



Table of Contents

Call for Papers

1st International Conference on Labor Theory of Value and Social Sciences

1st South Asian Historical Materialism Conference

2nd UK-IRC Early Career Researcher Workshop: New Frontiers in Innovation

4th Cambridge International Regulation and Governance Conference

7th Annual Green Economics Conference

Capitalizing Power: The Qualities and Quantities of Accumulation

Communication, Crisis, and Critique in Contemporary Capitalism

ESHET Argentina Conference

The Labor and Working-Class History Association

The Keynes Society Japan Annual Conference

Nation – Exclusion – Crisis (Nation – Ausgrenzung – Krise) Critical Perspectives on Europe

New School - UMass Graduate Workshop in Economics

Urbani izziv (Urban Challenge)

Call for Participants

AHE-FAPE-IIPPE Joint Conference

Analysis and modeling post-Keynesian seminar

The Centro Sraffa: Young Researchers' Workshop on Distribution and Aggregate Demand

E.L. ‘Ted’ Wheelwright Memorial Lecture 2012

Fairness and Responsibility in an Unequal Society

Historical Materialism Australasia

Teaching Political Economy

Job Postings for Heterodox Economists

The College of New Jersey, USA

Global Development And Environment Institute (GDAE), USA

Hampshire College, USA

Keene State College, USA

Roosevelt University, USA

University of Bradford, UK

University of Cambridge - Emmanuel College, UK

York University, Canada

Conference Papers, Reports, and Podcasts

PKSG SOAS Workshop Papers

"Rethinking Capital" C.S. Soong interviews Jonathan Nitzan

Social Cost Workshop Videos

URPE 2011 Brooklyn Conference

Heterodox Journals

Capital & Class, 36(2): June 2012

Contributions to Political Economy, 31(1): June 2012

densidades, 9: mayo 2012

Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics, 5(1): Spring 2012

Historical Materialism: Research in Critical Marxist Theory, 20(1): 2012

Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 34(2): June 2012

Journal of Philosophical Economics, V(2): Spring 2012

Marshall Studies Bulletin - Volume 12, 2011

Metroeconomica, 63(3): July 2012

Review of Political Economy, 24(2): April 2012

Urbani izziv, 23(1): June 2012

Heterodox Newsletters

CCPA National Update

Economic Policy Institute

Global Labour Column

IDEAs, May 2012

IIPPE in Brief - Call for Contributions

Levy News, May 2012

nef e-letter

Review of Keynesian Economics Newsletter, 1(1): June 2012

Heterodox Books and Book Series

Book Series: The Economics of the Middle East, Palgrave Macmillan

Capital Accumulation and Women’s Labour in Asian Economies

The Concept of Equilibrium in Different Economic Traditions: An Historical Investigation

Creating a Sustainable Economy: An Institutional and Evolutionary Approach to Environmental Policy

Crisis in the Eurozone

Cycles, Crises and Innovation: Path to Sustainable Development – A Kaleckian-Schumpeterian Synthesis

Decline of the USA (e-book)

Employment, Growth And Development: A Post-Keynesian Approach

Neoliberalism: Beyond the Free Market

Social Democracy After the Cold War

The Social Economics of Thorstein Veblen

Zed Books: Special Discount Offer

Heterodox Associations and Websites

Feminist Global Political Economy Network

Keynes Society Japan (KSJ)

URPE-OWS page updated

Heterodox Economics in the Media

Playboy Pushing Back on Mainstream Economics?

For Your Information

Characteristics of the Members of Twelve Economic Associations

Call for Papers

1st International Conference on Labor Theory of Value and Social Sciences

I ENCONTRO INTERNACIONAL SOBRE TEORIA DO VALOR TRABALHO E CIÊNCIAS SOCIAIS

18 - 19 October 2012 | Universidade de Brasilia, Brasilia, Brazil

We invite submissions that raise (or answer) questions on Marxian Labor Theory of Value and its role in Social Sciences. Papers are invited on the following topics:

Labor Theory of Value and Crisis; Labor Theory of Value: actuality, problems, limits and outcomes.

Submission deadline of proposals: July 31, 2012.

Applicants will be informed about acceptance by August 30, 2012.

For more info, go to here.

1st South Asian Historical Materialism Conference

"New Cultures of the Left"

3-4 April, 2013 | New Delhi | website

The Delhi HM Conference 'New Cultures of the Left', the first South Asian Historical Materialism Conference, will be held at theConference Centre, Delhi University, on 3-4 April 2013. The conference occurs against several backgrounds that make the revival of the left and the reemergence of Marxist and other forms of radical theory and politics imperative. These 'backgrounds' include the massive convulsions in the world economy from the financial crash of 2008 onwards; the great uprisings in the Arab world that dominated the whole of 2011 with their remarkable mass-based struggles for democracy; the emergence in the West of spontaneous forms of resistance to Austerity politics and its fierce attacks on the lives of millions of people both in and out of employment.

The background to the Conference also includes the consolidation of powerful capitalist interests in countries like India where big business now shapes public policy without the shackles of 'socialism', and government and business have jointly undermined the unions, massively casualised labour markets and accelerated the dispossession of whole communities. The consolidation, likewise, of deeply authoritarian tendencies, both secular and religious, that stand for the eradication of existing constitutional democracies and the rights they offer to the mass of citizens in favour of stronger, more repressive states or states reconstructed on non-secular 'fundamentalist' lines. And last but not least, the deep crisis of the Party-controlled left and its inability to debate issues in open, democratic and politically creative ways, much less to attract a new generation of workers and youth to the cause of a radical left politics and culture.

The conference is seen as both South Asian and internationalist in a wider sense. We invite papers (20 minute presentations) or panel proposals (for sessions of 1 hr 45 mins) under any of the broad themes below:

1) The legacies of Marx (Marxism as a theoretical/philosophical tradition);

2) Perspectives for socialism in the twenty-first century;

3) The Left, religion, caste & cultural politics today;

4) Violence, war and modernity (including papers on fascism, both historical & contemporary);

5) New debates on sexual politics, and Marxism and Feminism;

6) The return of immiseration: workers, work, land and communities;

7) The crisis and finance capital today;

8) Red & Green: an integration of perspectives;

9) Struggles for democracy;

10) Capitalism and contemporary media cultures;

11) Culture on the Left (Literature, art, film);

12) Histories of the Left and Marxism in South Asia and internationally;

13) New developments in Marxist philosophy;

14) The contemporary relevance of Marx's Capital.

Paper abstracts and panel proposals submissions should try and stay within 300 words, and be sent in to: submissionsdelhihm@gmail.com by 1st September 2012.

2nd UK-IRC Early Career Researcher Workshop: New Frontiers in Innovation

24-25 September 2012 | Jesus College, University of Cambridge

￼This intensive 2 day workshop for early career scholars working on the frontiers of innovation research aims to help researchers develop their work through discussion with scholars in their field. Attendees will benefit from feedback and comments from leading scholars (Alan Hughes, Martin Kilduff, Jaideep Prabhu, Bruce Tether, Ammon Salter, Mike Wright, among others). It will also be an invaluable opportunity to meet editors of top journals (Administrative Science Quarterly, Strategic Management Journal, Cambridge Journal of Economics, Industry & Innovation). The workshop is designed for researchers in the early stage of their academic career. Original research topics and novel methods or approaches, as well as demonstrating interdisciplinarity, are particularly encouraged. Contributions related but not restricted to the main research interests of the UK~IRC are welcome, such as:

Open innovation Services innovation Social networks Innovation policy Organisational and financial innovation

For more info, download Call for Papers.

4th Cambridge International Regulation and Governance Conference

More Regulation or Better Stewardship? Optimising the Means and Ends of Good Governance

Thursday, 6 September2012, Queens College, University of Cambridge, UK

Download Call for Papers.

7th Annual Green Economics Conference

19-21 July, 2012 | University of Oxford | website

Green Economy: Reform and renaissance of economics and its methodology-Green Economics-the solutions for the 21st century. Green Economy: Rethinking Growth: RIO+20

Reserve a place! Share green ideas and methodologies with international experts in the field, with academics and green business leaders. During the conference we will launch new books and will report our feedback from RIO+20 at which we are organising 3 major side events and our delegation are going there. We will prepare for our delegation to COP 18 in November 2012 in Qatar.

Download further detailed conference information about topics, worldwide speakers, fees, etc.

http://52365456.de.strato-hosting.eu/tmp/main2012.pdf

Please email us for more information greeneconomicsevents@yahoo.co.uk

Capitalizing Power: The Qualities and Quantities of Accumulation

A Conference of the Forum on Capital as Power

September 28-30, 2012 | York University, Toronto

Abstract Submission Deadline: June 30, 2012

KEYNOTE AND FACULTY GUEST SPEAKERS:

Jeffrey Harrod (University of Amsterdam), Herman Schwartz (University of Virginia), Justin Podur (York University) and J.J. McMurtry (York University).

FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE:

We may be able to assist presenters by partly covering the cost of travel and accommodation. This possibility is still tentative; it is conditional on our ability to secure sufficient funding.

CFP:http://bnarchives.yorku.ca/322/

LAST YEAR'S CONFERENCE: http://bnarchives.yorku.ca/320/

Communication, Crisis, and Critique in Contemporary Capitalism

European Sociological Association Research Network 18 - Sociology of Communications and Media Research Conference

October 18-20, 2011 | University of the Basque Country, Bilbao.

New deadline for abstract submissions: July 20th, 2012

Keynote Talk: Prof. Peter Golding (Northumbria University, UK) – Why a Sociologist should take Communications and Media Seriously

We are living in times of global capitalist crisis that require rethinking the ways we organize society, communication, the media, and our lives. In the social sciences, there is a renewed interest in critical studies, the critique and analysis of class and capitalism, and critical political economy. The overall goal of this conference is to foster scholarly presentations, networking, and exchange on the question of which transitions media and communication and media sociology are undergoing in contemporary society. The conference particularly welcomes contributions that are inspired by sociological theories, critical studies, and various strands and traditions of the critical study of media & society.

Submission and Participation

An abstract of 200-250 words should be sent to Dr. Romina Surugiu, University of Bucharest, at the following e-mail address: bilbao.conference@yahoo.com

Please insert the words Bilbao in the subject. The deadline for abstract submission is July 20th, 2012.

If you want to participate without paper presentation, then please register via e-mail to Romina Surugiu, stating that that you want to register and participate.

Conference Fee

For members of ESA RN18: 35 Euros

For non-members of ESA RN18: 50 Euros

The fee will be collected from the participants at the registration in Bilbao.

You can become a member of ESA RN18 by joining the ESA and subscribing to the network. The network subscription fee is only 10 Euros for a 2-year period:

You can become a member of ESA and of RN18 here.

ESHET Argentina Conference

November 22-24, 2012 | Buenos Aires

Core and Periphery Countries: Lessons From Economic History and the History of Economic Thought



Meeting of Historians of Economic Thought from Europe and Latin America. The conference is part of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought (ESHET) activities taking place outside Europe and the second in Latin America. Organizers: UNGS Political Economy Department and CEFID-AR. Contact: eshetargentina@gmail.com

Information required for the reception of papers and workshop proposals:

1) An abstract of approximately 400 words for papers and 10.000 words for session proposals (only in English and / or Spanish). Please use Arial font, 12 pt., 1.5 spacing on A4 or Letter.

2) We will welcome abstracts for papers on various aspects of the history of economic thought in different periods.

3) Suggested themes for the Conference:

Latin American structuralism and center-periphery theories European and Latin American experience of integration. Past and Present Classical political economy and effective demand Free trade and protectionism in primary export economies Dependency theory and heterodox theories Export promotion and import substitution Marxist thought in Latin America Liberalism and the establishment of national States Import substitution and growth Keynesian theory in Latin America Economic crises in Latin America and orthodox economic theory Developmentalism and new developmentalism in Latin America CEPAL and development theories Center-periphery in mainstream economic theory

4) If your paper does not correspond to the suggested topics you may include it, by proximity, on the panel that best suits your interests, even if it is not in the initial list of proposals.

5) Abstracts and papers should be submitted in Spanish or English.

6) Deadline for abstracts and workshop proposals is July 1, 2012.Full versions of the papers for accepted abstracts should be submitted by October 30, 2012 for inclusion in the program. Abstracts, workshop proposals and papers should be sent to: eshetargentina@gmail.com

7) Travel Funding (scholarships): A limited number of accepted papers will be eligible for travel funding.

Papers must be written in English in order to be considered. Full versions of the papers should be submitted by September 30, 2012.

The Labor and Working-Class History Association

June 6-8, 2013 | New York City

Rights, Solidarity and Justice: Working People Organizing, Past and Present

The Labor and Working-Class History Association invites proposals for panels, roundtables, and workshops for its national conference in New York next June, 2013.

Deadline for submissions is: September 15, 2012.

LAWCHA National Conference, June 6-8, 2013 New York City

Meeting in a year in which surging corporate power has threatened both unions and democracy as we know it, the 2013 LAWCHA conference in New York City will focus on how varied groups of working people have built the solidarity needed to challenge their employers, each other, their communities, and the state to seek justice and improve their lives. Historically and today women, immigrants and people of color have often been at the forefront of these struggles. Many have seen the revitalization of their organizations - unions, cooperatives, mutual aid societies, and political movements - as critical to their struggles for equality and democracy in and beyond the workplace. In the present moment, faced with obstacles to organizing that evoke earlier centuries, workers and their allies are creating innovative organizational forms and strategies in the U.S. and around the world. LAWCHA seeks panels, roundtables, and workshop proposals that put today's challenges and successes in deeper perspective, including comparisons across time, space, and national borders, and that explore the rich range of working peoples' lives and movements, from Early American history to the Wisconsin upheaval and Occupy Wall Street.

Meeting a few blocks from the site of OWS at Brooklyn College's Graduate Center for Worker Education, located in Manhattan in a city that has long been a laboratory of innovative working-class self-organization, we welcome panel proposals of all kinds, including those that are historical, contemporary, transnational, or comparative, and those that combine activists and academics. LAWCHA is also interested in proposals for workshops and roundtables that examine past experience and current strategies for work in areas of LAWCHA's on-going activity - historical memory and commemoration; teaching labor history in the schools; building global networks of labor historians; and labor activism and solidarity, as well as skills workshops on the art of organizing, op-ed writing and other media work, building labor centers and more. We envision the possibility of threads of linked sessions in each of these areas of interest forming a significant part of the program. We also encourage more conversational sessions than the conventional 3-paper/commentator format. While we welcome individual paper proposals, we are especially keen to receive proposals for complete sessions. Send proposals for panels (or individual papers), roundtables, and workshops to LAWCHA conference program committee: lawcha.cfp+2013NYC@gmail.com

Proposals should include brief abstracts for sessions and individual papers and short biographies/c.v.s for participants.

DEADLINE for submissions is: September 15, 2012; notification by December 15, 2012.

Conference sessions and accommodations will be in and around the NYU/Brooklyn College campus in lower Manhattan.

The Keynes Society Japan Annual Conference

November 23 and 24, 2012 | Meiji University, Tokyo.

The KSJ would invite you to submit an abstract (300 words) for the meeting.

The issues concerned include: Economic and Financial Crisis, Macroecnomic Policy Issues, Comparative Studies among various Keynesian Schools, Keynes’s economic thought, philosophy and so forth.

Please send an abstract to the following address: jmkeynes@mail.goo.ne.jp

Deadline: July 31

The final decision is to be made by the organizing committee.

Nation – Exclusion – Crisis (Nation – Ausgrenzung – Krise) Critical Perspectives on Europe

Editors: Sebastian Friedrich, Patrick Schreiner

We are editing an anthology on nationalist and exclusionary thought in the context of the current financial and economic crisis. The anthology will presumably be published in 2013 with the publishing house edition assemblage (Münster/Germany).

Project and Contents

Exclusionary thinking and nationalist thinking are to be understood as closely related to capitalism and economic ideologies. In recent years, it has been argued in various social sciences that the homogenization, dichotomization and devaluation of various ‘others’ is based not just on naturalistic arguments, but also on arguments concerning the economic ambition, utility, performance and success of those 'others'. The constructions of the ‘others’ may, for example, relate to categories like ‘nation’, ‘race’, ‘class’, ‘education’ or religion.

The anthology Nation – Exclusion – Crisis analyses changes in nationalist, marginalizing and exclusionary thought brought forth by the current financial and economic crisis. The terms 'nationalist', 'marginalising' and 'exclusionary' thought relate here not primarily to the political far right, but explicitly to the social and political centre of society.

The anthology wants to build on current academic research and debate. There are no methodological or theoretical limitations for contributions, but the contributions should connect to the posed questions and problems.

The anthology will have two parts. The first part is dedicated to general social analysis. Current developments will be examined in a broader historical and theoretical context. The second part consists of the analysis of specific countries and aims at illuminating the political and social situation in particular nation states.

Part 1: Theoretical and historical analysis (working title)

Topics might include but are not limited to:

Historical analysis of nationalism. What is nationalism? What is a nation state? What is the historical relation between capitalism and the nation state? What is the connection between nationalism and economic exclusion? – Contributions should not exceed 20.000 characters. (Neo-)liberalism, nationalism and exclusion. What are the ideological links between (neo- )liberalism, nationalism and exclusion? How have the relations between those concepts changed, for example compared to the 19th century? How might the current crisis affect these relations? - Contributions should not exceed 40.000 – 45.000 characters. Globalisation and nationalism. How has nationalism developed in the age of globalisation? What are the ideological functions and effects of the competition between national economies and the decline in wages, taxes and social security? How are current debates on protectionism and neo-mercantilism to be analysed in the light of theories of the nation and nationalism? What might be further changes in the context of the ongoing crisis? - Contributions should not exceed 40.000 – 45.000 characters. Economic configurations of racism. How is racist thought shaped by economic ideology? What is the relation between racism and the economy in the current crisis? - Contributions should not exceed 40.000 – 45.000 characters. Exclusionary thought on the individual level. How is exclusionary thought on the individual level shaped by economic ideologies? What is the importance of ‘nation’, ‘race’, ‘culture’, ‘class’, ‘education’, ‘religion’ etc. for the socio-economic and ideological positions of individuals? How is the relation between exclusion and the economy changing in the context of the current crisis?

Contributions should not exceed 40.000 – 45.000 characters.

Part 2: Analysis of specific countries.

Contributions to the second part should be dedicated to one country or a group of countries. Topics might include but are not limited to:

How are specific groups of the population in the respective country affected by the crisis? How is the crisis discussed? How is nationalist and/or exclusionary thought working in the respective country? What is the importance of specific ideologies, histories and traditions in different countries? What is the importance of economic ideologies in the respective country? How is nationalism and/or exclusion institutionalised in the political system (governments, parties, interest groups, media)? What changes are to be observed in the context of the current crisis? How is nationalist / exclusionary thought a way of coping with the crisis? - Contributions should not exceed 30.000 - 35.000 characters.

Countries might include but are not limited to: Belgium Germany Greece United Kingdom Italy The Netherlands Poland Portugal, Russia Sweden Turkey Hungary

Abstracts/proposals

France Ireland Norway Rumania Spain Belarus

We kindly ask you to send abstracts/proposals of one page to nation-ausgrenzung-krise@web.de. The deadline is August 15, 2012. The abstracts should contain a description of the content and argumentation of the proposed article. We will choose the articles for the anthology based on the abstracts we receive. Please do not send full essays.

Abstracts and full articles can be written in English or German.

Editors

Sebastian Friedrich is a Berlin-based publicist and activist. He works on social inequality, racism, social movements, discourse theory and the critique of media. He is the editor of the anthology „Rassismus in der Leistungsgesellschaft“, which is a critique of the racist public debate that followed statements made by the former Berlin senator Thilo Sarrazin. The anthology was published 2011 with edition assemblage.

Patrick Schreiner is a Hanover-based labour union activist and publicist. He works on financial and economic politics, theories of nationalism, social justice and discourse theory. His PhD thesis explores the relations between nationalism, the state and culture.

New School - UMass Graduate Workshop in Economics

3-4 November 2012 | UMass Amherst

The primary aim of the workshop is to give graduate students an opportunity to present and discuss their work in a collaborative environment. Faculty may also present, but priority will be given to graduate students. Submissions from graduate students at other Departments are welcome, but should be accompanied by a nomination letter or email from a faculty member at that Department.

The workshop will be held at UMass Amherst on 3-4 November 2012. Sessions will start Saturday 3 November at 1pm and the workshop will close around 3pm on Sunday 4 November.

Each paper will be allocated about 45 minutes (20 minutes for presentation, 10 minutes for comments by a discussant and 15 minutes for general discussion).

Send paper proposals (including title and abstract) and offers to act as a discussant to Christian Proaño (proanoac@newschool.edu) and Peter Skott (pskott@econs.umass.edu).

The closing date for proposals is Friday 5 October. A preliminary program will be drawn up by 12 October. Completed papers must be available not later than Monday 22 October.

For further information, please contact Christian Proaño or Peter Skott.

Urbani izziv (Urban Challenge)

We would also like to invite you to submit articles for publication in the international journal Urbani izziv (Urban Challenge). Articles from various scientific fields and disciplines are published in the journal (e.g., geography, architecture, landscape architecture, surveying, sociology, economics, etc.), presenting the scientific and expert interests of authors in:

urban political economy, urban studies, spatial planning, landscape planning and design, regional studies, housing studies, etc.

The Editors accept contributions throughout the year.

Editorial Board

See the current issue here and for more information about the journal go to here.

Call for Participants

AHE-FAPE-IIPPE Joint Conference

July 5-7, 2012 | Paris, France | website

See the first version of the Programme.

Analysis and modeling post-Keynesian seminar

June 22, at the MSH of Saint Denis

Marc Lavoie will present a paper "friendly criticism" about "neo-chartalisme" still known as "Modern Monetary Theory" (MMT).

Still little known in Europe, this theory, developed by some authors previously identified as post-Keynesians, tend to grow in popularity across the Atlantic.

This is the case, among others, because the MMT has been raised several times in articles by Paul Krugman.

The discussion following the presentation of the article by Marc (I am attaching to this email) will be introduced by Peter Flaschel (Bielefeld University).

We will finish this season by an introductory course on modeling stock-flow consistent, which will be provided by Mark Wednesday, June 27 from 10.00 to 16.30, on the campus of Villetaneuse in Room E108.

No prior knowledge is required and admission is of course free.

The Centro Sraffa: Young Researchers' Workshop on Distribution and Aggregate Demand

10-15 September 2012 | Roma Tre University | website

The workshop intends to foster contacts and scientific exchange between young researchers and expert scholars in the Classical Approach to economic analysis. Organization of the activities will centre around a series of structured lectures by senior scholars, presentations of papers by young researchers with discussion by senior scholars, plus a number of seminars and roundtables on specific issues.

The workshop is organized by Centro Sraffa in collaboration with: Dipartimento di Economia (Roma Tre University), Department of Economics and Brain Korea 21 (Korea University), Instituto de Economia and Graduate Program in Economics (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro).

Provisional Program

The morning lectures will be structured in three main courses on the following topics:

A) Classical and neoclassical theories of distribution

B) Aggregate demand, growth, development

C) Wages and distribution in the modern classical approach

Provisional list of seminars and roundtables:

Wages and distribution in USA and Europe, 1970-2011 Normal prices, capacity utilization and gravitation Patterns of growth and development in emerging economies

Young researchers’ presentations

Papers by young researchers are encouraged on all themes related to the Classical Approach, especially on the above-mentioned topics. Each paper will be presented in a seminar and discussed by at least one senior participant.

Lectures and seminars will be given by

Enrico Bellino, Sergio Cesaratto, Roberto Ciccone, Giancarlo de Vivo, Saverio M. Fratini, Fabio Freitas, Andrea Ginzburg, Heinz Kurz, Sergio Levrero, Cristina Marcuzzo, Murray Milgate, Gary Mongiovi, Man-Seop Park, Sergio Parrinello, Fabio Petri, Massimo Pivetti, Fabio Ravagnani, Alessandro Roncaglia, Neri Salvadori, Franklin Serrano, Antonella Stirati, Attilio Trezzini

Organization Board

Tony Aspromourgos

Gary Mongiovi

Antonella Palumbo

Man-Seop Park

Franklin Serrano

Paolo Trabucchi

Applications are encouraged by graduates, Master students, PhD students, recent PhDs, young lecturers.

Deadline for applications: June, 15th (extended to June, 25th)

Participation fee: 100 euros (the fee, payable in cash on the first day of the workshop, will cover coffee breaks and lunches, including the farewell lunch on Saturday 15th, plus course materials)

Announcement: Download the file

Application Form: Download the file

E.L. ‘Ted’ Wheelwright Memorial Lecture 2012

Wednesday 29 August | Eastern Avenue Auditorium, University of Sydney

The Financial Crisis and its Aftermath in the USA and UK: a feminist perspective

Speaker: Professor Diane Elson, Essex University

5.30 – 6.00 pm Refreshments

6.00 – 7.30 pm Lecture

Media commentators in USA and UK have pointed to a crisis structured by gender relations. One suggested that if Lehman Brothers had been Lehman Brothers and Sisters, a financial crisis would have been far less likely. Others described the ensuing fall in output and employment as a 'mancession'. Feminists in both countries have argued that subsequent austerity policies are undermining the improvements that had been made in women's economic and social rights. I will discuss the validity of these claims, and ask the audience what role they think gender has played in the financial crisis and its aftermath in Australia.

This event is organised by the University of Sydney Department of Political Economy

About Diane Elson: http://www.essex.ac.uk/sociology/staff/profile.aspx?ID=129

About E.L. ‘Ted’ Wheelwright: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Lawrence_Wheelwright

Fairness and Responsibility in an Unequal Society

Thursday 28th June 2012, 9.30am – 5.30pm | The Senate Room, Senate House, University of London

In the wake of the financial crisis there has been a renewed interested in issues of fairness and responsibility. But what do these notions really mean? And how should they be applied to the social issues of our time? At same time there is concern at the increase in social and economic inequality, both nationally and globally. Which types of inequality ought be of primary concern, and what can be done about them? How does the recent emphasis on fairness and responsibility fit with the aim of reducing inequality? Can appeals to such notions help to reduce inequality, or do they detract from such efforts? What role should recent thinking about inequality and risk play in international efforts to reduce poverty and encourage development?

The conference marks the end of a four-year project on inequality, responsibility and fairness, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. Four panels composed of prominent policy-leaders and academics will debate the issues, providing a forum for the exchange of ideas between policy and academy. Confirmed speakers include:

Keynote

Will Hutton (Principal of Hertford College, Oxford; author of Them and Us: Changing Britain – Why We Need a Fair Society; former Editor-in-Chief, The Observer)

Panel: The Fair Society

Andrew Harrop (General Secretary, Fabian Society)

Mark Hammond (Chief Executive, Equalities and Human Rights Commission; Visiting Professor in Public Administration at Canterbury Christchurch University)

Keith Hyams (Senior Lecturer in Political Theory, University of Exeter)

Panel: Economic and Social Inequality in Britain

Sonia Sodha (Head of Strategy, Social Research Unit)

Bill Kerry (Co-Founder and Director, The Equality Trust)

Karen Rowlingson (Professor of Social Policy, University of Birmingham)

Martin O’Neill (Lecturer in Political Theory, University of York)

Panel: Responsibility and Fairness in Taxation and Public Services

Rachel Reeves (MP for Leeds West and Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury)

Patrick Diamond (Senior Research Fellow, the Policy Network; Visiting Fellow in Politics, University of Oxford; former Head of Policy Planning at Downing Street)

Rick Muir (Associate Director for Public Service Reform, Institute for Public Policy Research)

Zofia Stemplowska (Associate Professor in Political Theory, University of Warwick)

Panel: Risk and Inequality in International Development

Duncan Green (Senior Strategic Advisor, Oxfam)

Tom Sorell (Professor of Global Ethics, University of Birmingham)

Thom Brooks (Reader in Political and Legal Philosophy, Newcastle University)

To book a place please visit http://tinyurl.com/fairnessconf. An early bird rate of £20 (£35 if on staff expenses) is currently available. Please contact k.d.hyams@ex.ac.uk with any enquiries.

Historical Materialism Australasia

20-21, July, 2012 | Sydney

Please click the link below to view the provisional programme (PDF) for Historical Materialism Australasia 2012 (Sydney, 20-21 July):

HM Australasia Provisional Programme

You can purchase tickets through this link. Tickets are valid for both days of the conference.

Teaching Political Economy

Friday 21st September 2012: 10:30am-6pm | University of Warwick

Political economy is a form of inquiry and a field of research that cross-cuts different social science disciplines and this workshop seeks to explore the many different ways in which political economy is taught, be it in: international relations, politics, geography, business studies, heterodox economics, social anthropology and sociology.

Following on from last year’s event, the Departments of Politics and International Studies (Warwick) and the Political Economy Institute (Manchester) are hosting another one-day teaching and learning workshop. Its aim is to exchange ideas and innovative practices through dialogue, not devise a definitive way of teaching political economy.

Our focus will be working through the following topics:

§ Different methods of teaching political economy

§ Teaching key topics: finance and health

§ The role and development of Graduate Teaching Assistants

Participants are NOT required to present a paper; instead they are encouraged to bring their course outlines, teaching resources (newspaper articles, films, blogs etc.), assignments, essay questions, seminar topics, simulations. These will be posted on The Political Economy Institute (University of Manchester) web repository of teaching resources.

Confirmed speakers: André Broome (Birmingham), Chris Clarke (Warwick), Sophie Harman (City), Samuel Knafo (Sussex), Mick Moran (Manchester Business School)

As key players on the front-line of teaching, we encourage post-graduate student participation and are able to offer travel expenses on a first come, first serve basis.

Please contact Johnna Montgomerie (j.montgomerie@manchester.ac.uk) or Ben Richardson (B.J.Richardson@warwick.ac.uk) to register your place.

Job P ostings for Heterodox Economists

The College of New Jersey, USA

Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics

The Department of Economics at The College of New Jersey seeks applications for a visiting assistant professor position for academic year 2011-2012. The applicant is expected to teach principles of economics; but strong preference will be given to the candidate with research and teaching interests in European Economic History.The successful applicant is also expected to teach Business Statistics.

A Ph.D. with independent teaching experience is preferred, but candidates with ABD status will also be considered. A commitment to undergraduate education and a desire to serve as an adviser on student research projects is expected.

The College of New Jersey is widely recognized as an outstanding public college that attracts an exceptional student body. The School of Business offers an AACSB accredited undergraduate business program to 1,000 students. We are located on a beautiful suburban campus that is easily accessible to the social, cultural, and commercial opportunities of both New York and Philadelphia. The College is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer and is committed to attracting talented candidates from groups that are now underrepresented on campus.

Please submit a vita, statement of teaching philosophy, evidence of quality teaching, graduate transcripts, sample of recent writings, and names of references to Chair, Economics Search Committee, School of Business, The College of New Jersey, PO Box 7718, Ewing, New Jersey 08628-0718. Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled.



Global Development And Environment Institute (GDAE), USA

Economists at the Global Development And Environment Institute (GDAE – at Tufts University, MA) are seeking a collaborator for revision of our micro and macro textbooks – Microeconomics in Context and Macroeconomics in Context – as well as creating a one-semester micro-macro text. The individual hired will work closely at GDAE with Neva Goodwin, Jonathan Harris and Brian Roach. (More about GDAE may be learned at http://ase.tufts.edu/gdae/ ). The position will entail research, writing and editing, as well as activities to comply with the publisher’s requirements for formatting, creating materials for students and teachers, etc.

The position will start in September, 2012 (or sooner, if available), to continue for one year with the possibility of longer term continuation. The emphasis will be on macroeconomics. Essential qualities include creativity and imagination, as well as high critical intelligence; we seek an economist who is willing and able to imagine a post-growth economy. Must be able to write good, clear English at the introductory collegiate level. Adept in graphical representations of abstract concepts. Pay commensurate with qualifications. PhD in economics highly desirable, but not essential; we will consider applicants who have gone on to less conventional careers related to economics, not necessarily in academia.

Applicants should submit a resume, a writing sample, and two references to Neva.goodwin@tufts.edu or Neva Goodwin at GDAE, 44 Teele Ave, Tufts University, Medford, MA 02155



Applicants are advised to look through Macroeconomics in Context and include suggestions as to (1) where they feel that the most revision is needed, and (2) where their greatest strengths are, in relation to the topics that are (or should be) included in the text.

Hampshire College, USA

Assistant Professor of Economics

Hampshire College, an independent, innovative liberal arts institution and member of the Five College consortium, is accepting applications for an Assistant Professor of Economics.

The School of Critical Social Inquiry seeks an economist with a central focus on feminist political economy. Priority will be given to candidates with a strong commitment to teaching, with secondary interests in areas such as U.S. economic and labor history, labor economics, corporate finance, and heterodox approaches to theory and practice. Teaching load is two courses per semester. Active research in support of teaching and interest in assisting students with their own independent research projects is expected. Interdisciplinary approaches encouraged. Ph.D. preferred. JEL codes: B54, B50, N3, G3, J.

Hampshire is committed to building a culturally diverse intellectual community and strongly encourages applications from women and minority candidates.

This position begins fall 2013. Applicants should submit a statement of educational philosophy, teaching and research interests, curriculum vita, sample of written work, and three letters of recommendation by October 31, 2012 via our website at http://jobs.hampshire.edu/ . The College will also be interviewing at the January ASSA meeting in San Diego. Hampshire College is an equal opportunity institution, committed to diversity in education and employment.

Direct questions to the college job website or to Laurie Nisonoff, Co-Chair of Search Committee, lnisonoff@hampshire.edu.

Keene State College, USA

Department of Economics and Political Science at Keene State College at Keene, NH invites applications to teach 2 sections of Introduction to Macroeconomics as an adjunct during the Fall 2012 semester, with the expectation of renewal for spring 2013. Applicants must be at least ABD in Economics. Teaching experience and evidence of teaching effectiveness are required.

The course, which meets bi-weekly, is part of the Integrative Studies Program at KSC (similar to general education programs at other institutions). The enrollment in each section is capped around 35. Our department is a welcoming environment for heterodox economists (one Utah, one New School and two UMass grads).

For inquires, please contact Dr. Armagan Gezici at agezici@keene.edu.

If you are interested, please send your c.v. and the evidence of teaching experience and effectiveness to agezici@keene.edu.

Roosevelt University, USA

Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics

The Department of Economics at Roosevelt University invites applications for a one-year visiting position, with an annual teaching load of 6 courses, beginning Fall 2012. Primary responsibilities will be teaching courses in International Trade, International Finance, and the Economics of Globalization. The remainder of the course load will be chosen from principles of economics courses and from the expertise of the candidate.Candidates are also expected to participate in the intellectual and scholarly life of the Economics and International Studies programs.

Roosevelt has a long tradition of teaching and scholarship in economics from Heterodox perspectives and welcomes candidates working in that tradition. Roosevelt University was founded in 1945 on the principle that higher education should be available to all academically qualified students. Today, Roosevelt is the fourth most ethnically diverse college in the Midwest (U.S. News and World Report, 2011) and a national leader in preparing students to assume meaningful, purposeful roles in the global community.

Minimum Qualifications: Ph.D or ABD in Economics or related field.

Applicants should upload a letter of interest, CV, and list of three professional references. Letters of recommendation should be sent to Search Committee, Department of Economics, Roosevelt University, 430 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago, IL 60605.

The application deadline is July 10, 2012.

Questions should be directed to the Chair, Gary Langer, glanger@roosevelt.edu.

University of Bradford, UK

Lecturer

The Division of Economics at the University of Bradford, UK is seeking to appoint an enthusiastic and effective lecturer to support our expanding undergraduate and postgraduate teaching programmes, as well as contributing to our research profile. The Division has a diverse student body and a commitment to quality teaching and applied research and would welcome applications from heterodox economists. You will be required to teach in the core areas of economics with a specific focus on financial economics. You should hold a PhD in economics and to be research active with the potential to make a major contribution to the research of the Division.

For further information go to here and here.

University of Cambridge - Emmanuel College, UK

Mead Fellowship in Economics

Applications are invited for the Mead Fellowship in Economics tenable for 3 years from 1st October 2012. The person appointed will be required to pursue their own research and to teach for 6 hours per week in Economics for the College.

Applicants are required to have research interests within the broad areas of the teaching and research undertaken by the Cambridge University Faculty of Economics. Further particulars can be obtained from the Bursar, Emmanuel College, Cambridge, CB2 3AP, or can be downloaded from the Emmanuel College

website www.emma.cam.ac.uk

Applications close on June 22nd 2012.

http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AEM885/mead-fellowship-in-economics/

York University, Canada

Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Gender and Work

The Canada Research Chair in the Political Economy of Gender and Work, Political Science, Faculty of Liberal and Professional Studies, York University is pleased to announce a competition for a Postdoctoral Fellowship, tenable at York University for the 2012-2013 academic year.

The Chair invites applications from scholars who have earned a doctorate in the Social Sciences and who have a research background in fields such gender & work, work & society, labour studies, or political economy. The Fellow’s research program will involve participating in the various projects directed by the Chair, such as the Global Employment Standards Database, and a research group on Employment Standards Enforcement. Experience using both qualitative and quantitative research methods would be an asset.

The Fellow will receive a stipend of $40,000, office space, use of a computer and full access to university libraries.

Applications will be reviewed starting on June 8, 2012 for a position to commence August 1, 2012. Applicants should submit a cover letter, including a brief research statement, curriculum vitae, a writing sample, and the names of three academic references to:

Dr. Leah F. Vosko

Canada Research Chair in the Political Economy of Gender and Work

618 (Gender and Work Unit)

York Research Tower

York University

Toronto, ON Canada

M3J 1P3

Applications from non-Canadian scholars, as well as scholars with diverse work experience in public sector organizations or NGOs, are welcome.

The position will commence as early as August 1, 2012 (or to be negotiated), and is subject to budgetary approval.

Conference Papers, Reports, and Podcasts

PKSG SOAS Workshop Papers

June 8, 2012

Papers are available here.

"Rethinking Capital" C.S. Soong interviews Jonathan Nitzan

June 11 and 13, 2012 | Against The Grain, KPFA 94.1

FROM THE PROGRAM PAGE: "If capital accumulation is the single most important process of capitalism, then what is capital? We all might assume capital is an economic entity rooted in production and consumption, but Jonathan Nitzan claims otherwise. In Part One of the interview he argues that capital is, instead, a mode of power. He also describes the separation of economics from politics and the bifurcation of the economy into the real and nominal spheres. In Part Two, Nitzan brings up corporate profit-taking, the sabotage by capitalists of industry, and conflicts over energy. He also contends that the concept of the economy as a distinct, objective category needs to be discarded."

Part One: 52 minutes

Part Two: 32 minutes

THE INTERVIEW: http://bnarchives.yorku.ca/335/

Social Cost Workshop Videos

April 27, 2012, 1:30 – 5:30 | Wright State University, Dayton, OH | website

Organizer: Zdravka Todorova

Presenters: Sebastian Berger, James Swaney, Robert Prasch, and L. Randall Wray

Watch the video here.

URPE 2011 Brooklyn Conference

Videos from the URPE 2011 Brooklyn Conference, "The War on the Working Class."

Heterodox Journals

Capital & Class, 36(2): June 2012

Journal website: http://cnc.sagepub.com

Behind the News

‘Plan B’: A new Alternative Economic Strategy? / Hugo Radice

Articles

Translating passive revolution in Brazil / Marcos Del Roio Laws and tendencies in Marxist political economy / Steve Fleetwood Adjusting ‘our notions of the nature of the State’: A political reading of Ireland’s child protection crisis / Paul Michael Garrett ‘Personalised conditionality’: Observations on active proletarianisation in late modern Britain /Chris Grover A General Motors works council’s response to the capitalist global financial crisis: A case study from Germany / Thomas Klikauer ‘Standing the gaff’: Immiseration and its consequences in the de-industrialised mining communities of Cape Breton Island / David Wray and Carol Stephenson

Book reviews

Explaining the Crisis / Hugo Radice

Contributions to Political Economy, 31(1): June 2012

Journal website: http://cpe.oxfordjournals.org/

Articles

The Theory of Value and the Foundations of Economic Policy: In Memoriam Pierangelo Garegnani John Eatwell Pierangelo Garegnani: A Brief Sketch of His Career Pierangelo Garegnani: A Checklist of His Works Global Imbalances: Past, Present, and Future / Marcello De Cecco On Causes and Outcomes of the European Crisis: Ideas, Institutions, and Reality / Victoria Chick and Sheila C. Dow Anomalies of Spain's Economy and Economic Policy-making / Robert M. Fishman On PIIGs, GAFFs, And BRICs: An Insider–Outsider's Perspective on Structural and Institutional Foundations of the Greek Crisis / Christos N. Pitelis Is the Falling Rate of Profit the Driving Force Behind Globalization? / Miguel D. Ramirez Malthus's Theory of the Constant Value Of Labour / Giancarlo De Vivo The Early Diffusion of Wealth of Nations, Turgot, And The Abbé Morellet. A Note / Gabriel Sabbagh

densidades, 9: mayo 2012

Website: http://www.densidades.org/

A modo de presentación “ALADI tiene que ser un instrumento importante para el aumento del comercio intrarregional”. Entrevista a Carlos Chacho Álvarez, por Osvaldo Andrés García y Luciana Litterio Escuela Fortín Mbororé, un espacio para la educación intercultural, Javier Rodas y Pablo Camogli Integração democrática em 3D, Fabricio Pereira da Silva El MERCOSUR como un proceso de construcción intersubjetivo orientado al desarrollo, Gabriel Wolf A Organização Mundial do Comércio e o regionalismo do século XXI, Umberto Celli Junior La política común de comercio exterior de la Unión Europea ¿Es UNASUR un interlocutor apropiado?, Adriana B. Rodríguez ¿La hora del pragmatismo? Los retos del ALBA ante la coyuntura regional de 2012, Roberto Mansilla Blanco El derecho al trabajo de la trabajadora doméstica en el Paraguay; un estudio comparativo en Latinoamérica, Maximiliano Mendieta Miranda Derecho a la salud y migración limítrofe reciente. Articulaciones institucionales: presencias y vacíos, Laura Gottero

culturas

F otografía, cine y novela en la Guerra del Chaco (1932-1935). El médico Carlos de Sanctis y el relato de La Sed (Hijo de Hombre) de Roa Bastos, Gabriela Dalla-Corte Caballero

espacios

VI Cumbres de las Américas, Patricia García Aular

debates

La crisis del euro y su repercusión en los países emergentes, Aldo Ferrer

lecturas

El MERCOSUR y las complejidades de la integración regional, José Briceño Ruiz (editor)

academias

Materia desarrollo humano y medio ambiente 2012 de la Maestría en procesos de integración regional con énfasis en el MERCOSUR, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas de la Universidad de Buenos Aires

documentos

Declaración de la I Reunión de las Ministras y Ministros de Medio Ambiente de la Comunidad de Estados Latinoamericanos y Caribeños, Quito, 3 de febrero de 2012 Declaración del Consejo de Ministras y Ministros de Relaciones Exteriores de UNASUR sobre la cuestión de las Islas Malvinas, Asunción, 17 de marzo de 2012

Pueden solicitar la revista completa en archivo pdf de forma libre y gratuita a este mismo correo electrónico, bajarla de los enlaces del sitio webwww.densidades.org o directamente junto a nuestros anteriores números en los siguientes links:

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Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics, 5(1): Spring 2012

Download and print the entire Spring 2012 Issue

Articles

Valuing environmental costs and benefits in an uncertain future: risk aversion and discounting [ PDF ] Fabien Medvecky Ethics in economics: lessons from human subjects research [ PDF ] Megan Blomfield Doing the best one can: a new justification for the use of lotteries [ PDF ] Ittay Nissan-Rozen

Special contribution:

The potentials and limitations of rational choice theory: an interview with Gary Becker [ PDF ]

Book reviews:

Review of Hilary Putnam and Vivian Walsh’s The end of value-free economics [ PDF ] Daniel Little Review of Malcolm Rutherford’s The institutionalist movement in American economics, 1918-1947: science and social control [ PDF ] David Gindis Review of Peter J. Boettke’s Handbook on contemporary Austrian economics [ PDF ] David Howden Review of Iara Vigo de Lima’s Foucault’s archaeology of political economy [ PDF ] Ryan Walter Review of Mark D. White’s Kantian ethics and economics: autonomy, dignity, and character [ PDF ] Nicolas Gravel Review of Philippe Steiner’s Durkheim and the birth of economic sociology [ PDF ] Jared L. Peifer Review of James E. Alvey’s A short history of ethics and economics: the Greeks [ PDF ] Spencer J. Pack

Recent PhD thesis summaries:

Essays in the economics of knowledge [ PDF ] Samuli Leppälä

Historical Materialism: Research in Critical Marxist Theory, 20(1): 2012

Journal website: www.brill.nl/hima

Articles

Kim Moody / Contextualising Organised Labour in Expansion and Crisis: The Case of the US Gail Day / Manfredo Tafuri, Fredric Jameson and the Contestations of Political Memory Richard Seaford / Monetisation and the Genesis of the Western Subject Tony Norfield / Derivatives and Capitalist Markets: The Speculative Heart of Capital Jairus Banaji / Fascism as a Mass Movement: Translator's Introduction Arthur Rosenberg / Fascism as a Mass Movement

Intervention

Mario Vegetti / Editorial Introduction to Plato's The Republic, Book XI

Review Articles

Jason Read on Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri's Commonwealth Ed Rooksby on Mark Fisher's Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? Paul Stasi on Pranav Jani's Decentering Rushdie: Cosmopolitanism and the Indian Novel in English Henry Heller on Jefff Horn's The Path Not Taken: French Industrialization in the Age of Revolution, 1750-1830 Ingo Schmidt on Ricardo Bellofiore's Rosa Luxemburg and the Critique of Political Economy

Historical-Critical Dictionary of Marxism

Juha Koivisto and Mikko Lahtinen Conjuncture, politico-historical

Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 34(2): June 2012

Journal website: http://journals.cambridge.org/HET

Articles

The Mathematical Turn In Economics: Walras, The French Mathematicians, And The Road Not Taken / Michael H. Turk Exploring Hawtrey’s Social Philosophy Through His Unpublished Book, Right Policy / Toshiaki Hirai Dumping As Price Discrimination: Jannaccone’s Classic Theory Before Viner / Simona Cantono, Roberto Marchionatti The Popularization Of Political Economy In Spain And Latin America Through Encyclopedias (1887–1930) / Jesús Astigarraga, Juan Zabalza

The Organizational Properties Of Money: Gustavo Del Vecchio’s Theory / Gianfranco Tusset The Managerial Rationality, From Domestic Administration To Governance / Thibault Le Texier The Economic Approach To Human Behavior: A Historical Review And An Attempt To Combine It With Other Approaches / Dotan Leshem

Book Reviews

Veronica Montecinos and John Markoff, eds., Economists in the Americas (Cheltenham and Northampton: Edward Elgar, 2009), pp. 341, $150. ISBN: 978-1-84542-043-7. / Andrés Álvarez Stephen H. Kellert, Borrowed Knowledge: Chaos Theory and the Challenge of Learning across Disciplines (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008), x + pp. 292, $35.00. ISBN 0226429784. / Matthieu Ballandonne Nancy Folbre, Greed, Lust & Gender: A History of Economic Ideas (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2009), pp. xxxiii, 379, $34.95. ISBN 978-0-19-923842-2. / Robert W. Dimand Jörg Bibow, Keynes on Monetary Policy, Finance and Uncertainty: Liquidity Preference Theory and the Global Financial Crisis (Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2009), pp. xii, 249, £85 (US $135.00). ISBN 978-0-415-35262-8 (hardback); £32.50 (US $42.50). ISBN 978-0-415-61647-8 (paperback). / M. G. Hayes Thomas Karier, Intellectual Capital: Forty Years of the Nobel Prize in Economics (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010), pp. 351, $35.00. ISBN 978-0-521-76326-4. / Barry T. Hirsch Robert Leonard, Von Neumann, Morgenstern, and the Creation of Game Theory: From Chess to Social Science 1900–1960 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), pp. vi, 469, $55.00. ISBN 978-0-521-56266-9. / Alessandro Innocenti Agnar Sandmo, Economics Evolving. A History of Economic Thought (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2011), pp. vii, 489, $45.00. ISBN 978-0-691-14842-7 / Roberto Lampa Eugen Maria Schulak and Herbert Unterköfler, The Austrian School of Economics: A History of Its Ideas, Ambassadors, and Institutions (Auburn, AL: The Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2011), pp. 244, $17.00. ISBN 978-1-610-16134-3. / Matthew McCaffrey D.P. O’Brien and J. Creedy, eds., Darwin’s Clever Neighbour, George Warde Norman and his Circle (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2010), pp. lvi, 444, $165. ISBN 978-1-84844-557-4. / Matthew Smith Sjoerd Beugelsdijk and Robbert Maseland, Culture in Economics: History, Methodological Reflections, and Contemporary Applications (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), pp. xx, 388, $90.00. ISBN 978-0-521-19300-9. / Andrej Sušjan

Journal of Philosophical Economics, V(2): Spring 2012

Journal website: http://jpe.ro/?id=revista&p=10

Articles

Book Reviews

Amitava Krishna Dutt and Benjamin Radcliff (eds.), Happiness, Economics and Politics. Towards a Multi-Disciplinary Approach, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2009, 362 pp. ( Elena E. Nicolae ) Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo, Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty, Public Affairs, 2012, 303 pp. ( Hannah Cockrell ) Joseph Stiglitz, Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy, W. W. Norton & Company, 2010, 361 pp. ( Kathryn Cohen ) Eric Helleiner, Stefano Pagliari and Hubert Zimmerman (editors), Global Finance in Crisis: The Politics of International Regulatory Change, Routledge, 2010, pp. 216 ( Linh Dao ) Niall Ferguson, Civilization: The West and the Rest, Allen Lane, Penguin Books, London, 2011, pp. 385 ( Andrei Josan )

Marshall Studies Bulletin - Volume 12, 2011

Website: http://www.dse.unifi.it/CMpro-v-p-141.html

Articles

Book Reviews

Metroeconomica, 63(3): July 2012

Journal website: http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=0026-1386

The Importance Of The Retention Ratio In A Kaleckian Model With Debt Accumulation /Hiroaki Sasaki And Shinya Fujita Note On The Welfare Effect Of Second-Best Policies In A Network Industry: A Monopoly Case / Tsuyoshi Toshimitsu Are Fiscal Sustainability And Stable Balanced Growth Equilibrium Simultaneously Attainable? / Akira Kamiguchi And Toshiki Tamai Income Distribution, Credit Rationing And Households' Debt /Matthieu Charpe, Peter Flaschel And Christian R. Proaño Factor Shares, Business Cycles And The Distributive Loop / William A. Jackson Growth, Unemployment And Endogenous Technical Progress: A Hicksian Resolution Of Harrod's Knife-Edge / Thomas I. Palley Hysteresis In The Kaleckian Growth Model: A Bayesian Analysis For The Us Manufacturing Sector From 1984 To 2007 / Christian Schoder Stolper–Samuelson Revisited: Trade And Distribution With Oligopolistic Profits / Robert A. Blecker

Review of Political Economy, 24(2): April 2012

Journal website: http://www.tandfonline.com/journal/crpe20

Articles

Terms of Trade, Competitive Advantage, and Trade Patterns / Ramaa Vasudevan A Post-Keynesian Model of the Palestinian Economy: The Economics of an Investment-Constrained Economy / Alberto Botta & Gianni Vaggi The Road to Financialization in Central and Eastern Europe: The Early Policies and Politics of Stabilizing Transition / Daniela Veronica Gabor The Effect of Foreign Affiliate Employment on Wages, Employment, and the Wage Share in Austria / Özlem Onaran The Austrian Dehomogenization Debate, or the Possibility of a Hayekian Planner / Alejandro Agafonow Return of the State? The G20, the Financial Crisis and Power in the World Economy / Donald Nordberg

Symposium: The Future of Post-Keynesian Economics and Heterodox Economics contra their Critics

Introduction / Marc Lavoie & Frederic S. Lee Post Keynesians and Others / J. E. King Perspectives for Post-Keynesian Economics / Marc Lavoie Heterodox Economics and its Critics / Frederic S. Lee Post Keynesianism, Heterodoxy and Mainstream Economics / David Dequech

Book Reviews:

Perfecting Parliament: Constitutional Reform, Liberalism, and the Rise of Western Democracy / Gene Callahan Taking Economics Seriously / Robert E. Prasch

Urbani izziv, 23(1): June 2012

Journal website: http://urbani-izziv.uirs.si/en/Urbaniizziv/tabid/95/Default.aspx

Editorial

Boštjan KERBLER: The vertical urban space

Articles

Reviews

Heterodox Newsletters

CCPA National Update

on June 4th we blacked out our website for a very good cause; our new video illustrates the value of our tax dollars; we signed on to a letter denouncing the government’s treatment of the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food; this month's Hennessy's Index looks at the numbers fuelling discontent with austerity; and a round-up of the latest commentary and blog posts from Behind the Numbers . our latest study reveals that Mexico is the only part of North America where the middle class has been gaining from growth; our brief to the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food analyzes the impact of the 2012 federal budget on food insecurity in Canada; we've lifted the fog on public service job losses.

Read the newsletter here.

Economic Policy Institute

As union membership declines, inequality rises

To a remarkable extent, the level of inequality—which fell during the New Deal but has risen dramatically since the late 1970s—corresponds to the rise and fall of unionization in the United States. This week’s Economic Snapshot juxtaposes the historical trajectory of union membership and the income share claimed by the richest 10 percent of Americans. It finds that as union membership has fallen to around 1920s levels, inequality has worsened.

Global Labour Column

On 4 June 2012, the new GLC anthology, "Confronting finance: Mobilizing the 99% for economic and social progress", was launched at the 101st International Labour Conference. What Europe can learn from the South by Nicolas Pons-Vignon Trade Unions, Globalisation and Internationalism by Ronaldo Munck

IDEAs, May 2012

Website: www.networkideas.org or www.ideaswebsite.org

Re-regulating Finance

News Analysis

Featured Articles

and more at the website: http://www.networkideas.org/

IIPPE in Brief - Call for Contributions

We are seeking contributions and announcements for the next issue of the IIPPE newsletter due out in July 2012

These can be:

- Short opinion pieces or commentaries (up to 900 words)

- Book, article or conference review

- Cartoons

- Call for papers

- Announcements of publications and upcoming events

See http://www.iippe.org/wiki/IIPPE_In_Brief or previous issues

Levy News, May 2012

New Publications

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Third Happy Planet Index

The Happy Planet Index measures what matters: the extent to which countries deliver long, happy, lives for the people that live in them, within environmental limits. The 2012 HPI report ranks 151 countries of which Costa Rica comes first and the UK 41st.

Watch the video | Explore the data | Download the report

Review of Keynesian Economics Newsletter, 1(1): June 2012

Please click on this link for the latest newsletter from the Review of Keynesian Economics.

Heterodox Books and Book Series

Book Series: The Economics of the Middle East, Palgrave Macmillan

Series Editor: Nora A. Colton, Royal Docks Business School University of East London

This series is dedicated to highlighting the challenges and opportunities that lie within and around this central region of the global economy. It will be divided into four broad areas: resource management (covering topics such as oil prices and stock markets, history of oil in the region; water; labor migration; remittances in the region); international trade and finance (covering topics such as role of foreign direct investment in the region; Islamic banking; exchange rate and investments); growth and development (covering topics such as social inequities; knowledge creation; growth in emerging markets) and lastly demographic change (covering topics such as population change, women in the labor market, poverty and militancy).

Editorial Advisory Board:

Sohrab Behdad – Professor and John E. Harris Chair of Economics Denison University Karen Pfeifer – Professor Emerita of Economics, Smith College Ghassan Dibeh – Professor of Economics, Lebanese American University; Editor, Review of Middle East Economics and Finance Roger Owen – A.J. Meyer Professor of Middle East History, Harvard University Serdar Sayan – Professor of Economics, Director, Graduate School for Social Science, Tobb University of Economics and Technology, Turkey

￼For proposals, please contact:

Nora A. Colton, Dean, Royal Docks Business School N.A.Colton@uel.ac.uk

Samantha Hasey, Editor, Samantha.Hasey@palgrave-usa.com

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Capital Accumulation and Women’s Labour in Asian Economies

By Peter Custers with a new introduction by Jayati Ghosh

June 2012. Monthly Review Press. 978-1-58367-284-6 (pb) | website

Peter Custers reasserts the relevance of Marxist concepts for understanding processes of socio-economic change in Asia and the world, but argues forcefully that these concepts need to be enlarged to include the perspective of feminist theoreticians. In the process, he assesses the theoretical relevance of several currents in international feminism, including ecofeminism, the German feminist school, and socialist feminism. With its strong theoretical framework, supported by massive amounts of evidence, this important book will interest all those involved in women’s studies, social movements, economics, sociology, and social and economic theory.

The Concept of Equilibrium in Different Economic Traditions: An Historical Investigation

By Bert Tieben

May 2012. Edward Elgar. 978 1 84844 993 0 (hb) | website

‘Bert Tieben is very well read in the history of economic thought and provides an overview of one of the basic concepts of economics that is unrivalled both in its scope and in its thoughtful and detailed discussion of the various currents and schools. It goes right to the heart of economic theory and asks some pertinent questions about the limits and the future of economic theorizing. That is, I think, what sets it apart from many other studies in the history of economic thought: it is history with an eye to the future, and it does all this without making any demands on the mathematical skills of the reader. This book should therefore appeal to everybody who is interested in the methodology of economics and in exploring the boundaries of economic analysis.’ – Hans Visser, VU University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Creating a Sustainable Economy: An Institutional and Evolutionary Approach to Environmental Policy

Edited by Gerardo Marletto

April 2012. Routledge. 978-0-415-61076-6 (hb) | website

This book is designed for those scholars, students, policy-makers – or just curious readers – who are looking for heterodox thinking on the issue of environmental economics and policy. Contributions to this book draw on multiple streams of institutional and evolutionary economics and help build an approach to environmental policy that radically diverges from mainstream prescriptions. Institutions and technologies – and not only markets – are at the heart of a systemic and dynamic analysis of those structural changes which are needed to create a sustainable economy. Actors for change – and their ability to influence politics and policy – are explicitly taken into consideration. These issues are analyzed from different viewpoints by contributors to the book: some focus on behavior and institutions, others analyze the interaction of economic and technological dynamics; some provide sectoral case studies and others have the ambition to provide the reader with an overall picture. But all authors view environmental policy as a combination of actions that can trigger – and make viable – those structural changes which are needed to reach sustainability.

Crisis in the Eurozone

by Costas Lapavitsas

September 2012. Verso. 9781844679690 (pb). | website

The renowned Research on Money and Finance (RMF) group present a searing critique of the neoliberal nature of the Eurozone and ruthlessly dissect the roots of the current financial turmoil and the European debt crisis. Lead author Costas Lapavitsas and his co-authors argue that European austerity is contradictory because it leads to recession, and worsens the burden of debt, further imperilling banks and the monetary union itself. The analysis suggests that impoverished states would be wise to quit the Euro and pursue debtor-led, sovereign and democratic default that would lead to deep cancellation of debt. The authors envisage a restructuring relying on the forces of organized labor and civil society, drawing on the theoretical tradition of political economy and heterodox economics, and treading a careful path between declining Europeanism and nascent nationalism.

Cycles, Crises and Innovation: Path to Sustainable Development – A Kaleckian-Schumpeterian Synthesis

By Jerry Courvisanos

July 2012. Edward Elgar. 978 1 84720 596 4 (hb) | website

Cycles, crises and innovation are the major economic forces that shape capitalist economies. Central to this book is a critical realist political economy approach based on the works of Joseph Schumpeter and Michal Kalecki who identified cycles, crises and innovation as the three dynamic forces plotting the path of economic development. The book examines how the rise of capital, through investment, enshrines innovation in profit and power which determines the course of cycles and crises. Based on this analysis, strategic intervention by transformative eco-innovation is proposed as a public policy path to ecologically sustainable development.

Decline of the USA (e-book)

by Edward Fullbrook

“You can download the book and read more about it, including what Dean Baker, Kevin Gallagher, Michael Hudson, David Ruccio, Irene van Staveren and others have to say about it, by going here.”

Employment, Growth And Development: A Post-Keynesian Approach

Edited by Claude Gnos, Louis-Philippe Rochon, and Domenica Tropeano

July 2012. Edward Elgar. New Directions in Modern Economics series. 978 1 84844 068 5 (hb) | website

‘The editors of this volume have brought together an invaluable set of essays on each of these issues. The overall post-Keynesian message, of course – one that comes through very clearly – is that employment, growth and development are not at all separate topics, but each depend on the appropriate choice of macroeconomic policies for a monetary production economy.’ – John Smithin, York University, Canada

Neoliberalism: Beyond the Free Market

Edited by Damien Cahill and Frank Stilwell

July 2012. Edward Elgar. 978 1 78100 234 6 (hb) | website

In this timely book, leading scholars of neoliberalism, together with emerging researchers from a range of intellectual traditions, reflect upon the nature of neoliberalism in light of the recent and ongoing global financial crisis. What emerges is an enlightening picture of the diversity of neoliberalism. The complex relationships between theory and practice are highlighted as the contributors recognise the need to move beyond the commonplace notion that neoliberalism is simply a system of free markets. Topical chapters examine the implications of the current crisis for neoliberalism, the likelihood of alternatives, and how these might arise.

Social Democracy After the Cold War

Edited by Bryan Evans and Ingo Schmidt

June 2012. AU Press. 978-1-926836-87-4 (pb) | website

Offering a comparative look at social democratic experience since the Cold War, the volume examines countries where social democracy has long been an influential political force—Sweden, Germany, Britain, and Australia—while also considering the history of Canada's NDP, the social democratic tradition in the United States, and the emergence of New Left parties in Germany and the province of Québec. The case studies point to a social democracy that has confirmed its rupture with the postwar order and its role as the primary political representative of working class interests. Once marked by redistributive and egalitarian policy perspectives, social democracy has, the book argues, assumed a new role—that of a modernizing force advancing the neoliberal cause.

The Social Economics of Thorstein Veblen

By David Reisman

July 2012. Edward Elgar. 978 0 85793 218 1 (hb) | website

‘Considering the inability of conventional economics to comprehend the socio-economic convulsions over the past few years in so many countries, it is surely time to try something else. David Reisman’s The Social Economics of Thorstein Veblen thus appears at a most opportune moment. This original analytical study is the best introduction into Veblen's work that I know of, and will, I trust, encourage a renewal of interest in possibly the most unjustly neglected of economists. Reisman’s primary contention that there is – despite obstacles to comprehension created by Veblen’s personal idiosyncrasies and unconventional literary style – a Veblen structure of thought, or general system, is fully confirmed by the evidence presented in his book. In this demonstration lies its great merit.’ – Samuel Hollander, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

Zed Books: Special Discount Offer

The offer period will run from 18 June to 30 August. 30% discount + free postage & packing

The offer code to be entered into the little box at checkout is HETERODOX.

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Heterodox Associations and Websites

Feminist Global Political Economy Network

This academic research network is for scholars with an interest in feminist approaches to the study of international or global political economy. The google group (details below) will serve as a platform for sharing information related to upcoming conferences, calls for papers, job opportunities and other communications of relevance to scholars working in this area. In particular, the research network aims to coordinate panels for conferences such as International Studies Association, the International Feminist Journal of Politics Annual conference, other international conferences, and more specialized events. Membership is open to anyone with an interest in how feminism and/or gendered forms of analysis provide insights into contemporary global political economy. Relevant issues might include (but are not limited to) the following: emerging international finance and development regimes; the impact of wider economic processes on gender regimes within specific states/regions; gendered patterns of work and migration, trade, foreign direct investment, and gendered approaches to macroeconomics; the global political economy of sexuality; the nexus between environmental degradation and gender inequality; and, women's movements and broader resistance politics worldwide. We are also keen to attract scholars working in the field of IPE who have an interest in feminist and/or gender issues but are not currently developing work in this area, as well as feminist scholars who have an interest in but are not currently doing work on global political economy.

If you would like to join this network then please go to http://groups.google.com/group/FGPEN and click on 'apply for membership'. We are also very keen to attract PhD students to this network so please pass on this e-mail to any PhD students working in this area.

Kind regards,

Juanita Elias, Sonalini Sapra, Suzanne Bergeron, Adrienne Roberts and Genevieve Lebaron

Keynes Society Japan (KSJ)

Basic Principles

To pursue the truth through discussion, in accordance with “Keynes Spirits”, in order to contribute to understanding, analyzing and developing the contemporary economic society. To aim at promoting researches from a wide range of fields such as economic theory, economic policy, social philosophy, history, culture. Therefore, participation of economists, historians, cultural interpreters, philosophers, art critics, journalists is welcome. To provide a place for interdisciplinary and comprehensive points of view by means of give-and-take from conterminous areas. To pay attention to the present, the future and the past. To be active on the international dimension.

II. Activities So Far

On December 12, 2010, “Keynes Pilot Symposium” was held with 200 plus participants. This was published as Learning from Keynes in the Midst of Crisis in December 2011. On December 3, 2011, the first annual meeting for the KSJ was held at Sophia University, Tokyo. The second annual meeting is to be held at Meiji University, Tokyo, in November.

III. The webiste is on: http://keynes-society.blog.so-net.ne.jp/2012-05-03

Executive Members (23)

T. Asada (Chuo), Y. Iida (Komazawa), Y. Inoue (Chuo), K. Itoh (Kyoto), N. Itoh (Takasaki), T. Iwamoto (Kyoto), A. Komine (Ryukoku), R. Kuroki (Rikkyo), J. Obata (Rissho), K. Kurose (Tohoku), T. Nishizawa (Hitotsubashi), A. Noguchi (Senshu), Y. Noshita (Kokushikan), T. Hirai (Sophia. President),Y. Sakai (Shiga), T. Nakaya (Nanzan), N. Nabeshima (Nagoya), H. Fujiwara (Doshisha), Y. Mamiya (Kyoto), K. Yago (Tokyo), H. Yoshikawa (Tokyo), M. Wakatabe (Waseda), Y. Watanabe (Meiji. Organizer for the next meeting)

Mail Address: jmkeynes@mail.goo.ne.jp

URPE-OWS page updated

The Occupy Page on the URPE website has been updated to include a teach-in at Bryant Park on May Day:

May Day at Bryant Park – "Understanding the Dangers of Power and Wealth Imbalances and What We Can Do About It: Nine Economists Speak Out"

and a Chicago teach-in (and short video) by CPEG (under subhead "Occupy, many locations").

URPE OWS page: http://www.urpe.org/ows/owshome.html

The Bryant Park section includes livestream videos. Kim Christensen and Renee Toback have supplied powerpoints on inequality, and Kim has provided a reading list.

Heterodox Economics in the Media

Playboy Pushing Back on Mainstream Economics?

How can Playboy consider heterodox economic theories that much of the mainstream press dismisses?

Read the article at AlterNet, June 5, 2012. This article is based on William K. Black’s article, “Honest Mom, I only bought the new Playboy to read the article on UMKC Economics” at New Economics Perspectives blog, June 4, 2012.

For Your Information

Characteristics of the Members of Twelve Economic Associations

Using survey responses from 299 U.S. economics professors, the authors report on membership in the professional economic associations with names including the following terms: American, Eastern, Southern, Western, Econometric, Evolutionary Economics, Private Enterprise Education, Feminist Economics, Public Choice, Socio-Economics, Austrian Economics, and Radical Political Economics. Association membership is related to voting, policy views, and favorite economists.

Source: Econ Journal Watch (May 2012) website.