From the Editor
This issue of the Newsletter announces some
new call for papers—check out the one for the
Association for Heterodox Economics.
There is also a great many interesting seminars,
conferences and lectures to attend. As it is job
season, there are a number of new jobs for heterodox
economists listed. You should also check out the New
Economic Papers and the new heterodox web sites for
the Association for Integrity and Responsible
Leadership in Economics and Associated Professions
and for the Heterodox Economics for Environment and
Development Network. Finally there are a couple
things under the FYI section that you should look
at. One concerns the response by the History of
Economic Thought community to an attempt to remove
HET from economics and classify it as solely a
historical subject; and the second concerns ‘freedom
in classroom,’ an issue that certainly is relevant
to those who teach in the US.
It is ASSA Conference registration time.
Registration for the ASSA conference and hotel can
now be made on line:
http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AEA. Remembers
when registering for the ASSA tick the membership
box for the Association for Social Economics or
Labor and Employment Relations Association. In 2006
ASE got $2951 ($990 in 2005) which it uses to
support heterodox economics and LERA got $7,480
($3,950 in 2005), but more is better. The breakdown
for the ASSA 2007 in Chicago is not yet available.
For the AFEE, ASE, and the overall ASSA program at
the ASSA see:
http://www.orgs.bucknell.edu/afee/ASSA%20program%20&%20events%20Final%208-31-07.doc
http://www.socialeconomics.org/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=1
http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AEA/Annual_Meeting/ASSA08_program.htm
On Thursday evening of the ASSA Conference, the
Association for Social Economics is
having its plenary session which is open to all
economists that support pluralism in economics. The
reception after the session is co-sponsored by
ICAPE.
Thursday, January 3, 2008
Session: Inequality, Democracy, and the Economy
Thursday, January 3, 2008, 6:30 pm
Presiding: John B. Davis, University of Amsterdam
and Marquette University
Co-sponsors: National Economic Association,
International Association for Feminist Economics,
Union for Radical Political Economics
Participants:
Dean Baker, Center for Economic and Policy Research
William J. Darity, Jr., Duke University
Lourdes Beneria, Cornell University
Reception follows co-sponsored by ICAPE
Fred Lee
In
this issue:
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Call for
Papers |
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- The 10th International Post Keynesian
Conference and the Graduate Summer School
- The 6th Society of Heterodox Economists
Conference
- The XXXIInd Political Economy of the World-System (PEWS)
Conference
- AFIT Call for Papers and Student Competition Announcement
- 10th Anniversary Conference of the Association for Heterodox
Economics
- Third Symposium of the European Association of Evolutionary
Political Economy
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Conferences, Seminars and Lectures |
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- Dialogues: Economics
- Berlin Conference 26-27 October 2007
- Historical Materialism Conference
- What Makes Humans So Different?
- Mapping Global Inequalities
- Law and Economic Development: A Historical Perspective
- Perspectives on Monetary Policy
- Assessing Law and Economics in the Context of Development
- European Business Elites
- Post-Keynesian Perspectives on Development Economics
- Globalization: Long-run Perspectives
- Non-union Forms of Employee Representation in the Asia-Pacific
Rim
- Growth and Distribution
- CofFEE
- Keynes Lecture in Economics
- The Economics of Global Warming
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Job Postings for Heterodox Economists |
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- Western New England College
- James Madison University
- University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, MA
- Missouri State University
- Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana - Unidad Cuajimalpa
- NYC Human Resources Administration
- The University at Albany, State University of New York
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Heterodox Conference Papers and Reports
and Articles |
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- NEP - New Economics Papers
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Heterodox Journals and Newsletters |
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- New Political Economy
- Journal of Economic Methodology
- Historical Materialism
- Levy News
- Metroeconomica
- Associative Economics Bulletin - September 2007
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Heterodox Books, Book Series, and Book
Reviews |
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- Political Economy and Global Capitalism
- A Survey of Critical Theories and Debates Since 1917
- The Enclave Economy
- Research in Political Economy
- Macroeconomics in Context
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Heterodox Websites |
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- AIRLEAP
- Political Economy Research Institute
- Heterodox Economics for Environment and Development Network
(HEEDnet) |
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For Your
Information |
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- Canadian Tax and Credit Simulator
- Gender and Trade Network
- An Historical Injustice
- AAUP Goes to Bat for 'Freedom in the Classroom' |
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Call for Papers
The 10th International Post Keynesian
Conference and the Graduate Summer School
The 6th Society of Heterodox Economists
Conference
The University of New South Wales will host the 6th Society of Heterodox
Economists Conference on December 10 and 11, 2007.
This year's conference will have both refereed and non-refereed papers.
The deadline for submission of abstracts of refereed papers is Friday
October 26, and for papers is Friday 9 November. The deadline for
submission of abstracts of non-refereed papers is Friday November 2,
with papers due Friday 23 November. Further details will be available
from the Conference website. In addition, we have arranged with the
editors of the Economics and Labour Relations Review to have a Symposium
Issue of selected papers from the conference. SHE Website:
http://she.web.unsw.edu.au/
The XXXIInd Political Economy of the World-System
(PEWS) Conference
Thirty- Second Annual Conference of the Political Economy of the World
System Section of the American Sociological Association (24-26 April
2008)
FLOWS OF PEOPLE AND MONEY ACROSS THE WORLD-SYSTEM: PAST, PRESENT AND
FUTURE
The XXXIInd Political Economy of the World-System (PEWS) Conference will
take place 24-26 April, 2008, at Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT.
The organizers of the PEWS Conference invite papers relating to the
theme, “Flows of People and Money across the World-System.” For detailed
information: asa08.doc
AFIT Call for
Papers and Student Competition Announcement
Association for Institutional Thought [AFIT]
2008 CALL FOR PAPERS
The annual meeting of AFIT will be held April 23-26, 2008
Denver, Colorado
Hyatt Regency Hotel 800 233 1234 In conjunction with the Western Social
Science Association (WSSA) 50th Annual Conferencef
Theme for the 2008 Conference:
New Directions in Economics: The Emerging Conversation within Heterodox
Economics
For detailed information:
AFITCallForPapersDenver2008.pdf and
AFITStudentResearchComp2007.pdf
10th Anniversary Conference of the Association
for Heterodox Economics
Call for Papers
4-6 July, 2008
Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge
The Tenth Anniversary Conference of the Association of Heterodox
Economics (AHE) will be held at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge from
Friday 4th to Sunday 6th July 2008.
For detailed information:
AHE July 2008 Tenth Anniversary Call For Papers.doc
Third Symposium of the
European Association of Evolutionary Political Economy
In collaboration with
Economic Policy Laboratory, Department of Economics,
Athens University of Economics and Business
on
MARKETS AS INSTITUTIONS: HISTORY AND THEORY
Date: 5-6 September 2008
Place: Athens University of Economics and Business, Athens Greece.
Program: key note lectures and parallel sessions.
Deadline abstracts (500 words): 15 December 2007.
A final version of accepted papers is requested by 15 June, 2008.
Submissions to: Ioanna Minoglou
email: iminoglou@aueb.gr
Fee: 100 € . Participants will cover their air travel and hotel costs.
However, we will secure for them preferential rates at a hotel near the
venue. We will also provide hard copies of the papers; a welcome
reception on the 4th of September; tea, lunch, dinner (5th and 6th of
September) and an organised tour of the National Archaeological Museum.
Theme:
The purpose of this symposium is to explore new directions in historical
and theoretical research on the institutional properties of markets. In
world history markets have taken a plurality of shapes in terms of their
routines, pricing procedures and other features. Among the key themes of
interest are:
How have specific markets emerged?
What role have (national) institution building, codified legal systems,
property rights and commercial/business culture played in the formation
of markets?
How do institutional specificities influence the allocation of resources
and the determination of prices?
In what ways do markets play a decisive part in determining alternative
political economies?
Organizing Committee: John Groenewegen, Geoff Hodgson, Panagiotis
Korliras, Pascal Petit, Ioanna Minoglou.
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Conferences, Seminars and
Lectures
Dialogues:
Economics
Tuesday 2 October 2007, 6.30pm
Italian Cultural Institute
39 Belgrave Square, London SW1X 8NX
The Italian Revival of Marshallian Studies:
The Elgar Companion to Alfred Marshall
with
Prof. Marco Dardi,
Prof. Brian Loasby,
Prof. Stan Metcalfe and Prof.Tiziano Raffaelli
In light of the recent and ongoing surge of interest in Alfred
Marshall's work, this new and original reference volume, edited by
Tiziano Raffaelli, Professor of the History of Economic Thought,
University of Pisa, Giacomo Becattini, Emeritus Professor of Political
Economy and Marco Dardi, Professor of Economics, University of Florence,
fills a gap in the literature through a detailed examination of his
thought and of his contributions to economics and social science. Brian
Loasby is Professor Emeritus at Stirling University and Stan Metcalfe is
Professor of Political Economy at Manchester University.
Free event but booking essential on 020 7396 4430 or
rsvp.icilondon@esteri.it
Berlin Conference
26-27 October 2007
The Research Network Macroeconomic Policies would like to invite you to
participate in its 11th conference on
Finance-led Capitalism? Macroeconomic Effects of Changes in the
Financial Sector,
Berlin, 26--27 October 2007,
Best Western Hotel Steglitz International, Albrechtstr. 2, 12165 Berlin.
Conference papers and further information on the conference will be made
available on the conference website
http://www.boeckler.de/cps/rde/xchg/hbs/hs.xsl/33_88381.html.
There are no conference fees. Meals will be covered by the Hans Boeckler
Foundation. Participants have to cover their travelling and hotel costs.
If you would like the Hans Boeckler Foundation to make hotel
reservations for you, please note that we need your requirements until
24 September 2007. Having registered you will receive the details for
the hotel, how to get there etc. in early October. Payments will have to
be made with the hotel in Berlin. Download the
conference program.
Historical
Materialism Conference
The fourth annual Historical Materialism Conference held in conjunction
with the Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Prize Committee and the Socialist
Register will take place between 9–11 November, 2007 at the School of
Oriental and African Studies, Central London.
As has become a hall-mark of this event, the conference will be
interdisciplinary in nature. Within this context several specific
strands are highlighted this year. These include Gramsci’s contribution
to Marxism, the significance of Marx’s Grundrisse, the Russian and
Spanish revolutions, contemporary debates on labour, current issues in
political economy with cross country/regional analysis, and critical
film studies.
Confirmed speakers include:
Gilbert Achcar, Greg Albo, Chris Arthur, Jacques Bidet, Robin Blackburn,
Robert Brenner, Alex Callinicos, Simon Clarke, Gregory Elliott, Ben
Fine, Andrew Glyn, Michael Heinrich, Makoto Itoh, Sharon Kivland, Esther
Leslie, Domenico Losurdo, David McNally, Fred Moseley, Michael Neocosmos,
Ilan Pappe, Moishe Postone, Helena Sheehan, Max Tomba, Goran Therborn,
Mike Wayne, Paul Willis and Slavoj Zizek.
One of the principle objectives of the conference has been to build
bridges among the various Marxist communities, including the breaking
down some of the linguistic and intellectual barriers which continue to
hamper the circulation and expansion of critical Marxist thought. The
fourth annual Historical Materialism Conference promises to continue and
take forward this objective.
The conference has become an important event on the Left, providing an
annual forum to discuss recent developments on the agenda of historical
materialist research and has had a cumulatively high attendance over the
past three years. While there is no call for papers, the Editorial Board
of Historical Materialism welcomes attendance and active engagement in
discussion with panellists from new as well as prior participants with
an interest in critical Marxist thought.
More details of this year’s event will be posted shortly and online
registration will be available soon.
For all further details, please contact:
historicalmaterialism@soas.ac.uk
What Makes Humans So Different?
JOINT BRITISH ACADEMY/BRITISH PSYCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY ANNUAL LECTURE
Professor Robin Dunbar, FBA
Director, Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology,
University of Oxford
Chair: Baroness O'Neill
President, British Academy
Thursday, 11 October 2007
5.30pm - 6.30pm, followed by a drinks reception
The British Academy, 10 Carlton House Terrace,
London, SW1Y 5AH
Free Admittance
Although we share many aspects of our behaviour and biology with our
primate cousins, humans are, nonetheless, different in one crucial
respect: our capacity to live in the world of the imagination. This is
reflected in two core aspects of our behaviour that are in many ways
archetypal of what it is to be human: religion and story-telling. The
lecture will show how these remarkable traits seem to have arisen as a
natural development of the social brain hypothesis, and the underlying
nature of primate sociality and cognition, as human societies have been
forced to expand in size during the course of our evolution over the
past 5 million years.
Professor Robin Dunbar was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in
1998. He is a Project Director of the British Academy Centenary Research
Project ‘Lucy to Language’: The Archaeology of the Social Brain, and is
shortly to leave the University of Liverpool to take up the post of
Director of the Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology,
University of Oxford.
A poster for your notice board can be downloaded here:
Please visit our website for full details of our Autumn Programme.
Telephone enquiries: 020 7969 5246 / Email:
lectures@britac.ac.uk
Please note our ticketing and seating policy:
British Academy Lectures are freely open to the general public and
everyone is welcome; there is no charge for admission, no tickets will
be issued, and seats cannot be reserved. The Lecture Room is opened at
5.00pm, and the first 100 audience members arriving at the Academy will
be offered a seat in the Lecture Room; the next 50 people to arrive will
be offered a seat in the Overflow Room, which has a video and audio link
to the Lecture Room. Lectures are followed by a reception at 6.30pm, to
which members of the audience are invited.
Joint British Academy/British Psychological Society Annual Lecture
In 2002, following the centenary of the British Psychological Society,
the Academy and the Society set up a joint annual lecture.
Mapping Global Inequalities
Beyond Income Inequality December 13th and 14th at University of
California Santa Cruz
For several years there has been debate in the academic and popular
media about the implications of globalization for poverty and
inequality. The debate has, however, become stalled partly because it is
too narrowly conceived, being focused almost exclusively on income
inequality and on the national scale. The conference will expand this
debate by both mapping global inequality at various scales and by
deploying multidisciplinary perspectives to take the debate beyond
income inequality.
Commissioned papers will cover the latest trends in health inequalities
and social outcomes, migration and inequality, wealth and other material
inequalities, gender inequalities as well as aspects of globalization
and culture. Prior to the conference, online maps, figures, animations
will be developed based on commissioned papers. Both online
presentations and a print atlas will be published based on the
conference.
The goals of the conference are
* to advance the debate about global integration, inequality and
poverty,
* to present workshops on the latest techniques in mapping global
inequality
* to make the results of discussion promptly available through
accessible online maps, figures and interactive utilities.
Speakers will include: Goran Therborn (Cambridge University), Tony
Shorrocks (UN WIDER), Peter Tugwell (Center on Global Health, University
of Ottawa), Nancy Birdsall (Center for Global Development), Helmut
Anheier (UCLA Center for Globalization and Policy Research), Devesh
Kapur (University of Pennsylvania), Giovanni Andrea Cornia (University
of Florence), CIESIN (Columbia University) sponsored workshop on poverty
mapping.
Who Should Attend?
The conference is intended for academics, policy-makers, and graduate
students concerned with issues of global inequality. Scholarships are
available for students.
Date and place
December 13-14 2007 UC Santa Cruz.
Submitting Papers
The UC Atlas is currently accepting abstracts for paper sessions. Paper
presentations will be fifteen minutes long covering our five conference
topics.
Please submit a title, abstract, name and affiliation, to Conference
Submissions (mapinequality@ucsc.edu).
More details can be found at:
http://ucatlas.ucsc.edu/flyer.html
Law and Economic Development: A Historical
Perspective
Law and Economic
Development: a Historical Perspective is a workshop along the lines
of the Global Economic History Network conferences, at Utrecht
University, The Netherlands on September 20-22, 2007.
Post-Keynesian Workshop
Perspectives on Monetary Policy
"Post-Keynesian
Perspectives on Monetary Policy" is the theme of the 3rd (Bi)-Annual
Canada / U.S. East Border Post-Keynesian Workshop, to take place
September 29, 2007 at the Université du Quebec à Montréal.
Assessing Law and Economics in the Context of
Development
Change, Rules and Institutions:
Assessing Law and Economics in the Context of Development in London,
UK on September 29 & 30, 2007 reassesses the relationship of law to
economics in the context of development.
European Business Elites
Workshop in German and English
European Business Elites between the Emergence of a "New Spirit of
Capitalism" and the "Erosion of State Socialism" in Potsdam, Germany
on November 1-2, 2007 is a workshop to enhance research exchange
concerning Western European and Eastern European business elites during
the last third of the 20th century.
Post-Keynesian Perspectives on Development
Economics
The Post-Keynesian Economics Study Group holds a meeting on
Post-Keynesian Perspectives on
Development Economics at the School of Oriental and African Studies,
London on November 16, 2007. Keynote speaker is Professor A. P.
Thirlwall on "Keynes and Economic Development."
Globalization: Long-run Perspectives
27th APHES Meeting
The 27th conference of the Portuguese Association of Economic and Social
History (APHES) takes place at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa on
November 16 and 17, 2007. The main topic is
Globalization: Long-run Perspectives.
Non-union Forms of Employee Representation in the
Asia-Pacific Rim
On December 7, 2007 the University of Sydney's Work and Organisational
Studies / Business and Labour History Group holds a
Symposium on Non-union
Forms of Employee Representation in the Asia-Pacific Rim. Papers can
be both historical and/or contemporary in focus and cover schemes such
as employee representation plans, occupational health and safety
committees and works councils.
Growth and Distribution
Institutional and Social Dynamics
The goal of The
Institutional and Social Dynamics of Growth and Distribution in
Pisa, Italy on December 10-12, 2007 is to present and discuss approaches
to the issues of the institutional and social dynamics of growth and
distribution, with all the theoretical, empirical, historical, and
methodological implications.
CofFEE
Information for the *Challenge to Restore Full Employment* Conference
which is due to be held at the University of Newcastle, NSW, on December
6th and 7th , 2007, is available on the conference website:
http://e1.newcastle.edu.au/coffee/conferences/2007/index.cfm
Latest news:
The closing date for abstracts for the refereed stream has been extended
to 14th September, 2007. All other closing dates are unchanged.
Conference enquiries may be directed to:
coffee@newcastle.edu.au
or contact Victor Quirk on (02) 4921 7283
Keynes Lecture in Economics
From shells and gold to plastic and silicon: a theory of the evolution
of money, in the spirit of Keynes
Professor John Moore, FBA
Professor of Political Economy, University of Edinburgh and Professor of
Economic Theory, London School of Economics
Chair: Baroness O'Neill of Bengarve
President, British Academy
Wednesday, 17 October 2007
5.30pm - 6.30pm, followed by a drinks reception
The British Academy, 10 Carlton House Terrace,
London, SW1Y 5AH
Free Admittance
Economists have long held the view that the development of the financial
system (financial deepening) and economic development are closely
intertwined. The literature, however, contains relatively few formal
models presumably because it has proved hard to integrate money and
financial intermediation into a standard framework of macroeconomics and
growth. This lecture borrows from a model of money and liquidity that he
has developed with Nobuhiro Kiyotaki, a model in the spirit of Keynes -
to explore the impact of financial deepening. Our theory allows us to
trace the evolution of different kinds of money, from ancient to modern.
Professor John Moore was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in
1999. His principal publications include 'A proposal for bankruptcy
reform in the UK', Insolvency, law and practice 1993; 'The governance of
exchanges', Oxford Economic Papers 1996; joint author 'Credit cycles',
J. Political Economy 1997.
A poster for your notice board can be downloaded here:
Please visit our website for full details of our Autumn Programme.
Telephone enquiries: 020 7969 5246 / Email:
lectures@britac.ac.uk
Please note our ticketing and seating policy:
British Academy Lectures are freely open to the general public and
everyone is welcome; there is no charge for admission, no tickets will
be issued, and seats cannot be reserved. The Lecture Room is opened at
5.00pm, and the first 100 audience members arriving at the Academy will
be offered a seat in the Lecture Room; the next 50 people to arrive will
be offered a seat in the Overflow Room, which has a video and audio link
to the Lecture Room. Lectures are followed by a reception at 6.30pm, to
which members of the audience are invited.
This is an annual lecture, inaugurated in 1971. The lectures are devoted
to an up-to-date survey of theoretical research and trends of thought in
the field of economics. Lectures in this series are routinely published
in the
Proceedings of the British Academy.
The Economics of Global Warming
SCEPA and The New School for Research Economics Department are pleased
to present:
The Economics of Global Warming: A One-Day Workshop Friday, October 12,
2007 10:00 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
Wolff Conference Room, 65 Fifth Avenue (at 13th St) FREE Reservations
Required
This one-day workshop centers on the economic analysis of the magnitude
and distribution of the real and perceived costs of correcting the
global-warming externality. The keynote address and panels will explore
the issues of inter-temporal allocation and inter-generational equity
raised by the global warming problem, and the political economy of
policies to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions.
Featuring:
Graciela Chichilnisky, Columbia University Tom Ferguson, University of
Massachusetts Neva Goodwin, Global Development and Environment Institute
Geoffrey Heal, Columbia University Jeff Madrick, SCEPA Julie Nelson,
Global Development and Environment Institute Lance Taylor, The New
School for Social Research
with keynote address by Duncan Foley, The New School for Social Research
For more information or to RSVP e-mail
cepa@newschool.edu.
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Job Postings for
Heterodox Economists
Western New
England College
Western New England College’s Department of Economics is hiring two
TENURE TRACK faculty. This link refers to the position advertised in the
JOE for American Economic History and heterodox economics. For the other
position, please go to
http://mars.wnec.edu/~econ/openposition1.html.
For detailed information:
Western New
England College.doc
James Madison
University
Harrisonburg, Virginia
H: Public Economics
B: Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology
A: General Economics
The Economics Department invites applications for two tenure track
appointments at the assistant professor level beginning fall 2008. One
position is reserved for a candidate with a field in Public Economics
(H); the other position is reserved for a candidate with a field in
Economic Thought (B). Candidates with general fields A, who are willing
to teach in B or H, will also be considered. Evidence of solid research
program and quality teaching record is required. Ph.D. and teaching
experience preferred but ABD’s will be considered. Candidates must send
the following by postal mail no later than 12-01-2007 for consideration
for interviews at the ASSA/AEA meetings in New Orleans: cover letter,
vita, unofficial transcript, three letters of recommendation, sample of
research output, and teaching evaluations. (Please identify the position
for which you are applying on the top of your application letter). In
addition, all applicants must complete an on-line employment application
in the JMUJobLink system at https://JobLink.JMU.edu. An equal
opportunity-affirmative action employer. Contact: Dr. Ehsan Ahmed,
Department of Economics, MSC 0204, James Madison University,
Harrisonburg, VA 22807
University of
Massachusetts Boston, Boston, MA
H7 -- State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations
I2 - Education
I3 - Welfare and Poverty
J - Labor and Demographic Economics
L3 - Nonprofit Organizations and Public Enterprise R - Urban, Rural, and
Regional Economics
The Department of Economics invites applications for two anticipated
tenure track openings, assistant professor level or, perhaps, associate
professor level, beginning Fall 2008 (subject to final budgetary
approval). A successful applicant will have teaching and applied
research records in the broad area of urban social problems. A person
could approach urban social problems from a variety of areas within
economics, including but not limited to labor economics, urban
economics, poverty and social welfare, the economics of race and
discrimination, the economics of education, the economics of migration,
and the economics of state and local government.
A successful candidate should have a successful teaching record and the
capacity to contribute to undergraduate general education, the economics
major and, possibly, graduate instruction. We are interested in
candidates who will interact well with the applied policy researchers
currently in the department, and candidates with an interest in
interdisciplinary work are particularly encouraged to apply. Evidence of
successful teaching with diverse students is highly desirable.
Candidates must have completed the Ph.D. by September 1, 2008. Evidence
of progress towards an excellent scholarly record is necessary.
Review of applications will begin on November 15, 2007, and continue
until the position is filled. We anticipate preliminary interviews at
the ASSA meetings in New Orleans.
Send letter of application, curriculum vitae, a sample of written work,
and three current letters of recommendation. UMass Boston is an
Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Title IX employer.
There is more info on the department at
http://www.umb.edu/academics/cla/dept/economics/index.html.
CONTACT: Personnel Committee, Department of Economics, University of
Massachusetts Boston, 100 Morrissey Blvd., Boston, MA 02125-3393.
Missouri
State University
Department Head
The Department of Economics, an academic unit within the College of
Humanities and Public Affairs, is accepting applications for its next
Department Head. The Head is responsible for administering the academic
department which includes, but is not limited to, overseeing faculty
recruitment, development, and evaluation, program and curriculum
development, student advisement, budgeting, class scheduling, as well as
general supervision of the teaching, research, and service activities in
the unit. The Department of Economics currently has seven ranked
faculty. We are hiring three new positions this year and have tremendous
potential for future growth. The department currently offers the B.A.
and B.S. degrees in Economics, maintains close ties to the College of
Business Administration, and offers several graduate courses servicing
programs at the university. We seek a strong leader possessing a vision
consistent with the Missouri State University mission in Public Affairs.
Minimal requirements are a Ph.D. in Economics along with academic
credentials that qualify the applicant for tenure and rank of associate
professor. Preferred qualifications include at least three years
previous administrative experience at an institution of higher learning
along with credentials qualifying the candidate for tenure and the rank
of professor. Field of specialization is open. Send a letter of interest
including a statement of administrative philosophy, vita, and contact
information for five professional references to: Economics Department
Head Search, College of Humanities and Public Affairs, Missouri State
University, 901 S. National, Springfield, MO, 65897. We encourage
applications from underrepresented groups. Salary is competitive and
commensurate with background and experience. Consideration of applicants
begins November 1, 2007, and continues until the position is filled.
Direct further inquiries to Dr. Karl Kunkel,
KarlKunkel@MissouriState.edu , (417) 836-5640. EO/AA. Employment
will require a criminal background check at University expense.
Universidad
Autónoma Metropolitana - Unidad Cuajimalpa
UAM-Cuajimalpa is a new campus of another big public university in
Mexico City. There is an "institutional studies" department which is
formulating an inter-disciplinary research program with economic,
political, sociological, administrative and legal studies of
institutional theory and policy design. For that reason the department
is inviting heterodox economists and other social scientists to form
part of our team. Necessary minimum conditions for hiring are a finished
PhD, related research subjects and advanced Spanish knowledge. Any
further information from the head of the department is Professor Eduardo
Ibarra and he can be contacted about the position at
eibarra@correo.cua.uam.mx.
Download the
excel flyer.
NYC Human
Resources Administration
Position Title: SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER (CITY RESEARCH SCIENTIST III)
Organization: NYC Human Resources Administration
Job Type: Full-Time
Description: The New York City Human Resources Administration's Office
of Evaluation and Research in conjunction with the City's Center for
Economic Opportunity is recruiting for a Senior Project Manager to
provide leadership in research projects that develop and apply
innovative measures of poverty, well-being, and economic opportunity in
the City of New York. This position requires a management professional
who will partner with lead researchers in other city agencies as well as
other government and university-based research institutions; provide
leadership in the development of new uses of administrative data and new
forms of data collection; coordinate work with the City's Center for
Economic Opportunity and other relevant city agencies; apply advanced
techniques of statistical analysis to administrative and survey data;
prepare written reports including technical and methodological papers on
poverty measurement. Qualification Requirements: A master's degree from
an accredited college or university with specialization in an social
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New Political Economy
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Recasting the Global Political Economy: Counting Women's Unpaid Work
p. 297
Authors: Catherine Hoskyns; Shirin M. Rai
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Regionalisation and Civil Society: The Case of Southern Africa p.
319
Authors: Fredrik Söderbaum
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New Actors in a Financialised Economy and the Remaking of Capitalism
p. 339
Authors: Julie Froud; Adam Leaver; Karel Williams
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Is the Stock Market a Disciplinary Institution? French Giant Firms
and the Regime of Accumulation p. 349
Authors: Sukhdev Johal; Adam Leaver
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Banks as Continuous Reinvention p. 369
Authors: Ismail Erturk; Stefano Solari
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Constructing the Market Frame: Distributed Cognition and Distributed
Framing in Financial Markets p. 389
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Private Equity and the Culture of Value Extraction p. 405
Authors: Julie Froud; Karel Williams
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The Political Economy of New Labour: The Failure of a Success Story?
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Journal of Economic Methodology
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Introduction p. 273
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The turn in economics and the turn in economic methodology p. 275
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Great expectations, mixed results and resilient beliefs: the troubles of
empirical research in economic controversies p. 291
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The ‘materials’ of experimental economics: technological versus
behavioral experiments p. 311
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Setting the scene with ‘firms’ and ‘workers’ p. 339
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What does tacit knowledge actually explain? p. 353
Authors: Jonathan Perraton; Iona Tarrant
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‘Practical comparability’ and ends in Economics p. 371
Authors: Ricardo F. Crespo
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Historical Materialism
Research in Critical Marxist Theory
Volume 15 Issue 2
2007
CONTENTS
Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize Lecture
Kevin Murphy
Can We Write the History of the Russian Revolution? A Belated Response
to Eric Hobsbawm
Articles
David Camfield
The Multitude and the Kangaroo: A Critique of Hardt and Negri’s Theory
of Immaterial Labour
Peter Thomas
Editorial Introduction
Roberto Finelli
Abstraction versus contradiction: Observations on Chris Arthur’s The New
Dialectic and Marx’s ‘Capital’
Samuel Knafo
Political Marxism and Value Theory: Bridging the Gap between Theory and
History
Jan Dumolyn
The Political and Symbolic Economy of State Feudalism. The Case of Late
Medieval Flanders
Archive
William S. Lewis
Editorial Introduction
Louis Althusser
A Letter to Comrades on the PCF Central Committee
Review Articles
Jan Rehmann
on Domenico Losurdo’s Nietzsche, il ribelle aristocratico. Biografia
intellettuale e bilancio critico
Ian Birchall
on Michel Surya’s La Révolution rêvée: Pour une histoire des
intellectuels et des œuvres révolutionnaires 1944–1956
Markar Melkonian
on Richard Rorty’s Achieving Our Country: Leftist Thought in
Twentieth-Century America, Philosophy and Social Hope, and Against
Bosses, Against Oligarchies
Pat Devine
on Michael Albert’s Parecon: Life After Capitalism
Paulo L. dos Santos
on Alfredo Saad-Filho’s The Value of Marx and Ben Fine’s and Alfredo
Saad-Filho’s Marx’s ‘Capital’
The Historical-Critical Dictionary of Marxism
Bob Jessop
Statism
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Cracks in the Foundations of Growth: What Will the Housing Debacle Mean
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by DIMITRI B. PAPADIMITRIOU, GREG HANNSGEN, and GENNARO ZEZZA
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Implementation of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act in India:
Spatial Dimensions and Fiscal Implications
No. 505
by PINAKI CHAKRABORTY
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The Effects of a Declining Housing Market on the U.S. Economy
No. 506
by DIMITRI B. PAPADIMITRIOU, GREG HANNSGEN, and GENNARO ZEZZA
http://www.levy.org/pubs/wp_506.pdf
Who’s a Jew in an Era of High Intermarriage? Surveys, Operational
Definitions, and the Contemporary American Context
No. 507
by JOEL PERLMANN
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The American Jewish Committee’s Annual Opinion Surveys: An Assessment of
Sample Quality
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by JOEL PERLMANN
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On Various Ways of Measuring Unemployment, with Applications to
Switzerland
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the Rules-versus-Discretion Debate
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Books, Book Series, and Book Reviews
Political
Economy and Global Capitalism
The 21st Century, Present and Future
Edited by Robert Albritton, Robert Jessop and Richard Westra
EDITORS
Robert Jessop is Professor of Sociology at the University of Lancaster.
Robert Albritton is Professor Emeritus of the Department of Political
Science at York University.
Richard Westra is Assistant Professor of the Division of International
and Area Studies at Pukyong National University, South Korea.
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A Survey of
Critical Theories and Debates Since 1917
Marcel van der Linden
Series:
Historical Materialism Book Series, 17
The ‘Russian Question’ was an absolutely central problem for Marxism in
the twentieth century. Numerous attempts were made to understand the
nature of Soviet society. The present book tries to portray the
development of these theoretical contributions since 1917 in a coherent,
comprehensive appraisal. It aims to present the development of the
Western Marxist critique of the Soviet Union across a rather long period
in history (from 1917 to the present) and in a large region (Western
Europe and North America). Within this demarcation of limits in time and
space, an effort has been made to ensure completeness, by paying
attention to all Marxist analyses which in some way significantly
deviated from or added to the older theories.
Marcel van der Linden (1952) is Research Director of the International
Institute of Social History and Professor in the History of Social
Movements at the University of Amsterdam.
http://www.brill.nl/hm
The Enclave
Economy
Foreign Investment and Sustainable Development in Mexico’s Silicon
Valley
By Kevin P. Gallagher and Lyuba Zarsky
MIT Press, 214 pages, September 2007: $21.00/£13.95 (PAPER)
Foreign investment has been widely presented as a panacea for developing
countries, a way to create good jobs, reduce poverty, and kick-start
sustainable modern industries. The Enclave Economy calls this
prescription into question. The authors show that Mexico's post-NAFTA
success in attracting foreign direct investment to its information
technology sector, particularly in the Guadalajara region, did not
translate into the promised, social, economic, and environmental
benefits. Foreign investment created an “enclave economy” the benefits
of which were confined to an international sector not connected to the
wider Mexican economy. Charting the rise and fall of Mexico's "Silicon
Valley," the authors explore issues that resonate through much of Latin
America and the developing world.
For more on The Enclave Economy, and to order:
http://www.ase.tufts.edu/gdae/Pubs/rp/EnclaveEconomy.html
Research in Political Economy
VOLUME 24, Paul Zarembka, ed., Elsevier, hardback, 2007.
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/PZarembka/volume24.htm
With a world balance of forces in tension, this volume slices the
political map in two dimensions, the geographical dimension and the
imperialism/socialism dimension ("socialism", of course, having widely
varying meanings). As a region, Latin America is in the forefront of
resistance to imperial schemes, particularly those by the United States.
Venezuela and Cuba represent leading edges of resistance, and Colombia,
a leading edge of U.S. hegemony. Chapters addressing the political
economies of these countries form the first part of the volume.
Poland has led the anti-Soviet transition into a pro-market realignment,
a realignment of this country which is particularly oriented toward the
United States. Syria, on the other hand and even as it moves into a
pro-market orientation, is subject to particular U.S. hostility. Both
cases are analyzed in Part II, with the chapter on Poland having
considerably broader applicability. Also included here is the continued
deeper penetration of capitalist relations within the United States,
represented by analysis of the transition of its medical sector.
For almost a century, stages of capitalism has been an important theme
within Marxism. The theme is analyzed at the beginning of Part III, and
connects to the more empirical work represented by the prior six
chapters. The volume concludes with translation from Japanese of an
important critique of the classical political economy of Adam Smith and
David Ricardo, who, in a certain sense, were the leading proponents,
historically, of the market, of capitalism. Most poignantly, this
chapter argues that Ricardian value theory opens the door to a vulgar
system of economic thought.
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text is the companion to Microeconomics in Context (Goodwin et al.,
Houghton Mifflin, 2005),
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An Historical Injustice
In Australia there is a move to reclassify History of Economic Thought
and Economic History as not part of economics but part of history. Below
are three comments on this reclassification.
An Historical Injustice
By Dr Steven Kates
In June this year I went to the United States for a number of purposes
but amongst the main ones was to meet with Professor Thomas Sowell, a
fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford. Sowell is one of the most
widely published economists in the world, has written a host of books on
a variety of subjects in economics and politics, is highly influential
in his policy work and has a syndicated column that appears in the press
across the US.
The person he met with, me that is, has worked in the economics
department of a major bank, spent a quarter of a century as the
economist for Australia’s largest business association and now divides
his time between a university appointment in a school of business and
his work as a commissioner investigating major economic policy issues on
behalf of the federal government.
But what Thomas Sowell and myself have in common is this. Both of us did
our doctorates on the same subject and both of us had our PhDs published
soon after. And the subject: Say’s Law, a notion that was first
articulated in the first decade of the nineteenth century but which has
remained controversial amongst economists ever since.
Both of us, that is, had undertaken our doctoral research work in the
branch of economics referred to as the History of Economic Thought. And
it is this area of economics which is now about to be removed by the
ABS, along with Economic History, from amongst the legitimate fields of
economics. It is to be cast out on some lonely outpost, classified
within a new catch-all division of social sciencey type subjects which,
in the ABS’s own conceptual system, is referred to as “History,
Archaeology, Religion and Philosophy”.
The president of the Australian historians of economics society has
received a letter of explanation from the ABS * how does the ABS get to
make such decisions? * outlining the reasoning for this decision.
The first and main reason given for this change is this: “The processes
used in History of Economic Thought are primarily historical and
philosophical rather than economic.”
How many different ways is this untrue. It is not whether historians of
economics are steeped in economics, deal with major economic issues and
provide policy advice based on the unique perspective that HET provides.
It is that the “processes” are not economic.
On this basis one would have to conclude that mathematical economics is
not economics but maths, or that econometrics is not an area of
economics but statistics instead. Behavioural economics, a burgeoning
field, would be psychology, and so on.
If the classification system is really based on “processes” and not
subject matter, then it is a classification system that is clearly built
on a flawed premise. It appears to have been based on the practices of
the “hard” science rather than the subject matter of the social
sciences.
Economics must deal with events that occur within historical time.
Historical events are the feedstock of economic theory; they are an
economist’s only laboratory.
The second reason given was that “groups (formerly disciplines) which
are not useful for describing either the breadth of R&D or how spending
is apportioned, were restructured.”
To translate, students of the history of economic thought and economic
historians seldom sought, or received, public money. As noted by the
ABS, these areas had been responsible for “only 1.2% of all public
sector R&D in economics in 2004 (the most recent data available), thus
is too narrow to be useful for understanding where economics R&D
expenditure occurs.”
Thus, HET and Economic History should be excluded from the discipline of
economics because such economists do not apply for grants, and even if
they do apply, very seldom receive a cent. If more public funds were
being spent on these areas, we would be classified as part of economic
theory. But because we go about our work without requiring huge sums of
money, we cannot be included as a branch of economics.
It’s a classification thing which has no merit in terms of subject
matter. A group of economists is dropped from being officially
designated as economists because they don’t apply for grants, not
because they are not engaged in the study of economies.
So how might this decision be reversed? This, too, the ABS has
explained: “If this change is undesirable to your research community, we
can contemplate undoing these changes on the following grounds: Evidence
that R&D activity is significantly underreported or anticipated to
significantly increase in the near future. Evidence that the assumption
that History of Economic Thought R&D primarily involves processes that
are historical and philosophical is false.”
That is, either show we intend to spend lots more public money or show
that we do not largely employ historical or philosophical processes in
our research. But, as this letter also states, irrespective of what we
show, “the Economic History and History of Economic Thought group will
not be reinstated.”
Well, we think it should be. Historians of economics and economic
historians are economists and work as economists everywhere * one such
person even used to run the ABS.
Economics is a policy science. Economies cannot be studied without
studying the history of those economies. Without a thorough
understanding of historical circumstance, it is impossible to develop or
implement sensible economic policies.
Similarly, economic theory itself cannot be studied without also having
some understanding of how those theories were developed. Few PhDs in
economics are complete without a “literature review” which is expected
to encompass an historical compendium of all of the relevant theoretical
approaches that have been previously used to analyse whatever the topic
being studied happens to be.
The decision to drop history of economics and economic history from
within the economics classification is a decision that needs to be
reviewed and reversed.
Dr Steven Kates
School of Economics, Finance
and Marketing
RMIT University
Level 12 / 239 Bourke Street
Melbourne Vic 3000
Phone: (03) 9925 5878
Mobile: 042 7297 529
Letter
from Deirdre McCloskey
David Brett
Australian Bureau of Statistics
Dear Dr. Brett:
I have heard of the astonishing proposal to take the history of
economics (the study of past economics) and even economic history (the
study of past economies) out of departments of economics.
You will do permanent damage to the prestige of Australian economics by
doing so. No serious economic scientist---though a good many
non-serious ones, it must be admitted, 3rd-raters with no intellectual
depth---sees the past as a foreign country. To make Australia the only
country in the world to adopt such an anti-intellectual line is to
reinforce the incorrect but widespread impression that Australian is a
land of ignoramuses, and glad of it.
Look at it this way. Most of what we know about economies and their
analysis is, well, past. In fact, all of it is. Time moves, alas, in
one direction. So cutting off slightly old, or even very old, economic
facts is like doing an astronomy that confines itself to the Solar
System, or the local star group.
Let me give you an example from my own current work. We will never
understand the rise of capitalism and the modern world until we
understand what happened in Britain in the 17th and 18th centuries. The
crux of "what happened" was an intellectual change in attitude towards
markets. So history of thought joins with economics is illuminating the
most important event in world history since the domestication of plants
and animals, and casts light therefore on present economic policy.
I love the Lucky Country, and have spent a good deal of time there.
(See my brief CV attached.) One of its attractions was precisely the
combination of democratic values with intellectual rigor (my friend the
late Noel Butlin was the model of this). The proposal throws all that
away.
Sincerely,
Deirdre McCloskey
Young History of Economics Scholars Perspective
Every historian of economics who contributed to the discussion on the
Australian reclassification of the History of Economic Thought on this
list seems to agree that HET should maintain a strong connection, both
theoretically and academically, with economics.
This contrasts with the HET-as-science-studies program that has been at
the centre of the debate in last few years, and that has been supported
by several leading scholars in the field.
As is probably familiar to the readers of this list, one of the main
tenets of the HET-as-science-studies program is the belief that
historians of economics could break away from economists and economic
departments, and be welcomed by different scholarly communities such as
those of historians, philosophers, political scientists, or
sociologists.
To a certain extent the decision of the Australian Bureau of Statistics
may be seen as an implementation of the HET-as-science-studies program,
and the strong reaction of HET scholars to that decision may be read as
a manifestation of the awareness that this program is not a winning
strategy for our field.
An alternative strategy, much more in line with the letters sent in
opposition to the Australian relocation of HET, emerges in contributions
to the symposium on “The Future of the History of Economics: Young
Scholars’ Perspective” that was organized by Paola Tubaro and Erik
Angner at the ESHET 2006 Conference, and which is to appear in the
Journal of the History of Economic Thought.
The symposium contains an Introduction by Tubaro and Angner, a paper by
Nuno Palma on “History of Economics or Selected History of Economics?”,
a paper by Eric Schliesser on “Philosophy and a Scientific Future of the
History of Economics”, and a contribution by myself entitled “More
Economics, Please:
We’re Historians of Economics”.
The entire symposium in a pre-print version can be found at
http://www.dpo.uab.edu/~angner/future.html
Ivan Moscati
AAUP Goes to Bat for 'Freedom in the Classroom'
By ROBIN WILSON
The American Association of University Professors released a statement
on Tuesday in response to critics who say professors regularly interject
ideologically tinged material into classroom discussions and fail to
present views that conflict with their own.
The statement, "Freedom in the Classroom," was written by a subcommittee
of the association's Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure, and is
billed as a tool to help professors decide what they can and cannot
safely say in the classroom -- particularly when it comes to hot-button
cultural and political issues.
It reads, however, more like a defense of the professoriate in the face
of heavy criticism from people like David Horowitz, a conservative
activist who has urged state legislators to make faculties more
ideologically diverse. The report acknowledges that some of the
complaints alleging professors' intolerance have come from students.
In a news release describing the statement, the AAUP asks, "Does a
teacher of 19th-century American literature have the right to ask his or
her students whether the character of the obsessed Captain Ahab in
Melville's Moby-Dick could justifiably be compared with President George
Bush?"
It notes that "many critics of higher education and opponents of
academic freedom would answer with a resounding 'No!'" But the
statement, according to the release, "defends the right of college
faculty to make comparisons, contrasts, and analogies across the whole
range of subjects and historical periods -- no matter what course they
are teaching."
The statement says professors have opinions, sometimes controversial
ones, because they are experts in their fields. Offering those opinions,
it says, is a professor's job and doesn't count as "indoctrination" as
long as a professor is careful not to put forward an opinion as
"dogmatic truth."
The statement also takes up the complaint that faculty members'
classroom presentations are ideologically unbalanced. Maintaining
neutrality, it says, is not only something that professors should not
strive for, it can sometimes be ridiculous. For example, says the
statement, neutrality "would require an instructor in a class on
constitutional democracy to offer equal time to 'competing' visions of
communist totalitarianism or Nazi fascism."
Cary Nelson, the AAUP's president, said in an interview that the new
statement would allow professors to say to their critics, "You shouldn't
mess with me." He said he hoped the statement would also "stiffen the
spines" of university officials who might be inclined to establish
"kangaroo courts" to investigate complaints about whether "a faculty
member has the right to make a certain analogy or reference."
Mr. Nelson said he felt compelled to issue the statement because "people
are being more careful about making political statements in the
classroom." He added: "We need to take back the classroom and
reestablish faculty rights to have the classroom be an intellectually
challenging space."
But Anne D. Neal, president of the American Council of Trustees and
Alumni and a frequent critic of the AAUP, said the new statement is
faulty precisely because of its "bald unwillingness to acknowledge
academic responsibility as well as academic rights."
The statement, she said, ignores recent cases in which students complain
they were coerced by professors into accepting an ideological premise in
order to do a class assignment. Those cases highlight, she said, "the
academy's frequent failure to regulate itself" by disciplining
professors who go too far. Download
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