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

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

      BTW, of course I could not cover everything.
The Rhonda Williams session coincided with
the complexity one that I was in, so...
     I agree that the meetings are especially good
when in New York and I thought they were very
lively and useful in general this time.
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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