[URPE] URPE Summer Workshop/Retreat

[Al Campbell]

REMINDER: For several years now, people have asked for a Summer 
Workshop/retreat focused on alternatives – what can we do in the face 
of this brutal hegemonic world social-political-economic order?  This 
year’s workshop will be focused on this (with lots of other topics 
addressed in the workshops as well).  It promises to be very 
interesting, and given the despair that has overcome some fighters for 
social justice, inspiring – there are (plenty) of ways to fight back, and 
beyond that, there are plenty of important challenges to the hegemonic 
order going on right now.  Plan to join us – it will be both informative 
and fun (set in a camp on a lake in Western Connecticut) as usual. The 
dates are Saturday evening, August 20 to Tuesday noon, August 22. 
Full information on the conference and on getting there are on our 
web site, www.urpe.org.

Note: Preliminary schedule as of 6/1/2005. Further information on the 
workshops will be posted at the end of June and July. For a good 
sense of what the schedule will look like, see the schedule from 2003 
on our Web site, under the Summer Workshop/Retreat.

Note 2: Anyone who comes can present or take part in a workshop, 
concerning your work or ideas concerning social-economic justice. 
Please let me know of any workshops you would be interested in 
presenting or participating in.  We like workshops of 2 to 4 people, 
but we have quite a few with just one presenter, because that person is 
the only person talking on that topic that year.  If you see a workshop 
below that you feel your work would fit into, let me know, I will put 
you in touch with the organizer, and if there is room, we will include 
you in the presentations. My (Al Campbell) email is 
Al at economics.utah.edu.

Note 3: I will be out of touch with the world from June 5 to June 29 
(down in the Grand Canyon). I will get back to you immediately 
following that. If you have questions that need a response before then, 
contact Paddy Quick at PaddyQuick at aol.com

                  2005 URPE Summer Workshop/Retreat

                            Alternatives!

The David Gordon Lecture: THE FUTURE 
WITHIN THE PRESENT: Seven Theses for a 
Robust 21st- Century Socialism. David 
Laibman, Professor of Economics, Brooklyn 
College and Graduate School CUNY, and 
Editor of Science & Society.

Plenary 1: Policy Alternatives

Policy Implications of No Child Left Behind. Susan Williams 
McElroy, Professor of Economics, University of Texas at Dallas.

Be Utopian. Demand the Realistic. Bob Pollin, Professor of 
Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst and Co-director of 
the Politcal Economy Research Institute (PERI)

Plenary 2: Restructuring Social Relations

The Transformative Moment: Personal Healing and the Restructuring 
of Economic Relations. Julie Matthaei, Professor of Economics, 
Wellesley College

Commodity Fetishism: A Concept for Organizing Sweatshop Labor. 
John Miller, Professor of Economics, Wheaton College

Re-mebedding the Rural Economy: Social Capital, Economic Justice, 
and Environmental Stewardship. Héctor Sáez, Professor of 
Economics, Community Development and Appied Economics 
Program and Environmental Program, University of Vermont

Plenary 3:  Alternatives to Capitalism

How Do We Begin to Get Serious About an American Transitional 
Strategy?  Gar Alperovitz, Professor of Political Economy, University 
of Maryland. Author most recently of Beyond Capitalism: Reclaiming 
Our Wealth, Our Liberty and Our Democracy

New Possibilities for a Democratic Planned Economy.  Allin Cottrell, 
Professor of Economics, Wake Forest University.

Participatory Economics.  Robin Hahnel, Professor of Economics, 
American Universtiy. Author most recently of Economic Justice and 
Democracy: From Competition to Cooperation.

Plenary 4: Graduate Students and Heterodox 
Economics
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Workshop with guest organization, the Association for Economic and 
Social Analysis.
A Class Analysis of Socialism and Communism: What was the 
USSR?
Steven Resnick and Richard Wolff

Workshops planned as of June 1. 
1) Agents for Socialism and Community: Flirting with Aristotle
2) Living Simple and Confronting Consumerism
3) An Unfolding Revolution: Venezuela
4) A student centered/constructivist/contextual learning model for 
unemployment/outsourcing/globalization.
5) Reading the Nation State; Literature as Political Economy
6) The Future of New Immigrants Now and Then. A Case Study, New 
Haven.
7) Marxism and Today’s Economic Problems.
8) The Job Market or Economists
9) Cuba Today
10) Alternatives to Capitalism