Heterodox Economics Newsletter

Issue 168 September 01, 2014 web pdf Heterodox Economics Directory

This month I attended two quite different events, which nonetheless dealt with quite similar topics.

Early this August I have been invited to Berlin to take part in a great and refreshing event dedicated to "Pluralism in Economics" and organized by the Macroeconomic Policy Institute (IMK) at the Hans Boeckler Foundation in cooperation with the German network of pluralist students. Interest in the event has been overwhelming so, despite all intentions to the contrary, the selection of participants has been highly competitive simply due to lack of space. Anyway, the result was a really great conference with a lot of interested and dedicated young people from various backgrounds aiming to transform economics. In retrospect, I wanted to say many thanks to the organizers and all of the participants for making this vivid event possible.

Late this August I was invited at the European Forum Alpbach, which is basically a mixture between a conservative think-tank and a three-week meet&greet business party hosted in a Tyrolean mountain village (no lake there, so no direct link to Vevey...;-). Interestingly, they hosted a session on "Inequality before and after the Crisis" in cooperation with the Austrian Chamber of Labor featuring, among others, Branko Milanovic (UC NY). I had the honor of chairing this session and was positively inspired to see the conservative political side taking issue with inequality (note: Piketty has merit in this) - although even some not-so-radical suggestions to tackle rising inequality, like e.g. the introduction of an inheritance tax, caused funny reactions, reaching from rising eye-brows to sheer astonishment and paralysis, among a whole series of participants.

After an August full of events I look forward to an even tighter September, which starts today with the publication of your favorite Newsletter!

All the Best!

Jakob

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Table of contents

• Call for Papers
• AAG Annual Meeting Call for Papers on "Biofuels, Bioenergy and the Emerging Bio-Economy" (Chicago, 2015)
• AFIT Annual Meeting Calls for Papers on "Institutionalism: History, Theory, and Futures" (Portland, 2015)
• Interdisciplinary Conference on "New Pathways in the History of Political Economy" (Cambridge, 2015)
• International Labor and Working-Class History: Special Issue on "Workers' Education and Global Labor Movements"
• International Seminary of Heterodox Microeconomics on “Competition, innovation investment and financial structure" (Mexico City, 2015)
• International Workshop on "Explaining Economic Change" (Rome, 2014)
• Launching Economics Publishing at Rowman & Littlefield International: The story so far
• Research in Political Economy: Special Issue on "Geopolitical Economy: States, Economies and the Capitalist World Order"
• Society of Heterodox Economists (SHE) Conference: "Tackling persistent economic problems: Heterodox perspectives"
• The Association for Social Economics (ASE) invites for Panels and Papers Proposals at the Western Social Science Association Meetings (Portland, 2015)
• XIII Conference of the Italian Association for the History of Economic Thought (AISPE) on "Economists and War" (Pisa, 2014)
• Call for Participants
• "Re-Inventing Our Economy": Public Debate and Conference (Glasgow, 2014)
• 2014 Wheelwright lecture in Political Economy: “Whose Crisis? Capital, Labour and the State Today" (Sydney, 2014)
• ASSA 2015 Heterodox Economics Exhibition Booth: Call for Participation/Contribution
• Australian Academy of Science Fenner Conference: "Addicted to Growth? How to move to a Steady State Economy in Australia" (Sidney, 2014)
• ETUI-ETUC Conference on "Europe at a crossroads. Which way to quality jobs and prosperity?" (Brussels, 2014)
• International Conference on "Economic Change and Evolution" (Rome, 2014)
• International Gathering of "The Workers’ Economy": North America, Central America and the Caribbean (Mexico City, 2014)
• Second Winter School on the "Analytics and Policy Design of Migration" (2015, Doha)
• Job Postings
• Luskin School of Public Affairs, US
• Northern Arizona University, US
• University of Geneva, Switzerland
• Awards
• Call for Papers for the 2015 Klaus Liebscher Award
• European Society for the History of Economic Thought: Academic Awards 2015
• Nominations for the 2015 Distinguished Fellow Award for the History of Economics Society
• The Review of Capital as Power: Essay Prize
• Welfare, Wealth and Work for Europe: Best Paper Award
• Journals
• Cambridge Journal of Economics, 38 (5)
• Problemas del Desarrollo, 45 (178)
• Real-World Economics Review, 1 (68)
• Socio-Economic Review, 12 (3)
• The Review of Black Political Economy, 41 (3)
• Books and Book Series
• Beyond Mainstream Explanations of the Financial Crisis: Parasitic Finance Capital
• Money, Banking And The Foreign Exchange Market In Emerging Economies
• Organisation of the Organisationless: Collective Action After Networks
• Path Dependence And Lock-In
• Private Island: Why Britain Now Belongs to Someone Else
• State Crime on the Margins of Empire: Rio Tinto, the War on Bougainville and Resistance to Mining
• Strike!: Revised and Expanded
• The End Of Laissez-Faire? On the Durability of Embedded Neoliberalism
• Heterodox Graduate Programs, Scholarships and Grants
• Junior Research Fellowships at King's College
• The University Roma Tre calls for PhD applications in Economics
• Newsletters
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• Global Economic Governance Initiative
• Global Labour Column
• For Your Information
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