Fwd: IWGVT mini-conference at the EEA Boston Park Plaza, March 13-17. Apologies for cross-posting

["Drewk" <Andrew_Kliman@xxxxxxx>]

SESSION 1: DEFINING AND MEASURING VALUE
Friday 9am
Chair: Alan Freeman

Estimating Gross Domestic Product Using a Surplus Value Approach
Victor Kasper, Buffalo State College, USA

Modelling profit-rate distributions using L-moments
Julian Wells, The Open University, UK

On the Identity of Value and Labour: A Defence of Intrinsic Value
Phil Dunn, Independent, Britain


SESSION 2: VALUE IN THE HISTORY OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT
Friday 11am
Chair: Phil Dunn

On Price and Value
William Krehm, Independent Economist, Canada

Stigler and Barkai on Ricardo's Profit Rate Theory:  Some
methodological considerations 35 years later
Andrew Kliman, Pace University, USA

The Labour Theory of Value: Economics or Ethics?
Peter Dooley, University of Saskatchewan, Canada


SESSION 3: DOES THE SRAFFIAN CRITIQUE OF MARX SUCCEED?
Friday 2pm
Chair: Julian Wells

Vulgar Economy in Marxian Garb: A Critique of Temporal Single
System Marxism
Gary Mongiovi, St John's University, USA

Discussants: Alan Freeman and Andrew Kliman


SESSION 4: GOVERNMENT, POLICY AND CRITICAL ECONOMICS
Friday 4pm
Chair: Andrew Kliman

Current Factors Which Make Science a Productive Force at the
Service of Capital ? the Fourth Stage in the
Running London: Practical Economics in a Growing World City
Alan Freeman, University of Greenwich, UK

Production Organization
Dimitri Uzinidis, Universite du Littoral, Dunkerque, France

Self-administration: ?solution via value? to the urban
transportation?s problems
Vladimir Micheletti, Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Brasil,
Brasil

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Dear friend

Please find attached the list of sessions and abstracts for the
IWGVT
mini-conference at the EEA in Boston, March 15th-17th 2002. Papers
will be
posted on the website if time permits but may initially be
available only at
the conference itself do to extreme pressure of work. They may
also be
e-mailed on request to a.freeman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx .

I feel I owe you all a particular apology for the extreme
lateness, on this
occasion, of notification about the mini-conference, in contrast
with our
past practice. A number of other highly significant IWGVT events
took
priority including the two successful Greenwich University
symposia; last
year?s colloquium at La Sapienza University in Rome, and the book
which
arose from it; and (finally!) the forthcoming publication of an
edited
collection of past papers from the mini-conferences.

Other demands on the conference organizer made it impossible to
achieve the
required standards in organizing this conference; during the last
year I
have been in transition from my academic job to my present
position as
economist at the GLA and for most of last year I was doing both
jobs.
This transition is now complete; the growing level of academic and
political
interest and support for the views that the IWGVT was created to
propound is
testimony to its vitality.

I look forward to seeing those of you that are coming to the
Boston
conference and can take this opportunity to give you an early
reminder that
next year?s EEA, and IWGVT mini-conference, will be in New York.

Best wishes

Alan Freeman