PKT message, stuff for heterodox economists: Job Opening, conf.,

Dear Colleagues,

The material below may interest you and perhaps colleagues who are not on my e-mail lists of heterodox economists. If so you may want to forward the material to them.

Fred Lee

1. Job Opening at Portland State University

2. Conference: Critical Perspectives on Third World Development

3. URPE Summer School

4. PK2004 Summer school Schedule—see attachment if you are interested in seeing what is going on at the Post Keynesian Summer School at UMKC

5. Alternative Economics Strategy for Scotland

6. New Book: The Process of Economic Development

7. New Book: Conflict and Cooperation: Institutional and Behavioral Economics

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Job Opening at Portland State University

Hi Fred!

Here is a job opening that I'm hoping you can publicize. While this is a 1 year position, starting this fall, we will also be hiring this fall in the regular market for someone to take this same position for another 2 years. After that we will most likely be hiring someone for this spot permanently, on the tenure track.

The PSU Econ Department is pretty "heterodox friendly." We have a political economy minor and regularly teach courses on Marxist Economics, Institutional Economics and several courses that include these perspectives, as well as Feminist and (old) Keynsian ones.

THANKS!!

Mary

PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY, Portland, OR

E0 Macroeconomics

One year Visiting Assistant Professor opening for candidate with teaching fields that include macroeconomics at the introductory, intermediate and master’s level. The ability to contribute in other areas including econometrics, American economic history, and others is helpful but not necessary. Candidate should display exceptional ability in classroom teaching to a diverse student body at an urban university campus. Compensation is competitive. Portland State University is an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity institution and welcomes applications from diverse candidates and candidates who support diversity. Ph.D. preferred, will consider exceptional candidates who are A.B.D. and experienced. Send curriculum vita with cover letter, writing sample, teaching evaluations or other evidence of high-caliber teaching, and 3 letters of recommendation. Position open until finalists are identified; review of files to begin immediately. CONTACT: Mary King, Chair, Dept. of Economics, Portland State University, P.O. Box 751, Portland, OR 97207-0751.

Mary King, Professor and Chair

Economics Department

Portland State University e-mail: kingm@xxxxxxx

P.O. Box 751 phone: 503-725-3940

Portland, OR 97207 fax: 503-725-3945

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NEW CONFERENCE DATE: October 29^th 2004. DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS June 30^th 2004

CALL FOR PAPERS

GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE

CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON THIRD WORLD DEVELOPMENT

OCTOBER 29, 2004 NEW YORK CITY, USA

Conference will be hosted by New School for Social Research in association

with Columbia University.

Neoliberal strategies of economic growth and social transformation had

been

immensely popular among the ruling elite, international business and

financial circles. During the last decade, however, throughout most of the

developing world neoliberal strategies have begun to create more problems

than they were devised to solve. Today, increasing numbers of social

scientists, policy makers, politicians, and representatives of

international institutions can be observed to challenge the central

assumptions of neoclassical "free market" doctrines and their translation

into economic policy-making in the Third World. Stemming from these

challenges, alternative paradigms of development studies started to

attract scholarly attention.

Parallel to such scholarly challenges and the search for alternative

paradigms, a "movement of movements" has emerged from all around the

world, a dynamic ensemble of social movement organizations, which heterogeneously

targets and opposes the disempowering, impoverishing, immoral, harmful

effects of "globalization" on the well-being of the peoples of the

developing world.

This conference aims to address an inevitable tendency towards the

convergence of academic and political challenges (and alternatives) to

development in the Third World. We invite papers, as well as reports on

ongoing field research from graduate students who are doing critical work

on economic policy-making, state-capital-labor relations, class formations

and dynamics, cultural transformations, or the relations between economic

processes and political mobilization/demobilization in Central and South

America, Africa, the Middle East, Asia and Eastern Europe.

Please send an abstract of 500 words or less to both Emrah Goker (Columbia

University, Department of Sociology, eg577@xxxxxxxxxxxx) and Aylin Topal

(New School University, Department of Political Science,

topaa927@xxxxxxxxxxxxx). In your proposal, please include: Author's name,

paper title, institutional affiliation, e-mail address, telephone and fax

number.

We are in the process of contacting a number of professors to speak at the

opening panel of this one-day conference. The rest of the panels will

include graduate student papers.

Conference Schedule:

Period for submission of abstracts June 30, 2004

Decision on abstracts dispatched September 1, 2004

Deadline for electronic submission of papers September 20, 2004

Conference date October 29, 2004

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URPE SUMMER SCHOOL

Register Now! The URPE (Union for Radical Political Economics) Summer Conference will be here before you know it. You can use the attached form to register.

A limited number of rides may be available -- if you need a ride, or can offer a ride, please contact the National Office, URPE@xxxxxxxxxxxx.

The theme is:

"RIGHT-WING COUP, OR NEOLIBERALISM AS USUAL?"

Place: Camp Chinqueka, Bantam, Connecticut.

Dates: Friday, June 4 – Monday, June 7, 2004

The URPE Summer Conference is a place where activists and academics meet to share their unique insights. The relaxed environment provides a good setting for the informal discussions and social interaction that are so important to the development of a progressive movement. Camp Chinqueka is located by Mt. Tom State Park off route 202 in Western CT, within reasonable driving distance of Boston and New York City. The camp provides opportunities for swimming, boating, tennis, basketball, soccer and hiking. Children are welcome and full child care is provided at no additional charge for people who register by May 21. Rates are sliding scale; contact the National Office for information on special grad student rates and long-distance travel subsidies.

National Office:
Gordon Hall, U Mass, 418 North Pleasant St., Amherst, MA 10112-1735
tel 413-577-0806; fax 413-577-0261; email URPE@xxxxxxxxxxxx

Check the URPE website for updates to the program (http://urpe.org/sumprog04.html).

Below is the conference program; workshop list is still in progress.

PLENARIES

Friday Evening
NEOLIBERALISM AT HOME – RIGHT WING ESCALATION?
Doug Henwood: "Neoliberalism: Circling the Drain?"
Mark Levinson: "Worker Rights in the Global Economy"
Nomi Prins: "America’s Peculiar Brand of Justice: Corporate Corruption and Reform?"

Saturday Afternoon
DAVID GORDON LECTURE
Ann Markusen: "Communicating Political Economy"

Saturday Evening
GLOBAL NEOLIBERALISM – IS IT DIFFERENT UNDER BUSH AND POST 9/11?
Gérard Duménil: "Neoliberal Dynamics - Neoimperial Dynamics"
Ilene Grabel: "Reclaiming Development: Policies for a Post-Neoliberal World"
Greg Wilpert: Venezuela: "Participatory Democracy, State Socialism, or Capitalism as Usual?"

Sunday Afternoon
THE LEGACY OF PAUL SWEEZY
Open discussion

Sunday Evening
RESISTANCE TO NEOLIBERAL CAPITALISM
Ashanti Alston: "Breaking the Enclosing Circles: Black Public Sphere Resistance"
Mike McGuire: "Neoliberalism's Last Stand? Victories and Challenges for the Global Justice Movement"
Cyndi Milstein: "Anarchism’s Promise for Anti-Capitalist Resistance"

WORKSHOPS & COORDINATORS (partial list) -- Saturday, Sunday and Monday mornings
The Economics of US Imperialism (Gérard Duménil)
The Power Triangle - Washington, Wall Street and Corporate America (Nomi Prins and Doug Henwood)
The Structure of Households in Different Modes of Production (Feudal, Capitalist and Communist) (Paddy Quick)
Medical Dominance and the Imbecilic Healthcare System (Robert Kemp)
Theoretical Stages in Capitalist Development: A Critique and a Proposal (David Laibman)
The Jobless Recovery (Bob Reushlein)
Can URPE Help Build a Campus Teach-ins Movement in Support of Workers’ Rights? (Sarah McKenzie)
Organizing for Economic and Social Justice: Police Tactics Today (Marina Sitrin and Mike McGuire)
Organizing for Economic and Social Justice: What Strategy? (Ashanti Alston, Mike McGuire, Cindy Milstein and Marina Sitrin)
Understanding Venezuela Today (Greg Wilpert)
New Currents in the Political Economy of the Caribbean (Susan Duron, Lester Henry, Germai Medhanie and Brenda Wyss)
Cuba Today (Al Campbell)
The Current Conjuncture in the Southern Cone (TBA)
The Rise and Decline of Neoliberalism in Latin America (Paul Cooney and Joe Smith)
The Latin American Economy Today (Ryan Isakson, Tom Masterson and Barry Shelley)
Promoting Alternatives to Mainstream Economics (Al Campbell)
Equality and Development (Clara Garcia, Sang-Hwan Jang and Annabel Kim Medhanie)
Non-economic Perspectives on Contemporary Right-wing Politics (James Berger, Graham Cassano and Jonathan Martin)
Organizing, Organizing Until Our Demands are Met! (Carrie Bernstein, Graham Cassano, Greg Greenberg, Kate Harris and Germai Medhanie)
Domination and Evolution in Some Agent Based Economic Models (George Reiter)

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Invitation to contribute

AN ALTERNATIVE ECONOMIC STRATEGY FOR SCOTLAND

A project to help build a practical alternative to Neo-Liberalism

The need for an alternative economics
Across the globe there is a developing tide of resistance to neo-liberal economics. As the harmful effects of free market economic policies become more widespread, there is an urgent need for new thinking in developing an alternative and more progressive strategy. However, so entrenched is the dominance of free market thinking and so blinkered the mindset of political and economic elites that there is an absence of debate about alternatives. A dominant policy agenda drives economic decision-making, creating an increasingly unregulated capitalism serving the interests of powerful states and multinational companies, and at the expense of weaker nations, local communities and workers.

There is a growing demand for an alternative economics to neo-liberal capitalism; based upon the principle of social justice rather than private profit. With the growing grassroots resistance to neo-liberalism and the accompanying emergence of initiatives such as the World and European Social Forums, new ideas are now being advocated that offer competing visions of how an economy should be run and for whom. To date, however, such visions have run ahead of mainstream political debate. Across Europe, parties of both centre-left and the right continue to be wedded to the neo-liberal orthodoxy, as the continuing commitment to the regressive and restrictive economic and fiscal framework of the Maastricht Treaty by governments of all political shades reveals. Despite the increasing inadequacies of this approach, and an accompanying rise in inequality and mass unemployment, mainstream politics remains paralysed in its neo-liberal straitjacket.

The opportunity for a Scottish alternative: the proposed project
Reflecting this broader context and the growing public discontent with prevailing orthodoxies, the 2003 elections for the Scottish Parliament recorded a massive rise in support for parties and platforms of the left. This has created an historic opportunity to develop a more progressive economic agenda that can feed into the new political space that has opened up. A new policy alternative can be developed and placed on the public agenda in Scotland with real prospects of its implementation. In turn, this Alternative Economic Strategy could both draw upon, and contribute to, a broader international alternative to neo-liberalism.

As a starting point, it is proposed that an alternative strategy is based upon the following basic principles:
… a focus upon Scotland (assuming for heuristic purposes an ŒIndependent Scotland¹) but located within a broader commitment to global justice and progressive internationalism rather a narrow regressive nationalism;
… a commitment to the redistribution of income and progressive taxation in order to tackle social inequality;
… the democratisation of the economy, making decision-making publicly accountable and where necessary creating new forms of public ownership;
… improving employment standards, achieving a living wage and guaranteeing trade union rights;
… guaranteeing equal rights and access to economic and employment opportunities;
… developing an environmentally sustainable economy;
… development of a network of broad Left academics and policy-makers to critique neo-liberal policies and develop an alternative discourse.

The aim of the project proposed here is to develop an alternative economic strategy that brings together specialists from a range of academic and policy backgrounds to create a set of practical alternatives to current economic policy orthodoxy. In realising this aim, there are two specific objectives:
… the holding of a one-day workshop of speakers contributing policy papers at the STUC Headquarters, Woodlands Road, Glasgow (late October 2004)
… the publication of an Alternative Economic Strategy (April-May 2005) in advance of a UK General Election.

Key themes
The following are the key themes that have been identified as critical to the development of an alternative economic project. However, this is not an exhaustive list and where a sound case is made additional themes will be considered.
… Beyond neo-liberalism: shaping an alternative
… New forms of public ownership for the 21st century
… Scotland and the global economy
… Scotland in Europe
… Finance and taxation
… Industrial policy
… A strategy for the services sector
… Tackling poverty and unemployment
… Public sector economic strategies
… Transport and infrastructure
… The knowledge economy
… Energy policy
… Rural development
… Employment policy
… Housing policy
… Local and regional economic governance

Call for papers
Papers are invited from potential contributors for the October Workshop. Contributors should submit an abstract (approximately 200 words) plus basic outline (in the form of key headings/subheadings) of the paper they wish to present and a brief cv to the organising committee by 30th June 2004. Contributors should also supply a draft written version of the paper (maximum 5,000 words) by 1st October to enable pre-circulation in order to encourage discussion and debate at the Workshop. Presentations will last twenty minutes with ten minutes for discussion. Following the Workshop, contributors will be encouraged to collaborate in the preparation of the Alternative Economic Strategy publication.

Deadline for final versions of papers: 31st January 2005.

Abstracts, outlines and cvs should be sent to either:

Andy Cumbers                    or:    Mike Danson/Geoff Whittam
Department of Geography and Geomatics        Paisley Business School
University of Glasgow                    University of Paisley
Glasgow                        Paisley
G12 8QQ                         PA1 2BE
Tel 0141 330 2291                     Tel 0141 848 3368
Fax 0141 330 4894                     Fax: 0141 848 3618
acumbers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx                whit-em0@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

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THE PROCESS OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

James M. Cypher and James L. Dietz would like you to know that their book The Process of Economic Development, 2nd Edition, has recently been published by Routledge.

The Process of Economic Development is a textbook with a story to tell. It discusses development from the colonial era to the present in Latin America, Asia and Africa. Encompassing a blend of classical development ideas and current theory, the book helps students gain the type of balanced picture disallowed them by other textbooks.

A close examination of recent events is integral to the book, with discussions ranging from the environment to the debt crisis, and from export-led industrialization to import substitution, endogenous growth theory and technological capability. Throughout, the authors focus on income distribution, poverty, and social issues, and the book has a readable style and format.

'This is by far the best textbook on development economics currently available. It is the most comprehensive in its coverage of issues, the most balanced in its theoretical approach, and the most accessible in its presentation of often complex and difficult material.'

Ha-Joon Chang, University of Cambridge, UK

For more information on the book, or if you would like to purchase the book, please click on the link at the bottom of this email.

If you review books in this area and would like to receive a review copy of this title, please email info.economics@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, quoting the book's title and paperback ISBN (0415254167).

If you teach in this area and would like to see an inspection copy, please email info.economics@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, quoting

- Title of course
- Course level (e.g. undergraduate)
- Course starting date
- Approx number of students
- Present texts in use

Please note an inspection copy cannot be despatched until all of this information is received.

Many thanks for your time,

Daniel Farmer

Marketing Assistant, Social Science

Taylor and Francis Books Ltd,

11 New Fetter Lane, London,

EC4P 4EE

Tel: +44 (0) 20 7842 2362

Email: daniel.farmer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

For more information on The Process of Economic Development, 2nd Edition, click here:

https://ecommerce.tandf.co.uk/catalogue/PerformSearch.asp?ResourceCentre=ROUTLEDGE&book=&isbn=nobuy&curPage=1

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CONFLICT AND COOPERATION: INSTITUTIONAL AND BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS

By Allan Schmid

Available from <http://blackwellpublishing.com/>http://blackwellpublishing.com

Paperback $39.95

“A refreshing alternative to outdated microeconomics texts that endlessly

parrot supply and demand, this book offers an analytically sharp,

comprehensible, yet accessible guide to the new approaches that are rapidly

transforming economics as a discipline.”

Nancy Folbre, University of Massachusetts

“Right from the beginning, Schmid’s magnificent volume has individuals

interacting with historically-given institutions. There is no isolated

Robinson Crusoe here. Schmid’s book is a superb overview of the modern

literature on human agency in an institutional setting; it is the best and

most comprehensive introduction to this cutting-edge literature in modern

economics.”

Geoffrey Hodgson, University of Hertfordshire, UK