Heterodox Economics Newsletter
Issue 154
October 28, 2013
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Hey, I am Jakob Kapeller, and I am the
new editor of the Heterodox Economics Newsletter. I have the honor as
well as the burden to stand on the shoulders of giants like Fred (Lee),
Ted (Schmidt) and Tae-Hee (Jo) and I will try to do my best in carrying
on what they started.
Personally, I would say that I am an
"economist, who accidentally became a philosopher" - trained as an
economist and socio-economist, but employed by philosophers, who found
my interest in a critical approach to economics less frightening than my
fellow economists. Specifically, my work focuses on epistemological questions in social science, heterodox economics and the history of political and economic ideas. Recently, I have been more strongly concerned with mathematical models (of course in a stock-flow-consistent tradition!) and quantitative methods (when trying to estimate
how "rich" the "rich" really are). And, sometimes (but only sometimes) I
dwell into management studies doing work in the field of organizational
research (mostly together with this great academic). If you are interested in my work and/or hobbies you can visit my webpage or write me an email.
More
importantly, my main motivation to carry on the work on the Heterodox
Economics Newsletter is that the Newsletter is a great community
service. And somebody has to take care of that; and since you can't
always expect others to do the dirty work, you have to do it yourself -
at least sometimes. So that is, essentially, why I am here.
Even
more importantly, I also try to implement some technical changes in the
Newsletter. For example, we plan to allow for direct submissions to the
Newsletter via a simple entry form on our webpage. This has two
advantages: First, it reduces copy-paste work to dust (1:0 for
efficiency). Second, it gives people, who want to submit something to
the Newsletter more control with regard to what is actually published
(1:0 for emancipation). This could even end up in a Pareto-improvement
(and we all know how hard this is to achieve!) and we hope to finish the
technical implementation till the next newsletter is published.
However, with all this technical gadgetry there also comes the cost of
automatization: the danger of carelessness. In this context this issue
of the Newsletter is not only a regular issue, but also some kind of
"beta-test" for our new editing system. If you find a series of errors
or anything disturbing - send us an email, we are hungry for feedback.
Finally,
as in any first issue of anything we have to say "thank you" to a whole
lot of people: To those who started all the work (Fred, Ted, Tae-Hee)
and to all other people who contributed throughout all these years. I,
personally, have to thank the Austrian Chamber of Labour, most notably
the head of its division for economics and statistics, Markus
Marterbauer, for providing modest, but decisive financial support for
this project. I also have to thank Herwig Hochleitner for providing
state-of-the-art IT-Services
and my editorial assistant Florian Springholz, without whom I would be
completely lost. Naturally, I have to thank my wife for not killing me
(or worse: leaving me) when I explained to her what I have agreed to
take care for ;-)
It is a great to have that much support - and I will try to put it to some good use.
Sincerely yours,
Jakob
Editor
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Table of contents
- Call for Papers
- Centre for Philosophy and Political Economy: 10th Anniversary Conference (Leicester, 2013)
-
Class, Race and Corporate Power: New Journal inviting Submissions
- Financialisation and Financial Crisis in South-Eastern European Countries: Call for Book Contributors
- Forum for Social Economics: Special Issue on "Formal Methods for Integrated Socio-Economic Analysis"
- Global Labour University Conference: “Inequality within and among Nations: Causes, Effects, and Responses” (Berlin, 2014)
- Historical
Materialism Conference: "Confronting Crisis - Left Praxis in the Face
of Austerity, War and Revolution" (Toronto, 2014)
- History of Economic Thought Society of Australia Conference (Auckland 2014)
- History of Recent Social Science Conference (Cachan, 2014)
- International Conference of Labour and Social History: "Work and Compulsion" (Linz, 2014)
- International Joseph A. Schumpeter Society Conference (Jena, 2014)
- Review of Radical Political Economics: Special Issue on "Economics and Morality"
- Call for Participants
- Brunel Social and Political Thought Research Group Seminar Series 2013/14
- Cambridge Realist Workshop
- ESRC Festival of Social Sciences: Finance for SMEs - The role of assessing credit risk (Bournemouth, 2013)
- Interdisciplinary Workshop on "Finance and Inequality in Europe" (Leeds, 2013)
-
NEH Summer Seminar: "The Meanings of Property" (New York, 2014)
- Philosophy in the Time of Economic Crisis (Opole, 2014)
- SCEME Seminar in Economic Methodology: "Origins of the Theory of the Firm: Ronald Coase at Dundee, 1932-1934" (Dundee, 2013)
- Work & Employment Research Unit: "Liberal market economies and the politics of inequality" (Greenwich, 2013)
- Workshop on "Cutting Edge Teaching Techniques and Strategies for Pluralistic Economists" (Philadelphia/ASSA, 2014)
- York University: Speakers Series on the Capitalist Mode of Power (Toronto 2013)
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Job Postings
- Bard College, US
- Carleton University, Canada
- Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), US
- De Montfort University, UK
- Dickinson College, US
- Duke University, US
- Portland State University, US
- Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute (SPERI), UK
- University of Denver, US
- University of St. Thomas, US
- Wesleyan University, US
- Willamette University, US
- Awards
- Herbert G. Gutman Prize for Outstanding Dissertation
- Journals
- American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 72 (5)
- Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society: Special Issue on "Financialization: Roots and Repercussions"
- Capital & Class, 37(3)
- Economic Thought, 2(2)
- Journal of Global Faultlines: Inaugural Issue
- Journal of Heterodox Economics: Inaugural Issue
- Journal of Institutional Economics, 9(4): Elinor Ostrom Memorial Issue.
-
Review of Keynesian Economics, 1(4): Symposium on Endogenous Money
- Review of Radical Political Economics, 45(4): Special Issue on "Neoliberal Capitalism and Beyond"
- Books and Book Series
- A Companion to Marx's Capital, Volume 2
- Challenging Knowledge, Sex and Power - Gender, Work and Engineering
- Challenging the Orthodoxy: Reflections on Frank Stilwell's Contribution to Political Economy
- Handbook of Research on Gender and Economic Life
- Marx on Gender and the Family
- Monetary Economies Of Production: Banking and Financial Circuits and the Role of the State
-
Rational Econometric Man: Transforming Structural Econometrics
- The BRICs and Emerging Economies in Comparative Perspective: Political Economy, Liberalisation and Institutional Change
- The Cambridge Revival of Political Economy
- The Endgame for the Euro
- The Poverty of Capitalism: Economic Meltdown and the Struggle for What Comes Next
-
Women and Austerity The Economic Crisis and the Future for Gender Equality
- Book Reviews
- Principles of Macroeconomics; Activist vs. Austerity Policies, by Howard Sherman and Michael Meeropol
- The Holy Grail of Macroeconomics: Lessons from Japan’s Great Recession, by Richard Koo.
-
Ph.D Dissertations in Heterodox Economics
- Thomas Goda: Income inequality and wealth concentration as a root cause of the subprime crisis
- Newsletters
- Association for Evolutionary Economics (AFEE)
- Global Labour Column
- International Development Economics Associates (IDEA)
- Levy Economics Institute of Bard College
- World Economics Association
- Calls for Support
- Economic Sociology and Political Economy Community
- Petition against Greek Universities' Shutdown
- World Interdisciplinary Network for Institutional Research