From hannsgen at levy.org Fri Jul 7 14:33:55 2006 From: hannsgen at levy.org (Greg Hannsgen) Date: Sun Jul 9 07:45:07 2006 Subject: [URPE] please post job announcement Message-ID: <44AEC533.3010400@levy.org> I would appreciate it if you would post the following job announcement. I can tell you that it is a great opportunity. Greg Hannsgen Levy Institute Research Associate and Editor Job Description: The Levy Economics Institute of Bard College seeks a new Resident Research Associate and Editor. Responsibilities include editing many of the Institute's policy-oriented publications and writing and editing the /Report/, a quarterly newsletter on Institute research and events. Requirements The incumbent may also have an opportunity to engage in independent research in his or her own field. A completed Ph.D. in economics is required, though candidates who expect to graduate within 6 months will be considered. Qualifications include a good command of written English and the ability to communicate complex economic ideas to noneconomists. Ideally, the candidate would have research interests that complement one or more of the institute's projects-including the distribution of income and wealth, gender equality and the economy, and macromodeling. Demonstrated success in professional writing or editing would be helpful. Information on the Levy Institute is available at www.levy.org . The Levy Economics Institute is located on the campus of Bard College, 90 miles north of NYC, overlooking the Hudson River. The Institute provides state-of-the-art computer networking, a dedicated library, and a supportive collegial environment. To apply, please submit two writing samples, undergraduate and graduate transcripts (for prospective and recent graduates), and curriculum vitae, and the names of three references to: Human Resources-3406, Bard College, PO Box 5000, Annandale On Hudson, NY 12504 5000 or fax to 845 758 7826. AA/EOE. From al at economics.utah.edu Tue Jul 11 15:17:48 2006 From: al at economics.utah.edu (Al Campbell) Date: Tue Jul 11 16:04:42 2006 Subject: [URPE] URPE SUMMER CONFERENCE Message-ID: <44B3C11C.3533.6D179770@ac5860.csbs.utah.edu> 2006 URPE SUMMER CONFERENCE Nationalism, Internationalism, and Nature Friday, Aug. 11 - Monday, Aug 14. Camp Deer Run, Pine Bush, NY 7/11/2006. Preliminary schedule for the plenaries and David Gordon Lecture at the URPE Summer Workshop/Retreat. Please note: 1) the meetings are one week earlier than usual, to avoid the conflict we always have with some schools starting in late August, 2) we have a new camp, with improved lodging and continued great food, just up river from New York City, and 3) the camp wants a rough count of how many will come (for food preparation), so please get your reservations in to the National Office by July 28. All information on the new camp - location, directions, facilities, rates, registration form etc, are on our web site, www.urpe.org. You will see below there are already a significant number of interesting workshops lined up, but as always new workshops are proposed in July. Now is a good time to get your ideas on a workshop or panel on work that you are working on that you would like to share with people and get feedback on to Graham Cassano: graham@xrgb.com. Please put 'summer conference' in the subject line. PLENARIES, DAVID GORDON LECTURE AND PRELIMINARY WORKSHOPS, URPE SUMMER CAMP, 2006 Friday August 11, 7 - 9 pm. Plenary 1. Latin America: Breaking the Mold Where Does Mexico Go from Here? David Barkin, Professor of Economics at the Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana-Xochimilco. His most recent book (2006) is La Gesti?n de Agua Urbana en M?xico. For those who do not read Spanish, Wealth, Poverty and Sustainable Development is a recent book that reflects a similar ecological approach. It is bilingual and can now be downloaded free. Ch?vez, Chavismo and Latin America's Lefts. Fred Rosen, a long-time central figure in NACLA (North American Congress on Latin America). His most recent book is an edited collection, Latin America After Neoliberalism: Turning the Tide? (The New Press, 2006) Financial Capitalism and the Economic State of Emergency in Brazil: Abandoning the Developmental Perspective. Leda Paulani, Professor of Economics at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Current president of the SEP (URPE's corresponding Political Economy organization in Brazil) Saturday, August 12, 4:30 - 6 pm. DAVID GORDON LECTURE. Changes in U.S. Capitalism Since the Reagan Era: Where Are We Now? Michael Reich, Professor of Economics, UC Berkeley and Director, Institute of Industrial Relations. Saturday, August 12, 7 - 9 pm. Plenary 2: Wars and Natural Resources Resource Wars. William K. Tabb is Professor of Economics at Queens College, City University of New York. His most recent book is Economic Governance in the Age of Globalization (Columbia University Press, 2004). A War for Expensive Oil: What's Itching the Bully in the China Shop? Wadi'h Halabi currently serves on the Economics Commission of the Communist Party USA. Metal Mining of the Long Twentieth Century: Excavating the link between war and capitalist industry. Salimah Valiani is a researcher in the Social and Economic Policy Unit of the Canadian Labour Congress. Sunday, August 13, 7 - 9 pm. Plenary 3. Katrina: Race and Class Alternative Policies for Rebuilding New Orleans. Linwood Tauheed, Professor of Economics and Black Studies at the University of Missouri, Kansas City. The Political Economy of Neighborhood Planning in Post Katrina New Orleans. Khalil Tian Shahyd, Doctoral Student in Political Ecology at the University of Delaware. One Additional Speaker, TBA. Tentative Workshops (as of July 11: these will be updated weekly until the Conference) Ecological Economics as Theory and Practice (David Barkin) Developments in Marxian Value-Theory (David Laibman and Gil Skillman) Working for Ourselves: Household Production and Socialism (Paddy Quick) Race, Gender, and Ethnicity in the US Labor Market (Marie Duggan) Socialism and the Political Economy of Contemporary China (Sidney Gluck) Healthcare Finance and Class: The Role of the American Corporation (Robert Kemp) Guramylay: Growing the Green Economy (Julie A. Matthaei, Germai Medhanie and Zaira Sherifova) The Contradictory Imperatives of New Deal Banking Reform (Ellen Russell) Demand Side Policies for Sustainable Development (Leanne Ussher, Laura Ebert and Margaret Duncan) Grassroots Labor Organizing (Salimah Valiani, Brandynn Holgate, Patrice Mareshal and Ethan Drozd) Editors of Capitalism, Nature, Socialism on Green Commerce, Nuclear Energy, the National Guard and the World Bank (Heather Rogers, Karen Charmen, Tom Burgess, and Irwin Sperber) Resisting Corporate Dominance of Local Political Economies; Lessons from the Front Line of Struggle (Ward Morehouse, Carolyn Toll Oppenheim) The Future of Immigration: A Light at the End of the Tunnel? (Alex Julca, Germai Medhanie) URPE Reports on the World Social Forum (Mathew Bradbury, Julie Matthaei, Germai Medhanie, Dave Shukla) Latin America: Breaking the Mold (David Barkin, Leda Paulani, Fred Rosen) Wars and Natural Resources (Wadi'h Halabi, Bill Tabb, Salimah Valiani) Katrina: Race and Class (Khalil Tian Shahyd, Linwood Tauheed) -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 14811 bytes Desc: Mail message body Url : http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/urpe-announcements/attachments/20060711/a7bfb68d/attachment.txt From urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu Wed Jul 12 18:27:36 2006 From: urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu (urpe-moderator@lists.econ.utah.edu) Date: Wed Jul 12 18:30:50 2006 Subject: [URPE] [NYC] Brecht Forum: Puppet Show re.Prisons, 4 Day Intro to Marxism, Bird Flu, Films and more... 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Plenary speakers will include Gar Alperowitz, Nancy Folbre, Michael Albert, Julie Graham, and many more. Workshops will cover a range of topics such as financing cooperatives, building a healthcare coop, fair trade, the economics of renewable energy, and others that range from practice to policy. A detailed list of events is provided below. For additional information, please visit www.populareconomics.org or send an email to programs@populareconomics.org. All events are free and open to the public, and will be located in Fayerweather Hall on the Amherst College Campus. A link to the campus map is provided here: http://www.amherst.edu/about_amh/visit/map/ Please be sure to join us for as many events as you're able to attend, and help us get the word out by circulating this email and posting a hardcopy where others can see it. Thank you! ======================================================================== =============================================== *For up-to-date and more detailed information on the events above, see descriptions below and please visit www.populareconomics.org Center for Popular Economics 2006 Summer Institute July 23-29, Amherst College, Amherst, MA **All workshops and plenary sessions are FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC** For the most up-to-date information, please visit www.populareconomics.org Sunday, July 23 7:00-9:00pm Plenary: Real World Economic Alternatives: Stepping Stones to 'Another World' ? Gar Alperovitz (National Center for Economic and Security Alternatives): ?America Beyond Capitalism? ? Julie Graham, (CPE staff economist, local economic activist and author of A Postcapitalist Politics): ?Create Your Own Economy Now! A Global Vision for Local Communities? ? Rene Poitevin (NYU Professor, activist and low-income housing organizer): ?Venezuela and the 'Socialism of the New Century': Lessons for the U.S. Left? Monday, July 24 1:30-3:00pm Concurrent Workshops ? Workshop 1 Economics of Renewable Energy - Lynn Benander (Coop Power) ? Workshop 2 Where?s the Money: Resources for Economic Alternatives ? Mary Hoyer (Cooperative Fund of New England), William Spademan (Common Good Bank) and others ? Workshop 3: Short films on Economic Alternatives: Mondragon, World Social Forum, Cooperatives 3:30-5:00pm Concurrent Workshops ? Workshop 1 Colonial Crises and Peoples? Struggles: The Puerto Rican Experience ? Rene Poitevin (see above), Saolo Colon ? Workshop 2 Parecon: A Classes Economy, Vision and Strategy ? Michael Albert (Z Magazine, Z Institute and ZNet) ? Workshop 3 Building a Living Local Economy ? Daniel Finn (BALLE) 7:00-9:00pm Plenary: Visions of ?Another World? ? Nancy Folbre (CPE staff economist, UMass Professor, author of Field Guide to the U.S. Economy "Socialist Fantasies, Feminist Realities, and Imaginary Futures" ? Michael Albert (see above), "A Vision of Life After Capitalism and Implications for the Present" ? David Kotz (CPE staff economist, UMass Professor, author of Revolution from Above: The Demise of the Soviet System), discussant/moderator Tuesday, July 25 7:00-9:00pm Plenary: Is Socially Responsible Capitalism Enough? ? Melissa Hoover (U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives) ?From Workers to Owners? ? Hector Saez (CPE staff economist, Univ. of Vermont) ?Corporate Social Responsibility: Potential and limits for fundamental change? Wednesday, July 26 1:30-3:00pm Concurrent Workshops ? Workshop 1 New-Old ways of living and owning ? Charles Uchu Strader (Sirius Community) and others. ? Workshop 2 Creative Alternatives: A Text & Movement Workshop ? Andrea Assaf (New World Theater). Will develop a performance for the open mic. ? Workshop 3 Cooperatives 101 ? Discussion with Len Krimerman (Grassroots Economic Organizing), Mary Hoyer (Cooperative Fund of New England), Melissa Hoover (U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives), and others 3:30-5:00pm Concurrent Workshops ? Workshop 1 Film: ?End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of the American Dream? ? Workshop 2 ?Art and Social Change: Imaging Economic Justice? ? Brenda Cotto Escalera (United for a Fair Economy). Will develop a mural and text for the open mic. ? Workshop 3 Cooperatives and Social Movements -Worker Cooperatives: Some Theory and A Lot of Practice - Steve Strimer, Adam Trott (Valley Alliance of Worker Cooperatives) - Cooperatives: Globalization and Competition ? Len Krimerman (Grassroots Economic Organizing) - From Workers to Owners ? Melissa Hoover (U.S. Federation of Worker Coops) 7:00-9:00pm Plenary: Globalization, Gender and Development ? Merrilee Mardon (Connecticut College Professor), ?The Benefits of Including Women in Development: Evidence from Rural Brazil? ? James Heintz (CPE staff economist, Political Economy Research Institute) ?Women, Work and Poverty in a Global Economy? 9:00-10:30pm Coffee House, Open Mic, performances developed by workshops earlier in the day Thursday, July 27 1:30-3:00pm Concurrent Workshops ? Workshop 1 Farmers in the city: economic & cultural development through food and agricultural projects ? Daniel Ross (Nuestras Raices) ? Workshop 2 Economics of Non-violence - Amit Basole (CPE Staff Economist) ? Workshop 3 Building Cooperative Healthcare ? Paul Glover (Ithaca Health Care Alliance, founder of Ithaca Hours, a local currency system) 3:30-5:00pm Concurrent Workshops ? Workshop 1 Socially Responsible Business -Fair Trade "A Practical Approach to Trade Justice in Coffee" - Dean Cycon (Dean's Beans); ? Workshop 2 Creating an alternative economy - the Beauty and the Beast: Best practices, pitfalls, obstacles, lessons learned - Caroline Murray (Anti-Displacement Project) ? Workshop 3 Building Cooperative Healthcare (cont?d) ? Paul Glover 7:00-9:00pm Plenary: Linking Practice and Policy ? Paul Glover (see above) ?Cooperative Healthcare? ? Melissa Gonzalez-Brenes (UMass Professor) ?Linking local and global change: reflections on gender and development in Africa? Friday, July 28 8:30pm-11:00 PARTY FOR SUMMER INSTITUTE COMMUNITY From urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu Tue Jul 18 07:15:11 2006 From: urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu (urpe-moderator@lists.econ.utah.edu) Date: Tue Jul 18 07:18:21 2006 Subject: [URPE] [NYC] Brecht Forum: Spanish Classes, Intro to Marxism, La Ciudad, Born Rich and More Message-ID: <44BCDEDF.4040401@lists.econ.utah.edu> Skipped content of type multipart/alternative-------------- next part -------------- _______________________________________________ Brechtevents1 mailing list Brechtevents1@lists.mayfirst.org https://lists.mayfirst.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/brechtevents1 From kramer at fiscalpolicy.org Wed Jul 19 08:20:33 2006 From: kramer at fiscalpolicy.org (Brent Kramer) Date: Wed Jul 19 08:31:38 2006 Subject: [URPE] Invitation Message-ID: <004101c6ab3e$82c1f870$8001a8c0@Oliver> The FISCAL POLICY INSTITUTE invites you... Please join us for a Briefing on the Fiscal and Economic Development Implications of the City's Proposed Financing Plan for the Hudson Yards Infrastructure Corporation The City's Industrial Development Authority is due to vote on August 8 to establish across-the-board commercial property tax cuts in the Hudson Yards area. These property tax cuts are linked to the financing of HYIC debt that will be sold to finance the construction of the #7 subway extension. Thursday, July 27th 10:30am-12:15pm at the Fiscal Policy Institute 11 Park Place, Suite 701 (between Broadway and Church near City Hall Park) 2-3 IRT to Park Place A-E-C to Chambers 4-5-6 to Brooklyn Bridge Space is limited so advance registration is necessary. For more information, contact: James Parrott, 212-721-5624. RSVP, with name and contact information: parrott@fiscalpolicy.org Submitted to URPE by: Brent Kramer, Research Associate Fiscal Policy Institute New York City kramer@fiscalpolicy.org www.fiscalpolicy.org 646-278-5681 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 4882 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/urpe-announcements/attachments/20060719/6c8a47e9/attachment.txt From jshackel at bucknell.edu Wed Jul 19 08:39:23 2006 From: jshackel at bucknell.edu (Jean Shackelford) Date: Wed Jul 19 22:11:06 2006 Subject: [URPE] URGENT ACTION - Berhanu Nega Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, Amnesty International has posted information on its Urgent Action Network concerning the health and medical needs of Economist Berhanu Nega. Berhanu is a former Bucknell University(and URPE) colleague, receiving his Ph.D. from the New School. He returned to Ethiopia in 1994. He was elected mayor of Addis Ababa in the 2005 elections and, as in November, he and other members of the opposition (CUD) party were arrested and charged with treason. In its ongoing monitoring, Amnesty International has called Nega a prisoner of conscience and is now asking citizens of all countries to write leters expressing concern about Nega's health and treatment in prison. I am pasting the Amnesty Urgent Action information at the end of this posting It contains information along with addresses of those to whom you should direct your letters .. Alternatively the American Association for the Advancement of Science Human Rights Action Network has a link to a "letter generator" at http://shr.aaas.org/aaashran/alert.php?a_id=323. You may (very easily) send the letter AASA has drafted, edit the letter, or copy the letter onto letterhead and send it to the list provided. Scholars at Risk has also posted concern about these arrests http://scholarsatrisk.nyu.edu/ethiopia.htm For additional information see New School links where Nega was named the 2006 Distinguished Alumnus at The New School for Social Research's Recognition Ceremony http://www.newschool.edu/GF/news/articles/060614_Nega.htm Thanks for taking the few minutes to express your concern. Dean Baker & Jean Shackelford ----forward: Amnesty International Posting----http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGAFR250202006?open&of=ENG-2AF Previous PUBLIC AI Index: AFR 25/020/2006 UA 195/06 Medical Concern / Prisoner of conscience 14 July 2006 ETHIOPIA Berhanu Negga (m) aged 50, opposition party leader, professor of economics Amnesty International is concerned about the ill-health and inadequate medical care of Dr Berhanu Negga, a prisoner of conscience who is on trial for treason. He was arrested on 1 November 2005 in Addis Ababa and is held in harsh conditions in Kaliti prison on the outskirts of Addis Ababa. Dr Berhanu Negga suffers from high blood pressure as well as cardiomyopathy, a heart disease which causes the heart muscles to become weaker, making it unable to pump as well as it should. He was hospitalized on 9 June after experiencing severe shortness of breath. He was however sent back to prison after 20 days, reportedly against the advice of doctors and without having been examined by a cardiologist. Doctors? recommendations that he should be transferred to a less crowded and cleaner cell with better ventilation were also reportedly disregarded by the authorities. Reports suggest that his health has further deteriorated. In Kaliti prison, Dr Berhanu Negga is held in a large zinc-walled cell, with other opposition party leaders with a total of 270 political and criminal prisoners. It is currently rainy season in Ethiopia and the cell?s roof leaks, making the cell cold and damp. Sanitary and toilet facilities are poor. There are rats, cockroaches and fleas in the cell. Other prisoners accused of treason are held in slightly better and less crowded cells in the prison. Prisoners are allowed weekend family visits in a large group, and can receive food, books and other items from their families, but are not allowed to write to them. They are generally provided with medical treatment as needed, either in prison or in hospital but there have sometimes been delays and other deficiencies. Dr Berhanu Negga?s health condition is potentially life-threatening. Amnesty International considers that his medical care does not meet regional and international standards for the treatment of prisoners, such as the UN Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners. BACKGROUND INFORMATION Several thousand suspected government opponents from the Coalition for Unity and Democracy (CUD) and other opposition parties were detained following demonstrations in June and November 2005 in Addis Ababa and other towns. They were protesting against alleged fraud in the parliamentary elections of 15 May 2005. During the demonstrations, the security forces shot dead at least 86 people and allegedly many more, wounded over 200 others, and seven police were killed by mobs. The detained CUD leaders, including several who were elected to parliament and the Addis Ababa City Council (such as Dr Berhanu Negga who was chosen as Mayor of Addis Ababa), had refused to take up their positions. In December 2005, they were charged with instigating the violence. All defendants except three civil society activists refused to defend themselves, on the grounds that they did not expect to receive fair trial. A parliamentary inquiry is currently investigating the killings at the demonstration. Dr Berhanu Negga and other CUD leaders, as well as four human rights defenders and 14 journalists, whom Amnesty International considers to be prisoners of conscience, are among 76 people currently on trial. Twenty five exiles are being tried in absentia. They are charged with a range of serious political offences, including treason and "attempted genocide", most of which can carry the death penalty. The prosecution has completed presentation of video and audio evidence, mostly of opposition party meetings, and is currently calling its witnesses. The trial is expected to last several months. It is being held in open court with a European Union-designated trial observer. (See Amnesty International?s report on the trial, "Ethiopia ? Prisoners of conscience on trial for treason: opposition party leaders, human rights defenders and journalists", May 2006, AI Index: AFR 25/013/2006.) RECOMMENDED ACTION: Please send appeals to arrive as quickly as possible, in English or in your own language: - expressing concern that Dr Berhanu Negga is reportedly not receiving adequate medical attention; - calling for him to be given access to a trained cardiologist for a full assessment of his heart condition and medical treatment as needed; - requesting that he be transferred to better conditions in Kaliti prison in accordance with medical recommendations; - urging the authorities to take immediate action in provide adequate medical treatment for Dr Berhanu Negga and all the other prisoners in this trial, accordance with regional and international standards for the treatment of prisoners. APPEALS TO: Minister of Justice Mr Assefa Kesito, Ministry of Justice, PO Box 1370, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Fax: + 251 11 552 0874 Email: ministry-justice@telecom.net.et Salutation: Dear Minister Commander of Kaliti Prison Kaliti Prison, PO Box 2436, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia COPIES TO: Minister of Health Dr Tewodros Adhanom, Ministry of Health, PO Box 1234, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Federal Administration of Prisons Prison Service Headquarters, PO Box 2234, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and to diplomatic representatives of Ethiopia accredited to your country. PLEASE SEND APPEALS IMMEDIATELY. Check with the International Secretariat, or your section office, if sending appeals after 25 August 2006.******** Previous --- Dean Baker (baker@cepr.net) Co-Director Center for Economic and Policy Research 1611 Connecticut Ave., NW Washington, DC 20009 202-293-5380 (ext 114) 202-332-5218 (H) www.cepr.net -- Jean Shackelford Department of Economics Bucknell University Lewisburg, PA 17837 570-577-3441 (O) 570-577-3451 (FAX) jshackel@bucknell.edu http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/jshackel From urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu Sat Jul 22 08:31:16 2006 From: urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu (urpe-moderator@lists.econ.utah.edu) Date: Sat Jul 22 08:34:23 2006 Subject: [URPE] [NYC] Brecht Forum: Black August Film Festival Message-ID: <44C236B4.2020304@lists.econ.utah.edu> P L E A S E F O R W A R D W I D E L Y! forgive duplicates The Brecht Forum 451 West St. (Betw Bank & Bethune) New York, NY 10014 (212) 242- 4201 www.brechtforum.org 1,2,3 A,C,E to 14th st. 14A,11,20 buses to Abingdon Square/12th Street 8 bus to Christopher St. L to 8th Ave @14th st. F,V to 14th St. B,D to W. 4th _____________________________________________________________________________ Celebrate Black Liberation with the Brecht Forum's Black August Film Festival _____________________________________________________________________________ In this email: 8/10 The Black Panther Party and Beyond 8/15 The Murder of Fred Hampton 8/17 The Battle of Algiers 8/22 Uptight 8/24 Nothing But a Man ____________________________________________________________________________ Thursday, August 10 7:30 pm BLACK AUGUST FILMS All Power to the People: The Black Panther Party and Beyond A Powerful, moving and comprehensive documentary on the resistance of Black Panther Party members against the relentless attack upon it thru COINTEPRO FBI-led terror tactics. Opening with a montage of four hundred years of race injustice in America, this powerful documentary provides the historical context for the establishment of the 60s civil rights movement. Rare clips of Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Fred Hampton and other activists transport one back to those turbulent times. Suggested donation: $6/$10/$15 No OneTurned Away __________________________________________________________________ Tuesday, August 15 7:30 pm BLACK AUGUST FILMS The Murder of Fred Hampton On December 4, 1969, in a predawn FBI-directed Chicago police raid, Fred Hampton, the leader of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party, was murdered as he lay face down in his bed. He was only 21 years old. Within hours, Panthers arranged to get a film crew into the scene. The footage directly contradicted the State's Attorney's version of the raid. The film documents the subsequent investigations as well as Hampton's organizing activities, his public speeches and the programs he founded for children during the last eighteen years of his life. Suggested donation: $6/$10/$15 No OneTurned Away ________________________________________________________________ Thursday, August 17 7:30 pm BLACK AUGUST FILMS The Battle of Algiers An amazingly relevant movie for the times which we are now living in, The Battle of Algiers investigates the insurrection in Algiers by the FLN against French colonial rule almost 50 years ago. It documents the dynamics of the conflict from the recruiting of an insurrectionist and the creation of a subversive organisation to the initial assaults targeting the police and representatives of the government, the authorities response and the escalation of violence by both parties. Suggested donation: $6/$10/$15 No OneTurned Away ________________________________________________________________________ Tuesday, August 22 7:30 pm BLACK AUGUST FILMS Uptight Uptight is an updated remake of John Ford's The Informer. The Irish Republican rebels of the original are replaced by black activists, Dublin becomes the Cleveland ghetto, and "the troubles" of 1921 are transformed into the days just following the assassination of Martin Luther King. Suggested donation: $6/$10/$15 No OneTurned Away ______________________________________________________________________ Thursday, August 24 7:30 pm BLACK AUGUST FILMS Nothing But a Man Set in the 1960s, Nothing But a Man is an uplifting love story about a man and a woman whose bond overcomes racial and class barriers. Duff, a railroad section hand is forced to confront prejudice and self-denial when he falls in love with Josie, an educated preacher's daughter. Suggested donation: $6/$10/$15 No OneTurned Away -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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The petition does _not_ endorse Churchill's stupid statement about the "little Eichmanns" -- which he has withdrawn, and in any case which he has the right to make without his job being threatened. Nor does it endorse the works of Churchill's scholarship that have been questioned in the UCO report. Rather, it opposes the politically-motivated nature of the attack on him. It supports his academic freedom. Please read it at http://www.teachersfordemocracy.org/?q=node/19 A link to sign it is at the bottom of this page. I've signed it. We had quite a bit of discussion about the wording, and some wording endorsing some of Churchill's scholarship was taken out. I urge you to sign it too. In addition, please spread it further. Email it to colleagues on professional, academic, and union mailing lists. 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F,V to 14th St. B,D to W. 4th _____________________________________________________________________________ Thursday, August 3-Sunday,August 6 9:30 am - 6:30 pm 4-DAY INTENSIVE INTRODUCTION TO MARXISM Class Struggle in the City Tony Alessandrini, Vivek Chibber, Hector Figueroa, Harmony Goldberg, Hany Khalil, Lisa Maya Knauer, Rickke Mananzala, Andr?s Mares Muro, Randy Martin, Ren? Francisco Poitevin, Karen Williams, Rick Wolff & Others TBA The last four decades have seen a reconfiguration of capitalism that has created not just a new arrangement of economic and political forces, it has also produced a new geography of accumulation and resistance movements. This four-day introduction to marxism looks at capitalism through the lens of urban space and the city. From the need for 'global cities' to coordinate the e er-increasing flows of international finance, goods and services, to the recent increase in informal economic activity and immigration waves-not to mention the impact of gentrification in communities of color and working class neighborhoods. To understand the link between accumulation and urban space has become more important now than ever before. Of particular interest to us is the way in which a deeper understanding of the capital-city nexus can help us explain not just how globalization works, but perhaps more importantly, how can we articulate and implement new forms of class struggle and community organizing in New York City. Starting with a close examination of the basic works of Marx, and drawing on a rich Marxist literature that documents the importance of urban space in reproducing accumulation as well as everyday life, this Intensive will include sessions on a wide range of topics that include, but are not limited to: New York political economy, the State as a site of class struggle, neoliberalism, immigration, class-formation, prison industrial complex and urban space, gentrification, constructions of race-class-gender, challenges to traditional labor organizing models, current examples of anti-capitalist sites of class-resistance. Through lectures, readings and lively discussion, in an adamantly non-sectarian and open-minded environment, participants in this 4-day intensive study will become familiar with the major concepts in Marxist thought and, we hope, begin a lifelong engagement with these ideas. Tony Alessandrini teaches at Columbia University. He specializes in postcolonial literature and theory, with specific interests in diaspora studies, contemporary Arabic and Middle Eastern literature and culture, poetry and poetics, and Marxism and poststructuralism. Vivek Chibber teaches sociology at New York University and is author of Locked in Place: State Building and Late Industrialization in India.James De Filippis, author of Unmaking Goliath: Community Control in the Face of Global Capital, teaches in the Black and Hispanic Studies Dept. at Baruch College.Hector Figueroa is the secretary-treasurer of SEIU 32BJ, representing 90,000 building service workers in the tri-state area. Harmony Goldberg, a co-founder of the School of Unity and Liberation in San Francisco, is currently student of anthropology at> the CUNY Graduate Center. Hany Khalil is a former union organizer and currently the organizing coordinator for United for Peace and Justice.Rickke Mananzala is a grassroots organizer who works with FIERCE (Fabulous Independent Educated Radicals for Community Empowerment).Andr?s Mares Muro is a longtime Chicano activist who works on issues of immigration and human rights advocacy.Randy Martin is Associate Dean of Faculty of Interdisciplinary Program at New York University and a professor of Art and Public Policy. He is author, most recently, of On Your Marx and The Financialization of Daily Life.Ren? Francisco Poitevin teaches at New York University. He has written on Marxist theory and Puerto Rican colonialism. A sociologist by training, his research interests are in the areas of day labor markets, urban theory, and Latinos in the US. Karen Williams, an anthropology student at the CUNY Graduate Center, is a cultural activist who has worked on issues of the prison industrial complex. Richard Wolff teaches economics at the University of Massachusetts. Among other works, he is the author, with Stephen Ressnick, of Knowledge and Class: A Marxian Critique of Political Economy among other works. & Others TBA Sliding scale: $75-$95 Preregistration advised -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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From urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu Wed Jul 26 19:01:23 2006 From: urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu (urpe-moderator@lists.econ.utah.edu) Date: Wed Jul 26 19:04:27 2006 Subject: [URPE] [NYC] Brecht Forum: 8/3-8/6 Class Struggle in the City: Intro to Marxism Message-ID: <44C81063.1020000@lists.econ.utah.edu> P L E A S E F O R W A R D W I D E L Y! forgive duplicates The Brecht Forum 451 West St. (Betw Bank & Bethune) New York, NY 10014 (212) 242- 4201 www.brechtforum.org 1,2,3 A,C,E to 14th st. 14A,11,20 buses to Abingdon Square/12th Street 8 bus to Christopher St. L to 8th Ave @14th st. F,V to 14th St. B,D to W. 4th _____________________________________________________________________________ Thursday, August 3-Sunday,August 6 9:30 am - 6:30 pm 4-DAY INTENSIVE INTRODUCTION TO MARXISM Class Struggle in the City Tony Alessandrini, Vivek Chibber, Hector Figueroa, Harmony Goldberg, Hany Khalil, Rickke Mananzala, Andr?s Mares Muro, Randy Martin, Ren? Francisco Poitevin, Karen Williams, Rick Wolff & Others TBA The last four decades have seen a reconfiguration of capitalism that has created not just a new arrangement of economic and political forces, it has also produced a new geography of accumulation and resistance movements. This four-day introduction to marxism looks at capitalism through the lens of urban space and the city. From the need for 'global cities' to coordinate the e er-increasing flows of international finance, goods and services, to the recent increase in informal economic activity and immigration waves-not to mention the impact of gentrification in communities of color and working class neighborhoods. To understand the link between accumulation and urban space has become more important now than ever before. Of particular interest to us is the way in which a deeper understanding of the capital-city nexus can help us explain not just how globalization works, but perhaps more importantly, how can we articulate and implement new forms of class struggle and community organizing in New York City. Starting with a close examination of the basic works of Marx, and drawing on a rich Marxist literature that documents the importance of urban space in reproducing accumulation as well as everyday life, this Intensive will include sessions on a wide range of topics that include, but are not limited to: New York political economy, the State as a site of class struggle, neoliberalism, immigration, class-formation, prison industrial complex and urban space, gentrification, constructions of race-class-gender, challenges to traditional labor organizing models, current examples of anti-capitalist sites of class-resistance. Through lectures, readings and lively discussion, in an adamantly non-sectarian and open-minded environment, participants in this 4-day intensive study will become familiar with the major concepts in Marxist thought and, we hope, begin a lifelong engagement with these ideas. Tony Alessandrini teaches at Columbia University. He specializes in postcolonial literature and theory, with specific interests in diaspora studies, contemporary Arabic and Middle Eastern literature and culture, poetry and poetics, and Marxism and poststructuralism. Vivek Chibber teaches sociology at New York University and is author of Locked in Place: State Building and Late Industrialization in India.James De Filippis, author of Unmaking Goliath: Community Control in the Face of Global Capital, teaches in the Black and Hispanic Studies Dept. at Baruch College.Hector Figueroa is the secretary-treasurer of SEIU 32BJ, representing 90,000 building service workers in the tri-state area. Harmony Goldberg, a co-founder of the School of Unity and Liberation in San Francisco, is currently student of anthropology at> the CUNY Graduate Center. Hany Khalil is a former union organizer and currently the organizing coordinator for United for Peace and Justice.Rickke Mananzala is a grassroots organizer who works with FIERCE (Fabulous Independent Educated Radicals for Community Empowerment).Andr?s Mares Muro is a longtime Chicano activist who works on issues of immigration and human rights advocacy.Randy Martin is Associate Dean of Faculty of Interdisciplinary Program at New York University and a professor of Art and Public Policy. He is author, most recently, of On Your Marx and The Financialization of Daily Life.Ren? Francisco Poitevin teaches at New York University. He has written on Marxist theory and Puerto Rican colonialism. A sociologist by training, his research interests are in the areas of day labor markets, urban theory, and Latinos in the US. Karen Williams, an anthropology student at the CUNY Graduate Center, is a cultural activist who has worked on issues of the prison industrial complex. Richard Wolff teaches economics at the University of Massachusetts. Among other works, he is the author, with Stephen Ressnick, of Knowledge and Class: A Marxian Critique of Political Economy among other works. & Others TBA Sliding scale: $75-$95 Preregistration advised -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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And though it is unlikely, there is the possibility that some URPE members have procrastinated finalizing their plans to getting themselves there, put it off to the last minute - yes, I know it is not in character with a typical URPE person, but I do believe there might just be some who have done this. As you can see, there is quite a bit of intellectually interesting stuff, and also time for recreation/vacation at our new site. So, we are looking forward to seeing you at the baptismal meeting of what we hope will be a long time location ........ If you have any questions (including a last minute urge to present some work) on workshops, contact Graham Cassano (who coordinated all the workshops) at graham@xrgb.com. Any more general questions can be addressed to either him or me, with my email being Al@economics.utah.edu. In solidarity, Al and Graham. ************************************************************************** 7/29/2006 Note: This is the tentative schedule as of the last week of July. There will be a few changes. And if you have been thinking about presenting but have not got in touch with us yet, there is still some room for additions - contact Graham Cassano at Graham@xrgb.com 2006 URPE Summer Workshop/Retreat Nationalism, Internationalism and Nature August 11 - 14, 2006 Camp Deer Run Pine Bush, NY FRIDAY, AUGUST 11 2:00 - 4:00. Steering Committee Meeting 4:00. REGISTRATION BEGINS AND CONTINUES ALL WEEKEND 5:00. RECEPTION/INTRODUCTION TO URPE 6:00. DINNER (NOTE ON ALL MEALS - to maximize the quality of the (well prepared) food they serve, this camp has asked that we all show up at (roughly) the same time, so the food can be served hot. It is one of a number of things that will be done slightly differently at this camp than where we were for the last decade and a half, and it sounds like it could have some enriching aspects to it. 6:00. Graduate students who have already arrived meet over dinner. 7:00 - 9:00. PLENARY 1: LATIN AMERICA: BREAKING THE MOLD Where Does Mexico Go from Here? David Barkin, Professor of Economics at the Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana-Xochimilco. His most recent book (2006) is La Gesti?n de Agua Urbana en M?xico. For those who do not read Spanish, Wealth, Poverty and Sustainable Development is a recent book that reflects a similar ecological approach. It is bilingual and can now be downloaded free. Financial Capitalism and the Economic State of Emergency in Brazil: Abandoning the Developmental Perspective. Leda Paulani, Professor of Economics at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Current president of the SEP (URPE?s corresponding Political Economy organization in Brazil) Ch?vez, Chavismo and Latin America's Lefts. Fred Rosen, a long-time central figure in NACLA (North American Congress on Latin America). His most recent book is an edited collection, Latin America After Neoliberalism: Turning the Tide? (The New Press, 2006) 9:15 - 11:00. Informal socializing: catching up on old friends, getting to know new ones. SATURDAY, AUGUST 12 8:00. BREAKFAST 8:45 - 9:30 Site A: (continued discussion) Latin America: Breaking the Mold (David Barkin, Leda Paulani, Fred Rosen) 9:45 - 10:40 Site A: Healthcare Finance and Class: The Role of the American Corporation (Robert Kemp) Site B: Socialism and the Political Economy of Contemporary China (Sidney Gluck) 10:55 - 11:50 Site A: Working for Ourselves: Household Production and Socialism (Paddy Quick) Site B: The Future of Immigration: A Light at the End of the Tunnel? (Alex Julca, Germai Medhanie) 12:00. LUNCH 1:00 - 2:00. RECREATION. Swim, hike, relax with friends and enjoy the beautiful camp. 2:15 - 3:45 Site A: Guramylay: Growing the Green Economy (Julie A. Matthaei, Germai Medhanie and Zaira Sherifova) Site B: Demand Side Policies and Grassroots Strategies for Sustainable Development (Margaret Duncan, Laura Ebert and Maeve Powlick) 4:00 - 5:30. The DAVID GORDON LECTURE. Changes in U.S. Capitalism Since the Reagan Era: Where Are We Now? Michael Reich, Professor of Economics, UC Berkeley and Director, Institute of Industrial Relations. 6:00. DINNER 7:00 - 9:00. PLENARY 2: Wars and Natural Resources A War for Expensive Oil: What?s Itching the Bully in the China Shop? Wadi?h Halabi currently serves on the Economics Commission of the Communist Party USA. Globalists vs Nationalists Resource Strategies . Jerry Harris is Organizational Secretary of the Global Studies Association, and Professor of History at DeVry University, Chicago. He has a forthcoming book, The Dialectics of Globalization. Resource Wars. William K. Tabb is Professor of Economics at Queens College, City University of New York. His most recent book is Economic Governance in the Age of Globalization (Columbia University Press, 2004). 9:30 - 12:00. ENTERTAINMENT. Dance (or just listen if you are a fuddy-duddy!) to "Citizen Band," a 5 piece band that plays great rock-and- roll, motown, etc. SUNDAY, AUGUST 13 8:00. BREAKFAST 8:45 - 9:30. Site A: (continued discussion) Wars and Natural Resources (Wadi?h Halabi, Jerry Harris, Bill Tabb) 9:45 - 10:40 Site A: The Contradictory Imperatives of New Deal Banking Reform (Ellen Russell) Site B: Ecological Economics as Theory and Practice (David Barkin) 10:55-11:50 Site A: Hegemony Unfolding (Chris Rude) Site B: Hunger and International Development: An Open Forum (Lane Vanderslice) 12:00. LUNCH 12:00 Women?s Caucus meets over lunch. 1:00 - 2:15. Business meeting for URPE members. For others, RECREATION. Swim, hike, relax with friends and enjoy the beautiful camp. 2:30 - 3:45 Site A: Resisting Corporate Dominance of Local Political Economies; Lessons from the Front Line of Struggle (Ward Morehouse, Carolyn Toll Oppenheim) Site B: Developments in Marxian Value-Theory (David Laibman and Gil Skillman) 4:00 - 5:30. Site A: New Approaches to Union Organizing in the U.S. (Nicole Blais, Ethan Drozd, Brandynn Holgate) Site B: Editors of Capitalism, Nature, Socialism on Green Commerce, Nuclear Energy, the National Guard and the World Bank (Heather Rogers, Karen Charmen, Tom Burgess, and Irwin Sperber) 6:00. DINNER 7:00 - 9:00. PLENARY 3. Katrina: Race and Class Abandoned Before the Storms: The Glaring Disaster of Gender, Race and Class Disparities in the Gulf. Avis Jones-DeWeever, Director of the Poverty, Education and Social Justice Program at the Institute for Women's Policy Research. The Political Economy of Neighborhood Planning in Post Katrina New Orleans. Khalil Tian Shahyd, Doctoral Student in Political Ecology at the University of Delaware. Alternative Policies for Rebuilding New Orleans. Linwood Tauheed, Professor of Economics and Black Studies at the University of Missouri, Kansas City. 9:30 - 11:00. ENTERTAINMENT. Progressive (and otherwise good) Folk Music. David Laibman and Gil Skillman MONDAY, AUGUST 14 8:00. BREAKFAST 8:45 - 9:30. Site A: (continued discussion) Katrina: Race and Class (Avis Jones- DeWeever, Khalil Tian Shahyd, Linwood Tauheed) 9:45 -11:15 Site A: URPE Reports on the World Social Forum (Mathew Bradbury, Julie Matthaei, Germai Medhanie, Dave Shukla) 12:00. LUNCH See you all next year! -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 24856 bytes Desc: Mail message body Url : http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/urpe-announcements/attachments/20060729/8c56e812/attachment.txt From briant at pshift.com Mon Jul 31 10:05:00 2006 From: briant at pshift.com (Brian Tokar) Date: Mon Jul 31 10:49:47 2006 Subject: [URPE] Murray Bookchin, visionary social theorist, dies at 85 Message-ID: Murray Bookchin, visionary social theorist, dies at 85 Murray Bookchin, the visionary social theorist and activist, died during the early morning of Sunday, July 30th in his home in Burlington, Vermont. During a prolific career of writing, teaching and political activism that spanned half a century, Bookchin forged a new anti-authoritarian outlook rooted in ecology, dialectical philosophy and left libertarianism. During the 1950s and ?60s, Bookchin built upon the legacies of utopian social philosophy and critical theory, challenging the primacy of Marxism on the left and linking contemporary ecological and urban crises to problems of capital and social hierarchy in general. Beginning in the mid-sixties, he pioneered a new political and philosophical synthesis?termed social ecology?that sought to reclaim local political power, by means of direct popular democracy, against the consolidation and increasing centralization of the nation state. From the 1960s to the present, the utopian dimension of Bookchin?s social ecology inspired several generations of social and ecological activists, from the pioneering urban ecology movements of the sixties, to the 1970s? back-to-the-land, antinuclear, and sustainable technology movements, the beginnings of Green politics and organic agriculture in the early 1980s, and the anti-authoritarian global justice movement that came of age in 1999 in the streets of Seattle.?His influence was often cited by prominent political and social activists throughout the US, Europe, South America, Turkey, Japan, and beyond. Even as numerous social movements drew on his ideas, however, Bookchin remained a relentless critic of the currents in those movements that he found deeply disturbing, including the New Left?s drift toward Marxism-Leninism in the late 1960s, tendencies toward mysticism and misanthropy in the radical environmental movement, and the growing focus on individualism and personal lifestyles among 1990s anarchists. In the late 1990s, Bookchin broke with anarchism, the political tradition he had been most identified with for over 30 years and articulated a new political vision that he called communalism. Bookchin was raised in a leftist family in the Bronx during the 1920s and ?30s. He enjoyed retelling the story of his expulsion from the Young Communist League at age 18 for openly criticizing Stalin, his brief flirtation with Trotskyism as a labor organizer in the foundries of New Jersey, and his introduction to anarchism by veterans of the immigrant labor movement during the 1950s. In 1974, he co-founded the Institute for Social Ecology, along with Dan Chodorkoff, then a graduate student at Vermont?s Goddard College. For 30 years, the Institute for Social Ecology has brought thousands of students to Vermont for intensive educational programs focusing on the theory and praxis of social ecology. A self-educated scholar and public intellectual, Bookchin served as a full professor at Ramapo College of New Jersey despite his own lack of conventional academic credentials.He published more than 20 books and many hundreds of articles during his lifetime, many of which were translated into Italian, German, Spanish, Japanese, Turkish and other languages. During the 1960s - ?80s, Bookchin emphasized his fundamental theoretical break with Marxism, arguing that Marx?s central focus on economics and class obscured the more profound role of social hierarchy in the shaping of human history. His anthropological studies affirmed the role of domination by age, gender and other manifestations of social power as the antecedents of modern-day economic exploitation. In The Ecology of Freedom(1982), he examined the parallel legacies of domination and freedom in human societies, from prehistoric times to the present, and he later published a four-volume work,The Third Revolution, exploring anti-authoritarian currents throughout the Western revolutionary tradition. At the same time, he criticized the lack of philosophical rigor that has often plagued the anarchist tradition, and drew theoretical sustenance from dialectical philosophy?particularly the works of Aristotle and Hegel; the Frankfurt School?of which he became increasingly critical in later years?and even the works of Marx and Lenin. During the past year, even while terminally ill in Burlington, Bookchin was working toward a re-evaluation of what he perceived as the historic failure of the 20th century left. He argued that Marxist crisis theory failed to recognize the inherent flexibility and malleability of capitalism, and that Marx never saw capitalism in its true contemporary sense. Until his death, Bookchin asserted that only the ecological problems created by modern capitalism were of sufficient magnitude to portend the system?s demise. Murray Bookchin was diagnosed several months ago with a fatal heart condition. He will be remembered by his devoted family members?including his long-time companion Janet Biehl, his former wife Bea Bookchin, his son, daughter, son-in-law, and granddaughter?as well as his friends, colleagues and frequent correspondents throughout the world. There will be a public memorial service in Burlington, Vermont on Sunday,?August 13th. For more information, contact info(at)social-ecology.org. ---------------------------------------------- Brian Tokar Institute for Social Ecology P.O. Box 48 Plainfield, VT 05667 www.social-ecology.org From al at economics.utah.edu Tue Aug 1 12:21:43 2006 From: al at economics.utah.edu (Al Campbell) Date: Tue Aug 1 12:19:23 2006 Subject: [URPE] Elimination of Labor Studies Program - Help! In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <44CF4757.22280.D89BF078@ac5860.csbs.utah.edu> URPE received the message below, with the request to pass it on to our members. For any of you that live in the area, any help you can give would be of great value and greatly appreciated, including showing up at the hearings. For others in URPE, it is important to know this sort of stuff continues to go on in US academia, academia continues to get pushed rightward in the US even as many new left currents have surfaced in many parts of the world today. Al Campbell >>> From: "Catherine Mulder" >>> To: >>> Subject: [Workers' Project] labor studies >>> Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 13:59:14 -0500 >>> >>> Dear Friends of Labor Studies, >>>We Need Your Help!! Help Stop the Elimination of Labor Studies at IPFW. >>> >>> Attend the open public forum on the Reorganization of the Indiana >>> University Division of Labor Studies scheduled for Wednesday, August 2 >>> from 7:00 to 9:00 pm in Room G-46 in Kettler Hall on the IPFW campus. >>> >>> This may be the only opportunity you, the labor movement in the area, >>> the campus and the community have to inform Indiana University what >>> you want and expect from a "Reorganized" Division of Labor Studies. Their >>> current plans, if fully implemented, would close the DLS offices in >>> Fort Wayne, South Bend, and Kokomo. Labor education and the Labor Studies >>> program will be eliminated in Northeast Indiana unless you attend, >>> speak up, and make it clear their plan is unacceptable. Labor Studies >>> lost a special legislative appropriation in the 2005 >>> legislative session that, when combined with other budget cuts to IU, >>> amounted to a 20% cut in operating funds. In response, we reduced >>> spending and faculty, increased productivity, and through the >>> assistance of IUPUI faculty leaders and the IUPUI Financial Vice-Chancellor >>> Robert Martin, produced a balanced budget for the next five years. >>> >>> However, this was not enough. Academic administrators are now at work >>> on the "Reorganization" of the Indiana University Division of Labor >>> Studies (DLS) and on July 14 we saw their "Preliminary Academic and Budgetary >>> Plan" authored by the Interim Director of the DLS, Mark Sothmann, who >>> also serves as the Dean of the Indiana University School of Health and >>> Rehabilitation Sciences at IUPUI. >>> >>> His plan, if fully implemented, would result in the closing of the DLS >>> offices at Fort Wayne, South Bend and Kokomo. It is a plan that is >>> totally opposed by the Labor Studies faculty and the Fort Wayne Area >>> Labor Education Advisory Committee. There will be an open public >>> forum held at Kettler Hall room G-46 on the IPFW campus in Fort Wayne from 7:00 to 9:00pm on Wednesday, August 2, 2006. This may be the only opportunity you, the labor movement in the >>> area, the campus and the community have to inform Indiana University >>> what you want and expect from a "Reorganized" Division of Labor Studies. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us >>> at 260-481-6831. We Need Your Help!! >>> >>> Catherine P. Mulder >>> Assistant Professor and Credit Coordinator >>> Division of Labor Studies >>> Indiana University, Fort Wayne Campus >>> 260-481-6081 From leefs at umkc.edu Thu Aug 3 08:51:54 2006 From: leefs at umkc.edu (Lee, Frederic) Date: Thu Aug 3 18:05:03 2006 Subject: [URPE] Query-URPE and sociobiology Message-ID: <9A72753A447165498D6B63479DB2E7C90127568A@KC-MSX3.kc.umkc.edu> Dear URPE People, I was sent the following e-mail below. Can anybody help the student out on this matter? Fred Lee Professor Frederic S. Lee Department of Economics University of Missouri-Kansas City 5100 Rockhill Road Kansas City, Missouri 64110 USA E-mail: leefs@umkc.edu Book Series Editor of "Advances in Heterodox Economics" For Heterodox Economics on the Web see http://www.orgs.bucknell.edu/afee/hetecon.htm For the Association for Heterodox Economics: http://www.hetecon.com. For Heterodox Economics Newsletter: http://l.web.umkc.edu/leefs/htn.htm http://www.heterodoxnews.com International Confederation of Associations for Pluralism in Economics (ICAPE): http://icape.org/ -----Original Message----- From: Clement Levallois [mailto:clement.levallois@ish-lyon.cnrs.fr] Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2006 3:56 AM To: Lee, Frederic Subject: Query Dear Pr. Lee, I'm a French PhD candidate in History of Economic Thought. My interest is in the relationships between economics and biology in the post WWII period. I'm currently trying to assess the reaction of the URPE to what is generally called the "sociobiology debate" in the years after 1975. As I know, URPE members demonstrated at the AEA annual meeting of 1977 against bioeconomics and sociobiology. Pr. Bruno Tinel told me that you were in charge of digitalizing the URPE newsletter, beside your own interest in heterodox economics and the history of economics in the XXth century. I thought it was a good try to ask you whether you had any knowledge about documents issued by the URPE about sociobiology. If I may ask, I would be also very much interested in any broader reflexion you'd have on the topic. Truly yours, Clement Levallois. ------------- Clement LEVALLOIS PhD candidate UMR 5206 Triangle / Universit? Lyon 2 UMR 7166 EconomiX / Universit? Paris X tel: +33 (0)1 47 40 75 72 http://economix.u-paris10.fr/en/axes/hpe/membres/index.php?id=269 From lvanderslice at verizon.net Sun Aug 6 13:02:10 2006 From: lvanderslice at verizon.net (Lane Vanderslice) Date: Sun Aug 6 20:14:09 2006 Subject: [URPE] Summer conference attendees interested in development economics Message-ID: <20060806190210.39448.qmail@web84101.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Dear URPE members, I have scheduled a workshop at the summer conference on Sunday August 13 from 10:55-11:50 entitled Hunger and International Development: An Open Forum (Site B). The basic purpose of this workshop was to get URPE conference attendees interested in third world countries together and to describe--in the opening round-- what we are working on, so we can share interests and ideas. I am sure the discussion will evolve from there. I certainly have some questions I would like to ask the group. I am a long-time member of URPE, actually one of the founding members, who, for various reasons, including a 'non-radical' full time job, and a personal conflict (family reunion) with the time of the summer conference, has not had sufficient time to keep up with radical economics. Since I have retired I will have more time. For the past 10 years I have been the editor (part time) of Hunger Notes (www.worldhunger.org) and am now doing it full time--so your more analytical analysis of what is happening will be of great interest to me. If you are interested in development economics, economics of third world counties, imperialism, ... I hope you will attend. If you are attending, and you have a chance to do so please drop me a line mentioning what you are interested in. Many thanks! Lane Vanderslice From urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu Tue Aug 8 08:44:25 2006 From: urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu (urpe-moderator@lists.econ.utah.edu) Date: Tue Aug 8 08:47:23 2006 Subject: [URPE] URPE SUMMER CONFERENCE THIS WEEKEND Message-ID: <44D8A349.80704@lists.econ.utah.edu> 2006 URPE SUMMER CONFERENCE (Union for Radical Political Economics) Nationalism, Internationalism, and Nature Friday, Aug. 11 - Monday, Aug 14. Camp Deer Run, Pine Bush, NY All information on the new camp - location, directions, facilities, rates, registration form etc, are on our web site, www.urpe.org. PLENARIES, DAVID GORDON LECTURE AND PRELIMINARY WORKSHOPS, URPE SUMMER CAMP, 2006 FRIDAY, AUGUST 11, 7 - 9 pm. Plenary 1. Latin America: Breaking the Mold "Where Does Mexico Go from Here?" David Barkin, Professor of Economics at the Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana-Xochimilco. His most recent book (2006) is La Gesti?n de Agua Urbana en M?xico. For those who do not read Spanish, Wealth, Poverty and Sustainable Development is a recent book that reflects a similar ecological approach. It is bilingual and can now be downloaded free. "Ch?vez, Chavismo and Latin America's Lefts." Fred Rosen, a long-time central figure in NACLA (North American Congress on Latin America). His most recent book is an edited collection, Latin America After Neoliberalism: Turning the Tide? (The New Press, 2006) "Financial Capitalism and the Economic State of Emergency in Brazil: Abandoning the Developmental Perspective." Leda Paulani, Professor of Economics at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Current president of the SEP (URPE's corresponding Political Economy organization in Brazil) Saturday, August 12, 4:30 - 6 pm. DAVID GORDON LECTURE. "Changes in U.S. Capitalism Since the Reagan Era: Where Are We Now?" Michael Reich, Professor of Economics, UC Berkeley and Director, Institute of Industrial Relations. SATURDAY, AUGUST 12, 7 - 9 pm. Plenary 2: Wars and Natural Resources "Resource Wars." William K. Tabb is Professor of Economics at Queens College, City University of New York. His most recent book is Economic Governance in the Age of Globalization (Columbia University Press, 2004). "A War for Expensive Oil: What's Itching the Bully in the China Shop?" Wadi'h Halabi currently serves on the Economics Commission of the Communist Party USA. "Globalists vs Nationalists Resource Strategies." Jerry Harris is Organizational Secretary of the Global Studies Association, Professor of History at DeVry University, Chicago, and author of a forthcoming book The Dialectics of Globalization. SUNDAY, AUGUST 13, 7 - 9 pm. Plenary 3. Katrina: Race and Class "Alternative Policies for Rebuilding New Orleans." Linwood Tauheed, Professor of Economics and Black Studies at the University of Missouri, Kansas City. "The Political Economy of Neighborhood Planning in Post Katrina New Orleans." Khalil Tian Shahyd, Doctoral Student in Political Ecology at the University of Delaware. "Abandoned Before the Storms: The Glaring Disaster of Gender, Race and Class Disparities in the Gulf." Avis Jones-DeWeever, Director of the Poverty, Education and Social Justice Program at the Institute for Women's Policy Research. ************************************* TENTATIVE WORKSHOPS (these will be updated weekly until the Conference) Ecological Economics as Theory and Practice (David Barkin) Developments in Marxian Value-Theory (David Laibman and Gil Skillman) Working for Ourselves: Household Production and Socialism (Paddy Quick) Race, Gender, and Ethnicity in the US Labor Market (Marie Duggan) Socialism and the Political Economy of Contemporary China (Sidney Gluck) Healthcare Finance and Class: The Role of the American Corporation (Robert Kemp) Guramylay: Growing the Green Economy (Julie A. Matthaei, Germai Medhanie and Zaira Sherifova) The Contradictory Imperatives of New Deal Banking Reform (Ellen Russell) Demand Side Policies for Sustainable Development (Leanne Ussher, Laura Ebert and Margaret Duncan) Grassroots Labor Organizing (Salimah Valiani, Brandynn Holgate, Patrice Mareshal and Ethan Drozd) Editors of Capitalism, Nature, Socialism on Green Commerce, Nuclear Energy, the National Guard and the World Bank (Heather Rogers, Karen Charmen, Tom Burgess, and Irwin Sperber) Resisting Corporate Dominance of Local Political Economies; Lessons from the Front Line of Struggle (Ward Morehouse, Carolyn Toll Oppenheim) The Future of Immigration: A Light at the End of the Tunnel? (Alex Julca, Germai Medhanie) URPE Reports on the World Social Forum (Mathew Bradbury, Julie Matthaei, Germai Medhanie, Dave Shukla) Latin America: Breaking the Mold (David Barkin, Leda Paulani, Fred Rosen) Wars and Natural Resources (Wadi'h Halabi, Bill Tabb, Jerry Harris) Katrina: Race and Class (Khalil Tian Shahyd, Linwood Tauheed, Avis Jones-DeWeever) From leefs at umkc.edu Tue Aug 8 08:28:21 2006 From: leefs at umkc.edu (Lee, Frederic) Date: Tue Aug 8 09:02:30 2006 Subject: [URPE] Heterodox Economics Newsletter, Issue 30 Message-ID: <9A72753A447165498D6B63479DB2E7C901275B10@KC-MSX3.kc.umkc.edu> Heterodox Economics Newsletter Issue-30, August 8, 2006 >From the Editor After a holiday break, the Newsletter is back with more information about heterodox activities. In particular, there is the ICAPE call for papers (which will be repeated over the next couple of months), the 9th International Post Keynesian Conference, and the Rethinking Marxism conference. In addition, I would like to call your attention to the "Forum for Social Economics" which is now being edited by John Marangos, to the entries about heterodox economics at Roosevelt University, and to Nick Gomersall's request for assistance under 'Queries from Heterodox Economists'. Finally, there are some heterodox jobs announcements. I would like to feature more job announcements-so if you know of job announcements suitable for heterodox economists, would you please send them to me so that I can include them in the Newsletter. As noted in the previous Newsletter, I attended the History of Economic Thought Society of Australia 2006 Conference which was hosted by Jerry Courvisanos and Alex Millrow who are at the University of Ballarat. The conference was quite intimate and I heard a number of good papers. Many of the papers given at the conference can be found at: http://www.ballarat.edu.au/ard/business/hetsa06/program.shtml. One of the conference events involved attending a show called "Blood on the Southern Cross" which dealt with an uprising in the goldfields against the colonial government over unfair taxation. In this context, there were a few Americans in the goldfields engaged in the uprising and the authorities considered the Americans as revolting people who are leading the good Irish, Scots, etc. astray. Apparently some things never change, as my colleagues reminded me at the conference. I also attended the annual conference of the Association for Heterodox Economics in London. Again there were lots of good papers and many heterodox approaches present and debated. In particular, green economics made its d?but along with the first issue of the "International Journal of Green Economics". Finally, there were numerous papers/debates about the meaning of heterodox economics vis-?-vis pluralism which were informative and contributive to its development. Finally, I would like to say that the Interdisciplinary Graduate Workshop that took place at UMKC in June went quite well and the students seem to enjoy the lectures and talking with the professors and among themselves. Fred Lee In this issue: - Call for Papers - ICAPE- "Economic Pluralism for the 21st Century" - Bounded Rationality in Economics and Finance - "Missing Links in Sustainable Development: South Asian Perspectives" - Proposal for a Special Issue of the Review of Social Economy - Forum for Social Economics - Rethinking Marxism 2006 - Jobs & Justice: Strategies and Solutions for Economic Security - EMPLOIS ET JUSTICE: STRAT?GIES ET SOLUTIONS POUR LA S?CURIT? ?CONOMIQUE - Conferences, Seminars and Lectures - Garda Summer School - 9th International Post Keynesian Conference - London Marx-Hegel Reading Group - Commerce & Politics of Science - "Building Bridges" - Job Posting s for Heterodox Economists - FHTW Berlin - University of Applied Sciences, Germany - The New School for Social Research - University of Greenwich Business School - City University- London - Heterodox Journals and Newsletters - Critique of Political Economy (COPE) - Journal of Economic and Social Policy - History of Economics Review No. 43 Winter 2006 - European Journal of the History of Economic Thought - Journal of Economic Methodology - International Review of Applied Economics - Feminist Economics - Review of Political Economy - Economic Sociology - Argumentos - The Talking Economics Bulletin - CASE - Center for Social and Economic Research- Newsletter - ISEE Newsletter - International Journal of Green Economics - Heterodox Books and Book Series - New Departures in Marxian Theory - The Wealth of Ideas - All Together Now- Common Sense for a Fair Economy - Human Development in the Era of Globalization Essays in Honor of Keith B. Griffin - Monetary Integration and Dollarization No Panacea - Innovation, Evolution and Economic Change New Ideas in the Tradition of Galbraith - Heterodox Associations, Institutes, and Departments - Roosevelt University - Heterodox Web Sites - USSEE - Queries from Heterodox Economists - Nick Gomersall - For Your Information - Murray Bookchin, visionary social theorist, dies at 85 - Political Songs - Assessment Exercise -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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We seek a faculty member for a tenure-track position. The successful candidate will have a doctoral degree in sociology, anthropology, or social relations and a demonstrated interest in working collaboratively in an interdisciplinary setting that emphasizes the study of labor and the working-class presence both in the US and globally. In addition to teaching and advising adult students, the successful candidate will participate in the coordination and development of undergraduate liberal arts curricula and programs of study for adult wage earners and union members in a variety of occupations. The successful candidate will have experience and/or interest in non-traditional and adult education. REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS: Ph.D. or equivalent terminal degree in sociology, anthropology or community or social relations and a demonstrated commitment to adult education. The successful candidate will be computer literate, have experience with on-line communication and have strong organizational skills. PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS: Strong preference will be accorded to candidates who have demonstrated experience advocating for worker?s rights and the ability to work in a wide range of subjects within the discipline. SPECIAL INFORMATION: Some travel and occasional evening hours required. RANK/SALARY: Assistant Professor/mid fifties range, Tenure-track SUBMIT LETTER OF APPLICATION, RESUME AND NAMES/CONTACT INFORMATION OF THREE REFERENCES TO; www.esc.edu/jobs APPLICATIONS DUE BY: October 13, 2006 ANTICIPATED START DATE: Between January and July 2007 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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I'm currently trying to assess the reaction of the URPE to what is generally called the "sociobiology debate" in the years after 1975. As I know, URPE members demonstrated at the AEA annual meeting of 1977 against bioeconomics and sociobiology. Are there copies of documents put out by URPE then? Truly yours, Clement Levallois. ------------- Clement LEVALLOIS PhD candidate UMR 5206 Triangle / Universit? Lyon 2 UMR 7166 EconomiX / Universit? Paris X tel: +33 (0)1 47 40 75 72 http://economix.u-paris10.fr/en/axes/hpe/membres/index.php?id=269 From P.Kriesler at unsw.edu.au Tue Aug 15 19:25:31 2006 From: P.Kriesler at unsw.edu.au (Peter Kriesler) Date: Thu Aug 17 05:55:30 2006 Subject: [URPE] re: Call for papers for 5th SHE Conference 11-12 December Message-ID: The University of New South Wales in Sydney Australia will host the 5th Society of Heterodox Economists Conference December 11 and 12. This year's conference will have both refereed and non-refereed papers. The deadline for submission of abstracts of refereed papers is Friday October 20 and for the submission of abstracts of non-refereed papers is Friday November 3. Further details are available from the Conference website. Registration for the Conference is also open. Conference website: http://she.web.unsw.edu.au/Conference_2006/ SHE Website: http://she.web.unsw.edu.au/ For further details, please e-mail me. Peter Kriesler School of Economics University of NSW Sydney NSW 2052 http://economics.web.unsw.edu.au/people/pkriesler/ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Appointment at the Associate or Full Professor level requires completed doctoral degree and appropriate experience; appointment at the Assistant Professor level requires doctoral degree completed by time of appointment or ABD. Applicants must be qualified to teach in the general area of urban affairs/policy, urban public administration, or urban planning. We seek an individual with strong theoretical interests, as well as research strength in qualitative or quantitative research methods, along with an interest in applying those intellectual skills to addressing and resolving issues in the urban arena. We are especially interested in candidates who would contribute to the School?s racial and ethnic diversity and whose research and teaching interests relate especially to the dynamics of race and class in the urban arena. The School offers excellent teaching and research support; and its location in the heart of the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area provides an ideal urban laboratory for research, teaching, and community service. The School, with an interdisciplinary faculty, offers Doctoral Degrees in Urban and Public Administration, and Urban Planning and Public Policy, as well as Masters degrees in Urban Affairs, Public Administration (accredited) and City and Regional Planning (accredited). A letter of application indicating research and teaching interests, vitae, and three letters of recommendation, should be sent to Dr. Sherman Wyman, Chair, Search Committee, School of Urban and Public Affairs, Box 19588, The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Tx, 76019-0588, or wyman@uta.edu. Review of applications begins November 1 and continues until the position is filled. The University of Texas at Arlington is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. 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Collective bargaining under attack Burma's Economic Dystopia Development in the Twenty First Century Capabilities On the Teaching of Political Economy Women?s Retirement Incomes: Research, Policy and the Politics of Change The Current State of Progressive Economics Refugees, a burden or a benefit? - the cost of Human Rights Australasian Chapter of IAFFE at the 5th SHE conference 11?12 December 2006 CALL FOR PAPERS : http://she.web.unsw.edu.au/Conference_2006/SHE_IAFFE_CfP_2006.htm Details at: http://she.web.unsw.edu.au/Conference_2006/SYMPOSIA.htm SHE CONFERENCE WEBSITE:http://she.web.unsw.edu.au/Conference_2006/ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Workshops are open to the public and background research papers are usually posted on the website in advance of the Workshop. - - - Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis The New School 80 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10011 Tel: (212) 229-5901 x4911 Fax: (212) 229-5903 http://www.newschool.edu/cepa * * For help with this mailing list go to the CEPA Web site: * http://www.newschool.edu/cepa/ From carolyn at publicpurposecommunications.com Thu Sep 7 20:15:12 2006 From: carolyn at publicpurposecommunications.com (Carolyn Toll Oppenheim) Date: Fri Sep 8 08:07:13 2006 Subject: [URPE] Activists Democracy Retreat 9/16-17 In-Reply-To: <4500A718.8030809@gaiaweavers.org> Message-ID: Skipped content of type multipart/alternative-------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Sincerely, Tom Palley Economics for Democratic & Open Societies Project Tel: 202-249-2317 e-mail: mail@thomaspalley.com www.thomaspalley.com From bpie at umich.edu Fri Sep 8 08:55:18 2006 From: bpie at umich.edu (Bruce Pietrykowski) Date: Sat Sep 9 06:39:43 2006 Subject: [URPE] Job Opening - Please Post Message-ID: <45018456.7000107@umich.edu> Please Post on the URPE Listserve: JOB OPENING University of Michigan, Dearborn One tenure track opening for a position at the Assistant Professor level. The primary area of teaching responsibility is Economic History. Preferred secondary areas of teaching interest include the history of economic thought and microeconomics. Additional opportunities exist to teach in the Master of Public Policy and/or Science and Technology Studies programs. The Economics program is located within a multi-disciplinary Department of Social Sciences that includes History and Political Science. Teaching load is three courses per semester, including core courses?principles of economics and intermediate microeconomics. Individual classes in all Economics courses are capped at 35 students. A Ph.D. in economics or evidence of its impending completion is required. Additional selection criteria include demonstrated potential for and commitment to teaching talented and diverse undergraduates, as well as the ability to sustain a productive research agenda. Appointment effective September 1, 2007. Salary is competitive. Applicants should send a cover letter, vita, unofficial copy of graduate transcript, three letters of reference, a summary of teaching evaluations (if available), and a writing sample to: Chair, Economics Search Committee, University of Michigan Dearborn, 4901 Evergreen Rd., Dearborn MI 48128-1491. We will interview at the ASSA meetings in Chicago. Applications should be received by December 5, 2006 to ensure full consideration. The University of Michigan-Dearborn currently enrolls approximately 8,700 students in bachelor's and master's degree programs. The University is one of three campuses ? along with Ann Arbor and Flint - in the University of Michigan system. Faculty and students have the opportunity to collaborate across all three campuses in research and scholarly activity. UM-Dearborn is located ten miles west of Detroit and thirty-five miles east of Ann Arbor. The University of Michigan-Dearborn is dedicated to the goal of building a culturally diverse and pluralistic faculty committed to teaching and working in a multicultural environment, and strongly encourages applications from minorities and women. For further information, please visit: http://www.umd.umich.edu/dept/acad/casl/socsci/econ The University of Michigan, Dearborn is an equal opportunity-affirmative action employer. <<<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>> Bruce Pietrykowski, Ph.D. Editorial Board Member, Review of Radical Political Economics Editorial Board Member, Review of Social Economy Deputy Editor, Journal of Transport History Professor of Economics Department of Social Sciences University of Michigan-Dearborn Dearborn, MI 48128 bpie@umich.edu 313-593-9970 313-593-5096 From R.Garnett at tcu.edu Fri Sep 8 10:41:20 2006 From: R.Garnett at tcu.edu (Garnett, Rob) Date: Sat Sep 9 06:41:51 2006 Subject: [URPE] CFP: Economic Pluralism for the 21st Century References: <5A103C229A998247BD60D72C380396D90DE52A@FSMAILLK2A.tcu.edu> Message-ID: <5A103C229A998247BD60D72C380396D90DE52C@FSMAILLK2A.tcu.edu> Dear Colleagues, The next ICAPE conference is on the horizon, and I hope you will consider participating in it. Soon to celebrate its 13th birthday, ICAPE (the International Confederation of Associations for Pluralism in Economics) is an international consortium dedicated to the active promotion of intellectual pluralism in economic education and scholarship. Next June (1-3) on the campus of the University of Utah in beautiful Salt Lake City, ICAPE will host its second international conference, "Economic Pluralism for the 21st Century." We invite proposals for papers and panels that address the value (or costs) of economic pluralism in any of its domains: economic theory and philosophy, economic institutions and policies, or economic education. For further details -- including a list of plenary sessions -- please see the attached documents, visit our website (www.icape.org ), or contact one of the organizers: Al Campbell (al@economics.utah.edu) Wilfred Dolfsma (wdolfsma@rsm.nl) Edward Fullbrook (edward.fullbrook@btinternet.com) Rob Garnett (r.garnett@tcu.edu) Neva Goodwin (neva.goodwin@tufts.edu) John Henry (henryjf@umkc.edu) Mary King (kingm@pdx.edu) Fred Lee (leefs@umkc.edu) Ed McNertney (e.mcnertney@tcu.edu) Judith Mehta (judith.mehta@ntlworld.com) Erik Olsen (olsenek@umkc.edu) Martha Starr (mstarr@american.edu) We look forward to hearing from you! Rob Dr. Rob Garnett Department of Economics Box 298510 Texas Christian University Fort Worth, TX 76129 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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We encourage scholars in all disciplines to consider submitting abstracts for papers by October 1, 2006. If the abstract is accepted, the completed manuscript is due April 15, 2007. Along with increasing global economic integration and market liberalization over the last few decades, inter-group inequality has expanded both within and between countries. In a number of developing countries, persistent wage gaps have accompanied rapid growth. In industrial countries, on the other hand, improvement in gender wage gaps is associated with rising class, race, and ethnic inequalities. Although nation-states have attempted to avert rising inequality through a variety of policies (e.g. labor market, social, monetary, fiscal, and industrial policies), market liberalization has impaired the success of these policies in reducing inequality. Feminist literature has established that macroeconomic policies have gendered effects; however, further evidence is necessary to understand the connections between inter-group inequalities related to gender, class, and ethnicity and macroeconomic outcomes, including employment, ! output, growth, and development. The integration of gender into macroeconomic theory and efforts to develop more gender equitable macroeconomic policy recommendations will require more detailed attention to these critical issues. This special issue will provide a forum for analyzing inequality, redistribution, and growth in developing, industrial, and transitioning countries. Both theoretical and empirical contributions are encouraged, as well as discussions of the policy implications of the research findings. Besides statistical analysis, the guest editors encourage a diverse range of research methods and analyses. Possible paper topics include: The effects of globalization on gender inequality and its linkages to inequalities by class and ethnicity Mechanisms and state policies that increase inequality (e.g. fiscal conservatism, generation of oversupply of labor, erosion of labor market regulations) Effects of gender inequality (well-being, income) on macroeconomic outcomes Effects of macroeconomic policy on unpaid labor Central banks, monetary policy, and gender Gender inequality and social exclusion Measurement of inequality in well-being (e.g. health, education) Functionings, capabilities, and the quality of life Redistributive policies, development, and growth Equal employment opportunity policies, family friendly policies, social safety nets, and macroeconomic policies Social insurance and gender inequality Local and global responses to inequality Please direct queries and abstracts (500 words maximum) to Guest Editors G?nseli Berik, Yana van der Meulen Rodgers , and Stephanie Seguino . Final papers (after approval of abstracts) should be submitted to Feminist Economics through the submissions website mc.manuscriptcentral.com/rfec. Questions about these procedures may be sent to feministeconomics@rice.edu, +1 713.348-4083 (phone) or +1 713.348.5495 (fax). From urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu Sat Sep 9 09:29:52 2006 From: urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu (urpe-moderator@lists.econ.utah.edu) Date: Sat Sep 9 09:34:33 2006 Subject: [URPE] Field Guide to the US Economy Message-ID: <4502DDF0.2080806@lists.econ.utah.edu> The Center for Popular Economics presents http://www.fguide.org/index.htm Want to know more about the odd creatures that inhabit our economic environment? The Field Guide to the U.S. Economy identifies over 160 important issues, holding a magnifying glass to trends affecting our everyday lives. Short, easy-to-follow presentations take you off the beaten track, well beyond Washington and Wall Street. Graphs and cartoons liven up the facts. A "Toolkit" helps you interpret and use economic statistics; included here are explanations of price indices, GDP, the poverty line, and other economic concepts. The Glossary provides clear, simple explanations of many technical terms. From the distribution of wealth to the provision of child care, from job benefits to health-care coverage, from international financial crises to global warming, the Field Guide offers information needed to understand ?and to improve?the world we work in. This website offers sample pages, ordering information, news and analysis of economic trends, and direct access to useful data available on the internet. Don't be afraid of getting lost, and don't worry about predators or pests. The Field Guide to the U.S. Economy is designed to send you out on a safe and excellent adventure. From jlmartin at ssc.wisc.edu Mon Sep 11 09:36:46 2006 From: jlmartin at ssc.wisc.edu (John Levi Martin) Date: Mon Sep 11 11:46:25 2006 Subject: [URPE] Job Announcement Message-ID: <005c01c6d5b8$16f2fdc0$e9bc5c90@ads.ssc.wisc.edu> Skipped content of type multipart/alternative-------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Critics of these ominous trends have identified a number of culprits: big oil, the cabal of neoconservatives, the Israeli lobby, the cultural or attitudinal fascination of the United States with military might as a sign of national greatness, and George W. Bush's desire to be a war president. Without denying the contributory role of these factors, The Political Economy of U.S. Militarism explores the bigger but largely submerged picture: the economics or profit-driven forces of war and militarism. By highlighting the critical influence of powerful special economic interests over the dynamics of U.S. military spending, the study examines the escalating Pentagon appropriations of taxpayers money as a roundabout way of cutting social spending, as a subtle strategy to reverse the New Deal and other social safety net programs, and as a regulatory mechanism to redistribute national income in favor of the wealthy-especially of the influential beneficiaries of war dividends. The study is unique not only for its examination of the factors and forces that have been directly behind the U.S. drive to war and militarism, but also for its careful analysis of a series of closely related topics: the roots of the conflict between the Muslim world and the West; the rise of religious fundamentalism, both Islamic and Judeo-Christian, and its impact on the escalation of war and militarism; the theory of "the clash of civilizations" and its implications for the strategy of "preemptive wars;" the 9/11 attacks, global terrorism, and their impact on the U.S. drive to war and military expansion; and more. PRAISES FOR THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF U.S. MILITARISM: "Ismael Hossein-zadeh's penetrating analysis of the role of the military-industrial complex in driving U.S. foreign policy and rearranging domestic priorities could not be more timely. With U.S. military spending at levels higher than the peak years of the Vietnam War, Hossein-zadeh provides the most cogent explanation yet of how we got to this point." (William D. Hartung, Senior Research Fellow, World Policy Institute) "Writing in a scholarly but accessible manner, Ismael Hossein-zadeh provides an impressive overview of policy trends, their historical background and their political and economic influences. In examining the recent tendencies towards war and militaristic responses to foreign policy issues, the author looks past the now dominant neo-conservative justifications, focusing on the powerful interests that lie beneath." (David Gold, Associate Professor, International Affairs Program, The New School) "Hossein-zadeh reveals how budgetary militarism is defeating the New Deal, even as it musters a long term assault on the Bill of Rights and other foundations of American democracy. The Political Economy of U.S. Militarism is a must-read for patriots concerned about the future of the United States." (Grant F. Smith, Director of Institute for Research, Middle Eastern Policy) "Ismael Hossein-zadeh has produced an original and powerful synthesis of previous explanations of contemporary U.S. militarism. He locates the relevant economic, political, and ideological forces within a power-elite military-industrial complex framework firmly grounded in a structural analysis of capital accumulation. By steering past the twin dangers of conspiracy theory and economic reductionism, this framework clearly reveals the parasitic, class-biased, and systemic character of the Bush administration's unilateralism. Along the way, Hossein-zadeh provides a challenging analysis of the cyclical fluctuations of U.S. military spending since World War II." (Paul Burkett, Professor of Economics, Indiana State University). CONTENTS: Introduction * The Military-Industrial Giant: An Empire in Itself * Imperial Militarisms: Past and Present * The Rise of U.S. Militarism * Inventing "Threats to Our National Interests" * Militant Islam, Terrorism, and "Clash of Civilizations" * Behind the Invasion of Iraq * Waste, Inefficiency and the Spoils of Military Spending * The Political Economy of U.S. Military Spending * Limits of U.S. Militarism # # # # # For more information on the book, including buying options, see: http://www.cbpa.drake.edu/hossein%2Dzadeh/books/books.htm To set up an interview, or to order a review copy of The Political Economy of U.S. Militarism contact Ismael Hossein-zadeh, professor of economics at Drake University, either at 515-271-4026 or 515-255-5380, or ismael.zadeh@drake.edu. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Just a reminder when you do register that you register as a member of the Association for Social Economics (ASE). As you know, the registration payments are divided among the 6 founding organizations of the ASSA, and AEA gets all of the "other" and all of those that do not put down anything. The distribution of the payments for the 2005 meetings is the following: AEA 68.6% $52,418 AAEA 1.8% 1,347 AFA 16.8% 12,828 ASE 1.3% 990 ES 6.5% 4,929 LERA 5.2% 3,950 When I get the distribution for the 2006 ASSA meetings in Boston, I will post it in the Newsletter. In any case, as you can see, ASE gets a very small amount of the total, but what it gets it spends on heterodox economics. Thus the more of you that register for the ASSA as ASE members, the more money ASE can get to spend on heterodox economics.(Registration for the ASSA: go to www.vanderbilt.edu/AEA and then look on the left for Annual Meeting and then Registration Form.) On Thursday, January 4, at 6:30 pm in the Swissotel Grand Ballroom I and II the ASE is holding its plenary session and invites all heterodox economists and economists interested in pluralism to attend. The speaker is Prof. John M. Gowdy of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the title of his presentation is "Behavioral Economics and Sustainability." For more on John Gowdy see: http://www.rpi.edu/~gowdyj/. After the presentation, there will be a reception sponsored by ASE and ICAPE. I hope all of you that are planning to attend the ASSA meeting will come to the plenary and stay for the reception-I would like to meet you. ICAPE is undertaking its annual membership drive. Letters have been sent to various organizations asking them to renew their membership or have been invited to become a member. If you would like to have your organization/group become an ICAPE associate, please let me know and I will send a letter inviting them to join. In addition, its informational web page has been extensively redesigned and includes both its activities and sketches of its member associates (www.icape.org). Take a look at it-you might find it interesting. In addition, ICAPE sponsors a cooperative booth at the ASSA meetings and this booth needs volunteers to staff it. The booth is the perfect place for the various heterodox organizations/groups that are ICAPE associates to display information about themselves and have books etc. for sell. The booth is also a great place to meet other economists with interest in pluralism in economics. If you want to volunteer for staffing the booth, please fill out the attached form and return it to me. Also if you want to have material etc. displayed at the booth, please tell so that I can plan the booth. Finally, there is the upcoming ICAPE Conference on Economics Pluralism for the 21st Century. The Call for Papers is found below. The Newsletter is quite large this time, so it impossible highlight all the interesting things in it. But I would like to call to your attention the Institutional Economics Workshop in honor of Allan Schmid. In addition, there are many new call for papers, jobs wanting heterodox economists, books and newsletters to examine, and new heterodox associations you be aware of. I hope you find the Newsletter interesting. Fred Lee In this issue: - Call for Papers - 5th Society of Heterodox Economists Conference - World Congress of Social Economics - Institutional Economics Workshop in Honor of Allan Schmid - Labour and the Challenges of Development - Creating Sustainability Within Our Midst: Challenge for the 21st Century - Green Economics Institute - Association for Institutional Thought [AFIT] - RETHINKING MARXISM 2006 - The Constraints to Full Employment Conference - Economic Pluralism for the 21st Century - Conferences, Seminars and Lectures - Buddhist Economics - European Integration in Crisis - 26th VIPE Conference - SCEME Workshop - Colloque Association d'?conomie politique 2006 - Poverty and Capital - Innovation, Competition & Growth - Job Posting s for Heterodox Economists - Center for Labor Studies, New York City - The School of Urban and Public Affairs - San Jose State University - Texas Christian University - The University of Wisconsin-Madison - Macroeconomic Policy Institute (IMK) - University of Michigan, Dearborn - Analyst, Economics - ANALYSTE, ?CONOMIE - Visiting Lecturers, University of Greenwich, London - Heterodox Conference Papers and Reports and Articles - The Impact of Undercounting in the Current Population Survey - Heterodox Journals and Newsletters - URPE Newsletter - New Political Economy - Journal of the History of Economic Thought - State of Working America 2006-07 - Levy News - USBIG Newsletter - The Talking Economics Bulletin - International Review of Applied Economics - Heterodox Books and Book Series - Advances in Heterodox Economics - Pluto Press - Post Keynesian Price Theory - Money, Financial Instability and Stabilization Policy - Macroeconomics in Context - Kicking Away the Ladder - Russia's Oil and Natural Gas - Reforming the Governance of the IMF and the World Bank - Book Review: Applied Evolutionary Economics and the Knowledge Based Economy. - European Economic Policies - Alternatives to Orthodox Analysis and Policy Concepts - The Political Economy of U.S. Militarism - Le nouveau mur de l'argent : essai sur la finance globalis?e - The Field Guide to the U.S. Economy - Heterodox Web Sites - www.heterodoxe-oekonomie.net - Vereniging Institutionele en Politieke Economie - Queries from Heterodox Economists - Journal of Heterodox Economics Education - For Your Information - The Fulbright Scholar Program - Ego Inflation -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Background: The Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning has been in existence since 1973. With our traditionally strong policy orientation, the department has now more explicitly embraced the planning interests and orientation of our faculty and students and became accredited by the Planning Accreditation Board on January 1, 2004. The department views issues pertaining to social, economic and environmental justice, gender, ethnicity, race and class, individual rights and responsibilities, and the equitable distribution of resources as being central to our comprehensive public policy and planning curriculum.?Problems and issues are viewed through multiple lenses and interventions are analyzed as they pertain to individuals, families, and communities. The program is primarily focused on US policy and planning issues, however connections to global concerns are also stressed. Although the department does not offer formal specializations, it has significant teaching and research strengths in a number of sub-fields. Elective courses and faculty interests and research cluster around the following: ? land use and growth management planning; ? developing sustainable communities; ? community development,housing, and economic development; ? social policy: poverty, race, children and families; ? environmental justice and toxics; ? natural resource management; and ? roles of community-, faith-, and market-based organizations, in addition to public sector organizations in addressing social, urban, and environmental problems. Through the integration of policy and planning, the department seeks to prepare public-spirited individuals for careers in government, nonprofit organizations, citizen advocacy groups, and the private sector. Our goal is to educate a new generation of leaders??practical visionaries??who will contribute to solving key public problems by making institutions more responsive to the social and economic needs of communities and by moving toward the sustainable management of environmental resources. Qualifications:PhD in Economics, Planning, Public Policy, or related field required. Teaching experience and strong publishing and research agenda required. To Apply:Please send letter of application, CV, and names of three references to: Professor Rachel Bratt, Search Committee, Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning, Tufts University, Medford, MA 02155. Review of applications will begin on November 1 and continue until position is filled. Tufts University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity employer. We are committed to increasing the diversity of our faculty. Members of underrepresented groups are strongly encouraged to apply.? From Randy.Albelda at umb.edu Thu Sep 14 17:57:46 2006 From: Randy.Albelda at umb.edu (Randy Albelda) Date: Thu Sep 14 20:26:59 2006 Subject: [URPE] Job opening Message-ID: <4509EC7A.6020503@umb.edu> Hi, My department is hiring. Please feel free to circulate to relevant lists or people. Here's the ad that will appear in JOE The Department of Economics invites applications for one anticipated tenure track opening at the assistant professor level, beginning Fall 2007 (subject to final budgetary approval). The successful applicant will have teaching and applied research interests in the areas of either (A) economic history and the history of economic thought or (B) industrial organization and government regulation. The person hired would contribute to undergraduate general education, the economics major and, possibly, graduate instruction. Candidates with an interest in applied, interdisciplinary work are particularly encouraged to apply; we are interested in candidates who will interact well with the applied policy researchers currently in the department. Candidates should have a Ph.D. and teaching experience. Evidence of progress towards an excellent scholarly record is highly desirable. Evidence of successful teaching with diverse students is highly desirable. Review of applications will begin on December 1, 2006, and continue until the position is filled. Send letter of application, curriculum vitae, a sample of written work, and three current letters of recommendation. An equal opportunity-affirmative action employer. For candidates with specialties in economic history and the history of economic thought, contact: Box A, Personnel Committee, Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts Boston, 100 Morrissey Blvd., Boston, MA 02125-3393; or boxA.economics@umb.edu. For candidates with specialties in industrial organization and government regulation, contact: Box B, Personnel Committee, Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts Boston, 100 Morrissey Blvd., Boston, MA 02125-3393; or boxB.econnomics@umb.edu. -- Randy Albelda Professor of Economics University of Massachusetts Boston Boston, MA 02125 617-287-6963 randy.albelda@umb.edu From afreeman at iwgvt.org Sun Sep 17 11:59:25 2006 From: afreeman at iwgvt.org (Alan Freeman) Date: Sun Sep 17 12:07:37 2006 Subject: [URPE] New Pluralist Journal Call For Papers Message-ID: Apologies for cross-posting: please circulate CALL FOR PAPERS =============== Critique of Political Economy (www.copejournal.org) (COPE), a new, interdisciplinary, refereed journal devoted to the critique of political economy, is a project of the International Working Group on Value Theory (www.iwgvt.org). Edited by Alan Freeman (University of Greenwich, UK) and Andrew Kliman (Pace University, New York, USA), with the assistance of a working editorial board, COPE will initially appear annually and be primarily an online journal. The first volume is scheduled for publication in March 2007. COPE seeks to challenge and break down the separation between political economy and social knowledge as a whole. Our editorial board includes scholars in the fields of education, philosophy, political science, sociology, as well as economics and accounting. We invite submissions from researchers working in these and related fields, including researchers from outside of academia. Contributions from the whole gamut of heterodox economic traditions ? including (but not limited to) the Marxist, post-Keynesian, Evolutionary, Schumpeterian, and Institutionalist traditions ? are welcome. We particularly encourage contributions that interrogate the production of economic ?knowledge? and contributions that help to challenge the received ?Whig History? of economic thought. We also particularly encourage papers from scholars in the global South, papers dealing with the temporal single-system interpretation (TSSI) of Marx?s value theory, and other TSSI-informed theoretical and empirical research. COPE is steadfastly committed to pluralism. We intend to challenge other journals? exclusionary practices, and the acceptance of such practices, by demonstrating that critical pluralistic norms promote quality research and genuine development of ideas. We uphold authors? right to appeal editorial decisions before a panel of disinterested persons, and the right of authors to reply to critiques of their work. We employ a ?double-blind? review process, and COPE?s editorial board will work with authors to improve and clarify their work, not act as ?gatekeepers.? Although only submissions ?accepted for publication? become part of COPE, other submissions that conform to the Scholarship Guidelines of the International Working Group on Value Theory, our parent organization, will be made available on our website as ?working papers.? We encourage you to read our complete Mission Statement, available on our website, www.copejournal.org. Contributions to the Critique of Political Economy ================================================== We welcome articles, essays, and review essays up to 10,000 words long, and we accept book reviews. In keeping with our commitment to pluralism, we ask that submissions conform to the IWGVT Scholarship Guidelines. Manuscripts should be submitted as attached Microsoft Word files, and sent to our e-mail address, mail@copejournal.org. In a separate attached file, please provide a 100-200 word abstract along with the name(s), affilation(s), address(es), e-mail address(es), and telephone and fax number(s) of the author(s). Prospective contributors should consult the Scholarship Guidelines and our ?Instructions to Authors,? both of which are posted on our website, prior to submitting to COPE. The editors will be happy to answer inquiries sent to our e-mail address. A Word version of this Call, which includes a list of editorial board members, is attached. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Sincerely, Tom Palley Economics for Democratic & Open Societies Project Tel: 202-249-2317 e-mail: mail@thomaspalley.com www.thomaspalley.com From g.m.hodgson at herts.ac.uk Mon Sep 18 12:13:33 2006 From: g.m.hodgson at herts.ac.uk (Geoffrey Hodgson) Date: Tue Sep 19 12:49:53 2006 Subject: [URPE] Oliver Williamson to give 2nd Malthus Lecture Message-ID: <6.2.3.4.2.20060918190306.0325d328@altair.herts.ac.uk> Dear Colleagues and Friends This is a reminder that Professor OLIVER WILLIAMSON (University of California at Berkeley) will give the 2nd Malthus Lecture at 6pm on Thursday 19th October 2006 at the University of Hertfordshire, in the Fielder Centre in Hatfield, UK. The title of Professor Williamson's lecture will be: "Corporate Governance: A Contractual and Organizational Perspective". All are welcome. Refreshments will be served at 5.30pm for pre-registered participants. Hatfield is on the London King's Cross to Cambridge railway line, and there is easy access to all London airports. To register: please email your name, title, organisation and address to mdp@herts.ac.uk The First Malthus Lecture - commemorating the Hertfordshire economist Thomas Robert Malthus - was given by Nobel Laureate Douglass C. North in May 2005. I hope very much that you will be able to come to this 2006 event. Best wishes Geoff Hodgson Research Professor at the University of Hertfordshire www.geoffrey-hodgson.info -------------------------------------------------------- From schico at oxy.edu Mon Sep 18 14:41:59 2006 From: schico at oxy.edu (Sylvia Lisa-Yan Chico) Date: Tue Sep 19 12:49:55 2006 Subject: [URPE] Tenure Faculty Position - Occidental College - Urban&EnvironmentalPolicy Program - Nov 17, 2006 Deadline Message-ID: _____________________________________ Job Announcement Urban & Environmental Policy Program Occidental College Los Angeles, California _____________________________________ Occidental College invites applications for a tenure-track position at the Assistant Professor level, beginning Fall 2007 in the Urban and Environmental Policy (UEP) Program. Applicants should be prepared to develop and teach courses in two or more of the following areas: Community Economic Development, Immigration in American Society, The Environment and Sustainable Development, Labor, Community, and the Environment. We encourage candidates who also have an interest in teaching related courses in Methods of Policy Analysis, Economics for Public Policy, Social Change Across Borders, and Urban and Environmental Planning. UEP is an interdisciplinary major that involves faculty in politics, sociology, economics, history, biology, geology, and other disciplines. We will consider candidates with training in a variety of disciplines, including urban planning, political science, sociology, environmental studies, public policy, economics, history, and law. Candidates with practical political/community/planning experience are strongly encouraged to apply. We encourage candidates who are familiar with Los Angeles. Candidates should be immersed in the pedagogy of community based learning and able to expand the College's efforts to promote internships, community based learning in classes, and partnerships with public, private, and non profit organizations in Los Angeles, California, and Washington, D.C. The UEP program is closely linked with the Urban & Environmental Policy Institute, through which students, faculty and staff engage in applied research and community engagement. (http://www.uepi.oxy.edu) Applicants should submit a letter of interest demonstrating a commitment to academic excellence in a diverse liberal arts environment, and including a statement of teaching philosophy, areas of teaching interest, and plans for research/creative work; a curriculum vitae; samples of scholarly or creative work; and three letters of recommendation to: Professor Peter Dreier UEP Program Search Chair Occidental College MS-M1 1600 Campus Road Los Angeles, CA 90041 All materials are due by November 17, 2006. Occidental College is an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer. The College is committed to academic excellence in a diverse community and supporting interdisciplinary and multicultural academic programs that provide a gifted and diverse group of students with an educational experience that prepares them for leadership in a pluralistic world. Women and minorities are strongly encouraged to apply. Please visit our website for more information about Occidental College: http://www.oxy.edu/ From fcurtis at drew.edu Tue Sep 19 13:53:42 2006 From: fcurtis at drew.edu (Fred Curtis) Date: Tue Sep 19 19:47:31 2006 Subject: [URPE] Two tenured Faculty Economics Positions Drew University Message-ID: <45101291.9108.00A6.0@drew.edu> Job Announcement: Drew University invites applications for two tenure track economics positions as follows. JO Labor Economics CO Econometrics ZO Public Policy Economics BO History of Economic Thought The Department of Economics invites applications for a tenure track position in labor economics at the assistant level beginning September 2007 subject to budgetary approval. We seek an economist who will teach courses in (1)labor economics, (2)econometrics and (3)public policy economics, history of economic thought or a course in the candidate?s area of specialization at the undergraduate level. The candidate should have a Ph.D. by fall 2007. The position may also include teaching principles of economics, an extra-departmental, and an inter-disciplinary first year from time to time. Drew University is a liberal arts institution dedicated to excellence in teaching and scholarship. Annual teaching load is five courses. Applicants should submit a letter of application, curriculum vitae, three letters of reference, statement of teaching philosophy, job paper or published article, and evidence of teaching effectiveness (e.g., teaching evaluations). The review of applications will begin Nov. 15, 2006. Completed applications must be submitted by Nov. 28, 2006to be considered for this position. Applications may not be submitted electronically. Send completed applications to: Professor Bernard Smith Labor Search Committee Department of Economics DrewUniversity 36 Madison Avenue Madison, NJ07940 Visit the department website at www.depts.drew.edu/econ/for information on the department. To enrich education through diversity, Drew University is an Equal Employment/Affirmative Action employer. ZO Political Economy J1 Economics of Race RO Urban Economics I3 Economics of Poverty The Department of Economics invites applications for a tenure track position in Political Economy at the assistant level beginning September 2007 subject to budgetary approval. We seek an economist who will teach courses in (1)political economy, (2)economics of race and (3)urban economics, economics of poverty or in the candidates area of specialization at the undergraduate level. The candidate should have a Ph.D. in economics by fall 2007. The position may also include teaching principles of economics, an extra-departmental course, and an inter-disciplinary first year seminar from time to time. Drew University is a liberal arts institution dedicated to excellence in teaching and scholarship. Annual teaching load is five courses. Applicants should submit a letter of application, curriculum vitae, three letters of reference, statement of teaching philosophy, job paper or published article, and evidence of teaching effectiveness (e.g., teaching evaluations). The review of applications will begin Nov. 15, 2006. Completed applications must be submitted by Nov. 28, 2006 to be considered for this position. Applications may not be submitted electronically. Send completed applications to: Professor Fred Curtis Political Economy Search Committee Department of Economics DrewUniversity 36 Madison Avenue Madison, NJ07940 Visit the department website at www.depts.drew.edu/econ/ for information on the department. To enrich education through diversity, Drew University is an Equal Employment/Affirmative Action employer. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Please let us know precisely how you want your name and affiliation to appear on the statement when it is published. Note that signers must be U.S. citizens or economists working in the United States and that we define ???economists??? as those with a PhD in economics or who are working in academic or other organizations as an economist. Please forward this e-mail (with the attachments) to your colleagues and friends. A strong showing of support by our profession will have an important influence in the debate over this long overdue legislation and the various state ballot initiatives. Thank you, Larry Mishel Economic Policy Institute LETTER September 6, 2006 Dear Colleague: Due to congressional inaction and lack of support from the current administration, the federal minimum wage has not been increased since September 1, 1997, nine years ago. Since that time, the value of the last increase has been completely eroded by inflation. We believe that a modest increase in the federal minimum wage is long overdue. While a phased-in increase from $5.15 to $7.25 may be a larger dollar amount than the last raise in the federal minimum wage from $4.25 to $5.15, a significantly smaller percentage of the workforce would be directly affected by the increase (8.9% then versus 5% now). Given this benchmark, we believe the increase would benefit the targeted workers and the overall economy. In 2004, a group of 562 economists signed a statement supporting an increase in the minimum wage. For those of you who signed that letter, we ask you to re-affirm your commitment to this issue by adding your name to the enclosed public statement. For those of you who did not sign the 2004 letter, we ask you to consider signing on to this endorsement of a minimum wage increase. To add your name to the list of signers, please email your reply to minimumwage@epi.org or fax it to Attention: Economist Letter, 202-775-0819. We ask you to send your reply as soon as possible to ensure that your name is included among the signers. The deadline for signatures is September 30, 2006. We will, however, continue to accept signatures after that date and will try to include them in any document we publish. We hope you will join with us in this very important effort to improve the lives of low-wage workers and their families. Thank you for your help. Sincerely, Henry Aaron, The Brookings Institution Rebecca Blank, University of Michigan Alan S. Blinder, Princeton University Ronald G. Ehrenberg, Cornell University Clive Granger, University of California - San Diego Lawrence F. Katz, Harvard University Lawrence R. Klein, University of Pennsylvania Frank Levy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lawrence Mishel, Economic Policy Institute STATEMENT Economists??? Statement Supporting Increase in Minimum Wage The minimum wage has been an important part of our nation???s economy for 68 years. It is based on the principle of valuing work by establishing an hourly wage floor beneath which employers cannot pay their workers. In so doing, the minimum wage helps to equalize the imbalance in bargaining power that low-wage workers face in the labor market. The minimum wage is also an important tool in fighting poverty. The value of the 1997 increase in the federal minimum wage has been fully eroded. The real value of today???s federal minimum wage is less than it has been since 1951. Moreover, the ratio of the minimum wage to the average hourly wage of non-supervisory workers is 31%, its lowest level since World War II. This decline is causing hardship for low-wage workers and their families. We believe that a modest increase in the minimum wage would improve the well-being of low-wage workers and would not have the adverse effects that critics have claimed. In particular, we share the view the Council of Economic Advisors expressed in the 1999 Economic Report of the President that "the weight of the evidence suggests that modest increases in the minimum wage have had very little or no effect on employment." While controversy about the precise employment effects of the minimum wage continues, research has shown that most of the beneficiaries are adults, most are female, and the vast majority are members of low-income working families. As economists who are concerned about the problems facing low-wage workers, we believe the Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2005???s proposed phased-in increase in the federal minimum wage to $7.25 falls well within the range of options where the benefits to the labor market, workers, and the overall economy would be positive. Twenty-two states and the District of Columbia have set their minimum wages above the federal level. Arizona, Colorado, Missouri, Montana, Nevada and Ohio, are considering similar measures. As with a federal increase, modest increases in state minimum wages in the range of $1.00 to $2.50 and indexing to protect against inflation can significantly improve the lives of low-income workers and their families, without the adverse effects that critics have claimed. From urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu Tue Sep 19 19:56:47 2006 From: urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu (urpe-moderator@lists.econ.utah.edu) Date: Tue Sep 19 20:01:18 2006 Subject: [URPE] [NYC] Activism from Africa, War & Peace Exhibit, John Cage, Social Forum and More... 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Message-ID: <4510A04D.3050401@lists.econ.utah.edu> Skipped content of type multipart/alternative-------------- next part -------------- _______________________________________________ Brechtevents1 mailing list Brechtevents1@lists.mayfirst.org https://lists.mayfirst.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/brechtevents1 From fcurtis at drew.edu Thu Sep 21 05:00:38 2006 From: fcurtis at drew.edu (Fred Curtis) Date: Thu Sep 21 19:40:42 2006 Subject: [URPE] Two tenure track positions at Drew University Message-ID: <4512389E.9108.00A6.0@drew.edu> To everyone who received the previous announcement, My apologies for the mistake in the subject line of the previous job announcement. The two positions we have open are tenure track positions, not tenured faculty economics positions as stated in the previous message. Sincerely, Fred Curtis Job Announcement: Drew University invites applications for two tenure track economics positions as follows. JO Labor Economics CO Econometrics ZO Public Policy Economics BO History of Economic Thought The Department of Economics invites applications for a tenure track position in labor economics at the assistant level beginning September 2007 subject to budgetary approval. We seek an economist who will teach courses in (1)labor economics, (2)econometrics and (3)public policy economics, history of economic thought or a course in the candidate's area of specialization at the undergraduate level. The candidate should have a Ph.D. by fall 2007. The position may also include teaching principles of economics, an extra-departmental, and an inter-disciplinary first year from time to time. Drew University is a liberal arts institution dedicated to excellence in teaching and scholarship. Annual teaching load is five courses. Applicants should submit a letter of application, curriculum vitae, three letters of reference, statement of teaching philosophy, job paper or published article, and evidence of teaching effectiveness (e.g., teaching evaluations). The review of applications will begin Nov. 15, 2006. Completed applications must be submitted by Nov. 28, 2006to be considered for this position. Applications may not be submitted electronically. Send completed applications to: Professor Bernard Smith Labor Search Committee Department of Economics DrewUniversity 36 Madison Avenue Madison, NJ07940 Visit the department website at www.depts.drew.edu/econ/for information on the department. To enrich education through diversity, Drew University is an Equal Employment/Affirmative Action employer. ZO Political Economy J1 Economics of Race RO Urban Economics I3 Economics of Poverty The Department of Economics invites applications for a tenure track position in Political Economy at the assistant level beginning September 2007 subject to budgetary approval. We seek an economist who will teach courses in (1)political economy, (2)economics of race and (3)urban economics, economics of poverty or in the candidates area of specialization at the undergraduate level. The candidate should have a Ph.D. in economics by fall 2007. The position may also include teaching principles of economics, an extra-departmental course, and an inter-disciplinary first year seminar from time to time. Drew University is a liberal arts institution dedicated to excellence in teaching and scholarship. Annual teaching load is five courses. 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References: A<005001c6dda6$ba6e7ab0$0300a8c0@NevaDesktop> A<5A103C229A998247BD60D72C380396D93DE760@FSMAILLK2A.tcu.edu> <5A103C229A998247BD60D72C380396D93DE77C@FSMAILLK2A.tcu.edu> Message-ID: <5A103C229A998247BD60D72C380396D93DE780@FSMAILLK2A.tcu.edu> Dear Colleague, I recently sent you a message announcing ICAPE's second international conference ("Economic Pluralism for the 21st Century") next June 1-3 at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. Unfortunately my description made the conference sound very specialized and narrow -- as if we were seeking only papers on the topic of pluralism per se. Quite the contrary, this is a "big tent" conference at which all topics and schools of thought are welcome. Our goal is to create a uniquely diverse and inclusive conference, open to all who share ICAPE's commitment to the promotion of pluralism in economic scholarship and education. To make this happen, however, we need to include your work and the work of other scholars from the theoretical traditions and professional associations in which your work is rooted. So, what are you working on now that you find most exciting? What topic would you like to write about and present to a lively and broad-minded audience? The previous ICAPE conference in 2003 featured a broad range of panels including: Diverse Capitalisms Knowledge and Welfare: Hayek, Sen, and Schumacher New Connections among Heterodox Traditions Towards a More Policy-Relevant Economics Open-System Methodologies Financial Capitalism and Economic Policy Academic vs. Popular Economics Marx's Open System of Value Post Keynesian Institutionalism Social Dimensions of Consumer Behavior Rethinking (Post-)Capitalism New Visions and Strategies for the Heterodox Economics Movement Teaching Heterodox Economics Virtues and Limits of Social Sustainability International Political Economy: Theory and Policy Humanistic Alternatives to Neoclassical Economics Economics as a Holistic and Reflexive Social Science With your help, we will have an even broader and richer set of conversations in Salt Lake City. If you would like to participate, please send a brief abstract (200-250 words) to Rob Garnett (r.garnett@tcu.edu ). Or, to learn more about the conference, including our three scheduled plenary sessions (http://www.icape.org/plenary.htm ), please visit www.icape.org . We look forward to hearing from you! The Organizers (Al Campbell, Wilfred Dolfsma, Edward Fullbrook, Rob Garnett, Neva Goodwin, John Henry, Mary King, Fred Lee, Ed McNertney, Judith Mehta, Erik Olsen, and Martha Starr) From mail at thomaspalley.com Sat Sep 23 08:12:09 2006 From: mail at thomaspalley.com (Thomas Palley) Date: Sat Sep 23 08:14:58 2006 Subject: [URPE] OP-ED: Trade Deficits Matter Message-ID: Dear URPE Friends & Colleagues, This week's policy op-ed is titled "Trade Deficits Matter." It is posted on my website at www.thomaspalley.com Please share it with interested persons. Sincerely Tom Palley Economics for Democratic & Open Societies Project Tel: 202-249-2317 e-mail: mail@thomaspalley.com www.thomaspalley.com From jamie at globalleft.intranets.com Sat Sep 23 16:56:55 2006 From: jamie at globalleft.intranets.com (Jamie McCallum) Date: Sun Sep 24 09:43:48 2006 Subject: [URPE] TARIQ ALI and MAHMOOD MAMDANI in New York City Message-ID: LEFT FORUM Presents: TARIQ ALI and MAHMOOD MAMDANI Global Confrontations: A Dialogue on Imperialism and Oppositional Movements October 17th, 2006 7:30 PM CUNY Graduate Center - 365 5th Avenue, New York City Tariq Ali is a writer and filmmaker. He has written more than a dozen books on world history and politics, as well as scripts for the stage and screen. He is an editor of the New Left Review and lives in London. His books include Bush in Babylon, Clash of Fundamentalisms, and the forthcoming Pirates of the Carribean: Axis of Hope. Mahmood Mamdani is the Herbert Lehman Professor of Government and Anthropology and Director of the Institute for African Studies at Columbia University. His recent writings focus on the intersection between politics and culture, and the politicization of culture in the making of political identities. His books include Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: America, the Cold War, and the Roots of Terror, and When Victims Become Killers: Colonialism, Nativism, and the Genocide in Rwanda. TICKETS AVAILABLE AT THE DOOR $20/$15/$10 For further information: www.leftforum.org leftforum@leftforum.org 212-817-2003 LEFT FORUM organizes the largest annual gathering in North America of the US and international Left. The next conference will take place March 9-11, 2007, in New York City. LEFT FORUM thanks the Center for the Study of Culture, Technology, and Work, Graduate Center, CUNY. From afreeman at iwgvt.org Sat Sep 30 02:30:58 2006 From: afreeman at iwgvt.org (Alan Freeman) Date: Mon Oct 2 10:16:34 2006 Subject: [URPE] AHE call for papers: please circulate Message-ID: Association for Heterodox Economics 9th Annual Conference 2007 Call for Papers Pluralism in Action 13 ? 15 July, 2007 University of the West of England, Bristol ============================================================== The Ninth Annual Conference of the Association of Heterodox Economics (AHE) will be held at the University of the West of England from 13th to 15th July 2007. Last year?s highly successful AHE conference yielded a stimulating and original range of papers on pluralism in the social sciences. A striking feature of the conference was the interdisciplinary character of the contributions which explored the relation between economics and other branches of the social sciences. The Ninth Annual Conference will build on this success. The conference will have both a thematic part and an open part. The AHE is happy to consider papers of both types; however, priority will be given to papers addressing the conference theme, ?Pluralism in Action?. Papers are particularly encouraged dealing with the impact of heterodox, pluralistic and interdisciplinary approaches both on problems of policy, and on the advancement of understanding, where mainstream approaches have failed or fallen short. For the open part of the conference, as in previous conferences we welcome submissions dealing with issues of fundamental theory, teaching and learning in economics, and the history of economic thought. This year, the committee seeks to broaden the range of heterodox viewpoints. We encourage single papers or sessions addressing Austrian, Behavioural, Critical Realist, Ecological, Evolutionary, Feminist, Institutionalist, Marxist, Post-Keynesian, Schumpeterian, or other non-mainstream approaches. A feature of the AHE is as a forum for dialogue between different viewpoints, and we encourage proposals for sessions which address a single issue or theme from a variety of viewpoints. The international character of the conference has been a vital factor in its growing success. Scholars requiring documentation in support of visa or funding applications should indicate this in their initial submission. At present the AHE regrets that it has no funds to provide financial support, but is actively seeking it and welcomes proposals from participants regarding organizations for the AHE contact in search of support for participants from outside the US and European Union. Deadline for submission: ======================== Proposals for single papers: please send an abstract of not more than 500 words by email only to the local organiser, Andrew Mearman (andrew.mearman@uwe.ac.uk), AND the programme coordinator, Alan Freeman (afreeman@iwgvt.org), by 26 January 2006. Text, HTML, Word and PDF format attachments are acceptable. Proposals for sessions and streams: please indicate exactly what you are proposing, giving the names and email addresses of the proposed speakers, and attaching the abstracts (of not more than 500 words each) for their papers. Send by email to Andrew Mearman and Alan Freeman, as above, by Friday 19th January 2007. The AHE Committee will consider all abstracts and will notify you of acceptance or rejection of your proposal by Monday 12th February 2007. Those whose abstracts have been accepted must send their full paper and completed registration to be received by Friday 26th April 2007. Parallel sessions will be 90 minutes long and will consist of two papers. Sessions may have a discussant for each paper. The conference is to be conducted in English. To see details of previous conferences, and to keep up to date with the 2007 conference and other AHE activities please visit: www.hetecon.com From leefs at umkc.edu Fri Sep 29 12:59:21 2006 From: leefs at umkc.edu (Lee, Frederic) Date: Mon Oct 2 10:17:31 2006 Subject: [URPE] Heterodox Economics Newsletter - 32 Message-ID: <9A72753A447165498D6B63479DB2E7C9016FFACE@KC-MSX3.kc.umkc.edu> Heterodox Economics Newsletter Issue-32, September 29, 2006 >From the Editor This issue marks the beginning of the third year of the Newsletter. What is most noticeable over the past two years is the increased in and broadening of the content. In short the Newsletter is getting bigger and better, thanks to all of you who send me material. In recent Newsletters I have included announcements about the forthcoming ICAPE's second international conference ("Economic Pluralism for the 21st Century") next June 1-3 at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. Unfortunately the description made the conference sound very specialized and narrow--as if it were seeking only papers on the topic of pluralism per se. Quite the contrary, this is a "big tent" conference at which all topics and schools of thought are welcome. The goal of the Conference is to create a uniquely diverse and inclusive conference, open to all who share ICAPE's commitment to the promotion of pluralism in economic scholarship and education. To make this happen, however, we need to include your work and the work of other scholars from the theoretical traditions and professional associations in which your work is rooted. If you would like to participate, please send a brief abstract (200-250 words) to Rob Garnett (r.garnett@tcu.edu). Or, to learn more about the conference, including the three scheduled plenary sessions (http://www.icape.org/plenary.htm) , please visit www.icape.org. The Newsletter contains new calls for papers as well as conference announcements for participants. It does seem that heterodox economists are getting more and more active. In addition, the Newsletter is becoming more international as it includes announcements in languages other than English, job advertisements that are located outside of North America, and non-US-based newsletters. I urge you to check out the EAEPE newsletter because it has a very interesting interview with Kurt Rothchild and a piece by Kazimierz Laski that deals with Kalecki. Jobs for Heterodox Economists: the Newsletter carries job advertisements from 10 universities and colleges. I would like this number to increase-so please send me any information about jobs you have going at your place of work. In addition, many of us have doctoral students who are not in a position to apply for a tenure/permanent position but rather desperately need a 1-3 year temporary position so to get teaching experience and finish their dissertation. I would like to get information about those jobs as well so that I can send them out to those desperate students. Finally, I have come up with a set depressing statistics regarding heterodox economics in the United States: from 1988 to 2000, the number of heterodox economists as represented by membership in AFEE, ASE, and URPE and subscribe to the JPKE fell by nearly 50% to around 750. Perhaps this was due to retirements or just a lack of interest in heterodox economics; or it may have been partially due to the lack of doctoral students. On the other hand, the percentage of US heterodox economists that participated in more than one heterodox association increased by 30% to a whopping 12.8%. These figures provide only a rough impression of the current state of heterodox economics in the US, but it is an impression that should give rise to serious discussion. Fred Lee In this issue: - Call for Papers - Sixteenth International Input-Output Conference - ICAPE Conference, 1-3 June 2007 - The Sixth Congress of the U.S. Basic Income Guarantee Network - The London Socialist Historians Group - Association for Social Economics Sessions - The Social Capital Foundation- 2007 Conference - Critique of Political Economy - Associaci?n de Econom?a politica - Conferences, Seminars and Lectures - Corporate Governance: A Contractual and Organizational Perspective - 11th annual European Conference on the History of Economics (ECHE 2006) - The Challenge of Eurocentrism: A Global Review of Parameters - Global Confrontations: A Dialogue on Imperialism and Oppositional Movements - Green Economics Conference - PEKEA Communiqu? - Various Approaches to Assessing the Evolotion and Impact of Alternative Institutional Structures - Global Development Forum 9 - Realism, Empiricism and Constructivism - The Field Guide to the U.S. Economy - Job Posting s for Heterodox Economists - Tufts University - University of Massachusetts, Boston - Hofstra University - Drew University - University of Puget Sound - Occidental College - Eastern Illinois University - University of Queensland, Australia - University of Redlands - Vassar College - Heterodox Conference Papers and Reports and Articles - Second Biennial Post-Keynesian Economics Conference - Heterodox Journals and Newsletters - USSEE Newsletter - Econom?a Institucional - European Journal of the History of Economic Thought - Journal of Economic Methodology - European Association for Evolutionary Economics Newsletter - Heterodox Books and Book Series - Economics for Humans - Historical Materialism Book Series - Heterodox Web Sites - Links de Economia Heterodoxa Institui??o Website - For Your Information - Don Lavoie Memorial Graduate Student Essay Competition -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 17358 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/urpe-announcements/attachments/20060929/47cd52c4/attachment.txt From mail at thomaspalley.com Fri Sep 29 12:16:11 2006 From: mail at thomaspalley.com (Thomas Palley) Date: Mon Oct 2 10:17:43 2006 Subject: [URPE] OP-ED: A Question of Power Message-ID: Dear URPE Friends & Colleagues, This week's policy brief is titled "A Question of Power" and it addresses the problem of income distribution. It is posted on my website at www.thomaspalley.com Please forward it to interested persons. Sincerely, Tom Palley Economics for Democratic & Open Societies Project Tel: 202-249-2317 e-mail: mail@thomaspalley.com www.thomaspalley.com From msw22 at columbia.edu Tue Oct 3 13:27:41 2006 From: msw22 at columbia.edu (Matthew S Winters) Date: Tue Oct 3 13:39:45 2006 Subject: [URPE] Sumner Rosen Memorial Lecture - 16 November Message-ID: You are cordially invited to attend the SUMNER ROSEN MEMORIAL LECTURE Is Full Employment Possible in an Era of Globalization? given by ROBERT POLLIN Professor of Economics and Co-Director of the Political Economy Research Institute University of Massachusetts-Amherst and author of Contours of Descent: U. S. Fractures and the Landscape of Global Austerity and co-author of The Living Wage: Building a Fair Economy Thursday, November 16 7:00- 9:00 P.M. Reception preceding lecture Presidents' Room Faculty House Columbia University 400 West 117th Street* New York City *Enter campus at 116th Street between Amsterdam Ave. and Morningside Dr. RSVP to msw22@columbia.edu or 917-929-5965 Sumner M. Rosen (1923-2005) was a prominent political economist and lifelong advocate of full employment and other policies to benefit working people. A professor emeritus of social welfare at the Columbia University School of Social Work, he was a founder of the National Jobs for All Coalition; the Columbia Seminars on Full Employment, Social Welfare and Equity and on Globalization, Labor and Popular Struggles; and the Five Borough Institute. Organizers: National Jobs for All Coalition and the Columbia University Seminars on Full Employment, Social Welfare and Equity and Globalization, Labor and Popular Struggles From urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu Tue Oct 3 15:26:10 2006 From: urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu (urpe-moderator@lists.econ.utah.edu) Date: Tue Oct 3 15:30:31 2006 Subject: [URPE] [NYC] CEPA Economic Policy Workshop - John Weeks - October 4th - 12:30 pm Message-ID: <4522D572.10909@lists.econ.utah.edu> Upcoming Economic Policy Workshop at the Schwartz Center: "Debt Relief for Africa: Does it Create Fiscal Space? The Case of Zambia" John Weeks, Professor Emeritus The School of Oriental & African Studies Wednesday October 4th 12:30pm-2:00pm Join us at 12:30 p.m. for a brown bag lunch and workshop. Please download the paper at: http://www.newschool.edu/cepa/events/events_epwksp.htm A full list of policy workshops for this fall can be accessed through the above link. Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis The New School for Social Research 80 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 5th Floor Conference Room Directions to the Schwartz Center are available at http://www.newschool.edu/cepa/directory/location.htm Economic Policy Workshops are sponsored by: Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis The New School for Social Research 80 Fifth Avenue, 5th Floor New York, NY 10011 Tel: (212) 229-5901 x4911 Fax: (212) 229-5903 http://www.newschool.edu/cepa cepa@newschool.edu * * For help with this mailing list go to the CEPA Web site: * http://www.newschool.edu/cepa/ * * For help with this mailing list go to the CEPA Web site: * http://www.newschool.edu/cepa/ From urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu Tue Oct 3 15:55:58 2006 From: urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu (urpe-moderator@lists.econ.utah.edu) Date: Tue Oct 3 16:00:17 2006 Subject: [URPE] [NYC] Fall Classes Beginning in October:Poverty, Germinal, Witches and More! Message-ID: <4522DC6E.4090407@lists.econ.utah.edu> Skipped content of type multipart/alternative-------------- next part -------------- _______________________________________________ Brechtevents1 mailing list Brechtevents1@lists.mayfirst.org https://lists.mayfirst.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/brechtevents1 From urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu Tue Oct 3 16:05:55 2006 From: urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu (urpe-moderator@lists.econ.utah.edu) Date: Tue Oct 3 16:10:10 2006 Subject: [URPE] Samir Amin and Development of Underdevelopment Message-ID: <4522DEC3.4080209@lists.econ.utah.edu> I rely heavily on Samir Amin and the development of underdevelopment in my undergraduate economic development course to provide one of the alternatives to orthodox develpment theory. However, I have never been able to find what I thought was a really good reading to assign my undergrad students so they end up having to rely primarily on my in-class discussions of disarticulation, extraversion, marginalization and hypertrophy of the tertiary sector--what I teach as the four processes that result in the degeneration that takes place in the periphery known as the development of underdevelopment. My query: Does anyone on the URPE list have some appropriate readings they could suggest? I have been telling them to read ACCUMULATION ON A WORLD SCALE with less than sparkling results. Help would be appreciated. --Bill Dugger From urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu Wed Oct 4 18:07:30 2006 From: urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu (urpe-moderator@lists.econ.utah.edu) Date: Wed Oct 4 18:11:49 2006 Subject: [URPE] URGENT - PROTEST ASSA CUT-BACKS ON URPE SESSIONS Message-ID: <45244CC2.10003@lists.econ.utah.edu> Dear friend of URPE: The American Economic Association (AEA) is proposing to cut by 13 the number of sessions that organizations other than the AEA are allowed to offer at the Allied Social Science Assocations (ASSA) meetings. The Union for Radical Economics (URPE) is slated to lose two of its sessions, reducing the number of our sessions from 18 in the coming 2007 year to 16 by January 2009. We do not know where the other cuts would take place, but are deeply concerned about the loss of diversity of theoretical perspectives that would result from these cuts. This is the second set of cuts imposed on URPE and other non-AEA organizations by the AEA. In 1999, URPE was cut from 32 to 18 sessions. Widespread opposition by economists both within and outside of URPE succeeded in preventing an additional 9 cuts in 2000. (The AEA, it should be understood, exercises hegemonic power over the ASSA.) The rationale for the first set of cuts was a supposed shortage of space at conference sites. This second set of cuts is driven more directly by the AEA's goal of furthering its own interests within the economics profession. Thus John J. Siegfried explains the change as follows: "The purpose of this change is to increase the fraction of submissions to the AEA program (currently at about 1,500 annually) accepted for the program, so as to raise the acceptance rate for submissions to the AEA program from the current level of 15-20 percent to 25-30 percent, and to broaden the opportunities for AEA members to appear on the AEA program." [Letter from John J. Siegfried to Al Campbell (URPE representative to ASSA) dated May 15, 2006] To achieve this desired goal, the AEA made use of data collected on attendance at ASSA session. But while URPE's sessions have always been well attended, the AEA's definition of "attendees" excluded the presenters and discussants at a session, in accordance with its preferred concept of academic discourse, in which the audience is a passive receiver of information. (One of the ways that URPE dealt with the 1999 cuts was to increase the role of discussants at its sessions.) The data were thus slanted against URPE, with its preferred emphasis on participation at its sessions. We ask you protest these cuts by writing to John J. Siegfried, Secretary-Treasurer of the AEA, 2014 Broadway, Suite 305, Nashville, TN 37203; email: john.siegfried@vanderbilt.edu. In addition, we urge you to contact other economists who understand that the long-term health of the discipline of economics depends on its willingness to discuss alternative theoretical perspectives and to respond to the new issues that arise from changes in national and international economic relations. Please send a copy of any correspondence to URPE (urpe@labornet.org) so that we can help coordinate this response to the AEA. Thank you, Fred Moseley (Coordinator of URPE at ASSA) Laurie Nisonoff (Coordinator of URPE at ASSA and member of URPE Steering Committee) Paddy Quick (member of URPE Steering Committee) From rrosen at tellus.org Wed Oct 4 08:50:42 2006 From: rrosen at tellus.org (Richard Rosen) Date: Wed Oct 4 18:15:36 2006 Subject: [URPE] Great Transition Initiative paper series - New Message-ID: <03D40E61AC782D43AE6A7F906CDEFABA203249@mailsrvr.exchange.tellus.org> Dear Progressive Economist, You might be interested in the newly released paper series that can be found on the Great Transition Initiative website of the Tellus Institute (Boston): www.gtinitiative.org In particular, paper #4 is about visions of economic systems for the future. Sincerely, Rich Rosen Tellus Institute -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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And if you would like to have the seminars for your classes, meetings or to show on public access TV, DVDs are available too (at cost, $65 for a set, plus shipping). All of the videos, as well as the PowerPoint presentations and audio recordings, can be found at http://www.cepr.net/pages/seminars.htm. Seminar Descriptions 1) The Basics of Good Economics - Framing the Issues Right (Dean Baker) Economics is often perceived as something that only people with advanced degrees in the field can and should understand, but economic arguments are often used in confusing or misleading ways in policy debates and in the media. This session provides an introduction to people that want to be able to tell fact from fiction in discussions about the economy. Some of the topics covered are: * Getting the numbers right - Millions, billions, and trillions, the difference is in the context; * A rising stock market - As good for the economy as rising corn prices; and * Name-calling - How to fight back (hint: recognition is the first step - key words, "protectionist," "free trade," "double taxation," "takings"). 2) Growth I - Why Economists Worry About It So Much, and Why You Should Too (Dean Baker) Economists worry a great deal about growth, and for good reason. This session covers concepts related to growth and its importance - including why you should care about it. The session presents basic definitions, and developments in wealthy countries. It also goes over how growth is measured - the gory secrets of gross domestic product (GDP) - including what gets counted (e.g. military spending, jails, pollution control equipment) and what doesn't (household production, crime, pollution). Links are drawn between growth, jobs, productivity and wages. The experience of Europe is honestly compared to that of the U.S. (More vacation and shorter workweeks mean less growth in Europe - so what?) Finally, we cover how environmental regulations (e.g. the Kyoto agreement) and defense spending slow growth (hint: it's the same way). 3) The Long Slide Down and Apart: U.S. Labor Markets (John Schmitt) The United States has always been a highly unequal country, but inequality increased particularly sharply between the end of the 1970s and the present. First, we take a look at post-World-War-II trends in three crucial economic distributions -- wages, income, and wealth. Then, we relate the widening economic inequality since the late 1970s to a constellation of concrete economic policies, including macroeconomic policy, a stagnating minimum wage, the assault on U.S. unions, deregulation, privatization, and corporate globalization. 4) Growth II - Growth in the Developing World Over the Last Quarter Century (Mark Weisbrot) This session looks at the sharp fall-off in economic growth in the vast majority of developing countries, which began 25 years ago. This is probably one of the most important economic phenomena over the last quarter-century, and has been a driving force in electoral changes in Latin America, including Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela, Ecuador, and Uruguay. But despite its tremendous importance, it has received almost no attention in the United States. This session looks at the consequences and possible causes of this economic failure, as well as some of the few development success stories of the last 25 years -- e.g. China. 5) Trade - What Are the Gains and Who Gets Them (Mark Weisbrot) Standard economic analysis shows that efficiency gains from trade liberalization are much smaller than most people have been led to believe; at the same time developing countries make costly concessions for this trade, and within the U.S. there has been an upward redistribution of income resulting from trade policy. This session looks at who gains and loses from trade policy and how, including: * The high cost of protectionism - in professional services, intellectual property and other areas where government interventions redistribute income upward; and * The trade deficit and the overvalued dollar. 6) When Women Get Paid for Work: The Entry of Women to the Paid Labor Market (Heather Boushey) The latter half of the 20th century saw a significant change in the way that women work. In the 1960s, the majority of mothers worked at home, by the 1990s, the majority was in the paid labor market. This transformation has implications for the labor market, for policy, and for families, both in terms of family economics, as well as family formation and well-being. The movement of women into the labor market was driven both by economic conditions, which pushed women towards paid employment in order to keep their families financially secure (or afloat), and by women's desire for careers and identities other than motherhood. Americans, however, maintain deep ambivalences about working women and especially working mothers; institutions and social practices have not been quick to change to accommodate the new realities of the labor force. This session looks at the implications of these changes for women and American workers generally. 7) Horatio Alger is Dead (Heather Boushey) One of our most cherished national beliefs is that the United States offers tremendous opportunities for economic mobility, that even the poorest citizens or the most recent immigrants have a chance to make it rich or, at least, acquire their own piece of the "American dream." In fact, economic mobility in the United States has never been that great. International comparisons of economic mobility, for example, consistently demonstrate that European economies offer their poor far better chances of upward mobility than we do. Recent analyses also suggest that the degree of upward mobility has been on the decline since the 1970s. This session explores the realities of class mobility in America today. 8) The Federal Reserve Board - The Most Important Source of Poverty in the United States (Dean Baker) The Federal Reserve Bank plays a crucial role in the U.S. economy. This session explains how the Fed determines the number of people who get to hold jobs in the United States. We cover the economic myth that kept millions out of work: the non-accelerating inflation rate level of unemployment (NAIRU). We also discuss the Fed and the European Central Bank, including how bankers get to make the European welfare states look bad. 9) Financial Bubbles (Stocks and Housing) and How You Can Protect Yourself Against Them (Dean Baker) Speculative bubbles have caused enormous distortions in the U.S. and world economy over the past decade. This session explores what bubbles are, and why they happen. Topics include: * The nineties stock bubble - what caused it, why it was bad, and what could have stopped it; * The housing bubble - what caused it, why it was bad, and what could put an end to it; and * How the experts missed the bubbles and the cost of their mistakes (a.k.a. how the Congressional Budget Office over-estimated capital gains tax revenue by $1 trillion). 10) Intellectual Property - Patents, Copyrights, and Other Protectionist Barriers (Dean Baker) This session covers the role of patents and copyrights - how the government imposes monopolies to provide incentives. We point out the cost of patent monopolies in prescription drugs (@ $150 billion a year, or $2000 for a family of four). The session then examines alternatives to patent financing for prescription drug research (has anyone heard of the National Institutes of Health?). We also point out alternatives to copyrights for supporting music, movies, and software: artistic freedom vouchers (yes, progressives can like vouchers). From urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu Wed Oct 4 18:13:58 2006 From: urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu (urpe-moderator@lists.econ.utah.edu) Date: Wed Oct 4 18:18:20 2006 Subject: [URPE] [NYC] CEPA Economic Policy Workshop - Lou Uchitelle from NY Times - October 11th - 12:30 pm Message-ID: <45244E46.6000409@lists.econ.utah.edu> Upcoming Economic Policy Workshop at the Schwartz Center: "The Disposable American: Layoffs and Their Consequences" Lou Uchitelle, The New York Times Wednesday, October 11th 12:30pm-2:00pm 80 Fifth Avenue, 5th Fl. Conference Room Join us at 12:30 p.m. for a brown bag lunch and workshop. Read about the book at: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/29/books/29geog.html?ex=1301288400&en=0b0e24193db2451a&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss Directions to the Schwartz Center are available at http://www.newschool.edu/cepa/directory/location.htm Economic Policy Workshops are sponsored by: Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis The New School for Social Research 80 Fifth Avenue, 5th Floor New York, NY 10011 Tel: (212) 229-5901 x4911 Fax: (212) 229-5903 http://www.newschool.edu/cepa cepa@newschool.edu * * For help with this mailing list go to the CEPA Web site: * http://www.newschool.edu/cepa/ From rrosen at tellus.org Thu Oct 5 09:06:19 2006 From: rrosen at tellus.org (Richard Rosen) Date: Thu Oct 5 10:48:27 2006 Subject: [URPE] Great Transition Initiative paper series - New In-Reply-To: <03D40E61AC782D43AE6A7F906CDEFABA203249@mailsrvr.exchange.tellus.org> Message-ID: <03D40E61AC782D43AE6A7F906CDEFABA203257@mailsrvr.exchange.tellus.org> Please try the website www.greattransitioninitiative.org instead. Thanks. - Rich Rosen -----Original Message----- From: urpe-announcements-bounces@lists.econ.utah.edu [mailto:urpe-announcements-bounces@lists.econ.utah.edu] On Behalf Of Richard Rosen Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 10:51 AM To: urpe-announcements@lists.econ.utah.edu Cc: Orion Kriegman Subject: [URPE] Great Transition Initiative paper series - New Dear Progressive Economist, You might be interested in the newly released paper series that can be found on the Great Transition Initiative website of the Tellus Institute (Boston): www.gtinitiative.org In particular, paper #4 is about visions of economic systems for the future. Sincerely, Rich Rosen Tellus Institute -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Gudynas. WORLD BANK AND .... GOOD BUSINESS? World Bank's new version of how to do "good business", covered 175 countries, with updated information about the reforms carried out to attract investments. Factors like the protection of foreign investments and labor market flexibility were highlighted in the report. However, social and environmental aspects are not included as part of good business. The World Bank insists on the liberalization of economies. Report by Carolina Villalba. Both papers are available, in English, in PDF at www.southdevelopment.org the web site on sustainable development by D3E (Development, Economy, Ecology, Equity - Latin America), an initiative by CLAES (Latin American Center of Social Ecology). - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - D3E CLAES is a research and advocacy group on sustainable development working in Latinamerica, based in Montevideo (Uruguay). Further information at www.ambiental.net/claes - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - From urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu Mon Oct 9 13:36:27 2006 From: urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu (urpe-moderator@lists.econ.utah.edu) Date: Mon Oct 9 13:40:41 2006 Subject: [URPE] ASSA and URPE -- Announcement from Fred Lee References: <9A72753A447165498D6B63479DB2E7C9017002DA@KC-MSX3.kc.umkc.edu> Message-ID: <452AA4BB.3000007@lists.econ.utah.edu> Dear URPE members and friends, Fred Lee has been doing a lot of work on this issue; below is some of what is going on. He refers to attachments. The URPE list does not include attachments, so if you want to see them, and if you want to join his list for more regular updates, please write to Fred: leefs@umkc.edu He can also give you more information on AFEE (Assoc. for Evolutionary Economics) and its list. **************************************************************** Lee, Frederic wrote: > Dear Colleagues, > > > > There has been extensive discussion concerning the information I > distributed about the ASSA cut-backs on URPE sessions. Some have > written letters to Siegfried and copied me while others on the AFEE > listserve have engaged in a discussion about the pros and cons of > leaving the ASSA. I have attached a document which contains the > letters and the discussion and I urge you to look at it. As Acting > Director of ICAPE I have also written a letter to Siegfried and have > attached that as well. > > > > At this point, some statistics may be useful. Drawing on the ASSA > 2006, there were approximately 456 sessions. They were distributed > among the 48 organizations that sponsored sponsor sessions in the > following manner (jointly sponsored sessions are divided in half and > given to each participating organization--this avoids double counting): > > > > AEA - 141 > > ES - 50 > > AFA - 45 > > LERA - 26.5 > > AREUEM - 23 > > URPE - 16 > > AFEE - 12.5 > > SGE - 9.5 > > AERE - 9 > > NEA - 8.5 > > ACES - 8.5 > > ASE - 8 > > NAEFA - 7 > > AAEA - 6 > > MEEA - 6 > > IAFFE - 5.5 > > Less than 5 sessions: 32 organizations with 74 sessions > > > > Points to notice: > > > > 1. While URPE has 18 session slots it effective gave away 2 > slots with 4 joint sessions--3 with IAFFE and one with the AEA--so > effectively URPE has 16 session slots. The same kind of argument can > be given for IAFFE which has 5.5 session slots but actually had a > program of nine sessions, 7 of them being joint sessions; similarly > ASE has 8 session slots (which includes the one on Thursday before the > meetings begin and the ASE breakfast) but had a program of 9 sessions > with 2 of them being joint sessions; AFEE has 12.5 session slots but a > program of 13 sessions with one being a joint session; and finally > Economists for Peace and Society has 1.5 session slots but a program > of 2 sessions with one of them being a joint session. Overall the 5 > organizations (all of whom belong to ICAPE) have a total of 43.5 sessions. > > > > 2. The top three organizations control roughly 52% of the > sessions and the top five organizations control 62.6% of the > sessions. On the other hand, the bottom 32 organizations have 16.2% > of the sessions and the average number of sessions per organization is > 2.3. Finally, the middle group of eleven organizations control 21.2% > of the sessions. Now if AEA wants 13 additional sessions and assuming > the global number of sessions are fixed (which is the way Siegfried > posed the issue), then it is the middle group that is going to be > affected. The AEA is not going to take sessions from the ES or the > AFA and my guess will not take sessions from LERA and AREUEM--to many > overlapping members and large enough to engage in an effective > protest. On the other hand, the organizations in the bottom class are > simply to small to worry about--if the AEA starting taking their > session slots, the organizations would disappear from the ASSA > altogether and many of them the AEA would like to keep around--a tail > of small and non-challenging organizations maintains the fiction that > the ASSA/AEA is open and embraces the entire profession. This leaves > the middle group which are large enough to have sessions taken away > and still remain viable but non-challenging. This looks like a > redistribution to the rich and powerful from the weak and powerless. > Why URPE--perhaps because it is heterodox and heterodoxy is not > wanted; but also because it actually has enough sessions that when two > are taken away it won't immediately implode and leave the ASSA. And > besides that, Siegfried could be thinking "why should URPE be larger > than ASE, AFEE, etc.--so lets make URPE the same size as the others. > Of course there can be other reasons > > > > 3. It is not possible for a single organization such as AFEE, > ASE, IAFFE, URPE and EPS to individually defend themselves against the > AEA--however, if they worked as a collective, then they would perhaps > have a better chance. Of course one way to do this is to work through > ICAPE, but there are other possibilities. But whatever is done, the > ultimate objective is to prevent AEA from singling out individual > organizations to attack--so instead of Siegfried sending a letter to > URPE, he would have to send a letter to a collective and this > collective, if it includes AFEE, ASE, IAFFE, URPE, and EPS and hence > is almost as large as AFA, might be able to mount a challenge against > the AEA. > > > > Fred Lee > > > > Professor Frederic S. Lee > > Department of Economics > > University of Missouri-Kansas City > > 5100 Rockhill Road > > Kansas City, Missouri 64110 > > USA > > E-mail: leefs@umkc.edu > > Book Series Editor of "Advances in Heterodox Economics" > > > > For Heterodox Economics on the Web see > http://www.orgs.bucknell.edu/afee/hetecon.htm > > For the Association for Heterodox Economics: http://www.hetecon.com. > > For Heterodox Economics Newsletter: > http://l.web.umkc.edu/leefs/htn.htm http://www.heterodoxnews.com > > International Confederation of Associations for Pluralism in Economics > (ICAPE): http://icape.org/ > > > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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These panels also led to the creation of a web page on URPE's website: http://urpe.org/Iran_Crisis.htm The relationship between the US and Iran is still in crisis, and the web page has received many new additions since it was first announced early in the summer. The page contains articles, books, radio shows, a video and organizations, with links wherever possible. You can play or download the radio shows and excerpts from panels, and you can order the video. Speakers and writers featured on this page include Ervand Abrahamian, Cyrus Bina, Faramarz Farbod, Reza Ghorashi, Ismael Hossein-zadeh, Leili Kashani, Michael Klare, Fatemeh Moghadam, Kamran Nayeri, Tom O'Donnell, Hamideh Sedghi and Behzad Yaghmaian. The is also a link to the RRPE page on Sage's website -- you can look up references to articles on Iran that have been published in the "Review of Radical Political Economics," URPE's journal, over the years. All opinions expressed in the talks, articles and books on the web page are those of the authors and do not represent positions of URPE as an organization. There is also a great variety of opinion among the authors listed on this page. From urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu Mon Oct 9 16:10:42 2006 From: urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu (urpe-moderator@lists.econ.utah.edu) Date: Mon Oct 9 16:14:56 2006 Subject: [URPE] [NYC] Brecht Forum: Fall Classes Beginning in October:Poverty, Germinal, Witches and More! 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Sincerely, Tom Palley Economics for Democratic & Open Societies Project Tel: 202-249-2317 e-mail: mail@thomaspalley.com www.thomaspalley.com From Stephanie.Seguino at uvm.edu Thu Oct 12 13:16:46 2006 From: Stephanie.Seguino at uvm.edu (Stephanie Seguino) Date: Fri Oct 13 08:05:18 2006 Subject: [URPE] Job Ad Censorship by AEA Message-ID: <5.2.1.1.0.20061012151555.01029b80@imap.uvm.edu> Dear URPE members: The Economics Department at the University of Vermont placed an ad for a tenure track faculty in JOE at the end of September. JOE edited this ad (without any notice), deleting the latter half of the last sentence, in particular the phrase that the Department "welcomes applications from women and underrepresented ethnic, racial and cultural groups and from people with disabilities." (To see ad, http://www.aeaweb.org/joe/0610d/html/joe193.html). When we queried AEA on this, John Siegfried, Director of JOE, responded that that phrase was edited out because it is discriminatory, and indicated that AEA has a policy to not publish advertising that discriminates on the basis of race, sex, color, religion, and sexual preference. He has therefore at this time refuses to reinstate the entire ad. Our lawyer has reviewed this ad and indicates that this ad is in no way discriminatory. We are now considering our response. I am therefore writing to the URPE listserve to inquire as to how URPE or academic institutions may have or are responding to this position of the AEA. Please contact me directly with your comments at: stephanie.seguino@uvm.edu. Thanks very much. Best, Stephanie Seguino ********************************* Stephanie Seguino Associate Professor, Department of Economics Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences 438 College St. Burlington, VT 05405-4160 Tel. 802.656.0187 FAX: 802.656.4529 Email: Stephanie.Seguino@uvm.edu -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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A list of all of our fall 2006 workshops is available at: http://www.newschool.edu/cepa/events/events_epwksp.htm Directions to the Schwartz Center are available at http://www.newschool.edu/cepa/directory/location.htm Economic Policy Workshops are sponsored by: Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis The New School for Social Research 80 Fifth Avenue, 5th Floor New York, NY 10011 Tel: (212) 229-5901 x4911 Fax: (212) 229-5903 http://www.newschool.edu/cepa cepa@newschool.edu * * For help with this mailing list go to the CEPA Web site: * http://www.newschool.edu/cepa/ From leefs at umkc.edu Mon Oct 16 07:23:47 2006 From: leefs at umkc.edu (Lee, Frederic) Date: Mon Oct 16 14:40:08 2006 Subject: [URPE] Heterodox Economics Newsletter 33 Message-ID: <9A72753A447165498D6B63479DB2E7C901700958@KC-MSX3.kc.umkc.edu> Heterodox Economics Newsletter Issue-33, October 16, 2006 >From the Editor Before dealing with a couple of serious matters, I would just like to note that in this Newsletter there are some new calls for papers, including one by the AHE and the New School Economic Review; numerous conferences, seminars, and lectures-especially note the seminar at Ashcroft International Business School organized by Ioana Negru; three new jobs postings; and various newsletters, new books and web sites, and a couple of interesting papers discussing the future of the history of economic thought. A couple of weeks ago, URPE sent out a memo alerting people to the fact that the AEA was reducing the number of sessions URPE gets at the ASSA from 18 to 16; and it was requested that people write letters to the AEA protesting this. Upon receiving the memo, I sent it to my US-based e-mail lists. One consequence was that a number of individuals including myself as acting director of ICAPE sent letters to AEA protesting the move. A second consequence was a broad conversation on whether heterodox economics associations should remain in the ASSA either individually or as part of a collective, drop out completely of the ASSA and do their own thing, or some kind of mixture of the two. Much of the conversations were carried out on the AFEE listserve, but parts of the conversation were sent to me directly. Believing that readers of the Newsletter might be interested in all of this, I collected and arranged all the contributions that have been made over the past two weeks. They can be perused at your leisure at "URPE, Heterodox Economics, and the ASSA." As you wade through the 36-page document, you will notice that the pros and cons are stated clearly but not in total opposition to each other, thus leaving room for a negotiated outcome that could benefit all. In addition, there is some discussion about forming a united front when dealing with the ASSA. Still, while many heterodox economists happily engage across heterodox approaches, it seems that heterodox associations are reluctant to do so. Finally, data regarding the head-count of those attending AFEE, URPE, ASE, and IAFFE suggest that heterodox economists are not attending heterodox sessions in large numbers. Thus it seems, perhaps, that heterodox economists do not feel that it is important to attend heterodox sessions and engage with heterodox economists in a variety of ways at the ASSA. I urge all heterodox economists to attend the ASSA in Chicago-attend the heterodox sessions, engage with each other intellectually and socially, and above all cruise all the receptions and eat-drink-and talk until you can do no more. (ProtestASSAcut.doc ) A second issue that I would like to make you aware of concerns a job ad that the University of Vermont wanted to run in JOE. Professor Stephanie Seguino explains the issue: The Economics Department at the University of Vermont placed an ad for a tenure track faculty in JOE at the end of September. JOE edited this ad (without any notice), deleting the latter half of the last sentence, in particular the phrase that the Department "welcomes applications from women and underrepresented ethnic, racial and cultural groups and from people with disabilities." (To see ad, http://www.aeaweb.org/joe/0610d/html/joe193.html). When we queried AEA on this, John Siegfried, Director of JOE, responded that that phrase was edited out because it is discriminatory, and indicated that AEA has a policy to not publish advertising that discriminates on the basis of race, sex, color, religion, and sexual preference. He has therefore at this time refuses to reinstate the entire ad. Our lawyer has reviewed this ad and indicates that this ad is in no way discriminatory. We are now considering our response. I am therefore writing to the URPE listserve and to inquire as to how URPE or academic institutions may have or are responding to this position of the AEA. Please contact me directly with your comments at: stephanie.seguino@uvm.edu. If anyone, whether associate with URPE or not, can help Professor Seguino, please e-mail her. We all survive with a little help from our friends Fred Lee In this issue: - Call for Papers - Eastern Economic Association Meeting - INTERVENTION. Journal of Economics - ICAPE Conference, 1-3 JUNE 2007 - Association for Heterodox Economics 9th Annual Conference 2007 - CHORD workshop - The New School Economic Review - Conferences, Seminars and Lectures - Ashcroft International Business School - Workshop: Financial Liberalisation and Economic Performance - ANN--SCEME Workshop - Historical Materialism 2006 Conference - City University London - Berlin Conference 27 - 28 October 2006 - The Rethinking Marxism 2006 - Sumner Rosen Memorial Lecture - Cambridge Realist Workshop - Marx and Philosophy Society - Job Posting s for Heterodox Economists - The Evergreen State College - Earlham College - University of Vermont - Heterodox Conference Papers and Reports and Articles - Center for Economic and Policy Research - Heterodox Journals and Newsletters - The Talking Economics Bulletin - Center for Economic and Policy Research - Center for Economic and Social Research- E Newsletter - Revista De Economia Institucional - Issues in Regulation Theory - Opinion Sur - IFS Newsletter: October 2006 - Heterodox Books and Book Series - The Knowledge-Based Economy: Modeled, Measured - Affirmative Action in the United States and India: A Comparative Perspective - For Your Information - History of Economic Thought - URPE's "Political Economy of the Iran Crisis" web page - URPE at the Easterns - www.worldhunger.org -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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I am inviting all URPErs attending the Rethinking Marxism 2006 conference to drop in and visit at my new condominium in Amherst, Massachusetts on Friday, October 27, 2006 From 4-6 pm At 7 McIntosh Drive 413 256 0410 There will be drinks and snacks and we can always have food delivered if folks want to stay for dinner before the plenary. RSVP: lnisonoff@hampshire.edu or above number Directions to 7 McIntosh Drive, Amherst From Hampshire College: Leave campus by Bay Road entrance (next to Eric Carle Museum). Turn left as if to Atkins. Take almost immediate right onto Rambling Road (before Atkins) at the Upper Orchard sign. Drive about one city block to second right, McIntosh Drive. Number 7 is first unit on the right, if you have taken the first turn onto McIntosh. If you have continued on and have made second turn onto McIntosh, 7 will be the last unit on the left. From downtown Amherst: Take 116 south past Hampshire College (about four miles). At Atkins Corner (intersection with Bay Road) turn right onto Bay Road, alongside Atkins. Take the first left past Atkins onto Rambling Road at the Upper Orchard sign. Make the second right onto McIntosh Drive. Number 7 is first unit on the right. Coming from the south there are two ways to come: Taking I-91 to Exit 19 in Northampton go down the ramp and bear right over the Calvin Coolidge Bridge following signs to Hadley and Amherst. At first light, make a right onto Aqua Vitae Road (following signs to Hampshire College, Eric Carle Museum or Atkins). Travel on this road (which will merge with Route 47) until you are signed left onto Bay Road towards the college etc. Eventually you will reach the Bay Road entrance to Hampshire and the Eric Carle Museum; just past that there is a right turn onto Rambling Road, signed for Upper Orchard. Take that right, go about a block; McIntosh Drive will be on your right. Number 7 is first unit on the right. If this seems difficult the longer way is to go over the bridge and stay on Route 9 into the center of the town of Amherst. Make the right turn onto Route 116 south and then follow directions from downtown Amherst. ALTERNATELY: Driving north on 116 from South Hadley over the Notch, turn left at Atkins onto Bay Road. The turn into Upper Orchard will be on your left almost immediately past Atkins. McIntosh Drive is the second right. The unit is the first on the right. From Boston etc. there are also several choices. You might take Route 9 into the town of Amherst. Turn left (south) onto 116 at Amherst College, signed for Hampshire College. Drive south past Hampshire. Turn right at Bay Road (Atkins Corner). Take first left after Atkins onto Rambling Road (signed for Upper Orchard). If the Bay Road entrance to college/Eric Carle Museum is on your right you have gone too far. ALTERNATELY: If you come west on Route 9 from the turnpike you might make the turns to end up on Bay Road coming west towards Atkins Corner (intersection of Bay Rd and 116 just south of Hampshire College). If so, proceed through Atkins Corner and make first possible left after Atkins while driving towards Northampton. It is signed for Upper Orchard; then follow directions above. If you reach the right hand entrance to Eric Carle Museum and HC you will have missed the just previous turn, which leads into Upper Orchard. -- Laurie Nisonoff Professor of Economics School of Social Science Hampshire College Amherst, MA 01002 p: 413-559-5397 f: 413-559-5620 e: lnisonoff@hampshire.edu -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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ABD will be considered if the date of defense is prior to September 2007. Research specialization must be applied in nature, and focus on Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics with an emphasis on the Asia Pacific region. Teaching responsibilities would include Macroeconomics, Economic Development of Asia Pacific Region, International Trade and Finance, and a lower division General Education course on the Economics of Globalization. Responsibilities include participation in the department's ongoing summer program with the Istanbul Technical University, with some shared administrative duties. An active interest in research and publication is expected. Please send curriculum vitae, student teaching evaluations and other evidence of teaching effectiveness, a sample research paper, transcript, and three current letters of reference to: Search #F06-14, SUNY---New Paltz, Department of Economics JFT 814, 600 Hawk Drive, New Paltz, NY 12561-2440. Deadline: December 1, 2006. 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Lee Department of Economics University of Missouri-Kansas City 5100 Rockhill Road Kansas City, Missouri 64110 USA E-mail: leefs@umkc.edu Book Series Editor of "Advances in Heterodox Economics" For Heterodox Economics on the Web see http://www.orgs.bucknell.edu/afee/hetecon.htm For the Association for Heterodox Economics: http://www.hetecon.com. For Heterodox Economics Newsletter: http://l.web.umkc.edu/leefs/htn.htm http://www.heterodoxnews.com International Confederation of Associations for Pluralism in Economics (ICAPE): http://icape.org/ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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See you there! -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 1018 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/urpe-announcements/attachments/20061023/e3cb5941/attachment.txt From ccross at yorku.ca Tue Oct 24 12:11:59 2006 From: ccross at yorku.ca (Carolyn Cross) Date: Tue Oct 24 13:31:02 2006 Subject: [URPE] Job opportunity for URPE Listserv Message-ID: Please send the following job ad out on the URPE listserv. A confirmation of receipt would be appreciated. Thank you. Carolyn Cross Administrative Secretary to the Chair Department of Political Science York University S670 Ross 4700 Keele St. Toronto ON Canada M3J 1P3 Tel 416 736 2100 ext 33197 Fax 416 736 5686 ccross@yorku.ca www.arts.yorku.ca/politics ______________________ The Department of Political Science, Faculty of Arts, York University invites applications for a tenure-track position at the Assistant Professor level in Comparative Political Economy. Required qualifications include a completed PhD in Political Science, or equivalent, and an ongoing program of research in political economy from a comparative perspective. The successful candidate must be suitable for prompt appointment to the Graduate Program in Political Science. The position, to commence July 1, 2007, is subject to budgetary approval. Applicants should submit a letter of application, including a curriculum vitae, teaching dossier and sample publication, and arrange to have three confidential letters of reference sent to: Professor David McNally, Chair, Department of Political Science, Faculty of Arts, S669 Ross Building, York University, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M3J 1P3. Tel: 416.736.2100, x20266. Fax: 416.736.5686. York University is an Affirmative Action Employer. The Affirmative Action Program can be found on York?s website at www.yorku.ca/acadjobs or a copy can be obtained by calling the affirmative action office at 416.736.5713. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadian citizens and permanent residents will be given priority. Deadline: November 15, 2006 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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CARRS is a multidisciplinary department that addresses critical issues at the interfaces of agriculture, natural resources, recreation, and communities both domestically and internationally. Its mission is to assist the development of sustainable communities by conducting excellent scholarly research, teaching and outreach in (1) leadership, education, and communication, (2) community, food, and agriculture, (3) natural resources, land use, and the environment, and (4) recreation and tourism. The Department of Sociology has a history of research, teaching and service that focus on the challenges of global understanding of social, political and cultural differences and how a global context accounts for social processes, change, and inequality both locally and abroad. The Department of Sociology organizes its scholarship around the areas of food and agriculture, environment, science and technology; family and gender; urban, race and migration;, and health and wellbeing. The Environmental Science and Policy Program (ESPP) is a university-wide research and graduate education program focusing on interdisciplinary environmental science (See http://environment.msu.edu/). Appointment Overview: The position to be filled is in the tenure system at the assistant professor level with an academic year appointment. This position will be jointly appointed in CARRS and Sociology with one of these two departments being the tenure home for the appointment. Position Description: The successful candidate is expected to develop a coordinated research, teaching, and outreach program relevant to global markets and the environment. The successful candidate will be expected to develop an internationally recognized program of scholarly research, as evidenced by scholarly publications, external support, and disciplinary and professional involvement in her/his areas of inquiry. Development of external grants and/or contracts to support this research and attendant graduate student support is necessary. The successful candidate will initially be expected to teach at least two full courses or equivalent per year. This can include a mix of a departmental foundational courses, undergraduate specialty courses and graduate courses. The final teaching portfolio will be developed in consultation with the department chairs based on candidates interest and departmental needs. Mentoring and funding graduate students in thesis and dissertation research will be expected. General departmental and university responsibilities are a component of all tenure track appointments, as are outreach to stakeholder groups, and involvement in disciplinary and professional organizations, relevant to the candidates scholarship. Candidates substantive areas of interest should complement MSU's environmental strengths (see http://environment.msu.edu). The successful applicant will be expected to be an active and contributing member of CARRS, the Department of Sociology, and the Environmental Science & Policy Program. The scholarly agenda of the successful applicant might include such foci as: i) the relationships between agrifood production and ecosystems functions and services, ii.) consumer demand for goods and services that have been produced in environmentally and socially beneficial ways; iii) the social, economic and environmental impacts of grades and standards; and/or, iv) the roles of government, the private sector, and civil society in defining and supporting markets. Applicants are expected to evidence expertise in a coupled human and natural systems framework and computational modeling relevant to their scholarly focus. Preference is for a scholar with international and foreign language competence. Qualifications: Minimum qualifications for this position are a Ph.D. degree in a relevant field. Post-doctoral degree experience preferred but not required. Salary: Salary is competitive and dependent on qualifications. Application and Deadline Process: Deadline for applications is December 15, 2006 or until suitable candidates are identified. Starting date will be either August 15, 2007 or date to be agreed upon. Applicants should submit to the chair of the search committee: 1) a letter of application describing fit to the job description, 2) CV, 3) a brief essay (250 words) on teaching and research accomplishments and goals, 4) official university transcripts, 5) the names and contact information of three individuals writing letters of reference, and 6) up to 3 reprints of publications or other examples of scholarship. Letters of reference should be sent directly to the committee by the referees by the deadline. Submission of materials in electronic format is preferred. Submit applications to: Dr. Michael D. Kaplowitz Chair; Global Markets and the Environment Search Committee Dept. of CARRS 153 Natural Resources Michigan State University East Lansing, MI 48824-1222 kaplowit@msu.edu For further information please contact Michael Kaplowitz in CARRS at kaplowit@msu.edu or 517-355-0101, or Craig Harris in the Department of Sociology at harrisc@msu.edu . More information about the departments can be found at www.carrs.msu.edu and www.sociology.msu.edu. MSU is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Institution From urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu Sun Oct 29 12:26:48 2006 From: urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu (urpe-moderator@lists.econ.utah.edu) Date: Sun Oct 29 12:30:45 2006 Subject: [URPE] [NYC] Brecht Forum: Freire, Intl. Law, Poverty & Motherhood, Mat Callahan and More Message-ID: <45450078.7050909@lists.econ.utah.edu> Skipped content of type multipart/alternative-------------- next part -------------- _______________________________________________ Brechtevents1 mailing list Brechtevents1@lists.mayfirst.org https://lists.mayfirst.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/brechtevents1 From chow at conncoll.edu Sun Oct 29 12:56:51 2006 From: chow at conncoll.edu (Howes, Candace) Date: Sun Oct 29 14:02:19 2006 Subject: [URPE] Latin American Economics Position at Connecticut College Message-ID: Connecticut College F, O54 - International Economics, Latin America The Department of Economics has an opening for a Tenure Track position at the level of Assistant Professor beginning Fall 2007, with expertise in Latin American economics with focus on international finance and trade. The successful applicant will teach five courses, which may include introductory and intermediate theory courses, econometrics, and upper level field courses. Qualified applicants should expect Ph.D. by August 2007 and have some experience teaching. Connecticut College is a private, highly selective college with a strong commitment to the liberal arts tradition and an emphasis on broad interdisciplinary teaching and research and is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. The College is committed by mission to developing and sustaining a diverse faculty and staff. Candidates should have the ability to work with students from diverse backgrounds. See www.conncoll.edu/facultysearch/index.html for more details. Cover letter, CV, graduate transcripts, evidence of teaching ability (particularly summaries of teaching evaluations), and three letters of reference should accompany applications. 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See you there! -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 1238 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/urpe-announcements/attachments/20061030/03b9c960/attachment.txt From urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu Wed Nov 1 19:37:59 2006 From: urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu (urpe-moderator@lists.econ.utah.edu) Date: Wed Nov 1 19:41:52 2006 Subject: [URPE] [NYC] CEPA Economic Policy Workshop - Kimberly Elliot - November 8th - 12:30 pm Message-ID: <45495A07.3070706@lists.econ.utah.edu> Upcoming Economic Policy Workshop at the Schwartz Center: "If Doha is Revived, is Agriculture the Key to Success?" Kimberly Elliot Institute for International Economics Wednesday, November 8th 12:30pm-2:00pm 80 Fifth Avenue, 5th Fl. Conference Room Join us at 12:30 p.m. for a brown bag lunch and workshop. Download the policy brief and read about the book at: http://www.newschool.edu/cepa/events/events_epwksp.htm Directions to the Schwartz Center are available at http://www.newschool.edu/cepa/directory/location.htm Economic Policy Workshops are sponsored by: Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis The New School for Social Research 80 Fifth Avenue, 5th Floor New York, NY 10011 Tel: (212) 229-5901 x4911 Fax: (212) 229-5903 http://www.newschool.edu/cepa * * For help with this mailing list go to the CEPA Web site: * http://www.newschool.edu/cepa/ From urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu Wed Nov 1 19:49:11 2006 From: urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu (urpe-moderator@lists.econ.utah.edu) Date: Wed Nov 1 19:53:03 2006 Subject: [URPE] Economics Position at Hobart and William Smith Colleges Message-ID: <45495CA7.2010601@lists.econ.utah.edu> Hobart and William Smith Colleges Geneva, New York B4 Political Economy and Methodology B5 Current heterodox approaches B54 Feminist Economics Hobart and William Smith Colleges invite applications for a tenure track position at the Assistant Professor level for fall 2007. The position requires a specialization in political economy and methodology, with emphasis on heterodox approaches in political economy. Ph.D. preferred, AbD considered. Teaching responsibilities include five courses per year and would typically be one section of a core course in political economy (comparative theory and methodology), elective courses in radical and feminist analysis, possible section(s) of principles of economics, and one other course which could be in the Colleges? interdisciplinary programs or general education areas. Hobart College for men and William Smith College for women are coordinate, undergraduate liberal arts institutions sharing a single faculty and residential campus in the Finger Lakes region of Western New York. The Colleges are strongly committed to interdisciplinary programs, to global studies and off-campus programs, and to gender studies. The faculty is an active intellectual community reaching across disciplinary lines to do significant teaching and research. Both the Colleges and the city of Geneva are diverse communities. Hobart and William Smith Colleges are committed to attracting and supporting a faculty of women and men that fully represent the racial, ethnic, and cultural diversity of the nation and actively seek applications from under-represented groups. The Colleges do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, marital status, national origin, age, disability, veteran's status, sexual orientation or any other protected status. Candidates should send a letter of application, c.v., evidence of teaching experience, and arrange to have three recommendations sent to Christopher Gunn, Chair, Department of Economics, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY 14456. Consideration of applications will begin November 15, 2006, and continue until the position is filled. Interviews will be conducted at the Allied Social Science Associations meetings. From mail at thomaspalley.com Tue Oct 31 10:37:35 2006 From: mail at thomaspalley.com (Thomas Palley) Date: Wed Nov 1 20:04:18 2006 Subject: [URPE] OP-ED: Replace Europe's Growth and Stability Pact Message-ID: Dear URPE Friends & Colleagues, This week's policy op-ed is titled "Replace Europe?s Growth and Stability Pact with Market Discipline and Democracy." It is posted on my website at www.thomaspalley.com Please feel free to share it with other persons who may be interested in this subject. Sincerely, Tom Palley Economics for Democratic & Open Societies Project Tel: 202-249-2317 e-mail: mail@thomaspalley.com www.thomaspalley.com From urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu Wed Nov 1 21:10:48 2006 From: urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu (urpe-moderator@lists.econ.utah.edu) Date: Wed Nov 1 21:14:40 2006 Subject: [URPE] [Western Mass] W. Mass. Social Forum - Gen. assembly, Nov. 2 Message-ID: <45496FC8.7050006@lists.econ.utah.edu> W. Mass. Social Forum General Assembly Date: Thursday, Nov. 2, 2006 Time: 6:30-8:30 pm Place: Media Education Foundation 60 Masonic St., Northampton -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 993 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/urpe-announcements/attachments/20061101/fa45728f/attachment.txt From SCHMIDTP at BuffaloState.edu Fri Nov 3 06:25:10 2006 From: SCHMIDTP at BuffaloState.edu (Schmidt,Ted) Date: Fri Nov 3 06:24:54 2006 Subject: [URPE] RE: Job announcement Message-ID: <95FE8EB35897504F992B520D541A2AA1016EEA9D@BSCMAIL4VS.bsclogon.buffalostate.edu> Please send out the attached job opening on the URPE listserve. Thanks. Ted Schmidt D - Microeconomics DO - General D6 - Welfare Economics Buffalo State College invites applications for a full-time, tenure track position in the Department of Economics and Finance, beginning September 2007. Primary teaching responsibilities are in the fields of applied microeconomics and an MA-level cost-benefit analysis course. Preference is for candidates who show evidence of high-quality teaching, scholarship, and interest in undergraduate and graduate student research. Potential for teaching statistics and econometrics will also be considered. Ph.D. (must be completed by August 1, 2007) in economics or finance with a concentration in micro economics is required. The Department has a tradition of openness to alternative paradigms. For more information and position requirements, see "Jobs" at: www.buffalostate.edu/offices/hr. Applicant must submit a cover letter (to include a statement of teaching philosophy and research interests), curriculum vitae, evidence of teaching competency, sample of written work, and three letters of reference to Professor Alex Ratkowski, Chair Search Committee, Department of Economics and Finance, 1300 Elmwood Ave. Buffalo State College, Buffalo NY, 14222. To schedule an interview at the ASSA meetings in Chicago, all materials must be received by December 15, 2006. However, applications will be accepted until March 1, 2007. Electronic submissions are preferred. Please direct electronic submissions to Ms. Kathy Crehan at crehanka@buffalostate.edu. Buffalo State College is an urban campus with a diverse student population. Additional information about the College and its mission and facilities is available at www.buffalostate.edu. Buffalo State is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Applicants should be prepared to develop and teach courses in two or more of the following areas: Community Economic Development, Immigration in American Society, The Environment and Sustainable Development, Labor, Community, and the Environment. We encourage candidates who also have an interest in teaching related courses in Methods of Policy Analysis, Economics for Public Policy, Social Change Across Borders, and Urban and Environmental Planning. UEP is an interdisciplinary major that involves faculty in politics, sociology, economics, history, biology, geology, and other disciplines. We will consider candidates with training in a variety of disciplines, including urban planning, political science, sociology, environmental studies, public policy, economics, history, and law. Candidates with practical political/community/planning experience are strongly encouraged to apply. We encourage candidates who are familiar with Los Angeles. Candidates should be immersed in the pedagogy of community based learning and able to expand the College's efforts to promote internships, community based learning in classes, and partnerships with public, private, and non profit organizations in Los Angeles, California, and Washington, D.C. The UEP program is closely linked with the Urban & Environmental Policy Institute, through which students, faculty and staff engage in applied research and community engagement. (http://www.uepi.oxy.edu) Applicants should submit a letter of interest demonstrating a commitment to academic excellence in a diverse liberal arts environment, and including a statement of teaching philosophy, areas of teaching interest, and plans for research/creative work; a curriculum vitae; samples of scholarly or creative work; and three letters of recommendation to: Professor Peter Dreier UEP Program Search Chair Occidental College MS-M1 1600 Campus Road Los Angeles, CA 90041 All materials are due by November 17, 2006. Occidental College is an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer. The College is committed to academic excellence in a diverse community and supporting interdisciplinary and multicultural academic programs that provide a gifted and diverse group of students with an educational experience that prepares them for leadership in a pluralistic world. Women and minorities are strongly encouraged to apply. Please visit our website for more information about Occidental College: http://www.oxy.edu/ _______________________________________________ This is the listserve of the Union for Radical Political Economics, an interdisciplinary association devoted to the study, development and application of radical political economic analysis to social problems. This is a moderated announcement-only listserve. Messages will be kept to a minimum. The content of announcements must be strongly related to economics, i.e. jobs, conferences, talks, classes, resources. Please submit messages exactly as you would like them to go out (spelling, etc.). Messages will go out in plain text. Do not include attachments. ANY OPINIONS EXPRESSED IN THE MESSAGES AND IN THE EVENTS THEY PROMOTE ARE THOSE OF THE INDIVIDUAL WRITERS AND SPEAKERS, NOT OF URPE AS AN ORGANIZATION. 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From urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu Fri Nov 3 14:32:08 2006 From: urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu (urpe-moderator@lists.econ.utah.edu) Date: Fri Nov 3 14:36:03 2006 Subject: [URPE] ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN AFRICAN DIASPORA POLITICAL ECONOMY Message-ID: <454BB558.3060209@lists.econ.utah.edu> Department of Africana Studies College of Arts and Sciences University of South Florida ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN AFRICAN DIASPORA POLITICAL ECONOMY Position # 13077 The Department of Africana Studies, University of South Florida, invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor appointment in African Diaspora Political Economy, with specialty in health and development. The appointment will become effective August 2007 and will be based on a nine-month contract. Salary will be commensurate with experience and accomplishment. Responsibilities will include graduate and undergraduate teaching, research and publication, and community engagement/service. The successful candidate will have a tenure earning position in the Department of Africana Studies. Minimum qualifications: A Ph.D. by date of employment to be appointed as Assistant Professor or the Department reserves the right to withdraw the offer; discipline open, but the candidate must have had graduate training in political economy and/or economics; teaching experience consistent with rank; a record of scholarly accomplishments relating to the African Diaspora; and a clearly articulated research agenda. Scholarship should be firmly grounded, theoretically and empirically, in the field of political economy, with demonstrated high level of comfort with and skill in both quantitative and qualitative methodologies. The department is willing to consider an outstanding junior scholar whose primary interest is not currently health, per se, but who is committed to move his/her scholarship in that direction immediately. Preferred Qualifications: The preferred candidate's training and research will include issues related to health, sustainable human systems, and human security (broadly defined) in Africa and the African Diaspora. We are particularly interested in scholars who display the following: a commitment to interdisciplinary research that has both theoretical and applied value; demonstrated inclination towards the development of new paradigms to guide diaspora health security research; leadership aptitude and desire to help develop a new academic direction (diaspora health security) for a small department. Application: Send letter of application, curriculum vita, a sample of published work, and three letters of reference to the address below. The letter of application should include a narrative of the applicant's academic history and research plans, his/her theoretical orientation, and a description of teaching experience and methods. The position is open until filled; evaluation of applications will begin January 19, 2007. Dr. Edward Kissi Political Economy Search Committee Co-Chair Department of Africana Studies University of South Florida 4202 East Fowler Avenue, FAO 270 Tampa, Florida 33620. USF is an AA/EO/EA institution. For ADA accommodations, please contact the Department of Africana Studies (813/974-2427) at least five days in advance. According to Florida law, applications and meetings regarding them are open to the public According to Florida Law, applications and meetings regarding them are open to the public. For ADA accommodations, please contact Yvonne Eisenhart at 813/974-4177 or yeisenha@cas.usf.edu at least five working days prior to need. USF is an AA/EEO institution. Edward Kissi, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of African History USF, Dept. of Africana Studies 4202 E. Fowler Ave, FAO 270 Tampa, FL 33620 Tel.: 813-974-7784 Fax.: 813-974-4434 ekissi@cas.usf.edu -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 10120 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/urpe-announcements/attachments/20061103/19400cd6/attachment.txt From xhoffman at bestweb.net Fri Nov 3 16:02:21 2006 From: xhoffman at bestweb.net (xhoffman) Date: Fri Nov 3 15:12:45 2006 Subject: [URPE] job listing Message-ID: <5c1si1$93pk6p@smtp01.lnh.mail.rcn.net> New York City Accounting tenure track position at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. For Fall 2007 DEADLINE DEC 6TH 2007 Position Description and Duties: Accounting: Qualification and expertise in accounting and particularly forensic accounting and auditing. Tenured track faculty in the ranks of Assistant Professor, Associate Professor and Professor are eligible for a total of 24 hours of reassigned time in their first five years of service in the professoriate to engage in research and scholarship required to achieve tenure. Conduct classroom instruction for undergraduate and graduate students; pursue funding for scholarly research, develop scholarly publications, and participate in service to the college and community. Qualification Requirements: Doctorate in accounting, economics or a related field. Highly qualified and experienced CPA with an advanced degree considered at commensurate rank. PhD required for appointment in all professoriate ranks. This appointment is envisioned at the Assistant Professor level, however, extraordinary senior candidates will be considered for advanced rank. We will also consider candidates within one year of completing their PhD for the rank of instructor. Requested Items: Letter of application, curriculum vitae, and three letters of recommendation to: How To Apply: Position available for Fall 2007. Respond To: Warren Benton, Chairperson Department of Public Management John Jay College of Criminal Justice/CUNY nbenton@jjay.cuny.edu 445 West 59th Street New York, NY 10019 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 9028 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/urpe-announcements/attachments/20061103/1c67210f/attachment.txt From leefs at umkc.edu Mon Nov 6 07:01:37 2006 From: leefs at umkc.edu (Lee, Frederic) Date: Mon Nov 6 09:13:49 2006 Subject: [URPE] Heterodox Economics Newletter, Issue 34 Message-ID: <9A72753A447165498D6B63479DB2E7C901A2158D@KC-MSX3.kc.umkc.edu> Heterodox Economics Newsletter Issue-34, November 2, 2006 >From the Editor The Newsletter shows again how active heterodox economists are. There are some new calls for papers, announcements for various conferences and seminars, and many new job postings for heterodox economists. In addition, there are links to various newsletters, including a report from ICAPE. You might want to look at the ICAPE Report in fact it details its activities, such as contributing to the ASE reception at the ASSA in Chicago and putting on the ICAPE Conference next summer at Utah; also the report lists the associations, institutes and journals that are currently members of ICAPE. If associations to which you belong at not members you might want to query them about it. In the previous Newsletter I mentioned that ICAPE sent a letter to John Siegfried protesting the move to reduce the number of ASSA sessions allocated to URPE. He sent me a response which is the following: Professor Lee: Thank you for your e-mail about the reallocation of sessions at the Allied Social Science Association meetings. The AEA appreciates learning of your concerns with regard to the organization of the ASSA meetings, and we shall do our best to take into account the concerns of all the allied associations. Let me fill in some background. Because our information showed that the marginal AEA session at the ASSA meetings has been considerably better attended than the marginal sessions of many of the other societies, the Executive Committee asked the Session Allocation Committee (which includes representatives from the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, the American Finance Association, the National Association of Economic Educators, the Society for Economic Dynamics, and the Union of Radical Political Economists) to reallocate 13 sessions. The Committee tried to reallocate on as reasonable a basis as possible. Attendance is used as a basis for the evolution of the program because it identifies those academic programs that more registrants choose to see and hear in the marketplace for ideas. We try to balance the interests of all meeting attendees. There is little doubt that at least some of the reallocation serves the interest of attendees. Attendance at the marginal session for societies that have lost sessions has been quite low. Some of these sessions have attracted almost no attendance beyond the speakers and discussants, while many sessions of other societies, including the AEA, attracted crowds spilling out the door. The 13 scheduled session reductions for 2008 and 2009 include 3 of 43 sessions that have been organized by the five associations who are members of the International Confederation of Associations for Pluralism in Economics: AFEE, ASE, EPS, IAFE, and URPE. In view of your e-mail and also that of some others who have voiced their concern I will ask the Executive Committee at its January 4 meeting whether it wishes to revisit the scheduled reductions. The decision is not mine to make, but you can be assured that I will represent your concerns to the Executive Committee. Whatever is decided regarding the 13 sessions, we will also open a new limited-use session slot, from 12:30 to 2:15 pm on each of the first two days of the meetings, beginning in 2008. Because there will be no AEA, American Finance Association, Labor and Employment Relations Association, or Econometric Society sessions in the new time slot, the new slot should provide a prime time opportunity for allied associations to attract participants who commonly attend the sessions of the larger associations. Participation in the program by allied associations is welcome by the AEA so as to diversify the menu of intellectual options available to attendees. We believe the sessions organized by various associations should be balanced so as to reflect the interests of those attending the meetings. But we also want you to know that we are listening to your concerns and will make an effort to take them into account. I appreciate your taking the time to write us. This gives us feedback that we need to serve you and the other societies at the ASSA convention. John Siegfried Secretary-Treasurer As you evaluate his response, it is important to note that numbers in the audience does matter. This suggests that heterodox associations may need to take a more pro-active stance regarding participation at the ASSA. That is, for example, if an individual gives a paper at a session of association X, then it perhaps could be expected that the individual also attend other sessions of association X instead of disappearing and never appearing at any other sessions. Another point to note is that it appears that working as a collective of associations produces response. Perhaps it is time for heterodox associations to think and act more collectively. 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Candidates must be prepared to teach Principles of Economics as well as upper level courses in Money and Banking and International Economics. Ph D completion is required prior to the time of appointment. We also offer the opportunity to do interdisciplinary teaching in Women's Studies, African-American Studies, comparative cultures, our Honors program and/or in a new general college requirement that combines liberal and professional perspectives. A1 - General Economics E5 - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit F0 - International Economics - General F1 - Trade F4 - Macroeconomic Aspects of International Trade and Finance Western New England College is a private, independent, coeducational institution with undergraduate and graduate programs offered through the College's Schools of Arts and Sciences, Business, Engineering, and Law. For more details on this job, the department and the college, see the website at http://mars.wnec.edu/~econ/openposition.html . Send vita, letter of interest, official or unofficial transcripts from your graduate institution(s), and three letters of recommendations sent directly by the references by November 15, 2006. Arrangements will be made for interviews at the Chicago meetings of the AEA. Please send your information to: Economics Search Chair, Professor Michael Meeropol, c/o Dean School of Arts and Sciences, Western New England College, 1215 Wilbraham Road, Springfield, MA 01119. Electronic applications may be sent to acouture@wnec.edu . Western New England College is an Equal Opportunity Employer. [questions may be directed to me, Mike Meeropol, at mameerop@wnec.edu] -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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For the US and the world, revitalizing an American Left has never been more urgent; Left Forum has a critical role to play in that undertaking. Assaults on civil liberties, the continuing decline of economic security, state-sanctioned torture, massive government incompetence from Baghdad to New Orleans, and a criminal war with no end in sightthese homegrown threats challenge American society. Yet as the gap between the poweful and powerless widens, as inequalities of wealth and income become grotesque, the differences between the Democratic and Republican parties narrows. Millions of Americans are becoming spectators of rather than participants in politics of any kind. Our work parallels and cross-fertilizes with the renewal of left strength elsewherefrom indigenous movements in Bolivia to the South Korean farmers to the electoral gains of European and Latin American left parties. Like many movements abroad, Left Forum seeks to link the critique of neo-liberalism to anti-capitalism, and to foster radical alternatives to the established order. Left Forum provides a context for critical engagement by people of different persuasions on the Left who, nevertheless, seek common ground. Join with us for Left Forum events throughout the year, and for the 2007 Left Forum. Please contact us to get involved at leftforum@leftforum.org, or call 212-817-2003. The 2007 Left Forum conference will take place March 911, 2007, in New York City. To pre-register (and save money), please fill out this form and mail to this address: Left Forum CUNY Graduate CenterSociology Dept. 365 Fifth AvenueSte. 6115 New York, NY 10016 You may also register online (soon) at www.leftforum.org. Please check the type of registration you wish to purchase: __$45.00 regular __$35.00 low-income __$40.00 senior __$25.00 undergrad/high school __$35.00 one day* *Please indicate Saturday ___ or Sunday ___. Name: Affiliation: Address: City: State: Zip: Email: Please find enclosed my check in the amount of $_______. I cannot attend the forum, but enclosed is my tax-deductible contribution of $_______. From YFoa at afscme.org Mon Nov 6 15:24:48 2006 From: YFoa at afscme.org (Yael Foa) Date: Tue Nov 7 17:04:22 2006 Subject: [URPE] Great opportunities for progressive students-- alternative breaks, paid internships, scholarships, jobs in the labor movement. Please foward Message-ID: <273C6C41B7F79C44AFB0514AF678666F0354026B@EMAIL.AFSCME.com> * 45,000,000 PEOPLE DON'T HAVE HEALTH INSURANCE IN THIS COUNTRY * 37,000,000 PEOPLE LIVE IN POVERTY IN THIS COUNTRY WHAT TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT? HERE'S HOW YOU CAN! The American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) is one of the largest and most respected unions for workers in the public service in the country, with 1.4 million members nationwide. We have a number of exciting job, paid summer internship, scholarship, and alternative break opportunities for sophomore to senior level students who want to make a difference and help low-wage workers, primarily women, immigrants, and people of color improve their working conditions. * AFSCME's Union Alternative Winter Break: January 7 - 12, 2007. Participants learn the fundamentals of union organizing and develop their skills through classroom and field training while working on an active union organizing campaign. A typical day might include talking with workers about improving their working conditions, learning about local labor history, and participating in campaign strategy sessions. This program is a particularly good opportunity for students who are interested in exploring a career as a union organizer. $150 Stipend, housing, and local transportation are provided. Participants are responsible for their own transportation to the campaign site. Open to Seniors and Juniors. Application deadline: November 17, 2006. Apply online at www.afscme.org/altbreaks. * AFSCME's Union Alternative Spring Break: March 11 - 16; March 18 - 23, 2007. Same as above. Application deadline: February 28, 2007. Apply online at www.afscme.org/altbreaks. * AFSCME/UNCF Union Scholars Program: A 10-week paid summer internship program for students of color. Participants earn approximately $400/week during the internship and may be eligible to receive scholarships of up to $5000 per year upon successful completion of the internship. Interns may be assigned to work on union organizing campaigns, conduct corporate research, or other union related projects. Open to Sophomores and Juniors of color. Contact Phillip Allen at (202) 429-1025 or pallen@afscme.org for more information. Application deadline: February 27, 2007. * AFSCME Organizer-In-Training Program, a year-long organizer training program during which entry-level organizers learn the fundamentals of building worker power through union organizing. Trainees are placed on campaigns with experienced Lead Organizers who provide mentoring and one-on-one training throughout the program. Open to graduating Seniors only. Starting salary for entry-level organizers is $33,216, free single or family health insurance, car allowance, 401K, pension plan and more. Apply online at www.afscme.org/organizer or send your cover letter and resume to yfoa@afscme.org. * For more information about these opportunities, please contact Yael Foa at yfoa@afscme.org. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Perhaps those who attend the memorial can all go uptown together afterwards to the URPE party. I think the meeting will be packed so please try and come early. Please feel free to contact me at this address or glevy@pratt.edu if you desire any further information. In solidarity, Jerry Will MEMORIAL AND CONVERGENCE IN HONOR OF BRAD WILL November 11th-12th, 2006, New York City. A weekend of gatherings, memorials, concerts and conversations will take place over the weekend of November 11th and 12th, in New York City, to remember our dear friend and fallen comrade Brad Will. A memorial will take place in St. Mark's Church on the Bowery from 1:00pm-5:00pm on Saturday the 11th. Sat, Nov 11th, 1-5PM Memorial Gathering, St Mark's Church on the Bowery From urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu Wed Nov 8 19:40:13 2006 From: urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu (urpe-moderator@lists.econ.utah.edu) Date: Wed Nov 8 19:44:01 2006 Subject: [URPE] Call for Panels: 2007 Left Forum, March 9-11, Cooper Union, NYC Message-ID: <4552950D.80103@lists.econ.utah.edu> CALL FOR URPE PANELS AND SPEAKERS AT 2007 LEFT FORUM 2007 Left Forum, March 9-11, Cooper Union, NYC www.leftforum.org Last year URPE and Dollars and Sense co-sponsored, or were involved in organizing, several panels at the 2006 Left Forum (offshoot of the Socialist Scholars Conference, where we sponsored many panels in the past). Because of space limitations at Cooper Union, the number of panels URPE can sponsor or cosponsor has been limited. URPE can officially sponsor one panel, or co-sponsor two. However, we can have input into additional panels. Conference organizers are also eager to find URPE individuals who will join panels sponsored by other groups, or who will help organize those panels. Rick Wolff, who is a member of URPE and also an organizer of the 2007 Left Forum, will facilitate this. Each panel pays $120 to the Forum. Usually this fee has been raised by dividing the cost of the panel among the panelists and chair (usually 3-5 people); once this panel fee is paid, however, all members of the panel are entitled to attend the entire conference without paying additional individual registration fees. People who attend the SSC are well-informed but most are not economists. Panels should be on topics of general interest. Please be prepared to make a major contribution toward organizing your panel, but be open to the possibility of accepting additional suggestions of panelists from URPE or the 2007 LF organizers. The factors involved in determining which panels will be sponsored by URPE include: how many panels apply; whether your panel is of general interest; whether a panel on the same topic has already been accepted by the 2007 Left Forum; whether URPE decides to co-sponsor panels with other organizations; how much effort you are able to contribute toward organizing your panel; whether it is possible to form a complete panel from your suggestion; and whether you have been in an URPE panel recently. The organizers of the 2007LF work closely with URPE panel organizers, and may have some voice in which panels are accepted. They also may be able to find you a place on another panel. Please e-mail panel suggestions to soapbox@comcast.net by December 1. The URPE Steering Committee will make final decisions if we receive more panel suggestions than we can use, and will try to find a place in another conference for panels that are left out. 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Some scholarly activity and excellence in teaching are vital to the position. The candidate is expected to teach a broad range of Employment Relations courses in a liberal arts environment. For a list of current courses, refer to www.potsdam.edu/emre/courses . The department also welcomes new courses. Applications will be reviewed immediately and until the position is filled. Please send: a cover letter indicating your previous teaching experience and describing your teaching methods; curriculum vitae; copy of graduate transcript; teaching evaluations, if available; and the names of three references. Contact: George Gonos, Chair, Search Committee, *Economics and Employment Relations*, Dunn Hall, SUNY Potsdam, Potsdam, New York 13676. An equal opportunity affirmative action employer. -- Martha Campbell Associate Professor of Economics Department of Economics & Employment Relations Dunn Hall 226, (315) 267-2201 Potsdam College of SUNY Potsdam, NY 13676 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 1839 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/urpe-announcements/attachments/20061108/e86f001a/attachment.txt From dgoldste at allegheny.edu Wed Nov 8 09:14:44 2006 From: dgoldste at allegheny.edu (Don Goldstein) Date: Wed Nov 8 20:57:53 2006 Subject: [URPE] Memorial for Brad Will In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <6.0.3.0.2.20061108110353.025dba20@emailin> Hi all, I want to let you know that here at Allegheny College, where Brad majored in English in the early 1990s, he is remembered and missed. His life and work were celebrated, and the struggle in Oaxaca was discussed, at a well attended meeting on campus last week. I won't be able to attend the memorial in NYC, but send you best wishes from another branch of Brad's extended family. Don Goldstein At 09:18 PM 11/7/2006, Jerry Levy wrote: >Dear URPE members: > >There will be a memorial meeting for Brad Will (the indymedia reporter >and activist who was murdered by plain cloths police in Oaxaca, Mexico) >on the same day as the party to welcome the URPE Steering Committee >and Frances Boyes. I would like to personally invite all of you who are >in New York City to attend. > >The memorial meeting will be at the St. Marks in the Bowery Church >which is on 2nd Avenue and 10th Street and is very easy to get to >(take the '6' train to Astor Place; the 'R' train to 8 St; the 'L' train to >First Avenue, or any train to Union Square and walk). Perhaps those >who attend the memorial can all go uptown together afterwards to the >URPE party. I think the meeting will be packed so please try and >come early. > >Please feel free to contact me at this address or glevy@pratt.edu if >you desire any further information. > >In solidarity, Jerry > > >Will MEMORIAL AND CONVERGENCE IN HONOR OF BRAD WILL >November 11th-12th, 2006, New York City. > >A weekend of gatherings, memorials, concerts and conversations will take >place over the weekend of November 11th and 12th, in New York City, to >remember our dear friend and fallen comrade Brad Will. A memorial will >take place in St. Mark's Church on the Bowery from 1:00pm-5:00pm on >Saturday the 11th. > > Sat, Nov 11th, 1-5PM Memorial Gathering, St Mark's Church on the Bowery > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ >This is the listserve of the Union for Radical Political Economics, an >interdisciplinary association devoted to the study, development and >application of radical political economic analysis to social problems. >This is a moderated announcement-only listserve. Messages will be kept to >a minimum. The content of announcements must be strongly related to >economics, i.e. jobs, conferences, talks, classes, resources. Please >submit messages exactly as you would like them to go out (spelling, etc.). >Messages will go out in plain text. 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Don Goldstein Professor of Economics Allegheny College Meadville, PA 16335, USA 814-332-3340 From kshahyd at UDel.Edu Thu Nov 9 12:19:53 2006 From: kshahyd at UDel.Edu (kshahyd@UDel.Edu) Date: Thu Nov 9 17:38:21 2006 Subject: [URPE] 2006 Global HDR on Water Message-ID: <20061109141953.CEC76722@ms1.nss.udel.edu> http://hdr.undp.org/hdr2006/pdfs/report/HDR06-complete.pdf The 2006 Human Development Report Throughout history water has confronted humanity with some of its greatest challenges. Water is a source of life and a natural resource that sustains our environments and supports livelihoods ? but it is also a source of risk and vulnerability. In the early 21st Century, prospects for human development are threatened by a deepening global water crisis. Debunking the myth that the crisis is the result of scarcity, this report argues poverty, power and inequality are at the heart of the problem. In a world of unprecedented wealth, almost 2 million children die each year for want of a glass of clean water and adequate sanitation. Millions of women and young girls are forced to spend hours collecting and carrying water, restricting their opportunities and their choices. And water-borne infectious diseases are holding back poverty reduction and economic growth in some of the world?s poorest countries. Beyond the household, competition for water as a productive resource is intensifying. Symptoms of that competition include the collapse of water-based ecological systems, declining river flows and large-scale groundwater depletion. Conflicts over water are intensifying within countries, with the rural poor losing out. The potential for tensions between countries is also growing, though there are large potential human development gains from increased cooperation. The Human Development Report continues to frame debates on some of the most pressing challenges facing humanity. Human Development Report 2006: ? Investigates the underlying causes and consequences of a crisis that leaves 1.2 billion people without access to safe water and 2.6 billion without access to sanitation ? Argues for a concerted drive to achieve water and sanitation for all through national strategies and a global plan of action ? Examines the social and economic forces that are driving water shortages and marginalizing the poor in agriculture ? Looks at the scope for international cooperation to resolve cross-border tensions in water management ? Includes special contributions from Gordon Brown and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, President Lula, President Carter, and the UN Secretary General, Kofi Annan. From RBove at wcupa.edu Thu Nov 9 13:44:55 2006 From: RBove at wcupa.edu (Bove, Roger Even) Date: Thu Nov 9 17:38:23 2006 Subject: [URPE] Philadelphia area teach-in - Message revised as requested. Message-ID: West Chester University Two-Day Teach In Students Stand Up for Peace is an organization of student activists at West Chester University. We strive to enhance the University and surrounding community through work that promotes peace and non-violence both on and off campus. In this vain, SSUP is hosting a two-day Teach In on Tuesday, November 14th and Wednesday, November 15th to promote and educate students, staff and community members about issues of peace and non-violence. The Teach-In will be held in the Sykes Student Union ballrooms. Workshops will be held in ballrooms B and C throughout both days with speakers presenting on topics of activism, oppression, social justice, civil rights, diversity, feminism, pacifism and war and peace. In ballroom A, SSUP and other student groups will be tabling to provide information on campus activities and opportunities for students to become involved within the University's activist community. There will be a luncheon buffet in ballroom A on Wednesday, the 15th for presenters and attendees both to enjoy and also to foster dialogue between participants. Speakers include University professors as well as community members. This event is free and open to all students, staff and residents of Pennsylvania. The schedule of workshops is as follows: Program is subject to change - for more information contact studentsstandup@gmail.com Tuesday November 14 Ballroom B Ballroom C 9:30- 10:45 Anne Moore- The Non-Violent Peace Force Mark Rimple- Songs of Peace and Political Protest 11:00-12:15 TBA TBA 12:30-1:45 Jim Jones- A Discussion on Darfur Sue Coyle- More Power/ Less Power: Systems of Oppression 2:00-3:15 Christa Tinari- Organizing Social Movements Nadine Bean- Social Injustice of Natural Disasters Wednesday November 15 Ballroom B Ballroom C 10:00- 10:50 Panel- History of Feminist Pacifism 11:00- 11:50 Robin Garrett- World Peace Begins at Home Susan Higginbotham- Planned Parenthood 12:00- 12:50 LUNCHEON 1:00-1:50 Cheryl Wanko- Film Discussion: Iraq for Sale 2:00- 2:50 Linda Stevenson- Crossing Borders: Issues of Undocumented Immigration Directions: From I 95 southbound exit West on US322 8.4 miles. 322 will merge with US1 and then with US202. Follow US202 northbound 4.7 miles. Go straight into US322 Business (Wilmington Pike - High St.) 1.7 miles. Turn left 3 blocks on Rosedale Ave. Sykes is behind large pedestrian ramp on left. From Wilmington area follow 202 northbound past US1 and follow directions above. From PA turnpike take US202 or PA 100 south past West Chester exits to US 322 Business (Wilmington Pike - High St.) and follow directions above. Roger Even Bove, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Economics Dept. of Economics & Finance West Chester University West Chester PA 19383-2220 Phone: 610-436-2134 email: rbove@wcupa.edu or rebove@post.harvard.edu Fax: 425-645-4198 or 610-436-2592 Website: http://courses.wcupa.edu/rbove/Genkey.htm ________________________________ From: owner-membermail@wcupfn.org [mailto:owner-membermail@wcupfn.org] On Behalf Of Seth Kahn Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2006 6:41 AM To: membermail@wcupfn.org Subject: [WCUPFN] FW: Schedule See note and attachment below... Seth Kahn Assistant Professor of English West Chester University "To glorify democracy and to silence the people is a farce; to discourse on humanism and to negate people is a lie." --Paolo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed ________________________________ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web! -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 24304 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/urpe-announcements/attachments/20061109/77ab85d9/attachment.txt From al at economics.utah.edu Thu Nov 9 18:50:38 2006 From: al at economics.utah.edu (Al Campbell) Date: Thu Nov 9 20:06:35 2006 Subject: [URPE] Jobs Message-ID: <4553787E.32060.1B6BF8EA@ac5860.csbs.utah.edu> Dear URPE members, It's that time of year when many of us are looking for heterodox jobs. The URPE Web page job list has just been updated. Many of these were sent out over the URPE listserve, but in case you lost those or did not see them, you can look them up again on the URPE Web page: www.urpe.org. Deadlines begin coming November 15. The URPE Steering Committee From xhoffman at bestweb.net Thu Nov 9 21:48:13 2006 From: xhoffman at bestweb.net (Joan Hoffman) Date: Thu Nov 9 22:06:47 2006 Subject: [URPE] adjunct teaching position NYC spring 2007 Message-ID: <4554048d.1431d.0@bestweb.net> NYC adjunct position teaching economics of social problem and crime on tuesdays and thursdays at 12:30-1:45 at John Jay College of Criminal Justice at 445 west 59th Street NYNY 10019. Person must have background & interest in economics of social problems. Contact Prof Joan Hoffman Economics Co-ordinator at jhoffman@jjay.cuny.edu. From R.Garnett at tcu.edu Sat Nov 11 14:15:58 2006 From: R.Garnett at tcu.edu (Garnett, Rob) Date: Sun Nov 12 06:29:25 2006 Subject: [URPE] ICAPE 2007 (deadline 1/15/07) References: A<005001c6dda6$ba6e7ab0$0300a8c0@NevaDesktop> A<5A103C229A998247BD60D72C380396D93DE760@FSMAILLK2A.tcu.edu> <5A103C229A998247BD60D72C380396D93DE77C@FSMAILLK2A.tcu.edu> <5A103C229A998247BD60D72C380396D93DE780@FSMAILLK2A.tcu.edu> <5A103C229A998247BD60D72C380396D99A879A@FSMAILLK2A.tcu.edu> <5A103C229A998247BD60D72C380396D99A879B@FSMAILLK2A.tcu.edu> <5A103C229A998247BD60D72C380396D99A879C@FSMAILLK2A.tcu.edu> <5A103C229A998247BD60D72C380396D99A87A6@FSMAILLK2A.tcu.edu> <5A103C229A998247BD60D72C380396D99A87A7@FSMAILLK2A.tcu.edu> <5A103C229A998247BD60D72C380396D99A87AA@FSMAILLK2A.tcu.edu> <5A103C229A998247BD60D72C380396D99A87AB@FSMAILLK2A.tcu.edu> Message-ID: <5A103C229A998247BD60D72C380396D99A87AC@FSMAILLK2A.tcu.edu> Dear colleague and fellow heterodox economist, Between now and January 15, I hope you will feel inspired (or coerced, whichever you find more compelling) to propose a paper for the ICAPE conference on Economic Pluralism for the 21st Century, to be held June 1-3 at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. Like ICAPE's inaugural conference in 2003, this is a "big tent" conference open to all economic thinkers, topics, and fields of specialization. We have received proposals so far from scholars in 12 countries (Belgium, China, Colombia, Denmark, Germany, India, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, the U.K., and the U.S.) who represent a several distinct traditions of thought. This is a healthy start. But in order to fulfill ICAPE's mission of promoting intellectual diversity and inter-paradigmatic exchange in economic scholarship and education, we need to elicit proposals from a critical mass of Austrian, Feminist, Institutional-Evolutionary, Marxian, Postcolonial, Post Keynesian, Postmodern, Radical, Social, Sraffian, and OUT (Otherwise Unorthodox and Talented) economists. In short, we need more proposals from economic thinkers like YOU! If you would like to join us for three days of unusually good conference conversation, food, and drink in Salt Lake City next June, please send a 250-word abstract to Rob Garnett (r.garnett@tcu.edu ) no later than January 15. Or, to learn more about the conference or ICAPE itself (the International Confederation of Associations for Pluralism in Economics), please visit our web site: www.icape.org . We really hope to hear from you! For the ICAPE conference organizers (Al Campbell, Wilfred Dolfsma, Edward Fullbrook, Rob Garnett, Neva Goodwin, John Henry, Mary King, Fred Lee, Ed McNertney, Judith Mehta, Erik Olsen, and Martha Starr), Rob Rob Garnett Department of Economics Box 298510 Texas Christian University Fort Worth, TX 76129 USA From msw22 at columbia.edu Mon Nov 13 09:19:46 2006 From: msw22 at columbia.edu (Matthew S Winters) Date: Mon Nov 13 09:33:27 2006 Subject: [URPE] REMINDER: Sumner Rosen Memorial Lecture - 16 November Message-ID: [If you are planning to attend and have not sent an RSVP, please send an e-mail to msw22@columbia.edu. Thank you!] You are cordially invited to attend the SUMNER ROSEN MEMORIAL LECTURE Is Full Employment Possible in an Era of Globalization? given by ROBERT POLLIN Professor of Economics and Co-Director of the Political Economy Research Institute University of Massachusetts-Amherst and author of Contours of Descent: U. S. Fractures and the Landscape of Global Austerity and co-author of The Living Wage: Building a Fair Economy Thursday, November 16 7:00- 9:00 P.M. Light refreshments preceding lecture Presidents' Room Faculty House Columbia University 400 West 117th Street* New York City *Take the 1 train to 116th Street and Broadway. Enter campus at 116th Street between Amsterdam Ave. and Morningside Dr. RSVP to msw22@columbia.edu or 917-929-5965 Sumner M. Rosen (1923-2005) was a prominent political economist and lifelong advocate of full employment and other policies to benefit working people. A professor emeritus of social welfare at the Columbia University School of Social Work, he was a founder of the National Jobs for All Coalition; the Columbia Seminars on Full Employment, Social Welfare and Equity and on Globalization, Labor and Popular Struggles; and the Five Borough Institute. Organizers: National Jobs for All Coalition and the Columbia University Seminars on Full Employment, Social Welfare and Equity and Globalization, Labor and Popular Struggles From mzweig at notes.cc.sunysb.edu Mon Nov 13 17:11:02 2006 From: mzweig at notes.cc.sunysb.edu (mzweig@notes.cc.sunysb.edu) Date: Tue Nov 14 07:00:59 2006 Subject: [URPE] CFP - 2007 Working Class Studies conference Message-ID: Dear Friends and Colleagues of the Center for Study of Working Class Life I am pleased to circulate the call for papers for the 2007 annual conference of the Working-Class Studies Association, which will be at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minn. next June (instead of Youngstown State University, where odd-number-year conferences have been held in the past). The How Class Works - 2008 conference will again be at Stony Brook in June 2008. I hope to see you at Macalester next year, and then again at Stony Brook. Please also consider joining the Working-Class Studies Association if you have not already done so. Michael Zweig Director, Center for Study of Working Class Life CALL FOR PAPERS June14-17, 2007 Class Matters: Working-Class Culture and Counter-Culture Annual Conference of the Working-Class Studies Association Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota Dormitory housing available This conference will explore working-class culture in all its forms ? activism, pop culture, the arts, storytelling, and more. Working-class culture can be a source of unity as well as division, and it is constructed in the workplace as well as in the realms of "leisure" and popular culture. At this conference, we hope to explore the relationships between "cultural workers" and their audiences, control over the means of cultural production (publishers, music producers, universities, etc.), and the commodification of working-class culture, among other issues. We are eager to provide a venue in which scholars of working-class culture using Humanities and Social Science frames and lenses can come together with each other, and with creators of working-class culture. How has working-class culture changed over time? Is there is a diasporic, transnational, and/or global working-class culture? How do working-class people use representations, organizations, and everyday life to resist the dominant culture? How does working-class culture reflect divisions among working-class people? We invite proposals for presentations, panels, posters, roundtables, and performances. Submit 1-page abstracts with a brief biographical statement January 15, 2007 to: Peter Rachleff History Department Macalester College 1600 Grand Avenue St. Paul, Minnesota 55105 Or by email to rachleff@macalester.edu. For more information, contact Peter Rachleff, rachleff@macalester.edu, or by phone at 651-696-6371. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 4166 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/urpe-announcements/attachments/20061113/93d515bb/attachment.txt From urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu Tue Nov 14 07:01:31 2006 From: urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu (urpe-moderator@lists.econ.utah.edu) Date: Tue Nov 14 07:05:11 2006 Subject: [URPE] [NYC] CEPA Economic Policy Workshop - Jason Furman - November 15 - 12:30pm Message-ID: <4559CC3B.5020808@lists.econ.utah.edu> Upcoming Economic Policy Workshop at the Schwartz Center: Jason Furman, NYU Wagner and The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities will speak on "The Progressive Economic Agenda" Wednesday, November 15 12:30pm-2:00pm 80 Fifth Avenue, 5th Fl. Conference Room Join us at 12:30 p.m. for a brown bag lunch and workshop. Jason Furman Professor Furman is a Visiting Scholar at New York University's Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. He is a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities specializing in social security issues. Previously Furman served as Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy in the Clinton Administration. Furman has been a visiting lecturer at Columbia and Yale Universities. In addition, he served as a Staff Economist at the Council of Economic Advisers, Senior Economic Adviser to the Chief Economist of the World Bank, and Director of Economic Policy for the Kerry-Edwards campaign. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University. Directions to the Schwartz Center are available at http://www.newschool.edu/cepa/directory/location.htm Economic Policy Workshops are sponsored by: Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis The New School for Social Research 80 Fifth Avenue, 5th Floor New York, NY 10011 Tel: (212) 229-5901 x4911 Fax: (212) 229-5903 http://www.newschool.edu/cepa cepa@newschool.edu * * For help with this mailing list go to the CEPA Web site: * http://www.newschool.edu/cepa/ From leefs at umkc.edu Tue Nov 14 10:09:11 2006 From: leefs at umkc.edu (Lee, Frederic) Date: Tue Nov 14 10:08:42 2006 Subject: [URPE] ICAPE booth volunteers for the ASSA in Chicago Message-ID: <9A72753A447165498D6B63479DB2E7C901A21DCE@KC-MSX3.kc.umkc.edu> Colleagues and Friends, This is a second call for people to help staff the ICAPE booth at the ASSA in Chicago. Please sign up. Fred Lee INTERNATIONAL CONFEDERATION OF ASSOCIATIONS FOR PLURALISM IN ECONOMICS NEED ICAPE BOOTH VOLUNTEERS FOR ASSA MEETINGS IN CHICAGO JANUARY 5-7, 2007 Friday, January 5, 2007 Name of Volunteer 9.00 - 10.00 __________________________________ __________________________________ 10.00 - 12.00 __Farida Khan______________________ __________________________________ 12.00 - 2.00 __________________________________ __________________________________ 2.00 - 4.00 __________________________________ __________________________________ 4.00 - 6.00 __________________________________ __________________________________ Saturday, January 6, 2007 Name of Volunteer 9.00 - 10.00 __________________________________ __________________________________ 10.00 - 12.00 ____Ron Baiman____________________ __________________________________ 12.00 - 2.00 __________________________________ __________________________________ 2.00 - 4.00 __________________________________ __________________________________ 4.00 - 5.00 __________________________________ __________________________________ Sunday, January 7, 2007 Name of Volunteer 9.00 - 10.00 __________________________________ __________________________________ 10.00 - 12.00 __________________________________ __________________________________ 12.00 - 1.00 ________Fred Lee___________________ PLEASE RETURN THE FORM TO FRED LEE: leefs@umkc.edu Professor Frederic S. Lee Department of Economics University of Missouri-Kansas City 5100 Rockhill Road Kansas City, Missouri 64110 USA E-mail: leefs@umkc.edu Book Series Editor of "Advances in Heterodox Economics" For Heterodox Economics on the Web see http://www.orgs.bucknell.edu/afee/hetecon.htm For the Association for Heterodox Economics: http://www.hetecon.com. For Heterodox Economics Newsletter: http://l.web.umkc.edu/leefs/htn.htm http://www.heterodoxnews.com International Confederation of Associations for Pluralism in Economics (ICAPE): http://icape.org/ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Author of How Defined Contribution Plans and 401(k)s Affect Employer Pension Costs: 1981-1998 (Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, 2006). Jacob Hacker, Yale University. Author of The Great Risk Shift: The Assault on American Jobs, Families, Health Care, and Retirement--And How You Can Fight Back (Oxford University Press, 2006). With discussant Bob Kerrey, President of The New School Americans face an indisputable crisis of the private pensions system, and the appropriate policy response remains unclear. Three prominent researchers discuss their recent books on the subject. They will each identify the causes and scope of the problem, and outline proposals for what can be done. Followed by a reception and book signing. Free and open to the public. RSVP required. E-mail cepa@newschool.edu or call 212-229-5901 x4911. Date: Monday, December 11, 2006 Time: 7pm Place: The New School, 65 Fifth Avenue, Wolff Conference Room www.newschool.edu/cepa Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis The New School 80 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10011 Tel: (212) 229-5901 x4911 Fax: (212) 229-5903 http://www.newschool.edu/cepa * * For help with this mailing list go to the CEPA Web site: * http://www.newschool.edu/cepa/ From dominique.levy at ens.fr Wed Nov 15 02:21:13 2006 From: dominique.levy at ens.fr (Dominique Levy) Date: Wed Nov 15 05:24:20 2006 Subject: [URPE] Fifth Marx International Congress Message-ID: <20061115092115.EFBDD54736@smtp4-g19.free.fr> A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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In the mid-1980s Raphael Samuel (1934 ? 1996) published three essays in New Left Review on British Communism in the world of his youth in the 1940s and 1950s. Verso have now reprinted these in book form, together with an extensive bibliography of Samuel?s work, to mark the tenth anniversary of his death. A tour de force of historical writing, The Lost World of British Communism draws on novels, memoirs, interviews, Party literature and archives, as well as Samuel's own childhood recollections, to conjure up an era when the movement was at the height of its political and theoretical power. A roundtable discussion of the book, with contributions from: ? Eric Hobsbawm ? Beatrix Campbell ? Kevin Morgan ? Jean McCrindle This will be followed by a reception. There will be a display of items from the Raphael Samuel Archive. This event is co-hosted by the Bishopsgate Institute and Verso Books. ALL WELCOME, FREE OF CHARGE. NO ADVANCE BOOKING REQUIRED. To order the book: http://www.versobooks.com/books/nopqrs/s-titles/samuel_r_british_communism.shtml -------------------------------------------- Rowan Wilson Publishing Manager Verso 6 Meard Street London W1F 0EG Phone: 020 7437 3546 Fax: 020 7734 0059 email: rowan@verso.co.uk www.versobooks.com Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 12531 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/urpe-announcements/attachments/20061116/8a3654fa/attachment.txt From rowanwilsonwork at yahoo.co.uk Fri Nov 17 08:02:21 2006 From: rowanwilsonwork at yahoo.co.uk (Rowan Wilson) Date: Sat Nov 18 11:46:17 2006 Subject: [URPE] EVENT: Tariq Ali at Waterstones Gower St, London Message-ID: <20061117150221.18560.qmail@web26810.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Tariq Ali At Waterstones Gower St, London on 23rd November. The bestselling author will be signing copies and discussing his latest book: Pirates of the Caribbean Axis of Hope http://www.versobooks.com/books/ab/a-titles/ali_t_pirates_caribbean.shtml THURSDAY 23RD NOVEMBER AT 6PM 2nd floor, Waterstone?s 82 Gower St, London, WC1E 6EQ Tickets ?3 redeemable against purchase of a promoted book on the night. Available in store or by calling 0207 636 1577. -------------------------------------------- Rowan Wilson Publishing Manager Verso 6 Meard Street London W1F 0EG Phone: 020 7437 3546 Fax: 020 7734 0059 email: rowan@verso.co.uk www.versobooks.com Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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We are interested in papers on the following general themes: a) the rise to power of finance capitalists; b) how the resulting changes in the balance of power between social classes impacts the laws of motion of capitalism with particular emphasis on accumulation and crises; c) the (in)compatibility of the goals/objectives of finance capitalists with those of industrial capitalists, particularly in a period of increased international competition; d) the impact of any finance-induced macroeconomic changes on labor and the environment; e) the financialization of productive capital, and f) the influence of finance capitalists on domestic and foreign policy formation. Examples of specific topics of interest that would be welcomed include: 1) The impact of the increased power of owners, investors, and their financial intermediaries on real investment and growth. 2) On the micro level, the rise to power of financial executives within the corporation and their impact on corporate governance and strategic decision making. 3) The role of the ascendant financial sector in generating increased inequality; the role of finance in causing generalized wage repression, reduction, and elimination of private pension benefits, and increased debtor defaults. 4) The increased role of finance in government and central banking institutions, especially with regard to interest rate policies and the gutting of social safety nets in the form of social wages and social security. 5) General analysis of the role of the new global finance capital, and especially its center, in fostering neo-imperialist policies including the impact of the new financialization on military and security spending. 6) Finance and the new rentier capitalism as it effects dividend payouts, stock market and real estate bubbles. 7) The role of finance in fostering non-sustainable production of commodifiable consumer goods and long-term environmental destruction. 8) The effect of the new privatization of risk that has been promoted and implemented by global and national financial sectors and the effect of this on macroeconomic instability, recessions, and accumulation by dispossession. 9) The new resurgent power of finance: a viable resurgence of capitalist class power or a destructive rentier restoration that will ultimately undermine global capitalism. Please send four copies of submissions for the special issue by December 2007 to Hazel Dayton Gunn, Managing Editor, Review of Radical Political Economics, Department of City and Regional Planning, 106 W. Sibley Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA, phone: 315/789-1414; e-mail: hg18@cornell.edu . Submissions must follow the instructions to contributors listed in the back of the journal and available on our website: http://www.urpe.org/rrpehome.html . All submissions are subject to the RRPEs usual review procedures. From urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu Sun Nov 19 08:21:16 2006 From: urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu (urpe-moderator@lists.econ.utah.edu) Date: Sun Nov 19 08:24:53 2006 Subject: [URPE] Islamic Fascism? Message-ID: <4560766C.20602@lists.econ.utah.edu> Dear Friend: Just wanted to share with you a paper I have written on the so-called "Islamic Fascism." Please do not hesitate to pass it along to your contacts and/or e-mail lists. 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Sincerely, Tom Palley Founder Economics for Democratic & Open Societies Project Tel: 202-249-2317 e-mail: mail@thomaspalley.com www.thomaspalley.com From leefs at umkc.edu Mon Nov 20 07:32:44 2006 From: leefs at umkc.edu (Lee, Frederic) Date: Mon Nov 20 08:05:05 2006 Subject: [URPE] Heterodox Economics Newsletter 35 Message-ID: <9A72753A447165498D6B63479DB2E7C901A222F1@KC-MSX3.kc.umkc.edu> Skipped content of type multipart/alternative-------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/jpeg Size: 16406 bytes Desc: image001.jpg Url : http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/urpe-announcements/attachments/20061120/7f324ec5/attachment-0002.jpe -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Democracy, Development and Regional Integration: A New Model for the Americas A Study-Tour March 8-18, 2007 Under the leadership of its controversial president, Hugo Ch?vez, Venezuela, the world?s fifth largest oil producer and once Latin America?s most economically stratified country, is undergoing a remarkable political, economic and cultural transformation and has been seeking to become a new model for Latin America. Join us for an exciting study tour to Venezuela with the option of earning either 3 undergraduate or graduate credits. The tour will offer a comprehensive overview of the developments now underway in the areas of participatory democracy, literacy, health care, food and nutrition, land and telecommunications reform, economic development and regional integration. Highlights include: * Overviews of the history and contemporary political reality of Venezuela from Venezuelan authorities * Meetings with government officials about the goals of the Ch?vez administration * Visits to poor barrios in Caracas and farm cooperatives in the western state of Lara where innovative government programs in literacy, health care, housing, food, land reform and economic development are taking place * Meetings with a variety of people engaged at all levels of Venezuelan society: human rights workers, cultural workers, community organizers, journalists, community organizers, members of the political opposition, etc. * Visits to historic sites Costs: * Application Fee (non-refundable): $75 * Program Fee (includes lodging, transportation, local hosts? fees, materials and 2 meals/day in Venezuela): $920 * Airfare: approximately $800 * Tuition (if taking trip for academic credit): NJ residents- undergraduate: $909; graduate: $1542 Out-of-state ? undergraduate: $1491; graduate: $2397 Application Deadlines: * Application Fee: December 1, 2006 * Program fee half payment-$860: January 5, 2007 * Program fee balance: January 25, 2007 To apply, Contact: Prof. Sheila Collins, Department of Political Science, William Paterson University, 300 Pompton Rd., Wayne, NJ 07470. 973.720.3424 or collinss@wpunj.edu. Prof. Collins will send you an application form which must be returned to her with the $75 application fee by the deadline. Further instructions will follow after the application has been received. Checks should be made payable to William Paterson University. Note: Students intending to take this trip for credit should register for either: 12511 POL 399-75 ST:VENEZUELA:DEMOCRACY,DEV. (undergraduate); or 12513 POL 599-75 ST:VENEZUELA:DEMOCRACY,DEV. (graduate) -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Carl Davidson recently circulated a portion of my remarks. The whole paper can be found at http://www.solidarityeconomy.net/category/after-capitalism. Its the third article down, posted October 25, 2006. --David Schweickart From mail at thomaspalley.com Tue Nov 28 06:32:19 2006 From: mail at thomaspalley.com (Thomas Palley) Date: Tue Nov 28 07:07:01 2006 Subject: [URPE] Milton Friedman Message-ID: Dear URPE Friends and Colleagues, This week's policy brief is titled "Milton Friedman: The Great Conservative Partisan" and is posted on my website at www.thomaspalley.com Please feel free to share it with other persons interested in this subject. Sincerely, Tom Palley Founder Economics for Democratic & Open Societies Project Tel: 202-249-2317 e-mail: mail@thomaspalley.com www.thomaspalley.com From urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu Tue Nov 28 07:13:56 2006 From: urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu (urpe-moderator@lists.econ.utah.edu) Date: Tue Nov 28 07:17:27 2006 Subject: [URPE] RESPOND SOON! Call for Panels: 2007 Left Forum, March 9-11, Cooper Union, NYC Message-ID: <456C4424.5030104@lists.econ.utah.edu> Skipped content of type multipart/alternative-------------- next part -------------- _______________________________________________ This is the listserve of the Union for Radical Political Economics, an interdisciplinary association devoted to the study, development and application of radical political economic analysis to social problems. This is a moderated announcement-only listserve. Messages will be kept to a minimum. 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From soapbox at comcast.net Tue Nov 28 09:04:58 2006 From: soapbox at comcast.net (Ruth Indeck) Date: Tue Nov 28 09:08:26 2006 Subject: [URPE] 2007 LF: General Suggestions Requested Message-ID: <456C5E2A.6070700@comcast.net> The organizers of the 2007 Left Forum want to stress that they would love to have all your ideas about which topics to present panels on, even if you don't feel ready to organize or participate in that panel. Remember, even if your idea does not become an official URPE panel, the LF organizers may be able to find a place for you on other panels. Ruthie Indeck From urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu Tue Nov 28 13:29:11 2006 From: urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu (urpe-moderator@lists.econ.utah.edu) Date: Tue Nov 28 13:32:40 2006 Subject: [URPE] [NYC] Globalization Seminar - Paul Garver - 11 December Message-ID: <456C9C17.1080203@lists.econ.utah.edu> The University Seminar (#671) on Globalization, Labor and Popular Struggles is pleased to announce our next meeting. DATE: Monday 11 December, 7:15 p.m. (Dinner at 6:00 p.m.) TITLE: "An Organizing Strategy for Global Labor" SPEAKER: Paul Garver PLACE: Faculty House, Columbia University In order not to be marginalized in the globalizing economy, unions must transcend the mere rhetoric of international solidarity to organize larger numbers of workers within global corporations. Paul Garver will report on ambitious global labor organizing efforts being undertaken through the International Union of Food Workers (IUF) in the global food, drink and catering industries. Paul Garver worked for the Service Employees International Union for 15 years as an organizer and staff director in Pittsburgh. He then worked another 15 years for the International Union of Food Workers in Geneva as coordinator for global labor union activities in transnational companies in the food and drink sector. He now lives in Massachusetts, where is a semi-retired consultant to the IUF, helping to link the IUF's American affiliates to the global organization, with a particular interest in new organizing efforts with an international dimension. ----- In connection with the 11 December meeting, please reply to Matt Winters whether you plan to join us for dinner before the seminar. You may e-mail him at msw22@columbia.edu. ----- I will attend the dinner on 11 December Yes___ No___ I will attend the seminar on 11 December Yes___ No___ ****RSVP by Thursday 7 December **** ----- Dinner will be at the Columbia University Faculty House at 6:00 p.m. Please pay for your dinner ($22) at the desk in the lobby of Faculty House when you arrive for dinner. For those having dinner, we will meet at 6:00 at the table reserved for the seminar on the fourth floor of Faculty House, which is located on Columbia's East Campus behind the School of International Affairs and the Law School. The street address is 400 West 117th Street, but the easiest approach is through the gates on the north side of 116th Street between Amsterdam Avenue and Morningside Drive. The seminar will be held from 7:15-9 p.m. in a room to be announced in Faculty House. For those not having dinner, please look for a sign in the lobby and join us at 7:15 p.m. ----- Thank you, David Bensman Hank Frundt Seminar Co-Chairs From msw22 at columbia.edu Wed Nov 29 09:11:04 2006 From: msw22 at columbia.edu (Matthew S Winters) Date: Wed Nov 29 20:00:48 2006 Subject: [URPE] Columbia University: Michael Lipsky on Reclaiming the Public Sector Message-ID: The Columbia University Seminar on Full Employment, Social Welfare and Equity (#613) DATE: Monday 4 December - 7:15 p.m. - Faculty House (Optional buffet dinner at 6:00 p.m. at Faculty House) SPEAKER: Michael Lipsky, Demos TOPIC: How to Talk about Government: Reclaiming the Public Sector for Public Purpose For 30 or more years, conservatives have been undermining public belief in the efficacy of the public sector and its role in American society. The results have been erosion of an understanding of the place of government in a prosperous and inclusive society. Michael Lipsky, Senior Program Director of Demos, will present findings from research on public perceptions of government and approaches to improving the discourse on the public sector. Michael Lipsky is a Senior Program Director at Demos, a public policy and advocacy organization based in New York, and a Visiting Professor at the Georgetown University Public Policy Institute. At Demos, he is primarily associated with Public Works: The Demos Center for the Public Sector. From 1991 to 2003, Dr. Lipsky was a Senior Program Officer in Governance and Civil Society at the Ford Foundation. Before that he was professor of political science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he taught courses on public policy, American politics and social movements. He has also taught at the Universities of Wisconsin and Washington and at the Harvard University Graduate School of Education. He is the author of many journal articles and several books, including Protest in City Politics (1970), the prize-winning Street Level Bureaucracy: Dilemmas of the Individual in Public Service (1980) and, more recently, Nonprofits for Hire: The Welfare State in the Age of Contracting (1993, with S.R. Smith). He has also been a member of the Committee on the Status of Black Americans of the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences, and the Secretary of Labor's Task Force on Excellence in State and Local Government through Labor-Management Cooperation. Dr. Lipsky holds degrees from Oberlin College and Princeton University. Please RSVP to Matt Winters (msw22@columbia.edu) by Thursday 30 November. Dinner is at 6:00 p.m. at Faculty House, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY. Enter via the gate on the east side of Broadway at 116TH STREET; go through campus and cross AMSTERDAM AVE. Continue on West 116th past the Law School and turn left through the gate, turn right beyond Wein Hall on the right and go down the ramp to Faculty House. Purchase a ticket for dinner ($22) at the ticket window on the first floor, and then the dinner buffet is in the DeWitt Clinton Dining Room on the fourth floor. The seminar is at 7:15 p.m. in a room that will be announced in the Faculty House lobby. Please look for a bulletin board posting. -------------- University Seminar on Full Employment #613 ____ I will ____ I will not attend the meeting on Monday 4 December ____ I will ____ I will not join the group for dinner -------------- The seminar on Full Employment is chaired by Helen Lachs Ginsburg, helenginsburg@yahoo.com, Trudy Goldberg, trudygoldberg@msn.com and Sheila Collins, sheila.collins3@verizon.net. From urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu Wed Nov 29 21:06:50 2006 From: urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu (urpe-moderator@lists.econ.utah.edu) Date: Wed Nov 29 21:10:34 2006 Subject: [URPE] [NYC] CEPA: Economic Policy Workshop - Michael Piore - Friday, December 8th - 12:30 pm Message-ID: <456E58DA.8090707@lists.econ.utah.edu> Upcoming Economic Policy Workshop at the Schwartz Center: Michael Piore, MIT "Trading Up: The End of Neoliberalism in Latin America, Labor Market Regulation, and Economic Development" FRIDAY, December 8th 12:30pm-2:00pm 80 Fifth Avenue, 5th Fl. Conference Room Join us at 12:30 p.m. for a brown bag lunch and workshop. Please note that this is a Friday, not a Wednesday. Download the paper at: http://newschool.edu/cepa/events/events_epwksp.htm Directions to the Schwartz Center are available at http://www.newschool.edu/cepa/directory/location.htm Economic Policy Workshops are sponsored by: Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis The New School for Social Research 80 Fifth Avenue, 5th Floor New York, NY 10011 Tel: (212) 229-5901 x4911 Fax: (212) 229-5903 http://www.newschool.edu/cepa cepa@newschool.edu * * For help with this mailing list go to the CEPA Web site: * http://www.newschool.edu/cepa/ From leefs at umkc.edu Fri Dec 1 12:36:17 2006 From: leefs at umkc.edu (Lee, Frederic) Date: Sat Dec 2 08:19:29 2006 Subject: [URPE] call for ICAPE Booth Volunteers Message-ID: <9A72753A447165498D6B63479DB2E7C901BA00C4@KC-MSX3.kc.umkc.edu> Skipped content of type multipart/alternative-------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Other teaching opportunities include managerial economics and mathematical economics. Appropriate training in applied econometrics is necessary. An appreciation of the liberal arts perspective is expected, and an acquaintance with heterodox economics and alternative paradigms is welcomed. Candidates must have completed the Ph.D. in economics by the time of appointment. Rank is open. Salary is dependent upon rank. The teaching load is six courses per year. Send application letter, statement of teaching philosophy, curriculum vitae, evidence of teaching competency, sample of written work, official graduate school transcripts, and three letters of reference to Chair, Econometrics Search Committee, Department of Economics, P.O. Box 3080, Redlands, CA 92373-0999. Please specify the position you are applying for as we have two open positions. Queries may be directed to Christopher_Niggle@redlands.edu. Please send materials through the mail. E-mail attachments will not be accepted. Candidates seeking interviews at the January 2007 ASSA/AEA meeting in Chicago should submit credentials by December 15, 2006. Position remains open until filled. The University of Redlands is a private, comprehensive liberal arts institution located sixty miles east of Los Angeles, and is an equal opportunity employer. Additional information about the University and its mission and facilities is available at www.redlands.edu. [ JOE ID# 20061207201 ] From leefs at umkc.edu Mon Dec 4 13:36:44 2006 From: leefs at umkc.edu (Lee, Frederic) Date: Tue Dec 5 09:23:11 2006 Subject: [URPE] Heterodox Economics Newsletter 36 Message-ID: <9A72753A447165498D6B63479DB2E7C901BA02BB@KC-MSX3.kc.umkc.edu> Skipped content of type multipart/alternative-------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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EPI economists regularly communicate their findings to major media, Congress, and to popular and academic/scholarly audiences. EPI is searching for a new research director. The successful candidate will oversee development of the EPI research agenda, and will be responsible for the policy relevance, quality, timeliness, and potential for impact of research projects. The research director will also help shape development strategy and raise funds to support the research agenda. The candidate hired is expected to continue to develop their own research agenda and also be available for public speaking and media work. The research director is responsible for relations with a number of key audiences including policymakers, researchers, and funders. The research director will supervise a staff of approximately 25 people, including professional researchers in economics, public policy and related fields, and data analysis. These individuals carry out a broad array of research in areas ranging from tax and budget policy, macroeconomics and education to international trade and finance, labor market economics and industrial relations. Outside researchers affiliated with universities and other institutes also contribute to EPI?s stream of output and activities. EPI also maintains a network of researchers working on state and local policy issues throughout the United States, and a second network of researchers at more than 30 institutes around the world who are involved in research on a similar set of issues. The Economic Policy Institute has a total staff of more than 50 people, and includes separate departments of public policy (outreach), development, finance, communications, and publications. The research director will coordinate activities with these other departments, and will participate in the day-to-day management of the Institute and its resources. A strong background of supervisory experience is required, along with significant research experience in academia, government, or a private research organization, and an advanced degree in economics, public policy or a related field. The successful candidate will have a strong publications record; experience in popular writing and speaking is also of great value in this position. Fundraising experience would be beneficial. The Economic Policy Institute is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. To apply, send cover letter, vita, references, and writing samples to: Economic Policy Institute, 1333 H Street, NW, 3rd Fl, Washington, D.C. 20005, Attn: Stephanie Scott (sscott@epinet.org). The position is currently open. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Susan From: Susan Feiner Date: December 13, 2006 7:02:01 AM EST (CA) To: sffein@usm.maine.edu Subject: Check out "The Dismal and Unwelcome Science?" at insidehighered.com Here's a link to the page: http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2006/12/13/econ Want to receive Inside Higher Ed's FREE daily news alerts? Signup online at http://www.insidehighered.com/sign_up for your e-mail review of top news stories, provocative opinion and great new careers in higher education. Susan F. Feiner Director of Women's Studies & Professor of Economics University of Southern Maine Portland ME 04103 (o) 2077804966 (h) 2078465213 sffein@usm.maine.edu -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Merry Christmas and happy new year, Tom Palley Founder Economics for Democratic & Open Societies Project Tel: 202-249-2317 e-mail: mail@thomaspalley.com www.thomaspalley.com From mzweig at notes.cc.sunysb.edu Fri Dec 15 15:22:27 2006 From: mzweig at notes.cc.sunysb.edu (mzweig@notes.cc.sunysb.edu) Date: Sun Dec 17 09:46:55 2006 Subject: [URPE] Gift of Knowledge and Tool for Organizing Message-ID: Skipped content of type multipart/alternative-------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Candidates will be expected to submit written works on the nature of institutions, the theory of institutional evolution, the philosophical foundations of institutional and evolutionary economics, or the application of institutional or evolutionary theory to economic policy. These themes reflect Veblenian concerns. Contestants will be divided into two groups: (1) Candidates born on or after 1 January 1973, or currently enrolled PhD students, or candidates who were awarded their PhD on or after 1 January 2003. (2) Candidates who do not qualify under (1) above. Submitted works may be unpublished, or published no earlier than 2005. Books, articles or PhD theses may be considered. Up to four prizes shall be awarded. For each of group (1) and group (2) there will be up to two prizes of 2,000 GBP each. Candidates must submit their work to Geoff Hodgson, to be received by 30 June 2007. Submissions must be on a single electronic file (to G.M.Hodgson@herts.ac.uk) or six printed copies of the work (to Prof G Hodgson, The Business School, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, Hertfordshire AL10 9AB, UK). Current Trustees of FEED as well as members of the councils of EAEPE and AFEE in 2006 or 2007 shall be ineligible to enter this competition. The prizes will be judged by a panel nominated jointly by AFEE and EAEPE and by the Foundation for European Economic Development (FEED). The prizes are funded by FEED (a registered UK charity). See http://eaepe.org/eaepe.php?q=node/view/189 for details. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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There are no equations or quantitative diagrams; just some "conceptual geometry" figures that I have developed to support and focus the various arguments. The book is transdisciplinary, and should be both accessible and useful in courses in history, economics, political science, sociology, anthropology, and philosophy. It is solidly grounded in the Marxist tradition, but also (I hope) makes creative contributions to the advance of that tradition. What I *try* to do in the book is sorely needed in these neoliberal, TINA times! (How well I succeed is, of course, for others to say.) Naturally I would like people to buy the book: hardcover, listed at $65.00. But an inexpensive paperback is planned, and SUNY Press would like to know what the classroom potential is. *If* you are a college teacher, and if you *might* want to adopt the book in the near future, I would appreciate your letting them know of that interest; contact Michael Rinella at the Press (michael.rinella@sunypress.edu). Let's not build a pressure campaign; don't do this unless there is a reasonable prospect of your actually coming through. Also, ask them for examination copies. Propose and write book reviews. Etc. Table of contents is reproduced below. Many thanks. In solidarity, David David Laibman ====================================================== Deep History A Study in Social Evolution and Human Potential DAVID LAIBMAN SUNY Press, Albany, NY, 2007. Pp. xiii, 224. CONTENTS Introduction PART I: The General Theory of Social Evolution Chapter 1: Agency, Causality and History Chapter 2: Transition to Capitalism: The PF?PR Model and Alternatives PART II: Capitalism: Structure, Logic, Stadiality Chapter 3: The Elusive Anatomy of Capitalist Society Chapter 4: The Logic of Capitalism: Growth and Crisis Chapter 5: A Stadial Model of the Capitalist Era PART III: Beyond Capitalism: An Envisioned Future Chapter 6: Socialism: Beyond Capital, Beyond Class Chapter 7: The Soviet Experience and the Theory of Full Communism Bibliography Index From urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu Tue Dec 19 10:34:06 2006 From: urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu (urpe-moderator@lists.econ.utah.edu) Date: Tue Dec 19 10:37:19 2006 Subject: [URPE] ASSA Special event: The Challenge of Eurocentrism: A Global Review of Parameters Message-ID: <4588228E.2090705@lists.econ.utah.edu> Dear Colleagues, I would like to bring this ASSA special event (Jan. 4th) to your attention: SPECIAL EVENT AT THE ASSA, CHICAGO, 2007 ? 4 JANUARY The Challenge of Eurocentrism: A Global Review of Parameters Festschrift Celebration of the Life and Work of Rajani Kannepallli Kanth Water Tower Room, Hyatt Regency (Bronze Level, West Tower), 151 East Wacker Drive 12.00 Lunch 1.00: Special Event Introduction Rajani Kannepalli Kanth, University of Massachusetts, ?The Challenge of Eurocentrism? 1.30: Perspectives on Africa and East Asia Chair ? Fadhel Kaboub, Drew University Fadhel Kaboub, Drew University & Firat Demir University of Oklahoma, ?Eurocentric Habits of Thought in the Middle East? Amit Basole and Rajesh Bhattacharya, Univ. of Massachusetts ?Eurocentrism and Economic Development: The Indian Context? Tung-Yi Kho, University of Oregon, ?The Banana Syndrome: Eurocentrism in East Asia? Commentary: Phil O?Hara, Curtin University, ?Parameters of Eurocentrism? 3.30 Afternoon Tea & Coffee 3.45: Perspectives on West Asia, the Americas, and the West Chair ? Phil O?Hara, Curtin University Mat Forstater, University of Missouri, ?Eurocentrism: African-Centered Critique ?Political Economy and Pan-African Experience Ali Mazrui, State University of New York, ?From Eurocentrism to Americo-Centrism? Rajiv Malhotra, Infinity Foundation, ?U-Turn Theory: A Model of the Process of Western Appropriation of Cultural Assets? Valedictory: Rajani Kannepalli Kanth, University of Massachusetts, ?Eurocentrism ? The Next Frontier? 5.45 Drinks and Celebration This special event is sponsored by the Global Political Economy Research Unit. Everyone is welcome to attend. No fees. Email: philohara1@yahoo.com fkaboub@drew.edu From leefs at umkc.edu Mon Dec 18 13:45:18 2006 From: leefs at umkc.edu (Lee, Frederic) Date: Tue Dec 19 10:39:42 2006 Subject: [URPE] need for icape booth volunteers Message-ID: <9A72753A447165498D6B63479DB2E7C901D2B4E5@KC-MSX3.kc.umkc.edu> Skipped content of type multipart/alternative-------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: booth volunteer info 2007.doc Type: application/msword Size: 37832 bytes Desc: booth volunteer info 2007.doc Url : http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/urpe-announcements/attachments/20061218/be7344e3/boothvolunteerinfo2007-0001.doc -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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But in conversation with Ann Mari May, who has been in conversation with IAFFErs such as Edith Kuiper, Susan Feiner, Stephanie Seguino, we want to do more. Ann Mari is coordinating an effort to take out an "advertorial" in the Chicago Tribune to get more attention to the lack of diversity within economics, to represent the alternative view from the mainstream AEA, even if we must pay for it. Naturally, the AEA meetings will be well covered by the mainstream press, but perhaps not our sessions or our initiatives. I have also purchased 500 awareness ribbons. I have chosen maroon, which is the official color for the economics discipline in academic ceremony regalia or costume. I wil bring them to the ASSA meetings in Chicago. I will distribute them to those who want to make a statement for our cause: * We wear maroon ribbons to stand in opposition to the AEA trying to squash efforts toward EEO/AA. * We wear maroon ribbons to stand in opposition to the white male predominance and stranglehold on our discipline, which aids in fortifying the mainstream in terms of theory, policy, and methodology. * We wear maroon ribbons to support EEO/AA and encourage diversity at the entry gates of the discipline and in the career ladders within economics. I hope we will continue to wear maroon ribbons at economics conferences, official events with economists, search committee interviews, and the like. We have been presented with a moment, a moment in our history. We seize this moment. Following upon the heels of what Stephanie Seguino has done, we proudly take a stand. I will collect $1 as a voluntary contribution for each marron ribbon to support our cause. Deb Figart Deborah M. Figart Dean of Graduate Studies Richard Stockton College P.O. Box 195, Jim Leeds Road Pomona, NJ 08240-0195 609-652-4298 (voice) 609-626-6050 (fax) Deb.Figart@stockton.edu Co-Editor, Review of Social Economy Check out some of my books: Living Wages, Equal Wages: Gender and Labor Market Policies in the United States Working Time: International Trends, Theory and Policy Perspectives Women and the Economy: A Reader Ethics and the Market: Insights from Social Economics Living Wage Movements: Global Perspectives Emotional Labor in the Service Economy Contesting the Market: Pay Equity and the Politics of Economic Restructuring -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Laurie Nisonoff >X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.7 (2006-10-05) on > jupiter.hampshire.edu >X-Spam-Level: >X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.2 required=7.0 tests=BAYES_50,DNS_FROM_RFC_ABUSE, > HTML_MESSAGE autolearn=disabled version=3.1.7 >Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 10:06:38 -0500 >From: "Figart, Deb" >Subject: Maroon Awareness Ribbons for Discipline Diversity >To: "International Association for Feminist Economics" > >Cc: "Lee, Frederic" >Thread-Topic: Maroon Awareness Ribbons for Discipline Diversity >Thread-Index: AcckSHKmd1/mOJS0QMWbbf6XVnCA3g== >X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.57 on 134.117.1.18 >List-Unsubscribe: >Reply-To: "International Association for Feminist Economics" > >X-HC-MailScanner: Found to be clean >Status: > >IAFFE colleagues and friends, > >I have been following the actions of the AEA with regard to the JOE >job ads and the responses of IAFFE as an organization as well as >individual IAFFE members and supporters. As President of the >Association for Social Economics, I have introduced a resolution to >the ASE Board to support IAFFE's position, support diversity, and >have our ASSA Secretary send a letter to AEA President Akerlof. > >But in conversation with Ann Mari May, who has been in conversation >with IAFFErs such as Edith Kuiper, Susan Feiner, Stephanie Seguino, >we want to do more. Ann Mari is coordinating an effort to take out >an "advertorial" in the Chicago Tribune to get more attention to the >lack of diversity within economics, to represent the alternative >view from the mainstream AEA, even if we must pay for it. >Naturally, the AEA meetings will be well covered by the mainstream >press, but perhaps not our sessions or our initiatives. > >I have also purchased 500 awareness ribbons. I have chosen maroon, >which is the official color for the economics discipline in academic >ceremony regalia or costume. I wil bring them to the ASSA meetings >in Chicago. I will distribute them to those who want to make a >statement for our cause: > > >We wear maroon ribbons to stand in opposition to the AEA trying to >squash efforts toward EEO/AA. >We wear maroon ribbons to stand in opposition to the white male >predominance and stranglehold on our discipline, which aids in >fortifying the mainstream in terms of theory, policy, and >methodology. >We wear maroon ribbons to support EEO/AA and encourage diversity at >the entry gates of the discipline and in the career ladders within >economics. > >I hope we will continue to wear maroon ribbons at economics >conferences, official events with economists, search committee >interviews, and the like. We have been presented with a moment, a >moment in our history. We seize this moment. Following upon the >heels of what Stephanie Seguino has done, we proudly take a stand. > >I will collect $1 as a voluntary contribution for each marron ribbon >to support our cause. > >Deb Figart > > > >Deborah M. Figart >Dean of Graduate Studies >Richard Stockton College >P.O. Box 195, Jim Leeds Road >Pomona, NJ 08240-0195 > >609-652-4298 (voice) >609-626-6050 (fax) >Deb.Figart@stockton.edu > >Co-Editor, >Review of >Social Economy >Check out some of my books: >Living >Wages, Equal Wages: Gender and Labor Market Policies in the United >States > >Working >Time: International Trends, Theory and Policy Perspectives > >Women >and the Economy: A Reader > >Ethics >and the Market: Insights from Social Economics > >Living >Wage Movements: Global Perspectives > >Emotional >Labor in the Service Economy > >Contesting the Market: >Pay Equity and the Politics of Economic Restructuring > > >--- >You are currently subscribed to iaffe-l as: lnisonoff@hampshire.edu >To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-15247-1094Y@lists.carleton.ca >IAFFE-L is the official listserve of the International Association >for Feminist Economics -- Laurie Nisonoff Professor of Economics School of Social Science Hampshire College Amherst, MA 01002 p: 413-559-5397 f: 413-559-5620 e: lnisonoff@hampshire.edu -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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