From the Editor
This
Newsletter has so much new information and calls
for papers that it is not really possible to
describe them all. While at the ASSA meetings I was
able to get M.E. Sharpe to send me alerts regarding
the heterodox journals and books they publish. They
will now start appearing in the Newsletter. I
already receive such alerts from Routledge. If you
want alerts to your favorite heterodox journal and
book publisher to appear in the Newsletter on
a regular basis, try to get them to send me alerts
on a regular basis.
In the October 16, 2006 Heterodox Economics
Newsletter (Issue 33), I publicized an issue
about Job Openings for Economists which
censored a job ad from the University of Vermont.
Professor Stephanie Seguino spearheaded this concern
and was supported by a number of people. At the ASSA
meetings purple ribbons (supplied by Deborah Figart)
were distributed to protest the decision. The
outcome of the protest and action was reported in
the January 19, 2007 issue of the Chronicle of
Higher Education—which you can read in the ICAPE
section below.
Fred Lee
In
this issue:
-
Call
for Papers
-
ICAPE Conference, 1-3 June 2007
- Developments in
Economic Theory and Policy
- Association for
Heterodox Economics 9th Annual Conference 2007
- EAEPE 2007 Conference-
Economic Growth, Development, and Institutions Conference
- Union of Radical
Political Economists
- Association for Social
Economics
- The International
Network for Economic Method
- 2nd International
Symposium on Economic Theory, Policy and Applications
- Association for
Evolutionary Economics
- Globalization and Its
Discontents
- Progressive Economics
Forum
- European Research Group
on Innovation and Change in Health Care Systems
- Fifth Annual Global
Studies Conference
-
Epistemologies/Pedagogies of Struggle: Knowledge(s) Outside the Academy
- Marx and Philosophy
Society Annual Conference
- Green Economics
Conference
- EAEPE Information and
Calls for Papers
- Conferences, Seminars
and Lectures
- London Marx-Hegel Reading Group
- City Leaders Lecture
- 9th International
Workshop on Institutional Economics
- Contributions to Social
Ontology
- Global Economic and
Social Development
- Marx and Philosophy
Society
- 7th SCEME Workshop
- Job
Postings
for Heterodox Economists
-
The Evergreen State College
- Economists for National
Human Development Report
-
International Confederation of Associations for Pluralism in Economics -
News
-
Economists' Group Adjusts Policy on Discriminatory Language in Job Ads
-
Heterodox Journals and Newsletters
- International Journal of Political Economy
- Challenge
- International Journal
of Development Issues, 2006 (2)
- Work Organisation
Labour and Globalisation
- CASE e-Newsletter:
January 2007
- Journal of Post
Keynesian Economics
-
Heterodox
Books, Book Series, and Book Reviews
- Economics in Real Time: A Theoretical Reconstruction
- Book Review of
Economics in Real Time: A Theoretical Reconstruction
- Handbook of
Contemporary Behavioral Economics
- Reintroducing
Macroeconomics
- Empirical Post
Keynesian Economics
- Reclaiming Marx's
"Capital": A Refutation of the Myth of Inconsistency
- Palgrave Books
- Monetary Economics
-
Heterodox
Associations, Institutes, and Departments
- IThe Social Capital Foundation
- Post Keynesian
Economics Study Group
-
Queries from Heterodox
Economists
- Chris Farrell
-
For Your Information
- Research Internships at AFL-CIO
- Research Fellowships
- Research Opportunities
at Hellenic Observatory
- Report on World Bank's
Research Activities
Call for Papers
ICAPE Conference, 1-3 June 2007
Between now and
January 15, I hope you will feel inspired (or coerced, whichever you
find more compelling) to propose a paper for the ICAPE conference on
Economic Pluralism for the 21st Century, to be held June 1-3 at the
University of Utah in Salt Lake City.
Like ICAPE's inaugural conference in 2003, this is a "big tent"
conference open to all economic thinkers, topics, and fields of
specialization.
We have received proposals so far from scholars in 12 countries
(Belgium, China, Colombia, Denmark, Germany, India, Iran, Ireland,
Italy, Mexico, the U.K., and the U.S.) who represent a several distinct
traditions of thought. This is a healthy start.
But in order to fulfill ICAPE's mission of promoting intellectual
diversity and inter-paradigmatic exchange in economic scholarship and
education, we need to elicit proposals from a critical mass of Austrian,
Feminist, Institutional-Evolutionary, Marxian, Postcolonial, Post
Keynesian, Postmodern, Radical, Social, Sraffian, and OUT (Otherwise
Unorthodox and Talented) economists.
In short, we need more proposals from economic thinkers like YOU!
If you would like to join us for three days of unusually good conference
conversation, food, and drink in Salt Lake City next June, please send a
250-word abstract to Rob Garnett (r.garnett@tcu.edu) no later than
January 15.
Or, to learn more about the conference or ICAPE itself (the
International Confederation of Associations for Pluralism in Economics),
please visit our web site:
http://www.icape.org
We really hope to hear from you!
For the ICAPE conference organizers (Al Campbell, Wilfred Dolfsma,
Edward Fullbrook, Rob Garnett, Neva Goodwin, John Henry, Mary King, Fred
Lee, Ed McNertney, Judith Mehta, Erik Olsen, and Martha Starr)
Developments in Economic Theory
and Policy
The Department of Applied Economics V of the University of the Basque
Country (Spain) and the Cambridge Centre for Economic and Public Policy,
Department of Land Economy, of the University of Cambridge (United
Kingdom) are organizing the 4th International Conference “Developments
in Economic Theory and Policy”. The Conference will be held in Bilbao
(Spain), from 5th to 6th July 2007, at the Faculty of Economics and
Business of the University of the Basque Country.
Though papers are invited on all areas of economics, papers on the
following topics are especially welcome:
- privatization,
- fiscal policy,
- productivity and growth,
- housing,
- economic policy,
- immigration and social security,
- institutions.
Papers must be written (and presented) in English. Accepted papers will
be grouped in sessions. Every session will comprise three-four papers.
Suggestions for ‘Organized Sessions’ are also welcome. An organized
session is one devoted to a specific subject that has been constructed
in its entirety by a session organizer and submitted to the Conference
Organizers as a complete package (title of the session, papers, authors
and session chair).
The final deadline to submit papers and ‘organized sessions’ is 31st May
2007. Acceptance letters will be sent out by e-mail before 8th June
2007.
For more information, you can get in touch with Jesus Ferreiro (jesus.ferreiro@ehu.es)
or visit the website of the Conference: www.conferencedevelopments.com
Association for Heterodox
Economics 9th Annual Conference 2007
Pluralism in Action
13 – 15 July, 2007
University of the West of England, Bristol
The Ninth Annual Conference of the Association of Heterodox
Economics (AHE) will be held at the University of the West of
England from 13th to 15th July 2007.
For detailed information:
AHE_callforpapers.doc
EAEPE 2007 Conference- Economic Growth,
Development, and Institutions Conference
Economic Growth, Development, and Institutions- lessons for policy
and the need for an evolutionary framework of analysis organized by
Faculdade de Economia, Porto
1-3 November 2007, Porto, Portugal
Deadline for submission of abstracts: April 01, 2007
Click here
to download a pdf version of the call.
See
http://www.fep.up.pt/conferencias/eaepe2007 for further
information concerning the conference.
Union of Radical Political
Economists
Annual Meeting
New Orleans January 4-6, 2008
URPE invites proposals for individual papers and complete sessions
for the URPE at ASSA annual meeting. URPE welcomes proposals on
radical political economic theory and applied analysis from a wide
variety of theoretical traditions.
The deadline for proposed papers and sessions is May 1, 2007.
Proposals for complete sessions are encouraged should include the
session title, a brief description of each paper, and the names,
institutional affiliations, and email addresses of the chair,
discussants, and presenters. Proposals for sessions should contain
four papers. If you are proposing a complete session, please arrange
to have discussants for your papers and a chair for your session. As
the organizer of this session, you are responsible for conveying
administrative information to session members, including
confirmation that the session has been accepted, the time and
location, and deadlines.
Proposals for individual papers should include the title, the
abstract, and the author's name, institutional affiliation, and
email. Individuals whose papers are accepted may also be expected to
serve as a discussant for a different paper at the meetings. If you
list the areas you prefer to discuss, all attempts will be made to
match your preferences. Individual papers that are accepted will be
assigned to sessions and each session will have an assigned
organizer. It is the organizer's job to convey administrative
information to session members, including confirmation that the
session has been accepted, the time and location, and deadlines.
URPE has no paid ASSA staff, so those presenting papers must share
the burden of organizing.
We regret that high quality individual papers may be turned down due
to the inability to place them in a session with papers with similar
themes. For this reason, we strongly encourage proposals for full
sessions. The number of sessions we can accept is limited by ASSA,
and we regret that high quality sessions may be turned down as well.
Please note that the date, time, and location of sessions is
assigned by ASSA, not URPE. You should receive word from URPE that
your paper/session was accepted by mid-June. ASSA will not assign
dates and times until much later in the summer.
Please note that anyone who presents a paper (but not the chairs or
discussants) must be a member of URPE (except at joint sessions with
other groups, in which case they can be a member of the other
organization). Contact urpe@labornet.org or 413-577-0806 for
membership information. We will confirm membership for accepted
proposals.
A completed copy of the Program Registration Form (below) is
required with your submission. Submissions will NOT BE ACCEPTED BY
EMAIL. Only applications received by the May 1 deadline will be
considered.
Download
registration form.
If you have any questions, please contact one of the URPE at ASSA
coordinators:
Fred Moseley, Mount Holyoke College,
fmoseley@mtholyoke.edu
Laurie Nisonoff,Hampshire College,
lnisonoff@hampshire.edu
Association for Social
Economics
Annual Allied Social Sciences Association Meetings
New Orleans, LA
January 4-6, 2008
THEME: Inequality, Democracy, and the Economy
From the 1940s to the mid-1970s the distribution of income in the
United States and many other countries showed little change. It was
even said that tracking change in the distribution of income in the
United States ‘was like watching the grass grow.’ Since the late
1970s income disparities have widened continually and wealth has
become more and more concentrated. The United States exceeds all
other developed countries in this regard. The United States also
actively promotes global neoliberal economic policies throughout the
world designed to remake the world economy on the American model.
• What are the origins and sources of this historic change, what
drives it today, and what can we expect of this process of change in
the future?
• Is democracy a casualty of rising inequality in income and wealth?
How is democracy impacted in a world of concentrated economic power?
• Is consumer culture the outcome of increasing inequality, the
means to sustaining it, and the solution to the ‘problem’ of
democracy?
• How is rising economic inequality related to health care states
and the health of nations?
• Who has been abandoned in this historic change? Who are today’s
vulnerable populations?
• What is the changing status and meaning of the individual? Why has
social identity become important? What is the meaning of pluralism?
• How are these issues being contested in economics? What is the
relation of the recent new movements in economics to increasing
inequality?
Members and nonmembers of the Association for Social Economics are
invited to submit proposals and complete sessions on these themes
topics for the New Orleans ASE program. The program will begin
Thursday evening January 3 with an opening plenary lecture followed
by an ICAPE reception. Please send an abstract by email of 300 words
or less by May 1, 2007 to:
John Davis , University of Amsterdam and Marquette
University:john.davis@mu.edu
The International Network
for Economic Method
Annual Allied Social Science Association Meetings
New Orleans, Lousiana, U.S.A.
4-6 January, 2008
Deadline for proposals: 30 April, 2007
INEM will sponsor two sessions at the next ASSA meetings on topics
that relate to methodological and philosophical issues in economics,
broadly conceived. Paper proposals should be accompanied by an
abstract of some 200 words. Proposals for full sessions of 3-4
papers will be particularly welcome due to coherence considerations.
The INEM sessions should serve as showcases of innovative economic
methodology, potentially attended by many regular economists as well
as specialists in the field of methodology. Thus papers of high
quality on topics of interest both to practicing economists and to
economic methodologists will be preferred. It would also be
desirable to have the international character of INEM represented by
the sessions.
Please send session and paper proposals by 30 April to Uskali Maki,
Academy of Finland
uskali.maki@helsinki.fi
2nd International Symposium
on Economic Theory, Policy and Applications
6-7 August 2007,
Athens, Greece
The Economics Research Unit of the Athens Institute for Education
and Research (ATINER) will hold an International Symposium in
Athens, Greece, August 6-7, 2007. The registration fee is 250 euro,
covering access to all sessions, 2 lunches, coffee breaks and
conference material. Special arrangements will be made with local
hotels for a limited number of rooms at a special conference rate.
In addition, a Greek Night with live music, a one-day cruise to
picturesque Greek Islands and a half-day archaeological tour.
Papers (in English) from all areas of Economics are welcome.
Sessions will be organized along the lines of the Journal of
Economic Literature Classification Index:
. General Economics and Teaching,
. Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology,
. Mathematical and Quantitative Methods,
. Welfare Economics,
. Microeconomics,
. Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics,
. International Economics,
. Financial Economics,
. Public Economics,
. Health, Education and Welfare,
. Labour and Demographic Economics,
. Law and Economics,
. Industrial Organization,
. Business Admin. And Business Economics - Marketing - Accounting,
. Economic History,
. Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth,
. Economic Systems,
. Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics,
. Urban, Rural, and Regional Economics,
. Cultural Economics.
Selected papers will be published in a Special Volume of Conference
Proceedings or thematic books. Papers to be included are blindly
peer reviewed.
If you think that you can contribute, please send an abstract of
about 300 words, via email, before January 14th, 2007 to: Dr. John
Roufagalas, Professor, Radford University, USA & Academic Member,
ATINER, 8 Valaoritou Street, Kolonaki, 10671 Athens, Greece. Tel.: +
30 210 363-4210 Fax: + 30 210 384-7734 Email: atiner@atiner.gr. URL:
www.atiner.gr/docs/Economics.htm Abstracts should include: Title of
Paper, Family Name(s), First Name(s), Affiliation (Institution),
Current Position, an email address and at least 3 keywords (or JEL
Index Numbers) that best describe the subject of your submission.
If you want to participate without presenting a paper, i.e. chair a
session, evaluate papers to be included in the conference
proceedings or books, contribute to the editing, or any other offer
to help please send an email to Dr. Gregory T. Papanikos (gtp@atiner.gr),
Director, ATINER.
Association for Evolutionary
Economics
Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, USA
January 4-6, 2008
AFEE invites proposals for individual papers and complete panels for
the 2008 AFEE conference.
There is NO overall conference theme although it is contemplated
that one session will be devoted to issues in the history of
institutional economics, and at that least one session will focus on
methodological, conceptual, and theoretical issues in institutional
economics. Papers dealing with policy issues are also most welcome.
All papers are expected to contribute to the literature of Original
Institutional Economics in the tradition of Commons, Veblen,
Mitchell, Hamilton, Kapp, Myrdal, and Polyani, as broadly conceived.
The deadline for submission of proposals for papers and sessions is
April 15, 2007. Electronic submissions are strongly encouraged. If
receipt of your paper or panel proposal has not been acknowledged
within two weeks of submission, please contact the Program Chair.
Authors will be informed whether their proposals have been accepted
by May 15, 2007.
Proposals for panels may contain up to five papers, and must include
relevant details of all papers to be presented (see below).
Constraints imposed by the Allied Social Science Association
severely limit the number of sessions allocated to AFEE. AFEE deeply
regrets that it will be necessary to turn down many good proposals.
In considering your topic and preparing your abstract, please keep
in mind that you will have no more than twenty minutes to present
your paper. Furthermore, if you wish your paper to be considered for
publication in the June 2008 Journal of Economic Issues, the text of
your paper cannot exceed 2,850 words. You will be allowed two pages
of references and two pages of tables, or figures. The deadline for
submission for the June JEI is December 5, 2007. JEI submission
details will be provided to authors whose proposals are accepted for
the conference. Submission criteria will be strictly enforced by the
editor.
At least one of the authors of any paper must be a member of AFEE.
Contact afee@bucknell.edu
for membership information.
Proposals for papers or panels must be submitted to the Program
Chair by April 15, 2007. The following information must be submitted
for each paper:
a- Name(s) of author(s)
b- Professional affiliation(s)
c- Email address of corresponding author
d- Mailing address of corresponding author
e- Title of proposed paper
f- Abstract of 100 to 200 words
g- Your willingness to serve as a discussant or session chair
(specify field)
For detailed
information:
AFEE Call For Papers 2008 (3).doc
Malcolm Rutherford
Program Chair
Department of Economics
University of Victoria
PO Box 1700
Victoria, BC, Canada, V8W 2Y2
Telephone : (250) 721-6481
Fax : (250) 721-6214
E-mail : rutherfo@uvic.ca
Globalization and Its
Discontents
June 7th—9th, 2007
SUNY Cortland
Cortland, New York
Join SUNY Cortland and Izmir Economics University faculty for their
second annual economics conference. This year, the topic is
"Globalization and Its Discontents." We welcome proposals for papers
extending, opposing, or generally exploring Stiglitz' important
contributions to the globalization debate. Examples of possible
paper topics include:
• Globalization and Debt
• Globalization and Labor
• Globalization and Gender
• Globalization and Development
• Globalization and the World Bank
• Globalization and Cultural Change
• Globalization and the Environment
• Globalization and Global Warming
• Political Economy of Globalization
• Globalization, Turkey, and the EU
• Globalization, Turkey, and the IMF
• Comparative Systems and Globalization
• Globalization and Exchange Rate Crises
• Globalization and Macroeconomic Policy
• Globalization and the Distribution of Income
• Globalization and the Teaching of Economics
• Globalization and the History of Economic Thought
Selected papers will be published in the Conference Proceedings.
In addition to the title and the author's name, affiliation, and
e-mail address, proposals should summarize the paper's objectives,
methods, related literature, and expected conclusions. Proposals
(less than 500 words) should be sent as e-mail attachments, in MS
Word format, to:
EconConference2007@cortland.edu
The proposal deadline is April 2, 2007. Decisions will be made by
April 16, 2007.
Further information is available at
www.cortland.edu/economics/conference2007.html
Progressive Economics Forum
Annual Student Essay
Contest
Tired of learning economics that seems more interested in justifying
the status quo, than in explaining the real world - and changing it?
Then join thousands of economics students around the world: put your
economics to work in the cause of social change.
Prizes
$1000: Top Graduate Essay
$500: Top Undergraduate Essay
Prizes will be awarded to an essay of 20-40 pages double-spaced
(5,000-10,000 words) on any subject related to the theory or policy
of economics or political-economy, which best reflects a critical
approach to the functioning, efficiency, and social and
environmental consequences of unconstrained markets.
Deadline for Applications: May 1, 2007
Mail 4 copies of your essay to:
Professor Louis-Philippe Rochon
Department of Economics
Room A325A
Laurentian University / Université Laurentienne
935 Ramsey Road
Sudbury, Ontario
CANADA P3E 2C6
Electronic copies accepted:
lprochon2003@yahoo.com
lprochon@laurentian.ca
More info at: www.web.ca/~pef
All entrants receive a complimentary 1-year membership in the
Progressive Economics Forum.
Judges' decisions are final.
European Research Group on
Innovation and Change in Health Care Systems
In January 2006, several members of the Committee for Evolutionary
Economics at the Verein für Socialpolitik joined with interested
colleagues to launch the 'European Research Group on Innovation and
Change in Health Care Systems' (ERGICHCS). The group aims at
complementing existing research in health economics with a focus on
innovation processes in services, technologies, organizations and
institutions. The research strategy adopts multidisciplinary
approaches and methodological pluralism.
With financial support from Andrássy University, Budapest, the
ERGICHCS will hold its inaugural conference at May 10-12, at
Andrassy University. We invite interested scholars to attend and to
present pertinent research.
The call for papers is available on the group's website:
http://www.ergo-inch-health.de
Fifth Annual Global Studies
Conference
The GSA would like to invite you to attend the Fifth annual Global
Studies Conference at UC Irvine
DEADLINE FOR PAPERS IS MARCH 15
Send to
gharris234@comcast.net
For information on speakers, schedule, hotel and registration go to
our web site at:
http://www.net4dem.org/mayglobal
Epistemologies/Pedagogies of
Struggle: Knowledge(s) Outside the Academy
EXTENDED SESSION
DEADLINE: January 29, 2007
I'm looking for additional papers for this session of the meetings
of the Society for Socialist Studies at Congress in Saskatoon at the
end of May. If interested, please submit abstracts and contact
information to Chris Borst at
chris.borst@utoronto.ca
by January 29, 2007.
Epistemologies/Pedagogies of Struggle: Knowledge(s) Outside the
Academy
Knowledge has always been located outside the Academy, in the
ordinary business of life and in various parties' strategies for
bettering their lots. Recently, knowledge outside the academy has
attracted increased attention, from corporate "knowledge management"
and "intellectual property" to the epistemologies of "the closet"
and "the street", from think tanks and policy networks to indigenous
knowledges, public opinion formation and "praxis". Sometimes this is
ridiculed as "folk [name of science]", sometimes it is praised as
"common sense" and a "learning culture".
Submissions are invited that examine any aspect of the production,
circulation and/or consolidation of knowledge(s) outside the
Academy.
Society for Socialist Studies
May 30-June 2, 2007
Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences
University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon
http://www.socialiststudies.ca
Marx and Philosophy Society
Annual Conference
Saturday 19 May 2007, Institute of Education, University of London
The Justification of Socialism
Confirmed speakers:
Alex Callinicos (Kings College London)
Raj Sehgal (Roehampton Institute)
Is socialism to be justified on the grounds that it is needed for
freedom, for happiness, for justice, for the unfettered development
of human productivity, for us to properly realise our humanity, in
order to avoid war or ecological catastrophe, or by virtue of an
immanent critique of capitalism? Does a justification of socialism
have to depend on a certain model of human nature? Or is the very
idea of 'justifying' socialism some kind of philosophical mistake?
We invite papers on any of these topics, whether or not related to
Marx's own views.
Papers should be suitable for a 25 minute presentation, followed by
25 minutes of discussion. A panel for postgraduate paper givers may
be organised. Please submit abstracts of up to 300 words by 10th
February 2007 to
a.e.chitty@sussex.ac.uk.
Green Economics Conference
International innovations in achieving the complex mesh of Global
Environmental and Social Justice and Sustainability
Tuesday 3 April 2007 and Wednesday 4 April 2007 at Mansfield
College, Oxford University, UK
For detailed information:
www.greeneconomics.org.uk
EAEPE Information and Calls
for Papers
The EAEPE Council is
pleased to announce the call for papers for the 19th EAEPE
Conference to be held in Porto, Portugal.
* Call for papers: 19th EAEPE Conference 2007 in Porto, Portugal
(deadline: April 1st 2007)
http://eaepe.org/eaepe.php?q=node/view/207
* Last chance to submit an abstract: EAEPE Symposium in Delft
(deadline: January 15th 2007)
http://eaepe.org/eaepe.php?q=node/view/236
* Reminder: Call for submissions joint AFEE-EAEPE Veblen 150 Prize
(deadline 30 June 2007)
http://eaepe.org/eaepe.php?q=node/view/189
* Reminder: Renew your membership early in the year in order not to
miss any issues of the 2007 volume of the Journal of Institutional
Economics (JOIE)
http://eaepe.org/eaepe.php?q=node/view/87
Please have a look at the other calls published on the EAEPE
website:
* DIME Workshop on "Distributed Networks in the Knowledge-based
Economy" (deadline: February 15th 2007)
http://eaepe.org/eaepe.php?q=node/view/85#DIME
* ERGICHCS Conference on "Innovation and Change in Health Care
Systems" (deadline: February 15th 2007)
http://eaepe.org/eaepe.php?q=node/view/85#ERGICHCS
* 3rd International Conference on Organizational Routines: Empirical
Research and Conceptual Foundations (deadline: February 28th 2007)
http://eaepe.org/eaepe.php?q=node/view/85#ICOR
* LEFI Conference on "Analyse(s) and transformation(s) of the firm:
Confrontation between economics, management and law" (deadline:
March 15th 2007)
http://eaepe.org/eaepe.php?q=node/view/85#LEFI
Top
Conferences, Seminars and
Lectures
London Marx-Hegel Reading Group
The first 2007 meeting of the London Marx-Hegel reading group will be on
17 January. We will be continuing with the Science of Logic. Full
details can be seen at
http://tinyurl.co.uk/whvk . All Welcome! If you have any
queries about the group, please contact Andy Denis at
a.denis@city.ac.uk, or on
the phone number, 020-7040 0257.
City Leaders Lecture
Brendan Barber, TUC General Secretary
"Globalisation and the UK labour market - the winners and the
losers"
18:30, Tuesday 20 February 2007
Oliver Thompson Lecture Theatre
The City University
Northampton Square
London EC1V 0HB
Registration from 18:00
Drinks reception after the lecture.
RSVP to Jane Adlington (jane.adlington.1@city.ac.uk), stating
clearly your title, name, organisation, job title, daytime telephone
contact number, email address, and any special requirements.
Information will be used for badging.
More info:
http://tinyurl.com/yxo67e
9th International Workshop
on Institutional Economics
It will be held on 21-22 June 2007 at the University of
Hertfordshire in Hatfield in England.
The theme is:
“Property, money and firms: the forgotten role of law and the state”
Speakers: David Gindis (University of Lyon II), Geoffrey Hodgson
(University of Hertfordshire), Geoffrey Ingham (University of
Cambridge), Thorbjoern Knudsen (University of Southern Denmark),
Patrick O'Brien (LSE), Itai Sened (Washington University at St
Louis).
Further details and booking information can be found on the
following website:
http://www.geoffrey-hodgson.info/p37.htm
Contributions to Social
Ontology
Center for Critical Realism Forum and Book Launch Friday 19th
January, School of Oriental and African Studies, Room 116, 4.00 –
6.00
"Contributions to Social Ontology"
Margaret Archer on Sociological Imperialism and the Invasion of
Human Subjectivity by the Third Person
Roy Bhaskar on The Critical Realist Revindication and the Future
Development of Ontology
Clive Lawson On Contributions to Social Ontology
6.00 -7.00
The Centre for Critical Realism hosts a reception marking the launch
of Contributions to Social Ontology Edited by Clive Lawson, John
Spiro Latsis, Nuno Martins. Routledge Studies in Critical Realism
For further details contact Nick Hostettler:
nh8@soas.ac.uk
Global Economic and Social
Development
If you wish to learn more about the issues of GLOBAL ECONOMIC AND
SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT - why not attend one of our short intensive
courses?
During 2007 we are running the following;
Course 11; Feb 19 to March 3rd
Course 12; June 4th to 16th
Course 13; November 5th to 17th
Personnel from all the major development agencies- OXFAM, Save the
Children Fund, ActionAid, WaterAid, CAFOD, Christian Aid, UNICEF and
others, as well as staff of the House of Commons, students, teachers
and academics - have participated and benefited over the last 4
years.
The courses are held in central London.
Full details are on our website;
www.ethical-events.org.
Marx and Philosophy Society
Marx and Philosophy Society Afternoon Seminar Saturday 17 February
2.00-5.30pm Room F3, Royal Holloway, 11 Bedford Square, London WC1B
Speakers:
Meade McCloughan
'Marx and the Phenomenology of Spirit'
Nina Power (Roehampton)
'Marx and Non-Philosophy'
For abstracts see
http://www.marxandphilosophy.org.uk
There is no registration charge but space is limited, so please book
in advance by sending an email to
martin.mcivor-alumni@lse.ac.uk.
Directions:
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University of London. Corner of Bedford Sq. / Montague Place / Gower
Street (opposite British Museum).
Tube stations: Euston Square, Goodge Street, Russell Square,
Tottenham Court Road.
Street map:
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7th SCEME Workshop
7th SCEME Workshop This is a reminder that the deadline for offers of
contributions to the SCEME Workshop on 19 May on 'Economics as a Moral
Science' is Friday 16 February. Offers to be sent to Sheila Dow on
s.c.dow@stir.ac.uk.
Further details are available at
www.sceme.stir.ac.uk
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Job Postings for
Heterodox Economists
The Evergreen State College
Feminist Economist - 07
Revised Job Announcement 1-10-07, review date of complete
applications has been extended to February 7, 2007.
The College is seeking a Feminist Economist (a broadly trained
economist who has a strong background in feminist theory and
feminist approaches to economics) to teach in the field of political
economy. We generally teach micro and macro economics in an
interdisciplinary context that incorporates development, justice,
poverty, labor, gender, race, and environment. The successful
candidate will be able to apply the study of these issues to the
situation in the US and in some other geographic region. A
successful candidate will also be able to integrate quantitative and
qualitative methods (such as ethnography and oral history) into
interdisciplinary programs.
Faculty have a significant amount of direct contact with students
and enjoy a high degree of freedom to determine the subject matter,
pace, emphasis, classroom strategies and modes of evaluation in the
programs that they teach. We are particularly interested in
candidates who have experience or interest in using innovative
pedagogy to engage students in developing their conceptual
understanding of economics, particularly feminist economics, in
understanding our contemporary social reality. The successful
candidate should be interested in working with undergraduate
students at all levels from introductory through advanced.
Candidates who have a background and interest in interdisciplinary
teaching beyond economics and in teaching with faculty from other
disciplines are particularly encouraged to apply. We also encourage
applicants who have had experience teaching and/or working with
students from underrepresented populations.
Minimum Qualifications:
• M.A. in Economics
Preferred Qualifications:
• Ph.D. in Economics
• Experience with interdisciplinary teaching and/or research
• College level teaching experience
• Interest and ability to teach college level writing
• Experience teaching and/or working with students from
underrepresented populations.
This is a Regular Faculty position, eligible for continuing
appointment after two, three-year renewable contracts. The review of
complete applications has been extended. Review begins February 5,
2007 and will continue until finalists are selected.
Economists for National
Human Development Report
For the first time ever, a National Human Development Report for the
United States is being produced. Its research/writing team is
looking for an economist with strong interest in social justice
issues in the United States and expertise in public policy in one or
more dimensions of human development. The project is an independent
effort that will draw on the conceptual framework and advocacy model
of the global Human Development Report, which has been replicated in
over 140 countries. Funding is coming from American foundations. The
economist will be a co-author of the report and member of the core
team. The work is estimated at 50% time over the next 15 months,
with the goal to launch in the first quarter of 2008. If interested
or for more information, please contact Sarah Burd-Sharps at
sb925@columbia.edu .
Khalil Tian Shahyd - MA
PhD Student/Research Associate - Political Ecology Center for Energy
and Environmental Policy University of Delaware
http://ceep.udel.edu/ceep.html
504.296.6516
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International Confederation of Associations for Pluralism in Economics -
News
Economists' Group Adjusts Policy
on Discriminatory Language in Job Ads
By DAVID GLENN
Chicago
Facing rank-and-file discontent with a policy banning references to
minority groups in job notices, the executive committee of the American
Economic Association has voted to loosen the restrictions. The decision
was announced here this month during the association's annual meeting.
Since 1986 the association has banned advertisements in its newsletter,
Job Openings for Economists, that discriminate "on the basis of race,
color, religion, gender, national origin, sexual preference, or physical
handicap." For at least a decade, it has strictly interpreted that
policy, so as to forbid such phrases as "We encourage applications from
women and members of underrepresented minorities." Broad language like
"We are an equal-opportunity, affirmative-action employer" has been
accepted, but explicit encouragement to particular groups has not.
Three months ago, Stephanie Seguino, an associate professor of economics
at the University of Vermont, was angered when the association deleted
language from a recruitment ad declaring that her department "welcomes
applications from women and underrepresented ethnic, racial, and
cultural groups, and from people with disabilities." She notified
colleagues, and several e-mail lists have been ablaze with discussion
since October. Dozens of scholars at the meeting here wore small maroon
ribbons as a gesture of protest against the ban.
As Ms. Seguino and her allies see it, the association was foolishly
censoring commonplace phrases that might play a small role in broadening
the representation of women and people of color in the discipline.
(According to the most recent report of the Committee on the Status of
Women in the Economics Profession, women earned 27.9 percent of the
economics Ph.D.'s issued in 2004, a percentage that has been generally
flat during the past decade. And a 2006 report by Gregory N. Price, a
professor of economics at Jackson State University, noted that only 44
of the 2,785 faculty members in Ph.D.-granting American economics
departments were African-American.)
During the Chicago meeting, the association's executive committee
conceded the argument. The new policy's exact terms have not yet been
set, but the association will now allow recruitment language that
encourages applications from people who belong to underrepresented
groups covered by federal civil-rights law.
"We will permit the discussion of those groups now when it's done in
terms of broadening the applicant pool," John J. Siegfried, a professor
of economics at Vanderbilt University and the association's
secretary-treasurer, said in an interview. "But we will continue to
prohibit such language if you're talking about hiring criteria."
Other Controversial Wording
According to several accounts, the most contentious issue during the
board meeting was the treatment of advertisements from sectarian
religious colleges, which are legally permitted to discriminate on the
basis of religion. (The federal government grants that permission only
to colleges that can demonstrate that religion is fundamental to their
missions.)
Early last year, Peter J. Hill, a professor of economics at Wheaton
College, a Christian institution in Illinois, wrote an essay objecting
to the association's refusal to publish an advertisement declaring that
Wheaton's faculty must "affirm a Statement of Faith and adhere to
lifestyle expectations." Such requirements are perfectly legal, he
noted, adding that it seemed pointless not to inform prospective
applicants about the college's nature.
Under the new policy, the association will treat such advertisements
exactly as it does announcements that mention race, gender, and sexual
orientation, Mr. Siegfried said. That is, Wheaton will be permitted to
"encourage" or "welcome" applicants who are evangelical Protestants —
but the association will still not allow the college to list evangelical
Protestantism as a job requirement, even though such ads are legal.
In an interview here, Mr. Hill said he regarded the new policy as a
partial step forward. "I'm pleased to hear that the association has
recognized that colleges have distinctive identities, and that they
might want to encourage applications from particular groups," he said.
Ms. Seguino's allies, too, have declared a partial victory. "The option
that the executive committee took was a positive step," Deborah M.
Figart, dean of graduate studies and a professor of economics at Richard
Stockton College of New Jersey, said in an interview.
"But we need to continue to build a consciousness-raising movement about
the dearth of women and people of color at all levels of economics,"
said Ms. Figart, who led the maroon-ribbon protest.
Distribution of Panels
While the advertising issue appears to have found a resolution, another
dispute is still simmering: Several small organizations that participate
in the annual economics meeting are angry about plans to cut the number
of panels they can offer in future years.
The conflict is a product of the January meeting's unusual history.
Since its founding, in 1885, the American Economic Association has
almost always held its annual conferences under the umbrella of the
American Social Science Association or a later, unrelated consortium
called the Allied Social Science Associations. By 1975 or so, the
American Economic Association had become by far the largest entity
within the social-science group and had taken over responsibility for
planning and financing the annual meeting. Today 50 organizations
participate in the January conference, and some members of the economic
association have expressed concerns that the smaller groups are taking
up too much oxygen.
Last year the association began a program to gradually expand the number
of its own panels at the January conference, while reducing the number
of those offered by some smaller organizations. The reductions have been
determined by a formula based in part on how many people have attended
each organization's panels during the last four years.
When news of the latest cuts hit several months ago, members of several
"heterodox" economics organizations — those that are methodologically or
ideologically to the left of the American Economic Association — held
extensive discussions about whether it might be time to leave the
January-conference structure and perhaps to consolidate their meetings
with those of the International Confederation of Associations for
Pluralism in Economics, a 14-year-old group.
Full version of the article
http://chronicle.com
Section: Research & Publishing
Volume 53, Issue 20, Page A11
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Heterodox Journals and
Newsletters
International Journal of Political Economy
Volume 35 Number 2 / June Summer 2006 of International Journal of
Political Economy is now available at
http://mesharpe.metapress.com.
This issue contains:
Editor's Introduction
Mario Seccareccia
The Globalization of Oil: A Prelude to a Critical Political Economy
Cyrus Bina
Oil: Profits of the Chain Keepers
Hassan Bougrine
Canada's Oil and Imperialism
Edward Harry Shaffer
Mexican Oil Policy and Energy Security Within NAFTA
Alicia Puyana
Challenge
November-December 2006 VOL. 49, NO. 6
GREAT CONTROVERSIES
Developing Countries and the Collapse of the Doha Round A Forum:
Yilmaz Akyüz, William Milberg, and Robert Wade
Developing the Domestic Market: Thomas Palley
Whither Social Europe?: Jonas Pontusson
OIL DEBATES
Reducing American Dependence on Oil: Robert Carbaugh and Charles
Wassell Jr.
The Great Oil and Gasoline Dilemma: Edwin Reubens
The Nurse Shortage Is a Crime: Barbara Bergmann
The Theology of Economics: Interview with Duncan Foley
On Negative Pricing: Harry I. Greenfield
From the Publisher:He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands, Mike
Sharpe
Index to Volume 49 (January–December 2006)
© 2006 M.E.Sharpe, INC. All rights reserved. 80 Business Park Drive,
Armonk, NY 10504
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Heterodox Books, Book Series, and Book Reviews
Economics
in Real Time: A Theoretical Reconstruction
John McDermott
This book offers a new model for contemporary economic behavior that
accounts for changes since neoclassical and Marxian microeconomics
were formulated over a century ago. By incorporating real time into
the analysis of sales and purchases, the phenomena of product
innovation, advertising and distribution, the provision of consumer
credit, and, ultimately, the production of a changing workforce all
become intrinsic to microeconomic analysis rather than being treated
as extraneous to fundamental theory.
Economics in Real Time transforms the analysis of contemporary sales
and purchases. In mainstream economics the series of purchases, say,
of a personal computer, then of software upgrades, peripherals,
on-line services, and even support services are analyzed as
discrete, essentially unrelated transactions. However
counterintuitive, this approach is theoretically necessary to
sustain the free-market narrative, its price and general equilibrium
theories, and its efficiency and welfare theorems. Economics in Real
Time instead links such related purchases within what is called a
"sale/purchase state" occupying the time interval that begins with
the initial purchase of the PC and ends only when all of the PC's
services have been exchanged to the buyer. Under this analysis,
typical contemporary sale/purchase states, as for automobiles,
benefit plans, and electronic goods, place the purchaser in
continuing, often dependent relationships to multiple sellers, at
least some of which were not even overt partners to the initial
purchase. Moreover they typically impose a continuing stream of
expenditures upon the purchaser, as for automobile upkeep or music
CDs, and so forth.
Economics in Real Time analyzes a contemporary economy as shaped in
both its narrowly economic and broadly social features by these
sale/purchase states. It draws a radically different picture of its
terrain, challenging at the most fundamental level both the
relevance and the theoretical warrant of the free-market conception.
John McDermott is Professor Emeritus of the State University of New
York and a member of the editorial board of the Review of Radical
Political Economics. His books include Corporate Society: Class,
Property, and Contemporary Capitalism. His work has appeared in the
New York Review of Books, the Nation, and other venues. He now lives
in the Boston area.
Book
Review of Economics in Real Time: A Theoretical Reconstruction
By: Xuan Pham, University of Missouri-Kansas City
In a Walrasian auctioneer market, the auctioneer calls out the
demand and supply prices. An agreement is reached between a single
buyer and seller. The two parties come together to make an exchange
in instantaneous time. The transfer of services/goods is full and
fair. After the exchange has taken place, there is no further
attachment between the seller and buyer. (cont.)
Handbook
of Contemporary Behavioral Economics
Foundations and Developments
Editor(s): Morris Altman, University of Saskatchewan
At a time when both scholars and the public demand explanations and
answers to key economic problems that conventional approaches have
failed to resolve, this groundbreaking handbook of original works by
leading behavioral economists offers the first comprehensive
articulation of behavioral economics theory. Borrowing from the
findings of psychologists, sociologists, political scientists, legal
scholars, and biologists, among others, behavioral economists find
that intelligent individuals often tend not to behave as effectively
or efficiently in their economic decisions as long held by
conventional wisdom. The manner in which individuals actually do
behave critically depends on psychological, institutional, cultural,
and even biological considerations.
See the link for detailed
information.
Reintroducing Macroeconomics
A Critical Approach
Author(s):Steven Mark Cohn, Knox College
This lively introduction to heterodox economics provides a balanced
critique of the standard introductory macroeconomic curriculum. In
clear and accessible prose, it explains many of the key principles
that underlie a variety of alternative theoretical perspectives
(including institutionalist economics, radical economics, Post
Keynesian economics, feminist economics, ecological economics,
Marxist economics, social economics, and socioeconomics). Because
the book’s structure parallels the chapters and subject matter
presented in a typical introductory macroeconomics textbook,
Reintroducing Macroeconomics provides readers with a running
commentary on the standard approach, while simultaneously
introducing them to a broader range of ideas about the causes and
appropriate policy responses to a wide range of common economic
problems.
See the
link for detailed information.
Empirical
Post Keynesian Economics
Looking at the Real World
Editor(s): Richard P.F. Holt, Southern Oregon University
Steven Pressman, Monmouth University
This text highlights the major empirical questions and issues facing
Post Keynesian economics today. Featuring contributions by leading
Post Keynesian economists, it focuses on public policy and real life
analysis of this vibrant and dynamic economic theory.
In language that is accessible to upper level undergraduate and
graduate students, professional economists, and public policy
makers, each of the chapters takes on a specific issue of concern to
all professional economists, provides empirical analysis of the
issue, and then discusses the Post Keynesian view on the topic and
contrasts it with the orthodox perspective. The topics covered are
grouped into three main categories: empirical studies of
consumption; empirical studies of business investment; and empirical
studies of international economic relations.
See the link for
detailed information.
Reclaiming
Marx's "Capital": A Refutation of the Myth of Inconsistency
By Andrew Kliman
250 pages, copyright 2007.
Published by Lexington Books, a division of Rowman & Littlefield.
Part of Lexington's Raya Dunayevskaya Series in Marxism and
Humanism.
List price: $26.95.
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Palgrave
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Monetary
Economics
An Integrated Approach to Credit,Money, Income, Production and
Wealth
BY WYNNE GODLEY AND MARC LAVOIE
This book challenges the mainstream paradigm, which is based on the
inter-temporal optimisation of welfare by individual agents. It
introduces a new methodology for studying how it is institutions
which create flows of income, expenditure and production together
with stocks of assets (including money) and liabilities, thereby
determining how whole economies evolve through time. Starting with
extremely simple stock flow consistent (SFC) models, the text
describes a succession of increasingly complex models. Solutions of
these models are used to illustrate ways in which whole economies
evolve when shocked in various ways. Readers will be able to
download all the models and explore their properties for themselves.
A major conclusion is that economies require management via fiscal
and monetary policy if full employment without inflation is to be
achieved.
For detailed information:
Monetary-flyer-Palgrave.pdf
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Heterodox
Associations, Institutes, and Departments
The Social
Capital Foundation
Dear readers, colleagues, and
partners from various institutions,
This is to announce the publication of The International Scope
Review # 13. The editorial, by Otto Steiger, Alexi Danchev and
Patrick Hunout, bears on "John Kenneth Galbraith, the Affluent
Society and Social Capital". The articles, mostly drawn from the
2005 Malta conference of The Social Capital Foundation, bear on
issues revolving around social capital.
If you wish to submit a paper, please revisit our policy statement
page as well as the guidelines for authors; our evaluation
principles (methodology, ethics and procedure) have been updated.
For the near future, we would like to publish a special issue on
democratic tax policy and the social market economy. Papers may of
course be submitted on other topics as well, any time.
We also need your support. We expect to have more members in 2007
and would like you to consider the membership options at
http://www.socialcapital-foundation.org/TSCF/TSCF%20membership.htm.
Some new members could be involved in the Editorial Board and others
in the creation of local chapters of The Social Capital Foundation
or other projects.
Besides membership itself, small donations are also possible via
http://www.socialcapital-foundation.org/TSCF/TSCF%20donations.htm
Finally, we remind you that registrations to the TSCF 2007
conference, to be held on November 15-19, 2007 in Hawaii, are now
open. The conference this year is on Multiethnicity and Social
Capital. We invite you to submit papers, but participation as a
discussant or an attendant also is possible. Please have a look at
the conference page of our site:
http://www.socialcapital-foundation.org/conferences/synopsis.htm.
The deadline is very close to the conference date in order to allow
a maximal number of participants to be involved. However,
participants are advised not to wait until the deadline to submit,
the fee being staggered.
With best wishes, and a Happy New Year 2007!
The TISR-TSCF team
The Social Capital Foundation
Post: B.P. 30, 1310 Terhulpen, Belgium
Website:
http://www.socialcapital-foundation.org
Post
Keynesian Economics Study Group
To the members of the Post Keynesian Economics Study Group
Considerable time has elapsed since our previous meeting at Oxford
Brookes in January 2006, a period during which a new committee has
been organised and will now be responsible for the Group’s
activities.
The new Committee consists of Giuseppe Fontana (Treasurer, Leeds),
Mark Hayes (Secretary, Cambridge), Jonathan Perraton (Chairman,
Sheffield), Claudio Sardoni (Rome and Cambridge), and Geoff Tily
(Office for National Statistics).
The committee met in August 2006 and discussed the way forward. We
expect to hold meetings twice a year in the Spring and Autumn, in
the UK at present. We plan to establish a website to provide current
and historical information about our activities, and are considering
whether this can be used as a private space to publish working
papers from members of the Group, in order to encourage debate and
provide material for meetings. Any comments on this proposal will be
welcome.
The first meeting is planned for Friday 25 May 2007 from 2pm – 6pm
at Homerton College in Cambridge on the theme “Interpreting The
General Theory”, including talks by Mark Hayes, Geoff Tily and
hopefully at least one other invited speaker on their recently
published books. Further details will be circulated in due course,
but please put this date in your diary NOW!
In outline, we propose themes for further meetings as follows:
Autumn 2007 Post Keynesian perspectives on development economics
Spring 2008 The methodology of Post Keynesian economics
Autumn 2008 Theoretical controversies in Post Keynesian economics
Calls for papers will go out in due course.
Mark Hayes
Secretary
Queries from Heterodox
Economists
Chris Farrell
Entrepreneurial & Evolutionary Economics - How Technology Innovation
Creates Economic Growth And Prosperity - Adapting Economic Analysis
To Embrace Entrepreneurship - this heterodox delivery of previously
unattainable results is a practical and intellectual toolbox with
the following sections
• Adapting Economics To Embrace Entrepreneurship,
• The Difficulties Overcome,
• Two Missing Variables,
• Prior Research By Practitioners (S-curves),
• Evolutionary Interpretation of Prior Work,
• Measuring Technology Innovation,
• Economic Growth Driven Ultimately By R&D (numerical proof),
• Consequences For Measuring Inflation (eliminating the bias),
• Consequences For Cost Of Living (& new pension choice),
• The Engine In The Ship Of Entrepreneurship (& guidance for venture
capital investors).
To find out more visit
http://www.techmatt.com
Chris Farrell Ph.D., Chicago
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For Your Information
Research Internships at
AFL-CIO
Dear Friends and
Colleagues,
I am writing to let you know about three exciting opportunities for
new and seasoned researchers to become strategic researchers in the
labor movement.
Would you please pass on the information below to your students,
friends, and colleagues?
Thank you,
Charles
Charles Taylor, Coordinator
Research Recruitment Program
AFL-CIO Center for Strategic Research
chtaylor@aflcio.org
202-330-1174
Research Fellowships
Dear All,
I write to you to inform you of the research fellowships we have
available for 2007-8.
We hope they might be of interest to you. Alternatively, you may
know someone else who might be interested.
Our prime concern is to facilitate top quality research projects on
Greece, with a policy relevance.
Applicants are expected to obtain the information materials from
LSE’s Human Resources Division before they submit their application.
Yours,
Sofia Christofidou
Hellenic Observatory Administrator
London School of Economics and Political Science
Tel:0044 (0)2079556066
Email: s.christofidou@lse.ac.uk
Research Opportunities at
Hellenic Observatory
European Institute
The Observatory promotes research, teaching and public debate on
contemporary Greek politics, economy and society. It is currently
expanding. As a result of external funding, we are pleased to
announce the following fellowships for 2007-8:
Εθνική Τράπεζα της Ελλάδος / National Bank of Greece Senior Research
Fellow / Research Fellow in Contemporary Greek Studies
Salary £36,018 to £49,775 pa Ref: 12/06/RES
Applicants are invited to propose research relevant to the work of
the Observatory, intended to lead to high quality publications.
Preference may be given to research proposals in political economy,
public policy or political sociology.
Υπουργείο Οικονομίας και Οικονομικών / Ministry of Economy and
Finance Senior Research Fellow / Research Fellow on the Political
Economy of Greece’s Relations within South East Europe.
Salary £36,018 to £49,775 pa Ref: 13/06/RES
Applicants are invited to propose research relevant to the post,
intended to lead to high quality publications with a policy focus.
Preference may be given to research proposals focusing on one of the
following: Energy Policy and Cooperation; FDI patterns; Implications
of EU Enlargement for Greece; Public-Private Finance Partnerships
A. C. Laskarides Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship
Salary £36,018 to £41,723 pa Ref: 14/06/RES
Applicants are invited to propose research on one of the following
subjects: Greek FDI in SE Europe; state regulation of private
markets; innovation in social and welfare policies; Greece and the
EU’s Balkan strategy; minorities and identity in modern Greece.
The fellowships are fixed term posts; each post is available for one
year from 1 September 2007 or shared consecutively by two persons
for six months. Applicants must already possess a PhD in a relevant
area.
In each case, applicants are asked to first obtain the full
application pack available from
www.lse.ac.uk/jobsAtLSE
If you cannot download the pack please email
HR.Recruit.Res@lse.ac.uk
or phone 020 7955 6737
For information on the Observatory, see
http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/hellenicObservatory/
Informal enquiries may be made to: Professor Kevin Featherstone at
the Observatory.
Closing date for all positions: 1 March 2007
Report on World Bank's
Research Activities
Dear colleagues,
An external audit of all of the World Bank's research activities
carried out between 1998 and 2005 has been posted on the Bank's web
site following an article published last Friday by the Financial
Times (copied below). The FT calls the audit a "scathing critique"
of the WB's research practices, which consist of weeding out
findings that contradict WB orthodoxy and selectively using
favourable research to "proselytize" on behalf of Bank policy. The
co authors of the audit are three US academics -- one of whom is a
former IMF chief economist --, one current employee of the UNDP and
one employee of the IFC. The report is particularly critical of the
work of the Bank's trade specialists, who are found by the auditors
to have generally ignored the costs of trade and investment
liberalization. We have earlier reported on the failings of the
Bank's free trade zealots in several postings to the IFI-L, noting
that they have systematically exaggerated the benefits of trade and
investment liberalization for developing countries. Ironically, the
FT expects that the WB's development economics department will argue
that the shoddy practices should be rewarded by allocating more
resources to in-house "research". The full 165-page report has been
posted on the Bank's web site:
http://tinyurl.com/ybna52
Peter Bakvis
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World Bank 'uses doubtful evidence to push policies'
By Eoin Callan in Washington
Financial Times, December 22 2006
The World Bank's use of questionable evidence to "proselytise" on
behalf of its development policies has been sharply criticised by
the first big external audit of the bank's use of research. A copy
of the audit obtained by the FT found the bank often used research
on globalisation "without taking a balanced view of the evidence"
and ignored unfavourable research. The scathing critique is likely
to heighten debate over the way in which the benefits of
globalisation have been spread. The panel praised bank researchers'
"extremely visible work on globalisation, on aid effectiveness, and
on growth and poverty". But auditors also had "substantial
criticisms of the way that this research was used to proselytise on
behalf of bank policy, often without taking view of the evidence,
and without expressing appropriate scepticism". The documents
conclude: "Internal research that was favourable to bankpositions
was given great prominence, and unfavourable research ignored." The
probe examined World Bank research from 1998 to 2005 and was led by
outside economists including Ken Rogoff, a former director at The
International Monetary Fund, and Angus Deaton, a professor at
Princeton.
The panel argued that the bank "has not done enough to compile
comprehensive data on trade costs", arguing that information on "how
industries, regions, firms, and households respond to changes in
trade barriers" was fundamental to analysis of trade reform.
François Bourguignon, World Bank chief economist, said the critique
was "deep and thoughtful, and draws insights from among the best
research expertise available". Mr Bourguignon indicated there were
areas where he"broadly agreed with the report's recommendations and
observations on bank research" as well as areas where he had
reservations. The report has been submitted to Paul Wolfowitz, bank
president, and is likely to be used to make the case for increased
spending on economic research. Mr Bourguignon said it was
particularly valuable in the "current environment of contracting
research budgets". The report will be seized on by critics of the
bank, but is unlikely to undermine significantly the World Bank's
annual global economic outlook, which found grounds for optimism
about the future for globalisation. The bank predicts not only that
will the global economy do well in the next two years, but that
globalisation between now and 2030 will proceed apace.---
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