encouraged independently to check
journal policy.
Best Regards,
Paulo L dos Santos
for Research on Money and Finance
www.soas.ac.uk/rmf
rmf@soas.ac.uk
RM2009: New Marxian
Times
RETHINKING MARXISM: a journal of economics, culture & society is
pleased to announce its 7th international conference, to be held at
the University of Massachusetts in Amherst on 5-8 November 2009.
Click here for detailed
information.
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Conferences, Seminars
and Lectures
Séminaire CEPN et MSH Paris Nor
Je vous signale cette conférence de Paris Nord organisé par B.
Coriat où y sera développé une pensée hétérodoxe plus marxiste et
institutionaliste.
Séminaire CEPN et MSH Paris Nord
Le retour de la pensée propriétaire dans le capitalisme contemporain
et ses apories
28-29 mai 2009
A la MSH Paris Nord
(Plan d’accès :
http://www.mshparisnord.org/acces.htm )
Comité d’Organisation :
Benjamin Coriat (CEPN, Université Paris 13), Fabienne Orsi (IRD-
SE4S, UMR 912 et CEPN), Olivier Weinstein (CEPN, Université Paris
13).
Inscriptions obligatoires avant le 20 mai auprès de :
Chantale Darin :
darin.chantale@univ-paris13.fr ou Chantal Miry :
miry@univ-paris13.fr
Voir Programme complet en fichier joint.
2009 Summer
Institute
After the Economic Meltdown: Building a Solidarity Economy
World Fellowship Center, Conway, N.H.
July 12-17, 2009
Learn how the economy works and gain tools to make your activism
more effective.
To get an idea of past Summer Institutes:
http://www.populareconomics.org/past_SI.html
Click here for
detailed information.
The Geopolitics of Global Energy
http://www.bbk.ac.uk/polsoc/news/thegeopoliticsofglobalenergy
The Geopolitics of Global Energy: International Competition, Rivalry
and Conflict An International Workshop on 28-29 May 2009, Birkbeck
College, University of London
For further information and free registration please contact
a.colas@bbk.ac.uk In recent
years questions surrounding energy security have become the focus of
international security and global politics. A number of issues have
been central to these debates:
- the impact of high energy prices on economic development and
political stability within states
- the dependence of industrialised states on sources of energy from
unstable geopolitical zones
- the role of states in securing access to and control of energy
resources
- the relationship between commercial energy producers and
distributors to governments
- the geopolitical consequences of the increased leverage of energy
producing states
- the international political and geopolitical consequences of the
competition amongst states to secure access to and control of energy
resources This workshop brings together a number of international
specialists on energy security and geopolitics in order to shed
further theoretical and empirical light on contemporary resource
competition and rivalry, especially - though not exclusively -
between the West and its Eurasian contenders. In particular the
workshop will compare and contrast the strategies and policies of
states in the Europe, the Americas, East Asia and Africa, as both
producers and consumers of energy. It seeks, additionally, to
explore with greater rigour and precision the meaning and purchase
of the 'geopolitical' turn in contemporary international studies.
Programme
Mark BASSIN, University of Birmingham - 'Energy and the Geopolitics
of Russian Neo-Imperialism'
Cyrus BINA, University of Minnesota, USA - 'Oil: The Geopolitics of
Energy in the Epoch of Globalization'
Klaus DODDS, Royal Holloway, University of London - 'The Arctic in
the Global Imagination: Geopolitics, Resources, and Environment'
Dominick JENKINS, formerly of Greenpeace, London - 'Churchill, Oil
and the Royal Navy'
Ray KIELY, Queen Mary, University of London - 'Theories of
Imperialism, Contemporary Geopolitics and the Rise of China'
Kees VAN DER PIJL, University of Sussex - 'The West, Georgia and
Russia-Rearticulating Politics and Economics'
Gonzalo POZO-MARTIN, School of Slavonic and East-European Studies,
University of London - 'Inflammable Politics: Russia, Ukraine and
NATO Enlargement'
Sam RAPHAEL, University of Kingston - 'US Empire and the Control of
Oil: Lessons from the Caspian Basin'
Doug STOKES, Senior Lecturer in International Relations, University
of Kent - 'Unpacking the Logics of the US Global Oil Order'
Javier VADELL, Catholic University, Belo Horizonte, Minais Gerais,
Brazil - 'The Chinese Economic Penetration of South America and the
US Response'
Paris YEROS, Catholic University, Belo Horizonte, Minais Gerais,
Brazil - 'Emergent (Sub) Imperialisms: The New Scramblers for
Africa's Energy and Minerals'
The third History of Recent Economics
(HISRECO) Conference
Attached please find the program of the third History of Recent
Economics (HISRECO) conference, 11-13 June 2009, University of
Antwerp, Belgium. For more information about the conference, please
visit the conference website:
http://www.ua.ac.be/hisreco.
6th History of Economics as History
of Social Science Workshop
6th History of economics as history of social science workshop to be
held at ENS Cachan on 19 June 2009.
9:45-10:35am
Jamie Cohen-Cole (Yale University)
American social science, social critique, and the problem of
expertise 10:45-11:35am Perrin Selcer (University of Pennsylvania)
The View from everywhere: Disciplining diversity in post-WWII
international social science 11:35-11:55am Tea/coffe Break
11:55am-12:45pm
Emily Hauptmann (Western Michigan University) The constitution of
behavioralism: The Influence of the Ford Foundation's Program in
Behavioral Sciences on political science 12:45-2:15pm Lunch
2:15-3:05pm
Tiago Mata (University of Amsterdam)
The evil economics does with special emphasis on the history of late
20th century economics 3:15-4:05pm Ross Emmett (Michigan State
University) History of economics and history of science: A
comparative look at recent work in the fields
to be held at ENS Cachan on 19 June 2009.
Politique monétaire, règles de taux
d'intérêt et fonctionnement du marché monétaire
LEDa-SDFi (Université Paris Dauphine) et PHARE (Université Paris 1
Panthéon-Sorbonne)
organisent une journée d’étude
Politique monétaire, règles de taux
d'intérêt et fonctionnement du marché monétaire
Monetary Policy, interest rate rules and the functioning of the
Money Market
à
l’Université Paris Dauphine
Amphi 1
9 juin 2009
IIPPE’s
International Research Workshop
Ankara, September 14th and 15th, 2009
IIPPE is delighted to announce that its third annual International
Research Workshop will take place in Ankara from September 14th to
15th, at the Middle East Technical University, with the support of
the TSSA (Turkish Social Sciences Association).
IIPPE was founded in 2006 aiming to strengthen the presence of
political economy across the social sciences through critical and
constructive engagement with mainstream economics, heterodox
alternatives, interdisciplinarity, and activism.
Click here to
for detailed information.
Cambridge Seminar
in the History of Economic Analysis
AT CLARE HALL
4 June, 8.15pm
The Seminar meets regularly in each term at Clare Hall on Thursdays,
with a presentation of around 30 minutes followed by discussion. The
meetings are directed to scholars at all levels, including graduate
and research students for whom the history of economic ideas is of
interest. The Seminar’s fields of interest draw from
pre-Enlightenment and Enlightenment ideas, classical political
economy, the Cambridge tradition in political economy, issues in the
epistemology of economics and economic philosophy, and the policy
implications of economic theories.
The third meeting of Easter term is on Thursday 4 June 8.15pm in the
college meeting room.
Adrian Pabst
(Leverhulme Research Fellow, University of Nottingham)
will speak on
A Divine Market Order? Adam Smith’s Theological Debt
According to many contemporary economists, philosophers and
historians, the work of Adam Smith is primarily concerned with the
moral foundations of economic activity and social existence. By
promoting moral sentiments, the ‘invisible hand of the market’ is at
the service of intellectual emancipation. This paper contends that
these progressive readings ignore the influence of theological
concepts and religious ideas on Smith, notably seventeenth and
eighteenth century natural theology, Jansenist Augustinianism and
arguments of theodicy. Taken together, these theological elements
help explain why Smith views the market as divine regulation of
human sinfulness and an instrument to serve God’s providential plans
– an account that is incompatible with orthodox Christian ideas on
both the common good in which all can share and public charity
recommended for those most in need.
Discussion is followed by drinks and everyone is invited to stay and
meet the speaker.
The Convenors
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Assessing
Heterodox Economics in a European Context
A Workshop
Assessing Economic Research in a European Context: The Future of
Heterodox Economics and Its Research in a Non-Pluralist Mainstream
Environment
26 – 27 June 2009
University of Bremen, Germany, iino-Institute for Institutional and
Innovation Economics
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Job Postings for
Heterodox Economists
The Oregon Center for Public Policy (OCPP)
Senior Policy Analyst
The Oregon Center for Public Policy (OCPP) is hiring a Senior Policy
Analyst. We seek someone with strong quantitative and analytic
skills and the ability to communicate information effectively to
diverse audiences to join OCPP’s professional staff.
OCPP is an independent, nonprofit organization that conducts
in-depth research and analysis on budget, tax, and economic issues.
OCPP distributes its analysis to policymakers, organizations, and
engaged Oregonians throughout the state. Our goal is to improve
decision making and generate more opportunities for all Oregonians.
Click here
for detailed information.
City University London
http://www.jobs.ac.uk/jobs/BP265/Senior_Lecturer_Reader_Professor/
Senior Lecturer/Reader/Professor
Economics
School of Social Sciences, Department of Economics
Salary Negotiable
The Department of Economics seeks to appoint by January 2010 a
Professor/Reader/Senior Lecturer to contribute to its growing
academic reputation. The department has 18 full-time staff who
research in finance, econometrics, industrial economics,
microeconomics, macroeconomics, history of thought, health,
international, labour and development economics. The 2008 Research
Assessment Exercise judged its research as "internationally
recognised" or better, with 10% judged "world leading". The
department offers MSc degrees in financial, business, regulation and
health economics and is planning additional ones in development and
industrial economics. It has a growing PhD programme. For more
information please contact Saqib Jafarey, Head of Department (
s.s.jafarey@city.ac.uk
).
The successful candidate will be responsible for undertaking
high-quality research aimed at publication in leading academic
journals; for providing excellent teaching and research supervision
to both undergraduate and postgraduate students; for being the lead
supervisor to PhD students; for maintaining external links that
enhance prestige; and for playing a leadership role, appropriate to
rank, in supporting the department's and City University's goals of
academic excellence.
PhD in economics (or related field) and a strong record of
high-quality publications are essential. Other criteria are:
1. ability to obtain external research funding;
2. experience in supervising PhD students;
3. ability to deliver high quality teaching at both undergraduate
and postgraduate levels;
4. willingness to supervise student research projects in taught
programmes;
5. record of external activity such as editorships, journal
refereeing, conference organisation, appropriate to rank;
6. willingness to play a leadership role, appropriate to rank.
Closing date - Tuesday 21st July.
We offer a comprehensive package of in-house staff training and
development, and benefits that include a final salary pension
scheme.
For more information and an application form, visit
www.city.ac.uk/hr/jobs
Actively working to promote equal opportunity and diversity.
The University for business and the professions
Heterodox Conference Papers and Reports and Articles
GDAE Papers
The Global Development and Environment Institute at Tufts University
(GDAE) announces two new working papers by GDAE Senior Research
Fellow Julie A. Nelson:
ECONOMIC WRITING ON THE PRESSING PROBLEMS OF
THE DAY: THE ROLES OF MORAL INTUITION AND METHODOLOGICAL CONFUSION
Economists are often called on to help address pressing problems of
the day, yet many economists are uncomfortable about disclosing the
values that they bring to this work. This essay explores how an
inadequate understanding of the role of methodology, as related to
ethics and human emotions of concern, underlies this reluctance and
compromises the quality of economic advice. The tension between
caring about the problems, on the one hand, and writing within the
existing culture of the discipline, on the other, are illustrated
with examples from U.S. policymaking, behavioral economics, and the
economics of climate change and global poverty. Potential steps
towards a more responsible, "strongly objective," and policy-useful
economics are discussed.
SOCIOLOGY, ECONOMICS, AND GENDER: CAN
KNOWLEDGE OF THE PAST CONTRIBUTE TO A BETTER FUTURE?
This essay explores the profoundly gendered nature of the split
between the disciplines of economics and sociology which took place
in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, emphasizing implications
for the relatively new field of economic sociology. Drawing on
historical documents and feminist studies of science, it
investigates the gendered processes underlying the divergence of the
disciplines in definition, method, and degree of engagement with
social problems. Economic sociology has the potential to heal this
disciplinary split, but only if the field is broadened, deepened,
and made wiser and more self-reflective through the use of feminist
analysis.
The working papers are available at:
http://www.ase.tufts.edu/gdae/publications/working_papers/index.html
For more GDAE publications on Economic Theory, see:
http://ase.tufts.edu/gdae/advancing_theory/theory_pubs.html
LEVY Papers
IN THIS ISSUE
- The “Unintended Consequences” Game (download)
- A Proposal for a Federal Employment Reserve Authority (download)
- A Crisis in Coordination and Competence (download)
- The Current Economic and Financial Crisis: A Gender Perspective (download)
- The Return of the State: The New Investment Paradigm (download)
- The Social and Economic Importance of Full Employment (download)
- Labor-market Performance in the OECD: An Assessment of Recent
Evidence (download)
- Managing the Impact of Volatility in International Capital Markets
in an Uncertain World (download)
GDAE launches
reports at LASA in Rio
GDAE Presents Two Policy Reports June 11-14
Panels on investment, agriculture at LASA Congress in Rio de Janeiro
GDAE will be well-represented at the Latin American Studies
Association Congress in Rio de Janeiro, June 11-14, with Kevin P.
Gallagher, Timothy A. Wise, and Kenneth Shadlen making
presentations. Gallagher and Wise will be joining other members of
the Working Group on Development and Environment in the Americas for
panels on their collaborative projects on foreign investment and
agricultural trade liberalization respectively. They will also be
launching new publications from their projects. Shadlen will be
presenting his recent work on intellectual property regimes in Latin
America. Details follow.
Kevin P. Gallagher will be presenting Thursday, June 11 at 1:00 pm
on the findings of the Working Group’s “Foreign Investment and
Sustainable Development: Lessons from the Americas,” a policy report
(available in three languages). The background papers for the
project have now been published as a book, Rethinking Foreign
Investment for Sustainable Development: Lessons from Latin America
(Anthem 2009).
More details available at:
http://ase.tufts.edu/gdae/WorkingGroup_FDI.htm
(Gallagher will participate in other panels as well; see LASA
program for details.)
Timothy A. Wise will present June 12 at 1:00 pm on the Working
Group’s “The Promise and the Perils of Agricultural Trade
Liberalization: Lessons from Latin America,” a policy report in
English that is now being released in Spanish and Portuguese. In
addition, a book-length volume in Spanish is being published in La
Paz with the background papers from the project. For more
information:
http://ase.tufts.edu/gdae/WorkingGroupAgric.htm
Kenneth Shadlen will present his new GDAE Working Paper, “Reforming
and Reinforcing the Revolution: The Post-TRIPs Politics of Patents
in Latin America,” on a panel Saturday, June 13 at 1:00 pm. The
paper analyzes the political economy of patent regimes in selected
Latin American countries. It is available for download at:
http://www.ase.tufts.edu/gdae/Pubs/wp/09-02PostTRIPSApril09.pdf
(Shadlen is a discussant on another panel; see program for details.)
For more on GDAE’s Globalization and Sustainable Development
Program:
http://www.ase.tufts.edu/gdae/policy_research/globalization.html
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Heterodox Journals and
Newsletters
Metroeconomica
Volume60, Issue3,2009
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/118503116/home
ARTICLES
A GOODWINIAN MODEL WITH DIRECT AND ROUNDABOUT RETURNS TO SCALE (AN
APPLICATION TO ITALY)
Alexander V. Ryzhenkov
A PROPERTY TAXATION MECHANISM WITH SELF-ASSESSMENT
Dieter Gstach
HOW LONG SHOULD WE STAY IN EDUCATION IF ABILITY IS SCREENED?
Takashi Oshio, Masaya Yasuoka
EXISTENCE OF THE STANDARD SYSTEM IN THE MULTIPLE-PRODUCTION CASE: A
SOLUTION TO THE MANARA PROBLEM
Michel-Stéphane Dupertuis, Ajit Sinha
ECONOMIC POLICY IN A GROWTH CONTEXT: A CLASSICAL SYNTHESIS OF KEYNES
AND HARROD
Anwar Shaikh
RE-EXAMINING THE IMPLICATIONS OF THE NEW CONSENSUS: ENDOGENOUS MONEY
AND TAYLOR RULES IN A SIMPLE NEOCLASSICAL MACRO MODEL
Peter Docherty
POST-KEYNESIAN EFFECTIVE DEMAND AND CAPITAL–LABOUR SUBSTITUTION
Takashi Ohno
THE WAGE–WAGE- . . . -WAGE–PROFIT RELATION IN A MULTISECTOR
BARGAINING ECONOMY
A. J. Julius
A NOTE ON THE FORMAL TREATMENT OF EXPLOITATION IN A MODEL WITH
HETEROGENOUS LABOR
Gérard Duménil, Duncan Foley, Dominique Lévy
Abstract
THE 'NEW INTERPRETATION': QUESTIONS ANSWERED AND UNANSWERED
Dong-Min Rieu
Review of Political Economy
Volume 21 Issue 2 is now available online at informaworld (
http://www.informaworld.com
).
This new issue contains the following articles:
John Derek Pheby, October 24, 1949–October 21, 2008
Authors: Gary Mongiovi; Steven Pressman; John Smithin
Global Capitalism and Imperialism Theory: Methodological and
Substantive Insights from Rosa Luxemburg, Pages 195 - 211
Author: Roberto Veneziani
Neoliberalism, EU and the Evaluation of Policies
Author: Kurt W. Rothschild
The World Bank's Early Reflections on Development: A Development
Institution or a Bank?
Author: Michele Alacevich
Distribution and Growth in France and Germany: Single Equation
Estimations and Model Simulations Based on the Bhaduri/Marglin Model
Authors: Eckhard Hein; Lena Vogel
The Effects of Employment Insecurity on Demand, Productivity and
Employment Levels
Author: Andrea Pacella
Entanglement throughout Economic Science: The End of a Separate
Welfare Economics
Authors: Hilary Putnam; Vivian Walsh
In Defense of Deontology and Kant: A Reply to van Staveren
Author: Mark D. White
A Response to Mark D. White
Author: Irene van Staveren
The Constitution of Capital: Essays on Volume I of Marx's Capital
Author: Scott Carter
Gambling in America: Costs and Benefits
Author: Robert Whaples
Coal: A Human History
Author: Robert Whaples
A Poverty of Reason: Sustainable Development and Economic Growth
Author: Robin Neill
Institutional Change and Globalization
Author: Stefan Kesting
IMF Essays from a Time of Crisis
Author: Mathew Bradbury
Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy
Author: Oren M. Levin-Waldman
Ethical Codes and Income Distribution: A Study of John Bates Clark
and Thorstein Veblen
Author: Oren M. Levin-Waldman
The First Crash, Pages 332 - 333
Author: Brad Andrew
The Economist's Tale: A Consultant Encounters Hunger and the World
Bank
Author: Brad Andrew
Political Economy from Below. Economic Thought in Communitarian
Anarchism, 1840–1914
Author: Michel Bauwens
CIRCUS
MARX Y
SRAFFA EN EL DEBATE TEÓRICO EN LA ARGENTINA
Por Fabián Amico y Alejandro Fiorito7
SRAFFA Y LA TEORÍA DEL VALOR DEL TRABAJO
Por Heinz Kurz y Neri SalvadoriFranklin
LA REALIDAD DE LA EXPLOTACIÓN
Por Pierangelo Garegnani
EL PROBLEMA DE LA TRANSFORMACIÓN MARXIANA
Por Gérard Duménil y Duncan Foley
ECONOMÍA VULGAR EN ROPAJE MARXISTA:UNA CRÍTICA DEL MARXISMO
DEL SISTEMA TEMPORAL SIMPLE
Por Gary Mongiovi
LA FUERZA EMPÍRICA DE LA TEORÍA DEL VALOR TRABAJO
Por Anwar M. Shaikh
RESEÑA:
“O MITO DO COLAPSO DO PODER AMERICANO”
De José Luis Fiori, Carlos Medeiros y Franklin Serrano
Por Alejandro Fiorito
Pagina
http://sites.google.com/site/revistacircus/Home
Blog
http://grupolujan-circus.blogspot.com/
The Journal of Philosophical
Economics
Volume II Issue 2 2009 is now available online at
http://www.jpe.ro/?id=revista&p=4
This new issue contains the following articles:
- Petre Comsa, Costea Munteanu, Economics and religion – a
personalist perspective
- Frederic B. Jennings, Jr., Six choice metaphors and their social
implications
- Mary V. Wrenn, The inheritance of heterodox economic thought: an
examination of history of economic thought textbooks
- Xavier De Scheemaekere, The epistemology of modern finance
- Tamás Dusek, A review of Stephen T. Ziliak and Deirdre N.
McCloskey, The Cult of Statistical Significance. How the Standard
Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice, and Lives, The University of Michigan
Press, Ann Arbor, 2008, 320 pages
- Karl Georg Zinn, A review of Peter Söderbaum, Understanding
Sustainability Economics. Towards Pluralism in Economics, London,
Sterling/VA: earthscan,2008, 158 pages
- Valentin Cojanu, A review of Ralph Harris in His Own Words, the
Selected Writings of Lord Harris, Edited by Colin Robinson,
Cheltenham, UK, Edward Elgar and the Institute of Economic Affairs,
2008, 343 pages
James Moulder, Commentary on Teaching Economics with Podcasts,
Literature and Movies
Local Economy
Volume 24 Issue 3 is now available online at informaworld
( http://www.informaworld.com
).
This new issue contains the following articles:
The State of Local Democracy in Britain
Author: Alan Waters
Disability, Health and the Labour Market: Evidence from the Welsh
Health Survey
Authors: Melanie K. Jones; Paul L. Latreille
Building a Workforce Development System as an Economic Development
Strategy: Lessons from US Programs
Author: Shari Garmise
Misplaced Expectations? The Experience of Applied Local Economic
Development in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Authors: Etienne Nel; Tony Binns; David Bek
Good Dog SPOT? Single Pot Funding of Local Voluntary and Community
Groups
Authors: Stephen P. Osborne; Kate Mclaughlin; Celine Chew; Mike
Tricker
On the Recession
Author: David Walburn
The Global Recession: Its Impact in Asia and the Pacific
Author: Ian Shirley
Slow Food and Slow Credit: Strategies for Surviving a Slow Economy
Author: Diane Lupke
Triple Crisis in Belgium
Author: Rudy Aernoudt
CASE Newsletter
1.CASE International Conference The Return of History: From
Consensus to Crisis.
The financial crisis of 2008-2009 raises profound questions about
regulation and deregulation, moral hazard and efficient market
hypotheses and whether global growth during the period 1989 to 2008
was the result of endogenous reforms or simply loose mon¬etary
policy and massive speculative bubbles. The six panels of the
conference will question elements that were taken as givens during
the last 20 years that saw capitalism triumph over socialism. The
Conference will be held in Warsaw on 20-21 November.
2.Key results of “EU Eastern Neighborhood: Economic Poten¬tial and
Future Development” (ENEPO)
The Project “EU Eastern Neighborhood: Economic Poten¬tial and Future
Development” (ENEPO) was a three-year research project1 led by CASE
- Center for Social and Economic Research (Warsaw) and in¬volving 11
institutes from as many countries. Key results were presented in
Brussels on 18 March 2009 during the ENEPO Final Conference “The
European Union Eastern Neighbour¬hood: Economic Challenges Ahead”
and are reported in the ensu¬ing supplement through interviews with
Marek Dabrowski (CASE President and ENEPO Coordinator) on ENEPO’s
main findings, Dan¬iel Gros (Director of CEPS) and Lucio Vinhas da
Souza (DG ECFIN, European Commission) on the relationship between
the EU and the CIS countries, and Dominik Sobczak (ENEPO Scientific
Officer at DG Research, European Commission) on how the project and
its results are of interest to the European Commission (EC).
3.CASE new project: Improving mechanisms of social assistance in
Ukraine
The new project financed under the 2009 Pol¬ish Aid Program of the
Ministry of Foreign Af¬fairs and jointly conducted by CASE and CASE
Ukraine aims at improving mechanisms of so¬cial assistance in
Ukraine.
4.CASE new publications:
Diversity and Commonality in European Social Policies: The Forging
of a European Social Model, edited by Stanislawa Golinowska, Peter
Hengstenberg and Maciej Zukowski approaches the forming of a
European Social Model on the basis of the values common to member
states’ welfare systems, the actual activities of the EU in the area
of social policy, the impact of European integration on the
convergence of national social policies, and the joint responses of
member states to future challenges.
The Global Financial Crisis: Lessons for European Integration,
authored by Marek Dabrowski and published in CASE Network Study and
Analysis No.384, looks at the various challenges facing integration
and institutional architecture in the EU in the aftermath of the
crisis.
Please, find the full version of CASE newsletter under this link:
http://www.case-research.eu/dyn/plik--25177867.pdf
INTERNATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR
PROMOTING POLITICAL ECONOMY (IIPE) Newsletter
Issue 2, May 2009
Click here
for detailed information.
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Heterodox
Books and Book Series
The Political
Economy of Consumer Behavior: Contesting Consumption
(Routledge
Advances in Social Economics)
Bruce Pietrykowski, Professor of Economics and Director of Urban and
Regional Studies at the University of Michigan-Dearborn
http://www.routledgeeconomics.com/books/The-Political-Economy-of-Consumer-Behavior-isbn9780415773126
http://www.routledge.com/9780415773126
Consumption forms a major part of people’s lives. As such,
geographers, historians of technology and sociologists have devoted
much attention to trying to figure out what makes consumption
meaningful. By contrast, economists have been content to hold onto
theories of consumption that depend on a self-interested
representative agent making utility maximizing decisions.
Pietrykowski develops this alternative account through the recovery
of past attempts to forge a different analytical approach to the
study of consumption. In particular, theories of consumption
espoused by home economists, psychological economists and Regulation
school theorists are critically reviewed. These research projects,
marginalized by the mainstream, are the precursors of contemporary
scholarship in feminist, behavioural and radical political
economics. Reclaiming this work greatly enlarges the scope for
contemporary research in consumer behavior. Pietrykowski then
provides a richly textured set of case studies of green automobility,
slow food and alternative/local currency in order to explore the
diversity of user cultures and to highlight resistant forms of
consumer practice. By carefully interweaving historical and
interdisciplinary research Pietrykowski creates a lively and
incisive critique of mainstream economics
This monograph will be of interest to academic economists,
sociologists, historians and graduate students. In addition, the
economics of consumption would also be of interest to readers in
management, marketing and schools of business administration.
Table of Contents: 1. Consumption Matters 2. Economic Knowledge:
Boundary-Keeping and Border Crossing 3. Economic Knowledge and
Consumer Behavior: Home Economics and Feminist Analysis 4.
Psychology And Economics: Max Wertheimer, Gestalt Theory and George
Katona 5. Fordism and the Social Relations Of Consumption 6. Green
Consumption and User Culture: The Case of the Toyota Prius 7. Slow
Food: The Politics and Pleasure of Consumption 8. Consuming with
Alternative Currency 9. Consuming For Social Change: Ethical and
Political Consumption
Routledge Advances in Social Economics
This series presents new advances and developments in social
economics thinking on a variety of subjects that concern the link
between social values and economics. Need, justice and equity,
gender, cooperation, work poverty, the environment, class,
institutions, public policy and methodology are some of the most
important themes. Among the orientations of the authors are social
economist, institutionalist, humanist, solidarist, cooperatist,
radical and Marxist, feminist, post-Keynesian, behaviouralist, and
environmentalist. The series offers new contributions from today’s
most foremost thinkers on the social character of the economy.
Publishes in conjunction with the Association of Social Economics.
Click here
to view other titles in this series
ZED Books
The Environmental Responsibility Reader
Edited by Martin Reynolds, Chris Blackmore and Mark J. Smith
http://www.zedbooks.co.uk/book.asp?bookdetail=4295
Soil Not Oil
Climate Change, Peak Oil and Food Insecurity
Vandana Shiva
http://www.zedbooks.co.uk/book.asp?bookdetail=4292
Kyoto2
How to Manage the Global Greenhouse
Oliver Tickell
http://www.zedbooks.co.uk/book.asp?bookdetail=4233
Can We Afford the Future?
The Economics of a Warming World
Frank Ackerman
http://www.zedbooks.co.uk/book.asp?bookdetail=4287
The Corporate Greenhouse
Climate Change Policy and Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reductions in a
Globalizing World
Yda Schreuder
http://www.zedbooks.co.uk/book.asp?bookdetail=4271
Fair Future
Resource Conflicts, Security, and Global Justice
Edited by Wolfgang Sachs and Tilman Santarius
http://www.zedbooks.co.uk/book.asp?bookdetail=4129
The Enemy of Nature
The End of Capitalism or the End of the World?
Joel Kovel
http://www.zedbooks.co.uk/book.asp?bookdetail=3822
Environment and Citizenship
Integrating Justice, Responsibility and Civic Engagement
Mark J. Smith and Piya Pangsapa
http://www.zedbooks.co.uk/book.asp?bookdetail=4218
The Global Food Economy
The Battle for the Future of Farming
Anthony Weis, University of Western Ontario, Canada
http://www.zedbooks.co.uk/book.asp?bookdetail=4127
Water under Threat
Larbi Bouguerra
http://www.zedbooks.co.uk/book.asp?bookdetail=3600
Staying Alive
Women, Ecology and Development
Vandana Shiva
http://www.zedbooks.co.uk/book.asp?bookdetail=4313
Celebrity and the Environment
Fame, Wealth and Power in Conservation
Dan Brockington
http://www.zedbooks.co.uk/book.asp?bookdetail=4270
ZED Catalogue
http://www.zedbooks.co.uk/files/Catalogue/Environment%202009.pdf
Unravelling Capitalism: A Guide To
Marxist Political Economy
by Choonara, Joseph. Published/Distributed by Bookmarks.
ISBN-13 No: 9781905192502
ISBN-10 No: 1905192509
Other info: Normally in stock
Karl Marx was the greatest critic of capitalism. Yet his ideas are
widely dismissed or misunderstood.
But Marx is indispensable for anyone who wants to grasp why
capitalism is a system of exploitation,
instability and repeated crises. Joseph Choonara introduces Marx’s
approach to understanding
capitalism—developed above all in the three volumes of Capital. He
also outlines how this can be
applied to capitalism as it has developed since Marx’s time.
Bankruptcies and Bailouts
Edited by Wayne Antony, Julie Guard
ISBN: 9781552663134
Paperback
Price: $18.95 CAD
Pages: 128
http://www.fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/397
Recession? Depression? Market adjustment? Billion-dollar bailouts?
Just what is happening to the economy? Like the rest of the
industrialized world, Canada is in the midst of an economic crisis
that is cleary of global proportions. Yet, Nobel Prize winning
economists failed to see it coming. This is unsurprising since, in
the words of the newly humble Alan Greenspan, the crisis revealed “a
flaw in the model ... that defines the way the world works.”
Bankruptcies and Bailouts explains the roots of this economic
disaster. The essays in this book show, in clear and accessible
language, that the global capitalist economy, dependent on
hyper-extended credit, fuelled by systematic deregulation and rooted
in the contradictions of a mad drive for unlimited profits, must
inevitably end up in this predicament. The authors also demonstrate
that there are ways out of this economic mess that do not involve
simply bailing out the obscenely over-paid executives whose
decisions led us to this chaos.
Contents
- Foreword–Cy Gonick
- Explaining the Economic Crisis: Class Warfare from Reagan to
Obama–Robert Chernomas
- Inequality, the Profit System and the Global Crisis–David McNally
- From Deregulation to Crisis–Ian Hudson
- Hyper-Credit: The Financial Dimension of the Economic Crisis–John
Loxley
- Canada and the Economic Crisis–Fletcher Baragar
- We’re All Keynesians–Again–Lynne Fernandez
- Keynes Redux: From World Money to International Money at Last?–Rahdika
Desai
- Investing in Civilisation: What the State can do in a Crisis-Alan
Freeman
- Biblography
About the Authors
Wayne Antony is a publisher at Fernwood Publishing. He is also a
founding member of the Canadian Centre for Policy
Alternatives–Manitoba (CCPA-MB) and has been on the board of
directors since its inception. Prior to becoming involved with the
CCPA-MB, he worked with the Winnipeg political activist
organizations, Socialist Education Centre and Thin Ice. Wayne also
taught sociology at the University of Winnipeg for eighteen years.
He is co-author of three reports on the state of public services in
Manitoba (for CCAP-MB) and is co-editor (with Les Samuelson) of
Power and Resistance: Critical Thinking about Canadian Social Issues
and Citizens or Consumers? Social Policy in a Market Society and
Capitalism Rebooted? Work and Welfare in the New Economy (both with
Dave Broad). He is also co-editor (with Julie Guard) of the
up-coming book, Bankruptcies and Bailouts.
Julie Guard is an associate professor of labour studies at the
University of Manitoba, a research associate for the Canadian Centre
for Policy Alternatives-Manitoba and a member of the CCPA Manitoba
and National boards. She is active in the labour, peace and women’s
movements, and her articles on gender, ethnicity and working-class
identity have been published in Labour/le travail and the Journal of
Women’s History.
The Political Economy of Monetary
Circuits
Tradition and Change in Post-Keynesian Economics
Edited by Jean-François Ponsot and Sergio Rossi
Palgrave Macmillan
http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=291084
This collection of essays in the tradition of monetary circuit
theory, also known as monetary theory of production, elaborates on
the foundations of modern monetary macroeconomics. It contributes to
a new approach to monetary analysis, which provides original
insights into the complex fields of money, banking, and finance. The
contributors, all prominent experts in these fields, explain a
number of economic activities, such as production, consumption,
investment, and fixed capital accumulation, in terms of monetary
circuits, providing a deeper understanding of the working of
contemporary economic systems. This book offers an original analysis
of the fundamental factors that led to the current global economic
and financial crisis. It will be of great interest to students,
postgraduates and scholars in monetary economics, as well as to
practitioners and decision makers involved in monetary, banking and
financial policies.
Preface: An Alternative (Monetary) Theory of the Market Economy:
Work in Progress; F.Ülgen
Circuit Theory Supplementing Keynes’s Genuine Analysis of the
Monetary Economy of Production; C.Gnos
Bridging the Gap between Monetary Circuit Theory and Post-Keynesian
Monetary Theory; J.Jespersen
Monetary Circuit Theory and Money Emissions; S.Rossi
The Existence of Profits within the Monetary Circuit: Some
Unanswered Questions Revisited; L.Rochon
Saving, Firms’ Self-Financing, and Fixed Capital Formation in the
Monetary Circuit; J.Bailly
Finance and the Realization Problem in Rosa Luxemburg: a ‘Circuitist’
Reappraisal; R.Bellofiore & M.Passarella
Money, Capital Turnover, and the Leisure Class: Thorstein Veblen’s
Tips for a Monetary Theory of Production; G.Forges-Davanzati &
R.Realfonzo
From Wicksell to Keynes? Some Thoughts on the Role of a Central Bank
in the Tradition of Monetary Circuit Theory; S.Figuera
The Dynamics of the Monetary Circuit; S.Keen
The Financialization of Modern Economies in Monetary Circuit Theory;
M.Pilkington
Capital as Power: A Study of Order
and Creorder
Jonathan Nitzan & Shimshon Bichler
RIPE Series in Global Political Economy | Routledge | May 2009
464 pages | Pbk. $39.95 | Hbk. $140.00
FRONT MATTER & CHAPTER 1:
http://bnarchives.yorku.ca/259/ ORDER THE BOOK:
http://bnarchives.yorku.ca/259/04/20090526_nb_cap_buy_review_web.htm
Conventional theories of capitalism are mired in a deep crisis:
after centuries of debate, they are still unable to tell us what
capital is.
Liberals and Marxists both think of capital as an 'economic' entity
that they count in universal units of 'utils' or 'abstract labour',
respectively. But these units are totally fictitious. Nobody has
ever been able to observe or measure them, and for a good reason:
they don’t exist. Since liberalism and Marxism depend on these
non-existing units, their theories hang in suspension. They cannot
explain the process that matters most – the accumulation of capital.
This book offers a radical alternative. According to the authors,
capital is not a narrow economic entity, but a symbolic
quantification of power. It has little to do with utility or
abstract labour, and it extends far beyond machines and production
lines. Capital, the authors claim, represents the organized power of
dominant capital groups to reshape – or creorder – their society.
Written in simple language, accessible to lay readers and experts
alike, the book develops a novel political economy. It takes the
reader through the history, assumptions and limitations of
mainstream economics and its associated theories of politics. It
examines the evolution of Marxist thinking on accumulation and the
state. And it articulates an innovative theory of 'capital as power'
and a new history of the 'capitalist mode of power'.
Economic Pluralism
Edited by Robert F. Garnett Jr, Erik Olsen, Martha Starr
http://www.routledge-philosophy.com/books/Economic-Pluralism-isbn9780415777032
Price: $150.00
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About the Book
The leading edges of economic thinking in the early 21st century are
marked by a nascent pluralism - a positive valuing of difference and
complexity - regarding the nature and evolution of human behaviour
and economic organization. Economic Pluralism brings these pluralist
sensibilities to the fore. Its twenty original essays explore the
value and difficulties of pluralism in economic theory, philosophy,
institutions, and education.
These twenty original essays reflect the maturity and breadth of
pluralist scholarship in economics today. The first eight chapters
(including essays by Tony Lawson, Diana Strassmann, Frederic Lee,
and David Colander) stake out contentious positions on how and why
pluralism matters in economic inquiry. The remaining chapters
explore the meaning and consequences of pluralism in economic
education, institutions, and policies.
This volume provides a unique "second generation" discussion of
pluralism in economics. Its twenty original essays include
contentious disagreements about where and why pluralism matters in
economic inquiry as well as creative explorations of pluralism and
its consequences in economic systems and in graduate and
undergraduate economic education. It is certain to spur further
debate over the scope and value of economic pluralism for the 21st
century. This volume would be of most interest as a supplementary
text for graduate or undergraduate courses that include units on
heterodox economics or economic philosophy.
Table of Contents
Introduction - Economic Pluralism for the 21st Century by Robert
Garnett, Erik Olsen, Martha Starr: Pluralism and Economic Inquiry:
Pluralism and Heterodoxy: 1 Pluralism in Heterodox Economics by
Frederic Lee: 2 Moving Beyond the Rhetoric of Pluralism: Suggestions
for an "Inside-the Mainstream" Heterodoxy by David Colander: 3 Is
Convergence among Heterodox Schools Possible, Meaningful, or
Desirable? by William Waller: 4 Raising Dissonant Voices: Pluralism
and Economic Heterodoxy by Diana Strassmann, Caren Grown, and Martha
Starr Theorizing Pluralism 5 Is Kuhnean Incommensurability a Good
Basis for Pluralism in Economics? by Gustavo Marqués and Diego
Weisman: 6 Why Should I Adopt Pluralism? by Rogier De Langhe: 7
Ontology, Modern Economics, and Pluralism by Tony Lawson: 8 The
Cambridge School and Pluralism by Vinca Bigo: Pluralism and
Real-World Economies: Economic Democracy and the Common Good: 9
America beyond Capitalism: The Pluralist Commonwealth by Gar
Alperovitz: 10 From Competition and Greed to Equitable Cooperation:
What Does a Pluralist Economics Have to Offer? by Robin Hahnel: 11
Growth, Development, and Quality of Life: A Pluralist Approach by
Ric Holt and Daphne Greenwood: 12 Beyond the Status Quo, in the
World and in the Discipline: The Comments of an Austrian Economist
by Emily Chamlee-Wright Economic Cooperation: Commercial and
Communal 13 Hayek and Lefebvre on Market Space and Extra-Catallactic
Relationships by Virgil Henry Storr: 14 The Plural Economy of Gifts
and Markets by Ioana Negru: 15 Communities and Local Exchange
Networks: An Aristotelean View by Philip Kozel Pluralism and
Economic Education: 16 Promoting a Pluralist Agenda in Undergraduate
Economic Education by KimMarie McGoldrick: 17 The Illusion of
Objectivity: Implications for Teaching Economics by Alison Butler:
18 A Pluralist Teaching of Economics: Why and How by Gilles Raveaud:
19 Economic Pluralism and Skill Formation: Adding Value to Students,
Economies, and Societies byRod O’Donnell: 20 A Most Peculiar
Success: Constructing UADPhilEcon, a Doctoral Program in Economics
at the University of Athens by Yanis Varoufakis: 21 List of
Contributors.
About the Author(s)
Robert Garnett is Associate Professor of Economics at Texas
Christian University. Erik K. Olsen is Assistant Professor of
Economics and member of Doctoral Faculty at the University of
Missouri Kansas City. Martha Starr is a member of the economics
faculty at American University in Washington, DC. Prior to joining
AU, she was a senior economist at the Federal Reserve Board of
Governors.
The American
Journal of Economics and Sociology Book Series
The American Journal of Economics and Sociology (AJES) was founded
in 1941, with support from the Robert Schalkenbach Foundation, to
provide a forum for continuing discussion of issues raised and
emphasized by the American political economist, social philosopher,
and activist, Henry George (1839-1897). AJES has a long and
distinguished history of publishing papers in the history of
economic and social thought.
Each year AJES presents a special supplementary issue to all
subscribers containing an important and interesting monograph in an
ongoing series entitled Studies in Social Reform and Economic
Justice. In addition, each year one issue is entirely devoted to an
important thematic topic and scholars are invited to contribute from
all around the world. These special issues are also published as
books and are available for individual purchase.
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Social Inequality, Analytical
Egalitarianism and the March Towards Eugenic Explanations in the
Social Sciences
Laurence S. Moss (Editor)
ISBN: 978-1-4051-9124-1
Paperback
300 pages
October 2008, Wiley-Blackwell
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Henry George: Political Ideologue,
Social Philosopher and Economic Theorist
Laurence S. Moss (Editor)
ISBN: 978-1-4051-8750-3
Paperback
200 pages
June 2008, Wiley-Blackwell
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Ernest Mandel: A
Rebel’s Dream Deferred
Jan Willem Stutje
With a foreword by Tariq Ali
Translated by Christopher Beck and Peter Drucker
Published 18th May 2009
Ernest Mandel (1923-1995), was one of the most prominent
anti-Stalinist Marxist intellectuals of his time. A political
theorist and economist, his worldview was shaped by experiences in
the Second World War as an underground political activist in
Occupied Belgium and during his subsequent internment in a Nazi
prison camp. Mandel’s faith in human nature and in the working
classes survived Nazi oppression and the murder of much of his
family in the concentration camps. He retained his connection to his
Jewish roots throughout his life, but believed that security and
liberation for the Jewish people was best achieved through world
revolution and universal emancipation rather than nationalism. A
brilliant orator in several languages, Mandel was an indefatigable
revolutionary militant and a key leader in the Fourth International,
He had an enormous impact on the thought and practice of the 1968
generation. His writings range from innovative economic and
political theory to a study of the Second World War and have been
published in over forty languages. His last major work, Late
Capitalism, had an influence that reached from the social sciences
into the humanities. Biographer Jan Willem Stutje, the first writer
with access to Mandel's archives, has interviewed many of the
leading figures in the story and unearthed a wealth of new material,
detailing Mandel’s arrest by the Nazis and his role in Latin
American guerrilla warfare. He recounts Mandel's interactions with
both scholars – Sartre, Ernst Bloch, Perry Anderson - and
comrades-in-arms such as Che Guevara, Rudi Dutschke and Tariq Ali.
The book also yields fascinating details of the man's sometimes
tragic private life.
JAN WILLEM STUTJE is a historian affiliated with the Institute of
Biography at the University of Groningen. He has published a life of
Dutch Communist Party leader Paul de Groot and studies of the Dutch
and international labour movement in scholarly publications in the
Netherlands and abroad.
Praise for Ernest Mandel: A Rebel’s Dream Deferred:
“An extraordinary accomplishment. This book deserves a place of
honour in the library of anyone who is interested in the history of
twentieth-century revolutionary socialism.” Walter Lotens, Kritisch
lezen
“A masterful and critical biography that reads like a thriller.”
Fred Braeckman, De Morgen
“Stutje does a good job of avoiding the temptations of hagiography,
and paints a fascinating portrait of Mandel, a Marxist thinker and
radical political figure who is undeservedly almost forgotten.” Piet
Piryns and Hubert van Humbeek, Knack
“This impressive scholarly biography deals not only with Ernest
Mandel, but equally with the success and tribulations of the
Trotskyist movement that he helped lead for decades and with society
as a whole. This smoothly written book inadvertently evokes the
image of a biblical prophet, whose personal life and happiness,
loves, friendships and career were sacrificed time and again to the
great struggle against exploitation and injustice – a man who knew
that he had to give up everything except hope.” Ludo Abicht, AKTIEF
ISBN 9781844673162 £19.99 / $34.95 / Hardback / 424 pages
Ernest Mandel: A Rebel’s Dream Deferred is available from all good
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Routledge
Advances in Heterodox Economics Series
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.
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Heterodox Book Reviews
The Life and
Times of Raúl Prebisch, 1901-1986
by Edgar J. Dosman, McGill-Queen´s University Press, 2008. (Sent to
the Newsletter by Carlos Mallorquin)
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here to download the review.
Economics in
Russia: Studies in Intellectual History
Vincent Barnett and Joachim Zweynert, editors, _Economics in Russia:
Studies in Intellectual History_. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2008.
xviii + 198 pp. $100 (hardcover), ISBN: 978-0-7546-6149-8
Reviewed for EH.NET by Warren J. Samuels, Department of
Economics, Michigan State University.
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International Confederation of Associations for Pluralism in
Economics - News
ICAPE News
ICAPE promotes many activities in the name of pluralism in economics
and which are of interest to heterodox economists. One of its
activities is having a booth at the ASSA meetings each year. The
booth enables various heterodox associations, organizations and
individuals to display their wares, so to speak. And also it is a
meeting place for heterodox-pluralist economists to meet. ICAPE will
have a table at the 2010 ASSA meetings.
ICAPE also sponsors a conference every three years. The last
conference was held in 2007 in Salt lake City, Utah. The conference
volume will be published in August—see below in the Heterodox Books
and Book Series section. Thus, it is time for it to hold its next
conference which will be in June 2010—tentatively the early part of
June. A committee is being formed to work on it.
To have a booth at the ASSA and to put on a conference requires
money—and ICAPE has very little of it. Thus if you belong to
associations, head a research institute, are editors of a heterodox
economics journal, or are heads of economic departments that support
pluralism, I urge you to join or renew your membership in ICAPE—for
membership for click
here.
One final thing, being I need to focus my attention on being the
editor of the AJES, I will step down as the Executive Director of
ICAPE at the next Board meeting which will be at the ASSA 2010
meetings. If anyone is interested in becoming the new Executive
Director of ICAPE, please send me an e-mail.
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Heterodox
Web Sites and Associations
Hasan Gurak
www.hasmendi.net
The web site contains articles mostly in Turkish language but there
are also several articles in English. Also some very nice pictures
of Istanbul.
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For Your Information
The Minsky
String Quartet
The Minsky String Quartet (euphoria without fragility), consisting
of Jan Toporowski and Nikhil Vellodi (violins) Paul Ahn (viola) and
Rachel Whitworth (violoncello) will be making its debut at the book
launch for Stephen Chan's book The End of Certainty at 6 p.m. on
Tuesday 26 May, in the Brunei Gallery of the School of Oriental and
African Studies of the University of London. The Quartet will play
string quartets by Juan Crisostomo de Arriaga and arrangements by
Sam Pegg of popular songs associated with the 1929 Crash.
Remarques préparées par Andrew
Cornford pour l’occasion de la publication du livre de Professor
Paul Dembinski
My contribution to today’s presentations will be to take up three
issues under the heading of financialization,a term intended to
denote the way in which finance now transcends its traditional role
as a set of services and has become an organizing principle of
modern societies. The issues are the impact of financialization at
the level of the institutions and individuals that are its agents,
aspects of the conceptualization of finance - conceptualization that
determines the character of inquiry and research as well as teaching
and commentary, which in turn has a major influence on the framework
within which financial operations are carried out, and on government
policy towards the financial sector-, and finally, the increased
financial complexity associated with financialization, with special
emphasis on the regulatory dimension. (Unless otherwise specified,
all references in the sequel are to P.H.Dembinski, Finance: Servant
or Deceiver ? Financialization at the Crossroads, New York, Palgrave
Macmillan for Observatoire de la Finance, 2008.)
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here to download the paper.
Toxic Textbooks
A new movement (click
here for its manifesto) is being launched to encourage
universities and schools to use economics textbooks that engage
honestly with the real world.
Recently several prominent economists, including Hodgson and Keen,
have publicly called for worldwide student protest to help bring
about serious change in academic economics, especially in teaching.
Although the circumstances for this have never been so favourable,
the problem is how to get protest started up to the point where it
becomes self-sustaining and nationally and internationally
contagious.
To this end a website
www.toxictextbooks.com has been set up and, more
importantly, also a Facebook group
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=73911783278 named
Toxic Textbooks. The Facebook group is intended to provide the means
by which students and others can organize themselves and spread the
word.
Three or four minutes, literally, of help from each of you will give
this movement a big kick start. I imagine that most of you, like
myself until a few days ago, have had no experience with Facebook.
But the thinking is: if it worked for Obama, it might also work for
us.
Most of you are teachers of economics rather than students, and,
true, this Facebook group is more likely to be run on the
contributions of the many students who we hope will join it. But
seeding it and legitimising protest by students is a very important
role.
Joining Facebook and then the group is dead easy. Click
http://www.facebook.com
. Now all you need to give them is your name, email address and date
of birth, which if you request, as I did, they promise not to
reveal. Skip the optional rest (no photo required), click and you
are signed up – two minutes.
Now to join Toxic Textbooks, click on "View and edit your profile".
At the very bottom of the screen there should be a toolbar labelled
"Applications". Click on the first icon to the right, a pair of
heads, and this takes you to Groups. In the "Search for Groups" box
at the top of the page type in Toxic Textbooks and click. A Toxic
Textbooks rectangle should appear with a "Join Group" box on right.
Click it, and then click "join" again and that's it.
When after having become a member and you get to the Toxic Textbooks
group page, if you could post something, anything, on the discussion
board or on the Wall that would be great.
If you would encourage a couple of your colleagues or students to
join or if you would place links for the movement on your website,
that would be better still.
Thank you for your help,
Edward Fullbrook
editor
The 2009 Routledge–GCP&S Essay
Prize
Global Change, Peace & Security is a leading peer reviewed journal
published by Routledge (UK) and based at La Trobe University,
Victoria, Australia
GCP&S invites entries for the annual Routledge–GCP&S Essay Prize
competition. This competition is designed to encourage outstanding
new contributions to research on practical and theoretical questions
posed by a rapidly globalising world. It seeks to attract new
research into the international dimensions of political, economic
and cultural life, and into the contradictions of an increasingly
integrated yet fragmented world. Of specific interest are entries
that look at events and developments that reverberate beyond the
confines of a particular country, and those that are concerned with
the sources and consequences of conflict, violence and insecurity,
as well as the conditions and prospects for conflict transformation
and peace-building.
Prize*
The winning essay will be refereed with a view to publication in
Global Change, Peace & Security. The author will receive the
Routledge–GCP&S Essay Prize winner’s certificate, as well as $US500
prize money.
Eligibility
The competition is open to those enrolled in an undergraduate or
postgraduate degree, or who have graduated within the previous four
years. Previously published research articles, or those that are
being considered for publication, will not be acceptable. Essays
currently being assessed as part of a degree will also not be
accepted.
Guidelines
Essays must be between 6000-8000 words in length. The style must
conform strictly to the guidelines set out on the journal’s website
and be accompanied by the author’s name, their contact details, and
details of their institutional affiliation if applicable. For
guidelines, please refer to
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/authors/cparauth.asp
Please send entries (printed in English and as email attachments
only) to gcps@latrobe.edu.au
by no later than Friday 6 November, 2009
For more information contact:
Global Change, Peace & Security is a scholarly journal that has, for
over twenty years, addressed the difficult practical and theoretical
questions posed by a rapidly globalising world. It is committed to
promoting research that explores the relationships between states,
economies, cultures and societies. For details, visit
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/14781158.asp
Dr Stephen James
Editor
Global Change, Peace & Security
Centre for Dialogue
La Trobe University
Victoria 3083 AUSTRALIA
stephen.james@latrobe.edu.au
*The judges reserve the right to withhold the award should the
desired standard not be reached.
La Continuidad teórica entre
Marx y Sraffa
El Grupo Lujan el 8 de mayo, realizó la presentación del cuarto
número de Circus, dedicado al vínculo y continuidad de la obra de
Sraffa con Marx. Para ello se
contó con la presencia de economistas e investigadores vinculados a
la teoria clasica del excedente como Eduardo Crespo, Alejandro
Fiorito y Fabian Amico, que argumentan a favor de la continuidad
teórica de Sraffa con respecto a Marx y por otro lado Axel Kicillof
argumentando en favor de una diferencia radical de la teoria de
valor en Marx con lo que denomina la economia "ricadiana". En el
número de Circus 4 se presenta una nota que trata de resumir el
problema a cargo de Amico y Fiorito,
"Marx y Sraffa en el debate teorico en la Argentina"
Presentación a cargo de Hugo Azcurra
y Exposición de Alejandro
Fiorito
1-"Sraffa ofrece una revitalización de la economía clasica y
representa una implosiòn de la economía neoclásica"
2-Sobre el núcleo analítico del problema de la transformación
"Si el problema analítico no està bien resuelto, dificilmente podrà
hacerse alguna valoración normativa, filosófica, o política correcta..."
(Ecuaciones a las que refiere la exposición de A. Fiorito)
Exposición de Axel Kicillof
1-"como yo en Marx leo otras cosas, nunca logrè conectar la critica
de Sraffa con mis propias inquietudes"
2-"la teoria de los costos de produccion es una teorìa tautologica"
3-"la teoria de los salarios de subsistencia es a las claras
insostenible"
4-"la determinacion exògena de las variables distributivas no me
parece una determinacion profunda de la acumulación."
Exposición de Eduardo Crespo
1-"Sraffa se consideraba Marxista"
2-"lo de donde viene la mercancia y lo de la dialéctica esta bien,
pero el problema es resolver los precios normales"
3-"existe una continuidad entre Marx, Dmitriev, Bortkiewicz, V.
Charasoff y Sraffa"
4-"el sistema temporal simple no tiene bases textuales y es
indefendible" ..."Shaikh es el verdadero neorricardiano"
5-"la defensa de la ley de Say se encuentra en muchos marxistas,
contra los kaleckianos: los capitalistas gastarìan lo que ganan"
Exposición de Fabián Amico
1- Final de Crespo. Inicio de Amico
"¿Cómo se puede determinar endógenamente lo que va a ser la
participación de los trabajadores en el excedente? ...
no hay manera porque depende de condiciones históricas específicas,
lamentablemente para quienes quieren determinar todo
dentro de un "sistema economico general marxiano"...esto depende de
la lucha de clases".
2-"Para muchos marxistas si no hay consistencia algebraica...no
importa...todo sigue siendo válido..."
Corporate Governance Network
(CGN)
We are pleased to announce the creation of the Corporate Governance
Network (CGN). It will provide a worldwide, online community for
research in all areas of corporate governance, following the model
of other subject matter networks within SSRN.
CGN will be merging with the Social & Environmental Impact Network
(SEIN), and will adopt all of Subject Matter eJournals and Research
Paper Series, as noted below.
We expect CGN to become a comprehensive online resource for research
in corporate governance, providing scholars with access to current
work in their field and facilitating research and scholarship.
CGN is sponsored by the Investor Responsibility Research Center
(IRRC) Institute, whose mission is to provide thought leadership at
the intersection of corporate responsibility and the informational
needs of investors. While the Institute is a relatively new
non-profit organization, formed with the proceeds of the sale of the
Investor Responsibility Research Center in 2006, it continues the
tradition and standards of objective research for which IRRC has
been known since 1972. For more information, please see
http://www.irrcinstitute.org.
CGN's founding director is Lucian A. Bebchuk, William J. Friedman
and Alicia Townsend Friedman Professor of Law, Economics, and
Finance, and Director, Corporate Governance Program, Harvard
University - Harvard Law School; Research Associate, National Bureau
of Economic Research (NBER); Research Associate, European Corporate
Governance Institute (ECGI).
Initially, CGN will begin with the following 21 subject matter
eJournals, and subscriptions will be free during the start-up phase
through October 2009. CGN will also begin with two Research Paper
Series -- Rock Center for Corporate Governance and Oxford Internet
Institute -- as noted below.
CGN is creating an online community interested in the expanding area
of corporate governance research. Since corporate governance is a
growing, interdisciplinary subject, submissions should be limited to
no more than two CGN journals.
Click here to
download CGN List.
eInsight
Welcome to our first eInsight. The uncertainty surrounding the path
of the economy is presenting challenges for everyone at present,
from developers to financial institutions to government.
Our regularly updated eInsight aims to summarise some of the most
interesting developments and economic indicators, providing you with
useful and timely reflections on the economy as it continues to
evolve and respond to circumstances. We hope you find it interesting
and welcome your comments.
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Revolutions fought & refought?
Robert Rowthorn interviewed by Alan
Macfarlane 13th June 2008
0:09:07 Born 1939 in Newport, Monmouthshire; have almost no memories
of grandparents as most were dead before I was born; my father was a
policeman and mother, a housewife; they were both strong members of
the Conservative Party and my father eventually became the Mayor,
even though it was a Labour town; had a very strong sense of public
responsibility; got a strong sense of justice from them; brought up
through the Grammar School system and the Boy Scouts, both very
disciplined with corporal punishment; father was a gentle man,
mother a bit less so; have an older brother who eventually became an
Anglican Bishop in the United States (cont.)
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