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Colleagues,

The following info may be of interest to you.

Fred Lee

1. URPE Call for Papers for the 2005 ASSA Meetings in Philadelphia—see the attachment

2. The Portuguese translation of our Class Theory and History: Capitalism and Communism in the USSR has just been published. The contact information with the Protuguese publisher is below. We would very much appreciate your resending this information to anyone in Protugal, Brazil, etc who might be interested in this book. Many thanks. Rick Wolff

Contact person at publisher: Mariana Avelas

Campo da Comunicação, SA

Av. 5 de Outubro, 176 - 4ºDtº

Apartado 14296

1064-004 Lisboa

Portugal

ph: +351.21.7613210/4

Fax: +351.21.7613219

E-mail: ccomunicacao@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

3. Please find below information about the Cambridge Political Economy

Seminar Series.

POLITICAL ECONOMY SEMINAR SERIES: EASTER TERM PROGRAMME

*** PROF WYNNE GODLEY: "Money and finance in a definitely non-conventional

model" ***

Date: Wednesday 28th April

Time: 8 PM (pre-seminar drinks from 7:30 PM)

Venue: Music Room, Downing College

Speaker background:

Prof Godley is perhaps best known for his role as one of the "six wise men"

that provided independent advice to successive Chancellors of the Exchequer

between 1992 and 1995. Prior to this, Prof Godley was Deputy Director of

the Economics Section at HM Treasury (1956-1970). In terms of academic

appointments, Prof Godley was Director of the Department of Applied

Economics at Cambridge University (1970-1994) and subsequently a Professor

of Applied Economics. Additionally, Prof Godley was a Visiting Professor at

University of Aalborg, Denmark (1987-1988) and a Distinguished Scholar at

the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College, New York (1994-2001). He is

currently a Visiting Research Associate at the Judge Institute of

Management Studies (CERF), Cambridge University. Although Prof Godley's

contributions to applied economics and policy down the years have been

substantial, ***at the seminar he shall be presenting what he considers to

be his most important and radical work to date***.

*** PROF TONY BRYANT: "Conditions for the Existence of Market Equilibrium:

Endowments, Irreducibility, Survival and Transfers" (provisional title) ***

Date: Wednesday 12th May

Time: 8 PM (pre-seminar drinks from 7:30 PM)

Venue: TBA

Speaker background:

Prof Tony Bryant is Head of the Economics Department and a Senior Lecturer

at Macquarie University, Sydney. Although primarily an economic theorist,

he has wide and varied research interests, and the seminar he shall present

shall deal with, amongst other things, non-Walrasian equilibrium models

that should be of interest to Keynesian-inclined economists.

*****

Please note the change of venue from last term for Prof Godley's seminar.

The Political Economy seminar series is run under the auspices of the

Cambridge Centre for Economic & Public Policy and sponsored by the

Cambridge Political Economy Society Trust. For further details concerning

any aspect of the seminar series please contact: Dr Mark Roberts (e-mail:

mr10013@xxxxxxxxx)

4. New book by Geoff Hodgson: The Evolution of Institutional Economics: Agency, Structure and Darwinism in American Institutionalism, Routledge, London, 2004. This volume is the sequel to his How Economics Forgot History, Routledge 2001, and traces the history of American institutionalism as well as its Darwinian origins.

5. Positions in Economics at the University of Newcastle, NSW

The Economics and Politics disciplines (former Economics Department and now

officially called by the management of the University for their own reasons

- the School of Policy) has three tenurable positions in Economics in the at Levels B,C and D, with up to 2 commencing in July, along with a Level B position in Politics commencing later this year were advertised in the Australian newspaper last Wednesday.

Australia has a five level academic structure

Level A = Associate Lecturer = Our entry level post

Level B = Lecturer = Entry level post Phd Professorship in USA

Level C = Senior Lecturer = Next level up in USA

Level D = Associate Professor (formerly called Reader) = not really a

position identifiable in USA.

Level E = Chair or Full Professor = Top Professor in USA.

To get full details of the essential criteria and the application

procedure, please refer to the University web site:

http://www.newcastle.edu.au/services/employment/vacancies.html

The closing date is May 7 for the Economics positions and May 21 for the

Politics position.

The School is heterodox with a strong bias towards Post Keynesian thinking

and analysis. It is a leading research school in the University and places a strong emphasis on this part of our academic activity.

The Centre of Full Employment and Equity (CofFEE), a major research centre

in the University, advocates the adoption of a Job Guarantee to cure

unemployment. The Director (Bill Mitchell) and Deputy Director (Martin Watts) are both members of the School of Policy. Go to

http://e1.newcastle.edu.au/coffee to see CofFEE's www site.

We urge any PKT'ers who are frustrated with their career options in North

America or elsewhere who want to work in a progressive academic department to think seriously about applying for these positions. Newcastle is on the east

coast just north of Sydney with cheap(er) housing and excellent natural

amenities (surf, mountains, bush) close by.

The $A exchange rate is also very strong (relatively) at present and PPP is

definitely being violated in our favour!!

6. A new book: WHOSE TRADE ORGANIZATION? The Comprehensive Guide to the WTO by

Lori Wallach and Patrick Woodall, Public Citizen

Published by The New Press, Distributed by Norton

"A crucial guide - devastating and highly readable. Wallach and

Woodall are warriors for democracy against its most powerful opponents."

- Naomi Klein

Globalization affects our lives every day in myriad ways - often for

the worse. Yet, as this eye-opening exposé documents, the current terms

of corporate-led globalization are not inevitable, merely one option

being imposed by the powerful, secretive and profoundly undemocratic

World Trade Organization.

Here is the definitive guide to the WTO. It reveals which WTO terms

have led to U.S. job losses, the race to the bottom in wages, unsafe

food, attacks on environmental and health laws, and burgeoning

international inequality. Want to know why the WTO attracts passionate

protests all over the world? Public Citizen advocates Wallach and

Woodall carefully document the WTO's nine-year track record with

riveting case-by-case accounts.

And, trade is the least of it: this book shows how the WTO chills

government actions to fight sweatshops, make life-saving drugs

available, and protect endangered species- and even limits our elected

governments' ability to maintain policies on everything from meat

inspection to media concentration.

Whose Trade Organization? offers first steps toward a democratic,

accountable alternative. It reminds us that change is not only necessary

- it's possible.

Whose Trade Organization:

*"You must read this book to get past the fraudulent clichés promoted

by liberals and conservatives alike." - John R. MacArthur,

publisher, Harper's Magazine and author of The Selling of "Free Trade"

*"Lori Wallach is the brave, brilliant advocate who has helped

millions around the world to see through the lies and myths of

corporate-led globalization. This book is her ultimate power tool for

global justice. Read it, citizens, and find yourselves empowered to

act." - William Greider, author of The Soul of Capitalism

*"If you think trade, globalization, and the WTO aren't your business

or are boring, read this clear, compelling, and downright scary

account." -Congressman Jesse L. Jackson

*"Not just a powerful denunciation of the organization's system of

corporate-managed trade. It is an essential handbook for activists who

want to challenge that system in the name of liberty, equality, and

democracy." - John Nichols

To Order: Whose Trade Organization? 416 Pages, #E9011

Call 1-800-289-3787 * Visit www.citizen.org/trade/

Fiona M. Wright

Research Director

Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch

215 Pennsylvania Ave., SE

Washington DC 20003

Ph: 202-454-5105

Fax: 202-547-7392

7. The Association for the Expansion of the Keynesian Studies (ADEK ^* ) and the Université Paris-Sud organize a workshop on the topic:

The Reception of The General Theory, 1936-39

Call to communications

Date: Thursday 14 and Friday October 15, 2004

Place: Faculté Jean Monnet, Université Paris-Sud at Sceaux close to Paris (25 mn of the Latin District by suburban train)

Topic: The Reception of The General Theory, 1936-39.

The General Theory of J.M. Keynes has given place to many comments, articles and debates, which, for most of those in English, are taken again or referred in volume XIV of Collected Writings.

The tackled subjects are multiple and are those of the contemporary macroeconomics: equality or identity of savings and investment, volume and definition of unemployment, distinction of the measures ex ante and ex post, preference for liquidity and rate of interest, demand and supply of money or credit, birth of ISLM, methodological controversies…

Publication: This workshop is part of a book project initiated by Ramon Tortajada of the Université Pierre Mendès-France at Grenoble (France) and by ADEK. It will be a two volumes book on the General Theory reception. The most significant articles published at the time of the General Theory, as well as the replies of Keynes, have been translated into French by Ramon Tortajada. This working tool will be the subject of the first volume, which should appear in 2005 or 2006.

The best contributions of the workshop will be the subject of volume II.

Communication draft (summary of one or two pages) to send for June 15, 2004 by electronic mail to bernard.vallageas@xxxxxxxxxxxx . The scientific committee will answer for June 30, 2004. The proposals in foreign languages (English, Spanish) are accepted.

Scientific committee : Edwin Le Héron (president of ADEK, Institut d’Etudes Politiques, Bordeaux), Patrick Maurisson (Université de Picardie Jules Verne), Ramon Tortajada (president of Association Charles Gide pour l’Histoire de la Pensée Economique, Université Pierre Mendès-France, Grenoble), Bernard Vallageas (Université Paris-Sud), Franck Van de Velde (Université des Sciences et Techniques, Lille), Jean-François Vidal (Université Paris-Sud)

8. Call for Papers JSPE Annual Conference: Contemporary Market Economy and Political Economy, 23-24 October 2004

The 52nd annual conference of the JAPAN SOCIETY OF POLITICAL ECONOMY will be held on October 23-24, 2004 at Osaka University of Economics, Oosumi 2-2-8, Higashi-yodogawa-ku, Osaka 533-8533, Japan. The topic of the plenary session is Contemporary Market Economy and Political Economy. JSPE is an interdisciplinary association devoted to the study, development, and application of Marxian political economy to social problems. JSPE was founded in 1959 and since then has played a central role in the academic study of political economy in Japan. For more information see its homepage in English: http://wwwsoc.nii.ac.jp/jspe/en/index.html

JSPE invites proposals for the English sessions in the following two categories. (The main language of the conference is Japanese. There will be several English sessions on 23.)

English Sessions 1: Contemporary Market Economy and Political Economy
All proposals will be given serious consideration, but preference will be given to proposals that:
1. focus on the theoretical analysis of globalization of market economy from the standpoint of political economy;
2. focus on the critique of market fundamentalism;
3. focus on the controllability of market economy;
4. focus on the significance and limit of market fundamentalism;
5. focus on the market, state, and community in contemporary capitalism;
6. focus on the contemporary market economy and national economy;
7. focus on the role, restriction, limitation, defect, and contradiction of contemporary market economy.

English Sessions 2:
All proposals reflecting the tradition and analytical perspective of JSPE are welcomed.

Submission Procedures and the Deadline
Proposals should be reached the JSPE International Communication and Exchange Committee (JSPE52@xxxxxxxxxx) by 31 May 2004 at the latest.
Notification of acceptance will be sent by 15 June.
When submitting your proposal, please include:
1. The title of proposed paper and the category of the session;
2. The name(s) of the author(s) and affiliation;
3. E-mail and mailing address;
4. An abstract (up to 200 words).
Postal address is given below. Remember email submission is preferred.

Cost:
Attendants will pay their conference fee (5000 yen including the conference buffet), own transportation, accommodation and other personal expenses.

Contact:
Nobuharu Yokokawa or
Tetsuji Kawamura (Chairman of the committee)
JSPE International Communication and Exchange Committee
JSPE52@xxxxxxxxxx
Mailing address:
Musashi University
Toyotama-kami 1-26-1
Nerima-ku, Tokyo 176-8534, Japan
Tel: +81-3-5984-3764
Fax: +81-3-3991-1198

· · Association pour le développement des idées keynésiennes, 31 rue Jules Delpit, 33800 Bordeaux, France, Adek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx phone: 33 (0) 6 15 65 79 50

jobs, conferences, books and other info for heterodox economists