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Dear All,
Below are a couple of heterodox events that have taken place
over the past five months which you might find interesting.
In February 2004 the Association for Heterodox Economics
held its third ESRC funded Post Graduate Workshop on Advanced Research Methods
the
Jumping forward to June. For the last 10 days UMKC has
hosted the 8th International Post Keynesian Summer School and
Conference. Presentations and papers given at the summer school and
conference can be found at http://cfeps.org/events/pk2004/.
Over 40 students attended the summer school: they came from
Ainsley Charles (
Oliver Giovannoni (
Laurent Salvador (France) and Mehdi Achouri (
Andrea Pacella (
The winner received copies of J. Kregel, “The
Reconstruction of Political Economy: An Introduction to Post-Keynesian
Economics,” J. Robinson and J. Eatwell, “An Introduction to Modern
Economics”, F. Lee, “Post Keynesian Price Theory,” L. R.
Wray, “Understanding Modern Money’” and H. Kurz and N.
Salvadori, “Theory of Production”.
There were about 90 or more participants at the Post
Keynesian conference. The papers were in general quite good and at times
there were very energetic discussions with almost drops of blood on the
floor. Just a word of warning if you like dollarization and there are
some Post Keynesian-heterodox Latin American economists around…. I
personally found the papers by David Bunting on macro-micro aggregation,
Claudio Puty on sectoral mark ups, John McCombie on a critique of total factor
productivity, Basil Moore on saving and investment, and Karl Petrick on the
institution of marketing quite interesting. Others would of course find
other papers quite interesting. The Conference dinner was a very
enjoyable event and Jan Kregel’s keynote address on Minsky and
international financial stability was very interesting.
Other items of interest for heterodox economists are below.
Fred Lee
GLOVES OFF AND URPE
It was great to bring
Gloves Off back to URPE this summer because Sara Burke had first tested the
idea for Gloves Off at the 2002 summer conference. Claudio Puty joined the
project by increments shortly after the first issue went live on February 15,
2003, the day that millions around the world simultaneously protested the
impending
In solidarity,
Sara, Paul, Claudio, and Joe
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Gloves Off Summer 2004 Issue
<http://www.glovesoff.org/>
In our last issue, Gloves Off presented the first
installment of "Perspectives on the
Global Justice Movement" <http://www.glovesoff.org/features/globaljustice_1003.html>,
with views from Latin America, Europe and the US on the future, the challenges,
and the contraditions facing the movement.
Now get ready for the second installment: "In
the Belly of the Beast," <http://www.glovesoff.org/features/gjamerica_intro.html>
a 4-part feature by Gloves Off co-editors Sara Burke and Claudio Puty, examines
the roots and emergence of the global justice movement in the
Also in this issue...
Economist and Indian civil-rights activist Ramaa Vasudevan debunks the economic
model at the heart of neoliberalism in "The
Gospel of Free Trade."
<http://www.glovesoff.org/features/vasudevan_freetrade.html>
In "Pursuing the Meaning of Abu
Ghraib" Gloves Off co-editor Joe Smith considers the question
of tactics and perspective that US torture of Iraqi prisoners presents to the
global justice movement.
<http://www.glovesoff.org/columns/jsmith_2004june1.html>
In "The Glass Ceiling,"
Gloves Off reader Charles Weigl gets in the ring with Giovanni Mazzetti, Emir
Sader, and Barbara Epstein -- their interviews are featured in Part I of
"Perspectives on the Global Justice Movement -- to challenge their
statements on the issue of relations between anarchists and Marxists and to
call for a joint theoretical project focused upon their common ground in the
history of Left traditions.
<http://www.glovesoff.org/inthering/weigel_may2004.html>
And in his most recent column, "Selling
Neoliberal Globalization: Thomas Friedman's Excellent Adventure,"
Joe Smith takes free-trade cheerleader and New York Times columnist Thomas
Friedman to task.
<http://www.glovesoff.org/columns/jsmith_2004june2.html>
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We are very pleased to
announce an association between the 2004 National Conference on Unemployment
and the 2004 Australia New Zealand Society for Ecological Economists (ANZSEE)
Conference.
A joint conference titled A
Future that Works - economics, employment and the environment will
be held from the 8th - 10th December 2004 at the
To accommodate the broader scope of the Conference, the daily program will be arranged
to allow for maximum flexibility among participants' interests. Specifically,
the 3-day program will cover the following themes:
Day 1 (December 8):
- welfare to work issues;
- macroeconomic policy and full employment;
- long-term, youth and indigenous unemployment;
- employment policy for the disabled;
- policy responses to unemployment.
Day 2 (December 9):
- GDP growth, jobs and the environment;
- the future of work including issues regarding sustainability and job design;
- regional employment/unemployment;
- full employment and sustainability;
- sustainability and industry structure;
- creating more secure employment and environmental futures.
Day 3 (December 10):
- transition to ecological sustainability;
- accounting for sustainability and social progress;
- eco-efficiency and the biophysical economy;
- consumption and well-being;
- green technology;
- trade and the environment;
- cultural shift and the political economy of sustainability.
The themes are designed to be inclusive.
The CALL FOR PAPERS within these broad themes is now open.
The following guidelines are applicable:
1. Presenters may elect to have their paper considered for the refereed or the
non-refereed stream. Refereed papers will be included in a printed volume of
conference proceedings, while non-refereed papers will be available on CD and
the Internet. Papers may also be considered for publication in a special
conference issue of the International
Journal of Environment, Workplace and Employment (IJEWE).
2. Abstracts for the refereed stream should be submitted by August 16, 2004.
3. Abstracts for the non-refereed stream should be submitted by September 17,
2004.
4. As the proceedings will be distributed at the Conference, draft refereed
papers must be submitted by October 15, 2004. Non-refereed papers must be
submitted by November 22, 2004.
5. The refereeing process and editorial requirements (word length etc) will be
described on the Conference WWW site (see below).
All information regarding the Conference will be posted on the official
Conference WWW site which is available at:
http://e1.newcastle.edu.au/coffee/conferences/2004/index.cfm
Registration details will be available there by Friday July 2, 2004.
We look forward to receiving your proposals and to seeing you in December.
Kind regards,
Bill Mitchell
Director
Centre of Full Employment and Equity
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