Re: RE: Eastern report, includes Turgeon (long)

["J. Barkley Rosser, Jr." <rosserjb@xxxxxxx>]

      I apologize for not mentioning some of these
things.  I certainly should have mentioned the Levy
Institute's input.  I think they played a role in getting
some of those from overseas to attend, and I think
played a role in some of the very interesting sessions
on what is going on in the EU.
     The session in which I served as a discussant on
alternative perspectives on the state was chaired by
Susan Feiner and included a paper by Ellen Mutari
on feminist perspectives on the state.
      The session in which our paper on India was
presented was on transition economies and was
chaired by Ken Koford.  There were papers on Bulgaria,
China, and transition in general.  The one on Bulgaria
looked at discrepancies in official trade statistics and
found them to measure trade that broke sanctions
against Yugoslavia.  This amounted to several billion
dollars per year during the mid-90s going through
Bulgaria.
Barkley Rosser
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From: Forstater, Mathew <ForstaterM@xxxxxxxx>
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Date: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 6:41 PM
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>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.
>
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>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.
>
>
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