PKT message, heterodox conferences, books, web sites, discussion papers

Dear Colleagues,

Below is lots of info for heterodox economists. I hope it is not too overwhelming, but heterodox economists have lots of things they want to tell each other. I’ll be attending the ASSOCIATION FOR HETERODOX CONFERENCE IN LEEDS (UK) NEXT WEEK—come along if you can, take a day trip. For more information about the conference, go to http://www.hetecon.com. After that I will be on holiday. So the next time you will be getting one of these will be no earlier than mid-August. So you can breath a sigh of relief. Hope everyone in the northern hemisphere has a good summer; and for those in the southern hemisphere keep yours noses to the grindstone.

Fred Lee

Items that follow:

1. Conference on Theorising Ontology—see below

2. Check out the ZERO UNEMPLOYMENT CAMPAIGN IN BRAZIL: the web site is www.desempregozero.org.br. Students involved in the campaign attended the Post Keynesian Summer school at UMKC last month. Articles on the site are for now in Portuguese.

3. New book by Michel De Vroey : Involuntary Unemployment, The Elusive Quest for a Theory—see attachments for more info

4. Bogazici University Social Policy Forum is organizing the 10th International Karl Polanyi Conference convened to meet in Istanbul on October 13-16, 2005. The theme of the conference is "Protecting Society and Nature from the Commodity Fiction". See attachment for the call for papers.

5. ANZIBA 2004 Conference and Research Students’ Colloquium—see below and attachments

6. New book by Allan Schmid: Conflict and Cooperation: Institutional and Behavioral Economics

<http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/book.asp?ref=1405113561>http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/book.asp?ref=1405113561

7. New Book by Bill LUCARELLI, Monopoly Capitalism in Crisis Hardcover: 208 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.63 x 8.94 x 5.38 Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; (June 12, 2004) ISBN: 1403932557

8. Two recent discussion papers from the WSI on European macropolicies—see below. Please find abstracts and links to the download below.

Eckhard Hein, Thorsten Schulten and Achim Truger: Wage trends and deflation risks in Germany and Europe

Eckhard Hein and Achim Truger: Macroeconomic co-ordination as an economic policy concept – opportunities and obstacles in the EMU

9. New Book: The Caribbean Economies in an Era of Free Trade edited by Nikolaos Karagiannis—see below for description and contents

10. CONFERENCE: The Political Economy of the Social Democracy: past, present and

Future—CALL FOR PAPERS—SEE BELOW

11. The Department of Economics, University of SIENA (Italy), encourages

applications for its PH.D. PROGRAMME IN ECONOMICS—THIS PROGRAM SUPPORTS AND ENCOURAGES HETERODOX ECONOMICS—SEE THE SUPPORTING STATEMENT:

“The Department of Political Economy of the University of Siena is a really heterodox friendly place and has Marxist, Institutionalist, Neoricardian, post-Keynesian courses both at the Undergraduate and the postgraduate level. The latest "addition" to the department is Sam Bowles.”

12. Global Development and Environment Institute at Tufts University—CHECK IT OUT AT http://ase.tufts.edu/gdae. LOTS OF GOOD HETERODOX STUFF AND PAPERS. In particular see its new Working Group on Development and Environment in the Americas. Read more on the Working Group at http://ase.tufts.edu/gdae/WorkingGroup.htm

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Conference on "Theorising Ontology".

Keynote speakers:

Linda Martín Alcoff -- "The Metaphysics of Sex and Gender",

Margaret Archer -- "The Ontological Status of Subjectivity: How Human Reflexivity Mediates between Structure and Agency"

John Dupré -- "Ontology in Biology: Genes and Genomes",

About 40 additional presentations

Venue: Girton College Cambridge, UK.

Timing: August 17-19, 2004

Full details: http://www.csog.group.cam.ac.uk/iacr/home.htm

Places available but register soon.

GET YOUR ONTOLOGY CONFERENCE POSTER HERE: You can find it at:

http://www.csog.group.cam.ac.uk/iacr/poster.htm

If you could display it in prominent places (or otherwise disseminate it) we would of course be very grateful.

NOTE THAT TO DOWNLOAD IT YOU SHOULD RIGHT CLICK ON "DOWNLOAD POSTER" AND THEN CLICK "SAVE TARGET AS", ETC.

Tony Lawson

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A reminder that the ANZIBA 2004 Conference, hosted by the University of Canberra will be held 5-6 November 2004 at Rydges Lakeside Hotel in Canberra.

Confirmed keynote speakers are Professor Tamer Cuvusgil and Professor Mary Ann Von Glinow.

The submission deadline for papers is Friday 16 July 2004. Papers are invited in all areas of International Business. The call for papers and submission details are available on the conference website that can be accessed at:

http://anziba.canberra.edu.au or via: www.anziba.org

The attached file (anziba_a4brochure.pdf) contains further details as well as a conference registration form and hotel accommodation application for Rydges Lakeside.

The conference website also contains full details of the Research Students’ Colloquium that will be hosted the day prior to the conference (i.e. Thursday 4 November 2004) and hosted by the ANU. This is a free event for research students, however prior application and registration is essential – let your students know NOW! (See the attached file: ANZIBA colloquium 2004.pdf for further details).

If after viewing the conference website you have further questions, please do not reply to this email, rather email the organising committee at anziba04@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Greg Mahony

for the organising committee.

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REVIEWS OF Allan Schmid: Conflict and Cooperation: Institutional and Behavioral Economics

Allan Schmid's innovative text, Conflict and Cooperation: Institutional and

Behavioral Economics, investigates "the rules of the game," how

institutions--both formal and informal--affect these rules, and how these

rules change to serve competing interests. With its broad applications and

numerous practice and discussion questions, this book will be appealing not

only to students of economics, but also to those studying sociology, law,

and political science. This text:

* Addresses formal and informal institutions, the impact of alternative

institutions, and institutional change and evolution.

* Presents a framework open to changing preferences, bounded

rationality, and evolution.

* Explains how to form empirically testable hypotheses using

experiments, case studies, and econometrics.

* Includes numerous practice and discussion questions.

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"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

Abstract

This paper traces the euro zone’s inadequate macroeconomic performance in recent years back to the predominance of a restrictive macroeconomic policy mix based on a ‘new monetarist’ approach to economic policy. An approach based on a (post-)Keynesian analysis is presented as a growth and employment-oriented alternative to this restrictive policy mix. Contrary to the strict assignment of macroeconomic goals to the macroeconomic policy actors and their instruments in the ‘new monetarist’ approach, the alternative requires the co-ordination of monetary, fiscal and wage policies in order to achieve growth, high employment and price stability. The paper examines the opportunities for and the obstacles to macroeconomic co-ordination given by the institutional framework of the European Monetary Union.

http://www.boeckler.de/pdf/p_wsi_diskp_125.pdf

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The Caribbean Economies in an Era of Free Trade edited by Nikolaos Karagiannis

BLURB:

This book is concerned with the impact of economic globalization and an unregulated global market system on the Caribbean economies. The book is in three parts. Part I examines theoretical issues and includes an assessment of recent globalization trends, the limits of globalization, and the question of uneven development. Part II considers alternative policy solutions including interventionist alternatives, effective monetary strategies and innovative tourism strategies. Part III focuses on Jamaica and the Bahamas. Overall, this book provides a rich menu for alternative economic policies in the Caribbean at the turn of the century.

CONTENTS:

Contents: Part I: Theoretical Issues: Dependence, cumulative causation and the Caribbean, Nikolaos Karagiannis; Are there any limits to 'globalization'? International trade, capital flows and borders, Grahame F. Thompson; The political economy of international integration: small states in the Caribbean and the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), Robert Read; Globalization, technology, trade and development, Anthony Clayton. Part II: Policy Issues: Monetary policies for small island economies, Carlos J. Rodriguez-Fuentes; Development policy options for CARICOM in an era of free trade, Marie Freckleton and Nikolaos Karagiannis; Caribbean tourism and the FTAA, Ian Boxill, Diaram Ramjee Singh and Marjorie D. Segree. Part III: Country-Studies: The Bahamian economy in the era of the FTAA, Nikolaos Karagiannis and Christos D. Salvaris; Prospects for Jamaica's economic development in the era of the FTAA, Michael Witter; The demand for imports in Jamaica: 1972-2000, Dillon Alleyne; Index.

REVIEW COMMENT:

'...This book seeks to provide some answers for the Caribbean economies. It provides a clear review of the theoretical issues involved, leading on to the development of policy alternatives for these economies.'
Professor Malcolm Sawyer, University of Leeds, UK

FURTHER DETAILS:

ISBN: 07546 4070 1

Binding: Hardback

Extent: c.228 pages

Publication Date: September 2004

Price: £49.95*

* (Please note that prices are subject to change without notice. Postage is charged at £3.95 for UK orders and £7.50 for export orders).

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The Political Economy of the Social Democracy: past, present and

future

University of Wales, Swansea

31st March - 2nd April 2005

Call for papers

In the period since the end of the Second World War the political

economy of social democracy has responded to fundamental challenges

and undergone major revision. The increasing interdependence of

national economies, the liberalisation of regional and global trade,

the challenge of the New Right, the growing scale and importance of

TNCs, the increasing power of international finance, the ascendancy of

the Anglo-American model of corporate capitalism, the diminishing

significance and popularity of public ownership, the increasing

privatisation of the welfare state, the atrophy of the power of trade

unions, the ethical, environmental and aspirational diseconomies of

consumerism, have all posed problems for, and challenged the viability

of, the social democratic project. This has led some to question the

possibility of formulating a social democratic political economy with

practical import while it has provoked others to set about the

business of rethinking it in a manner that retains its essential

principles and renders them applicable to contemporary circumstances.

It is the object of the conference to explore, historically, social

democratic political economy's engagement with the post-war world and

to do so with reference to the following themes :-

Globalisation and national economic policy autonomy

Social democracy and the TNC.

Social democracy and international finance

Social democracy and the knowledge economy

Managing the social democratic economy

Multinational and cosmopolitan social democracy

Whatever happened to Keynesian social democracy?

The political economy of the welfare state

Enterprise governance

Public ownership: past, present and future

Trade unionism, workers rights and social democracy

Social democracy and the political economy of consumption

Social democracy and environmentalism

Industrial democracy, producers' co-operatives and workers' control

Social democracy and competing models of capitalism Social democracy

in the NICs The Third Way: where it came from, where it went Gender

and ethnicity in social democractic political economy Social democracy

and non-market models/systems

Though we hope that some paper-givers will provide a broad historical

perspective the main focus of the conference will be on the post-1945

period with a particular emphasis on the 1980s and 1990s.

This is the second of three interdisciplinary and comparative

conferences organised to consider the past histories, present

opportunities and future prospects of European social democracy. These

international conferences are sponsored by a range of bodies including

the Institute of Contemporary British History; the Labour Movements

Group pf the Political Studies Association (PSA), Manchester

University International Centre for Labour Studies, Sheffield

University Political Economy Research Group; the journals Soundings

and Socialist History; Catalyst and the publishers Lawrence & Wishart.

Deadlines

Offers of papers to this conference should be sent to the organisers

by 30 September 2004 with abstracts submitted by 31 October 2004. The

deadline for the papers which should be c.5000 words in length will be

1st February 2005 to allow them to be pre-circulated. Prospective

participants can submit papers either as individuals or jointly as

proposed panels.

Publications

Selected papers will be published as an edited collection entitled

Rethinking Social Democracy and in featured issues of journals such as

Socialist History and Soundings.

Current information about the conference will be posted on the RSD

website: www.fssl.man.ac.uk/rsd Paper offers and queries should be

sent to: Anne Morrow, RSD Series Administrator.

(anne.morrow@xxxxxxxxx)

Steering Committee includes: Noel Thompson, University of Wales,

Swansea; Mark Wickham-Jones (Bristol University); Steve Ludlam

(Sheffield University); Kevin Morgan (University of Manchester); John

Callaghan (University of Wolverhampton); Nina Fishman (University of

Westminster); David Purdy; Pat Devine (Manchester University).

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The Department of Economics, University of SIENA (Italy), encourages

applications for its PH.D. PROGRAMME IN ECONOMICS.

For the academic year 2004-2005 a maximum of 20 students will be

admitted; 10 of them will be awarded a 4-years scholarship (10.561

Euro per year). Both participation to the programme and scholarships

are open to applicants of all nationalities.

The 4-year programme includes a full menu of courses in the first two

years, all of which will be held in English.

The deadline for application is July 27, 2004. In order to apply,

candidates are required to register on-line.

For on-line registration and further information, consult our website:

http://www.econ-pol.unisi.it/dottorato

E-mail: dottorato@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Ugo Pagano

Director of the PhD Programme