RE: Eastern report, includes Turgeon (long)

["Forstater, Mathew" <ForstaterM@xxxxxxxx>]

I would only add to Barkley's report: Two sessions in memory of Rhonda M.
Williams, one by the IAFFE group, who also seemed to me to have a presence at
the conference worth mentioning (several sessions, also collaborative sessions
with the ASE). IAFFE is the feminist economics group, and at this conference
included people like Deb Figart (Richard Stockton College), Susan Feiner
(Southern Maine), Janice Peterson (Institute for Women's Policy Research), Ellen
Mutari (Stockton College), Marilyn Power (Sarah Lawrence).  All of these had a
session on Race and Public Policy in the U.S. that also included Robert Cherry
(Brooklyn College) and Steve Shulman (Colo. St).  Apparently Rhonda Williams was
to have chaired the session. Discussion about whether policies that promote
marriage are in order ensued, with some insisting that evidence is clear that
two parent families do better, and others questioning the way the problem is
being framed from feminist perspective.  Another session in celebration of the
life and work of Rhonda Williams included papers by Jessica Nembhard (Preamble
Center and U. Md. College Park, co-authored with Gary Dymski, who was not
there), Gunseli Berik (Utah), Sandy Darity (UNC Chapel Hill), Bill Spriggs and
Valerie Rawlston (Nat.l Urban League), with Lee Badgett (U Mass Amherst), Anwar
Shaikh (New School), and Heather Boushey (EPI) discussing.  Only problem was the
session was too short.  Look for symposia on Rhonda's work in possibly several
places--Review of Black Political Economy for sure, and a collected works put
together by Nembhard.  Rhonda's brother, Bob Gooding-Williams came all the way
from Northwestern (Phil. Dpt.) for the session.  There was a session afterward
that included Sam Myers (Humphrey School at U. Minn.) on "Credit and Knowledge:
The African American Experience."

One of the Post Keynesian sessions that was very well attended that Barkely
mentioned was one that included Marc Lavoie (Ottawa), Duncan Foley, Jamee Moudud
(Sarah Lawrence), Ed Nell (New School). I just popped in at the end but there
was a vigorous discussion going on about one of my personal fave topics, the
need for Sraffian and Marxian models to have a tendency to normal capacity
utilization (their value theory requires it), Kaleckian and PK models can
exhibit excess capacity, if I have it right?  Jamee, lately of the Levy
Institute, organized a few sessions, including one on unemployment and poverty
that I participated in, and was fairly well attended and interesting all around.
Levy also had one or two other sessions, and sponsored a shindig on Sat night.

I would almost vote for having the EEA in NY every year. Many people come who
otherwise could not, like the New Schoolers, National Jobs for All people, many
others, and I don't think we really get a comparable effect in Boston and D.C.

-----Original Message-----
From: J. Barkley Rosser, Jr. [mailto:rosserjb@xxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 4:41 PM
To: pen-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [PEN-L:8494] Eastern report, includes Turgeon (long)


       Folks, I unsubbed last week while going to the
Eastern Economic Association meetings in New York,
but promised michael before hand that I would report on
them.  Here it is.