Dear Colleague,
This is a reminder of various forthcoming conferences--info is in the attachments. Those conferences are:
1. The 8th International Post Keynesian Workshop with Summer School
2. Association for Heterodox Economics Conference
3. International Network for Economic Method Conference
4. International Association for Critical Realism Conference
5. IAFFE Conference on Feminist Economics
6. Social Economics: A Paradigm for a Global Society Conference
New Conferences:
1. Economic Growth and Distribution: On the Nature and causes of the Wealth of Nation Conference
2.THE WTO AND BEYOND: GLOBAL GOVERNANCE AND STATE POWER IN THE TWENTY-FIRST
CENTURY
15, 16 July 2004
Harbour Centre Campus, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada
The Centre for Global Political Economy at Simon Fraser University is
organising an international conference on the past, present and future of
global governance.
Efforts to extend the scope of global governance through international
institutions have run into roadblocks resulting from the opposition of some
nation-states and elements of civil society.
However, images of Seattle, Quebec City and Cancun contrast with the
widening scope of issues subject to international economic agreements and
adjudication mechanisms. Typified by the WTO, but expressed also in the
practice of the IMF, World Bank, NAFTA, EU ,OECD , G7/G8, and increasingly
in bilateral agreements, a broad range of issues formerly the preserve of
national states are regulated internationally. The international governance
of trade, services, environmental and health standards, labour standards,
intellectual property rights, and the investment rights of corporations, to
name but a few, has raised questions of private versus public, and global
versus national, regional and subnational priorities. Issues of sovereignty,
social justice and equity ( encompassing the North -South divide, class ,
gender and other divisions in both North and South), democracy and
accountability have confronted proponents of trade liberalization and
economic globalization.
Papers addressing these and related issues are invited.
Proposals for papers, which should include a one page abstract, should be
submitted to: [log in to unmask] by 15 February, 2004.
An edited collection of selected papers is expected to result from the
conference. Subject to funding some travel subsidies may be available.
Updated information about the conference will posted on the Centre for
Global Political Economy's web page: http://www.sfu.ca/cgpe/
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Marc Lee
Economist
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives -- BC Office
1400-207 West Hastings St.
Vancouver, BC V6B 1H7
E: [log in to unmask]
T: 604-801-6920
F: 604-801-5122
CAW 3000
And here is the book:
NEW THINKING IN MACROECONOMICS
The Global Development And Environment Institute at Tufts University is pleased to announce the publication of New Thinking in Macroeconomics: Social, Institutional, and Environmental Perspectives, edited by Jonathan M. Harris and Neva R. Goodwin, with an afterword by John Kenneth Galbraith (Edward Elgar, 2003).
New Thinking in Macroeconomics is featured as Edward Elgar’s “Book of the Month”. Details about the book and a 20% discount offer are available at
http://ase.tufts.edu/gdae/highlights/new_thinking_macro.htm
The edited volume “brings together contributions by analysts working from different perspectives, but with one thing in common: a dissatisfaction with the current state of macroeconomic theory and practice . . .[reflecting] the need for a broader approach to macroeconomics, framed in terms of the contribution of economic systems to human well-being, not merely to increased consumption.” [from the volume introduction].
Fred Lee
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