From mail at thomaspalley.com Mon Jan 1 12:14:28 2007 From: mail at thomaspalley.com (Thomas Palley) Date: Mon Jan 1 12:16:27 2007 Subject: [URPE] POLICY OP-ED: World Asset Prices Message-ID: Dear URPE Friends & Colleagues, Please find my first policy op-ed of 2007 titled "World Asset Prices: What's Really Going On?" posted on my website at www.thomaspalley.com Please feel free to share it with others who may be 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 Jan 2 12:57:52 2007 From: urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu (urpe-moderator@lists.econ.utah.edu) Date: Tue Jan 2 13:00:53 2007 Subject: [URPE] [NYC] BRECHT FORUM EVENTS =?windows-1252?q?=96_13th_Anniversary_?= =?windows-1252?q?of_the_Zapatista_Uprising_=26_SCREENPEACE_FILM_FESTIVAL?= Message-ID: <459AB940.9040304@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 Andrew_Kliman at msn.com Tue Jan 2 19:26:08 2007 From: Andrew_Kliman at msn.com (Drewk) Date: Tue Jan 2 19:52:53 2007 Subject: [URPE] my new book on Marx Message-ID: Just Published, January 2007 ============================ RECLAIMING MARX'S "CAPITAL" A REFUTATION OF THE MYTH OF INCONSISTENCY by Andrew Kliman 250 pages, copyright 2007. Published by Lexington Books, a division of Rowman & Littlefield. Part of Lexington's Raya Dunayevskaya Series in Marxism and Humanism. List price: $26.95. ONLY $22.91 AT PUBLISHER'S WEBSITE, www.lexingtonbooks.com. (European purchasers may pay in British pounds or euros.) Also available from amazon.com and other US and foreign online booksellers. Hardcover list price: $65. ENDORSEMENTS: "Authors of texts on Marxist economics tend to treat Marx as a distant basis upon which to build their own individual opinions. This al la carte approach stems from . . . acceptance of the supposed errors and internal inconsistency in Marx's theory of value. In contrast, Reclaiming Marx's 'Capital,' by decisively refuting the allegations of error and internal inconsistency, returns Marx's own work to centre stage. [It]is thus an important unifying work, rather than just another divisive personal opinion." ?? -- Nick Potts, Reader in Economics, Southampton Solent University "In Reclaiming Marx's 'Capital,' Kliman's arguments--and it is largely a book of arguments - operate like a buzz saw clearing away the underbrush of misplaced criticisms that have kept the real Capital hidden from most of its potential readers. The project is much needed, and brilliantly and clearly (and for this reader, convincingly) executed. Highly recommended for all those who need Capital (and who doesn't?)." -- Bertell Ollman, Professor of Politics, New York University "It had to be done: someone has finally rescued Marx from the Marxists. If you want to come to grips with the most famous, most profound, and yet most-censored critique of capitalism yet seen; if you want access to the real ideas of the man who famously quipped 'Me, I am not a Marxist'; and most of all, if you don't trust anyone or anything 'til you've checked for yourself--then this is the place to start." --Alan Freeman, Department of Social Sciences, University of Greenwich "[A]lmost everyone, orthodox and Marxian economists alike, [has] accepted the view that Marx's value theory is internally inconsistent. . . .[This book] sorts out a bewildering tangle of approaches and issues in order to demon?strate that the charge of internal inconsistency is false. . . . Reclaiming Marx's 'Capital' is a fresh attempt to get it right, in terms Marx himself would have recognized." --Thomas Jeannot, Professor of Philosophy, Gonzaga University "This is the first comprehensive introduction to all aspects of the transformation 'problem.' It will become the standard reference work in the years to come. No serious work on value theory can afford to ignore it." --Guglielmo Carchedi, Department of Economics and Econometrics, University of Amsterdam (Ret.) >From the back cover ------------------- This book seeks to reclaim Capital from the myth of internal inconsistency, a myth that serves to justify the censorship of Marx's critique of political economy and present-day research based upon it. Andrew Kliman shows that the alleged inconsistencies are actually caused by misinterpretation. By modifying the standard interpretation of Marx's value theory in two simple ways, the recent "temporal single-system interpretation" eliminates all of the alleged inconsistencies. Written especially for the nonspecialist reader in a clear accessible style and with the bare minimum of mathematics, Reclaiming Marx's "Capital" introduces readers to Marx's value theory and contrasting interpretations of it, the history of the internal inconsistency controversy, and interpretive standards and methods. Kliman then surveys Marx's falling-rate-of-profit theory, the relationship of prices to values (the "transformation problem"), Marx's exploitation theory of profit, and other topics. The book ends with a discussion of why the myth of inconsistency persists, and a call to set the record straight. * Read the Table of Contents, Index, and start of Preface at the author's website: http://akliman.squarespace.com/reclaiming * Order book from publisher's website for ONLY $22.91: http://www.lexingtonbooks.com/Catalog/SingleBook.shtml?command=Search&db=^DB/CATALOG.db&eqSKUdata=0739118528 * European customers should use this URL: http://www.lexingtonbooks.com/Catalog/Eur/SingleBook.shtml?command=Search&db=^db/CATALOG.db&eqSKUdata=0739118528 From urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu Wed Jan 3 20:45:44 2007 From: urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu (urpe-moderator@lists.econ.utah.edu) Date: Wed Jan 3 20:48:57 2007 Subject: [URPE] AFL-CIO Breakfast During ASSA Message-ID: <459C7868.7060804@lists.econ.utah.edu> Dear URPE/ASSA meeting participant--you are invited to the AFL-CIO Breakfast: Speaker: Nelson Lichtenstein, Director of the Center for the Study of Work, Labor and Democracy and Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara Topic: ?How Labor Can Win in the New Congress: An Historian?s Perspective? When: Saturday, January 6, 2007, from 7am until 8am Where: Continental B, Hilton Chicago Hotel, 720 South Michigan Avenue Complimentary continental breakfast will be served; no RSVP required From urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu Thu Jan 4 19:21:31 2007 From: urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu (urpe-moderator@lists.econ.utah.edu) Date: Thu Jan 4 19:24:31 2007 Subject: [URPE] [NYC] Brecht Forum Jan 5-Feb16 Screenpeace: An Antiwar Film Festival Message-ID: <459DB62B.20207@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 Thu Jan 4 19:26:59 2007 From: urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu (urpe-moderator@lists.econ.utah.edu) Date: Thu Jan 4 19:30:14 2007 Subject: [URPE] [nyc] CEPA: Heilbroner Memorial Lecture on The Future of Capitalism: RSVP Required Message-ID: <459DB773.6050205@lists.econ.utah.edu> The 2nd Annual Robert Heilbroner Memorial Lecture on the Future of Capitalism Featuring Philip Mirowski, University of Notre Dame on "The Neoliberal Agenda for the Future of Science" Thursday, February 1, 2006 7 p.m. 65 Fifth Avenue (Wolff Conference Room) Join us for the second annual Robert Heilbroner Memorial Lecture. Heilbroner wrote, "Capitalism's uniqueness in history lies in its continuously self-generated change, but it is this very dynamism that is the system's chief enemy." It is in appreciation of what he identified as "the deep human need to be situated with respect to the future" that The New School sponsors a lecture series in Heilbroner's memory that focuses on capitalism's future. This year's lecture features Philip Mirowski, Carl Koch Chair of Economics and the History and Philosophy of Science, University of Notre Dame. Free and open to the public. RSVP required. E-mail cepa@newschool.edu or call 212-229-5901 x4911. Date: Thursday, February 1, 2007 Time: 7 p.m. Place: The New School, 65 Fifth Avenue, Wolff Conference Room 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 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 mail at thomaspalley.com Mon Jan 8 18:26:21 2007 From: mail at thomaspalley.com (Thomas Palley) Date: Tue Jan 9 07:23:44 2007 Subject: [URPE] POLICY OP-ED: Economics for Contenders Message-ID: Dear URPE Friends & Colleagues, This week's policy op-ed titled "Economics for Contenders". It is posted on my website www.thomaspalley.com and at www.tompaine.com I hope you will share it with friends and colleagues. Sincerely, Tom Palley Founder Economics for Democratic & Open Societies Project Tel: 202-249-2317 e-mail: mail@thomaspalley.com From leefs at umkc.edu Thu Jan 11 15:02:27 2007 From: leefs at umkc.edu (Lee, Frederic) Date: Thu Jan 11 20:36:35 2007 Subject: [URPE] Heterodox Economics Newsletter 37 Message-ID: <9A72753A447165498D6B63479DB2E7C901ED52BF@KC-MSX3.kc.umkc.edu> Heterodox Economics Newsletter Issue-37, January 12, 2007 >From the Editor In December 2006 at the annual conference of the Society for Heterodox Economists, it was decided to establish a formal association with John King as president and Peter Kriesler as Secretary: The threat imposed on heterodox economics by the Research Quality Framework (details of which are available on the SHE website) was discussed at great length. In order to actively engage in the debate, it was felt necessary to establish a structure around the Society of Heterodox Economists which would provide a formal body to lobby on behalf of heterodox economists. A motion was put to the meeting and unanimously passed establishing a committee for SHE with a President, secretary and general committee. John King was elected President, Peter Kriesler secretary, and the committee will consist of a representative from each Australian university which has a heterodox presence. It was agreed that annual prizes be awarded to the best honours and PhD thesis submitted in heterodox economics each year. Prizes were also to be considered for the best paper at the annual SHE Conference, and for the best paper by a graduate student. Details of these prizes will be circulated during 2007. The future activities of SHE include the following: Working Paper Series As of the beginning of 2007, SHE will launch an online Working Paper series. The intention is to tie the papers into the SHE Forum, which has fallen into disuse, with papers forming the basis of forum discussions. All papers in heterodox economics, broadly defined, will be considered. Please send papers for consideration to: p.kriesler@unsw.edu.au Winter School In conjunction with CofFEE, SHE will inaugurate a Winter School commencing July 2007 for research students. Currently, we plan to run the school for a couple of days, and follow it with a PhD Student's Conference for Heterodox students. More details will be available soon from the SHE and CofFEE websites. SHE Website: http://she.web.unsw.edu.au CofFEE website: http://e1.newcastle.edu.au/coffee/index.cfm 2007 Sixth Australian Society of Heterodox Economists Conference The 2007 SHE Conference will be held on Monday 10 December and Tuesday 11 December at the University of New South Wales. Congratulations to Peter, John, and the rest of the mob of Australian heterodox economists for formally establishing SHE. Fred Lee In this issue: - Call for Papers - ICAPE Conference, 1-3 June 2007 - 2nd EAEPE Symposium - Association for Heterodox Economics 9th Annual Conference 2007 - "Corporate Accountability Limited Liability, and the Future of Globalisation" - Twelfth European Conference on the History of Economics (ECHE 2007) - Conferences, Seminars and Lectures - IA- Hommage A Charles Bettelheim - Seminaire ARC 2 - The CASE 2007 Winds of Change Conference - Job Posting s for Heterodox Economists - University of Nevada, Reno NV - Heterodox Conference Papers and Reports and Articles - What We Learn When We Learn Economics - Heterodox Journals and Newsletters - Levy News - New Political Economy - European Journal of the History of Economic Thought - Review of Social Economy - Journal of Economic Methodology - International Review of Applied Economics - Heterodox Books, Book Series, and Book Reviews - Introduction to Post-Keynesian Economics - Competition: The Birth of a New Science - Deep History: A Study in Social Evolution and Human Potential - For Your Information - Announcement of a Major Prize Competition - Thomas Palley- Economics for Democratic and Open Societies -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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International Confederation of Associations for Pluralism in Economics (ICAPE): http://icape.org/ For current and previous issues of the HEN see 'news' section of http://www.hetecon.com/ ________________________________ From: Lockard, Paul [mailto:Lockardp@bhc.edu] Sent: Friday, January 12, 2007 8:32 AM To: Lee, Frederic Subject: RE: [URPE] Heterodox Economics Newsletter 37 To Whom It May Concern: I just started subscribing to the Review of Radical Political Economics, and find myself in the middle of a debate about the New Interpretative of Marx's theory. Where can I find a concise statement/introductory presentation of what it is? Thanks for your help! Paul Lockard -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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The format for our Economic Currents Series of presentations and exchanges on critical economic issues of the day is that the presenters will begin with a briefing of background and key facts before opening to group roundtable Q&A. Max Fraad-Wolff is an instructor at the New School Graduate Program in International Affairs and administrator of www.globalmacroscope.com a new economic news and analysis website. Rick Wolff is a professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts. Suggested donation: $6/$10/$15 No One Turned Away 451 West Street, New York, NY 10014 - (212) 242-4201 - email: brechtforum at brechtforum.org From mail at thomaspalley.com Tue Jan 16 08:16:03 2007 From: mail at thomaspalley.com (Thomas Palley) Date: Tue Jan 16 08:20:28 2007 Subject: [URPE] OP-ED: Zombie Economics & the Twin Deficits Message-ID: Dear URPE Friends & Colleagues, This week's policy op-ed is titled "Zombie Economics: The Myth of the Twin Deficits". It is posted on my website at www.thomaspalley.com Please share it with persons who might be 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 Jan 16 08:23:37 2007 From: urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu (urpe-moderator@lists.econ.utah.edu) Date: Tue Jan 16 08:26:28 2007 Subject: [URPE] New publication and Membership Message-ID: <45ACEDF9.9070900@lists.econ.utah.edu> Dear readers, colleagues, and partners from various institutions, This is to announce the publication of The International Scope Review # 13. The editorial, by Otto Steiger, Alexi Danchev and Patrick Hunout, bears on "John Kenneth Galbraith, the Affluent Society and Social Capital". The articles, mostly drawn from the 2005 Malta conference of The Social Capital Foundation, bear on issues revolving around social capital. If you wish to submit a paper, please revisit our policy statement page as well as the guidelines for authors; our evaluation principles (methodology, ethics and procedure) have been updated. For the near future, we would like to publish a special issue on democratic tax policy and the social market economy. Papers may of course be submitted on other topics as well, any time. We also need your support. We expect to have more members in 2007 and would like you to consider the membership options at http://www.socialcapital-foundation.org/TSCF/TSCF%20membership.htm. Some new members could be involved in the Editorial Board and others in the creation of local chapters of The Social Capital Foundation or other projects. Besides membership itself, small donations are also possible via http://www.socialcapital-foundation.org/TSCF/TSCF%20donations.htm Finally, we remind you that registrations to the TSCF 2007 conference, to be held on November 15-19, 2007 in Hawaii, are now open. The conference this year is on Multiethnicity and Social Capital. We invite you to submit papers, but participation as a discussant or an attendant also is possible. Please have a look at the conference page of our site: http://www.socialcapital-foundation.org/conferences/synopsis.htm. The deadline is very close to the conference date in order to allow a maximal number of participants to be involved. However, participants are advised not to wait until the deadline to submit, the fee being staggered. With best wishes, and a Happy New Year 2007! 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Message-ID: <45ACEE72.4020905@lists.econ.utah.edu> Dear URPE members the GSA would like to invite you to attend the Fifth annual Global Studies Conference at UC Irvine DEADLINE FOR PAPERS IS MARCH 15 Send to gharris234@comcast.net For information on speakers, schedule, hotel and registration go to our web site at: http://www.net4dem.org/mayglobal -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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STONY BROOK MANHATTAN 401 PARK AVE SOUTH (at 28th St.), 2nd floor Sponsored by the Center for Study of Working Class LIfe In late 2006 Nancy Romer met in Bolivia with activists in the landless peasants movement, leaders of the water and gas "wars," student activists, and faculty and professional staff unionists at the large public universitites. In this talk she will discuss the ways in which the workers and traditional left unite with the indigenous movements to share a political agenda, strategy, and tactics. She will also address the implications of Bolivian developments for a left coalition in Latin America. Nancy Romer is Professor of Psychology and Director of the Brooklyn College Community Partnership, and University-Wide Officer of the Professional Staff Congress of CUNY (AFT local 2334). -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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We are not looking for papers that attempt to review Hunt’s work, rather, the papers should aim to make a clear connection between the work being done and Hunt’s contribution to the field. In conjunction with the format of the ICAPE conference, paper proposals should include the following: Paper title Brief abstract (200 words) Your name and contact addresses (including institutional affiliation) All paper proposals should be submitted to Justin Elardo at elardo.1@osu.edu by January 31, 2007 or by post to: Justin A. Elardo Ohio State University Economics Department 410 Arps Hall 1945 N. High Street Columbus, OH 43210 From chris.borst at utoronto.ca Wed Jan 17 19:41:12 2007 From: chris.borst at utoronto.ca (Chris Borst) Date: Wed Jan 17 20:23:39 2007 Subject: [URPE] CfP Knowledge(s) Outside the Academy -- Extended Deadline Message-ID: <45AEDE48.8090209@utoronto.ca> A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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The economist will be a co-author of the report and member of the core team. The work is estimated at 50% time over the next 15 months, with the goal to launch in the first quarter of 2008. If interested or for more information, please contact Sarah Burd-Sharps at sb925@columbia.edu . Khalil Tian Shahyd - MA PhD Student/Research Associate - Political Ecology Center for Energy and Environmental Policy University of Delaware http://ceep.udel.edu/ceep.html 504.296.6516 From urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu Mon Jan 22 17:09:23 2007 From: urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu (urpe-moderator@lists.econ.utah.edu) Date: Mon Jan 22 17:12:07 2007 Subject: [URPE] [NYC] Brecht TONIGHT! Rick Wolff & Max Fraad Wolff on Housing & Personal Debt Message-ID: <45B55233.4050104@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 g.m.hodgson at herts.ac.uk Mon Jan 22 10:23:47 2007 From: g.m.hodgson at herts.ac.uk (Geoff Hodgson) Date: Mon Jan 22 17:16:20 2007 Subject: [URPE] 9th International Workshop on Institutional Economics - 21-22 June 2007 Message-ID: <7.0.0.16.2.20070122171426.02647b30@herts.ac.uk> Dear Colleagues I am pleased to announce details of the 9th International Workshop on Institutional Economics. It will be held on 21-22 June 2007 at the University of Hertfordshire in Hatfield in England. The theme is: "Property, money and firms: the forgotten role of law and the state" Speakers: David Gindis (University of Lyon II), Geoffrey Hodgson (University of Hertfordshire), Geoffrey Ingham (University of Cambridge), Thorbjoern Knudsen (University of Southern Denmark), Patrick O'Brien (LSE), Itai Sened (Washington University at St Louis). Further details and booking information can be found on the following website: http://www.geoffrey-hodgson.info/p37.htm I hope that you will be able to attend. Best wishes Geoff Hodgson -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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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 urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu Fri Jan 26 06:29:08 2007 From: urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu (urpe-moderator@lists.econ.utah.edu) Date: Fri Jan 26 06:24:11 2007 Subject: [URPE] [NYC] US IRAN CONFLICT: A THREAT TO WORLD PEACE Friday, Feb. 9 Message-ID: <45BA0224.4020406@lists.econ.utah.edu> US IRAN CONFLICT A THREAT TO WORLD PEACE SPEAKER: HOOSHANG AMIRAHMADI, Ph.D. Professor of Public Policy and Director of Middle Eastern Studies Center at the Rutgers University, President of American-Iranian Center FOR OVER TWO DECADES PROFESSOR AMIRAHMADI HAS WRITTEN SCOLARLY ARTICLE AND BOOKS ABOUT IRAN, AND US-IRAN RELATIONS (SEE Amirahmadi.com). ALSO, AS THE PRESIDENT OF AIC HE HAS ORGANIZED NUMEROUS CONFERENCES AND MEETING BETWEEN HIGH RANKING IRANIAN AND AMERICAN OFFICIALS TO BRIDGE THE GAP OF MISTRUST BETWEEN THE TWO SIDES. IN THIS LECTURE HE WILL PROVIDE AN EXPLANATION OF REASOND FOR THE CONFLICT, AND CONSEQUENCES OF ITS CONTINUATION FOR THE TWO COUNTRIES, THE REGION, AND THE WORLD PEACE. FRIDAY FEB. 9, 7:30 PM AT JUDSON MEMORIALCHURCH WASHINGTON SQUARE SOUTH Judson Memorial Church www.judson.org 55 Washington Sq S New York, NY 10012 (212) 477-0351 CONTACT INFO: rezayad@hotmail.com TEL: (609) 652-4307 From urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu Fri Jan 26 06:33:27 2007 From: urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu (urpe-moderator@lists.econ.utah.edu) Date: Fri Jan 26 06:28:27 2007 Subject: [URPE] [NYC] Celebrate the Life of Jim Garst Sun., Feb. 11 Message-ID: <45BA0327.7040904@lists.econ.utah.edu> Please Join Us to Celebrate the Life of Jim Garst, 1926-2006 Memorial Meeting Sunday, February 11, 2007 2:00 pm Stryckers Bay Community Room 66 West 94th St. at Columbus Ave. From leefs at umkc.edu Fri Jan 26 12:49:58 2007 From: leefs at umkc.edu (Lee, Frederic) Date: Fri Jan 26 19:06:15 2007 Subject: [URPE] Heterodox Economics Newsletter - 38 Message-ID: <9A72753A447165498D6B63479DB2E7C9020304F9@KC-MSX3.kc.umkc.edu> Heterodox Economics Newsletter Issue 38: January 26, 2007 >From the Editor This Newsletter has so much new information and calls for papers that it is not really possible to describe them all. While at the ASSA meetings I was able to get M.E. Sharpe to send me alerts regarding the heterodox journals and books they publish. They will now start appearing in the Newsletter. I already receive such alerts from Routledge. If you want alerts to your favorite heterodox journal and book publisher to appear in the Newsletter on a regular basis, try to get them to send me alerts on a regular basis. In the October 16, 2006 Heterodox Economics Newsletter (Issue 33), I publicized an issue about Job Openings for Economists which censored a job ad from the University of Vermont. Professor Stephanie Seguino spearheaded this concern and was supported by a number of people. At the ASSA meetings purple ribbons (supplied by Deborah Figart) were distributed to protest the decision. The outcome of the protest and action was reported in the January 19, 2007 issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education-which you can read in the ICAPE section below. Fred Lee In this issue: - Call for Papers - ICAPE Conference, 1-3 June 2007 - Developments in Economic Theory and Policy - Association for Heterodox Economics 9th Annual Conference 2007 - EAEPE 2007 Conference- Economic Growth, Development, and Institutions Conference - Union of Radical Political Economists - Association for Social Economics - The International Network for Economic Method - 2nd International Symposium on Economic Theory, Policy and Applications - Association for Evolutionary Economics - Globalization and Its Discontents - Progressive Economics Forum - European Research Group on Innovation and Change in Health Care Systems - Fifth Annual Global Studies Conference - Epistemologies/Pedagogies of Struggle: Knowledge(s) Outside the Academy - Marx and Philosophy Society Annual Conference - Green Economics Conference - EAEPE Information and Calls for Papers - Conferences, Seminars and Lectures - London Marx-Hegel Reading Group - City Leaders Lecture - 9th International Workshop on Institutional Economics - Contributions to Social Ontology - Global Economic and Social Development - Marx and Philosophy Society - 7th SCEME Workshop - Job Posting s for Heterodox Economists - The Evergreen State College - Economists for National Human Development Report - International Confederation of Associations for Pluralism in Economics - News - Economists' Group Adjusts Policy on Discriminatory Language in Job Ads - Heterodox Journals and Newsletters - International Journal of Political Economy - Challenge - International Journal of Development Issues, 2006 (2) - Work Organisation Labour and Globalisation - CASE e-Newsletter: January 2007 - Journal of Post Keynesian Economics - Heterodox Books, Book Series, and Book Reviews - Economics in Real Time: A Theoretical Reconstruction - Book Review of Economics in Real Time: A Theoretical Reconstruction - Handbook of Contemporary Behavioral Economics - Reintroducing Macroeconomics - Empirical Post Keynesian Economics - Reclaiming Marx's "Capital": A Refutation of the Myth of Inconsistency - Palgrave Books - Monetary Economics - Heterodox Associations, Institutes, and Departments - The Social Capital Foundation - Post Keynesian Economics Study Group - Queries from Heterodox Economists - Chris Farrell - For Your Information - Research Internships at AFL-CIO - Research Fellowships - Research Opportunities at Hellenic Observatory - Report on World Bank's Research Activities -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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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 urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu Mon Jan 29 10:14:14 2007 From: urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu (urpe-moderator@lists.econ.utah.edu) Date: Mon Jan 29 10:09:14 2007 Subject: [URPE] [NYC] CEPA: Last Chance to RSVP for the Heilbroner Memorial Lecture Message-ID: <45BE2B66.10907@lists.econ.utah.edu> The Heilbroner Memorial Lecture is coming up this Thursday, February 1. An RSVP is required, so if you plan to attend, please let us know as soon as possible. The 2nd Annual Robert Heilbroner Memorial Lecture on the Future of Capitalism Featuring Philip Mirowski, University of Notre Dame on "The Neoliberal Agenda for the Future of Science" Thursday, February 1, 2007 7 p.m. (reception to follow) 65 Fifth Avenue (Wolff Conference Room) Join us for the second annual Robert Heilbroner Memorial Lecture. Heilbroner wrote, "Capitalism's uniqueness in history lies in its continuously self-generated change, but it is this very dynamism that is the system's chief enemy." It is in appreciation of what he identified as "the deep human need to be situated with respect to the future" that The New School sponsors a lecture series in Heilbroner's memory that focuses on capitalism's future. This year's lecture features Philip Mirowski, Carl Koch Chair of Economics and the History and Philosophy of Science, University of Notre Dame. Free and open to the public. RSVP required. Email cepa@newschool.edu or call 212-229-5901 x4911. 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 urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu Mon Jan 29 19:39:05 2007 From: urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu (urpe-moderator@lists.econ.utah.edu) Date: Mon Jan 29 19:34:06 2007 Subject: [URPE] Call for Papers from LERA Message-ID: <45BEAFC9.1030905@lists.econ.utah.edu> LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS ASSOCIATION Call for Papers?Special Sessions LERA Annual Meeting 60th Anniversary New Orleans, LA January 3-6, 2008 Submission Deadline: April 1, 2007 New developments in employment relations, organizational behavior, and social movements call for a closer look at emergent processes, outcomes, and organizational forms. The motivation for this special call for papers is to reflect the diversity of theoretical and methodological approaches to researching emergent phenomena in the field. Examples include, but are by no means restricted to, new forms of labor market institutions; diversity in organizations; social movements; and international/transnational actors and organizations. Selected papers will be presented in several special sessions of the LERA annual meeting program. An academic advisory group of the LERA Program Committee will review the papers in the spring. Selected papers will be grouped into themes with authors asked to present Different from the LERA Refereed Papers Competition, these submissions will go through a qualitative review rather than a refereed process. Submissions for this special call must be made via e-mail to LERA office@uiuc.edu. Only completed papers, not abstracts or letters of intent, may be considered. All paper submissions must comply with the following submission criteria: ? Papers must reflect original work or major developments on previously reported work. Papers are not eligible if they have been presented or published prior to the LERA or at other professional meetings. ? Papers (converted to a PDF file) are limited to 20 double-spaced pages using a 12- point font, including endnotes, references, tables, and bibliographies. Lengthier versions are more suitable for subsequent publication than for the presentation format at the LERA meetings. ? Papers must include a title, abstract (up to 200 words) and preferred keywords. Submitting authors will receive an e-mail acknowledgment of receipt. Decisions will be emailed to submitting authors in the summer of 2007. For inquiries or more information on the 60th LERA Annual Meeting program and other LERA paper and poster calls and competitions, visit the LERA website at www.lera.uiuc.edu or E-mail: LERAoffice@uiuc.edu From leefs at umkc.edu Tue Jan 30 08:32:29 2007 From: leefs at umkc.edu (Lee, Frederic) Date: Tue Jan 30 09:13:24 2007 Subject: [URPE] query regarding heterodoxo micro and monopoly theory Message-ID: <9A72753A447165498D6B63479DB2E7C9020307AE@KC-MSX3.kc.umkc.edu> Dear Colleague, Professor Gustavo Vargas at UNAM (National University of Mexico located in Mexico City) is organizing his second conference on Heterodox Microeconomics. The theme of the conference is "monopoly theory and praxis". This reflects 100% increase in the prices of tortillas, sugar and other basic foodstuffs that are brought by the majority of the population. So if you are working on heterodox micro theory with interest in monopoly and/or you are working on issues of market control in Mexico or similar countries, you might want to contact Professor Vargas about attending the conference. His e-mail is vargassanchez@hotmail.com. I was at the first conference and had a really good time. UNAM is an interesting university to visit as well as Mexico City. Moreover the undergraduate/graduate economics students are fun to talk with--and if you like, Professor Vargas can arrange for you to give a series of lectures to the students on topics of your choosing. And then the students will invite you out to a local student caf? for further discussion. 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 Newsletter:? http://l.web.umkc.edu/leefs/htn.htm? http://www.heterodoxnews.com For the Association for Heterodox Economics:? http://www.hetecon.com. International Confederation of Associations for Pluralism in Economics (ICAPE):? http://icape.org/ For current and previous issues of the HEN see 'news' section of http://www.hetecon.com/ From urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu Tue Jan 30 09:20:33 2007 From: urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu (urpe-moderator@lists.econ.utah.edu) Date: Tue Jan 30 09:15:34 2007 Subject: [URPE] [NYC] Brecht Forum: Films/A Tribute to Bob Marle/Cuba Represente!/& More Message-ID: <45BF7051.7000408@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 Jan 30 12:51:12 2007 From: urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu (urpe-moderator@lists.econ.utah.edu) Date: Tue Jan 30 12:46:09 2007 Subject: [URPE] [NYC] CEPA: Economic Policy Workshop - Sakiko Fukuda-Parr - February 7 - 12:30 p.m. Message-ID: <45BFA1B0.6050004@lists.econ.utah.edu> Economic Policy Workshop February 7th at the Schwartz Center: Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, The New School "The Political Economy of Genetically Modified Seeds" Wednesday, February 7th 12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. 80 Fifth Avenue, 5th Fl. Conference Room Join us at 12:30 p.m. for a brown bag lunch and workshop. Sakiko Fukuda-Parr will discuss her new book The Gene Revolution: GM Crops and Unequal Development Download information about the book 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 urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu Thu Feb 1 22:14:56 2007 From: urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu (urpe-moderator@lists.econ.utah.edu) Date: Thu Feb 1 22:09:53 2007 Subject: [URPE] [NYC] BRECHT FORUM: WINTER CLASSES BEGINNING SOON!! 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STONY BROOK MANHATTAN 401 PARK AVE SOUTH (at 28th St.), 2nd floor ENTER AT 110 E. 28 St., between Park and Lex Sponsored by the Center for Study of Working Class LIfe In late 2006 Nancy Romer met in Bolivia with activists in the landless peasants movement, leaders of the water and gas "wars," student activists, and faculty and professional staff unionists at the large public universitites. In this talk she will discuss the ways in which the workers and traditional left unite with the indigenous movements to share a political agenda, strategy, and tactics. She will also address the implications of Bolivian developments for a left coalition in Latin America. Nancy Romer is Professor of Psychology and Director of the Brooklyn College Community Partnership, and University-Wide Officer of the Professional Staff Congress of CUNY (AFT local 2334). -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Mr. Langer will provide a backgrounder on conservatives' stealth efforts over the past 25 years to undermine Social Security. He will present evidence of the cooking of the long-term projections by the trustees, with the complicity of their actuaries. His conclusion is that there is no deficit and, in fact, there is a small surplus. Given the breakdown of the deal between employers for the provision of pensions and the observation that individual retirement accounts will not be effective, this leaves Social Security as the only leg of the 3-legged pension stool firmly standing and which logically should be expanded to become the nation's primary pension plan. David Langer has headed a consulting actuarial firm in New York City since 1964 that specializes in corporate retirement benefit plans. Active in professional actuarial organizations, he headed the employee benefits committee of the Actuarial Society of Greater New York for 15 years. In 1995, he became concerned about attacks on Social Security and decided to investigate. His research findings led him to conclude the Social Security's "deficit" was cooked as part of a stealth attack to cause the public to lose confidence in Social Security, and pave the way for privatization. His writings have appeared in professional actuarial publications as well as in the NY Times, the Christian Science Monitor, and The Wall Street Journal. He has been interviewed on NBC ?TV, spoken to Congressional groups, and consulted with members of Congress. His work has been invaluable in supporting the successful efforts to thwart privatization. Please RSVP to Myriam Figueroa (figueroa.myriam@gmail.com ) by Sunday, February 4th. Dinner is at 6:00 p.m. at Faculty House, 400 West 117th Street at COLUMBIA University's main campus. 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 February 5th ____ I will ____ I will not join the group for dinner -------------- Helen Lachs Ginsburg, helenginsburg@yahoo.com Trudy Goldberg, trudygoldberg@msn.com Sheila Collins, sheila.collins3@verizon.net Chairs, Columbia Seminar on FULL EMPLOYMENT, SOCIAL WELFARE, AND EQUITY -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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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 urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu Sat Feb 10 07:39:28 2007 From: urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu (urpe-moderator@lists.econ.utah.edu) Date: Sat Feb 10 07:34:15 2007 Subject: [URPE] [NYC] Celebrate the Life of Jim Garst Sun., Feb. 11 -- Reminder Message-ID: <45CDD920.6090208@lists.econ.utah.edu> Please Join Us to Celebrate the Life of Jim Garst, 1926-2006 Memorial Meeting Listen to music and speakers, and share your own memories of Jim Sunday, February 11, 2007 2:00 pm Stryckers Bay Community Room 66 West 94th St. at Columbus Ave. From urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu Sat Feb 10 10:50:37 2007 From: urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu (urpe-moderator@lists.econ.utah.edu) Date: Sat Feb 10 10:45:24 2007 Subject: [URPE] "Resource Wars" by Bill Tabb is now on the Web Message-ID: <45CE05ED.30701@lists.econ.utah.edu> At last summer's URPE Conference, Bill Tabb participated in a plenary entitled "Wars and Natural Resources." The talk he gave became an article which was published in the January 2007 issue of Monthly Review. You can also find this article on Monthly Review's website: http://www.monthlyreview.org/0107tabb.htm We have also added it to a page on the URPE website called "Political Economy of War, Natural Resources, Oil, and the Military," under the section "Natural Resources." http://urpe.org/res_war_oil_mil.htm From rdwolff at worldnet.att.net Sat Feb 10 20:49:44 2007 From: rdwolff at worldnet.att.net (Rick Wolff) Date: Sat Feb 10 21:01:08 2007 Subject: [URPE] Left Forum 2007 full details at www.leftforum.org Message-ID: <000601c74d8f$c50acd30$2b01a8c0@rickdesktop> Skipped content of type multipart/alternative-------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Ted Marmor, Yale U., Myths of Modernization: Medicare and Social Security Message-ID: <45D08DFE.8040506@lists.econ.utah.edu> Ted Marmor, Professor of Public Policy and Management & Professor of Political Science at the Yale School of Management, will speak at Milano this Wednesday the 14th on the "Myths of Modernization: Medicare and Social Security." It will be held at 72 5th Ave. on the 3rd floor from 12:10 to 1:30 pm. This session is the first of the SCEPA joint sessions with Milano The New School for Urban Policy and Management. SCEPA will cross-list Milano workshops featuring economists and economic policy issues. NOTE: Unlike the regular SCEPA workshops, this session will meet at Milano from 12:10 to 1:30 PM in the Henry Cohen Conference Room on the 3rd Floor of 72 Fifth Avenue. For questions contact Prof. Alec Ian Gershberg, gersh@newschool.edu 212.229.5311 x1412. 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 urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu Mon Feb 12 17:57:11 2007 From: urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu (urpe-moderator@lists.econ.utah.edu) Date: Mon Feb 12 17:51:58 2007 Subject: [URPE] [NYC] Brecht Forum: WINTER CLASSES BEGINNING THIS WEEK! 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I have included the job ad below. We will most likely be hiring two tenure track political economists for the fall of 08 as well. I'm happy to answer any related questions. Dave BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY, Lewisburg, PA B5 Current Heterodox Approaches C1 Econometric and Statistical Methods-General D0 Microeconomics E0 Macroeconomics AF Any Field The Economics Department at Bucknell seeks applications for one or possibly two entry-level visiting assistant professors for academic year 2007-2008. At least one of the positions carries with it the possibility of appointment for a second year. Appointment will be as a visiting assistant professor, Ph.D. preferred, but candidates with ABD status will be considered. The successful candidate(s) will be able to teach both core and elective courses that could include one to two sections of intermediate political economy, two sections of intermediate macroeconomics, as well as other core courses (principles, intermediate microeconomics), and other economics electives, at the intermediate level, in a field compatible with the candidates' expertise, and consistent with departmental needs. Letters of application should be sent by March 21, 2007, and should be accompanied by a curriculum vita, evidence of teaching effectiveness, three letters of recommendation, and a short (one or two page) statement of the applicant's teaching philosophy. Contact: Janet Knoedler, Chair, Economics Search Committee, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA, 17837. Information on the Economics program at Bucknell can be obtained on the web at http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/economics/ . An equal opportunity-affirmative action employer. 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THANKS TO THE GENEROUS SUPPORT OF THE CAMBRIDGE POLITICAL ECONOMY SOCIETY TRUST, A LIMITED NUMBER OF SUBSIDIZED PLACES FOR STUDENTS ARE AVAILABLE. Please apply early to avoid disappointment. The workshop theme is: Property, money and firms: the forgotten role of law and the state Speakers: David Gindis (University of Lyon II), Geoffrey Hodgson (University of Hertfordshire), Geoffrey Ingham (University of Cambridge), Thorbjoern Knudsen (University of Southern Denmark), Patrick O'Brien (LSE), Itai Sened (Washington University at St Louis). Further details and booking information can be found on the following website: http://www.geoffrey-hodgson.info/p37.htm I hope that you will be able to attend. Best wishes Geoff Hodgson Geoff Hodgson Research Professor University of Hertfordshire www.herts.ac.uk/business www.geoffrey-hodgson.info ----------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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If you have not yet registered and would like to, it is cheaper to do so in advance than at the door. You can find general conference information here: http://www.iona.edu/eea/conf2007/NYHome.html. You can see the program here: http://www.iona.edu/eea/conf2007/cover.htm. If any URPE member will be attending the conference and would like to put in some time at the table, that would be most welcome. If possible, please sign up for a 2-hour slot so that our table will be continuously covered, and so that the core table-sitters can attend a whole session. However, the heaviest traffic will be during the coffee breaks between sessions, so even 30 minutes at the end of each time slot would be very helpful, as long as we know when to expect you. FRIDAY 9 AM - 11 AM 11 AM - 1 PM 1 PM - 2 PM 2 PM - 4 PM 4 PM - 6 PM SATURDAY 9 AM - 11 AM 11 AM - 1 PM 1 PM - 2 PM 2 PM - 4 PM 4 PM - 6 PM Please contact Scott Carter at scott-carter@utulsa.edu if you are interested. It will be very good to have an URPE presence at the EEA. Scott Carter The University of Tulsa From farranta at dickinson.edu Wed Feb 14 06:10:44 2007 From: farranta at dickinson.edu (Andrew Farrant) Date: Wed Feb 14 06:10:27 2007 Subject: [URPE] Eastern Economic Association Message-ID: <20070214131044592c0a086f@webmail.dickinson.edu> The following session is sponsored by URPE - see you there: EEA conference session (sponsored by URPE) Saturday, February 24, 2:00pm [143] PANEL ON SOCIALISM AFTER HAYEK BY TED BURCZAK (Session Sponsored by URPE) Session Organizer and Chair: Andrew Farrant, Dickinson College (farranta@dickinson.edu) Panelists: Rob Garnett, Texas Christian University (r.garnett@tcu.edu) Fadhel Kaboub, Drew University (fkaboub@drew.edu) Antonino G. Callari, Franklin and Marshall College (acallari@fandm.edu) Ted Burczak, Denison University (burczak@denison.edu) From figueroa.myriam at gmail.com Wed Feb 14 10:24:02 2007 From: figueroa.myriam at gmail.com (Myriam Figueroa) Date: Wed Feb 14 11:06:35 2007 Subject: [URPE] COLUMBIA Seminar: "Global Warming and Labor Rights" - David Foster (19 Feb.) Message-ID: <974519fe0702140924m67a6e722m850f33f49c57582f@mail.gmail.com> Columbia University Seminar (#671) on Globalization, Labor, and Popular Struggles is pleased to announce our next meeting. DATE: Monday, 19 February at 7:15 p.m. (Dinner at 6:00 p.m.) TITLE: "Uncommon Causes, Common Futures--Global Warming and Labor Rights in the 21st Century". SPEAKER: David Foster, Executive Director The Blue-Green Alliance (a partnership between United Steel Workers and the Sierra Club) PLACE: Faculty House, Columbia University David Foster was the Director of United Steelworkers (USW), District #11, a 13 state region from 1990-2006. He is currently the Executive Director of the Blue-Green Alliance, a strategic partnership between the USW and the Sierra Club. District #11 has a diverse membership of 43,000, comprised of iron ore and other mineral miners, steel, aluminum, tire, oil and gas workers, as well as health care employees. His responsibilities included serving on the union's International Executive Board and negotiating with many of the country's largest steel, iron ore and aluminum companies. He has spoken on trade issues to labor and management audiences in the U.S., Canada, and Japan, and co-chaired the USW's initiative to establish a global network of unions in the aluminum industry in 2003. Mr. Foster chaired the USW's International Executive Board Task Force on the Environment, and authored its 2006 policy statement. In 2004, he was awarded the Jane Lehman Bagley Award from the Tides Foundation for his work building labor/environmental coalitions in the United States. He serves on the Board of Directors of Oregon Steel, Inc., a $1.5 billion specialty steel company with operations in the United States and Canada. He also teaches classes on unions and globalization as an adjunct faculty at the University of Minnesota in the Twin Cities, and on advocacy and political leadership in Duluth. Mr. Foster has a BA from Reed College in Portland, OR. In connection with the February 19th meeting, please reply to Myriam Figueroa (*figueroa.myriam@gmail.com *) whether you plan to join us for dinner before the seminar. ----- I will attend the dinner on 19 February Yes___ No___ I will attend the seminar on 19 February Yes___ No___ ****RSVP by Sunday 18 February **** 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 to 9:00 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 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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The format for our Economic Currents Series of presentations and exchanges on critical economic issues of the day is that the presenters will begin with a briefing of background and key facts before opening to group roundtable Q&A. Max Fraad-Wolff is an instructor at the New School Graduate Program in International Affairs and administrator of www.globalmacroscope.com a new economic news and analysis website. Rick Wolff is a professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts. Suggested donation: $6/$10/$15 No One Turned Away 451 West Street, New York, NY 10014 - (212) 242-4201 - email: brechtforum at brechtforum.org From leefs at umkc.edu Thu Feb 15 15:50:08 2007 From: leefs at umkc.edu (Lee, Frederic) Date: Sat Feb 17 08:17:37 2007 Subject: [URPE] Heterodox Economics Newsletter 39 Message-ID: <9A72753A447165498D6B63479DB2E7C902199D80@KC-MSX3.kc.umkc.edu> Heterodox Economics Newsletter Issue 39: February 16, 2007 >From the Editor A couple of weeks ago I received an e-mail from a heterodox colleague in the United Kingdom regarding the forthcoming 2008 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE). In preparation for the exercise, the colleague's department hired an external economist to advise it on which publications should be submitted to the RAE economics panel. It should come to no surprise that our colleague's publications were not rated as acceptable for submission to the RAE. This will probably mean that the department will not include our colleague in its submission to the RAE economics panel; but it also means that any future hiring will be directed towards those individuals that have the right kind of publications. What are the right kind of publications you may ask; and the answer seems to be that the publications expert was basing his/her decision in large part on the Keele list-see http://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/ec/cer/resources_journals.htm . You will notice that heterodox economics journals are generally not rated very high on the list or even not rated at all. Now if you think that heterodox economics departments/economists could do better by going into the Business/Management panel-think again. The UK Association of Business Schools has just launched an "Academic Journal Quality Guide": http://www.the-abs.org.uk/?id=257 . You will also notice that heterodox economic journals do not rate highly on this list as well. The construction of these lists and others like them are based on citation counts in one way or another. Hence heterodox economic journals are not rated very highly in part because heterodox economists do not cite heterodox journals very much. In fact, in their articles, heterodox economists generally cite mainstream journals more than heterodox journals; and in many cases their citation of heterodox journals is minimal indeed as if the authors are embarrassed to cite articles in heterodox journals. By not citing more extensively articles in heterodox journals, heterodox economists are both hurting themselves as well as other heterodox economists. This same argument is also appropriate for those editors of heterodox journals that do not think it is important for their authors to cite an array of heterodox journals including their own. Heterodox authors and journal editors may cry that they are not responsible for the fate of our UK colleague. I will leave it up to you as to whether that response is acceptable and conducive to building a community of heterodox economists. Fred Lee In this issue: - Call for Papers - Labor and Employment Relations Association - History of Economic Thought Conference - Jobs & Justice: Strategies and Solutions for Economics Security - Forum for Social Economics - Conferences, Seminars and Lectures - Institutional Economics Workshop in Honor of Allan Schmid - Hegemonic Transitions and the State - Winter & Spring 2007 Courses at The New SPACE, New York City - Left Forum 2007 - London, UK- Rudolf Steiner, Economist - Heterodox Conference Papers and Reports and Articles - Minimum Wage - Heterodox Journals and Newsletters - Basic Income Studies - Journal of Post Keynesian Economics - Australasian Journal of Economics Education - The International Journal of Green Economics - Heterodox Perspectives in Economics Journals - Heterodox Books, Book Series, and Book Reviews - The Structure of Post-Keynesian Economics - Germany's Economic Performance - Successes and Failures of Economic Transition - Strategic Arena Switching in International Trade Negotiations - Marxist Perspectives on South Korea in the Global Economy - Time and Space in Economics - The Myth of Japanese Efficiency: The World Car Industry in a Globalizing Age - Poverty & Policy in Canada: Implications for Health and Quality of Life - New EPI Catalog 2007 - A Handbook of Alternative Monetary Economics - Money and Markets - Socialism after Hayek by Theodore A. 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Please volunteer. ****************************************** Dear URPE members, This year URPE will be setting up a table at the Eastern Economics Association Annual Conference to be held on Friday February 23, Saturday February 24, and Sunday February 25 in New York City at the Crowne Plaza Times Square. We will be tabling Friday and Saturday from 9am-6pm. This is an important opportunity to outreach to both current and past URPE members as well as potential new members. We will be sharing our table with Dollars and Sense. If you have not yet registered and would like to, it is cheaper to do so in advance than at the door. You can find general conference information here: http://www.iona.edu/eea/conf2007/NYHome.html. You can see the program here: http://www.iona.edu/eea/conf2007/cover.htm. If any URPE member will be attending the conference and would like to put in some time at the table, that would be most welcome. If possible, please sign up for a 2-hour slot so that our table will be continuously covered, and so that the core table-sitters can attend a whole session. However, the heaviest traffic will be during the coffee breaks between sessions, so even 30 minutes at the end of each time slot would be very helpful, as long as we know when to expect you. FRIDAY 9 AM - 11 AM 11 AM - 1 PM 1 PM - 2 PM 2 PM - 4 PM 4 PM - 6 PM SATURDAY 9 AM - 11 AM 11 AM - 1 PM 1 PM - 2 PM 2 PM - 4 PM 4 PM - 6 PM Please contact Scott Carter at scott-carter@utulsa.edu if you are interested. It will be very good to have an URPE presence at the EEA. Scott Carter The University of Tulsa From urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu Tue Feb 20 10:00:48 2007 From: urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu (urpe-moderator@lists.econ.utah.edu) Date: Tue Feb 20 09:55:26 2007 Subject: [URPE] [NYC] Economic Policy Workshop - Jerry Epstein - Wednesday, February 21 - 12:30 p.m. Message-ID: <45DB2940.70806@lists.econ.utah.edu> Economic Policy Workshop tomorrow at the Schwartz Center: Jerry Epstein, University of Massachusetts at Amherst "Central Banks as Agents of Economic Development" Wednesday, February 21st 12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. 80 Fifth Avenue, 5th Fl. Conference Room Join us at 12:30 p.m. for a brown bag lunch and workshop. 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 * * For help with this mailing list go to the CEPA Web site: * http://www.newschool.edu/cepa/ From mail at thomaspalley.com Tue Feb 20 08:09:26 2007 From: mail at thomaspalley.com (Thomas Palley) Date: Tue Feb 20 09:55:49 2007 Subject: [URPE] POLICY OP-ED: Expand Sarbanes-Oxley Message-ID: Dear URPE Friends and Colleagues, This week's policy op-ed is titled "Expand Sarbox, Not Shrink It" and it is posted on my website at www.thomaspalley.com Please share it with others who may be 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 fboyes at lrrc.umass.edu Thu Feb 22 12:51:26 2007 From: fboyes at lrrc.umass.edu (Frances Boyes) Date: Thu Feb 22 13:21:39 2007 Subject: [URPE] Western Mass-CPE, URPE get together Message-ID: <002201c756ba$d7b7c800$22307780@URPE> This Friday the 23rd of February, there will be a casual gathering of the Center for Popular Economics (CPE) and the Union for Radical Economics (URPE) in Amherst, MA. Please join us to meet new people as well as reconnect with old friends and possibly discuss new projects. Where- Amherst Brewing Company (upstairs), downtown Amherst When- Fri. Feb 23rd at 6pm Hope to see you there! -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Richard Gottfried Health Committee Chair, New York State Assembly Discussants: James Parrott, Fiscal Policy Institute?Budget Policy & Health Denise Soffel, Community Service Society of NY?Public Programs and Patients Charles Bell, Consumers Union?System Entities: Insurers, Providers, and Others Ed Donnelly, NYS Federation of Labor?Working People, and the Health Workforce Mark Hannay, Metro NY Health Care for All Campaign?Moving Toward Universality Moderator: Len Rodberg, Queens College/CUNY RSVPs and info: email@rekindlingreform.org; 212-580-3890 (phone); 212-580-1247 (fax) ************************************** AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at http://www.aol.com. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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See the Left Forum website for information on the program, speakers, directions, etc.: http://leftforum.org/leftforum2007/program.html ********************************************** REGISTRATION: For those of you who are not on panels (panelists register through the URPE National Office), the Left Forum has extended the time for early registration, which is cheaper than at the door. Registration by mail is closed, but you can still register online: http://leftforum.org/leftforum2007/register.html ********************************************** SIT AT THE URPE TABLE: For many years URPE has been sharing a table at the Left Forum (previously Socialist Scholars Conference) with Dollars and Sense magazine. We no longer hear that comment we used to hear all the time: "Oh, is URPE still around?" Please volunteer to spend one session at the URPE table. Tabling is fun if people share so that everybody gets to attend sessions as well. Look at the program at the website above, and choose a time you could sit at the table. LET US KNOW AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. The choices are: Saturday, March 10 10am - Noon Noon - 2 pm 2pm - 3 pm (lunch) 3 pm - 5 pm 5 pm - 7 pm Sunday, March 11 10am - Noon Noon - 2 pm 2pm - 3 pm (lunch) 3 pm - 5 pm 5 pm - til end of plenary ********************************************** ATTEND URPE PANELS (check the website and program for times) 1. Saturday, Noon "US, Iran and Israel: What's Ahead?" Speakers: Reza Ghorashi, Richard Stockton College Tom O'Donnell, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Evan Siegel, New Jersey City University Chair and Discussant: Leili Kashani, New York University 2. Sunday, 10 am "The Political Economy of the Escalating Pentagon Budget" Speakers: Frida Berrigan, World Policy Institute Ismael Hossein-Zadeh, Drake University Chris Rude, URPE Chair: Kate Bahn, URPE 3. Sunday, 3 pm "Are the Barons of Finance Robbing the Store? Implications for Class and Political Resistance" Speakers: John Bellamy Foster, Monthly Review Ozgur Orhangazi, Roosevelt University Chris Rude, URPE Ramaa Vasudevan, Barnard College Chair: Ruth Indeck, Economy Connection, URPE ********************************************** LOOK FOR ADDITIONAL PANELS WITH URPE MEMBERS You can view the program by category at: http://leftforum.org/leftforum2007/panels.html#me5 From mail at thomaspalley.com Wed Feb 28 07:51:12 2007 From: mail at thomaspalley.com (Thomas Palley) Date: Wed Feb 28 18:33:55 2007 Subject: [URPE] POLICY OP-ED: Third Way, Wrong Direction Message-ID: Dear URPE Friends & Colleagues, This week's policy op-ed is titled "Third Way, Wrong Direction". It is posted at www.tompaine.com and on my website www.thomaspalley.com Please share it with persons who may be 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 soapbox at comcast.net Fri Mar 2 12:38:19 2007 From: soapbox at comcast.net (soapbox@comcast.net) Date: Fri Mar 2 12:31:29 2007 Subject: [URPE] [NYC] URPE Steering Committee Dinner -- Sat. night, March 3rd, 6pm Message-ID: <030220071938.15235.45E87D2B000C0A1600003B83220588617298010D9F0E019C@comcast.net> Impromptu Dinner Invitation, Saturday night, March 3rd, 6pm The URPE Steering Committee members are in town for one night, and would love to meet with members. If you would like to join us for an early dinner Saturday night, 6pm, please RSVP to ussher@gmail.com We will be going to restaurant Gandhi which offers delicious Indian food at reasonable prices. You can bring your own wine although there may be a corkage charge. Gandhi 345-347 E. 6th St. btw. 1st Ave. & 2nd Ave. 212-614-9718 From markusen at umn.edu Fri Mar 2 06:46:21 2007 From: markusen at umn.edu (Ann Markusen) Date: Fri Mar 2 12:35:40 2007 Subject: [URPE] Please circulate this - thanks! Message-ID: Evan Jones, an Australian political economist, wrote obituary-reviews of John Kenneth Galbraith and Milton Friedman late last year - they are wonderfully written incisive critiques of the economics profession, economic theory and how the press and powers-that-be treated each economist in his lifetime, and they are brilliant histories of thought as well. Here are the websites: http://www.australianreview.net/digest/2006/12/jones.html http://workers.labor.net.au/features/200612/c_historicalfeature_milton.html Ann Markusen Professor and Director, Project on Regional and Industrial Economics Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs University of Minnesota 301 S. 19th Avenue, Rm 231 Minneapolis, MN 55455 USA 612-625-6351 Fax markusen@umn.edu Phone: 612-625-8092 (Mobile phone: 218-591-9105) Assistant, Katherine Murphy: 612-626-1074 http://www.hhh.umn.edu/projects/prie -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Howell is Professor of Economics at Milano, The New School for Management and Urban Policy (a division of the New School University), and a Faculty Research Fellow at the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis. He chaired Milano's Urban Policy Program from 1994-2001, and was Associate Dean for Academic Affairs from 2003-05. Howell's research focuses on labor market outcomes at the local, national and international levels, with a recent focus on the extent to which labor market institutions explain patterns of unemployment in the most developed (OECD) countries--the topic of his talk at this seminar. Professor Howell will discuss the latest attacks on the Euro-welfare state, drawing from his highly acclaimed recent book: Fighting Unemployment: The Limits of Free Market Orthodoxy (Oxford University Press, 2005), and from "Are Protective Labor Market Institutions at the Root of Unemployment: A Critical Review of the Evidence" (forthcoming in Capitalism and Society, with Dean Baker, Andrew Glyn and John Schmitt). -------------- Please RSVP to Myriam Figueroa (figueroa.myriam@gmail.com) by Monday, March 5th. Dinner is at 6:00 p.m. at Faculty House, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY. The street address is 400 West 117th Street. DIRECTIONS: the easiest approach is through the gates on the north side of 116th Street between Amsterdam Avenue and Morningside Drive. 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 March 5th ____ I will ____ I will not join the group for dinner -------------- Helen Lachs Ginsburg, helenginsburg@yahoo.com Trudy Goldberg, trudygoldberg@msn.com Sheila Collins, sheila.collins3@verizon.net Chairs, Columbia Seminar on FULL EMPLOYMENT, SOCIAL WELFARE AND EQUITY -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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It contains an article by Masahiko Aoki on "The mechanics of institutional change" The full contents listing of this and other issues can be accessed on http://www.joie-foundation.co.uk/p26.htm I am also very pleased to report that since the inception of JOIE: - with 60% of the papers that were sent out to referees, the authors were informed of a decision within 50 days. - with 96% of the papers that were sent out to referees, the authors were informed of a decision within 90 days. Thanks to our many dedicated referees, JOIE has maintained a very fast and efficient refereeing process. For details of how to subscribe to JOIE please go to http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=JOI 2007 members of the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy (www.eaepe.org) receive the journal as part of their membership subscription. For information concerning submissions to the journal please go to http://www.joie-foundation.co.uk/p16.htm Best wishes Geoff Hodgson JOIE Editor in Chief University of Hertfordshire, UK www.geoffrey-hodgson.info --------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 1826 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/urpe-announcements/attachments/20070305/0322296a/attachment.txt From leefs at umkc.edu Mon Mar 5 08:17:31 2007 From: leefs at umkc.edu (Lee, Frederic) Date: Mon Mar 5 09:25:53 2007 Subject: [URPE] Heterodox Economics Newsletter - 40 Message-ID: <9A72753A447165498D6B63479DB2E7C9022E193B@KC-MSX3.kc.umkc.edu> Heterodox Economics Newsletter Issue 40: March 5, 2007 >From the Editor Unlike the last Newsletter, I have no hot news item to report. However, I would like to push heterodox activities taking place in Mexico, Brazil, France, and the Ukraine. There is also a conference in honor of A. Allan Schmid that looks very interesting. Allan has had a long career of supporting heterodox economics and he has recently published a book, Conflict and Cooperation: Institutional and Behavioral Economics, which deserves a wide read. Finally, I would like to point out the journal Metroeconomica. It is a heterodox journal that seems to me to not be very well known among heterodox economists in general. The contents of its most recent issue are given below-take a look at it and also take a look at the back issues if you can. You very well may find the journal of great interest. Fred Lee In this issue: - Call for Papers - Second Seminary of Heterodox Micro-economy October 2007 - The 1st Brazilian Colloquium on Political Economy of the World-Systems - Segundo Seminario de Microeconom?a Heterodoxa Octubre 2007 - Journal of Organizational Change Management - The INFER Research Network - Conferences, Seminars and Lectures - The 9th International Workshop on Institutional Economics - Canadian Economics Association Conference, June 1-3 - Seminaire Arc 2 - Various Approaches to Evolution and Impact of Alternative Institutional Structures - Post Keynesian Economics Study Group - Global Development Forum - Permanent Seminary of Heterodox Microeconomics - The CASE 2007 Winds of Change - Post Keynesian Economics Study Group - Job Postings for Heterodox Economists - Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA - Sustainable Development Commission- Assistant Policy Advisor, Whitehall Branch - Sustainable Development Commission- Assistant Economics Advisor - Business Manager for Conference of Socialist Economists - Heterodox Conference Papers and Reports and Articles - Wars and Natural Resources - Heterodox Journals and Newsletters - Challenge - Metroeconomica - Review of Political Economy - Levy News - EAEPE Newslette - Heterodox Books, Book Series, and Book Reviews - A New Political Economy -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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And of course right now there is a big question as to how it will change over 5 and 10 years in a post Fidel era, and that is being established right now. In any case, this opportunity for academics still remains to go see it for yourself. I have been tardy getting this onto our list serve, but people still have two months - in one month they should get a brief abstract to the email address listed, and in two months complete the application. If you would like to go, you can just fill in the application and send it off to Cliff, at the email address indicated. If you have ANY QUESTIONS, I would be happy to answer them - email me at Al@economcs.utah.edu. Hasta la victoria siempre, Al ********************************************************************************** Come to Cuba this summer for a unique research experience. Open to scholars from all disciplines, this two week trip will allow you to make contact with your professional counterparts, experience Cuban reality, and pursue your own research interests in the company of fellow scholars. The RESEARCH NETWORK IN CUBA will be conducted from June 12-26, 2007 in Havana, Cuba. This will assist you in conducting your investigations of Cuban society by connecting you with Cuban specialists and organizations. Among the activities being planned are: * SEMINAR ON THE HISTORY OF CUBAN THOUGHT * WORKSHOP ON THE NEW POLITICAL SCIENCE IN CUBA * AFRICAN DERIVED TRADITIONS IN CUBA * field trips to neighborhoods, institutions and civil society. You are also invited to participate in the 25th anniversary CONFERENCE OF NORTH AMERICAN AND CUBAN PHILOSOPHERS AND SOCIAL SCIENTISTS held at the University of Havana from June 1822. (Sponsored by the University?s Faculty of Philosophy, History and Sociology, the Institute of Philosophy, and the Cuban Society for Philosophic Research). This is an opportunity to dialog with Cuban counterparts on themes of common interest. In past years as many as 95 North Americans have joined with 140 Cubans for this week of discussions. Proposals for papers to be presented at the Conference are invited. The Cuban organizers will make every effort to pair your paper with one by a Cuban scholar on the same topic. Send a 1 to 2 page abstract by April 1 to cdurand@morgan.edu Earlier proposals are encouraged. EXTRA: Extend your stay in Cuba to June 28 with a 4 day trip to SANTIAGO DE CUBA focusing on the culture of the region. LICENSE: The U.S. government severely restricts travel to Cuba. However, scholars going for a full time program of research, can travel legally under a General License. Graduate students: This trip is also open to graduate students with a research interest in Cuba. If your university has an institutional license, you may be able to travel under it with a letter of authorization from the university. Otherwise, under current U.S. regulations, in order to travel legally to Cuba students will need a specific license from the Treasury Department. COST: Approximately $1400 for a basic 14 day stay in Havana, hotel and two meals per day, translation, and all group activities included from departure to return through Nassau in The Bahamas. There will be some added cost for additional days. Some scholarship assistance may be available for those with limited means. DEADLINES: March 1, 2007: graduate student applications for license April 1, 2007: research proposals and abstracts for papers (12 pages) May 1, 2007: completed papers May 1, 2007: completed applications We expect that all will approach this interchange in the spirit of friendship and out of a desire to promote mutual scholarly interests. Additional information available at www.cubaconference.org or by contacting Cliff DuRand at cdurand@morgan.edu APPLICATION: RESEARCH NETWORK IN CUBA Havana, Cuba June 1226, 2007 Name___________________________________________________ Home address__________________________________________________ city_________________________ state_______ zip____________ Work institution _______________________________________ address______________________________________________________ city__________________________ state_______ zip_____________ home phone______________work phone_________________ FAX______________________ email__________________________________________ Passport number___________________________________ place of issue___________ expiration date____________________ citizenship_____________ birth date_________________ birthplace_____________________ marital status_____ Academic status: faculty ____ graduate student ____ other: _______________ academic department______________________________________ Highest academic degree (institution and date) and area of study List major articles & books published Do you know Spanish? If 'yes' check level for reading & speaking: beginning ____ intermediate ____ advanced ____ Have you visited Cuba before? If 'yes' state when & for how long. If you are applying with another person, list name here: Give the name (address and phone number) of one reference who can recommend you. Proposed research topic: ___________________________________ I intend to submit the following paper for the conference (optional) Give title:__________________________________________________ For further information contact Cliff DuRand, Coordinator at cdurand@morgan.edu Phone 301-685-3344 E-mail this application to cdurand@morgan.edu -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Proposals for complete sessions are encouraged and should include the session title, a brief description of each paper, and the names, institutional affiliations, and email addresses of the chair, discussants, and presenters. Proposals for sessions should contain four papers. If you are proposing a complete session, please arrange to have discussants for your papers and a chair for your session. As the organizer of this session, you are responsible for conveying administrative information to session members, including confirmation that the session has been accepted, the time and location, and deadlines. Proposals for individual papers should include the title, the abstract, and the author's name, institutional affiliation, and email. Individuals whose papers are accepted may also be expected to serve as a discussant for a different paper at the meetings. If you list the areas you prefer to discuss, all attempts will be made to match your preferences. Individual papers that are accepted will be assigned to sessions and each session will have an assigned organizer. It is the organizer's job to convey administrative information to session members, including confirmation that the session has been accepted, the time and location, and deadlines. URPE has no paid ASSA staff, so those presenting papers must share the burden of organizing. We regret that high quality individual papers may be turned down due to the inability to place them in a session with papers with similar themes. For this reason, we strongly encourage proposals for full sessions. The number of sessions we can accept is limited by ASSA, and we regret that high quality sessions may be turned down as well. Please note that the date, time, and location of sessions is assigned by ASSA, not URPE. You should receive word from URPE that your paper/session was accepted by mid-June. ASSA will not assign dates and times until much later in the summer. Please note that anyone who presents a paper (but not the chairs or discussants) must be a member of URPE (except at joint sessions with other groups, in which case they can be a member of the other organization). Contact urpe@labornet.org or 413-577-0806 for membership information. We will confirm membership for accepted proposals. A completed copy of the Program Registration Form (below) is required with your submission. Submissions will NOT BE ACCEPTED BY EMAIL. Only applications received by the May 1 deadline will be considered. If you have any questions, please contact one of the URPE at ASSA coordinators: Fred Moseley, Mount Holyoke College fmoseley@mtholyoke.edu Laurie Nisonoff, Hampshire College lnisonoff@hampshire.edu URPE AT ASSA New Orleans, January 4-6, 2008 PROGRAM REGISTRATION FORM Please fill out this form for each panel participant. Mail your completed form to: URPE at ASSA Program Committee c/o Fred Moseley, Economics Department, Mt. Holyoke College South Hadley, MA 01075 Name: ________________________________________________________________________________ Address:_____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ Email:_____________________________________ Ph: (Office) ________________ (Home) ________________ Summer address and phone (from _____________ to _____________): _____________________________________________________________________________________ Institutional Affiliation: ____________________________________________________________________ I am proposing a session/paper (circle one) entitled: _____________________________________________________________________________________ I wish to participate as a discussant. My interest area(s) are: _____________________________________________________________________________________ Are you or your co-author(s) a member of URPE? (yes/no). Please give the name of the registered URPE member: Anyone who presents a paper (but not the chairs or discussants) must be a member of URPE (except at joint sessions with other groups, in which case they can be a member of the other organization). Please contact the URPE national office for membership information: urpe@labornet.org or 413-577-0806 and complete your membership or renewal before you submit the proposal. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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We also have some openings on Sunday. ********************************************** ATTEND URPE PANELS 1. Saturday, Noon; Room: Engineering, 143 "US, Iran and Israel: What's Ahead?" Speakers: Reza Ghorashi, Richard Stockton College Tom O'Donnell, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Evan Siegel, New Jersey City University Chair and Discussant: Leili Kashani, New York University 2. Sunday, 10 am; Room: Engineering 521 "The Political Economy of the Escalating Pentagon Budget" Speakers: Frida Berrigan, World Policy Institute Ismael Hossein-Zadeh, Drake University Chris Rude, URPE Chair: Kate Bahn, URPE 3. Sunday, 3 pm; Room: Foundation 630C "Are the Barons of Finance Robbing the Store? Implications for Class and Political Resistance" Speakers: John Bellamy Foster, Monthly Review Ozgur Orhangazi, Roosevelt University Chris Rude, URPE Ramaa Vasudevan, Barnard College Chair: Ruth Indeck, Economy Connection, URPE ********************************************** LOOK FOR ADDITIONAL PANELS WITH URPE MEMBERS You can view the program by category at: http://leftforum.org/leftforum2007/panels.html#me5 From figueroa.myriam at gmail.com Thu Mar 8 20:18:40 2007 From: figueroa.myriam at gmail.com (Myriam Figueroa) Date: Thu Mar 8 20:19:58 2007 Subject: [URPE] GLOBALIZATION Seminar: "Bolivia: Workers & Indigenous Peoples United" (19 Mar.) Nancy Romer Message-ID: <974519fe0703081918h6728301cq7c58151a7d6d63ed@mail.gmail.com> Columbia University Seminar (#671) on Globalization, Labor and Popular Struggles is pleased to announce our next meeting. DATE: Monday, March 19 (Dinner at 6:00 p.m.) TITLE: "Report from the Front - Bolivia: Workers & Indigenous Peoples United in Struggle" SPEAKER: Professor Nancy Romer (Dept. of Psychology, CUNY) - Director of the Community Partnership Program (Brooklyn College), and University-Wide Officer of the Professional Staff Congress of CUNY (AFT local 2334). PLACE: Faculty House, Columbia University In late 2006 Nancy Romer met in Bolivia with activists in the landless peasants movement, leaders of the water and gas "wars," student activists, and faculty and professional staff unionists at the large public universities. In this talk she will discuss the ways in which the workers and traditional left unite with the indigenous movements to share a political agenda, strategy, and tactics. She will also address the implications of Bolivian developments for a left coalition in Latin America. Nancy Romer is Professor of Psychology and Director of the Brooklyn College Community Partnership, and University-Wide Officer of the Professional Staff Congress of CUNY (AFT local 2334). In connection with the February 19th meeting, please reply to Myriam Figueroa (*figueroa.myriam@gmail.com *) whether you plan to join us for dinner before the seminar. ----- I will attend the dinner on March 19 Yes___ No___ I will attend the seminar on March 19 Yes___ No___ ****RSVP by Sunday, March 18 **** 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 to 9:00 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 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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FIRST INTERNATIONAL GATHERING TO DEBATE AND DISCUSS SELF-MANAGEMENT (AUTOGESTI?N) Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, University of Buenos Aires Dates: July 19-21, 2007 Location: University of Buenos Aires 217 ? 25 de Mayo Avenue Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, Argentina CALL FOR PAPERS AND PROPOSALS FOR: COMPLETED OR ONGOING PROJECT PRESENTATIONS, PAPERS, ROUNDTABLE THEMES, DEBATE AND DISCUSSION THEMES Please send a 250-word (max) abstract by May 15, 2007, or any other correspondence to: Correspondence in Spanish: fabierta@filo.uba.ar Correspondence in English: UBA.selfmanagement@gmail.com The current debates surrounding self-management: A brief overview Workers? struggles have reemerged with force in the last decade in numerous forms?union-based struggles, self-managed workspaces, rural movements, unemployed workers? movements?. These are responses to the hegemony of neoliberal globalization imposing itself throughout the world with absolutist pretensions after the debacle of so-called ?real socialism.? At the same time, the old methods and strategies of struggle?class-based parties and traditional unions, amongst others?have by now shown themselves to be, at minimum, insufficient. Old debates and ideological frameworks are now in crisis. The dominant discourses used to describe the functioning of the capitalist world system can no longer explain quickly enough (never mind predict) the changes in this system that have been occurring over the past few decades, while popular struggles have had to create new paths without having a clear horizon in sight from which to map out a final destiny. And the plethora of means ever available for capitalism to respond to threats against it, as well as the sheer force and relentlessness of its repressive power, amply overcomes the popular sectors? capacity for change?with tragic consequences. While the taking of State power has been the driving objective of political forces for more than a century now, more recently there have appeared compelling movements that, on occasion, have questioned such objectives for revolutionary action. At minimum, these movements distance their strategies and tactics from the aims of taking State power, recognizing the difficulties of such a task. But, as evidenced in various Latin American contexts, some popular movements with solid historical roots have ended up allying themselves with national governments swept into power via electoral triumph. And so, when they least expected it, these movements found themselves at times controlling key sectors of the State?s administrative apparatus which, in turn, needed to be profoundly transformed in order to be oriented towards grassroots-based policies. Of particular importance for many of these grassroots groups are those policies that relate to managing production and the (re)distribution of wealth. Wavering between these situations and theoretic-ideological debates, workers have been generating?through their actual practices?an alternative course for steering life between inaction and resignation on the one side and the fight for total political power on the other. Subjected to the permanent crisis provoked by neoliberal capitalism, a growing number of workers are playing an increasingly key role in the re-creation and self-management of greater portions of the means of production and the economy as an immediate outcome of their struggles and resistances. And this despite being in the middle of a capitalist ocean. In some countries, workers? take-over of government and their increased control of the state apparatus (i.e., Venezuela, Bolivia) have, sooner rather than later, positioned grassroots workers? organizations and their methods of self-management as legitimate vehicles for administrating the economy and as decisively important forces for controlling the strategic economic means of society. Recovered factories, diverse kinds of self-managed microenterprises, rural cooperative settlements, new types of unionized workers? movements, networks of fair trade and fair work, and numerous other kinds of organizations and forms of struggle are part of this new landscape. Sometimes they take on autonomous forms. In certain situations they are fragmented. In other situations they form part of powerful and popular political movements, larger social movements, political parties, leftist fronts and coalitions, and even programs that are at times stimulated by the State or, more directly, by a government?s actual public polices. Regardless of the size and shape of these worker-contoured social-political landmarks, this new alternative landscape puts back on the table the question of the legitimate role of workers in the management of a society?s economy. The working class still does, after all, make up the majority of the world?s population. And workers still depend on their own labour for their sustenance, be they engaged in wage-labour, partaking of the cooperative management of their collective labour, or living in more dire circumstances such as the structurally unemployed, the overexploited, the marginalized, and the poor. A debate and discussion around these issues, therefore, is needed now more than ever: While the processes and consequences of globalization have been deeply and consistently questioned by numerous social and international movements, the project of actually creating an alternative that can supercede the merely declarative, or intellectual-theoretic reflection, has not advanced much, at least in a form that consistently takes into account both the theoretical and the practical aspects of self-management. (This is not to ignore or lessen the very real, efficacious, and practical outcomes realized in efforts such as the World Social Forum.) Rather, what is increasingly and definitely advancing are the myriad resistances to neoliberal capital that have centred on self-management as a creative force for inventing new experiences and new lives. However partial and nascent these advances might or might not be, they can serve to fruitfully inform and inspire the greater global analyses and debates that are looking for alternatives to capitalist life. The questions raised by self-management: What we are proposing for this First International Gathering, however, is not what might be interpreted, at first glance, as a debate on the ?social economy? (as fomented, for example, by the World Bank and NGOs focused on ?social containment?). Rather, we are proposing the reverse: We would like to engage in discussions centred on the socialization of the economy. Instead of waiting for the fulfillment of the promises set in a far-off utopia grounded in a revolutionary conquest of political power, workers from around the world are presently advancing projects that are giving them back their lives and labour. However fragmentary and limited these projects might currently be, they tend to be rooted in actual practices and concrete experiences rather than in the promissory and the abstract. What conclusions and lessons can we take from these experiences, then? What connections do these workers? struggles have with traditional social and political struggles? How do they relate to, or interconnect themselves within, the popular, grassroots-based governments that are increasingly taking hold of power in Latin America? How do these experiences of economic self-management survive in the hostile markets of global capital? How can they generate a new business logic of self-management within the framework of a suffocating system? Can they survive without change to the actual economic system and without transforming those very forms of organizations that they are attempting to overcome? Are they isolated instances of resistance, consequences of the very crisis of global capital, or do they show a path toward a new way of organizing production within a more just social system? Can workers already organized in unions once again come to pressure capital and dispute capital?s power-base, or should the struggle to overcome capital now be engaged from within the actual spaces of production and be about the actual self-management of production by workers? Will these struggles actually be used and appropriated by capital to more efficiently accumulate capital? These are just some of the questions that we feel should be at the centre of the debate amongst workers, intellectuals, and social and political organizations. This is not just an academic debate, however. It is essentially a political one that should be moved forward with the participation of workers and their organizations. Proceeding in any other way would render the debate an interesting intellectual exercise with little practical consequence. But those who are thinking about these and other issues related to social movements and alternatives to capital from within an intellectual perspective should also of course, out of necessity, participate in these debates. Also at the table should be social and political leaders that encompass views from the perspective of labour organizations and political processes that are disputing State power and that, as in Venezuela or Bolivia, are carrying forward policies that are fostering these experiences of self-management. >From the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters at the University of Buenos Aires, we propose further strides towards this necessary debate. For five years now we have been working in conjunction with workers in Argentina?s recovered factories and workspaces, attempting to support their processes, document their experiences, investigate their practices, and to better comprehend and reflect on the consequences of their experiments. From the Open Faculty Program (Programa Facultad Abierta) and the Interdisciplinary Program in Scientific and Technological Transference with Worker-Recovered Enterprises (Programa Interdisciplinario de Transferencia Cient?fico Tecnol?gica con Empresas Recuperadas por sus Trabajadores) we have been developing with these workers projects that seek to extend technological capabilities, develop skills, build capacity, and strengthen the viability of these cooperative workplaces, investigating, on a broader level, the self-management of productive unities abandoned by their owners and recovered and reopened by workers. For us, and we hope for many others, the time has come to incorporate the conclusions stemming from these lessons and experiences?both from the perspective of workers and also academics?into the debate that is occupying the world more and more, a debate that is fundamentally about the direction of these struggles and the change needed in the system of social, political, and economic relations. >From this place we convene this First International Gathering to debate and discuss self-management and its possibilities and challenges? ?THE WORKERS? ECONOMY: SELF-MANAGEMENT AND THE DISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH? Dates: July 19-21, 2007 Location: University of Buenos Aires 217 ? 25 de Mayo Avenue Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, Argentina Organizers The Open Faculty Program (Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, University of Buenos Aires) Co-Organizers: Center for Global Justice, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico (http://www.globaljusticecenter.org/) International Institute for Selfmanagement, Frankfurt, Germany (http://www.iism.net/) Argentina Autonomista Project (http://www.autonomista.org) Conference format: Debate Roundtables: Debate and discussion roundtables based on central themes, interspersed with panels to guide the discussion. A final synopsis of each roundtable will be realized and made available as conference proceedings. Opening and closing plenary sessions will be held. The debates and discussions will be filmed and recorded for archival and educational purposes in order to make available materials and resources for research purposes, consulting purposes, and for assisting current and future self-management projects. Thematic Roundtables: More specific roundtables and panels will be convened focusing on particular themes of interest to participants. Presentations: Presentations of documents and already completed or ongoing work for discussion. Those who forward their work to the gathering?s organizers with enough lead-time will have their work published in a CD before the conference to be available at the conference. Please forward materials to include in the CD by April 30, 2007 to: fabierta@filo.uba.ar Preliminary conference schedule: Thematic debates and project roundtables (first two days): ? The capitalist economy today: Stages of global capitalism from the perspective of popular movements. ? The self-managed economy: Discussions concerning the experiences of self-management in the era of global capitalism (recovered enterprises, rural cooperatives, self-managed and solidarity microenterprises, cooperative movements, alternative networks of exchange, fair trade and fair work initiatives, etc.) ? The challenges faced by popularly-based, grassroots-supported governments regarding the social management of the economy and the State. ? A critical look at the cooperative movement. ? New challenges faced by union movements; unions; new types of workers? organizations and collectives; co-management and participatory decision making. Plenary sessions (last day) ? The (re)distribution of wealth: The social economy or the socialization of the economy? Suggestions being offered by workers? movements. ? The limits of self-management: The political possibilities and challenges of a production regime under workers? control. ? Articulations, expressions, and experiences of the struggle for self-management with regard to other political struggles and other social movements. Special roundtables: ? The environment and workers? self-management. ? Experiments in self-management with regard to other social-political struggles and social movements. ? Work from the perspective of gender. ? The role of the university and intellectuals in workers? struggles. The gathering is free for participants and audience members. We invite donations for assisting the travel expenses of workers from outside of the Buenos Aires area. For U.S. tax-deductible donations, checks in U.S. dollars should be made payable to: Research Associates Foundation, Workers' Economy Conference in the memo, and sent to: 9902 Crystal Court, Suite 107, BC-2323, Laredo, TX 78045. Donations can also be made on-line at www.globaljusticecenter.org Please again note Workers' Economy Conference. From mail at thomaspalley.com Wed Mar 14 07:25:32 2007 From: mail at thomaspalley.com (Thomas Palley) Date: Wed Mar 14 21:18:14 2007 Subject: [URPE] OP-ED: Abandoning America: Corporate Foreign Direct Investment Message-ID: Dear URPE Friends & Colleagues, This week's policy brief is titled "Abandoning America: Corporate Foreign Direct Investment" It is posted on my website at www.thomaspalley.com Please feel free to share it with others who may be 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 Wed Mar 14 22:43:49 2007 From: urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu (urpe-moderator@lists.econ.utah.edu) Date: Wed Mar 14 21:38:19 2007 Subject: [URPE] [NYC] Brecht Form: ORGANIZING THE ORGANIC INTERNET * VENEZUELA FILMS * ECONOMIC CURRENTS & MORE Message-ID: <45F8CF05.5050302@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 figueroa.myriam at gmail.com Thu Mar 15 00:58:42 2007 From: figueroa.myriam at gmail.com (Myriam Figueroa) Date: Thu Mar 15 05:38:35 2007 Subject: [URPE] GLOBALIZATION Seminar: "Bolivia: Workers & Indigenous Peoples United" (19 Mar.) Nancy Romer - REMINDER Message-ID: <974519fe0703142358j3ffb5047yb265e489319aeb19@mail.gmail.com> Columbia University Seminar (#671) on Globalization, Labor and Popular Struggles is pleased to announce our next meeting. DATE: Monday, March 19 (Dinner at 6:00 p.m.) TITLE: "Report from the Front - Bolivia: Workers & Indigenous Peoples United in Struggle" SPEAKER: Professor Nancy Romer (Dept. of Psychology, CUNY) - Director of the Community Partnership Program (Brooklyn College), and University-Wide Officer of the Professional Staff Congress of CUNY (AFT local 2334). PLACE: Faculty House, Columbia University In late 2006 Nancy Romer met in Bolivia with activists in the landless peasants movement, leaders of the water and gas "wars," student activists, and faculty and professional staff unionists at the large public universities. In this talk she will discuss the ways in which the workers and traditional left unite with the indigenous movements to share a political agenda, strategy, and tactics. She will also address the implications of Bolivian developments for a left coalition in Latin America. Nancy Romer is Professor of Psychology and Director of the Brooklyn College Community Partnership, and University-Wide Officer of the Professional Staff Congress of CUNY (AFT local 2334). In connection with the March 19th meeting, PLEASE REPLY to Myriam Figueroa (figueroa.myriam@gmail.com) whether you plan to join us for dinner before the seminar. ----- I will attend the dinner on March 19 Yes___ No___ I will attend the seminar on March 19 Yes___ No___ ****RSVP by Sunday, March 18 **** 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 to 9:00 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 leefs at umkc.edu Fri Mar 16 09:04:11 2007 From: leefs at umkc.edu (Lee, Frederic) Date: Sun Mar 18 13:51:02 2007 Subject: [URPE] intership for heterodox graduate students Message-ID: <9A72753A447165498D6B63479DB2E7C90243F708@KC-MSX3.kc.umkc.edu> The Center for the Applied Study of Economics & Environment C A S E & E Graduate Student Internship Program The Center for the Applied Study of Economics & Environment (CASE&E) is sponsoring a paid summer internship program that will match economics graduate students with non-governmental organizations that work on environmental issues. The internships will be awarded for summer 2007. The ideal candidate will have at least an MA in economics, or have completed most of their coursework towards the Ph.D. in economics. Last year's interns were placed at the International Rivers Network, The National Resource Defense Council, and Massachusetts Climate Action Network. You can learn more about them and their exciting internship projects at: http://www.case-and-e.org/intern06.php. The Center for the Applied Study of Economics & Environment (CASE&E) is a network of progressive economists who are developing and applying economic analysis to support the protection of human well-being and the natural environment. We believe: * A clean and safe environment is a birthright of every person. It is not a commodity to be distributed on the basis of purchasing power, nor a privilege to be distributed on the basis of political power. * Safeguarding the natural environment is inseparable from promoting social justice. Without a fair distribution of wealth and power, neither the free market nor government regulation will guarantee environmental quality and human well-being. * Today's environmental challenges demand new thinking. By engaging with real-world problems economists can help craft effective solutions and build a more just and sustainable future. This internship program is part of CASE&E's effort to develop a new network of progressive economists who are developing and applying the economic arguments for active protection of human health and the natural environment. We invite graduate students in economics who are interested in being placed in a paid internship to contact us by sending a letter with the following information: 1. Curriculum vita 2. One letter of reference 3. A two-page statement of your research interests and how they may relate to CASE&E's mission. Applications received before April 1 will receive highest priority. Please send application via email and hard copy to: Internship Program Center for the Applied Study of Economics & Environment c/o Ecotrust 721 NW 9th Avenue, Suite 200 Portland, OR 97206 Email: info@case-and-e.org Tel: 503-901-0031 For more information on CASE&E, and a copy of this announcement, please visit our website at www.case-and-e.org -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 15365 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/urpe-announcements/attachments/20070316/d1567f52/attachment.txt From mail at thomaspalley.com Tue Mar 20 13:12:10 2007 From: mail at thomaspalley.com (Thomas Palley) Date: Tue Mar 20 13:54:40 2007 Subject: [URPE] POLICY OP-ED: Memo to Federal Reserve Message-ID: Dear URPE Friends & Colleagues, This week's policy op-ed is titled "Memo to Fed: Cut Rates, then Reform Policy." It is posted on my website at www.thomaspalley.com Please feel free to share it with friends & colleagues who are 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 Mar 20 17:23:07 2007 From: urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu (urpe-moderator@lists.econ.utah.edu) Date: Tue Mar 20 16:17:29 2007 Subject: [URPE] [NYC] CEPA Economic Policy Workshop - Robert Brenner - Wednesday, March 28th - 12:30 p.m. Message-ID: <46006CDB.9050703@lists.econ.utah.edu> Upcoming Economic Policy Workshop at the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis: Robert Brenner, UCLA "Prosperity and Stagnation in the World Economy: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow" Wednesday, March 28th 12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. 80 Fifth Avenue, 8th Floor, Room G802 Join us at 12:30 p.m. for a brown bag lunch and workshop. Robert Brenner is the director of the Center for Social Theory and Comparative History at UCLA, and the author of The Boom and the Bubble (Verso Press). 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 * * 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 Mar 20 22:36:36 2007 From: urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu (urpe-moderator@lists.econ.utah.edu) Date: Tue Mar 20 21:30:58 2007 Subject: [URPE] Center for the Applied Study of Economics and the Environment Message-ID: <4600B654.6040602@lists.econ.utah.edu> This is an announcement of a new institute - Center for the Applied Study of Economics and the Environment - founded by several URPE members. Thanks, Kristen Sheeran We are pleased to announce a new organization of progressive economists working on environmental issues: The Center for the Applied Study of Economics and the Environment (CASE&E). We are economists troubled by environmental degradation and social injustice, by the wide and growing inequality of wealth and income in America and in the world, and by the harmful impacts of the globalized economy on the natural ecosystems that support human activity. In order to change what is wrong with the economy, we must change what is wrong with economics as it is currently taught and practiced. CASE&E promotes a vision of an engaged and realistic economics, in which an understanding of social equity and environmental protection cannot be separated. We invite you to read our statement, Real People, Real Environments, and Realistic Economics, which outlines our critique of conventional economics and why a new progressive economics of the environment is necessary. We also encourage you to check out our online Green Economist Directory of economists willing to work with environmental organizations on either a paid or pro-bono basis. Please consider adding your name to the directory. Adding your name is a great way for you to connect with the real world policy issues going on in your community and it doesn't commit you to anything. Our statement and the directory, as well as information regarding our other projects and initiatives, can be found on our website: www.case-and-e.org . Sincerely, The CASE&E Steering Committee: Frank Ackerman Astrid Scholz Eban Goodstein Kristen Sheeran David Batker James Boyce -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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In addition, there are new book announcements-see the one on Women and the Politics of Place, a couple of new heterodox associations-Institute for a New Reflection on Governance and the Center for the Applied Study of Economics and Environment, new journal issues, and a particularly interesting query regarding a conversation about the principles of economics. Moreover, there is information about the program of the 2007 ICAPE Conference. Finally, under the Archives section you can read about the Review of Heterodox Economics-you might find it interesting to know that almost a decade before the beginning of this Newsletter there was another publication trying to do the same thing. Fred Lee In this issue: - Call for Papers - Union for Radical Political Economics - Post Keynesian Economic Policies - Research Network Macroeconomic Policies - Seminario de Microeconomia Heterodoxa - European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy (EAEPE) 2007 Conference - The Philosophy of Adam Smith - Conference on Law and Economics - The Workers' Economy: Self Management and the Distribution of Wealth - Conferences, Seminars and Lectures - Economics as a Moral Science - S?minaire H?t?rodoxies du Matisse - 3rd STOREP European Summer School (SESS) - Oxford University 2 day Green Economics Conference - Journ?e d'?tudes dans le cadre du s?minaire - Advanced Graduate Workshop on Poverty, Development and Globalization - Globalization, Labor and Popular Struggles - Inequality, Growth and Human Development - Job Postings for Heterodox Economists - Research Scholar, Gender Equality and the Economy - Heterodox Conference Papers and Reports and Articles - Andy Denis - International Confederation of Associations for Pluralism in Economics - News - ICAPE 2007 Conference - ICAPE Membership - Heterodox Economics Archive Material - Documents in the History of Heterodox Economics - Heterodox Journals and Newsletters - Journal of Institutional Economics - Cambridge Journal of Economics - Economic Sociology - The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought - Review of Social Economy - Journal of Economic Methodology - New Political Economy - Heterodox Books, Book Series, and Book Reviews - Women and the Politics of Place - How Rich Countries Got Rich - Money and Payments in Theory and Practice - Meeting the Employment Challenge - Emploi : ?loge de la stabilit? - 2006 Revision of World Population Prospects - Heterodox Associations, Institutes, and Departments - Institute for a New Reflection on Governance - Heterodox Web Sites - The Veblenite - Queries from Heterodox Economists - www.theeconomicconversation.com - For Your Information - Heterodox Economics in the Basque language - Critiques d'Alain Parguez - CASE&E - CASE&E Graduate Student Internship Program - Reviews by Evan Jones - The current debates surrounding self-management: A brief overview -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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If you want to propose an entire panel, contact me ASAP. I will put together 3 panels with four papers each based on paper proposal I receive. Also. let me know if you are willing to be a discussant or chair of one of these panels. Below are the four preferred topics. Women and the Gulf Coast (or Disasters) (being in New Orleans). Gender and Development Advances in Feminist Political Economy Between Work and Family -- Empirical and Theoretical work on Women's well-being. Send me a paper title, abstract, and name, institutional affiliation, phone and email randy.albelda@umb.edu. I will also need summer phone and e-mail contact info. Please note that the date, time, and location of sessions is assigned by ASSA, not URPE. You should receive word that your paper/session was accepted by mid-June. ASSA will not assign dates and times until much later in the summer. Randy Albelda -- Randy Albelda Professor of Economics University of Massachusetts Boston Boston, MA 02125 617-287-6963 randy.albelda@umb.edu From urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu Sun Mar 25 17:04:21 2007 From: urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu (urpe-moderator@lists.econ.utah.edu) Date: Sun Mar 25 15:58:38 2007 Subject: [URPE] SCEPA Conference on Growth & Inequality on April 13th Message-ID: <4606FFF5.80509@lists.econ.utah.edu> What: "Realistic Growth Policy for Our Times: A Conference in Memory of David Gordon" When: Friday, April 13, 2007 9:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m Who: Current speakers and panelists include Robert Gordon, Lance Taylor, David Howell, Pascal Petit, Michael Piore, Robert Pollin, Ed Wolff, Servaas Storm, Marc Lavoie, Michael Reich, Mark Levitan, Heather Boushey, and Ron Blackwell Where: Teresa Lang Student Center, 55 West 13 Street, 2nd Floor In remembering David Gordon, the late founder of SCEPA (then CEPA) and New School Professor of Economics, this conference will explore an issue that was important to him, and remains relevant today--the relationship between income distribution and economic growth. The aim is to promote a lively dialogue between scholars focused on labor market regulation, industrial relations and corporate governance, and political and cultural institutions, with scholars of economic growth who see institutions and income distribution as central to their analysis. The hope is to further our understanding of progressive and growth-promoting policies in today's economic climate. This conference is free and open to the public, but reservations are required. E-mail cepa@newschool.edu to reserve a seat. For more information about the conference, visit our website at www.cepa.newschool.edu * * 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 Sun Mar 25 17:06:03 2007 From: urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu (urpe-moderator@lists.econ.utah.edu) Date: Sun Mar 25 16:00:21 2007 Subject: [URPE] [NYC] Brecht Forum: NYC Meeting on US SOCIAL FORUM - April 4 @JUDSON CHURCH Message-ID: <4607005B.5060006@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 Sun Mar 25 18:34:27 2007 From: urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu (urpe-moderator@lists.econ.utah.edu) Date: Sun Mar 25 17:28:45 2007 Subject: [URPE] Two Job openings at Dollars & Sense References: <15d8394e0703161410r43e7915elc757f1ef866c1b25@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <46071513.4070908@lists.econ.utah.edu> Dear friends and colleagues, We at Dollars & Sense have two job openings: for a development and promotion coordinator, and for a business and circulation coordinator. We would greatly appreciate any help you may be able to provide in filling these positions (e.g. forwarding this message to any potential candidates you may know of, posting the notices in newsletters, forwarding to email lists, etc.). I am pasting into this message two versions of each of the job postings (short versions and long versions). In solidarity, Chris Sturr, co-editor of Dollars & Sense Job Opening Development and Promotion Coordinator Dollars & Sense, the 32-year-old progressive economics publisher based in Boston, Mass., seeks a Development and Promotion Coordinator. We publish an 8,000-circulation bimonthly magazine and nine book titles. The primary areas of responsibility of the Development and Promotion Coordinator are: Direct-mail fundraising Major donor fundraising Magazine promotion Advertising As part of a team of one other business and three editorial staff, the Development and Promotion Coordinator works closely with a volunteer collective of activists and social scientists committed to social justice and economic democracy. Staff members are automatically members of the D&S collective and attend Thursday evening collective meetings, where editorial and business decisions are made. All staff members participate in planning and carrying out promotion and fundraising activities, and all share a range of administrative and clerical tasks in the office. Fundraising experience; excellent writing, computer, and administrative skills; creativity and enthusiasm; progressive politics; and some professional experience required. Grant writing; magazine promotion; some bookkeeping experience preferred. People of color are strongly encouraged to apply. Position is part-time (30 hours/week) with COLA+3% annual raise, full health benefits, three weeks vacation. Send cover letter and resume by April 15th, 2007 to: Development Coordinator Search, Dollars & Sense, 29 Winter Street, Boston, MA 02108 or email dollars@dollarsandsense.org . Applications will be reviewed as they're received. [short version of ad:] Dollars & Sense Progressive economics publishing collective in Boston seeks part-time (30-hour/week) DEVELOPMENT/PROMOTION COORDINATOR, responsible for fundraising, magazine promotion. Fundraising experience; excellent writing, computer, and administrative skills; creativity and enthusiasm; progressive politics; and some professional experience required. Grant writing; magazine promotion; some bookkeeping experience preferred. People of color are strongly encouraged to apply. Send cover letter, resume by April 15th to: Dollars & Sense, 29 Winter Street, Boston, MA 02108 or email dollars@dollarsandsense.org . Job Opening Business & Circulation Coordinator Dollars & Sense, the 32-year-old progressive economics publisher based in Boston, Mass., seeks a Business and Circulation Coordinator. We publish an 8,000-circulation bimonthly magazine and nine book titles. The Business and Circulation Coordinator is responsible for: Financial planning, including annual budget and cash-flow projections Accounts payable/accounts receivable/payroll Communicating with customers, primarily college bookstores, and vendors Overseeing the annual audit Overseeing the circulation vendor Handling unusual circulation problems As part of a team of one other business and three editorial staff, the Business and Circulation Coordinator works closely with a volunteer collective of activists and social scientists committed to social justice and economic democracy. Staff members are automatically members of the D&S collective and attend Thursday evening collective meetings, where editorial and business decisions are made. All staff members participate in planning and carrying out promotion and fundraising activities, and all share a range of administrative and clerical tasks in the office. Excellent computer and administrative skills; bookkeeping experience, preferably with Quickbooks; some experience with budgeting and financial management; progressive politics; and some professional experience required. Circulation experience preferred. Requires a careful, detail-oriented person. People of color are strongly encouraged to apply. Position is part-time, approximately 30 hours/week, with COLA+3% annual raise, full health benefits, three weeks vacation. Note: number of hours per week is negotiable, as we would consider narrowing job responsibilities to hire a qualified candidate for fewer hours. Send cover letter and resume by April 15th, 2007 to: Business Coordinator Search, Dollars & Sense, 29 Winter Street, Boston, MA 02108 or email dollars@dollarsandsense.org . Applications will be reviewed as they're received. [short version of ad:] Dollars & Sense Job opening at progressive economics publishing collective in Boston. BUSINESS/CIRCULATION COORDINATOR: Excellent computer, administrative skills; bookkeeping (Quickbooks); financial management; progressive politics; circulation experience preferred. People of color are strongly encouraged to apply. Send cover letter, resume by April 15th to Dollars & Sense, 29 Winter Street, Boston, MA 02108 or email dollars@dollarsandsense.org . -- -- Chris Sturr Co-editor, Dollars & Sense 29 Winter St. Boston, Mass. 02108 phone: 617-447-2177, ext. 205 fax: 617-447-2179 email: sturr@dollarsandsense.org -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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The case under consideration concerns NYC attempts to turn public ball fields on Randall's Island into fields for private schools and also a very expensive theme park. Thanks, Ruthie Indeck From fkaboub at drew.edu Mon Mar 26 10:57:25 2007 From: fkaboub at drew.edu (Fadhel Kaboub) Date: Mon Mar 26 20:17:40 2007 Subject: [URPE] GLOBAL PEACE CONFERENCE Message-ID: <4607C2FA.F2AA.0012.0@drew.edu> Skipped content of type multipart/alternative-------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Hatch) Date: Wed Mar 28 14:00:46 2007 Subject: [URPE] Re: Internship Posting In-Reply-To: References: <9ADC5843D93FBD4B867765CEF4C75C40014C64@EXCHANGE.catalystnt.org> Message-ID: INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITY RESEARCH CATALYST, INC. 120 WALL ST. NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10005 >From Lois Joy, Ph.D., Director Research, Catalyst Inc., ljoy@catalyst.org Catalyst, Inc., the leading nonprofit research and advisory group working to improve and advance women in the workplace seeks a graduate student researcher. Job Description: The intern will serve as a member of the Research Department, specifically assisting with the Metrics series of research studies which utilizes large-scale survey data to examine the career experiences of women executives and managers. Assistance with new research on Women in Bioscience and Health Leadership will also be a key work component. Position is unpaid. Intern will have access to Catalyst office space and computer and have opportunities to develop research skills and publications. Essential Functions, Project Skills & Activities: Conduct in depth social science and business literature reviews. Conduct statistical analysis of large survey data. Develop research hypotheses. Summarize statistical results in charts and graphs. Assist with publication and report writing and planning internal and external meetings and events. Required Skills, Experience, or Education: This position requires a minimum of a Bachelor's degree and at least one year of graduate level coursework in a relevant social science discipline (i.e. economics, sociology, psychology, women studies, and business.) At least one graduate level course in quantitative methods and demonstrated intermediate knowledge of statistical software such as SPSS or STATA . Interest in learning how to conduct research on issues pertaining to women and work and to communicate with academic, business, and policy audiences is important. Opportunity to develop quantitative research skills, write up analysis for publication, and present research outcomes to academic and business audiences. Depending on situation, there are possibilities to work remotely. Minimum 10 hours per week and four month commitment with possibilities for extension. Please contact: Lois Joy, Ph.D., Director Research, Catalyst Inc., ljoy@catalyst.org From Bhkramer at aol.com Mon Apr 2 12:28:33 2007 From: Bhkramer at aol.com (Bhkramer@aol.com) Date: Mon Apr 2 14:39:08 2007 Subject: [URPE] RA job, progressive think tank, NYC Message-ID: FPI is a very comfortable place to work. Serious, progressive economists should consider this entry-level position -- Brent Kramer, current RA (leaving after the summer to concentrate on my dissertation). Economic Research Assistant Position ? Summer 2007 Fiscal Policy Institute, New York City One or more positions are available for Summer 2007 for graduate-level Economic Research Assistants. Excellent quantitative skills required and ability to analyze and interpret economic and related statistical data. Excellent written and oral communication skills needed. Major projects include compiling new edition of The State of Working New York and research on economics of immigration. Involves extensive work with government economic data, including micro data. Possibility of continuing on part-time or full-time basis in the Fall. Candidate must hold a master?s degree in economics, urban and regional planning, public policy, labor relations, or related social science field, or be a master? s or doctoral student in one of those fields. Related work experience a plus. Women and people of color encouraged to apply. The Fiscal Policy Institute is a nonpartisan research and education organization that focuses on the broad range of tax, budget, economic and related public policy issues that affect the quality of life and the economic well-being of New York residents. _www.fiscalpolicy.org_ (http://www.fiscalpolicy.org/) Email cover letter and resume to: James A. Parrott, Ph.D. Deputy Director and Chief Economist Fiscal Policy Institute _parrott@fiscalpolicy.org_ (mailto:parrott@fiscalpolicy.org) ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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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 urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu Mon Apr 2 21:01:45 2007 From: urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu (urpe-moderator@lists.econ.utah.edu) Date: Mon Apr 2 20:56:13 2007 Subject: [URPE] [NYC] CEPA Economic Policy Workshop - Sandra Polaski - Wednesday, April 4th - 12:30 p.m. Message-ID: <4611C399.1000906@lists.econ.utah.edu> Upcoming Economic Policy Workshop at SCEPA: Sandra Polaski, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace ?CGE Trade Models and Their Policy Implications? Wednesday, April 4th 12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. 80 Fifth Avenue, 5th Floor Conference Room Join us at 12:30 p.m. for a brown bag lunch and workshop. Sandra Polaski is Director of the Trade, Equity and Development Project and a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, an international think tank. Her work focuses on trade, development and employment policies. Her talk will be based on the report, "Winners and Losers: Impact of the Doha Round on Developing Countries" which can be accessed online at: http://www.carnegieendowment.org/publications/index.cfm?fa=view&id=18083&prog=zgp&proj=zted **Also save the date for the SCEPA Growth & Inequality Conference on Friday, April 13, 2007. For more information or to RSVP visit: http://newschool.edu/cepa/conferences/index.htm ** * * 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 Mon Apr 2 21:03:24 2007 From: urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu (urpe-moderator@lists.econ.utah.edu) Date: Mon Apr 2 20:57:55 2007 Subject: [URPE] [NYC] Brecht Forum: Saul Landau: A Bush and Botox World / Picture Balata / In the Shadow of the Wall Message-ID: <4611C3FC.6070608@lists.econ.utah.edu> Skipped content of type multipart/alternative-------------- next part -------------- _______________________________________________ Brechtevents3 mailing list Post: Brechtevents3@lists.mayfirst.org List info: https://lists.mayfirst.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/brechtevents3 To Unsubscribe Send email to: Brechtevents3-unsubscribe@lists.mayfirst.org Or visit: https://lists.mayfirst.org/cgi-bin/mailman/options/brechtevents3/lmestres%40brechtforum.org You are subscribed as: lmestres@brechtforum.org -------------- next part -------------- _______________________________________________ Brechtevents1 mailing list Brechtevents1@lists.mayfirst.org https://lists.mayfirst.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/brechtevents1 From msw22 at columbia.edu Thu Apr 5 12:07:57 2007 From: msw22 at columbia.edu (Matthew S Winters) Date: Fri Apr 6 09:00:31 2007 Subject: [URPE] Full Employment Seminar - 10 April - Leonard Rodberg Message-ID: The COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY Seminar on Full Employment, Social Welfare and Equity (#613) invites you to our next meeting on TUESDAY 10 April: DATE: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 SPEAKER: Professor Leonard Rodberg, Queens College TOPIC: Proposals for Universal Health Care: Evaluation of Major Proposals and Their Political Prospects A number of proposals that seek to achieve "universal health care" have been put forward in the last few months. In this seminar, Professor Rodberg will describe each of these proposals; discuss the extent to which each would, or would not, achieve the goal of affordable, universal health care; and assess the political strengths and weaknesses of each. Leonard Rodberg began his professional life as a nuclear physicist, but he has strayed far afield. Rodberg, who holds a PhD in physics from MIT, is now Associate Professor and Chair of the Urban Studies Department at Queens College, where he teaches health policy and other urban issues. In the 1970s, he led the development of the U.S. Health Service Act, usually referred to as the Dellums Bill, legislation that would create a community-based national health service. In the 1980s, Professor Rodberg was one of the founders of Physicians for a National Health Program. He currently serves as Research Director of the New York Metro Chapter of PNHP and writes and speaks widely on health care reform issues. -------------- Please RSVP to Matt Winters (msw22@columbia.edu) by Friday 6 April. Dinner is at 6:00 p.m. at Faculty House, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY. The street address is 400 West 117th Street. DIRECTIONS: the easiest approach is through the gates on the north side of 116th Street between Amsterdam Avenue and Morningside Drive. 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 TUESDAY April 10th ____ I will ____ I will not join the group for dinner -------------- Helen Lachs Ginsburg, helenginsburg@yahoo.com Trudy Goldberg, trudygoldberg@msn.com Sheila Collins, sheila.collins3@verizon.net Chairs, Columbia Seminar on FULL EMPLOYMENT, SOCIAL WELFARE AND EQUITY From urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu Fri Apr 6 12:54:42 2007 From: urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu (urpe-moderator@lists.econ.utah.edu) Date: Fri Apr 6 12:49:08 2007 Subject: [URPE] UMass Job Opening -- Chief Academic Advisor Message-ID: <46169772.60709@lists.econ.utah.edu> UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS CHIEF ACADEMIC ADVISOR The Department of Economics invites applications for the position of CHIEF ACADEMIC ADVISOR. Duties: The Chief Academic Advisor provides and manages a wide range of undergraduate services for the Department including academic advising, course registration procedures and scheduling, internships, and undergraduate and alumni/ae events and activities. Advisor also supervises undergraduate tutors/peer advisors. Approximately 75% of Advisor?s time is devoted to these duties. Advisor teaches one undergraduate economics course per year (25% of time). Qualifications: Ability to communicate well with undergraduates and excellent organizational and administrative skills. MA or PhD in Economics or a related field. Two to four years experience in higher education environment (teaching and/or academic advising preferred); excellent problem-solving skills, which may involve sensitive academic or administrative problems and interactions with students, parents, faculty, and staff from diverse backgrounds; ability to work independently and collaboratively; excellent computer skills, including knowledge of Excel and, ideally, SPIRE; ability to maintain good records. Hiring Salary Range: $48,000-$50,000. Normal Starting Salary: $48,000. Starting date of appointment: negotiable. Initial appointment is for two one-year periods, with the possibility of renewal beyond two years. Send cover letter, resume, transcripts, three letters of recommendation, and statement of advising philosophy, by April 20, 2007, the priority consideration date. Search will continue until the position is filled. Send materials to: Diane Flaherty, Chair, Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts, 200 Hicks Way, Amherst, MA 01003-9277. The University of Massachusetts is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. Women and members of minority groups are encouraged to apply. From urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu Fri Apr 6 13:33:39 2007 From: urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu (urpe-moderator@lists.econ.utah.edu) Date: Fri Apr 6 13:28:04 2007 Subject: [URPE] [NYC] CEPA Inequality Conference Program: April 13, 2007 Message-ID: <4616A093.7010608@lists.econ.utah.edu> Realistic Growth Policy for Our Times: A Conference in Memory of David Gordon April 13, 2007 9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Lang Student Center at 55 West 13 Street Registration is Required In remembering David Gordon, the late founder of SCEPA (then CEPA) and New School Professor of Economics, this conference will explore an issue that was important to him, and remains relevant today--the relationship between income distribution and economic growth. The aim is to promote a lively dialogue between scholars focused on labor market regulation, industrial relations and corporate governance, and political and cultural institutions, with scholars of economic growth who see institutions and income distribution as central to their analysis. The hope is to further our understanding of progressive and growth-promoting policies in today's economic climate. Reservations are required. Please RSVP to cepa@newschool.edu or call 212-229-5901 x4911. Draft Program (subject to change) 9:30 a.m. Welcome and Introductory Remarks Jeff Madrick, SCEPA and editor of Challenge Magazine 10:00 a.m. Keynote Address: Unsettled Issues in the Rise of American Inequality Robert Gordon, Northwestern University 11:00 a.m. Panel I: Demand-led Policies for Growth: What Theory Tells Us Lance Taylor, SCEPA and the New School for Social Research Servaas Storm, Delft University of Technology "Growth, Distribution and Technological Change: Understanding the Role of Industrial Relations" Pascal Petit, CEPREMAP 12:30 p.m. Lunch 1:30 p.m. Panel II: Missing Foundations for Growth: A Roundtable Discussion Michael Piore, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Michael Reich, University of California at Berkeley Edward Wolff, New York University and The Levy Economics Institute "Stagnating Wages and Rising Profits: Causes and Consequences" 3:00 p.m. Panel III: Inequality and the American Economy: David Gordon?s Legacy Robert Pollin, University of Massachusetts and PERI "Targeting Decent Employment as a Policy Goal: Micro Policy, Macro Policy, and Making it Happen" David Howell , Milano The New School for Management and Urban Policy "Globalization and the Demise of the Welfare State: Ten Years After" Mark Levitan, Community Service Society of New York " Poverty in New York City: The Role of Income Growth, Earnings Inequality, and Demographic Change" Ron Blackwell, AFL-CIO 4:30 p.m. Conference Closes For up to date information visit: http://newschool.edu/cepa/conferences/index.htm * * For help with this mailing list go to the CEPA Web site: * http://www.newschool.edu/cepa/ From nissenb at fiu.edu Fri Apr 6 16:38:45 2007 From: nissenb at fiu.edu (Bruce Nissen) Date: Sat Apr 7 09:30:24 2007 Subject: [URPE] Job opening References: <46169772.60709@lists.econ.utah.edu> Message-ID: <02ff01c7789c$55df0920$375d5e83@coe.fiu.edu> This is a job at the Florida International University Center for Labor Research and Studies. It could also involve working with me and a research institute I have set up within the Center. You can check out the research institute at www.risep-fiu.org , and lok over the Center for Labor Research and Studies at www.fiu.edu/~clrs . If you're interested, please get an application in! Best wishes, Bruce Nissen POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT CENTER FOR LABOR RESEARCH AND STUDIES FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY Florida International University was founded in 1972 and is Miami?s only public research university. Currently FIU has 38,000 students and graduates the most Hispanics of any university in the country. Its 21 colleges and schools offer more than 200 bachelors, masters and doctoral programs. FIU has also been classified by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching as a ?High Research Activity.? This year FIU was authorized to establish a medical school, which will open in 2009. FIU?s College of Law recently received accreditation in the fastest time allowed by the American Bar Association. We seek candidates interested in working with us to meet the needs of an increasingly diverse, multicultural, technology-driven society. All teaching programs in the College are accredited by NCATE. The College is comprised of four academic departments housing 60 programs at the undergraduate, masters, specialist and doctoral levels. Faculty Position: The Center for Labor Research & Studies at Florida International University announces one permanent, full-time faculty position (possible tenure earning status to begin August 1, 2007. The CLR&S offers an undergraduate Labor Studies Concentration within a Liberal Studies program; two undergraduate Labor Studies Certificates; an under graduate certificate in Vocational Education, a graduate certificate in Conflict Resolution and Consensus Building; conducts sponsored and non-sponsored research and training; and offers a variety of non-credit programs. Salary: Negotiable. Salary will be competitive and commensurate with qualifications and experience. Responsibilities: We are seeking an individual to write and secure research and/or training grants who will enhance and increase the funded research/training efforts of the Center as well as contribute to the undergraduate, graduate and non-credit teaching program and general mission of the College and the Center. Qualifications: A Ph.D. or comparable terminal degree is required and teaching and research experience. Proven record of grants preferred. Teaching and research focuses on one or a combination of the following Labor Studies/Adult Education/Human Resource Development areas: globalization and the changing nature of work; immigration, ethnicity and worker rights; workplace health and safety; worker literacy within changing technologies. In addition to the specified areas, applicant must have a demonstrated interest in working with a diverse labor community. Good interpersonal skills required. Position will remain open until filled. Initial review will begin on April 26, 2007. Please submit a letter of application that establishes position qualifications, vitae, samples of scholarly writing, copy of graduate transcripts and a list of at least three references with phone numbers/e-mail address to: Judith Blucker, Dean c/o Lisa Frost Center for Labor Research & Studies, 11200 SW 8th Street ?LC 304, Miami, FL 33199 (305) 348-2371 ? FAX: (305) 348-2241 F.I.U. is an EO/EA Employer & Institution From int00005 at worldonline.be Sat Apr 7 14:25:19 2007 From: int00005 at worldonline.be (TSCF Support Assistant 4) Date: Sat Apr 7 21:53:33 2007 Subject: [URPE] (no subject) Message-ID: <008d01c77952$dcdd5380$0b01a8c0@machineA> Dear colleagues, This is to inform you that the IIId International Conference of The Social Capital Foundation will be held on November 15-19, 2007, in Hawaii. We invite you to submit papers for this conference; participation as a discussant or attendant is also encouraged. Please have a look at the conference page of our site, where you will find details of the submission and registration conditions: http://www.socialcapital-foundation.org/conferences/2007/TSCF%20International%20Conference%202007.htm The deadline is very close to the conference date in order to allow a maximal number of participants to be involved. Please note that we expect abstracts (no full papers) to be submitted. However, participants are advised not to wait until the deadline to submit, the fee being staggered. May we suggest you to inform those members of your networks who could be interested in the conference. We are looking forward to having news from you and to working closely with you for the success of this event. With best wishes, TSCF ____________________________________________________________________ The Social Capital Foundation Mailing address: B.P. 30, 1310 Terhulpen, Belgium Website: http://www.socialcapital-foundation.org -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Instead of fixating on balancing the budget at all costs, budget policy really should be about prioritizing the nation's various needs, including public investments in such areas as early childhood development, access to higher education, universal broadband, renewable energy, and so on. As for the long-term deficit problem, describing it as an "entitlements crisis" obscures the fact that what the nation is actually dealing with is a crisis in escalating public and private health care costs that can only be addressed with comprehensive health care reform. Registration 1:30 - 2:00 pm KEYNOTE & DISCUSSION Joseph Stiglitz Professor, Columbia University Nobel Laureate, Economics 2001 Getting Beyond Balanced Budget Mania and Addressing the Nation's Needs PANEL PRESENTATION & DISCUSSION Henry Aaron Senior Fellow in the Economic Studies Program at the Brookings Institution Chronic Deficits: Entitlement Crisis or Health Care Reform Crisis? Joan Lombardi Director, The Children's Project Chair, Birth to Five Policy Alliance Investing in Early Childhood Development: Science, Benefits, & Common Sense Max Sawicky Economist, Economic Policy Institute Why Public Investment Matters RSVP Click here to reserve your seat today. Questions about this event? Contact events@epi.org. Get more information about EPI's Agenda for Shared Prosperity at SharedProsperity.org _______________________________________________ Nea-l mailing list Nea-l@lists.fsu.edu https://lists.fsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/nea-l From leefs at umkc.edu Thu Apr 12 15:50:54 2007 From: leefs at umkc.edu (Lee, Frederic) Date: Fri Apr 13 05:51:29 2007 Subject: [URPE] Heterodox Economics Newsletter Issue 42 Message-ID: <9A72753A447165498D6B63479DB2E7C9026CB40A@KC-MSX3.kc.umkc.edu> Heterodox Economics Newsletter Issue 42: April 12, 2007 >From the Editor The Heterodox Economics Newsletter has lots of new items-calls for papers, conferences and seminars, jobs for heterodox economists, etc. Of particular interest is the material on the Institutional and Behavioral Economics Section in the American Agricultural Economics Association and on the Post Keynesian Economics Study Group in the UK and its Newsletter. Over the past several months I have collected data on the current state of heterodox economics around the world which I would like to share. First, there are at least 27 different heterodox economics associations around the world-and perhaps more but I am not aware of them. Secondly, working with the membership data of fifteen heterodox organizations, there are 2559 heterodox economists of which 482 are engaged with more than one heterodox organization. And finally, the limited evidence that I have collected indicates that heterodox economists have become more pluralistic with working with different heterodox approaches over the past 15 years (download ). Over the next six weeks the HEN will be published irregularly. I will be on holiday in Pakistan for two weeks, then a week in Bogota, Columbia giving lectures on heterodox microeconomics, and then there is the ICAPE Conference in Utah at the beginning of June. After that HEN will return to its regular schedule of production. Fred Lee In this issue: - Call for Papers - Second International Symposium on Economic Theory, Policy and Applications - ASSA Meetings - 2007 Society for the Development of Austrian Economics Meetings - EAEPE Conference 2007 - LIONEL ROBBINS'S ESSAY ON THE NATURE AND SIGNIFICANCE OF ECONOMIC SCIENCE - IIId International Conference of The Social Capital Foundation - The Institutional and Social Dynamics of Growth and Distribution - The Spirit of Innovation III - Conferences, Seminars and Lectures - The "left-turn" in Latin America: myths and realities - Seminar on Ecological Economics - Global Peace Conference - 4th International Conference Developments in Economic Theory and Policy - CASE-Ukraine International Conference - The Seventh Cambridge Advanced Programme on Rethinking Development Economics - Workshop on "Methodological Problems of the Social Sciences" - The 2007 ABH and CHORD Conference - S?minaire Thornton de PHARE - Realistic Growth Policy for Our Times - D?bat autour du livre L'?CONOMIE INSTITUTIONNELLE - Post Keynesian Economics Study Group - Economics and Identity - Commercial and Political Advocacy - Entrepreneurial Communities - Business Links - The Economic History of the Provision and Financing of Higher Education - International Business, International Organizations, and the Wealth of Nations - Assessing Law and Economics - Orthodoxie ?conomique et d?veloppement en Am?rique latine - 1ERE JOURNEE D'ETUDE - Job Postings for Heterodox Economists - University of Wollongong - York University - Dollars & Sense - Dollars & Sense - City University, London - Auckland University of Technology - University of Massachusetts Amherst - Florida International University - Heterodox Conference Papers and Reports and Articles - Eastern Civilisation and the Breakthrough to Modernity in the West - OPEC in the Epoch of Globalization - Greening U.S. Trade - International Confederation of Associations for Pluralism in Economics - News - ICAPE 2007 Conference - Heterodox Journals and Newsletters - Levy News - Feminist Economics - International Review of Applied Economics - CASE e-Newsletter - Challange - EPS Quarterly - Heterodox Books, Book Series, and Book Reviews - ROUTLEDGE "ADVANCES IN SOCIAL ECONOMICS" SERIES - Asian Studies: Contemporary Issues and Trends - Keynes's General Theory, the Rate of Interest and 'Keynesian' Economics - Globalization and the Myths of Free Trade - The United States Since 1980 - Heterodox Graduate Program and PhD Scholarships - CASE&E Internship Program - European Network on Industrial Policy (EUNIP) - The Seventh Cambridge Advanced Programme on Rethinking Development Economics - Heterodox Associations, Institutes, and Departments - Institutional and Behavioral Economics Section - CASE&E - ASSOCIATION FOR HETERODOX ECONOMICS (AHE) - For Your Information - Tom Palley - Economists for Peace and Security - LE CENTRE D'ETUDES MON?TAIRES ET FINANCI?RES - A New Canadian Progressive Economics Blog - The Freakonomics of Tenure -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Why the US Is Not Leaving Iraq, Ismael Hossein-zadeh They can be accessed either directly from the SHE Working Papers webpage at: http://www2.economics.unsw.edu.au/nps/servlet/portalservice?GI_ID=System.LoggedOutInheritableArea&maxWnd=_Heterodox_WorkingPapers or from the SHE site: http://she.web.unsw.edu.au To submit a paper, please send to: p.kriesler@unsw.edu.au All papers in heterodox economics, broadly defined, will be considered. Peter Kriesler School of Economics University of NSW Sydney NSW 2052 http://economics.web.unsw.edu.au/pkriesler/ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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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 urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu Sat Apr 14 12:46:54 2007 From: urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu (urpe-moderator@lists.econ.utah.edu) Date: Sat Apr 14 12:41:15 2007 Subject: [URPE] [NYC] Brecht Forum: Spring Classes Begin Next Week Message-ID: <4621219E.9050800@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 Sat Apr 14 13:23:09 2007 From: urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu (urpe-moderator@lists.econ.utah.edu) Date: Sat Apr 14 13:17:30 2007 Subject: [URPE] [NYC] Brecht Forum: MAX FRAAD-WOLFF & RICK WOLFF Message-ID: <46212A1D.8070203@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 Sun Apr 15 17:16:24 2007 From: urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu (urpe-moderator@lists.econ.utah.edu) Date: Sun Apr 15 17:10:43 2007 Subject: [URPE] 2007 Left Forum URPE Panel on Iran is now on URPE website in MP3 Message-ID: <4622B248.9090106@lists.econ.utah.edu> "US, IRAN AND ISRAEL: WHAT'S AHEAD?" URPE sponsored a panel at the 2007 Left Forum called "US, Iran and Israel: What's Ahead?". You can now hear mp3 recordings of the four presentations by going to the page on the "Political Economy of the Iran Crisis," found on the URPE website: http://urpe.org/Iran_Crisis.htm Here is a description of the panel: "US, Iran and Israel: What's Ahead?" The media tells us that Iran will soon be able to produce nuclear weapons; in response, the US and Israel have been threatening to attack Iran. Our panelists explore the political and economic forces behind this alarming standoff. Tom talks about the devastating effect of economic sanctions on Iran's economy, especially its deteriorating oil sector, suggesting that Iran's nuclear capability is a political bargaining chip in an effort to end the sanctions. The US would like to see a recovery and expansion of Iran's oil sector, but only under a "friendly" regime. Reza describes Iran's political factions and rivalries, and the ways in which some politicians might benefit politically from a limited confrontation with the US. He talks about how this would hurt Iran, and explores what can be done to improve the political situation. Evan discusses the history of Israeli/Iranian relations, which have run the gamut from extreme hostility to a mutually beneficial military/economic relationship. Speakers: Reza Ghorashi, Richard Stockton College Tom O'Donnell, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Evan Siegel, New Jersey City University Chair and Discussant: Leili Kashani, New York University Bios: Reza Ghorashi has a Ph.D. in economics from Fordham University and teaches at Richard Stockton College of New Jersey. His areas of research and interest are international trade, globalization, and the Middle East, particularly Iran. He has published articles in both English and Farsi on the listed subject matters. Tom O'Donnell (Ph.D. Michigan, nuclear physics) has written and lectured widely on the global oil order, and on U.S., E.U. and Middle-East affairs. (see: http://TomOD.com) He teaches at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor at: the Center for Middle East and North African Studies (CMENAS), the Residential College, and the Michigan STS Program. He lectured on "The Global Oil System and the Middle East" at The University of Algiers in spring 2005, and teaches summers at The New School's Graduate Program in International Affairs (GPIA), in NYC. Dr. O'Donnell is currently writing a book on "The New Globalized Oil Order and the Middle East." He is also Associate Member of the Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics (MCTP). Previously, he spent over 10 years as an industrial worker and organizer-activist in Detroit auto plants and on Chicago railways. Dr. Evan Siegel teaches math at New Jersey City University. He has a substantial record of publication and presentation of scholarly papers on Iranian and Azerbaijani history. Among his works is a study of a Palestinian response to the Iranian revolution and numerous works on the Iranian constitutional period. Leili Kashani is a Ph.D. student in the joint program in History and Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York University. She has been a student council member at The International Society for Iranian Studies, and is a senior editor at Arab Studies Journal. ************************************************* EXPLORE URPE'S WEB PAGE ON THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF THE IRAN CRISIS In addition to hearing this year's Left Forum panel, you can hear talks from 2006, read papers by a number of URPE members, and find lots of links. 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, Evan Siegel 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. If you are an URPE member you can download them free. 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 leefs at umkc.edu Mon Apr 16 07:48:57 2007 From: leefs at umkc.edu (Lee, Frederic) Date: Mon Apr 16 07:41:49 2007 Subject: [URPE] survey of students Message-ID: <9A72753A447165498D6B63479DB2E7C9026CB65A@KC-MSX3.kc.umkc.edu> Survey on Students' Perceptions of Economics An international survey is being undertaken into students' perceptions of economics. It is being conducted by Andrew Mearman (UWE, Bristol) and Tim Wakeley (Griffith University, Australia). The major goal of the survey is to ascertain students' perception of the economics discipline and to identify factors which influence those perceptions. We believe the results may be highly useful in informing strategies in curriculum design aimed at improving recruitment, retention and overall satisfaction with economics. We seek the co-operation of economists in alerting students to this survey and encouraging students to take part. The survey will cover mainly UK, US and Australian students, however it is open to students in other countries. We are interested in the views of any students about to complete or who have recently completed any economics or economics-based (including business and finance) modules. Please encourage any eligible students to complete the survey. All students taking part will have the option to enter a prize draw to win an iPod. The survey is completed online. Students wishing to complete the survey should go to http://www.survey.bris.ac.uk/ltsn/perceptions. We should also like to make a special request to UK heterodox economists who have recently/are currently running modules which have a significant heterodox content, where 'heterodox' might include a pluralist approach and/or specific heterodox approaches. We should like to conduct small focus groups on the effectiveness of heterodox economic concepts in understanding real world issues. Each focus group would comprise around 5 students, all of whom would be paid. The focus groups would take place in the period April-June. If you are interested in recruiting focus groups from your student groups, please contact Andrew Mearman (Andrew.Mearman@uwe.ac.uk). Thanks Andrew From david.brennan at fandm.edu Mon Apr 16 10:10:15 2007 From: david.brennan at fandm.edu (dbrennan) Date: Mon Apr 16 10:14:32 2007 Subject: [URPE] heterodox job posting at F&M Message-ID: One-year visiting The Department of Economics at Franklin and Marshall College invites applications for a one-year visiting position at the Instructor or Assistant Professor level, beginning Fall 2007. Abd or Ph.D.; teaching experience required. Teaching load is 3/2. Candidates are expected to teach introductory and elective courses in Heterodox Economics. Candidates should send a letter of application, curriculum vitae, graduate transcript and three letters of recommendation to Professor Antonio Callari, Chair, Department of Economics, Franklin and Marshall College, P.O. Box 3003, Lancaster, PA 17604-3003. Informal inquiries can be made via e-mail (acallari@fandm.edu). We will begin reading applications on April 30; the search will remain open until the position is filled. Franklin and Marshall College is a highly selective liberal arts college with a demonstrated commitment to cultural pluralism. EOE Thank you, David Brennan -- David M. Brennan Ph.D. Franklin and Marshall College P.O. Box 3003 Lancaster, PA. 17604-3003 (717) 291-3936 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Yates, Monthly Review Editor and Author: Cheap Motels and a Hot Plate: An Economist's Travelogue The road trip is a staple of modern American literature. But nowhere in American literature, until now, has an economist hit the road, observing and interpreting the extraordinary range and spectacle of U.S. life, bringing out its conflicts and contradictions with humor and insight. Disillusioned with academic life after thirty-two years teaching economics, Michael Yates took early retirement in 2001, with a pension account that had doubled during the dot.com frenzy of the late 1990s. He and his wife Karen have traveled around the country since then, often spending months at a time on the road. Michael and Karen spent the summer of 2001 in Yellowstone National Park, where Michael worked as a hotel front-desk clerk. They moved to Manhattan for a year, where he worked for Monthly Review. From there they went to Portland, Oregon, to explore the Pacific Northwest. After five months of travel in Summer and Fall 2004, they settled in Miami Beach. Ahead of the 2005 hurricane season, they went back on the road, settling this time in Colorado. Cheap Motels and a Hot Plate is both an account of their adventures and a penetrating examination of work and inequality, race and class, alienation and environmental degradation in the small towns and big cities of the contemporary United States. MICHAEL D. YATES is associate editor of Monthly Review. He was professor of economics at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown for many years. He is the author of Naming the System: Inequality and Work in the Global Economy and Why Unions Matter. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. From urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu Thu Apr 19 21:19:48 2007 From: urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu (urpe-moderator@lists.econ.utah.edu) Date: Thu Apr 19 21:14:02 2007 Subject: [URPE] How Class Works - 2008 Conference - Call For Papers Message-ID: <46283154.6090902@lists.econ.utah.edu> PLEASE POST AND FORWARD TO ALL INTERESTED HOW CLASS WORKS - 2008 CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS A Conference at SUNY Stony Brook June 5-7, 2008 The Center for Study of Working Class Life is pleased to announce the How Class Works - 2008 Conference, to be held at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, June 5 - 7, 2008. Proposals for papers, presentations, and sessions are welcome until December 17, 2007 according to the guidelines below. For more information, visit our Web site at >. Purpose and orientation: The conference seeks to explore ways in which an explicit recognition of class helps to understand the social world in which we live, and ways in which analysis of society can deepen our understanding of class as a social relationship. Presentations should take as their point of reference the lived experience of class; proposed theoretical contributions should be rooted in and illuminate social realities. Presentations are welcome from people outside academic life when they sum up social experience in a way that contributes to the themes of the conference. Formal papers will be welcome but are not required. All presentations should be accessible to an interdisciplinary audience. Conference themes: The conference welcomes proposals for presentations that advance our understanding of any of the following themes. The mosaic of class, race, and gender. To explore how class shapes racial, gender, and ethnic experience and how different racial, gender, and ethnic experiences within various classes shape the meaning of class. Special focus: the legacy of Theodore W. Allen's work on the invention of the white race and its implications in the new racial and ethnic mix of 21st century U.S. society. Class, power, and social structure. To explore the social content of working, middle, and capitalist classes in terms of various aspects of power; to explore ways in which class and structures of power interact, at the workplace and in the broader society. Class and community. To explore ways in which class operates outside the workplace in the communities where people of various classes live. Class in a global economy. To explore how class identity and class dynamics are influenced by globalization, including experience of cross-border organizing, capitalist class dynamics, international labor standards. Middle class? Working class? What's the difference and why does it matter? To explore the claim that the U.S. is a middle class society and contrast it with the notion that the working class is the majority; to explore the relationships between the middle class and the working class, and between the middle class and the capitalist class. Class, public policy, and electoral politics. To explore how class affects public policy, with special attention to health care, the criminal justice system, labor law, poverty, tax and other economic policy, housing, and education; to explore the place of electoral politics in the arrangement of class forces on policy matters. Special focus: class, health, and health care. Class and culture: To explore ways in which culture transmits and transforms class dynamics. Pedagogy of class. To explore techniques and materials useful for teaching about class, at K-12 levels, in college and university courses, and in labor studies and adult education courses. How to submit proposals for How Class Works - 2008 Conference Proposals for presentations must include the following information: a) title; b) which of the eight conference themes will be addressed; c) a maximum 250 word summary of the main points, methodology, and slice of experience that will be summed up; d) relevant personal information indicating institutional affiliation (if any) and what training or experience the presenter brings to the proposal; e) presenter's name, address, telephone, fax, and e-mail address. A person may present in at most two conference sessions. To allow time for discussion, sessions will be limited to three twenty-minute or four fifteen-minute principal presentations. Sessions will not include official discussants. Proposals for poster sessions are welcome. Presentations may be assigned to a poster session. Proposals for sessions are welcome. A single session proposal must include proposal information for all presentations expected to be part of it, as detailed above, with some indication of willingness to participate from each proposed session member. Submit proposals as hard copy by mail to the How Class Works - 2008 Conference, Center for Study of Working Class Life, Department of Economics, SUNY, Stony Brook, NY 11794-4384 or as an e-mail attachment to . Timetable: Proposals must be received by December 17, 2007. Notifications will be mailed on January 16, 2008. The conference will be at SUNY Stony Brook June 5- 7, 2008. Conference registration and housing reservations will be possible after February 15, 2008. Details and updates will be posted at http://www.workingclass.sunysb.edu . 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Cordero, Mt. Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts Gerald Epstein, Department of Economics and Political Economy Research Institute, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Roberto Frenkel, Center for Studies on State & Society (CEDES), Beunos Aires, Argentina Luis Miguel Galindo, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico James Heintz, Political Economy Research Institute, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Joseph Lim, Ateneo de Manila University, Manila, Philippines Robert Pollin, Department of Economics and Political Economy Research Institute, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Martin Rapetti, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Jaime Ros, University of Notre Dame, Indiana Ebru Voyvoda, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey Erinc Yeldan, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey Andong Zhu, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China For more information, including details on a panel discussion on May 17, please click here to go to the conference website. 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To view the conference program and register for it, go to: http://www.wpunj.edu/globalizationconference/ Prof. Sheila Collins Director, M.A. in Public Policy and International Affairs Department of Political Science William Paterson University 300 Pompton Rd. Wayne, NJ 07470 collinss@wpunj.edu (973) 720-3424 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 1607 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/urpe-announcements/attachments/20070420/a51c9436/attachment.txt From leefs at umkc.edu Fri Apr 20 13:06:23 2007 From: leefs at umkc.edu (Lee, Frederic) Date: Sun Apr 22 08:55:28 2007 Subject: [URPE] JOB OPENING Message-ID: <9A72753A447165498D6B63479DB2E7C9027EC82A@KC-MSX3.kc.umkc.edu> The University of Wisconson-La Crosse is seeking an Adjunct Lecturer or Lecturer starting August 2007-2008 mainly to teach the principles courses. 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(Principal investigator: Dr. Radhika Balakrishnan, Marymount Manhattan College) ? see description of project, below Requirements: graduate student familiar heterodox macro economics and trade theory, able to work with secondary data and some familiarity with economic and social rights. No primary data research necessary ? but must be able to find secondary data and be able to put them into charts etc. The focus will be on the United States. Project aims and objectives The purpose of this project is threefold: To pilot a process of analysis, development of policy recommendations, and capacity building that promotes the realization of economic and social rights at the country level, with particular attention to the ending of disadvantage associated with gender, class, race and ethnicity. To foster and develop synergies between human rights and progressive political economy approaches. To develop the capacities of civil society and government organizations to draw upon both human rights norms, standards, obligations and procedures and the analytical and policy development tools of progressive political economy and enhance citizen?s capacities to evaluate and monitor governmental action. l This project will take up these issues in relation to two countries whose economic and social policies are intrinsically intertwined, Mexico and the United States. The project will look at the relevant international human rights standards; the provisions of the constitutions and laws of the two countries in terms of the economic, social and cultural rights that they confer; and the actual enjoyment of economic, social, and cultural rights in these countries. The project will pay particular attention to gender, class, race and ethnicity. ########################################### This message is intended for the sole use of the addressee, and may contain information that is privileged, confidential and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the addressee you are hereby notified that you may not use, copy, disclose, or distribute to anyone the message or any information contained in the message. If you have received this message in error, please immediately advise the sender by reply email and delete this message. From armon.rezai at gmail.com Tue Apr 24 11:59:03 2007 From: armon.rezai at gmail.com (Armon Rezai) Date: Tue Apr 24 12:37:27 2007 Subject: [URPE] THIS FRIDAY: Crossing the Borders of Economics with V. CHIBBER, C. LOMNITZ, W. MILBERG, S. REDDY, S. RUPARELIA, and A. 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We are particularly interested in the fields of macroeconomics, development, econometrics, and applied microeconomics, but are open to any field. The chosen candidate may be asked to teach at all levels of the undergraduate curriculum (large introductory lectures, intermediate theory, methods, and field courses, and advanced seminars on special topics). Applicants may send a paper application or apply on line. Apply online at www.uvmjobs.com. Search for the position using the department name (Economics) only. Attach a letter of application, curriculum vitae, and send a hardcopy of evidence of teaching effectiveness and three letters of recommendation to Chair, Department of Economics, University of Vermont, 239 Old Mill, 94 University Place, Burlington, VT 05405. For paper applications, send a letter of application, curriculum vitae, evidence of teaching effectiveness, and three letters of recommendation to the above address. For more information see www.uvm.edu/~econ. 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The New York Union Semester provides students with the opportunity to intern at a labor union or community organization in New York City while taking Labor Studies courses at the City University of New York (CUNY) for a semester. The program is open to all undergraduates, recent graduates and graduate students in all majors. In addition to a $1700 scholarship and a weekly $210 stipend, all participants receive 16 undergraduate credits or 12 graduate credits for their work and a Labor Studies Certificate. Internships include a wide range of activities at a diverse group of unions and community organizations. New York Union Semester is an excellent career opportunity for young people interested in working for social and economic justice. For more information and an application go to www.unionsemester.org , e-mail the Program Coordinator, Amanda Plumb, at info@unionsemester.org , or call 212-642-2075. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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(The Star interview) The Graduate Program in International Affairs and the Socio Economic Development Concentration present A CONVERSATION WITH JOMO Wednesday, May 2 6 ? 8 pm 80 Fifth Avenue, 8th floor, Room 802 The GPIA and SED concentration are proud to bring the renowned development economist Jomo Kwame Sundaram (Jomo KS) to the New School for a conversation with students and faculty. Jomo is a prominent advocate of unorthodox approaches to development economics. We asked him to speak about what graduate students should be studying in development. You are invited to to participate in this vital, yet informal, dialogue with a major voice from the global South. Jomo K. S. has been Assistant Secretary General for Economic Development in the United Nations' Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) since January 2005. He was Professor in the Applied Economics Department, Faculty of Economics and Administration, University of Malaya until November 2004, and was on the Board of the United Nations Research Institute on Social Development (UNRISD), Geneva (2002-4). He is Founder and Chair of IDEAs, International Development Economics Associates (www.ideaswebsite.org), a South based network for heterodox research on development. He has authored over 35 monographs, edited over 50 books and translated 11 volumes besides writing many academic papers and articles for the media. He is on the editorial boards of several learned journals. Jomo?s extensive writings have covered industrial policy, privatization, rent-seeking, cronyism, financial liberalization, macroeconomic policy impacts, economic distribution, ethnic relations, Islam and Malaysian history. Please RSVP to ashwim13@newschool.edu From msw22 at columbia.edu Tue May 1 07:04:03 2007 From: msw22 at columbia.edu (Matthew S Winters) Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 09:04:03 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [URPE] Poverty in New York - Columbia University Seminar - 7 May Message-ID: The Columbia University Seminar on Full Employment, Social Welfare and Equity (#613) DATE: Monday 7 May - 7:15 p.m. - Faculty House (Optional buffet dinner at 6:00 p.m. at Faculty House) SPEAKERS: Mark Levitan, The Community Service Society, and Susan Wieler, Federal Reserve Bank of New York TOPIC: Poverty in New York City, 1969-1999: Is Demography Destiny? New York City's poverty rate rose dramatically during the 1970s, when?the city seemed to be in an irreversible decline.? Yet despite an impressive rebound in the 1980s and 1990s, its poverty rate remained persistently high.? In fact, it was substantially higher in 1999 than three decades earlier. Why?? In their presentation, Mark Levitan and Susan Wieler will explore the roles of demographic change and the dramatic rise in income inequality?on the increase in and persistence of poverty in New York as well as the policy implications for the city and the nation. Mark Levitan, whose Ph.D. in Economics?is?from the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research,?is a?Senior Policy Analyst at the Community Service Society (CSS). He has authored?numerous reports including Out of School, Out of Work... Out of Luck? New York City's Disconnected Youth; A Crisis of Black Male Employment: Unemployment and Joblessness in New York City; Mothers' Work: Single Mothers' Employment, Earnings and Poverty in the Age of Welfare Reform; and More Work, More School, More Poverty? The Changing Face of Poor Families in New York City.? Dr. Levitan?who is on the advisory boards?of?the Fiscal Policy Institute and the Center for an Urban Future, chaired the Working Group on New York City's Low-Wage Labor Market--which issued a major report entitled Building a Ladder to Jobs and Higher Wages--and is on?the adjunct faculty af Cornell's New York State?School of Industrial and Labor Relations. ?He has also worked for the?Labor Resource Center of Queens College and the?New York State Department of Economic Development. Susan Wieler is an economist with the Office of Regional and Community Affairs at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. ?Her recent research has focused on immigration, poverty and workforce development. Prior to joining the Bank,?Dr. Wieler?was a senior research associate at the Institute on Education and the Economy at Columbia University and held a research position at New York University's Urban Research Center. Her work has appeared in Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Eastern Economic Journal, Challenge, The Wilson Quarterly and The Washington Monthly, among others.? She holds a Ph.D. in economics from New York University, a master's degree in educational psychology from Rutgers University, and a bachelor's in philosophy from Colgate University. A copy of the paper is available upon request. Please RSVP to Matt Winters (msw22 at columbia.edu) by Thursday 3 May. 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 7 May ____ I will ____ I will not join the group for dinner -------------- The seminar on Full Employment is chaired by Helen Lachs Ginsburg, helenginsburg at yahoo.com, Trudy Goldberg, trudygoldberg at msn.com and Sheila Collins, sheila.collins3 at verizon.net. From urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu Tue May 1 20:24:45 2007 From: urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu (urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu) Date: Tue, 01 May 2007 22:24:45 -0400 Subject: [URPE] Call for Sessions at First US Social Forum Atlanta 6/27-7/1 Message-ID: <4637F66D.4040504@lists.econ.utah.edu> Hi, URPERs-- I wanted to make sure you know about the first-ever upcomging US Social Forum in Atlanta this June 27-July 1. This is a great networking opportunity, and a great place for URPERs to put out our knowledge about the real workings of the economy. The deadline for session proposals is May 11, a week from Friday; they don't have to be fully finalized by then, but the general idea must be submitted. I'm part of a group organizing a bloc of sessions and caucus meetings around the topic of "Economic Alternatives and the Social/Solidarity Economy" (see below). If your session fits the "Economic Alternatives" rubric, and you want us to list it in our publicity, or you want to attend the Caucus, please let me know. In solidarity, Julie Matthaei URPER, Wellesley College, and Guramylay: Growing the Green Economy ----------------------- Please join us at the U.S. Social Forum to build the movement for the Social/Solidarity Economy ~ June 27-30, 2007 Atlanta, GA ~ The first [ http://www.ussf2007.org/ ]U.S. Social Forum (ussf2007.org) will be held in Atlanta and will bring together twenty thousand activists, organizers, educators, and other fellow travelers who are united in their opposition to the current, dominant model of globalization from above (neoliberalism) and in their belief that 'another world is possible.' ~ In the spirit of building that 'other world,' we would like to invite you to join us at the US Social Forum to explore Economic Alternatives & the Social/Solidarity Economy (SSE). Various terms have been used to characterize current economic alternatives in the U.S., such as cooperative economy, green, high road, local, social economy, socially responsible, and solidarity economy. ~While our planned activities at the US Social Forum embrace all of these, we have chosen to call them "Economic Alternatives & the Social/Solidarity Economy (SSE)" both for simplicity and because the latter terms are widely used in the rest of the world. ~ We understand the Social Economy and the Solidarity Economy as having different definitions in different circles, regions, and countries. The Social Economy, as generally defined in the European Union and Canada, refers to enterprises that have social aims at the core of their mission - for example, cooperatives, mutuals, associations and foundations. The Solidarity Economy is generally much broader and constitutes an alternative economic model to neoliberal capitalism, one which is grounded on solidarity and cooperation, rather than the pursuit of narrow, individual self-interest, and that promotes economic democracy, alternative models of local economic governance, equity and sustainability rather than the unfettered rule of the market. ~ Here's what we're proposing: ~ June 27, 9:00-2:00 (Opening event is tentatively scheduled to start at 3:00)~ Social/Solidarity Economy Caucus  This is an opportunity to meet other folks who are working to build the Social/Solidarity Economy; and move towards a common base of knowledge, analysis, language & definitions. In the interest of being able to stay focused and make headway in our discussions, we decided that this caucus would be by invite only. Please contact Julie Matthaei ([ mailto:jmatthaei at wellesley.edu ]jmatthaei at wellesley.edu) if you are interested in participating in this caucus. ~ June 28-30: (workshops/activities days at the U.S. Social Forum) Workshops/activities  We are organizing a strong bloc of workshops/activities on Economic Alternatives & the Social/Solidarity Economy for these three days. We are putting together workshop/activities on key aspects of the SSE. In addition, we encourage you to independently submit workshop/activity proposals that would fit under the Economic Alternatives/SSE umbrella. We will identify and publicize our bloc so that we can attend each others workshops, as well as raising its~visibility to~the general public. The US Social Forum strongly encourages cross-organizational workshops and we can help to coordinate such collaborations. ~ June 30, afternoon or evening: SSE Caucus: Organizations participating in the caucus will reconvene in the afternoon or evening of the last day of workshops to discuss Strategies & Next Steps~so that we come away with concrete strategies and actions to support one another and work together to grow the SSE. ~ We hope that you will join us in building a movement for 'another world.' Please let us know if you are interested in attending the SSE caucus, organizing a SSE workshop/activity, or otherwise getting involved by emailing one of us. We have set up a listserve to stay in touch by email, as well as an electronic library so that we can share documents about the SSE. This is a work in progress, and we welcome your input and participation. ~ Emily Kawano, Center for Popular Economics, [ mailto:emily at populareconomics.org ]emily at populareconomics.org Dan Swinney, Center for Labor and Community Research, [ mailto:dswinney at clcr.org ]dswinney at clcr.org Melissa Hoover, U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives, info at usworker.coop Julie Matthaei, Wellesley College, [ mailto:jmatthaei at wellesley.edu ]jmatthaei at wellesley.edu Ethan Miller, Grassroots Economic Organizing, [ mailto:ethanmiller at riseup.net ]ethanmiller at riseup.net Gianpaolo Baiocchi, Univ. of Massachusetts~ Jessica Gordon-Nembhard, Democracy Collaborative Gar Alperovitz, Democracy Collaborative ~ ~ From P.Kriesler at unsw.edu.au Wed May 2 17:50:26 2007 From: P.Kriesler at unsw.edu.au (Peter Kriesler) Date: Thu, 3 May 2007 09:50:26 +1000 Subject: [URPE] CofFEE-SHE Winter School and Postgraduate workshop Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, The Centre of Full Employment and Equity (University of Newcastle) and the Society of Heterodox Economists (UNSW) are pleased to announce the First Annual Winter School and Postgraduate Workshop for heterodox scholars to be held on Wednesday, July 4 to Friday, July 6, 2007 (which is the common week for Australian Universities). This year's event will be in Sydney at the UNSW campus. Places are limited so early birds will benefit. Full details are available directly from: http://www2.economics.unsw.edu.au/nps/servlet/portalservice?GI_ID=System.LoggedOutInheritableArea&maxWnd=_CofFEE_SHEHeterodoxWinterSchoolandPGWorkshop or from either the CofFEE website:http://e1.newcastle.edu.au/coffee/ or the SHE website: http://she.web.unsw.edu.au Peter Kriesler School of Economics University of NSW Sydney NSW 2052 http://economics.web.unsw.edu.au/pkriesler/ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Applicants may send a paper application or apply on line. Apply online at www.uvmjobs.com. Search for the position using the department name (Economics) only. Attach a letter of application, curriculum vitae, and send a hardcopy of evidence of teaching effectiveness and three letters of recommendation to Chair, Department of Economics, University of Vermont, 239 Old Mill, 94 University Place, Burlington, VT 05405. For paper applications, send a letter of application, curriculum vitae, evidence of teaching effectiveness, and three letters of recommendation to the above address. For more information see www.uvm.edu/~econ. The Department is committed to increasing faculty diversity, and welcomes applications from women and underrepresented ethnic, racial and cultural groups, and from people with disabilities. An equal opportunity-affirmative action employer. ********************************* Stephanie Seguino Professor 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 at uvm.edu -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 5283 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/urpe-announcements/attachments/20070506/43a8b70e/attachment.txt From P.Kriesler at unsw.edu.au Sun May 6 19:53:43 2007 From: P.Kriesler at unsw.edu.au (Peter Kriesler) Date: Mon, 7 May 2007 11:53:43 +1000 Subject: [URPE] SHE Working papers Message-ID: The following Society of Heterodox Economists Working papers are now available on-line: Power, Profits and the Planet ?Fossil Fuel Corporations Putting Profits before planet - Promoting Burning as Usual! Ian McGregor Trade Liberalisation and Production Structure: Intermediate Import Patterns in Turkey, Umit Senesen and Gulay Gunluk-Senesen Escalating U.S. Military Spending: Income Redistribution in Disguise: How Escalation Of War and Military Spending Are Used as Disguised or Roundabout Ways to Reverse the New Deal and Redistribute National Resources in Favor of the Wealthy, Ismael Hossein-Zadeh They can be accessed either directly from the SHE Working Papers webpage at: http://www2.economics.unsw.edu.au/nps/servlet/portalservice?GI_ID=System.LoggedOutInheritableArea&maxWnd=_Heterodox_WorkingPapers or from the SHE homepage: http://she.web.unsw.edu.au To submit a paper, please send to: p.kriesler at unsw.edu.au All papers in heterodox economics, broadly defined, will be considered. Peter Kriesler School of Economics University of NSW Sydney NSW 2052 http://economics.web.unsw.edu.au/pkriesler/ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Please send curriculum vitae, graduate transcripts, three letters of recommendation, a short sample of your writing, a statement of teaching philosophy, and teaching evaluation summaries (if available). Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled. CONTACT: Prof. Charles Weise, Chair, Department of Economics, Gettysburg College, Box 391, Gettysburg PA 17325. Electronic submissions preferred. E-mail: Susan Holz at sholz at gettysburg.edu. Gettysburg College is a highly selective liberal arts college located within 90 minutes of the Baltimore/Washington metropolitan area. It is consistently ranked in the top 50 liberal arts colleges in the nation. Established in 1832, the College has a rich history and is situated on a 220-acre campus with an enrollment of over 2,600 students. Gettysburg College celebrates diversity and welcomes applications from members of any group that has been historically underrepresented in the American academy. 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The bad news is that the deadline for these proposals is May 11th-- this coming Friday. If you are interested in doing a session in Atlanta this summer, please contact Frances Boyes at the URPE national office-- 413.577.0806 urpe at labornet.org urpe at igc.org -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 1009 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/urpe-announcements/attachments/20070507/022263be/attachment.txt From fboyes at lrrc.umass.edu Mon May 7 15:06:58 2007 From: fboyes at lrrc.umass.edu (FRANCES BOYES) Date: Mon, 7 May 2007 17:06:58 -0400 Subject: [URPE] USSF volunteers needed Message-ID: <00f501c790eb$a7515cb0$4001a8c0@D6FT9241> URPE will be participating in the first United States Social Forum in Atlanta this summer. We are asking for URPE members who will be attending to help out with our informational tabling. 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The last time an appeal of this nature was sent on the URPE Listserv, a number of people in URPE, including some who come from countries the US has invaded or threatened to invade, expressed the strong feeling that while it is important to contact the government in question (Bengladesh), it is very dangerous to ask the US State Department to get involved in another country. ******************************************** Dear Colleagues, I received the following appeal from a highly valued colleague of mine at UMass Boston. I pass this on in the hopes that some of you will be able to respond to his request and perhaps pass this on to your networks. Thanks very much, Randy Albelda ---- I'm writing with an unusual request -- if you can help to free my father, Dr. M. K. Alamgir, who's been imprisoned in Bangladesh, without bail, since February 4, on politically-motivated charges. The military-backed government in Bangladesh has filed a series of farcical cases against him, and is persecuting him essentially to silence him, as he is a vocal pro-democracy politician. As you know, he was jailed and tortured back in 2002, in a similar pattern. A worldwide movement helped secure his release later that year. Our legal recourse is minimal, as the government has suspended all fundamental rights, extended its authority to arrest without showing any cause, set up special tribunals outside regular legal confines, and severely restricted due process, including the right to bail, and even the right to appeal against its summary verdicts. At this point, our hope rests on international pressure on the government. I'd really appreciate if you can use your international network of academics to spread the word as far and wide as possible, so that we can obtain messages of support from as many as we can. We have a site http://www.mkalamgir.com/ with all details. The fastest way to voice concern would be to use the "Send A Message" feature on the site, where one can put in name, etc., and a message will be sent on his/her behalf to the Bangladeshi government. Also, they may write to their respective governments. We want the Bangladeshi government to know that many people around the world care about human rights abuses, even in a distant land like Bangladesh. I'd really appreciate if you can take a few minutes to spread the word toward helping to end this injustice. With much, much appreciation, Jalal Alamgir -- Randy Albelda Professor of Economics University of Massachusetts Boston Boston, MA 02125 617-287-6963 randy.albelda at umb.edu From mzweig at notes.cc.sunysb.edu Tue May 8 13:10:36 2007 From: mzweig at notes.cc.sunysb.edu (mzweig at notes.cc.sunysb.edu) Date: Tue, 8 May 2007 15:10:36 -0400 Subject: [URPE] Liberation Theology - Religion and Economic Justice Message-ID: Friends and Colleagues PLEASE POST AND FORWARD Yesterday's New York Times carried a front-page article on the continuing significance of Liberation Theology as a guide to practice among tens of millions of Catholics in Brazil. NPR's Morning Edition today broadcast a story by Julie McCarthy featuring interviews with liberation theologian Leonardo Boff and current Catholic priests among those leading over a million "base communities" there. The same class divisions that plague our economic life also percolate through the rest of life, in the United States and around the world. While right- wing politics have come to dominate much of the religious leadeRship in many faiths, progressive thinking and activity continue at the base in the U.S. and abroad. It has been too easy to lose sight of these progressive currents and the important challenges they pose to the religious right. I would like to call to your attention a book of essays I edited a few years ago, Religion and Economic Justice. Debates about religious ethics and the meaning of moral political behavior promise to intensify in coming months and years. I hope that you will find this book a useful and still-timely resource. Michael Zweig Director, Center for Study of Working Class Life RELIGION AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE Temple University Press ISBN 1-56639-003-6 CONTENTS Terms for a Dialogue Michael Zweig, Economics and Liberation Theology Religious Perspectives on Economic Justice Norman K. Gottwald, Values and Economic Structures Gregory Baum, An Ethical Critique of Capitalism: Contributions of Modern Catholic Social Teaching Pamela K. Brubaker, Economic Justice for Whom? Women Enter the Dialogue Michael Lerner, Jewish Liberation Theology and Emancipatory Politics Structures of Modern Capitalism Ann Seidman, Man-Made Starvation in Africa Amata Miller, IHM, Global Economic Structures: Their Human Implications Michael Zweig, Class and Poverty in the U.S. Economy Political Implications Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, The Economy Produces People: An Introduction to Post-Liberal Democracy Frances Moore Lappe and J. Baird Callicott, Individual and Community in Society and Nature "A superb book, containing some of the best work of highly distinguished figures in economics, religious ethics, and biblical studies.... There is no doubt, this book is timely, diverse yet coherent, excellent, and engaging." ?Cornel West "This collection of essays seeks to effect a junction between religiously based and Marxist critiques of the present economy and represents usefully a significant strand of critical thought." ?Kenneth J. Arrow, Joan Kenney Professor of Economics, Stanford University and Nobel Laureate in Economics "The essays are all substantive, from prominent writers.... What is best about the book is its focus on new developments between theology and economic life and its fresh thoughts on the changes in theory and policy that we need." ?Beverly Harrison, Union Theological Seminary -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Unfortunately, the President's budget for 2008 eliminates funding for the SIPP yet again, and allocates a meager $15.9 million to further develop the Dynamics of Economic Well Being (DEWS), a new survey the Bureau is developing to replace the SIPP. While we applaud the Bureau's effort to develop a more accurate and accessible survey, we believe it would be a great mistake to eliminate the SIPP, our government's only reliable source of longitudinal data on household well-being, before the DEWS has been tested and proven its superiority. In response, we have drafted a letter to the House and Senate appropriations subcommittee that works on Census Bureau funding. They saved the SIPP once -- and with your help -- they will do it again. If you are a social science researcher, we ask you to sign the letter at http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/organizationsORG/cepr/petition.jsp?petition_KEY=574&t=ceprdata.dwt, and please share this message with your colleagues. 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Both conferences will be very = interesting and the papers being presented look to be very, very good. I = encourage people to attend the conferences just to hear the papers and = to engage in stimulating conversations. There are a number of new job = postings for heterodox economists as well as links to interesting = papers-check out the Society of Heterodox Economists working papers = series. You might even want to submit a paper to the series. In = addition, there are a number of PhD scholarships being advertised-so if = you have any potential students that would like to go to graduate school = please tell them about the scholarships. Under Heterodox Economics = Archives Materials there are links to a brief history of the Post = Keynesian Economics Study Group and a complete run of its Newsletter. = Finally the Association for Social Economics has established the Warren = Samuels Prize awarded to a paper being presented at the ASSA meetings. = In addition, there is the ASE Williams Waters Research Grant for faculty = members below the rank of associate professor and for graduate students. = Information about the prize and the grant is found in the FYI section. = The ASE has one other program that is designed to build its = membership-that is offering a one-year free membership which includes a = free subscription to the Review of Social Economy. To obtain the free = membership you need to contact an ASE member whom you know and talk to = her/him about your interest in social economics. Fred Lee In this issue: =20 Call for Papers =20 =20 - How Class Works- 2008 - Macroeconomic Issues in South Eastern Europe - An Exchange Views on Labour: Histories and Theories - First Annual Winter School and Postgraduate Workshop - Seventy years of The Black Jacobins - Finance-led capitalism? Macroeconomic effects of changes in the = financial sector - JSPE 55th Annual Conference- 2007 =20 Conferences, Seminars and Lectures = =20 =20 - Economic Pluralism for the 21st Century - Association for Heterodox Economics Conference - SCEME Workshop Reminder - Inflation Targeting, Employment Creation, & Economic Development: A = Panel Discussion and Workshop - The Determinants of Investment in R&D: International and UK Evidence - The movement for the Social/Solidarity Economy=20 - UK Social Network Conference - Developments in Economic Theory and Policy - History of Science' Workshop - Post Keynesian Economics Study Group - Social Policy, Economic Development and Income Inequality - Progressive Economic Forum at the CEA 2007 =20 Job Postings for Heterodox Economists = =20 =20 - Athabasca University - Radboud University Nijmegen - University of Vermont=20 - St. Francis Xavier University - Gettysburg College =20 Heterodox Conference Papers and Reports and Articles = =20 =20 - Society of Heterodox Economists Papers - "US, IRAN AND ISRAEL: WHAT'S AHEAD?" - Relevance of 'Policy Space' for Development: Implications for = Multilateral Trade Negotiations - No Fast Track to Global Poverty Reduction - Toward a Synthesis in Post-Keynesian Economics in Luigi Pasinetti's = Contribution =20 Heterodox Journals and Newsletters = =20 =20 - Oeconomicus - International Review of Applied Economics - International Journal of Political Economy - Levy News - Journal of Post Keynesian Economics - Historical Materialism: Research in Critical Marxist Theory - Financialism - Associative Economics Bulletin - PERI in Focus Spring 2007 - International Journal of Green Economics - Feminist Economics - Revista de Econom=EDa Institucional =20 Heterodox Books, Book Series, and Book Reviews = =20 =20 - Global Finance in the New Century: Beyond Deregulation - Macroeconomics in Context - Routledge Economics as Social Theory Series - John Maynard Keynes and International Relations: Economic Paths to War = and Peace - A large and liberal education": higher education for the 21st century - Money, Distribution and Economic Policy - Alternatives to Orthodox = Macroeconomics - Exploring Marx's Capital - Religion and Economic Justice =20 Heterodox Graduate Program and PhD Scholarships =20 - The Institute for Social Change - Macroeconomic Problems of Environmental Sustainability: A Suitable = Case for Modelling? =20 Heterodox Economics Archive Materials = =20 =20 - Documents in the History of Heterodox Economics =20 Heterodox Websites = =20 =20 - Forschungsnetzwerk Makropolitik/ Research Network Macroeconomic = Policies =20 For Your Information = =20 =20 - Korea-US Free Trade Agreement - The 13th Global Development Course - The New York Union Semester Program - Warren Samuels Prize - William R. 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Heterodox Economics = Newsletter

Issue 43: May 11, 2007

From the Editor

The issue of the Newsletter is full = of interesting things. There are a number of new calls for papers and a = whole host of conferences and seminars to attend. I would like to call your = attention specifically to the ICAPE Conference – Economics Pluralism for the = 21st Century and to the AHE Conference – Pluralism in Action. Both conferences will be very interesting and the = papers being presented look to be very, very good. I encourage people to attend = the conferences just to hear the papers and to engage in stimulating = conversations. There are a number of new job postings for heterodox economists as well = as links to interesting papers—check out the Society of Heterodox = Economists working papers series. You might even want to submit a paper to the = series. In addition, there are a number of PhD scholarships being = advertised—so if you have any potential students that would like to go to graduate school = please tell them about the scholarships. Under Heterodox Economics Archives = Materials there are links to a brief history of the Post Keynesian Economics Study = Group and a complete run of its Newsletter. Finally the Association for Social Economics has established the Warren = Samuels Prize awarded to a paper being presented at the ASSA = meetings. In addition, there is the ASE Williams = Waters Research Grant for faculty members below the rank of = associate professor and for graduate students. Information about the prize and the = grant is found in the FYI section. The ASE has one other program that is = designed to build its membership—that is offering a one-year free membership = which includes a free subscription to the Review of Social Economy. To obtain the free membership you need to = contact an ASE member whom you know and talk to her/him about your interest in = social economics.

Fred Lee

In this issue:

 

Call for = Papers

 

- = How Class Works- 2008
- Macroeconomic Issues in South Eastern = Europe
- An Exchange Views on Labour: Histories and Theories
- First Annual Winter School and = Postgraduate Workshop
- Seventy years of The Black Jacobins
- Finance-led capitalism? Macroeconomic effects of changes in the = financial sector
- JSPE 55th Annual Conference- 2007

 

Conferences, Seminars and Lectures

 

- = Economic Pluralism for the 21st Century
- Association for Heterodox Economics Conference
- SCEME Workshop Reminder
- Inflation Targeting, Employment Creation, & Economic = Development: A Panel Discussion and Workshop
- The Determinants of Investment in R&D: International and = UK Evidence
- The movement for the Social/Solidarity Economy
- UK Social Network Conference
- Developments in Economic Theory and Policy
- History of Science' Workshop
- Post Keynesian Economics Study Group
- Social Policy, Economic Development and Income Inequality
- Progressive Economic Forum at the CEA = 2007

 

Job Postings for Heterodox = Economists

 

- = Athabasca = University
- Radboud University Nijmegen
- University of Vermont
- St. = Francis Xavier University
- Gettysburg College<= /p>

 

Heterodox Conference = Papers and Reports and Articles

 

- = Society of Heterodox Economists Papers
- "US, IRAN = AND ISRAEL: WHAT'S AHEAD?"
- Relevance of ‘Policy Space’ for Development: = Implications for Multilateral Trade Negotiations
- No Fast Track to Global Poverty Reduction
- Toward a Synthesis in Post-Keynesian Economics in Luigi = Pasinetti’s Contribution

 

Heterodox Journals and Newsletters

 

- Oeconomicus
- International Review of Applied Economics
- International Journal of Political Economy
- Levy News
- Journal of Post Keynesian Economics
- Historical Materialism: Research in Critical Marxist Theory
- Financialism - Associative Economics Bulletin
- PERI in Focus Spring 2007
- International Journal of Green Economics
- Feminist Economics
- Revista de Econom=EDa Institucional

 

Heterodox Books, Book = Series, and Book Reviews

 

- = Global Finance in the New Century: Beyond Deregulation
- Macroeconomics in Context
- Routledge Economics as Social Theory Series
- John Maynard Keynes and International Relations: Economic Paths to = War and Peace
- A large and liberal education”: higher education for the 21st = century
- Money, Distribution and Economic Policy - Alternatives to Orthodox Macroeconomics
- Exploring Marx's Capital
- Religion and Economic Justice

 

Heterodox = Graduate Program and PhD Scholarships

 

- = The Institute for Social Change
- Macroeconomic Problems of Environmental Sustainability: A Suitable = Case for Modelling?

 

Heterodox Economics = Archive Materials

 

- = Documents in the History of Heterodox Economics

 

Heterodox = Websites

 

- Forschungsnetzwerk Makropolitik/ Research Network Macroeconomic = Policies

 

For Your = Information

 

- = Korea-US Free Trade = Agreement
- The 13th Global Development Course
- The New = York Union Semester Program
- Warren Samuels Prize
- William R. Waters Research Grant

 

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If you are aware of a recent Ph.D. or ABD that would be interested in this position, we would appreciate it if you would share the above announcement with them. Thank you very much. Dr. Laddie Sula Professor of Economics Chair, Division of Social and Cultural Studies 563-588-7507 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 3851 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/urpe-announcements/attachments/20070511/a7638aee/attachment.txt -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Conference program: http://www.icape.org/conference-program.htm Index of presenters: http://www.icape.org/index-presenters.htm Registration form: http://www.icape.org/conf2007.htm Special thanks and recognition is owed to the following institutions and individuals, whose generous contributions have made it possible for ICAPE to offer financial aid to persons who otherwise would not have been able to attend the conference. University of Utah, Department of Economics George Mason University, Politics, Philosophy, and Economics Program American University, Department of Economics California State University, San Bernadino, Department of Economics University of Missouri at Kansas City, Department of Economics University of Notre Dame, Department of Economics Texas Christian University, Department of Economics Dickinson College, Department of Economics Denison University, Department of Economics Roosevelt University, Department of Economics Franklin and Marshall College, Department of Economics Lewis and Clark College, Department of Economics Marquette University, Department of Economics Rollins College, Department of Economics University of Minnesota at Morris, Department of Economics Association for Evolutionary Economics Association for Social Economics Center for Full Employment and Price Stability (University of Missouri, Kansas City) Association for Institutionalist Thought Political Economy Research Institute (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis (New School University) John B. Davis (Marquette University and University of Amsterdam) James K. Galbraith (University of Texas, Austin) Frederic Lee (University of Missouri, Kansas City) Dan Nuckols (Austin College) Charles M. Reilly (Economics Chapter, System Dynamics Society) From thomaspalley at starpower.net Tue May 15 09:49:50 2007 From: thomaspalley at starpower.net (Thomas Palley) Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 11:49:50 -0400 Subject: [URPE] Policy Brief: Globalization Lovk-in Message-ID: Dear URPE Friends & Colleagues, This week's policy brief is titled "Globalization Lock-in: What Should Be Done?" It is posted on my website at www.thomaspalley.com Please share it with others who may be interested in this subject. Sincerely, Tom Palley Thomas Palley Founder Economics for Democratic & Open Societies Project Tel: 202-249-2317 e-mail: mail at thomaspalley.com www.thomaspalley.com From urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu Sun May 20 16:17:16 2007 From: urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu (urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu) Date: Sun, 20 May 2007 18:17:16 -0400 Subject: [URPE] Call for papers and participation References: <1779352-2200412228153442687@COMP2> <41DB4D52.7020405@comcast.net> Message-ID: <4650C8EC.3070801@lists.econ.utah.edu> Dear colleague, This is to inform you that the IIId International Conference of The Social Capital Foundation will be held on November 15-19, 2007, in Hawaii. We invite you to submit papers for this conference; participation as a discussant or attendant is also encouraged. Please have a look at the conference page of our site, where you will find details of the submission and registration conditions: http://www.socialcapital-foundation.org/conferences/2007/TSCF%20International%20Conference%202007.htm The deadline is very close to the conference date in order to allow a maximal number of participants to be involved. Please note that we expect abstracts (no full papers) to be submitted. However, participants are advised not to wait until the deadline to submit, the fee being staggered. May we suggest you to inform those members of your networks who could be interested in the conference. We are looking forward to having news from you and to working closely with you for the success of this event. With best wishes, Jessika L. 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Best regards, Wilfred Dolfsma ________________ Dr. Wilfred Dolfsma Utrecht School of Economics Maastricht University (UNU-MERIT) Corresponding editor, Review of Social Economy Janskerkhof 12, 3512 BL Utrecht, NL ph. (0031) 030 253 7814 fax (0031) 030 253 7373 w.dolfsma at econ.uu.nl http://www2.econ.uu.nl/users/w.dolfsma/ ___________________________________________________ The Association for Social Economics (ASE), one of the founding member organizations of the Allied Social Science Associations, together with the Review of Social Economy, would like to invite submissions for the WARREN SAMUELS PRIZE This prize is awarded to a paper, presented at the January ASSA meetings, that best exemplifies scholarly work that: . Is of high quality, . Is important to the project of social economics, . Has broad appeal across disciplines. It is preferable that the paper is presented at one of the ASSA sessions sponsored by the Association for Social Economics. 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Yates, Monthly Review Editor and Author: Cheap Motels and a Hot Plate: An Economist's Travelogue The road trip is a staple of modern American literature. But nowhere in American literature, until now, has an economist hit the road, observing and interpreting the extraordinary range and spectacle of U.S. life, bringing out its conflicts and contradictions with humor and insight. Disillusioned with academic life after thirty-two years teaching economics, Michael Yates took early retirement in 2001, with a pension account that had doubled during the dot.com frenzy of the late 1990s. He and his wife Karen have traveled around the country since then, often spending months at a time on the road. Michael and Karen spent the summer of 2001 in Yellowstone National Park, where Michael worked as a hotel front-desk clerk. They moved to Manhattan for a year, where he worked for Monthly Review. From there they went to Portland, Oregon, to explore the Pacific Northwest. After five months of travel in Summer and Fall 2004, they settled in Miami Beach. Ahead of the 2005 hurricane season, they went back on the road, settling this time in Colorado. Cheap Motels and a Hot Plate is both an account of their adventures and a penetrating examination of work and inequality, race and class, alienation and environmental degradation in the small towns and big cities of the contemporary United States. MICHAEL D. YATES is associate editor of Monthly Review. He was professor of economics at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown for many years. He is the author of Naming the System: Inequality and Work in the Global Economy and Why Unions Matter. From urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu Tue May 22 21:31:26 2007 From: urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu (urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu) Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 23:31:26 -0400 Subject: [URPE] [NYC] Brecht Forum: A Case is Never Closed/ The War and Terror Repression/ Augusto Boal Message-ID: <4653B58E.8010806@lists.econ.utah.edu> P L E A S E F O R W A R D W I D E L Y The Brecht Forum ________________________________________________________________ 5/23 I Got the Beat Productions Presents: A Case is Never Closed 5/24: The War Abroad, the War at Home & Guantanamo: The War and Terror and Repression 6/4: Augusto Boal Performance at 1199-SEIU Martin Luther King Labor Center _____________________________________________________________________________ Wednesday, May 23 5:00 PM I Got the Beat Productions Presents: A Case is Never Closed A Case Is Never Closed, written by Jay Boyer and directed by Diana Basmajian, is an historic look into the life of Lucille Ball in the era of McCarthyism. During this time in our history, no woman with as high a stature as Lucille Ball had ever been targeted by the House Un-American Activities Committee. In 1953, because of a simple gesture towards her grandfather 20 years prior, all that changed. She was a household name and through the medium of television, millions of people even considered her part of their family. It is through the support of these Americans that she gained the hope to survive it. For More Information or Reservations: info at igotdabeat.org, www.igotdabeat.org, or 631-300-7311 Suggested donation: $5 No One Turned Away ____________________________________________________________ Thursday, May 24 7:30 PM The War Abroad, the War at Home & Guantanamo: The War and Terror and Repression: Co-sponsored by the Center for Constitutional Rights Featuring attorneys from the Center for Constitutional Rights, as well as anti-war activists and organizers, this event focuses on detention, racism and war, linking struggles for justice in our communities in New York City to the struggle for justice for the detainees at Guantanamo Bay. We will focus on the connection between the "war on terror" in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere, Guantanamo Bay and indefinite detention, and the war on targeted communities within the United States. For more information: 212-614-6443 or email LKates at ccr-ny.org Suggested donation: $6/$10/$15 No One Turned Away ____________________________________________________________ Monday, June 4th 7:00 to 9:30 pm 1199/SEIU UHE Education Department, The Brecht Forum and The Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory present A Public Performance/Demonstration Augusto Boal Presents: Rainbow of Desire Come see a performance/demonstration of the Rainbow of Desire, one of the techniques of the Theater of the Oppressed. The Theater of the Oppressed, established in the early 1970s by Brazilian director and Workers' Party (PT) activist Augusto Boal, is a form of popular theater, of, by, and for people engaged in the struggle for liberation. More specifically, it is a rehearsal theater designed for people who want to learn ways of fighting back against oppression in their daily lives. In the Theater of the Oppressed, oppression is defined, in part, as a power dynamic based on monologue rather than dialogue; a relation of domination and command that prohibits the oppressed from being who they are and from exercising their basic human rights. Accordingly, the Theater of the Oppressed is a participatory theater and form of popular education that fosters democratic and cooperative forms of interaction among participants. Theater is emphasized not as a spectacle but rather as a language designed to: 1) analyze and discuss problems of oppression and power; and 2) explore group solutions to these problems. This language is accessible to all. Rainbow of Desire is one of the techniques of the Theater of the Oppressed and is similar to a related technique called Cop-in-the-Head. Where Cop uses games and exercises to recognize and confront internalized forms of oppression, Rainbow of Desire deals with conflicting needs, desires and wants within individuals and explores power relations and collective solutions to concrete problems. This is a method and set of techniques that is especially useful for teachers and educators who work with disadvantaged populations, social workers, psychologists and mental health professionals, and community activists and organizers who are involved with marginalized constituencies and constituencies which have traditionally been the victims of bias and discrimination. Augusto Boal will demonstrate these techniques, assisted by both members of the audience (participation is optional but encouraged!) and by people who will have just completed a three-day workshop in Rainbow of Desire, led by Boal. Augusto Boal is a political activist and major innovator of post-Brechtian theater. He served as Artistic Director of the Arena Theater in Sao Paulo from 1956 to 1971. In the 1970s, he came under attack by the Brazilian government, resulting in his imprisonment, torture and subsequent exile. Boal has lectured, conducted workshops, and mounted productions throughout North and South America, Europe, India and Africa, and has written a number of books, including Theater of the Oppressed; Games for Actors and Non Actors; and The Rainbow of Desire. An activist in the Brazilian Workers' Party (PT), he presently resides in Rio de Janeiro. In 1992, he was elected to the City Council of Rio, a post he held for four years. Once installed in office, he adapted his theater techniques for use in city politics, with some hilarious--and sometimes rancorous--results. Members of the Center for the Theater of the Oppressed became Boal's City Council staff, and created seventeen companies of players practicing "Legislative Theater" throughout the city. 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Applicants should possess a Ph.D. in economics or related field and have strong empirical and econometric skills, including substantial experience analyzing large microeconomic data sets. A commitment to policy-oriented research is essential. Candidate should have strong writing skills with ability to communicate results to non-technical audiences. Position offers the opportunity to work closely with the full range of actors in the economic policy arena, including policy makers and the media. The mission of the Economic Policy Institute is to provide high-quality research and analysis in order to promote a prosperous, fair, and sustainable economy. EPI focuses on the economic conditions of low and middle income Americans and their families. It adheres to strict standards of sound, objective research and analysis, and marries this with outreach and popular and policy education. The Economic Policy Institute is an affirmative action employer. Women and minority candidates are encouraged to apply. To apply, send letter of interest, vita, list of references, and writing samples to: Economic Policy Institute, 1333 H Street, NW, Suite 300, Washington, D.C. 20005, ATTN: S. Scott (_sscott at epi.org_ (mailto:sscott at epi.org) ). ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Laura Laura Ebert Assistant Professor of Economics Dyson 356 School of Management Marist College Poughkeepsie, New York 12601 845-575-3000 X2904 718-614-9634 laura.ebert at marist.edu http://www.academic.marist.edu/~jf3s/ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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It's a framework for thinking more clearly about trade-offs -- and synergies -- between short term and longer term, environment and economy -- all the things we humans usually do a bad job of balancing... The field has given rise to new metrics of progress such as the Genuine Progress Indicator (see www.rprogress.org) and Ecological Footprinting techniques now widely used in business and public sector management. Some of the most interesting, inventive people I know go to the US Society for Ecological Economics conferences. The next one is coming up in late June, at Pace University in New York. *Scroll down* for info. SUSTAINABLE HUDSON VALLEY IS EXCITED TO HAVE A PROMINENT PLACE IN THIS EVENT AS CO-SPONSOR AND PRESENTER. OUR "MEANINGFUL MEASURES" PROJECT TEAM HAS PUT TOGETHER AN EXCITING DAY OF SYMPOSIA ON ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS AND PUBLIC POLICY IN THE TRANSITION TO SUSTAINABILITY HERE IN OUR REGION. Schedule is attached. The day will end with a round table on action items to bring home. We have been working closely with conference organizers and can promise a valuable event. Please come if you can. Melissa Everett, Ph.D. Executive Director Sustainable Hudson Valley PO Box 4112 Kingston, NY 12401 845-331-2670 www.sustainhv.org * * The United States Society for Ecological Economics 2007 conference is coming up soon. Register today (May 25) by midnight Eastern Time to receive the early-bird rate. Conference highlights: * Ecological footprint workshop * Exciting plenary speakers, including David Orr, Robert Costanza, Mathis Wackernagel, and more * 20 symposia and workshops, including valuing ecosystem services * Climate change, energy, Hudson Valley, New York Harbor, and other relevant issues * 28 contributed sessions * Herman Daly award * Auction See you there! -- Joanne Steele Aardvark Realty LLC Catskills & Upstate NY 20 years' experience Honesty and Effort (845) 338-0300 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 5630 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/urpe-announcements/attachments/20070527/a111af29/attachment.txt -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 2128 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/urpe-announcements/attachments/20070529/e3912ef7/attachment.txt From leefs at umkc.edu Tue May 29 09:43:41 2007 From: leefs at umkc.edu (Lee, Frederic) Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 10:43:41 -0500 Subject: [URPE] Heterodox Economics Newsletter 44 Message-ID: <9A72753A447165498D6B63479DB2E7C902A2FE20@KC-MSX3.kc.umkc.edu> Heterodox Economics Newsletter Issue 44: May 29, 2007 From bogus@does.not.exist.com Mon May 28 12:57:13 2007 From: bogus@does.not.exist.com () Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 18:57:13 -0000 Subject: No subject Message-ID: Last week I gave a series of lectures on heterodox microeconomics at the = Universidad Nacional de Colombia in Bogota. I was treated very well, the = students were very interesting, and the sightseeing wonderful. In the = course of my lectures I mentioned something about taxes, government = printing money, and chartalism that generated a great deal of interest = among the audience, certainly more so than my discussion of pricing and = prices, which some of my colleagues at UMKC will say is quite natural. On Friday, June 1 the 2nd ICAPE Conference - Economic Pluralism for the = 21st Century - begins. There will be over 200 economists at the = conference includes loads of graduate students and young professors. If = you cannot make the Conference, then check out its web site, which is = given below. Look at the papers being presented and if some strike your = fancy, then go to the presenters index to get their e-mail address and = then e-mail them for their paper. Rob Garnett and company have done a = wonderful job organizing the Conference. Prior to the AHE Conference in Bristol United Kingdom on 13-15 July 2007 = there will be a Postgraduate Workshop on Advanced Research Methods run = by Paul Downward. It is open to postgraduate students studying in the UK = (and others if they pay their own way). It is a very exciting workshop = where various kinds of research methods are covered, not just = econometrics. For further information, see below. There are a number of new calls for papers to check out as well as many = conferences and seminars that are taking place. In addition, among the = journals you might want to look at La Revista de Economia Institucional; = and among the many interesting books in the Newsletter, you might want = to look at Microeconomia Heterodoxa. Finally, the Newsletter has been = added to INTUTE: Social Sciences--see below.=20 One final note, check out "Hip Heterodoxy" below and find out why Peter = Dorman (that brilliant heterodox economist) was called an astrologer by = Hal Varian as well as various little-known and well-known facts, tales, = and stories about heterodox economics.=20 Fred Lee In this issue: =20 Call for Papers =20 =20 - JSPE 55th Annual Conference- 2007 - World Association for Political Economy - The 2007 Historical Materialism Conference - The Challenge to Restore Full Employment December 6-7, 2007 - L'esprit de l'innovation III - The Spirit of Innovation III =20 =20 Conferences, Seminars and Lectures = =20 =20 - Association of Heterodox Economics - The USSEE 2008 Conference - Canadian Economics Association - S=E9minaire H=E9t=E9rodoxies du CES - Matisse - Wellbeing in International Development - Conference on Africa, 30th June 2007 - The Contemporary Prehistory of Capitalism: Debating "So-Called = Primitive Accumulation" Today - II Seminario Internacional Complutense (S.I.C.) - II International Complutense Conference - Seminarie Arc 2 =20 Job Postings for Heterodox Economists = =20 =20 - Berlin School of Economics - The Economic Policy Institute - Universidad Nacional de Colombia =20 Heterodox Conference Papers and Reports and Articles = =20 =20 - "An Interview with the Chairman" =20 Heterodox Journals and Newsletters = =20 =20 - Issues in Regulation Theory - JOURNEES D'ETUDE DE PHILOSOPHIE ECONOMIQUE - Journal of the History of Economic Thought - Econ Journal Watch - Policy Brief Series - Review of Political Economy=20 - La Revista de Econom=EDa Institucional - Challenge - Levy News =20 International Confederation of Associations for Pluralism in Economics - = News = =20 - ICAPE Conference =20 Heterodox Books, Book Series, and Book Reviews = =20 =20 - Ideas, Policies and Economic Development in the Americas - Policy Notes for National Development Strategies - Microeconomia Heterodoxa - Modern State Intervention In The Era Of Globalisation - The Vocation of Business: Social Justice in the Marketplace - Consumer Capitalism - Public Investment in High-Quality Prekindergarten - Wall Street: How it works and for whom =20 Heterodox Websites = =20 =20 - Intute: Social Sciences =20 For Your Information = =20 =20 - Innovation Metrics - Tufts Institute Awards Annual Economics Prize - 'Hip Heterodoxy' =20 ------_=_NextPart_001_01C7A208.22118E03 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Heterodox = Economics Newsletter

Issue 44: May 29, = 2007

From the Editor

Last week I gave a series of lectures on heterodox microeconomics at the = Universidad Nacional de Colombia in Bogota. I was treated very well, the students were very interesting, and the sightseeing wonderful. In the course of my lectures I mentioned = something about taxes, government printing money, and chartalism that generated a great = deal of interest among the audience, certainly more so than my discussion of = pricing and prices, which some of my colleagues at UMKC will say is quite = natural.

On Friday, June 1 the 2nd ICAPE Conference – Economic Pluralism = for the 21st Century – begins. There will be over 200 economists at the = conference includes loads of graduate students and young professors. If you cannot = make the Conference, then check out its web site, which is given below. Look = at the papers being presented and if some strike your fancy, then go to the = presenters index to get their e-mail address and then e-mail them for their paper. = Rob Garnett and company have done a wonderful job organizing the = Conference.

Prior to the AHE Conference in Bristol United Kingdom on 13-15 July 2007 = there will be a Postgraduate Workshop on Advanced Research Methods run by Paul Downward. It is open to postgraduate students studying in the UK (and others if they pay = their own way). It is a very exciting workshop where various kinds of research methods are covered, not just econometrics. For further information, see = below.

There are a number of new calls for papers to check out as well as many conferences and seminars that are taking place. In addition, among the = journals you might want to look at La Revista de Economia Institucional; and = among the many interesting books in the Newsletter, you = might want to look at Microeconomia Heterodoxa. Finally, the Newsletter has been added to INTUTE: Social Sciences--see below.

One final note, check out “Hip Heterodoxy” below and find = out why Peter Dorman (that brilliant heterodox economist) was called an = astrologer by Hal Varian as well as various little-known and well-known facts, tales, = and stories about heterodox economics.

Fred Lee

In this = issue:

 

Call for = Papers

 <= /p>

- = JSPE 55th Annual Conference- 2007
- World Association for Political Economy
- The 2007 Historical Materialism Conference
- The Challenge to Restore Full Employment December 6-7, 2007
- L’esprit de l’innovation III
- The Spirit of Innovation III
 

 

Conferences, Seminars and Lectures

 

- Association of Heterodox Economics
- The USSEE 2008 Conference
- Canadian Economics Association
- S=E9minaire H=E9t=E9rodoxies du CES - Matisse
- Wellbeing in International Development
- Conference on Africa, 30th June = 2007
- The Contemporary Prehistory of Capitalism: Debating "So-Called Primitive Accumulation" Today
- II Seminario Internacional Complutense (S.I.C.)
- II International Complutense Conference
- Seminarie Arc 2

 

Job Postings for Heterodox = Economists

 

- = Berlin = School of Economics
- The Economic Policy Institute
- Universidad Nacional de Colombia

 

Heterodox Conference Papers and = Reports and Articles

 

- = "An Interview with the Chairman"

 

Heterodox = Journals and Newsletters

 

- = Issues in Regulation Theory
- JOURNEES D’ETUDE DE PHILOSOPHIE ECONOMIQUE
- Journal of the History of Economic Thought
- Econ Journal Watch
- Policy Brief Series
- Review of Political Economy
- La Revista de Econom=EDa Institucional
- Challenge
- Levy News

 

International Confederation of Associations for Pluralism in Economics - = News
- ICAPE Conference

 

Heterodox Books, Book Series, = and Book Reviews

 

- = Ideas, Policies and Economic Development in the Americas
- Policy Notes for National Development Strategies
- Microeconomia Heterodoxa
- Modern State Intervention In The Era = Of Globalisation
- The Vocation of Business: Social Justice in the Marketplace
- Consumer Capitalism
- Public Investment in High-Quality Prekindergarten
- Wall Street: How it works and for whom

 

Heterodox = Websites

 

- = Intute: Social Sciences

 

For Your = Information

 

- = Innovation Metrics
- Tufts Institute Awards Annual Economics Prize
- ‘Hip Heterodoxy’

 

------_=_NextPart_001_01C7A208.22118E03-- From Gary.Dymski at ucop.edu Tue May 29 17:08:05 2007 From: Gary.Dymski at ucop.edu (Gary Dymski) Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 16:08:05 -0700 Subject: [URPE] JSPE 55th Annual Conference - 2007 Message-ID: <43952C41F929794D9CFA4BD1B2808D550113CEAC@EXCHANGEMAIL.AD.UCOP.EDU> JSPE 55th Annual Conference- 2007 How Do We Consider "Society with Increasing Inequality"? To be held on October 20-21, 2007, at Yokohama National University, Yokohama The 55th annual conference of the JAPAN SOCIETY OF POLITICAL ECONOMY (JSPE) will be held on October 20 (Saturday) and 21 (Sunday), 2007, at Yokohama National University, Yokohama. As stated above, the theme of the plenary session in this conference will be: How do we consider "society with increasing inequality"? With this theme, we intend to analyse what are the essential elements of our "society with increasing inequality" and what are main factors to cause inequality, and we try to propose policies to solve the problem of our society. We should analyse the problem of increasing inequality in our society from both national and international perspectives. For example, in Japan, economic inequality increased with great assets differentials formed in the Bubble boom in the late 1980s, an increase in non-regular workers and a rise in the unemployment rate caused by the large-scale restructuring of business in the recession in the 1990s, and sharp decrease in the rate of progressive income tax. Furthermore, the intergenerational reproduction of socio-economic differentials proceeds through the Japanese education system. In the world economy, globalisation and neo-liberalist policies cause increasing inequality and unemployment in advanced capitalist countries, on one hand, severe poverty and unemployment problems in developing countries, on the other. In this situation, we should ask how economic theories can analyse inequality in income and wealth as well as the intergenerational reproduction of socio-economic differentials and social classes. A new theoretical framework is needed to analyse systematically the generation and distribution of incomes at the macroeconomic level as well as the distribution of income and wealth among individuals from the socio-economic point of view. Furthermore, making economic policies, we should consider how we can propose an alternative strategy to prevent the collapse of the welfare state and rapidly increasing inequality in advance countries and how we can solve the poverty problem in developing countries. We call for papers from JSPE members and from others interested in taking part in this conference which is based on the aforementioned theme. We will welcome various participants with a wide range of interests and methodological approaches. Although the main conference language is Japanese, we will organize English-language sessions on October 20, especially aiming at accepting those from overseas who are willing to participate in the following two categories: English Sessions 1: Topics relating to the general theme of the conference. These sessions are designated to the topics relating to the conference general theme: How do we consider "society with increasing inequality"? English Sessions 2: Other specific topics These sessions will be organized to focus on such other specific topics as environment and gender and regional economies (including China and others), while remaining completely open to suggestions and proposals. Submission Procedures and the Deadline All those who want to present a paper at the conference should send an abstract of the paper [in 200 words] with (1) name, (2) address (E-mail and mailing address), (3)affiliation and other relevant data by no later than June 8, 2007, to: Prof. Shinjiro HAGIWARA or Dr. Tomohiko SEKINE E-mail: Jspecice at mml.gssm.musashi.ac.jp Postal mailing address: Prof. Shinjiro HAGIWARA Faculty of Economics, Yokohama National University Tokiwadai 79-3, Hodogaya-ku, Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa-ken, 240-8501, Japan TEL: + 81-45-339-3575 (Prof. HAGIWARA's Office), Fax: +81-45-339-3504 *Notification of acceptance will be sent by June. 22. Attendants will pay their conference fee (5000 yen including the conference buffet), as well as their own transportation, accommodation and other personal expenses. 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Later registration involves an extra fee. Download our flyer -- let others know about our conference: http://urpe.org/URPESumConf07B.pdf ************************************************* CALL FOR WORKSHOPS This year's URPE Summer Workshop/Retreat, August 10 - 13, will focus on the politically current issue of immigration. See the program of plenaries and the David Gordon Lecture below. As always, we will fill the weekend with workshops on all aspects of Radical Political Economy (not just immigration). Some workshops will focus on theoretical work, while others will keep us all abreast of active struggles in the US and around the world. If you'd like to generate and participate in some dialogue on your work with others engaged in the same theoretical and real world struggles, please propose a workshop on it - with a group of one or two others if you know some people working on the same topic, or by yourself if not. The workshop coordinator this year is Graham Cassano. Please send your proposal to Graham at xrgb.com. In solidarity, the URPE Steering Committee ************************************************* PLENARIES and DAVID GORDON LECTURE FRIDAY, AUGUST 10 7:00 - 9:00. PLENARY 1: THE CHANGING NATURE OF LABOR STRUGGLES IN THE UNITED STATES Theory and Practice: A Labor Activist Reflects on Controversies in Economic Theory. Brian Callaci, Campaigner, UNITE HERE. Building the Movement for a New Social Contract in New Haven, Connecticut and Beyond. Gwen Mills, CT/RI Political Director, UNITE HERE; Community Organizer, Connecticut Center for a New Economy. Rebuilding the U.S. Labor Movement: Competing Visions and the Road Not Taken. Mark Brenner, Labor Notes. SATURDAY, AUGUST 11 7:00 - 9:00. PLENARY 2: CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES OF TRANSNATIONAL MIGRATION Female Migrant Labor and the Global Integration of Labor Markets. Salimah Valiani, Social and Economic Policy Department of the Canadian Labor Congress. Economic Insecurity and Remittances as Causes for Migration. Alex Julca, Researcher. Migration Chains to Chained Migration: The Rise of the U.S. Temporary Migrants. Manny Ness, Professor of Political Science, Brooklyn College, CUNY. A currently available previous book of his on this subject is Unions, Immigrants and the New US Labor Market. SUNDAY, AUGUST 12 4:00 - 5:30. The DAVID GORDONLECTURE Radical Economics and Social Change Movements: Strengthening the Links between Academics and Activists. Jim Stanford, Economist, Canadian Auto Workers union; Economics columnist, The Globe and Mail newspaper. ************************************************* Informal Socializing -- Outdoor Recreation -- Evening Entertainment See you there! -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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The successful candidate will also be expected to play a full role in supervising research projects of undergraduates and postgraduates. The Department has research strengths in the following areas: economic theory; macroeconomics and quantitative finance; economic transformation, sustainability and spatial development; and health economics. The Department would be particularly interested in candidates whose research expertise is in one of these areas. For informal inquiries and further information please contact the Head of the Department of Economics, Brendan Kennelly; Email: brendan.kennelly at nuigalway.ie; Tel. 353-91-493094. Closing date for receipt of applications is at 5.00 p.m. on Friday, 29th June, 2007. Salary: ?37,866 x 10 = ?53,700 p.a. 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I am interested in a book with an emphasis on historical approach ... for example that address the colonial history of (some) LDCs ... I have used Todaro but find students do not relate to it... Here are several responses: ******************** From Julio Huato: I don't know if it's still in circulation, but Richard Pomfret had a small book (Development Economics, Prentice Hall) that covers all the basis. Well, like most textbooks, it doesn't go back to the origins of global capitalism. It just starts with the debate after WW2, but it lends itself nicely to a critical review. And the students will like its price. ******************** From Kathy McAfee: I'm a geograher by training & have taught various versions of 'globalization & development'. I always start the story in 1491. In the past I've used parts of Allen & Thomas Poverty & Development Into the 21st Century (Open University/Oxford), parts from Porter & Sheppard's World of Difference, which will have a new edition soon, and selections form Roberts & Hite's The Globalization & Development Reader. Sometimes I've used a chapter or two from Blaut The Colonizer's Model of the World (apologies to Bob Brenner). It is eye-opening though going for intro-level students. This fall I'm going to try The Darker Nations (Prashad & Zinn), but I haven't seen it yet and will supplement it with economic dev theory materials. As you can see, I haven't yet found a good text on "economic development", so if such a thing exists, I'd sure like to hear about it, too. ******************** From Peter Kriesler: I use and can strongly recommend: Ha-Joon Chang (Editor) (2003) Rethinking Development Economics (Anthem Studies in Political Economy and Globalization) (Paperback) As it is a collection of readings, it is a bit uneven, with some papers(but very few) being a bit too technical. However, it provides an excellent overview of many of the important issues relating to development. ******************* From Roz: I like the book, Development and Social Change, A Global Perspective, latest edition by Philip McMichael. ******************* From Siobhan McGrath: What about the Elgar Companion to Development Studies? http://www.e-elgar.co.uk/Bookentry_contents.lasso?id=3175 From mail at thomaspalley.com Fri Jun 8 08:26:52 2007 From: mail at thomaspalley.com (Thomas Palley) Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 10:26:52 -0400 Subject: [URPE] Marginal Productivity Theory and the Mainstream - 2nd Edition Message-ID: Dear URPE Friends & Colleagues, I am re-posting my article on "Marginal Productivity Theory and the Mainstream" because I think the original did not hit its target cleanly. I have left the original posting on my website so that readers can judge for themselves. The new article is available on my website at www.thomaspalley.com Sincerely, Tom Palley Thomas Palley Founder Economics for Democratic & Open Societies Project Tel: 202-249-2317 e-mail: mail at thomaspalley.com www.thomaspalley.com -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 887 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/urpe-announcements/attachments/20070608/2b494978/attachment.txt From editorial_board at journal-intervention.org Sun Jun 10 07:20:36 2007 From: editorial_board at journal-intervention.org (editorial_board at journal-intervention.org) Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 15:20:36 +0200 Subject: [URPE] Intervention. Journal of Economics No. 1/2007 Message-ID: <2518123.194121181481636181.JavaMail.servlet@kundenserver> Dear friends and colleagues, Could you please post the notice below via your distribution lists? Thank you very much, Sabine Dear colleagues, dear friends, issue 2/2006 ? the fourth volume ? of our German-English journal ?INTERVENTION. Journal of Economics? has just been published. INTERVENTION sees itself as a forum for heterodox approaches in economic theory and policy. The aims are mutual exchange and the discussion of different perspectives from different economic schools off the economic mainstream. The journal comes out on a half-yearly basis in mid-April and mid-November, respectively. The ?Articles? section of the current issue features peer-reviewed contributions by Phillip Anthony O?Hara, Heinz-Peter Spahn, Ute Klammer, and Wolfgang Strengmann-Kuhn. For the ?Forum? section we asked our scientific board and authors of previous volumes how they assess the influence of heterodox thinking on economic theory construction and economic policy advice. Additionally, the ?Forum? includes contributions on family policy as well as on taxation in Germany, on the relevance of the state as employer in Scandinavia, on economic policy trends in Latin America, on female pioneers of economics in Austria, and, finally, on financial speculation, unemployment and public debt. The next two issues of INTERVENTION will each be dedicated to a thematic focus. Issue 2/2007 will focus on ?How to Cope with Divergences in an Enlarging EU??, issue 1/2008 ? with the title ?Inequality on the Rise?? ? will focus on theoretical, empirical and policy aspects of distribution. The article by Gerd Groezinger ?Hochsteuerland Deutschland?? (high tax country Germany?) may be downloaded for free at http://www.journal-intervention.org. There you can also find further information on the journal as well as subscription information. We would be very grateful if you would consider supporting INTERVENTION by starting a subscription ? in case you are not already a subscriber. We also would like to invite you to submit papers for the peer-reviewed part of the journal. Please tell friends and colleagues about our journal, and suggest a subscription to a librarian at your institution. With kind regards, Sabine Reiner For the Managing Editors links: to the current issue: http://www.journal-intervention.org/go/1_07.html Contents: http://www.journal-intervention.org/go/content_1-07.html Contribution Groezinger http://www.journal-intervention.org/go/Groezinger_1-07.html From aydiner at economics.utah.edu Wed Jun 13 13:44:13 2007 From: aydiner at economics.utah.edu (Nursel Aydiner-Avsar) Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 13:44:13 -0600 Subject: [URPE] Help Needed on Finding Data Message-ID: <20070613134413.icj8a7etwokcosk0@webmail.csbs.utah.edu> Dear all, I am working as an RA for a project on economic and social rights, conducted by Radhika Balakrishnan and Diane Elson. I am looking at the distribution of public finance among different social groups and having a hard time finding public expenditure data disaggregated by gender and race for the United States. Does anyone have any suggestions as to where I might look to find relevant data? Any kind of suggestions are welcome and very much appreciated. Thanks, Nursel From leefs at umkc.edu Wed Jun 13 16:54:22 2007 From: leefs at umkc.edu (Lee, Frederic) Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 17:54:22 -0500 Subject: [URPE] Heterodox Economics Calendar Message-ID: <9A72753A447165498D6B63479DB2E7C902B5041B@KC-MSX3.kc.umkc.edu> Dear Colleague, I would like to introduce you to a new feature on my heterodox economics newsletter website-the Heterodox Economics Calendar--http://www.heterodoxnews.com . Many people, including members of the ICAPE Board, have asked me to produce such a calendar so as to help individuals and associations to plan future conference and seminars as well as to help individuals to easily find out when particular conferences/seminars are going to be. All you have to do is to go the website and then click on CALENDAR which will bring to the current month. After that you can look at various months and click on the entries in any particular month to find out further information about the activity. If you have any suggestions on how to improve the calendar please send them to me. 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 at umkc.edu Book Series Editor of "Advances in Heterodox Economics" For Heterodox Economics Newsletter: http://www.heterodoxnews.com For the Association for Heterodox Economics: http://www.hetecon.com . International Confederation of Associations for Pluralism in Economics (ICAPE): http://icape.org/ For current and previous issues of the HEN see 'news' section of http://www.hetecon.com/ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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The two volume set by Jomo K.S. might be useful as well, "The Long Twentieth Century - The Great Divergence: Hegemony, Uneven Development and Global Inequality" Edited by Jomo K. S "The Long Twentieth Century - Globalization Under Hegemony: The Changing World Economy" Edited by Jomo K. S Khalil Tian Shahyd - MA PhD Student/Research Associate - Political Ecology Center for Energy and Environmental Policy University of Delaware http://ceep.udel.edu/ceep.html 504.296.6516 From saner at diplomacydialogue.org Thu Jun 14 02:02:23 2007 From: saner at diplomacydialogue.org (Diplomacy Dialogue) Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 10:02:23 +0200 Subject: [URPE] list of heterdox economic development textbooks In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <004e01c7ae5a$59d046e0$6701a8c0@CSEND6> Dear Laura, hi all, Thanks for this. One additional though important aspect: how about instructor's guides adapted for different student groups? We do a lot of work in developing countries with students of various levels of background. Any suggestions as to what textbook and instructor's guidebook is most adaptable to different student audiences? Best regards, Raymond Professor Raymond Saner, Ph.D. Organisation and International Management University of Basle, Switzerland Director. DiplomacyDialogue , CSEND C.P. 1498 Mont Blanc 1211 Geneva 1, Switzerland Tel: +41-22-906-1720; Fax: +41-22-738-1737 saner at diplomacydialogue.org Web: http://www.diplomacydialogue.org _____ From: urpe-announcements-bounces at lists.econ.utah.edu [mailto:urpe-announcements-bounces at lists.econ.utah.edu] On Behalf Of Laura Ebert Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2007 2:48 AM To: urpe-announcements at lists.econ.utah.edu Subject: [URPE] list of heterdox economic development textbooks Hi! Here is a list of all (I think I got all) heterodox economic development texts recommended to me by URPE folks !... (I would also add as additional easy reading Perkins, John, Confessions of an Economic Hitman, and Sachs, Jeffrey, The End of Poverty (on MDGs). My students were assigned both along with Todaro and liked them alot - especially Perkins!) I have looked at Cypher and Dietz's book the Process of Econ Development chapter 3 on history of LDCs and love it! Thank you very much for your response and sorry if I failed to respond in person to everyone but I got so many replies! Best Laura List of Economic Development Text books 6/2007 Jim Cypher and Jim Dietz The Process of Economic Development, Routledge (3rd edition due sept. 07) Adam Szirmai The Dynamics of Socio-Economic Development ( Cambridge University Press, 2005) Elgar Elgar Companion to Development Studies E. Wayne Nafziger Economic Development 4th ed. Philip McMichael, ed. Development and Social Change, A Global Perspective Ha-Joon Chang, ed Rethinking Development Economics (Anthem Studies in Political Economy and Globalization) (2003) Easterly The Elusive Quest for Growth James Boyce and Betsy Hartmann A Quiet Violence: Life in Bangladesh Village Peter Griffiths The Economist's Tale Stephen Smith Ending Global Poverty Mohammed Yunus Banker to the Poor (microfinance) Thirlwall Growth and Development Richard Pomfret Development Economics, Prentice Hall Kiely, R. Industrialization and development: a comparative analysis. London, Bristol, Pa., UCL Press (1998) Bagchi Perilous Passage Ankie Hoogvelts "Globalization and the Postcolonial World: The New Political Economy of Development" Ann Seidman An Economics Textbook for Africa (London: Methuen and Co., Ltd., 1969; 2nd ed., 1972; 3rd ed., 1980) out of print Ann Seidman Robert B. Seidman and Janice Payne, eds. Legislative Drafting for Market Reform: Some Lessons from China , (Houndsmills: Macmillan, 1997) and others by Ann Seidman Dieter Senghaas EUROPEAN EXPERIENCE: A HISTORICAL CRITIQUE OF DEVELOPMENT THEORY (ISBN: 0907582176) Amit Bhaduri and Deepak Nayyar THE INTELLIGENT PERSON'S GUIDE TO LIBERALIZATION Amit Bhaduri Development With Dignity -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 29130 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/urpe-announcements/attachments/20070614/da4cff8c/attachment.txt From ForstaterM at umkc.edu Thu Jun 14 19:24:44 2007 From: ForstaterM at umkc.edu (Forstater, Mathew) Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 20:24:44 -0500 Subject: [URPE] list of heterdox economic development textbooks In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Has anyone mentioned: Rajani Kanth, ed., 1994, PARADIGMS IN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe. ? It is an excellent collection of excerpts from 'classic' books and articles, plus the editor's intros and section notes, etc., are very good. ________________________________ From: urpe-announcements-bounces at lists.econ.utah.edu [mailto:urpe-announcements-bounces at lists.econ.utah.edu] On Behalf Of Laura Ebert Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 7:48 PM To: urpe-announcements at lists.econ.utah.edu Subject: [URPE] list of heterdox economic development textbooks Hi! Here is a list of all (I think I got all) heterodox economic development texts recommended to me by URPE folks !... (I would also add as additional easy reading Perkins, John, Confessions of an Economic Hitman, and Sachs, Jeffrey, The End of Poverty (on MDGs). My students were assigned both along with Todaro and liked them alot - especially Perkins!) I have looked at Cypher and Dietz's book the Process of Econ Development chapter 3 on history of LDCs and love it! Thank you very much for your response and sorry if I failed to respond in person to everyone but I got so many replies! Best Laura List of Economic Development Text books 6/2007 Jim Cypher and Jim Dietz The Process of Economic Development, Routledge (3rd edition due sept. 07) Adam Szirmai The Dynamics of Socio-Economic Development ( Cambridge University Press, 2005) Elgar Elgar Companion to Development Studies E. Wayne Nafziger Economic Development 4th ed. Philip McMichael, ed. Development and Social Change, A Global Perspective Ha-Joon Chang, ed Rethinking Development Economics (Anthem Studies in Political Economy and Globalization) (2003) Easterly The Elusive Quest for Growth James Boyce and Betsy Hartmann A Quiet Violence: Life in Bangladesh Village Peter Griffiths The Economist's Tale Stephen Smith Ending Global Poverty Mohammed Yunus Banker to the Poor (microfinance) Thirlwall Growth and Development Richard Pomfret Development Economics, Prentice Hall Kiely, R. Industrialization and development: a comparative analysis. London, Bristol, Pa., UCL Press (1998) Bagchi Perilous Passage Ankie Hoogvelts "Globalization and the Postcolonial World: The New Political Economy of Development" Ann Seidman An Economics Textbook for Africa (London: Methuen and Co., Ltd., 1969; 2nd ed., 1972; 3rd ed., 1980) out of print Ann Seidman Robert B. Seidman and Janice Payne, eds. Legislative Drafting for Market Reform: Some Lessons from China , (Houndsmills: Macmillan, 1997) and others by Ann Seidman Dieter Senghaas EUROPEAN EXPERIENCE: A HISTORICAL CRITIQUE OF DEVELOPMENT THEORY (ISBN: 0907582176) Amit Bhaduri and Deepak Nayyar THE INTELLIGENT PERSON'S GUIDE TO LIBERALIZATION Amit Bhaduri Development With Dignity -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Among these is the commonplace ambivalence over whether explanations should be in terms of individuals alone, or in terms of individuals plus relations between them. It is shown that a great deal hinges on this subtle and often overlooked distinction in explanantia. In particular, explanations in terms of individuals alone have never, as yet, been achieved. Furthermore, the more feasible version of explanations in terms of individuals plus relations between them amount to the introduction of social structure alongside individuals in the explanantia. Serious questions remain whether this version warrants the one-sided emphasis on individuals in the term 'methodological individualism'. A free version of this article can be downloaded from http://www.geoffrey-hodgson.info/p25.htm The pdf of the published article is obtainable via the Juurnal of Economic Methodology for subscribers. Best wishes Geoff Hodgson -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 1581 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/urpe-announcements/attachments/20070618/a054c97d/attachment.txt From urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu Sun Jun 24 08:10:47 2007 From: urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu (urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu) Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 10:10:47 -0400 Subject: [URPE] list of heterdox economic development textbooks Message-ID: <467E7B67.2060406@lists.econ.utah.edu> All, Although it might be more suited for your "advanced" students, I would add the following for a contemporary examination of development in the 21st century global economy ? Trading Down Africa, Value Chains and the Global Economy Authors Peter Gibbon and Stefano Ponte Publisher Temple University Press Regards, Marc Mealy From leefs at umkc.edu Fri Jun 22 08:48:35 2007 From: leefs at umkc.edu (Lee, Frederic) Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 09:48:35 -0500 Subject: [URPE] Heterodox Economics Newsletter 45 Message-ID: <9A72753A447165498D6B63479DB2E7C902C93255@KC-MSX3.kc.umkc.edu> Heterodox Economics Newsletter Issue 45: June 21, 2007 From bogus@does.not.exist.com Mon May 28 12:57:13 2007 From: bogus@does.not.exist.com () Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 18:57:13 -0000 Subject: No subject Message-ID: Activities for and by heterodox economists continued unabated, as = evident of the many new calls for papers and the many conferences and = seminars that are taking place this summer. In addition, in the Journals = and Newsletters section you will find a new journal listed-The Journal = of Philosophical Economics; in the Heterodox Websites section there are = two new web sites listed; and in the FYI section you might want to take = a look at the data se for global citizenship. It appears that everyone who attended the ICAPE Conference in Utah had a = great time (except for the organizers who were working themselves to = death). Such phrases as VERY IMPRESSIVE, EXCELLENT CONFERENCE, GREATLY = STIMULATING AND HEARTWARMING CONFERENCE, INTELLECTUALLY STIMULATING TO A = HIGH DEGREE, MET LOTS OF VERY INTERESTING PEOPLE, and THE UTAH SETTING = WAS SUBLIME seem to spring from everybody's lips. Moreover because Rob = Garnett and his committee worked very hard at fund raising, many = graduate students and young professors/lecturers were able to attend the = conference. Finally if you want to take advantage of the Conference = discount to get some Routledge and University of Michigan Press books, = check out the Heterodox Books section in the Newsletter. The next ICAPE = conference will be 2010.=20 One last point. If you found the 'Hip Heterodoxy' in the last Newsletter = interesting, you will find the TPMCAFE Book Club commentary in the = Heterodox Conference section interesting as well.=20 Fred Lee In this issue: =20 Call for Papers =20 =20 - 2007 URPE Summer Conference - Probabilistic Political Economy: "Laws of Chaos" in the 21st Century - Association for Institutional Thought [AFIT] - Forum for Social Economics - The Irish Society of New Economists - National Conference on Planning History - European Business Elites - Globalization: Long-run Perspectives - II Seminario Internacional Complutense Nuevas Direcciones En El = Pensamiento Economico Critico - II International Complutense Conference New Directions in Critical = Economic Thought - The 9th SCEME Seminar in Economic Methodology=20 =20 Conferences, Seminars and Lectures = =20 =20 - Politeia - Association for Heterodox Economics Conference 13-15 July, 2007 - Capital accumulation and economic growth in open economies - L'ADEK Conf=E9rences - 3rd STOREP European Summer School - 16th Annual IAFFE Conference on Feminist Economics - International Conference on Gender Responsive Budgeting and Social = Justice - 7th Summer Institute in Gender and Development Studies - Moving to a Simpler, Clearer Tax System: Reforming Corporate Tax - NIESR Conference celebrating James Meade - Meghnad Desai et al @ LSE - The Third (Bi)-Annual Canada/US East Border Post-Keynesian Workshop =20 Job Postings for Heterodox Economists = =20 =20 - National University of Ireland - University of West England, Bristol =20 Heterodox Conference Papers and Reports and Articles = =20 =20 - History of Science Workshop - TPMCAFE Book Club =20 Heterodox Journals and Newsletters = =20 =20 - International Review of Applied Economics - The Journal of Philosophical Economics (JPE) - Labor Studies Journal - O Comunneiro - Intervention - International Journal of Political Economy - The Associative Economics Bulletin - Review of Social Economy - Journal of Economic Methodology - Rethinking Marxism - CASE e-Newsletter =20 Heterodox Books, Book Series, and Book Reviews = =20 =20 - Routledge - University of Michigan Press - Introducing Economics: A Critical Guide for Teaching - Aspects of Modern Monetary and Macroeconomic Policies - The Global Political Economy of Israel =20 Heterodox Websites = =20 =20 - Progressive Economics - BISA International Political Economy Group (IPEG) =20 For Your Information = =20 =20 - Marginal Productivity Theory and the Mainstream - The Minnesota Population Center - Data Set for Global Citizenship - List of Economic Development Text books for Heterodox Economists = 6/2007 - Alfred D. Chandler =20 ------_=_NextPart_001_01C7B4DC.693519F0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Heterodox Economics = Newsletter

Issue 45: June 21, = 2007

From the Editor

Activities for and by heterodox economists continued unabated, as evident of the = many new calls for papers and the many conferences and seminars that are taking place = this summer. In addition, in the Journals and Newsletters section you will = find a new journal listed—The Journal of Philosophical Economics; in the Heterodox Websites section there are two new web sites listed; and in = the FYI section you might want to take a look at the data se for global = citizenship.

It appears that everyone who attended the ICAPE Conference in Utah had a great time (except for = the organizers who were working themselves to death). Such phrases as VERY IMPRESSIVE, EXCELLENT CONFERENCE, GREATLY STIMULATING AND HEARTWARMING CONFERENCE, INTELLECTUALLY STIMULATING TO A HIGH DEGREE, MET LOTS OF = VERY INTERESTING PEOPLE, and THE UTAH SETTING WAS SUBLIME seem to spring from everybody’s lips. Moreover because Rob Garnett and his committee = worked very hard at fund raising, many graduate students and young professors/lecturers were able to attend the conference. Finally if you = want to take advantage of the Conference discount to get some Routledge and = University of = Michigan Press books, check out = the Heterodox Books section in the Newsletter. The next ICAPE conference = will be 2010.

One last point. If you found the ‘Hip Heterodoxy’ in the = last Newsletter interesting, you will find the TPMCAFE Book Club commentary = in the Heterodox Conference section interesting as well.

Fred Lee

In this = issue:

 

Call for = Papers

 

- 2007 URPE Summer Conference
- Probabilistic Political Economy: "Laws of Chaos" in the = 21st Century
- Association for Institutional Thought [AFIT]
- Forum for Social Economics
- The Irish Society of New Economists
- National Conference on Planning History
- European Business Elites
- Globalization: Long-run Perspectives
- II Seminario Internacional Complutense Nuevas Direcciones En El = Pensamiento Economico Critico
- II International Complutense Conference New Directions in Critical = Economic Thought
- The 9th SCEME Seminar in Economic = Methodology 

 

Conferences, Seminars and Lectures

 

- Politeia
- Association for Heterodox Economics Conference 13-15 July, 2007
- Capital accumulation and economic growth in open economies
- L'ADEK Conf=E9rences
- 3rd STOREP European Summer School
- 16th Annual IAFFE Conference on Feminist Economics
- International Conference on Gender Responsive Budgeting and Social = Justice
- 7th Summer Institute in Gender and Development Studies
- Moving to a Simpler, Clearer Tax System: Reforming Corporate Tax
- NIESR Conference celebrating James Meade
- Meghnad Desai et al @ LSE
- The Third (Bi)-Annual Canada/US East Border Post-Keynesian = Workshop

 

Job Postings for = Heterodox Economists

 

- National University of Ireland
- University of West = England, Bristol

 

Heterodox Conference = Papers and Reports and Articles

 

- History of Science Workshop
- TPMCAFE Book Club

 

Heterodox Journals and Newsletters

 

- International Review of Applied Economics
- The Journal of Philosophical Economics (JPE)
- Labor Studies Journal
- O Comunneiro
- Intervention
- International Journal of Political Economy
- The Associative Economics Bulletin
- Review of Social Economy
- Journal of Economic Methodology
- Rethinking Marxism
- CASE e-Newsletter

 

Heterodox Books, Book = Series, and Book Reviews

 

- Routledge
- University of Michigan = Press
- Introducing Economics: A Critical Guide for Teaching
- Aspects of Modern Monetary and Macroeconomic Policies
- The Global Political Economy of Israel

 <= /o:p>

Heterodox = Websites

 

- Progressive Economics
- BISA International Political Economy Group = (IPEG)

 

For Your = Information

 

- Marginal Productivity Theory and the Mainstream
- The Minnesota Population Center
- Data Set for Global Citizenship
- List of Economic Development Text books for Heterodox Economists = 6/2007
- Alfred D. Chandler

 

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Margo Lee Sherman Margo Lee Sherman's compelling new solo performance is based on the actual words of contemporary American soldiers who have served in Iraq. Through a series of fragments and vignettes composed of quotes from an amazingly diverse spectrum of real-life characters, Sherman gets at the human cost of the war. From two gun ho nineteen-year-old girls killed in combat to a long-time professional soldier who reexamined his beliefs in the wake of Abu Ghraib and became a conscientious objector, these remarkable stories, performed with Sherman's unique intensity and concentration, convey the many dimensions of this complex tragedy with power and immediacy, offering new insights. Margo Lee Sherman has created over 30 critically-acclaimed solo performances over as many years. She was one of the early members of the legendary Bread and Puppet Theater, and has worked with Meredith Monk, Joseph Chaikin, Jean-Claude van Itallie, and many other seminal artists of the off-off-Broadway movement. She has performed in twenty countries--including performances of Samuel Beckett's Not I and Footfalls in Czechoslovakia in 1989, the first artist permitted to present Beckett there in two decades. Suggested donation: $6/$10/$15 No One Turned Away ______________________________ Thursday June 21 3-6 PM Make Music NY Neues Kabarett presents some of today's finest improvisers on the Brecht's West Street Loading Dock Stage! Featuring Daniel Carter, Francois Grillot, Matt Lavelle, Andre Martinez, Ras Moshe, Steve Swell and others! Thursday, June 21 3:30-4:45 pm Free _____________________________________ Tuesday, June 26 7:30 PM Book Party/Reading The Road to Ar Ramadi Camilo Mejia After serving in the Army for nearly nine years, Camilo Mejia was the first known Iraq veteran to refuse to fight, citing moral concerns about the war and occupation. His principled stand helped to rally the growing opposition and embolden his fellow soldiers. Now released after serving almost nine months, the celebrated soldier-turned-pacifist tells his own story, from his upbringing in Central America and his experience as a working-class immigrant in the United States to his service in Iraq--where he witnessed prisoner abuse and was deployed in the Sunni triangle--and time in prison. .In this stirring book, he argues passionately for human rights and the end to an unjust war. Free __________________________________________________________ Sunday, July 8 4:00 - 7:00 pm BOOK PARTY & READING Health Proxy with Author Robert Roth & Readings by Martha Lincoln, Margaret Mercer, Ralph Nazareth, Myrna NIeves & Joy Walker 4:00 - Reception 5:00 - Readings Robert Roth's Health Proxy is a dynamic collage of consciousness--bits and pieces of perception, insight, observation, dialogue, interior monologue, commentary, tirade, always deeply personal, profoundly philosophical at times, wide-ranging in its concerns and themes, ever in touch with the particular, deep in its sympathy, resolutely free--or shall we say there's a mighty struggle here to be free--of imperialist assumptions, hierarchical judgments. All of this makes it radically counter-cultural in its politics, a palpable extension of what we were all shaped by in the late 60s and early 70s. Circles of gay men with AIDS would come together. Each man speaking with enormous glee about whom they had cut out of their lives that week. I myself just waiting for that time to come. Pete turning on me in a fury and cutting me out of his life. And to know that the final pleasure you are probably going to give someone is the giddy delight they will feel when they cut you out of their lives is pretty bizarre to say the least. And that knowledge is part of the peculiar numbness that set in that helped me deal with the tragedy we were inside of. Though the situations are not parallel this reminds me of the fate of many who from the outside fought to help liberate South Africa from apartheid, who have helped liberate East Timor from centuries of oppression only to see those places liberated into the hands of the IMF or the World Bank. At that point of viability we recede into irrelevance and possibly even become a danger to those states. We are easily discarded. But you do it anyway. from Health Proxy Robert Roth is a writer and co-creator of the magazine And Then. He has been in and around political movements as long as he can remember. _______________________________________________________ Saturday, July 7 7:00 PM Sunday, July 8 1:00 PM Anti-War Expressions with Ollin Imagination Ollin Imagination's Anti-War Expressions is a Latino response to the Iraq war. It is a play combining poetry, spoken word and music toconvey the horrific effects of war on communities in the United States and abroad. These anti-War Expressions aim to be a tool in ending theaggressive military recruitment of poor youth, immigrant youth and all youth of color. The various characters explore the multifaceted dimensions of people affected by the war. The artists delve into the lives and minds of war veterans, soldiers, immigrant recruits, family and children torn by war. 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From urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu Thu Jun 28 22:28:12 2007 From: urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu (urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu) Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 00:28:12 -0400 Subject: [URPE] URPE SUMMER CONFERENCE REMINDER -- PROGRAM and CALL FOR WORKSHOPS -- August 10-13 Message-ID: <46848A5C.5060603@lists.econ.utah.edu> 2007 URPE SUMMER CONFERENCE (Union for Radical Political Economics) GLOBAL MIGRATION AND THE LOGIC OF CAPITALISM Friday, Aug. 10 - Monday, Aug. 13 Camp Deer Run, Pine Bush, NY See the URPE website -- http://urpe.org/urpesumm.html -- for information on the camp: location, directions, facilities, rates, registration form, etc. Contact the URPE National Office if you have further questions: urpe at labornet.org or 413-577-0806 Please register by July 27! Later registration involves an extra fee. Download our flyer -- let others know about our conference: http://urpe.org/URPESumConf07B.pdf ************************************************* CALL FOR WORKSHOPS This year's URPE Summer Workshop/Retreat, August 10 - 13, will focus on the politically current issue of immigration. See the program of plenaries and the David Gordon Lecture below. As always, we will fill the weekend with workshops on all aspects of Radical Political Economy (not just immigration). Some workshops will focus on theoretical work, while others will keep us all abreast of active struggles in the US and around the world. If you'd like to generate and participate in some dialogue on your work with others engaged in the same theoretical and real world struggles, please propose a workshop on it - with a group of one or two others if you know some people working on the same topic, or by yourself if not. The workshop coordinator this year is Graham Cassano. Please send your proposal to Graham at xrgb.com. 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It is a play combining poetry, spoken word and music to convey the horrific effects of war on communities in the United States and abroad. The various characters explore the multifaceted dimensions of people affected by the war. The artists delve into the lives and minds of war veterans, soldiers, immigrant recruits, family and children torn by war. Although filled with the injustices and horrors of war, humor and hope also blend to remind us of the resiliency of human beings and the possibility of a more just and peaceful society. Ollin Imagination's Anti-War Expressions aim to be a tool in ending the aggressive military recruitment of poor youth, immigrant youth and all youth of color and seeks to nurture dialogue and action by placing people closer to the reality of war. It is a call to use our imagination to create a world beyond hatred and the destruction of human beings and the planet that houses us. Suggested donation: $6/$10/$15 Free for Brecht Forum Subscribers ______________________________ Sunday, July 8 4:00 - 7:00 pm BOOK PARTY & READING Health Proxy with Author Robert Roth & Readings by Martha Lincoln, Margaret Mercer, Ralph Nazareth, Myrna Nieves & Carletta Joy Walker 4:00 - Reception 5:00 - Readings Robert Roth's Health Proxy is a dynamic collage of consciousness--bits and pieces of perception, insight, observation, dialogue, interior monologue, commentary, tirade, always deeply personal, profoundly philosophical at times, wide-ranging in its concerns and themes, ever in touch with the particular, deep in its sympathy, resolutely free--or shall we say there's a mighty struggle here to be free--of imperialist assumptions, hierarchical judgments. All of this makes it radically counter-cultural in its politics, a palpable extension of what we were all shaped by in the late 60s and early 70s. Circles of gay men with AIDS would come together. Each man speaking with enormous glee about whom they had cut out of their lives that week. I myself just waiting for that time to come. Pete turning on me in a fury and cutting me out of his life. And to know that the final pleasure you are probably going to give someone is the giddy delight they will feel when they cut you out of their lives is pretty bizarre to say the least. And that knowledge is part of the peculiar numbness that set in that helped me deal with the tragedy we were inside of. Though the situations are not parallel this reminds me of the fate of many who from the outside fought to help liberate South Africa from apartheid, who have helped liberate East Timor from centuries of oppression only to see those places liberated into the hands of the IMF or the World Bank. At that point of viability we recede into irrelevance and possibly even become a danger to those states. We are easily discarded. But you do it anyway. from Health Proxy Robert Roth is a writer and co-creator of the magazine And Then. He has been in and around political movements as long as he can remember. _____________________________________ Friday, July 13th 3-DAY SEMINAR BEGINS Capitalism & Other Unnatural Disasters 29th Annual Intensive Introduction to Marxism Stanley Aronowitz, Bhairavi Desai, Sujatha Fernandes, Forrest Hylton, Lisa Maya Knauer, Randy Martin, Biju Mathew, Rene Francisco Poitevin, Heather Rogers Anwar Shaikh & Others TBA In the face of the pervasive war, poverty and environmental destruction that mark our times and even threaten life on this planet, people are beginning to take a fresh look at the complicity of capitalism in perpetuating these ills. Through lectures, readings and lively discussion, in an adamantly open-minded environment, participants will be introduced to Karl Marx' revolutionary critique of capitalism--not to find a ready-made blueprint for change, nor a dogma that excludes other traditions, but for tools of analysis that can help us to think more strategically and act more effectively. Sliding Scale: $75 - $95 Free for Brecht Forum Subscribers 451 West Street, New York, NY 10014 - (212) 242-4201 - email: brechtforum at brechtforum.org __________________________________________ Saturday, July 14 8:00 PM PERFORMANCE Howard Zinn's Marx in Soho with Tony Palmieri as Karl Marx Directed by Michael J. Murnin Howard Zinn's "Marx in Soho" portrays the return of Marx roughly a century after his death. Embedded in some secular afterlife where intellectuals, artists, and radicals are sent, Marx is given permission by the administrative committee to return to Soho London to have his say. But through a bureaucratic mix-up, he winds up in SoHo in New York. "By showing us Marx the man, Zinn poignantly humanizes him. By showing us Marx the theorist, Zinn gently educates us. And by bringing Marx into today's era, Zinn cleverly and unmistakably argues the relevance of Marx's ideas in our time." -- Backstage West "Whatever your leanings, it's hard not to come out of this show stirred and stimulated." -- San Francisco Bay Guardian Before being injured, Tony Palmieri played a variety of roles ranging from Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream to Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady. Since his injury, he has performed in his one man show, Shakespeare on Wheels directed by his acting coach, Judy Magee.L Howard Zinn, historian, playwright and social activist, is the author of the bestselling A People's History of the United States and Emma, a play about Emma Goldman. Director Michael J. 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Friday 6 July 2007 at 5.00 pm The University of Greenwich Business School, based in the splendid surroundings of the World Heritage Site at Greenwich, has a growing reputation for its innovative academic programmes, research and economic development activities within both the Thames Gateway region and internationally. We have established research groups in the fields of accounting and finance, knowledge management, human resource management, social network analysis and cultural industries management. The school has a strong commitment to diversity and internationalism and this is reflected in our staff and student profiles. As part of our on-going development strategy, the Business School is now seeking the following new appointment to further enhance our delivery of undergraduate and postgraduate degrees, research and community outreach activities. All applicants will be expected to be research active or aspiring to reach research excellence. Salary scale: ?28815 - ?34766 per annum inclusive We aim to be an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all sections of the community. Further particulars for this post can be downloaded by following the links as indicated or by writing to the following address: Personnel Office University of Greenwich Avery Hill Road ?London SE9 2UG Email: Jobs at gre.ac.uk COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY - ONE YEAR POSITION http://delphi.tcnj.edu:8500/test/Employment/show_job.cfm?jobid=4500&category=Academic%20Positions/Faculty Description The Department of Economics and Finance in the School of Business invites applications for a one-year visiting position at the Assistant Professor level beginning fall 2007. The successful applicant is expected to teach principles of microeconomics, principles of macroeconomics, and statistics. A Ph.D. in economics is preferred but ABDs will be considered. A commitment to undergraduate education is expected. The College of New Jersey is widely recognized as an outstanding public college that attracts an exceptional student body. The School of Business offers an AACSB accredited undergraduate business program to about 1,000 students. Contact Information Please submit a cover letter, vita, evidence of quality teaching, graduate transcripts, a sample of recent research, and names of references to Chair, Economics Search Committee, School of Business, The College of New Jersey, PO Box 7718, Ewing, New Jersey 08628-0718 or email schbus at tcnj.edu. Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled. RICHARD STOCKTON COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY - ONE YEAR POSITION ECONOMICS. Visiting Instructor or Visiting Assistant Professor. One-year position, Fall 2007-Spring 2008. Candidates will be expected to teach introductory courses in Economics. Preference will be given to applicants with a Ph.D. in economics, although ABD candidates are encouraged to apply. Teaching load is three courses (12 credit hours) per semester. Teaching experience is desirable, excellent teaching is expected. Additional duties as negotiated under the collective bargaining agreement. Salary is dependent upon experience. Screening will begin July 16 and will continue until the position is filled. Send letter of application, curriculum vitae, graduate transcripts, and three letters of recommendation to: Cheryl R. Kaus, Dean of Social and Behavioral Sciences, The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, AA 154, P.O. Box 195, Pomona NJ 08240. Stockton is an AA/EOE. www.stockton.edu. It is located in southern New Jersey, near Atlantic City, approximately 1 ? hours from Philadelphia and 2 ? hours from NYC. From mzweig at notes.cc.sunysb.edu Mon Jul 2 15:17:37 2007 From: mzweig at notes.cc.sunysb.edu (mzweig at notes.cc.sunysb.edu) Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2007 17:17:37 -0400 Subject: [URPE] New - corrected - international edition of Meeting Face to Face: the Iraq-U.S. Labor Solidarity Tour Message-ID: PLEASE POST AND FORWARD WIDELY Dear Friends and Colleagues - I am pleased to announce the new international edition of the DVD Meeting Face to Face: the Iraq-U.S. Labor Solidarity Tour, now available in the original English with choice of subtitles in Spanish, French, and Arabic. We also have a new teacher guide that links the film to high school social studies standards, with exercises and questions appropriate to many educational settings. You will also find new links to a wide variety of up-to-date government, academic, journalistic, and labor sources of information. The first printing of 1,000 English-only DVDs has sold out. We are pleased to issue this new international edition and offer it as a still-timely education resource that brings the voices of Iraqis directly into the discussion about the future of the occupation and prospects for a democratic peaceful Iraq. For more information and to order the DVD, please visit MeetingFacetoFace.org. peace, Michael Zweig Director, Center for Study of Working Class Life Meeting Face to Face is 27 minutes long, perfect for a half-hour cable TV slot or showing in a class, meeting, or house party. For those with less time on the agenda, the DVD includes a 15-minute "express" version. Both are on the DVD in English and with subtitles. In the debate about the Iraq war and occupation, we rarely hear the voices of those most affected: ordinary Iraqi working people. Breaking through media walls, Meeting Face to Face follows six senior Iraqi labor leaders as they visit 25 U.S. cities on a tour sponsored by U.S. Labor Against the War, sharing their experiences of the war and their visions for Iraq?s future. Meeting with members of the U.S. labor community, the Iraqis express their opposition to the occupation and privatization of Iraq's oil, and explain why an independent labor movement is crucial to creating a democratic Iraqi society. And in a true spirit of international solidarity, we see U.S. working people bringing new energy and commitment to the movement for peace in Iraq. 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Students speak Spanish from the first day and acquire basic speaking, reading, and writing skills while learning about Spanish and Latin American culture. The course introduces basic grammar and pronunciation while developing fundamental communication skills. Students learn to express opinions, physical sensations, feelings, and needs in a simple way. Students will be able to comprehend brief letters and texts related to daily life. Tuition: $275 ______________________________ Tuesday, July 10 6:30 - 8:30 pm 8-SESSION CLASS BEGINS Intermediate Spanish Jose Rosa Students will continue to develop everyday conversational skills while learning more complex grammatical forms. Emphasis will be placed on increasing vocabulary and expressing more sophisticated ideas. At this level students can express opinions, speak on the telephone, understand conversations spoken at normal speed and read general interest texts such as newspapers and magazines. Classes are interactive, stressing conversation while balancing knowledge of grammar with communication and cultural skills. Teaching materials include textbooks, magazines, newspaper articles as well as Latin American and Spanish literature. Tuition: $275 _____________________________________ Wednesday, July 11 6:30 - 9:15 pm 3-SESSION WORKSHOP BEGINS Improve Your Public Speaking Skills! Laurie Kellogg When trying to speak in public, have you ever felt butterflies in your stomach? Has your mind gone blank? Or, have you found you were just rambling on and on? Um, like, ya know, well, uh ........ You are not alone! This hands-on workshop led by experienced trainer Laurie Kellogg will give you practical tips for preparation and delivery, a focus on body language and relaxation techniques, on-camera work and individual feedback in a supportive, fun and relaxed environment Spanish language and bilingual participants are welcome. Laurie Kellogg has taught public speaking for 18 years for members of: The Women's Institute for Leadership Development (WILD), CWA, SEIU/1199, UNITE, UAW, Local 802, USW, Teamsters, AFGE, and Cornell ILR, among others. She has worked on staff for a number of unions including AFTRA/SAG, ILGWU, UNITE, and the USW. __________________________________________________________ The Brecht Forum Needs Your Support! Please click here to make a DONATION The BRECHT FORUM 451 West Street (Between Bank & Bethune) New York, NY 10014 (212) 242- 4201 www.brechtforum.org Transportation: 1, 2, 3 A, C, E to 14th Street, 14A, 11, 20 buses to Abingdon Square (where 8th Avenue meets Hudson Street) 8 bus to 10th & West Streets L to 8th Ave @14th Street. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Water and food for nutrition enable us to live, but for many of the world?s people the availability of both substances is tenuous at best. While food scarcity has been part of human history, more recent changes have heightened concern that limited availability of water threatens a rising portion of the population. The Editorial Board of the Review of Radical Political Economics seeks formal inquiry and critical analysis, artistic expression, and policy proposals dealing with the political economy of water. The themes that could be addressed under this call for papers range far and wide. For instance, water is increasingly a commodity in the global marketplace, and it seems likely to be the object of future conflicts within and between societies. Water is a natural resource, but it is frequently polluted by humans. The market could increasingly determine how water is made available to the world?s population, but given problems of market failure, including those excluded from market participation for lack of income, the market will be a brutal determinant of who gets access to this essential substance. On the other hand, if water is a free good, all uses and abuses of it would be possible without carefully constructed and enforceable regulation. Examples of specific questions of interest that could be addressed include: ?How do current processes for regulating private appropriation of water, for sale or use, work now, and how might they be improved? ?How does the availability of water shape households and the distribution of work in them? ?How might a ?life-line? provision of water as a basic right be organized? ?What principles will guide new efforts to assure access to clean and safe water? ?Global land-use patterns and economic development have, and will, hinge on the availability of water. Is the world turmoil we see over petroleum a forerunner of future battles over water? ?Remediation of environmental pollution of water resources takes on increasingly urgent meaning, but resources for this work remain scarce. Can we better understand or modify how global climate changes affect conditions of drought or flooding? We invite work on these topics and others relevant to the questions of who has and does not have access to water, how privatization affects water, and how this vital resource can be safeguarded and access to it assured. We invite submissions from a variety of perspectives in political economy, including Marxian, neo-Marxian, post-Keynesian, radical institutionalist, feminist, and postmodern. Articles should be 5,000 to 10,000 words in length, inclusive of notes and references. The material submitted can be theoretical, empirical, historical, comparative, or based on case study. We also encourage manuscripts employing interdisciplinary approaches. Please send four copies of submissions for the special issue by 1 May 2008 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 at cornell.edu) Submissions must follow the instructions to contributors listed in the back of the journal and available on our website. All manuscripts are subject to the RRPE?s usual review procedures and should not be under review with any other publication. We strongly encourage authors to send a brief title and abstract as soon as possible, so we can coordinate timely publication of the issue. -------------- 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 at 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/rrpesubm.html. All submissions are subject to the RRPE?s usual review procedures. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Indeed, many believe that we are entering a ?Chinese century.? A special issue of the Review of Radical Political Economics will explore this topic. The following are examples of specific topics that would be welcome (in no particular order of priority). ?Can China continue on its current path of development and at the current pace? What are the economic, social, political, and environmental impacts of its current development path, and what are the limits? ?How does the Chinese path to development compare to the development paths being followed in India, other East Asian countries, or elsewhere? ?What are the causes and consequences of China?s growing inequality of income and wealth? What are the implications of the growing divide by class, legal residency status, and urban vs. rural location for Chinese economic and political development? ?What is the impact of China?s growing demand for oil and other non-renewable resources, much of which has been coming from Africa and Central Asia? ?What are the implications of the imbalances in trade and capital flows between China and the United States, and more generally between China and the rest of the world? ?How does the growing presence of foreign capital affect the political economy of China? How will labor and democratic forces be able to assert their interests in relation to foreign capital? ?What kind of economic system has emerged in China? What modes of production are present in China and how can their social formation be characterized? Is it a form of socialism, capitalism, or something else? What are the political-economic implications of this issue? ?What is the impact of China?s economic rise on the world labor movement? ?What is China?s revolutionary legacy and what are its implications for future Chinese workers? and progressive social movements? ?What are the implications of China?s rapid rise for the political-economic trajectory of a global system in which the United States finds it increasingly difficult to act effectively as the hegemonic power? We invite submissions from a variety of perspectives in political economy, including Marxian, neo-Marxian, post-Keynesian, radical institutionalist, feminist, and postmodern. Please send four copies of submissions for the special issue by 1 August 2008 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 at cornell.edu) Submissions must follow the instructions to contributors listed in the back of the journal and available on our website. All manuscripts are subject to the RRPE?s usual review procedures and should not be under review with any other publication. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 3376 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/urpe-announcements/attachments/20070705/07551f5b/attachment.bin From urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu Sun Jul 8 13:20:55 2007 From: urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu (urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu) Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2007 15:20:55 -0400 Subject: [URPE] Research Methods Relevant to Marxist Political Economy Message-ID: <46913917.8000306@lists.econ.utah.edu> Robin Chang has compiled a list of works on research methods, compiled from URPE responses to his recent listserv query. ************************************* Research Methods Relevant to Marxist Political Economy Bibliography compiled on 7/7/07 Althusser, Louis, ?Reading Capital? (co-author), ?For Marx? Benesch, Phillip, "The Viennese Socrates and Marxism: Karl Popper and the reconstruction of progressive politics" (PhD dissertation, University of Delaware, 2004) Cicourel, ?Method and Measurement in Sociology? Cornforth, Maurice, ?Dialectical Materialism?, etc. Dumenil, Gerard and Dominique Levy, web page http://www.jourdan.ens.fr/levy/ Engels, Frederich, ?Anti-Duhring? Fine, Ben, (1998) ?Labor Market Theory: A Constructive Reassessment? Foley, Duncan, webpage ? papers on methodology on webpage http://cepa.newschool.edu/~foleyd/ Gill, L., (2002) ?Fundamentos y l?mites del capitalismo? Ed.Trotta. Madrid Gill L. (1996) ?Fondements et limites du capitalisme? Montreal, Boreal. Hay, Colin, (2002) ?Political Analysis: A Critical Introduction? Lippit, Victor, ?Capitalism? McCall, Phillip, "An analysis of the methodological foundations of Marxist class theory" (PhD dissertation, University of Denver, 2004) Martella, Ronald C. C, "Research Methods: Learning to Become a Critical Research Consumer" Marx, Karl, ?Capital, Volume I?, ?The Grundrisse?, ?Poverty of Philosophy? Moseley, Fred, ed. - book series on heterodox economic theory Ollman, Bertell, (1993) ?Dialectical Investigations?, (2003) ?Dance of the Dialectic: Steps in Marx?s Method? (esp. cpt. 5), "How To Study Class Consciousness...and Why We Should" (found at www.dialecticalmarxism.com) Peterson, Janice and Margaret Lewis, eds. ?Elgar Companion to Feminist Economics? ? entry on methodology Sacristan, M. (1970) "El trabajo cient?fico de Marx y su noci?n de ciencia", en Sacrist?n, M.: Sobre Marx y marxismo. Panfletos y materiales I. Ed.Fontanela. Barcelona. Sawyer, Malcolm C. and Philip Arestis, eds. ?Elgar Companion to Radical Political Economy? ? entry on methodology Sayer, Andrew, "Method in Social Science: A Realist Approach" Shaikh, Anwar and Tonak, (1994) ?Measuring the Wealth of Nations?, Cambridge University Press Sheppard, Eric and Trevor Barnes, "The Capitalist Space Economy: Geographical Analysis After Ricardo, Marx and Sraffa" Smith, Tony, ?Dialectical Social Theory and Its Critics?, ?The Logic of Marx?s Capital?, etc. Sorokin, ?Fads and Foibles in Modern Sociology and Related Sciences? Sperber, Irwin, (1991) ?Fashions in Science?, University of Minnesota Press Walden, Philip, (2002) "The rise, decline and revival of dialectical materialism" (Ph.D. dissertation University of South Hampton) From Andrew_Kliman at msn.com Mon Jul 9 14:51:22 2007 From: Andrew_Kliman at msn.com (Drewk) Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2007 15:51:22 -0500 Subject: [URPE] Reminder; Wednesday book launch, Reclaiming Marx's "Capital" Message-ID: <029001c7c26a$ed916840$a4ccad04@D5KD0Y41> Book launch for Andrew Kliman's _Reclaiming Marx's 'Capital'_ You are cordially invited to a discussion welcoming the launch of a new work on Marxist economic theory, _Reclaiming Marx's 'Capital': A refutation of the myth of inconsistency_. Date and Time: 6 pm, Wednesday 11th July Place: SOAS (Russell Square), Brunei Gallery, Classroom B104 (London, UK) Speakers: Martin Graham, member, Economic Committee, Communist Party of Britain Chris Harman, editor, _International Socialism_ journal Michael Roberts, columnist at marxist.com Alan Freeman, co-editor, _Marx and Non-equilibrium Economics_ Andrew Kliman, author of _Reclaiming Marx's 'Capital'_ Chair: David Black, author of _Helen Macfarlane_ The discussion will cover recent developments in Marxian value theory, focussing on Dr Kliman's new book. Copies will be available at the reduced rate of ?12, 1/3 off the list price. ========== 'Kliman's arguments operate like a buzz saw clearing away the underbrush of misplaced criticisms that have kept the real _Capital_ hidden. The project is brilliantly and clearly (and for this reader, convincingly) executed. Highly recommended for all those who need _Capital_ (and who doesn't?).' -- Bertell Ollman, New York University 'Cutting through swathes of misconception, the author writes in an accessible way especially for the non-specialist reader and keeps the maths to a minimum.' -- _Labour Research_ ========== The School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) is located at Russell Square, Bloomsbury, and is close to the British Museum and British Library. The nearest tubes are Russell Square, Euston and Euston Square. (For additional directions, visit http://www.soas.ac.uk/contact/location.cfm?navid=1110.) From economagic at juno.com Mon Jul 9 10:47:27 2007 From: economagic at juno.com (Scott A Weir) Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2007 12:47:27 -0400 Subject: [URPE] suggestions for intro courses Message-ID: <20070709.124728.2260.1.economagic@juno.com> Friends and mentors in the heterodox economics community: I am seeking guidance on how to work heterodox concepts and questions into introductory courses in a "heterodox hostile" community college environment, the only economics position I have been able to secure since completing my Ph.D. three years ago. I have my own lists of counterexamples and apparent contradictions in standard theory, e.g., the behavior of the inflation/unemployment relation in the US, 1970-1990. But I would like to offer alternative explanations where possible, and level-appropriate sources for further reading. Since my own schooling was highly orthodox, I am still learning the "heterodox canon," perhaps an oxymoron. I have Fred Lee's paper from MVEA (1995), "A Heterodox Teaching of Neoclassical Microeconomic Theory," but it is oriented to the graduate level. I am teaching macro and micro principles from the Mankiw text, and a survey from the Schiller text. I will have no flexibility in text or topics in the survey course, and only 10% for "Special Projects" in the principles courses. Any help will be greatly appreciated, especially ways of reframing issues for the survey students, and lists of sources accessible to sophomores in business disciplines for the principles courses. Scott A. Weir From leefs at umkc.edu Wed Jul 11 13:04:21 2007 From: leefs at umkc.edu (Lee, Frederic) Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 14:04:21 -0500 Subject: [URPE] Heterodox Economics Newsletter, Issue 46 Message-ID: <9A72753A447165498D6B63479DB2E7C902DAC2C8@KC-MSX3.kc.umkc.edu> Heterodox Economics Newsletter Issue 46: July 14, 2007 From bogus@does.not.exist.com Mon May 28 12:57:13 2007 From: bogus@does.not.exist.com () Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 18:57:13 -0000 Subject: No subject Message-ID: In the last Newsletter I mentioned an article on "Hip Heterodoxy". In the Wednesday July 11, 2007 of the New York Times there is an article on "In Economics Departments, A Growing Will to Debate Fundamental Assumptions ". I think you will find it interesting and perhaps useful in dealing with your own circumstances. I am mentioned and Max Sawicky gives a good plug for the Economic Policy Institute. If you want pictures, you need to get a copy of the NYT. While the Newsletter the usual new call for papers, jobs for heterodox economists, PhD scholarships, etc., there are a couple of items I would like to highlight. One is the Journal of Economic Surveys which has just put out a special issue on "Issues in Heterodox Economics." Secondly, Andrew Mearman has written a paper on teaching heterodox economics which you might find interesting-it is under the section on "Heterodox Conference Papers". Thirdly, Paul Davidson has a new book coming out entitle John Maynard Keynes-you can read about it in the section on "Heterodox Books". Finally, under the FYI section, there is a paper by B. Frey with the provocative title "Publishing as Prostitution" which you might find interesting. Fred Lee In this issue: =20 Call for Papers =20 =20 - Post Keynesian Perspectives on Development Economics - 10th Sustainable Development Conference - Research Network Macroeconomic Policies=20 - China and Global Capital Accumulation: Economic, Political, Social, and Environmental Implications - Review of Radical Political Economics - Review of Radical Political Economics-2 - The Institutional and Social Dynamics of Growth and Distribution - Modern (Industrial) Competitiveness=20 =20 Conferences, Seminars and Lectures =20 =20 - 2007 URPE Summer Conference - Ragnar Nurkse (1907-2007) - EuroMemorandum Group - Book launch for Andrew Kliman's _Reclaiming Marx's 'Capital'_ =20 Job Postings for Heterodox Economists =20 =20 - Postdoctoral Research Vacancies in Development Education - United Steelworkers - Western New England College =20 Heterodox Conference Papers and Reports and Articles =20 =20 - Handbook for Economics Lecturers =20 Heterodox Journals and Newsletters =20 =20 - economic sociology - the european electronic newsletter=20 - Homo Oeconomicus - International Journal of Political Economy- v35 - International Journal of Political Economy- v36 - Journal of Economic Surveys - Metroeconomica - Associative Economics Bulletin - Revista De Economia Institucional =20 Heterodox Books, Book Series, and Book Reviews =20 =20 - Edward Elgar - Keynes and his Battles - John Maynard Keynes - World Economic and Social Survey 2007: Development in an Ageing World - Competition: The Birth of a New Science=20 - National Perspectives on Globalization: A Critical Reader - Regional Perspectives on Globalization: A Critical Reader =20 Heterodox Graduate Program and PhD Scholarships =20 =20 - Allocation De Recherche Du Ministere de L'Enseignement Superieur Et De La Recherche - Research Grant from the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research - Centre for Innovation & Structural Change (CISC) =20 Heterodox Websites =20 =20 - DESA- Policy Notes - New Post Keynesian Study Group (UK) Web Site =20 For Your Information =20 =20 - Foreign Policy in Focus - The Heterodox Economist - Publishing as Prostitution? Choosing Between One's Own Ideas and Academic Failure =20 ------_=_NextPart_001_01C7C3EE.4A4A943D Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Heterodox = Economics Newsletter

Issue 46: July 14, = 2007

From the Editor

In the last Newsletter I mentioned an = article on “Hip Heterodoxy”. In the Wednesday July 11, 2007 of the = New York Times there is an article on = “In Economics Departments, A Growing Will to Debate Fundamental = Assumptions”. I think you will find it interesting and perhaps useful in dealing with = your own circumstances. I am mentioned and Max Sawicky gives a good plug for = the Economic Policy Institute. If you want pictures, you need to get a copy = of the NYT.

While the Newsletter the usual new = call for papers, jobs for heterodox economists, PhD scholarships, etc., there are = a couple of items I would like to highlight. One is the Journal of Economic = Surveys which has just put out a special issue on “Issues in Heterodox Economics.” Secondly, Andrew Mearman has written a paper on = teaching heterodox economics which you might find interesting—it is under = the section on “Heterodox Conference Papers”. Thirdly, Paul = Davidson has a new book coming out entitle John Maynard = Keynes—you can read about it in the section on “Heterodox Books”. = Finally, under the FYI section, there is a paper by B. Frey with the provocative = title “Publishing as Prostitution” which you might find = interesting.

Fred Lee

In this = issue:

 

Call for = Papers

 <= /p>

- = Post Keynesian Perspectives on Development Economics
- 10th Sustainable Development Conference
- Research Network Macroeconomic Policies
- China and Global Capital Accumulation: Economic, Political, Social, and Environmental Implications
- Review of Radical Political Economics
- Review of Radical Political Economics-2
- The Institutional and Social Dynamics of Growth and Distribution
- Modern (Industrial) = Competitiveness 

 

Conferences, Seminars and Lectures

 

- = 2007 URPE Summer Conference
- Ragnar Nurkse (1907-2007)
- EuroMemorandum Group
- Book launch for Andrew Kliman's _Reclaiming Marx's = 'Capital'_

 

Job Postings for Heterodox = Economists

 

- Postdoctoral Research Vacancies in Development Education
- United Steelworkers
- Western New England College<= /p>

 

Heterodox Conference Papers and = Reports and Articles

 

- = Handbook for Economics Lecturers

 

Heterodox = Journals and Newsletters

 

- = economic sociology - the european electronic newsletter
- Homo Oeconomicus
- International Journal of Political Economy- v35
- International Journal of Political Economy- v36
- Journal of Economic Surveys
- Metroeconomica
- Associative Economics Bulletin
- Revista De Economia Institucional

 

Heterodox Books, Book Series, = and Book Reviews

 

- = Edward Elgar
- Keynes and his Battles
- John Maynard Keynes
- World Economic and Social Survey 2007: Development in an Ageing = World
- Competition: The Birth of a New Science
- National Perspectives on Globalization: A Critical Reader
- Regional Perspectives on Globalization: A Critical = Reader

 

Heterodox Graduate Program and = PhD Scholarships

 

- = Allocation De Recherche Du Ministere de L'Enseignement Superieur Et De La = Recherche
- Research Grant from the French Ministry of Higher Education and = Research
- Centre for Innovation & Structural Change = (CISC)

 

Heterodox = Websites

 

- = DESA- Policy Notes
- New Post Keynesian Study Group (UK) Web = Site

 

For Your = Information

 

- = Foreign Policy in Focus
- The Heterodox Economist
- Publishing as Prostitution? Choosing Between One's Own Ideas and = Academic Failure

 

------_=_NextPart_001_01C7C3EE.4A4A943D-- From leefs at umkc.edu Fri Jul 13 07:27:51 2007 From: leefs at umkc.edu (Lee, Frederic) Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 08:27:51 -0500 Subject: [URPE] Possible heterodox Job and Publishing Message-ID: <9A72753A447165498D6B63479DB2E7C902DAC52C@KC-MSX3.kc.umkc.edu> EASTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY - the home of Dave Bunting, the famous Post Keynesian economist Subject to final budget approval, we have a temporary position to teach primarily principles for the academic year 2007-08. Pay about $44,000 pa plus benefits. Those interested should contact Tom Trulove, Chair, Economics PAT300 Eastern Washington University Cheney WA 99004 email: ttrulove at mail.ewu.edu phone: 509-235-4852 PUBLISHER LOOKING FOR A HETERODOX ECONOMIST TO WRITE A PRIMER AGAINST THE CENSENSUS OF FREE-MARKET ECONOMICS--see below and if you are interested contact Ivan Dee Dear Mr. Lee: I saw you quoted in the New York Times story this morning about the growing debate over free-market economics. I was interested because I've been looking for someone who might write a relatively brief book for general readers, a primer of sorts, setting forth the argument against the traditional consensus. Is this something that might interest you, or any of your colleagues? Best wishes, Ivan Dee Ivan R. Dee, Publisher 1332 North Halsted Street Chicago, IL 60622 312-787-6262 fax 312-787-6269 From leefs at umkc.edu Tue Jul 17 07:30:10 2007 From: leefs at umkc.edu (Lee, Frederic) Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 08:30:10 -0500 Subject: [URPE] revising heterodox journals list Message-ID: <9A72753A447165498D6B63479DB2E7C902DAC83C@KC-MSX3.kc.umkc.edu> Dear Colleagues, I am revising the heterodox journals list that appears in the "Informational Directory for Heterodox Economists" that appears on the Heterodox Economics Newsletter web site: http://www.heterodoxnews.com . I have attached the journal information that is currently in the "Informational Directory". If you think that any of the material should be changed and/or you know of heterodox journals that should be added, would you please send me the information. 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 at umkc.edu Book Series Editor of "Advances in Heterodox Economics" For Heterodox Economics Newsletter: http://www.heterodoxnews.com For the Association for Heterodox Economics: http://www.hetecon.com . International Confederation of Associations for Pluralism in Economics (ICAPE): http://icape.org/ For current and previous issues of the HEN see 'news' section of http://www.hetecon.com/ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 5890 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/urpe-announcements/attachments/20070717/8c638d0e/attachment.txt -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: revisionjournals.doc Type: application/msword Size: 223232 bytes Desc: revisionjournals.doc Url : http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/urpe-announcements/attachments/20070717/8c638d0e/attachment-0001.doc From Ismael.Zadeh at DRAKE.EDU Tue Jul 24 18:56:30 2007 From: Ismael.Zadeh at DRAKE.EDU (Ismael Hossein-Zadeh) Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 19:56:30 -0500 Subject: [URPE] The Political Economy of U.S. Militarism Message-ID: <002101c7ce56$a336dee0$a902480a@drake.edu> Due to strong demand, Ismael Hossein-zadeh's The Political Economy of U.S. Militarism was recently released in paperback-barely nine months after it was initially published in hardcover. Now accessible to the average pocketbook, The Political Economy of U.S. Militarism can serve as a valuable text for courses taught on the economics of war and military spending. The following is a press release on the occasion of the publication of the paperback edition of the book. ------------------- NEW BOOK CHALLENGES U.S. MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX The Political Economy of U.S. Militarism By Ismael Hossein-zadeh, Professor of Economics, Drake University ------------------------------- How do we explain the increasing militarization of US foreign policy? And why is America losing the moral compass it held not long ago? 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, Hossein-zadeh 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) ? "Ismael Hossein-zadeh's The Political Economy of U.S. Militarism will greatly surprise readers who imagine that what lies between its covers is an abstruse economics argument or a rant against the war in Iraq. The book is extremely helpful in how it identifies and then dismantles what Hossein-zadeh considers weak explanations for why the United States continues to engage in military intervention and expansion abroad." ( Anne R. Richards, Fulbright Fellow, University of Sfax, Tunisia) ? "Hossein-zadeh offers us an economic interpretation of militarism that should be added to our national debate." (James L. Romig Albee Professor, Drake University) ? "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. 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." (Paul Burkett, Professor of Economics, Indiana State University) ? "Professor Hossein-zadeh's scholarly yet eminently readable text truly is a "must-read" for anyone who wants a convincing explanation for the wide gap that has arisen between America and much of the world and why our present imperial foreign policy relentlessly seeks to impose American-style capitalism on the rest of the world." ( Frank J. Messmann, Ph.D. [ret.], State University of New York) ? "I loved it. It's packed with explicit information on the tight relationship and revolving door between war profiteers and government officials--they're often one and the same--naming names and providing dollar amounts and sources of information. When you study this book, you will gain an understanding of what motivates the neocons to start wars. Money makes the world go around: you will learn a great deal about why the current US administration bombed Afghanistan, then Iraq, and now appears to be aimed at Iran. . . . I'm a writer and use this book as a reference." ( L. E Lenius (Minneapolis, MN) ? "The Political Economy of U.S. Militarism offers much food for thought for anyone concerned with the destructive bent of recent U.S. foreign policy. Although it appears as an academic book, it is equally appealing and accessible to informed general public interested in learning about the forces behind the militarization of U.S. foreign policy." (Kamran Nayeri, Ph.D., Survey Research Center, University of California, Berkeley) 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-zadeh/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 515-447-2352, or ismael.zadeh at drake.edu -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Download our flyer -- let others know about our conference: http://urpe.org/URPESumConf07B.pdf ************************************************* PROGRAM FRIDAY, AUGUST 10 2:00 - 4:00 Steering Committee Meeting 4:00. REGISTRATION BEGINS AND CONTINUES ALL WEEKEND 5:00. RECEPTION/INTRODUCTION TO URPE 6:00. DINNER 6:00. Graduate students who have already arrived meet over dinner. 7:00 - 9:00. PLENARY 1: THE CHANGING NATURE OF LABOR STRUGGLES IN THE UNITED STATES Theory and Practice: A Labor Activist Reflects on Controversies in Economic Theory. Brian Callaci, Campaigner, UNITE HERE. Building the Movement for a New Social Contract in New Haven, Connecticut and Beyond. Gwen Mills, CT/RI Political Director, UNITE HERE; Community Organizer, Connecticut Center for a New Economy. Rebuilding the U.S. Labor Movement: Competing Visions and the Road Not Taken. Mark Brenner, Labor Notes. 9:15 - 11:00. Informal socializing: catching up with old friends, getting to know new ones. SATURDAY, AUGUST 11 8:00. BREAKFAST 8:45 - 9:30 Continued discussion from the plenary session Friday night 9:45 - 10:40 Site A: After the War is Over: the Political Economy of the US Neoliberal Military State. (Chris Rude) Site B: Competition: the Birth of a New Science (Jim Case) 10: 55 -12:00 Site A: Immigration, Emigration, and the Irish past and present. (Brendan Mark, Graham Cassano, Mike Ryan) Site B: Political Economy perspectives of financial institutions in economic development (Leanne Ussher, Laura Ebert, Rex McKenzie) 12:00. LUNCH 1:00 - 2:00. RECREATION. Swim, hike, relax with friends. 2:15 - 3:45. Site A: The Political Economy of Motherhood (Marie Duggan, Tami Ohler, Ayanna Bledsoe) Site B: Class Analysis and the Soviet Union (David Laibman, Rick Wolff, Paddy Quick) 4:00 - 5:30. Site A: Monopoly Capitalism, Class Consciousness, and Organizing (Andrew Jones, Dave Shukla, Chip Smith) Site B : Theoretical Constructions of Household Production (Harriet Fraad, Paddy Quick, Rick Wolff, Graham Cassano) 6:00. DINNER 7:00 - 9:00. PLENARY 2: CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES OF TRANSNATIONAL MIGRATION Female Migrant Labor and the Global Integration of Labor Markets. Salimah Valiani, Social and Economic Policy Department of the Canadian Labor Congress. Economic Insecurity and Remittances as Causes for Migration. Alex Julca, Researcher. Migration Chains to Chained Migration: The Rise of the U.S. Temporary Migrants. Manny Ness, Professor of Political Science, Brooklyn College, CUNY. A current previous book of his on this subject is Unions, Immigrants and the New US labor Market. 9:15 - 12:00. ENTERTAINMENT. Back (but expanded!) by popular demand (from us), dance and/or chill out to the phenomenal (it really is) sounds of Soul Purpose. Here's what they say about their band: SOUL PURPOSE is a seven-piece DANCE BAND- Male and female lead vocals, sax, trumpet, guitar, bass, drums and keyboards. DANCE MUSIC is what we play. Combining the impact of a solid rhythm section with dynamic horn lines and a powerful vocal presence, we've been hitting the party, club, festival and wedding scene with a "Soulful" punch since 1998. Our repertoire includes Soul, Motown, Rock, Swing, Blues and Jazz. We play tunes that are irresistible---fun for both dancers and listeners alike! SUNDAY, AUGUST 12 8:00. BREAKFAST 8:45 - 9:30. Continued discussion from the plenary session Saturday night 9:45 - 10:40. Site A: The Pillars of Marxist Theory (Alex Tokarev) Site B: The Current State of Labor Studies Programs (Frances Boyes) 10:55 - 11:50 Site A: Evaluating the Rise of Neoliberalism in Latin America: the Cases of Argentina, Brazil and Mexico (Paul Cooney) Site B: Recent Trends in Privatization of the Commons and International Capital: The Rise of "Nature's Real Estate Agency" in New York and the Global Economy (Irwin Sperber) 12:00. LUNCH 12:00. Women's Caucus meets over lunch. 1:00 - 2:00. BUSINESS MEETNG for URPE members. For non URPE members, a recreation period as on Saturday 2:05 - 2:50. Site A: Labor Migration and World Systems Theory (Paul Hancock) Site B: Report on the Atlanta Social Forum (Germai Medhanie, Julie Matthaei) 3:05 - 4:00. Site A: The High Cost of Free Trade (Jon Hunt) Site B: Welfare Transformed: The Hidden Story (Robert Cherry) 4:15 - 5:45. The DAVID GORDON LECTURE Radical Economics and Social Change Movements: Strengthening the Links between Academics and Activists. Jim Stanford, Economist, Canadian Auto Workers union; Economics columnist, The Globe and Mail newspaper. 6:00. DINNER 7:00 - 9:00. Film and Discussion: Sacco andVanzetti (introduced by Rina Garst) "Miller realizes that the political passions fuelled by Sacco and Vanzetti in the 1920s are supremely pertinent to our own era's democratic crises. Anti-immigrant paranoia, threats to civil liberties, and rigged courtrooms are far from new. The film reminds a new generation that these inequities became catalysts for an international mass movement in the early part of the twentieth century." Cineaste. 9:30 - 11:00. ENTERTAINMENT. Radical Folk Music, led by David Laibman and Gil Skillman. Bring your instruments, and be prepared to sing along! MONDAY, AUGUST 13 8:00. BREAKFAST 8:50 - 9:45. Site A: Book Symposium--The Politics of Immigration (David Wilson, Jane Guskin) Site B: Exploring the Solidarity Economy Framework and Founding the U.S. Solidarity Economy (Germai Medhanie, Julie Matthaei) 9:55 - 10:50. Site A: Measuring Wellbeing in a Meaningful Way. (Tom Masterson) Site B: 11:00 - 11.55 Site A: Cuba Update (Al Campbell, Susan Metz) Site B: Transformation Central (Germai Medhanie, Julie Matthaei) 12:00. LUNCH See you all next year! -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Be part of the magic and help set up chairs, music tables and refreshments stands. If you are interested please contact Kazembe at 212-242-4201, ext.11 or kazembe at brechtforum.org ________________________________________________________ Friday, July 27 CELEBRATE INDEPENDENT MEDIA! Join us for a night with the radical journalists, artists andactivists of http://www.indypendent.org The Indypendent at The Brecht Forum. Saturday, July 28 from 7:00-9:00pm. The evening will include: --10 ways to fight scum-sucking landlords with Tenants' Voice columnist Bennett Baumer --Organizing solutions to global warming outside a capitalistframework with The Indypendent's environmental editor Jessica Lee. --a slide presentation of the best of the best Indy Illustrations with art director Frank Reynoso -A viewing of the short, "The Indypendent" a behind the scenes lookat the creation of a radical newspaper produced by Amy Wolf with music by Steven Wishnia. Publsihing since 2000, The Indypendent is the award-winning, bi-weekly newspaper of the New York City Independent Media Center. Says Naomi Klein, "The Indypendent has grown into a newspaper with an utterlyunique perspective: the perspective of neighborhoods. Locally, it takes readers into fierce community-based struggles for everything from affordable housing and the right to bike. Amazingly, given its tiny budget, it has also managed to bring that same crusading grassrootsperspective to national and international coverage, reporting on the whole world as a collection of neighborhoods, all struggling forjustice -- from New Orleans' drowned Lower 9th Ward to Lebanon's shattered suburbs to Mexico's cities in revolt." Wine and cheese reception to follow. Suggested donation: $6/$10/$15 Free for Brecht Forum Subscribers 451 West Street, New York, NY 10014 - (212) 242-4201 - email: brechtforum at brechtforum.org __________________________________________________________ Wednesday, August 1 7:30 pm FILM SCREENING & DISCUSSION Co-sponsor: Mal De Ojo TV Compromiso Cumplido (True to My Pledge) Documentary | 70 min Discussion with Filmmaker Damian Lopez Compromiso Cumplido is the first of a two-part documentary about the human rights violations during the current conflict in Oaxaca. The flim documents human rights violations committed by Governor Ulises Ruiz Ortiz during the social mobilizations in Oaxaca in 2006 and some of the horrors committed against the civil society of Oaxaca. To date 25 known deaths have been reported, and yet there have been no criminal accusations or investigations for these murders. 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Name: file:///Macintosh%20HD/Temporary%20Items/nsmail.txt Url: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/urpe-announcements/attachments/20070727/0b8558c9/attachment-0002.txt From hsedghi at fas.harvard.edu Sat Jul 28 10:09:25 2007 From: hsedghi at fas.harvard.edu (hsedghi at fas.harvard.edu) Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2007 12:09:25 -0400 Subject: [URPE] New Book:Women and Politics in Iran:Veiling, Unveiling, and Reveiling Message-ID: <1185638964.46ab6a35021a7@webmail.fas.harvard.edu> Dear friends: In the hope that you might be interested in reading and ordering my new book for your libraries, below please find a brief descriton, the URL, and a few "blurbs" on the title: Hamideh Sedghi WOMEN AND POLITICS IN IRAN Veiling, Unveiling, and Reveiling Cambridge University Press July 2007 DESCRIPTION: Why were urban women veiled in the early 1900s, unveiled from 1936 to 1979, and reveiled after the 1979 revolution? This question forms the basis of Hamideh Sedghi's original and unprecedented contribution to politics and Middle Eastern studies. Using primary and secondary sources, Sedghi offers new knowledge on women's agency in relation to state power. In this rigorous analysis she places contention over women at the centre of the political struggle between secular and religious forces and demonstrates that control over women's identities, sexuality, and labor has been central to the consolidation of state power. Sedghi links politics and culture with economics to present an integrated analysis of the private and public lives of different classes of women and their modes of resistance to state power. URL: http://www.cambridge.org/uk/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521835817 BLURBS: ?A very illuminating historical account of the ways in which gender has played a central role in Iranian politics. The processes of veiling, unveiling, and reveiling provide a rich background around which much more is analyzed ? from the efforts to control women?s sexuality, to factors affecting women?s labor force participation, to the active and important role played by women?s agency at many levels. Sedghi has accumulated an enormous amount of information that documents Iran?s development path and the historical, political, and cultural contexts that have shaped women?s lives, gender dynamics, and gender politics throughout the twentieth century and up to the present. The book is likely to become a key text for anyone interested not only in Iran and the Muslim world, but also in the wider issues of gender and development and of feminist politics." ? LOURDES BENER?A, Cornell University ?It is impossible to imagine more timely circumstances for the publication of Hamideh Sedghi's groundbreaking scholarship in the field of Iranian women?s studies. Predicated on an illustrious and unparalleled record of solid scholarship, Hamideh Sedghi?s Women and Politics in Iran: Veiling, Unveiling, and Reveiling is a comprehensive study of the vicissitude of the status of women in modern Iran from the Qajar period in the nineteenth century to the Islamic Republic in the twenty-first century.... Hamideh Sedghi?s impeccable scholarship, judicious insights, and caring intellect set the record straight and pave the way for a renewed commitment to the just and noble cause of women?s liberation movements across the globe. One reads page after page of Hamideh Sedghi?s learned book with a sigh of relief that against the grain of a treacherous time, the record and defense of women?s struggles for freedom, justice, and equality are still in very capable and caring hands.? ? HAMID DABASHI, Columbia University ?Deftly highlighting the centrality of gender as a crucial category for understanding politics in Iran, Sedghi?s ground-breaking book achieves multiple tasks: showing that in post-revolutionary Iran women are active agents of their own destiny and that they engage purposefully with the state, challenging its gender policies. She weaves a theoretically and empirically sound framework for understanding the mutually constitutive relationship between the state?s desire to control women?s labor and sexuality in order to forge legitimacy and consolidate power and women?s resistance to articulate their own drives and objectives. Sedghi sheds light on the changing structure and function of veiling for women by taking a historical and comparative perspective within Iran, and thus challenging the Orientalist myth of oppressed and victimized women in the Muslim world. This book is a must-read for every person interested in women and politics in Iran, in the Middle East, and in the Muslim world.? ? SHAHLA HAERI, Boston University ?Through the lens of the veil, Hamideh Sedghi produces a stunning account of the multiple positionings of women in a complex history. The veil functions as an instrument making legible a century-long battle between women and the state in Iran. The depth of knowledge and the original research the author brings to the subject makes this study a window into a foundational process, one not confined to Iran or to the veil.? ? SASKIA SASSEN, University of Chicago ?A dynamic and provocative account about the ways in which the veil in Iran has been appropriated by the state to further its domestic and international goals. Rich in detail and using a historical approach, this persuasive book enhances our understanding about gender politics in modern day Iran.? ? AMANEY JAMAL, Princeton University ?....Rooted in the nineteenth century, political and economic interests intersected with those of culture, class, and region, as well as those of religion, in a struggle over the contested terrain of women?s bodies and allegiances that Sedghi finds symbolized and in some ways embodied in veiling, unveiling, and reveiling. ?Vivid portraits, sometimes in a few lines, sometimes in several pages, of courageous Iranian women who dared to confront authority enliven and illuminate a narrative that has broad theoretical significance for understanding what happens to women everywhere. ?Sedghi raises the basic question: ?What is the meaning of women?s sexuality that its control or decontrol assumes importance for the state and its development strategies?? This book compellingly establishes how the state, ?whether weak or strong, secular or religious, Westernizing or Islamizing? manipulates women?s sexuality to legitimize its politics and consolidate its powers. ?The importance of unveiling is more than an association with secularism, Westernism, and modernism, just as reveiling means more than a return to cultural authenticity, Islamic fundamentalism, or Islamic revivalism. Sedghi demonstrates how veiling, unveiling, and reveiling have tremendous political significance for ?the history of women?s agency, their responses to the state and clergy, and their attempts to carve out their own place in society and the marketplace.? ?Sedghi does not neglect the women who supported the proponents of veiling. She writes of their politics fairly and with insight. But she does tell us that ?women were reveiled forcibly,? and that they increasingly lost what little ownership they had over their own bodies as they found themselves increasingly ?under men?s will and whim.? ?No study of Iran gives us a better picture of Iranian women in all of their complexity ? whether pro-regime or anti-establishment, urban or rural, religious or secular ? and in all of their dimensions of class, philosophy, and political alliances than does this landmark volume.? ? IRVING LEONARD MARKOVITZ, Queens College and the Graduate Center, the City University of New York Hamideh Sedghi Center for Middle Eastern Studies Harvard University hsedghi at fas.harvard.edu From urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu Sun Jul 29 16:12:07 2007 From: urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu (urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu) Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2007 18:12:07 -0400 Subject: [URPE] URPE Conference: Rides and Child Care Info -- Please Respond Right Away! Message-ID: <46AD10B7.2010505@lists.econ.utah.edu> RIDES If you can provide a ride to the URPE Summer Conference, please let us know as soon as possible. If you need a ride, let us know that also. (We can not guarantee a ride, but we will try.) CHILD CARE Child care is free. However, we can only guarantee child care if you notify the national office of your specific need (number of children, age) by Friday, August 3rd. We welcome families, and the camp and surrounding area have many child-oriented activities and locales. Maximum Registration Fees for families with children are: $300 (low income), $400 (middle income), and $600 (high income/institutional). CONTACT THE URPE NATIONAL OFFICE about rides or child care: URPE at labornet.org 413-577-0806 See full summer conference information at www.urpe.org. From jbostrom at si.rr.com Mon Jul 30 18:00:13 2007 From: jbostrom at si.rr.com (John D. Bostrom) Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 20:00:13 -0400 Subject: [URPE] Replacing the permanent war economy - with what? Message-ID: <022301c7d305$c52c9900$6701a8c0@HP> I wish I could afford to attend the upcoming URPE conference, but unfortunately, there's no way, in either time or money, that I can do that. However, I'd like to pose this question for consideration. I know this isn't a discussion list, but if anyone would like to respond to me directly I would appreciate that. As an activist with Peace Action, I've been trying to get Seymour Melman's "economic conversion" project revitalized for over a year. I've come to the conclusion, regrettably, that the peace movement is simply too invested in saying NO to war and nukes etc to sustain the positive vision needed to create any sustainable economic program. My current thinking is that we have to go outside the peace movement for this. Not to academia - Melman tried that, and all the people who were working with him have apparently moved on to other things - but to the climate change/ecology movement. The issues are after all connected. War as practiced by the USA is almost completely about economics, and about energy in particular. Defending and acquiring non-renewable energy sources. My question for URPE is, where's the vision of a sustainable peaceful economy? Something that will replace the war economy? What do we have to do to make it work? How would it work? Something that would employ everyone now employed in making nukes, missiles, tanks, airplanes, guns, ships, etc, in an economy that would enable us to cut back on those things really drastically? How do we convert the military bases to ecology and alt energy sources? How does that work? Is it economically feasible? If so, why aren't people working on it? Why isn't it being promoted? Until we have that positive YES to offer the American public, all the NO war, NO nukes, NO this and NO that will fall on deaf ears. Can URPE provide some answers? Some realistic solutions? Where's the private industry/academic collaboration on this? We certainly have it for military stuff and commercial stuff. Isn't peace commercial? Isn't peace economically viable? Where are the centers, the projects? Where's the academic/govt/industrial basis of a New "New Deal" that will transform the war economy into a sustainable, renewable, positive and survivable economy? John Bostrom jb at panys.org -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Click here ________________________________________________________________ Wednesday, August 1 7:30 pm FILM SCREENING & DISCUSSION Co-sponsor: Mal De Ojo TV Compromiso Cumplido (True to My Pledge) Human Rights in Oaxaca Documentary | 70 min Discussion with Filmmaker Damian Lopez Compromiso Cumplido is the first of a two-part documentary about the human rights violations during the current conflict in Oaxaca. The flim documents human rights violations committed by Governor Ulises Ruiz Ortiz during the social mobilizations in Oaxaca in 2006 and some of the horrors committed against the civil society of Oaxaca. To date 25 known deaths have been reported, and yet there have been no criminal accusations or investigations for these murders. Mal de Ojo TV is a collective of media activists who came together during the 2006 popular uprising in Oaxaca to document and disseminate images and stories from the front lines of the Oaxacan People's Popular Assembly's unprecedented struggle for collective liberation. Suggested donation: $6/$10/$15 Free for Brecht Forum Subscribers 451 West Street, New York, NY 10014 - (212) 242-4201 - email: brechtforum at brechtforum.org ________________________________________ Thursday, August 2 7:30 pm James Baldwin Birthday Celebration Black August Event James Baldwin: Life and Legacies An Activist-Artist Round table Kenyon Farrow,Joan Gibbs, Reggie Gossett, Anika Haynes, Hank Williams, Ajamu Sankofa, Join us for an activist round-table on the life and legacies of Black gay author/human rights activists James Baldwin, on the anniversary of his 81st birthday. Considered one of the preeminent intellectuals of the 20th century, Baldwin (author of Go Tell It on the Mountain, The Fire Next Time, and Blues for Mr.Charlie) crossed the boundaries of race and sexuality. This activist artist round table we look at what we can learn from Baldwin's legacy in the struggle for human rights. There will be a showing of rare footage of the debate between Malcolm X and James Baldwin. Followed by a community open mic. Bring your favorite Baldwin passages to share! Suggested donation: $6/$10/$5 Free for Brecht Forum Subscribers ______________________________________________________________ Friday, August 3 7:30 pm-10:00 PM Saturday August 4 12-5:00 PM Sunday August 5 12-5:00 PM 3-DAY MARATHON FILM SCREENING BEGINS What We Want/What We Believe The Black Panther Party Library Ashanti Alston, S.E. Anderson, Roz Payne & Others TBA Formed in 1967, the Newsreel film collective was dedicated to chronicling and analyzing current events. In their time, they produced more than three dozen films throughout the US and abroad. By working directly with the Black Panthers, Newsreel was able to explore realities often ignored by traditional media outlets, while producing documents that the Panthers and other activists could use in organizing their own communities. The results speak for themselves and stand as true testimonials to the spirit of community self-defense and political savvy the Panthers are celebrated--and were targeted--for. Accompanying the Newsreel films is a massive quantity of rare and exclusive materials culled from Roz Payne's extensive collection of FBI documents, correspondence, and interviews with Black Panthers and their supporters. It's all here, the government-sponsored repression, the trials, exile, triumph, and reunion. What We Want, What We Believe is not a straight-forward documentary--the additional materials are like Roz Payne's home movies--but more like a tapestry woven from fragments of cloth. As a whole, these fragments present a rich and provocative history, straight from the mouths of Panthers, their supporters, and even the agents charged with neutralizing them. These materials--over 12 hours--are crucial to our continuing understanding of the Black Panther Party and their legacy. Any student of American History, Black Studies, Political Science & Law, Film Studies, or Civil Rights struggles will find a wealth of valuable information in the Library. Suggested donation: $6/$10/$5 Free for Brecht Forum Subscribers 451 West Street, New York, NY 10014 - (212) 242-4201 - email: brechtforum at brechtforum.org _____________________________________ Saturday, August 4 3:00 - 8:30 pm NEUES KABARETT Location: Hudson River Park Picnic House on Pier 40 (Hudson River and West Houston Street) Co-sponsor: Friends of Hudson River Park Homemade Instruments Festival Terry Dame, Kali Fasteau, Cooper-Moore, Melissa Moore & Bradford Reed 3:00 pm - Instrument-making workshops led by Cooper-Moore, Melissa Moore and Kali Fasteau Participants in Melissa Moore's workshop will learn to make contact-microphones. Kali Z. Fasteau will lead a bamboo flute-making workshop. Cooper-Moore will teach participants how to fashion instruments out of ordinary copy paper, tape & plastic straws. SPACE IS LIMITED TO BE SURE OF A PLACE, RSVP by calling 212-242-4201 (please note your first and second choice) 5:30 pm - Performance Melissa Moore "magnification of minute sound sources, focusing on the physical properties of materials and unusual acoustic phenomena in a reductive and elemental way" Terry Dame & Electric Junkyard Gamelan "transporting...beautiful and inspired sounds" ~ Village Voice Bradford Reed with Jane Scarpantoni & Geoff Gersh "the Pencilina sounds like Jimi Hendrix and Buddy Rich playing Dueling Banjos" ~ Smithsonian Free 451 West Street, New York, NY 10014 - (212) 242-4201 - email: brechtforum at brechtforum.org _________________________________________ The Brecht Forum Needs Your Support! 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Click here ________________________________________________________________ Monday, August 6 7:30 pm Remembering our Ancestors, Celebrating our Heritage Music and Social Struggles of the Peoples of the Central Himalaya Shekhar Pathak, Narendra Singh Negi & Girish Tiwari (Girda) Musical and visual presentation by Dr Shekhar Pathak, a researcher and activist, and Girda and Narendra Negi, cultural activists of the region. Between 1984 and 2004, Dr Pathak participated in several marches through Uttarakhand, the region of Northern India which lies between Nepal and Himachal Pradesh. During the tour, the group collected folklore and oral histories, interviewed the freedom fighters of the region, and studied the environmental changes of the region. They will share their stories and histories of their home through Kumaoni and Garhwali songs and Hurka, their folk musical instrument. Shekar Pathak is Senior Fellow at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, Teen Murti House, New Delhi- India Narendra Singh Negi and Girish Tiwari are folksingers from the Uttarakhand region Suggested donation: $6/$10/$15 Free for Brecht Forum Subscribers ________________________________________ Thursday, August 9 7:30 pm FILMS & DISCUSSION Cuba Negra Discussion with Filmmaker Ricardo Bacallao An evening of short films by Ricardo Bacallao, a recent graduate of Cuba's Instituto Superior de Arte Works include A Short Radiography of Hip Hop in Cuba and The Maji-Maji Readings, which looks at the experiences of Afro-Germans. Ricardo Bacalloa graduated from ISA in 2003. He is a member of the Association of Young Creators in Cuba and also the Cuban Video Movement. Suggested donation: $6/$10/$5 Free for Brecht Forum Subscribers ______________________________________________________________ Monday, August 13 7:30 pm Waiting 'til The Midnight Hour A Narrative History of Black Power Peniel Joseph The Black Power Movement transformed America's racial, social, and political landscape. Come learn about this movement's heritage and legacy from activist and scholar Dr. Peniel E. Joseph, who will be reading from his book Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America. $6/$10/$15 Free for Brecht Forum Subscribers 451 West Street, New York, NY 10014 - (212) 242-4201 - email: brechtforum at brechtforum.org _________________________________________ The Brecht Forum Needs Your Support! Please click here to make a DONATION The BRECHT FORUM 451 West Street (Between Bank & Bethune) New York, NY 10014 (212) 242- 4201 www.brechtforum.org Transportation: 1, 2, 3 A, C, E to 14th Street, 14A, 11, 20 buses to Abingdon Square (where 8th Avenue meets Hudson Street) 8 bus to 10th & West Streets L to 8th Ave @14th Street. _______________________________________________ Brecht events1 mailing list Brecht events1 at lists.mayfirst.org https://lists.mayfirst.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/brechtevents1 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 6937 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/urpe-announcements/attachments/20070803/934df8a2/attachment.txt -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... 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IF YOU PLAN TO ATTEND BUT HAVE NOT ALREADY REGISTERED, PLEASE CONTACT THE URPE NATIONAL OFFICE IMMEDIATELY!! urpe at labornet.org or 413-577-0806 ******************************************** 2007 URPE SUMMER CONFERENCE (Union for Radical Political Economics) GLOBAL MIGRATION AND THE LOGIC OF CAPITALISM Friday, Aug. 10 - Monday, Aug. 13 Camp Deer Run, Pine Bush, NY See the URPE website -- http://urpe.org/urpesumm.html -- for information on the camp: location, directions, facilities, rates, registration form, child care, rides, etc. Contact the URPE National Office if you have further questions: urpe at labornet.org or 413-577-0806 Download our flyer -- let others know about our conference: http://urpe.org/URPESumConf07B.pdf ************************************************* PROGRAM FRIDAY, AUGUST 10 2:00 - 4:00 Steering Committee Meeting 4:00. REGISTRATION BEGINS AND CONTINUES ALL WEEKEND 5:00. RECEPTION/INTRODUCTION TO URPE 6:00. DINNER 6:00. Graduate students who have already arrived meet over dinner. 7:00 - 9:00. PLENARY 1: THE CHANGING NATURE OF LABOR STRUGGLES IN THE UNITED STATES Theory and Practice: A Labor Activist Reflects on Controversies in Economic Theory. Brian Callaci, Campaigner, UNITE HERE. Building the Movement for a New Social Contract in New Haven, Connecticut and Beyond. Gwen Mills, CT/RI Political Director, UNITE HERE; Community Organizer, Connecticut Center for a New Economy. Rebuilding the U.S. Labor Movement: Competing Visions and the Road Not Taken. Mark Brenner, Labor Notes. 9:15 - 11:00. Informal socializing: catching up with old friends, getting to know new ones. SATURDAY, AUGUST 11 8:00. BREAKFAST 8:45 - 9:30 Continued discussion from the plenary session Friday night 9:45 - 10:40 Site A: After the War is Over: the Political Economy of the US Neoliberal Military State. (Chris Rude) Site B: Competition: the Birth of a New Science (Jim Case) 10: 55 -12:00 Site A: Immigration, Emigration, and the Irish past and present. (Brendan Mark, Graham Cassano, Mike Ryan) Site B: Political Economy perspectives of financial institutions in economic development (Leanne Ussher, Laura Ebert, Rex McKenzie) 12:00. LUNCH 1:00 - 2:00. RECREATION. Swim, hike, relax with friends. 2:15 - 3:45. Site A: The Political Economy of Motherhood (Marie Duggan, Tami Ohler, Ayanna Bledsoe) Site B: Class Analysis and the Soviet Union (David Laibman, Rick Wolff, Paddy Quick) 4:00 - 5:30. Site A: Monopoly Capitalism, Class Consciousness, and Organizing (Andrew Jones, Dave Shukla, Chip Smith) Site B : Theoretical Constructions of Household Production (Harriet Fraad, Paddy Quick, Rick Wolff, Graham Cassano) 6:00. DINNER 7:00 - 9:00. PLENARY 2: CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES OF TRANSNATIONAL MIGRATION Female Migrant Labor and the Global Integration of Labor Markets. Salimah Valiani, Social and Economic Policy Department of the Canadian Labor Congress. Economic Insecurity and Remittances as Causes for Migration. Alex Julca, Researcher. Migration Chains to Chained Migration: The Rise of the U.S. Temporary Migrants. Manny Ness, Professor of Political Science, Brooklyn College, CUNY. A current previous book of his on this subject is Unions, Immigrants and the New US labor Market. 9:15 - 12:00. ENTERTAINMENT. Back (but expanded!) by popular demand (from us), dance and/or chill out to the phenomenal (it really is) sounds of Soul Purpose. Here's what they say about their band: SOUL PURPOSE is a seven-piece DANCE BAND- Male and female lead vocals, sax, trumpet, guitar, bass, drums and keyboards. DANCE MUSIC is what we play. Combining the impact of a solid rhythm section with dynamic horn lines and a powerful vocal presence, we've been hitting the party, club, festival and wedding scene with a "Soulful" punch since 1998. Our repertoire includes Soul, Motown, Rock, Swing, Blues and Jazz. We play tunes that are irresistible---fun for both dancers and listeners alike! SUNDAY, AUGUST 12 8:00. BREAKFAST 8:45 - 9:30. Continued discussion from the plenary session Saturday night 9:45 - 10:40. Site A: The Pillars of Marxist Theory (Alex Tokarev) Site B: The Current State of Labor Studies Programs (Frances Boyes) 10:55 - 11:50 Site A: Evaluating the Rise of Neoliberalism in Latin America: the Cases of Argentina, Brazil and Mexico (Paul Cooney) Site B: Recent Trends in Privatization of the Commons and International Capital: The Rise of "Nature's Real Estate Agency" in New York and the Global Economy (Irwin Sperber) 12:00. LUNCH 12:00. Women's Caucus meets over lunch. 1:00 - 2:00. BUSINESS MEETING for URPE members. We encourage everyone to join URPE, and to become involved in keeping it strong. For others, a recreation period as on Saturday. 2:05 - 3:00. Site A: Labor Migration and World Systems Theory (Paul Hancock) Site B: Report on the US Social Forum 2007 (Julie Matthaei, Jenna Allard, and Germai Medhanie) 3:10 - 4:05. Site A: The High Cost of Free Trade (Jon Hunt) Site B: Welfare Transformed: The Hidden Story (Robert Cherry) 4:15 - 5:45. The DAVID GORDON LECTURE Radical Economics and Social Change Movements: Strengthening the Links between Academics and Activists. Jim Stanford, Economist, Canadian Auto Workers union; Economics columnist, The Globe and Mail newspaper. 6:00. DINNER 7:00 - 9:00. Film and Discussion: Sacco andVanzetti (introduced by Rina Garst) "Miller realizes that the political passions fuelled by Sacco and Vanzetti in the 1920s are supremely pertinent to our own era's democratic crises. Anti-immigrant paranoia, threats to civil liberties, and rigged courtrooms are far from new. The film reminds a new generation that these inequities became catalysts for an international mass movement in the early part of the twentieth century." Cineaste. 9:30 - 11:00. ENTERTAINMENT. Radical Folk Music, led by David Laibman and Gil Skillman. Bring your instruments, and be prepared to sing along! MONDAY, AUGUST 13 8:00. BREAKFAST 8:50 - 9:45. Site A: Site B: Exploring the Solidarity Economy Framework and Founding the U.S. Solidarity Economy (Julie Matthaei and Jenna Allard) 9:55 - 10:50. Site A: Measuring Wellbeing in a Meaningful Way. (Tom Masterson) Site B: The Macroeconomic Effects of the Women's Movement: Data that sheds fresh light on some standing mysteries of U.S. economic performance, 1960-2000 (Sara Dustin) 11:00 - 11.55 Site A: Cuba Update (Al Campbell, Susan Metz) Site B: Transformation Central (Germai Medhanie, Julie Matthaei, and Jenna Allard) 12:00. LUNCH See you all next year! -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Thanks, and best wishes, David Wilson *** New from Monthly Review Press: THE POLITICS OF IMMIGRATION Questions and Answers by Jane Guskin and David Wilson "We desperately need to put aside false information about immigrants, to see them as we see ourselves with honesty and compassion. This book gives powerful meaning to the slogan 'No Human Being is Illegal.' I hope it will be widely read." - Howard Zinn, author of A People's History of the United States "As the immigrant rights movement grows in size and energy, we need quick facts and deep history. This book gives us both." - Aarti Shahani, co-director, Families for Freedom "Guskin and Wilson have identified the hot-button points in the national immigration debate, and have set out to undo the stereotypes, misinformation and prejudice that paralyze rational thought on the subject. This book is a great reality check, a good teaching tool, and a powerful weapon against racism." - David Bacon, author of Communities Without Borders: Images and Voices from the World of Migration As Congress debates immigration "reform," polls show the public increasingly divided, with the immigration debate framed as a choice between "deport them all" and "give everyone amnesty." But dialogue is possible when we dig deeper. Why are people leaving their homes? Why are they coming here? What is the impact of our current enforcement policies? What kinds of alternatives exist? Backed with a wide range of cited sources, The Politics of Immigration tackles questions and concerns about immigration with compelling arguments and hard facts, laid out in straightforward language and an accessible question-and-answer format. For immigrants and supporters, the book is an effective tool to confront common myths and disinformation. For teachers, it provides a useful framework on the current debate, and ample opportunities for students to reach out and explore the intersecting issues. Those who believe immigrants steal jobs from citizens, drive down wages, strain public services, and threaten our culture will find such assumptions challenged here, while people who are undecided about immigration will find the solid data and clear reasoning they need to develop an informed opinion. The Politics of Immigration 176pp/ISBN: 978-1-58367-155-9 (pbk)/$11.95 To order call: 1.800.670.9499 or visit: http://www.monthlyreview.org/politicsofimmigration.htm For more information, visit: http://thepoliticsofimmigration.org For updated event listings and links to relevant articles, see: http://thepoliticsofimmigration.blogspot.com From urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu Tue Aug 7 14:48:57 2007 From: urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu (urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu) Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2007 16:48:57 -0400 Subject: [URPE] [NYC] Brecht Forum: Cuban Hip Hop/ Black Power/ Live Rumba! Message-ID: <46B8DAB9.3090406@lists.econ.utah.edu> P L E A S E F O R W A R D W I D E L Y The Brecht Forum ________________________________________________________________ 8/9 FILMS & DISCUSSION Cuba Negra 8/13 Book Party: Waiting Till the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power- Peniel Joseph 8/16 Quien Baila Aqui-Discussion w/ Director Elio Ruiz and Live Rumba 8/17 Look for Me in the Whirlwind: Film and Discussion on Marcus Garvey 8/23 Black Holocaust for Beginners: Book Party w/ S.E. Anderson 8/25: Black Fire: Spoken Word and Performance with Old and New Black Fires ____________________________________________________________ DONATE TO THE BRECHT FORUM A Unique People's political and cultural space supported by people like you! Click here ________________________________________________________________ Thursday, August 9 7:30 pm FILMS & DISCUSSION Cuba Negra Discussion with Filmmaker Ricardo Bacallao An evening of short films by Ricardo Bacallao, a recent graduate of Cuba's Instituto Superior de Arte Works include A Short Radiography of Hip Hop in Cuba and The Maji-Maji Readings, which looks at the experiences of Afro-Germans. Ricardo Bacalloa graduated from ISA in 2003. He is a member of the Association of Young Creators in Cuba and also the Cuban Video Movement. Suggested donation: $6/$10/$5 Free for Brecht Forum Subscribers ______________________________________________________________ Monday, August 13 7:30 pm Waiting 'til The Midnight Hour A Narrative History of Black Power Peniel Joseph The Black Power Movement transformed America's racial, social, and political landscape. Come learn about this movement's heritage and legacy from activist and scholar Dr. Peniel E. Joseph, who will be reading from his book Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America. $6/$10/$15 Free for Brecht Forum Subscribers _______________________________________________ Thursday, August 16 7:30 pm FILM & PERFORMANCE ?Qui?n Baila Aqu?? with Live Rumba Performance Join us for this feature-length documentary on Cuban Rumba followed discussion with director Elio Ruiz and a live rumba performance. Suggested donation: $6/$10/$15 Free for Brecht Forum Subscribers 451 West Street, New York, NY 10014 - (212) 242-4201 - email: brechtforum at brechtforum.org ___________________________________________________ Friday, August 17 7:30 FILM & DISCUSSION Marcus Garvey: Look For Me in the Whirlwind Dir. Stanley Nelson | 90 min | 2000 Discussion Leader TBA Marcus Garvey: Look For Me in the Whirlwind, the first comprehensive documentary to tell the life story of this controversial leader, uses a wealth of material from the Garvey movement-written documents, film and photographs-to reveal what motivated a poor Jamaican to set up an international organization for the African diaspora, what led to his early successes, and why he died lonely and forgotten. Among the most powerful sequences in the film are articulate, fiery interviews with the men and women whose parents joined the Garvey movement more than 80 years ago. Together they reveal how revolutionary Garvey's ideas were to a new generation of African Americans,West Indians and Africans and how he invested hundreds of thousands of black men and women with a new-found sense of racial pride. Suggested donation: $6/$10/$15 Free for Brecht Forum Subscribers _________________________________________________ Thursday, August 23 7:30 BOOK PARTY / FORUM Black Holocaust for Beginners S.E. Anderson Join us to celebrate the republication of Black Holocaust for Beginners. The Black Holocaust - a virtually ignored travesty - killed millions of African human beings from the start of European slave trade to the Civil War. In The Black Holocaust for Beginners you get a painstakingly researched, painfully honest explanation of the oft-omitted chapter of history. Author S.E. Anderson is editor, with Tony Medina, of In Defense of Mumia and is co-chair of the Brecht Forum Board of Directors Suggested donation: $6/$10/$15 Free for Brecht Forum Subscriber ________________________________________ Saturday, August 25 7:00 pm 40th ANNIVERSARY Black Fire An Evening of Performances by Old & New "Black Fires" Autum Ashante, Khalil Al Mustafa & Others TBA Black Fire, first published in 1968, is considered one of the seminal works of the period. It presents more than 180 selections from 75 writers. Edited by Amiri Baraka and Larry Neal, the contributor list includes John Henrik Clarke, Sonia Sanchez, Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael), Harold Cruse and Stanley Crouch. Suggested donation: $6/$10/$15 Free for Brecht Forum Subscribers _____________________________________________________________________________________ The Brecht Forum Needs Your Support! 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A couple of publishers have asked me to have their heterodox books = reviewed in the Newsletter. I cannot do this on my own-I need a book = review editor. So is there anybody out there who would like to work with = me on the Newsletter and be my book editor? If so please send me an = e-mail. Fred Lee In this issue: =20 Call for Papers =20 =20 - The Institutional and Social Dynamics of Growth and Distribution - Call for Contributors: Modern (Industrial) Competitiveness - 9th SCEME Workshop in Economic Methodology - Second Annual Conference on the History of Recent Economics (HISRECO)=20 =20 Conferences, Seminars and Lectures = =20 =20 - Green Economics Training Day - EAEPE 2007 Conference=20 - VIPE Conference - SCEME Workshop =20 International Confederation of Associations for Pluralism in Economics - = News = =20 =20 - ICAPE Photos =20 Job Postings for Heterodox Economists = =20 =20 - The University of St. Thomas - New York University in London - Albright College - University of Greenwich Business =20 Heterodox Conference Papers and Reports and Articles = =20 =20 - The Neoliberal Challenge: Between the Scientific Sophism and the = Communicative Fascination - Parasitic Imperialism=20 - Letter: Observation-Based Analysis and Industry Studies =20 Heterodox Journals and Newsletters = =20 =20 - Levy News - Basic Income Studies (BIS) - La Revue de la r=E9gulation - The R=E9gulation Review - Challenge - EAEPE Newsletter - Policy Innovations - Economic Issues - Journal of Post Keynesian Economics - Debatte: Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe - Review of Political Economy - Metroeconomica =20 Heterodox Books, Book Series, and Book Reviews = =20 =20 - The Political Economy of U.S. Militarism=20 - Reintroducing Macroeconomics: A Critical Approach - Women and Politics in Iran: Veiling, Unveiling, and Reveiling=20 =20 Heterodox Graduate Program and PhD Scholarships = =20 =20 - The University of Applied Sciences Berlin =20 Heterodox Websites = =20 =20 - Global MacroScope - Global Policy Innovations Program =20 Queries from Heterodox Economists =20 - Free Trade =20 For Your Information = =20 =20 - Chronicle of Higher Education - July 30, 2007 - Research Methods Relevant to Marxist Political Economy Bibliography=20 - An interesting article on the imperialism of economics in political = science=20 - A letter from Hazel Henderson - Giant man with a mind to match=20 - New Executive Director of CIES Appointed IIEAPPRV (2) =20 ------_=_NextPart_001_01C7DE9D.8D01CCB4 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

HETERODOX = ECONOMICS NEWSLETTER

Issue 47- August, 14, = 2007

From the Editor

Managing the Newsletter is becoming more involved as the number of = subscribers grow. One problem I am facing is dealing with changes in e-mail addresses. If = you are going to change e-mail addresses please let me know so that I can put in = the new address and delete the old one.

A couple of publishers have asked me to have their heterodox books = reviewed in the Newsletter. I cannot do this on my own—I need a book = review editor. So is there anybody out there who would like to work with me on = the Newsletter and be my book editor? If so please send me an e-mail.

Fred Lee

In this issue:

 

Call for = Papers

 

- = The Institutional and Social Dynamics of Growth and Distribution
- Call for Contributors: Modern (Industrial) Competitiveness
- 9th SCEME Workshop in Economic Methodology
- Second Annual Conference on the History of Recent Economics = (HISRECO)

 

Conferences, Seminars and Lectures

 

- = Green Economics Training Day
- EAEPE 2007 Conference
- VIPE Conference
- SCEME Workshop

 

International = Confederation of Associations for Pluralism in Economics - = News

 

- = ICAPE Photos

 

Job Postings for Heterodox = Economists

 

- = The University of = St. Thomas
- New York University in London
- Albright College
- University of Greenwich = Business

 

Heterodox Conference = Papers and Reports and Articles

 

- = The Neoliberal Challenge: Between the Scientific Sophism and the = Communicative Fascination
- Parasitic Imperialism
- Letter: Observation-Based Analysis and Industry = Studies

 

Heterodox Journals and Newsletters

 

- = Levy News
- Basic Income Studies (BIS)
- La Revue de la r=E9gulation
- The R=E9gulation Review
- Challenge
- EAEPE Newsletter
- Policy Innovations
- Economic Issues
- Journal of Post Keynesian Economics
- Debatte: Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe
- Review of Political Economy
- Metroeconomica

 

Heterodox Books, Book = Series, and Book Reviews

 

- = The Political Economy of U.S. Militarism
- Reintroducing Macroeconomics: A Critical Approach
- Women and Politics in Iran: Veiling, Unveiling, and Reveiling

 

Heterodox Graduate Program = and PhD Scholarships

 

- = The University of Applied Sciences Berlin

 

Heterodox = Websites

 

- = Global MacroScope
- Global Policy Innovations Program

 

Queries = from Heterodox Economists

 

- = Free Trade

 

For Your = Information

 

- = Chronicle of Higher Education – July 30, 2007
- Research Methods Relevant to Marxist Political Economy Bibliography =
- An interesting article on the imperialism of economics in political = science
- A letter from Hazel Henderson
- Giant man with a mind to match
- New Executive Director of CIES Appointed IIEAPPRV = (2)

 

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PUBLIC CITIZEN'S ENERGY PROGRAM Title: Legislative Director General Description: The legislative director leads Public Citizen's legislative and public education program on a variety of energy policy issues, including climate change, nuclear power, electricity deregulation, oil and gas matters and promotion of renewable energy and energy efficiency. The legislative director develops policy positions; meets with members of Congress and their staff and with executive branch officials to advance Public Citizen's positions; and develops and implements campaigns and media strategies in support of legislative priorities. Specific Responsibilities: * Directly lobby members of Congress, congressional staff, and executive branch officials; respond to information requests; prepare and give congressional testimony. * Track and analyze legislation and regulations; and prepare lobbying and public education materials. * Develop policy positions and set research and outreach agendas in collaboration with the Director of the Energy Program. * Help develop media strategies; respond to media inquiries; prepare news advisories, press releases, editorial board memos, op-eds and letters to the editor; help develop an informative, current and action-oriented website; represent the Energy Program in public forums. * Build and coordinate coalition activities with other national and grassroots organizations. * Supervise staff and interns. * Assist the director in developing grant proposals and preparing grant reports. Requirements: * Education: College degree required. * Knowledge: Experience with Capitol Hill and energy issues, legislative strategy and advocacy and media relations. * Work Experience: Minimum of three years experience in lobbying, advocacy, and public policy, preferably on energy issues. * Skills: Excellent written and oral communication; good interpersonal skills; strong analytical and research skills; ability to multi-task. * Capabilities: Strongly motivated and able to provide leadership, work well with a wide variety of people and coordinate diverse tasks; innovative thinker and problem solver; ability to respond quickly to legislative developments and take advantage of breaking news. * Conditions: Strong interest in and commitment to the public interest; long hours; occasional travel. Walking two flights of stairs and several blocks to and from congressional offices. Applicants should send a cover letter and resume to: Tyson Slocum Director Public Citizen's Energy Program 215 Pennsylvania Ave, SE Washington, DC 20003 voice: 202.454.5191 mobile: 202.256.3152 fax: 202.547.7392 tslocum at citizen.org http://www.citizen.org/ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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However, such local initiatives for economic justice frequently raise questions about the relationship between local democratic governance and economic policymaking. Many cities have failed to enforce their living wage ordinances; many local economic policies are made outside of democratic processes; local governments are often constrained by "subsidy wars" encouraging a race to the bottom; and local politics is often dominated by narrow interests. This conference brings together scholars in a variety of disciplines with activists and policymakers to explore the possibilities and challenges for developing progressive economic policies in local government. Panelists will include Peter Enrich, Northeastern University School of Law; Susan Jones, George Washington University School of Law; J. Phillip Thompson, III, MIT Urban Politics; Annette Bernhardt, NYU Brennan Center for Justice; Jen Kern, ACORN Living Wage Resource Center; Greg LeRoy, Good Jobs First, Stewart Acuff, AFL-CIO; Stephanie Luce, University of Massachusetts Labor Studies; Joel Rogers, University of Wisconsin. Panel topics will include Shadow Governments and Privatization; New Frontiers for the Living Wage; Subsidy Reform; Building Lasting Institutions from Progressive Coalitions; Green Cities; and Global Connections. Journalist Bill McKibben, author of Deep Economy, will give a keynote address. For more information, visit http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/wied/highroadrunsthroughthecity/ or contact Martha McCluskey, Professor of Law and William J. Magavern Fellow, State University of New York at Buffalo, mcclusk at buffalo.edu Martha McCluskey Professor of Law and William J. 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Tom Palley Thomas Palley Founder Economics for Democratic & Open Societies Project Tel: 202-667-5518 e-mail: mail at thomaspalley.com www.thomaspalley.com From emily at populareconomics.org Fri Aug 17 08:41:48 2007 From: emily at populareconomics.org (Emily Kawano) Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 10:41:48 -0400 Subject: [URPE] What's the economy for, anyway? Conference Message-ID: <00cd01c7e0dc$cb13fc20$46a37780@Dell820> Please distribute to your contacts: REGISTER NOW FOR THE BIG WHAT'S THE ECONOMY FOR, ANYWAY? CONFERENCE AND JOIN US TO ASK THE BIG QUESTION!!! "The most dangerous $35 conference you'll ever attend, from my point of view." --Karl Rove* Contact: John de Graaf: jodg at comcast.net (206) 443-6747 or Laura Pacheco: laurapacheco at comcast.net (617) 694-7998 See the full schedule and register NOW at: www.timeday.org/economyconference WHEN: October 5-7, 2007 WHERE: Washington DC Convention Center (part of the annual Green Festival) COST: $35 (entire conference if you register before Sept. 15th!!!) or $50 (entire conference, no advance registration or $25 (per day). Conference fee includes free admission to Green Festival. Register NOW to assure a space at the conference! What's the economy for, anyway? Is it just about having the biggest GDP or the highest Dow Jones Average? Or is it about providing for a healthy, happy, fair and sustainable society? If you think quality of life matters, and wonder how the United States compares to other countries when it comes to providing for its people, then the WHAT'S THE ECONOMY FOR, ANYWAY? Conference is for you! Dozens of prominent experts and activists will offers parts of the answer to the big question and offer out-of-the-box ideas about what we can do to make our economy serve us instead of vice-versa. Three tracks include QUALITY OF LIFE, SOCIAL JUSTICE and SUSTAINABILITY. Nearly 100 confirmed prominent speakers, including: Jerome Ringo, President of the Apollo Alliance Nancy Folbre, feminist economist, author of The Invisible Heart Emily Kawano, director, Center for Popular Economics Tim Kasser, psychologist, author of The High Price of Materialism Gar Alperovitz, author of America After Capitalism Vicki Robin, author of Your Money or Your Life Riane Eisler, author of The Real Wealth of Nations, The Chalice and the Blade Juliet Schor, author of The Overworked American, Born to Buy Dean Baker, author of The United States Since 1980 Eric Liu, former presidential speechwriter and domestic adviser for Bill Clinton Hunter Lovins, co-author of Natural Capitalism Ann Crittenden, author of The High Price of Motherhood Kim Gandy, President of the National Organization for Women John Stauber, author or Trust Us, We're Experts, Weapons of Mass Deception Jared Bernstein, director of The Economic Policy Institute Michael Petit, former Maine Commissioner of Human Services Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner, co-author of The Motherhood Manifesto Celinda Lake, Democratic pollster, author of What Women Really Want Frances Moore Lappe, author of Diet for a Small Planet, Hope's Edge Bill Spriggs, Chairman, Economics Department, Howard University Karen Nussbaum, AFL-CIO, former director, Women's Bureau, US Dept. of Labor Bill McKibben, author of Deep Economy, The End of Nature Peter Barnes, co-founder of Working Assets and author of Capitalism 3.0 Karen Kornbluh, Policy Director for Senator Obama James Lardner, editor of Inequality Matters Cecile Andrews, author, Slow Is Beautiful Chuck Collins, founder, United for a Fair Economy Miles Rapoport, director, DEMOS Jim Rubens, former Republican State Senator, New Hampshire David Moberg, Senior Editor, In These Times Julie Nelson, author Economics for Humans The conference offers 25 individual speeches and nearly 30 workshops. To see the complete agenda, go to: http://www.timeday.org/economyconference/agenda.asp Workshops will include in-depth analysis of current problems, comparisons to the economic performance of other industrial countries, and concrete policy solutions for a happier, healthier, most just and sustainable United States. Conference organizers hope that this conference will mark the beginning of a new national campaign to put the question, "What's the economy for, anyway?" on the agenda of the 2008 election campaigns and beyond. Whether you consider yourself an environmentalist, an advocate of social justice, family-friendly policies or universal health care, a union organizer or enlightened business leader, a practitioner of simple living, a student of economics, psychology or politics, a journalist or a wonk, a Democrat, moderate Republican or Green, this conference is for you. The "What's the Economy for, Anyway?" project is a program of the Forum on Social Wealth. 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We also work to build a left presence in the developing field of globalization study programs and include students in our activities. Our previous conferences have been held at Loyola and DePaul University in Chicago, UC Santa Barbara and UC Irvine, Brandeis, University of Tennessee and Windsor University. We would like to invite URPE and its circle of friends and supporters to participate in our upcoming conference in New York. Abstracts for presentations are now being accepted and can be addressed to Jerry Harris at gharris234 at comcast.net For further information on the GSA you can visit our web site at: http://www.net4dem.org/mayglobal From urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu Mon Aug 20 13:36:01 2007 From: urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu (urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu) Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 15:36:01 -0400 Subject: [URPE] [NYC] Brecht Forum: David Harvey/Black Holocaust For Beginners/Black Fire/More! 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"The housing bubble was recognizable, but as was the case with the stock bubble, those who focused their analysis on fundamentals were largely ignored in the media and in policy circles", says Dean Baker, author of "Midsummer Meltdown: Prospects for the Stock and Housing Markets" . The fundamentals in both the stock and housing market showed that both markets were seriously over-valued. Yet this fact was rarely noted by economists or reported by the media. Baker shows that, as a long-term trend, house sale prices have moved at roughly the same pace as the overall rate of inflation until 1995. Since 1995, house prices have risen by more than 70 percent after adjusting for inflation. This has created $8 trillion in housing bubble wealth. The run-up in house prices has led to a predictable oversupply of housing; an oversupply far beyond anything the country has ever experienced, with the inventory of unsold new homes 70 percent above its previous record and the number of vacant ownership units nearly twice the previous peak. The correction of the housing bubble is likely to throw the economy into a recession and quite possibly a very severe recession. Housing construction will have to decline much further to restore inventories to normal levels. The loss of up to $8 trillion in housing bubble wealth will lead to a sharp contraction in consumption, as the saving rate rises back to more normal levels. In addition, the exuberance around the housing market has again caused the stock market to become over-valued relative to long-term trends, which implies a large drop in the stock market as the housing bubble unwinds. Baker argues that the failure of economists and the media to pay attention to fundamentals in the stock and housing market has allowed for these bubbles to grow to dangerous levels. The collapse of these bubbles will have very serous consequences for the economy and for tens of millions of families, whose major financial asset is a substantially overvalued house. The Center for Economic and Policy Research is an independent, nonpartisan think tank that was established to promote democratic debate on the most important economic and social issues that affect people's lives. CEPR's Advisory Board of Economists includes Nobel Laureate economists Robert Solow and Joseph Stiglitz; Richard Freeman, Professor of Economics at Harvard University; and Eileen Appelbaum, Professor and Director of the Center for Women and Work at Rutgers University. 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In the Newsletter there is a very interesting job advert from the University of Vermont with regard to a diversity cluster hire. In the Newsletter there are a couple of items I would like to note. The first two are interesting web sites-the first is Heednet which deals with the environment and sustainable development policy and the second is ICLAD that deals with law and development. The third is the Mayer Foundation web site. It deals with issues that range beyond economics which may interest you. Newsletter also has its usual range of call for papers, conferences, journals and books, and a book review on "The Bias of the World: Theories of Unequal Exchange in History".=20 Finally, this past week I read a paper that argued in part (or at least it seem to me) that heterodox economists should not really grumble too much about the mainstream for if you do you will be ignored and left behind. This position brings to mind a little ditty by William Cobbett but somewhat altered: Let dungeons, gags, and hangman's nose Let bullying, threats, and profs verbose Make you content and humble Make you mainstream and humble Your heav'nly crown you'll surely lose, Your professional name you'll surely lose If, here, on earth, you grumble. If, here, in economics, you grumble. William Cobbertt (1833) Fred Lee In this issue: =20 Call for Papers =20 =20 - Second Seminar of Heterodox Microeconomics - Seventh Congress of the U.S. Basic Income Guarantee Network - Forum The Spirit of Innovation III - 2008 - Global Studies Association- Seventh Annual International Conference =20 Conferences, Seminars and Lectures =20 =20 - "What's the Economy For, Anyway?" Conference=20 - Launch Lecture for UNCTAD - Symposium on Economics and Sustainability - SCEME Workshop on Knowledge - The High Road Runs Through the City: Advocating for Economic Justice at the Local Level - Marxism and Political Economy - Fair Employment Forums =20 Job Postings for Heterodox Economists =20 =20 - Locker Associates, Inc. - University of Vermont - Diversity Cluster Hire =20 Heterodox Conference Papers and Reports and Articles =20 =20 - "The Employer of Last Resort Programme: Could It Work for Developing Countries?"=20 - An article by Dean Baker =20 Heterodox Journals and Newsletters =20 =20 - The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought - Revue du MAUSS - The Associative Economics Bulletin - CASE Newsletter - Journal of the History of Economic Thought - Feminist Economics - Journal of the History of Economic Thought - History of Economics Review 45, Winter 2007 - Metroeconomica - International Review of Applied Economics =20 Heterodox Books, Book Series, and Book Reviews =20 =20 - An Australian Charter of Employment Rights - An Empire of Indifference - The Origins of Capitalism and the "Rise of the West" - The Bias of the World: Theories of Unequal Exchange in History - Feminist Economics of Trade - Introduction to Ecological Economics =20 Heterodox Websites =20 =20 - Heednet =20 For Your Information =20 =20 - ICLAD International Consortium for Law and Development - Charles Leopold Mayer Foundation for the Progress of Humankind - www.d-p-h.info - In Time of Tumult,Obscure Economist Gains Currency - Turning Your Labor Activism Into a Career =20 ------_=_NextPart_001_01C7E8D0.B55EE815 Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

HETERODOX ECONOMICS NEWSLETTER

Issue 48: August 27, 2007

From the = Editor

Fall semester has arrived for many and this = means it is the season for heterodox job adverts. So if you are planning on = hiring a (hopefully) heterodox economist, please send me the advert at the same time you are = sending it to JOE. In the Newsletter there is a very interesting job advert from the University of Vermont with regard to a diversity cluster hire.

In the Newsletter there = are a couple of items I would like to note. The first two are interesting web sites—the first is Heednet which deals with the environment and sustainable development policy and the second is ICLAD that deals with = law and development. The third is the Mayer Foundation web site. It deals with = issues that range beyond economics which may interest you. Newsletter also has its usual range of call for = papers, conferences, journals and books, and a book review on “The Bias of = the World: Theories of Unequal Exchange in History”.

Finally, this past week I read a paper that argued in part (or at least = it seem to me) that heterodox economists should not really grumble too much = about the mainstream for if you do you will be ignored and left behind. This = position brings to mind a little ditty by William Cobbett but somewhat = altered:

Let dungeons, gags, and hangman’s nose     Let bullying, threats, and profs verbose
Make you content and humble           &= nbsp;           Make you mainstream and humble
Your heav’nly crown you’ll surely lose,           Your professional name you’ll surely lose
If, here, on earth, you grumble.           = ;          If, here, in economics, you grumble.
            &= nbsp;           &n= bsp;           &nb= sp;    William Cobbertt (1833)

Fred Lee

In this = issue:

 

Call for Papers

 

- = Second Seminar of Heterodox Microeconomics
- Seventh Congress of the U.S. Basic Income Guarantee Network
- Forum The Spirit of Innovation III - 2008
- Global Studies Association- Seventh Annual International = Conference

 

Conferences, Seminars and = Lectures

 

- “What’s the Economy For, Anyway?” Conference
- Launch Lecture for UNCTAD
- Symposium on Economics and Sustainability
- SCEME Workshop on Knowledge
- The High Road Runs Through the City: Advocating for Economic Justice = at the Local Level
- Marxism and Political Economy
- Fair Employment Forums

 

Job Postings for Heterodox Economists

 

- = Locker Associates, Inc.
- University of Vermont – Diversity Cluster Hire

 

Heterodox Conference Papers and Reports and Articles

 

- = “The Employer of Last Resort Programme: Could It Work for Developing Countries?”
- An article by Dean Baker

 

Heterodox Journals and = Newsletters

 

- = The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought
- Revue du MAUSS
- The Associative Economics Bulletin
- CASE Newsletter
- Journal of the History of Economic Thought
- Feminist Economics
- Journal of the History of Economic Thought
- History of Economics Review 45, Winter 2007
- Metroeconomica
- International Review of Applied = Economics

 

Heterodox Books, Book Series, and Book Reviews

 

- = An Australian Charter of Employment Rights
- An Empire of Indifference
- The Origins of Capitalism and the "Rise of the West"
- The Bias of the World: Theories of Unequal Exchange in History
- Feminist Economics of Trade
- Introduction to Ecological Economics

 

Heterod= ox Websites

 

- = Heednet

 

For = Your Information

 

- = ICLAD International Consortium for Law and Development
- Charles Leopold Mayer Foundation for the Progress of Humankind
- www.d-p-h.info
- In Time of Tumult,Obscure Economist Gains Currency
- Turning Your Labor Activism Into a = Career

 

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First and foremost, SCEPA has moved to a new home! Our offices are now located at 79 Fifth Avenue, 11th Floor (entrance at 6 East 16th Street). Our full mailing address appears at the bottom of this email. Please take note and update your address books. We are planning another year full of events, and we'd like to draw your attention to the following: - "The Struggle for Democracy in Ethiopia" A talk by Dr. Berhanu Nega, New School alumnus and mayor-elect of Addis Ababa. Thursday, September 6th at 7:30 p.m. at the New School for Social Research, Swayduck Auditorium, 65 Fifth Ave. For more information visit: www.freenega.org/talk. Dr. Nega was held as a political prisoner in Ethiopia for almost two years, along with thousands of others in the current government's crackdown on dissent. Recently released from prison, he is in New York to share his experiences at his alma mater. - Save the Date! The Economics of Global Warming: A One-Day Conference. Friday, October 12, 2007 at The New School. Stay tuned... - SCEPA is planning a full year of Economic Policy Workshops. Workshops typically meet on Wednesdays from 12:30-2:00 p.m. The workshop schedule will be released soon and will be available on our website. - Finally, we have several new working papers available on our website. Please visit http://newschool.edu/cepa/publications/workingpapers/index.htm to view new working papers on alternative labor market indicators, fiscal deficits and more... Stay tuned for more news on SCEPA research, events, and publications! Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis The New School 79 Fifth Avenue, 11th Floor New York, NY 10003 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 h_lecter85 at yahoo.dk Fri Aug 31 05:06:09 2007 From: h_lecter85 at yahoo.dk (Andreas Albertsen) Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 13:06:09 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [URPE] Books about free trade Message-ID: <639927.92757.qm@web25713.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Hello Everybody I would like to make an inquiry about books on free trade. I am planning to do a project on the doctrine of "free-trade," therefore I am asking you to recommend good books that critisize "free-trade," both on empirical and theoretical grounds. best regards Andreas Albertsen student of political science, ?rhus University, Denmark -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 417 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/urpe-announcements/attachments/20070831/b1bc937a/attachment.txt From urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu Fri Aug 31 08:22:43 2007 From: urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu (urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu) Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 10:22:43 -0400 Subject: [URPE] =?windows-1252?q?Call_for_Papers_--_ASA=92s_Political_Econ?= =?windows-1252?q?omy_of_the_World_System_section?= Message-ID: <46D82433.2010609@lists.econ.utah.edu> Dear All: See below the World-System section of the American Sociological Association call for papers. They are interested in inter-disciplinary approaches to immigration and financial globalization and would appreciate the participation of radical economists. You can contact Eric Mielants for more info at emielants at mail.fairfield.edu. Best, Matias */Annual conference of the ASA?s Political Economy of the World System section /* /THIRTY-SECOND ANNUAL CONFERENCE of the POLITICAL ECONOMY OF THE WORLD-SYSTEM SECTION OF THE AMERICAN SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION (24-26 April 2008)/ * * *Call for Papers* / / /THIRTY-SECOND ANNUAL CONFERENCE of the POLITICAL ECONOMY OF THE WORLD-SYSTEM SECTION OF THE AMERICAN SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION / FLOWS OF PEOPLE AND MONEY ACROSS THE WORLD-SYSTEM: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE. The XXXIInd Political Economy of the World-System (PEWS) Conference will take place 24-26 April, 2008, at Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT. The organizers of the PEWS Conference invite papers relating to the theme, ?Flows of People and Money across the World-System.? Keynote Speakers: I. Wallerstein (Yale U.) (April 24, 2008), and (April 25, 2008). A focus on the migration of people attempts to address the migration literature and invites people who study the multiple experiences of migrants across different zones of the world system to enter into a dialogue with world-system theory. The central goal of this conference is to create multiple spaces for conversations among scholars who are addressing theoretical and methodological issues that deal with the movement of people across the world system and, in symbiosis, the money flows that have to be scrutinized to fully comprehend the structural material conditions in which the migration process occurs. The four sub-themes to be addressed in four different panels are: flows of people in the contemporary world system; flows of money in the contemporary world system; the incorporation of immigrants and immigrant experiences in multiple zones of the world system; and the intersection between the migration literature and and the analysis of financial flows in dialogue with the world system perspective. The Conference organizers invite abstracts on these four sub-themes as part of the overall theme elaborated above. Paper topics could include any of the following: 1. */Flows of people in the contemporary world system/*/:/ - What are the past and current dynamics of mass migration? - How are different regions dealing with various migration pressures? - What are the current theoretical and methodological issues that allow those in the field of migration studies to understand present dynamics in the world system? - To what extent do past migration flows explain current trends? *2. /Flows of money in the contemporary world system:/* - What is the significance of remittances of various migrants from the core to the periphery? - What are the consequences of Foreign Direct Investment and Portfolio Investment in the Triad as well as in the Periphery? - What are the implications of the recent deregulations of financial markets across the world-system, and the link with migration flows in the world-system ? - What are the challenges related to the Dollarization in parts of the Periphery, the emergence of the Euro, financial speculation in World Cities, or the future of Petrodollars? -What relationships exist between the liquidity roles of banks, financial fragility and economic growth in the long run? - How will foreign capital penetration impact future standards of living in the periphery? - What is the relation between foreign direct investments and mass migration in the world system? -How does NAFTA create a context for differential treatment of skilled migrants, goods and flows of money on the one hand and unskilled migrants on the other hand? */3. The Incorporation of Immigrants in the World System /* We invite papers in this section pertaining to the following topics: -human smuggling & trafficking; -the differential incorporation of migrants; -racism and discrimination towards immigrants; -the gendered dimension of migration; -migrant laborers and state practices; -public policies and asylum seekers; -unions and immigrants; -the future of dual citizenship; and -the transformation of immigrants into ethnic minorities. / / */4. The intersection of migration studies and financial flows/* The last panel will attempt to reflect upon the intersections of broadly conceived migration studies and the analysis of financial flows. Theoretical and methodological reflections as well as case-studies in which both topics are addressed (e.g. the Argentine crisis of 2002) are welcome, including papers that invite reflection upon past and present challenges to the world-system perspective, most notably in how to successfully incorporate migration studies and the analysis of financial flows into the evolving paradigm. Please send your 2-3 page proposals or entire paper as an electronic attachment to: pews2008 at yahoo.com Alternatively, you can contact the Conference Organizers by mail: Dr. Terry-Ann Jones & Dr. Eric Mielants Dept. of Sociology & Anthropology Donnarumma Hall 212 Fairfield University 1073 North Benson Road Fairfield, CT 06824 The deadline to submit proposals is December 31, 2007. / / /Participants whose papers have been accepted will be provided with free lodging and free meals for the duration of the conference. Participants are encouraged to seek funding from their home institutions for transportation to the conference in //Fairfield//, //CT// in order to enable the attendance of additional international scholars and provide financial assistance to graduate students submitting papers./ / / Fairfield University is a Jesuit institution that prepares undergraduate, graduate, and continuing education students for leadership and service in a constantly changing world. Approximately 5,000 students from 35 states, 46 countries, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico are enrolled at the University which was founded in 1942 in the scenic shoreline community of Fairfield, CT, within 65 miles of JFK, Newark and LaGuardia Airports from where shuttle service is available. *Metro North service to **Fairfield** from Grand Central Terminal (**Manhattan**, NYC) (65 minutes) and **New Haven** (30 minutes): *For information, from within Connecticut, call (800) 638-7646. In New York's Westchester and Dutchess Counties, dial (212) 532-4900. Cab service is available at the Fairfield?s Metro North Railroad Station. Shuttle service between the campus and the train station is also available at specific hours (circa 5 minutes). See http://fairfield.edu/x2837.html *Amtrak service to **Bridgeport** from **Boston** and **Hartford**:** *For information, call (800) USA-RAIL. The Bridgeport station is approximately 10 minutes by car from Fairfield University. A 24-hour taxi service to Fairfield is available form the station. For information, call (203) 255-5797. -- Matias Vernengo Economics Department University of Utah email: vernengo at economics.utah.edu -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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The conference will expand this debate by both mapping global inequality at various scales and by deploying multidisciplinary perspectives to take the debate beyond income inequality. Commissioned papers will cover the latest trends in health inequalities and social outcomes, migration and inequality, wealth and other material inequalities, gender inequalities as well as aspects of globalization and culture. Prior to the conference, online maps, figures, animations will be developed based on commissioned papers. Both online presentations and a print atlas will be published based on the conference. The goals of the conference are * to advance the debate about global integration, inequality and poverty, * to present workshops on the latest techniques in mapping global inequality * to make the results of discussion promptly available through accessible online maps, figures and interactive utilities. Speakers will include: Goran Therborn (Cambridge University), Tony Shorrocks (UN WIDER), Peter Tugwell (Center on Global Health, University of Ottawa), Nancy Birdsall (Center for Global Development), Helmut Anheier (UCLA Center for Globalization and Policy Research), Devesh Kapur (University of Pennsylvania), Giovanni Andrea Cornia (University of Florence), CIESIN (Columbia University) sponsored workshop on poverty mapping. Who Should Attend? The conference is intended for academics, policy-makers, and graduate students concerned with issues of global inequality. Scholarships are available for students. Date and place December 13-14 2007 UC Santa Cruz. Submitting Papers The UC Atlas is currently accepting abstracts for paper sessions. Paper presentations will be fifteen minutes long covering our five conference topics. Please submit a title, abstract, name and affiliation, to Conference Submissions (mapinequality at ucsc.edu). More details can be found at: http://ucatlas.ucsc.edu/flyer.html Thanks very much, Ben Crow -- Ben Crow, Associate Professor, Sociology, University of California, Santa Cruz. Phones: 831 459 5503 (W); 650 245 6769 (Mobile). Website: http://sociology.ucsc.edu/directory/details.php?id=4 Atlas: http://ucatlas.ucsc.edu/ From mail at thomaspalley.com Tue Sep 4 08:46:25 2007 From: mail at thomaspalley.com (Thomas Palley) Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 10:46:25 -0400 Subject: [URPE] Policy Op-ed: China's Empty Threat Message-ID: Dear URPE Friends & Colleagues, This week's policy op-ed is titled "China's Empty Threat" and is about the threat of China selling its US Treasury holdings. It is posted on my website at www.thomaspalley.com Please feel free to share it with others who may be interested in this subject. 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PART I: Power and Oppression "TO SEE" (required for Reading Group) Saturday, September 29th 9AM-6PM at the Brecht Forum Part I is an introduction to the theory of Pedagogy of the Oppressed and to the practical application of the Paulo Freire methodology. Through taking part in the course, participants will develop a working definition of oppression, including internalized oppression, examine power structures including systems of domination and submission, and analyze the extent to which we all have internalized capitalist values and ideologies. Various theater techniques, physical games and group exercises will be utilized to engage participants in dialogue and to facilitate analysis. The session is limited to 30 people. READING & REFLECTION GROUP: Pedagogy of the Oppressed 6 sessions on Wednesday evenings at 6:30PM from October 3rd to November 7th Having started a conversation on oppression, power and capitalist ideologies in the first workshop, we will delve deeper into Paulo Freire's classic work and see how it applies to our reality as educators and organizers. The reading and reflection group is for dedicated individuals who wish to further their inquiry and expand their understanding of popular education. Part I is required for participation in the reading group and Part II* is highly recommended. The group is limited to 15 people. PART II*: Analysis and Action Plan "TO ANALYZE" and "TO DO" Saturday, November 10 9AM to 6PM at the Brecht Forum Part II participants will learn through practice the basic steps of the Freire methodology: 1) to express and see reality as experienced by the participants; 2) to understand this reality by analyzing it and exploring the root causes of the problems; and 3) to act in order to transform this reality. *Both workshops are framed as power analysis for decolonizing the mind and empowering oppressed communities in struggle. We encourage participants to take both workshops as they complement each other, and the initial conversations on oppression, power inequities and capitalism will facilitate the subsequent approach to Paulo Freire and the pedagogy of the oppressed. The workshops are designed for community organizers as well as educators and labor, political and solidarity activists to help them actively plan and implement effective strategies for social action in their groups and communities. The Brecht Forum 451 West Street, New York City, NY 10014 (212) 242-4201 mail@ brecthforum.org Tuition $75-$100 (Both Sessions) $35-$55 (One Session) _____________________________ Monday, October 01 5:30 pm 8-SESSION CLASS BEGINS Beginning Spanish Marisol Ruiz A first course for those with little to no previous knowledge of the language. Students speak Spanish from the first day and acquire basic speaking, reading, and writing skills while learning about Spanish and Latin American culture. The course introduces basic grammar and pronunciation while developing fundamental communication skills. Students learn to express opinions, physical sensations, feelings, and needs in a simple way. Students will be able to comprehend brief letters and texts related to daily life. Tuition $275 ______________________________ Monday, October 01 5:30 pm 10-SESSION CLASS BEGINS Reading Capital, Vol. I William DiFazio This class is continuing from the last term and welcomes new participants who can begin with Chapter 10 of Karl Marx's Capital Vol. I. The class functions as a study group and is reading the text slowly and thoroughly. They are focussing on the key questions: What can we still learn from Marx's most influential work? Does his analysis of capitalism still work in this postmodern and global world? Is class struggle still the motor of social change? The course is for people who want to answer these questions in a group context and who are curious about rethinking Capital, Vol. I. (Penguin/Vintage, translated by Ben Fowkes with an introduction by Ernest Mandel). It is open to all levels of expertise including the first time reader. William DiFazio Ph.D. teaches sociology at St. John's University and is co-host with Deena Kolbert of "City Watch" on WBAI Radio(99.5FM). He is author, of Ordinary Poverty: A Little Food and Cold Storage and, with Stanley Aronowitz, of The Jobless Future: Sci-Tech and the Dogma of Work. Sliding scale $85-$125 Free to Brecht Forum Subscribers _________________________ Tuesday, October 02 5:30 pm 8-SESSION CLASS BEGINS Intermediate Spanish Jose Rosa Students will continue to develop everyday conversational skills while learning more complex grammatical forms. Emphasis will be placed on increasing vocabulary and expressing more sophisticated ideas. At this level students can express opinions, speak on the telephone, understand conversations spoken at normal speed and read general interest texts such as newspapers and magazines. Classes are interactive, stressing conversation while balancing knowledge of grammar with communication and cultural skills. Teaching materials include textbooks, magazines, newspaper articles as well as Latin American and Spanish literature. Tuition: $275 _________________________________________ Wednesday, October 03 5:30 pm 8-SESSION CLASS BEGINS What is to be Learned from the Soviet Experience? Rick Wolff This course uses Marxian class analysis to examine the rise and collapse of the USSR between 1917 and 1989. We will show use how capitalist, socialist and communist class structures coexisted inside the USSR and shaped the following: the 1917 revolution and civil war, Lenin's New Economic Policy, Stalin's industrialization and agricultural collectivization, post-WW2 Soviet growth, and the 1980s collapse. We aim to draw important lessons for the left today from the achievements and failures of the Soviet system. The central text will be Class Theory and History: Capitalism, Communism and the USSR by Stephen Ressnick and Richard Wolff. It is available in paperback in bookstores and via the internet. Further readings will be provided. 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, and New Departures in Marxian Theory. Sliding scale: $75-$95 Free for Brecht Forum Subscribers ______________________________________ Wednesday, October 03 5:30 pm 5-SESSION CLASS BEGINS A Workshop on Memoir Writing Edith Chevat You're never too young or too old to write your memoirs. All you need is paper and pen and a desire to retrieve what you thought was lost. Unlike biography with its need for facts and dates, a memoir is your recollection, your memory of what happened, of what was and still is important to you. It's your story from your point of view. It need not be the story of your whole life but can be the story of one part of your life, a part that is important to you. We write in class and share what we write, thus helping each other to remember things we thought we had forgotten. As we write, we find a pattern to our lives and create a legacy for friends and relatives of the world we ve lived in and the lives we've led. The class is limited to 14 students. Sliding scale: $55 - $75 Free for Brecht Forum Subscribers _________________________________________ Thursday, October 04 5:30 pm 8-SESSION CLASS BEGINS Advanced Spanish Jose Rosa Students learn to read advanced texts, express themselves fluently, write long texts, and appreciate humor, irony, and wit in literary and non-literary texts. Depending on the students' needs, increased attention may be given to understanding and writing business correspondence and reports. Classes are interactive, stressing conversation while balancing knowledge of grammar with communication and cultural skills. Teaching materials include textbooks, magazines, newspaper articles as well as Latin American and Spanish literature Tuition: $275 _______________________________________________ Thursday, October 04 5:30 pm 3-SESSION CLASS BEGINS Liberation Theology Rev. Luis Barrios In this critical seminar, we attempt to analyze and discuss liberation theology as a humanistic school of thought and action and how faith inspires social justice. More specifically, how liberation theology shifts the emphasis toward liberating praxis in a strongly political sense. Furthermore how this liberating praxis help us to speak of liberation theology in the plural (theologies of liberation) becoming an alternative resistance and/or subversive expression to the dominant ideology of the ruling class: Latino/a theology, Feminist theology, Black theology, Feminist theology, Queer theology, Native Americans theology, religious pluralism, etc. In addition, how these theological themes have been developed in the Latin American and the United States contexts. The Rev. Luis Barrios, Ph.D., is an associate professor of psychology and ethnic studies at John Jay College of Criminal Justice-City University of New York. He is also the chair of the Puerto Rican/Latin American Studies Department. Since 1988, Dr. Barrios has been a columnist with El Diario La PrensaL in New York City, one of the oldest Spanish newspapers in the United States. He is the co-editor with Louis Kontos and David C. Brotherton of Gangs and Society: Alternative Perspective (2003-Columbia University) and co-author with David C. Brotherton of Almighty Latin King & Queen Nation: Street Politics and the Transformation of a New York City Gang (2004-Columbia University). Dr. Barrios is also the author of Josconiando: Dimensiones Sociales y pol?ticas de la espiritualidad (2000-Editorial Aguiar) and Pitirreando: De la desesperanza a la esperanza (2004-Editorial Edil). In addition, Fr. Barrios is a priest in good standing in the Episcopal Diocese of New York. He is also the associate priest at St. Mary's Episcopal Church in West Harlem and the spiritual advisor for the Iglesia San Romero de Las Am?ricas-UCC in the Washington Heights community. He is an active member of IFCO-Pastors for Peace Board of Director. Sliding scale: $35-$55 Free for Brecht Forum Subscribers __________________________________________________ Tuesday, November 06 7:00 pm 6-SESSION CLASS BEGINS Revolution & Evolution in the 20th Century A Reading and Writing Group Kazembe Balagun & Julie Rosier Conceived in the 1960s revolutionary upsurge, James and Grace Lee Boggs' Evolution and Revolution in the 20th Century became the one seminal texts of the New Left. Seeing personal transformation growing out of political revolution, Evolution is a careful study of political rebellion of the 20th century and where the movement is headed. The sessions will be divided into two parts. During the reading, participants will take turns leading discussions on the chapters. Next, the writing section will focus on participants mining through personal experience and documenting scenes from their own lives, with specific attention to stories connected to race and class. After writing, participants will be asked to share their work in the group setting. This writing process will help us rediscover our own personal/political histories and hopefully reveal concrete next steps on our revolutionary and evolutionary paths. We will choose selections from our writing to present in a public reading on the last meeting of the group. Kazembe Balagun is the Outreach Coordinator at the Brecht Forum. He has previously taught classes on the Frankfurt school, civil rights and Black Power movements. Julie Rosier, a transplant from Detroit, has worked in the NYC theater world as an actor, director, choreographer and producer. She wrote and directed a play, produced in PlayOffs, a one-act slam festival, at The Bowery Poetry Club in 2006. As a writer, her work comes in the form of prose, plays, and poetry. It revolves around the belief that the intensely personal is also by definition fiercely political and subversive. She strives to fuse her writing, performing and political selves together in an effort tell stories about race and inner city life, with the ultimate goal of inciting grassroots social action. Sliding scale: $65-$85 Free for Brecht Forum Subscribers ______________________________________ Saturday, November 17 11:00 am INVESTMENT SEMINARS Financial Turmoil A Critical Perspective Max-Fraad Wolff & Richard D. Wolff Max-Fraad Wolff & Richard D. Wolff Seminar I: 10:00 -12:00 am Seminar II: 1:30 - 4:00 pm Morning and afternoon seminars will offer unique practical investment information. They are intended for individuals seeking deep understanding in relation to their current or future responsibilities to invest money for non-profit organizations, unions, cultural groups and themselves. The seminars provide reality-based, spin-free, and completely independent analysis. These seminars are offered as a benefit to support the work of the Brecht Forum and payment is in the form of a tax-deductible contribution. Note: 10:00-Noon Seminar I - Analyzing the Effects of Rapidly Changing Economic Conditions This intensive seminar will stress practical information on the implications for the US and the global economy of critical shifts in the housing market, credit markets, currency exchange rates, international trade and capital flows, and comparative performance of US and non-US markets. 1:30-4:00 pm Seminar II - Investment Strategies in Response to 2007's Economic Changes This intensive and advanced seminar will closely examine how the last half year's economic transformations impact on investment strategies going forward. Registration for Seminar II automatically entitles registrant to full participation in Seminar I as well. Seminar Co-Directors: Max-Fraad Wolff, Graduate Program in International Affairs, The New School University, New York Richard D. Wolff, Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Seminar Co-directors have many years of experience in managing investment portfolios; their work can be reviewed at their website: http://www.globalmacroscope.com Tuition: Seminar I: $200 per person at the door; $150 with pre-registration Seminar II (includes Seminar I): $400 per person at the door; or $300 with pre-registration Online registration available for full day. To pre-register for Seminar I alone, call 212-242-4201 no later than October 16, 2007 _________________________________________________ The Brecht Forum Needs Your Support! 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He examines why residents had to leave, what really caused the flood and why they aren't returning. Suggested donation: $6/$10/$15 Free for Brecht Forum Subscribers _______________________________________________ Thursday, September 6 6:00 -8:00 pm EXHIBIT OPENING & RECEPTION Colonies A Series of Paintings by Richard Bonomo These group portraits represent a biologist's exploration of the diversity of our species and a search for humaneness. 451 West Street, New York, NY 10014 - (212) 242-4201 - email: brechtforum at brechtforum.org ________________________________________________ Friday, September 7 6:00 pm 3-DAY WORKSHOP BEGINS Co-sponsor: The Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory Cop-in-the-Head Facilitated by Marie-Claire Picher and Others TBA Friday: 6:00 - 9:00 pm Saturday & Sunday: 11:00 am - 6:00 pm Cop-in-the-Head is a collection of Theater of the Oppressed techniques that use games and exercises to recognize and confront internalized forms of oppression, and explore power relations and collective solutions to concrete problems. This is a method and set of techniques that is especially useful for teachers and educators who work with disadvantaged populations, social workers, psychologists and mental health professionals, and community activists and organizers who are involved with marginalized constituencies and constituencies which have traditionally been the victims of bias and discrimination. For more information contact the Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory at toplab at toplab.org or (212) 924-1858. Sliding scale: $95-$150 451 West Street, New York, NY 10014 - (212) 242-4201 - email: brechtforum at brechtforum.org _________________________________________________ Saturday, September 8 9:00 pm NEUES KABARETT World Premiere / Brecht Forum Commission Sylvie Courvoisier New Works for Violin and Piano with Mark Feldman "That her music is as aesthetically beautiful as it is strange and mysterious is only further testament to her prowess as a composer" ~ All Music Guide Pianist and composer Syvlie Courvoisier has been commissioned to write music for concerts, radio, dance and theater. Her works range from an electric guitar and chamber orchestra concerto; works for a vocal quartet and soprano; and a musical performance for metronomes, automatons, barrel organ, piano, tuba, saxophone, violin and percussion. She tours widely with her own groups in USA, Canada and Europe. Courvoisier is a member of "Mephista," an improvising trio with Ikue Mori and Susie Ibarra; "Herb Robertson Quintet" with Tim Berne, Tom Rainey and Mark Dresser; "Yusef Lateef 4tet;" "Vincent Courtois Trio" with Ellery Eskelin and "John Zorn's Cobra." She tours regularly in Duo with Mark Feldman, playing John Zorn's music and their own compositions. Admission: $10 ________________________________________________ Monday, September 10 7:30 pm BOOK PARTY / FORUM Resistance A Radical Social and Political History of the Lower East Side Jim Feast, Sarah Ferguson, Alan Moore, Clayton Patterson & Seth Tobocman New York's Lower East Side has been pivotal in the development of politically radical practices, lifestyles and thought. This legacy, stretching back to the days of Emma Goldman's residence at the turn of the century, seemed to come to a sudden end with the 1988 Tompkins Square Park police riot and the subsequent repression in the neigbborhood of homeless people and squatters. In over fifty chapters by diverse authors Resistance, edited by Clayton Patterson, provides a fascinating examination of what can we learn from this neighborhood's colorful and empowering history. Jim Feast is coauthor of the novel Neo Phobe and (with Gary Null) AIDS: A Second Opinion. Sarah Ferguson is a freelance journalist with the Village Voice, The Nation, and Utne Reader. Alan Moore is an art historian who has been published in the anthologies Alternative Art New York and Collectivism After Modernism. Clayton Patterson is editor of Resistance and Captured: A Film History of the LES, and an archivist and video documenter of the 1988 riot. Seth Tobocman is the founder of WWIII Illustrated and noted illustrator of three graphic novels. Suggested donation: $6/$10/$15 Free for Brecht Forum Subscribers __ _________________________________________________ Tuesday, September 11 7:30 pm Political Change in Bolivia Current Analysis and Prospects Patricia Ch?vez, Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui, Pablo Mamani, Dunia Mokrani, Oscar Olivera & Luis Tapia. Moderated by Gerardo Renique >From the time of the "Water War" of April 2000 until now, Bolivia's popular movements have gained exceptional power to shape national politics and economic restructuring. In December 2005, they catapulted trade-union leader Evo Morales into presidential office. A delegation of Bolivian activists and analysts, including prominent political and intellectual figures as well as new voices, will be at the Brecht Forum to report on the current state of affairs. Central themes for this evening of debate and reflection include: Indian political projects, social movements and the state, the Constitutional Assembly, neoliberalism and natural resources, coca politics and the role of the United States. Participants include: Patricia Ch?vez, activist working on women's labor organization, sociologist who has studied political parties, social movements, and the dramatic political transformations in contemporary Bolivia. Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui, coca activist, co-founder of the Andean Oral History Workshop, and author of wide-ranging radical works including the classic "Oppressed but not Defeated": Struggles of the Quechua-Aymara Peasantry, 1900-1980 (1984). Pablo Mamani, Aymara sociologist from El Alto, author of works on recent social mobilization including El rugir de las multitudes: La fuerza de los levantamientos ind?genas en Bolivia/Qullasuyu (2004). Dunia Mokrani, activist working with vulnerable sectors of women workers, political analyst of the government of the Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS) and the Constitutional Assembly. Oscar Olivera, trade-union representative of factory workers who became a leading figure in the Cochabamba "Water War" and head of the Coordinadora del Agua grassroots organization. Luis Tapia, author of numerous works of political analysis including a major study of Bolivian theorist Ren? Zavaleta Mercado, and director of the Centro de Investigaci?n y Desarrollo in La Paz. Suggested donation: $6/$10/$15 Free for Brecht Forum Subscribers _________________________________________________ The Brecht Forum Needs Your Support! Please click here to make a DONATION The BRECHT FORUM 451 West Street (Between Bank & Bethune) New York, NY 10014 (212) 242- 4201 www.brechtforum.org Transportation: 1, 2, 3 A, C, E to 14th Street, 14A, 11, 20 buses to Abingdon Square (where 8th Avenue meets Hudson Street) 8 bus to 10th & West Streets L to 8th Ave @14th Street. _______________________________________________ Brecht events1 mailing list Brecht events1 at lists.mayfirst.org https://lists.mayfirst.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/brechtevents1 _______________________________________________ Brechtevents1 mailing list Brechtevents1 at lists.mayfirst.org https://lists.mayfirst.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/brechtevents1 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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The deadline for submission of abstracts of non-refereed papers is Friday November 2, with papers due Friday 23 November. Further details will be available from the Conference website. In addition, we have arranged with the editors of the Economics and Labour Relations Review to have a Symposium Issue of selected papers from the conference. SHE Website: http://she.web.unsw.edu.au/ Peter Kriesler School of Economics University of NSW Sydney NSW 2052 http://www.economics.unsw.edu.au/PeterKriesler -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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From urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu Wed Sep 5 20:36:22 2007 From: urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu (urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu) Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2007 22:36:22 -0400 Subject: [URPE] TRANSITIONS in LATIN AMERICA and in POLAND and SYRIA Message-ID: <46DF67A6.9020503@lists.econ.utah.edu> RESEARCH IN POLITICAL ECONOMY VOLUME 24, Paul Zarembka, ed., Elsevier, hardback, 2007. http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/PZarembka/volume24.htm With a world balance of forces in tension, this volume slices the political map in two dimensions, the geographical dimension and the imperialism/socialism dimension ("socialism", of course, having widely varying meanings). As a region, Latin America is in the forefront of resistance to imperial schemes, particularly those by the United States. Venezuela and Cuba represent leading edges of resistance, and Colombia, a leading edge of U.S. hegemony. Chapters addressing the political economies of these countries form the first part of the volume. Poland has led the anti-Soviet transition into a pro-market realignment, a realignment of this country which is particularly oriented toward the United States. Syria, on the other hand and even as it moves into a pro-market orientation, is subject to particular U.S. hostility. Both cases are analyzed in Part II, with the chapter on Poland having considerably broader applicability. Also included here is the continued deeper penetration of capitalist relations within the United States, represented by analysis of the transition of its medical sector. For almost a century, stages of capitalism has been an important theme within Marxism. The theme is analyzed at the beginning of Part III, and connects to the more empirical work represented by the prior six chapters. The volume concludes with translation from Japanese of an important critique of the classical political economy of Adam Smith and David Ricardo, who, in a certain sense, were the leading proponents, historically, of the market, of capitalism. Most poignantly, this chapter argues that Ricardian value theory opens the door to a vulgar system of economic thought. *** Link on web page for titles and authors and ordering instructions. ************************************************************************* (Vol.23) The HIDDEN HISTORY of 9-11-2001 "a benchmark in 9/11 research" ********************** http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/PZarembka From leefs at umkc.edu Thu Sep 6 15:46:15 2007 From: leefs at umkc.edu (Lee, Frederic) Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 16:46:15 -0500 Subject: [URPE] ASSA Message-ID: <9A72753A447165498D6B63479DB2E7C9032422BB@KC-MSX3.kc.umkc.edu> To All, Registration for the ASSA conference and hotel can now be made on line: http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AEA . Remembers when registering for the ASSA tick the membership box for the Association for Social Economics or Labor and Employment Relations Association. In 2006 ASE got $2951 which it uses to support heterodox economics and LERA got $7,480, but more is better. 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 at umkc.edu Book Series Editor of "Advances in Heterodox Economics" For Heterodox Economics Newsletter: http://www.heterodoxnews.com For the Association for Heterodox Economics: http://www.hetecon.com . International Confederation of Associations for Pluralism in Economics (ICAPE): http://icape.org/ For current and previous issues of the HEN see 'news' section of http://www.hetecon.com/ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Randy Albelda ------ University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, MA H7 -- State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations I2 - Education I3 - Welfare and Poverty J - Labor and Demographic Economics L3 - Nonprofit Organizations and Public Enterprise R - Urban, Rural, and Regional Economics The Department of Economics invites applications for two anticipated tenure track openings, assistant professor level or, perhaps, associate professor level, beginning Fall 2008 (subject to final budgetary approval). A successful applicant will have teaching and applied research records in the broad area of urban social problems. A person could approach urban social problems from a variety of areas within economics, including but not limited to labor economics, urban economics, poverty and social welfare, the economics of race and discrimination, the economics of education, the economics of migration, and the economics of state and local government. A successful candidate should have a successful teaching record and the capacity to contribute to undergraduate general education, the economics major and, possibly, graduate instruction. We are interested in candidates who will interact well with the applied policy researchers currently in the department, and candidates with an interest in interdisciplinary work are particularly encouraged to apply. Evidence of successful teaching with diverse students is highly desirable. Candidates must have completed the Ph.D. by September 1, 2008. Evidence of progress towards an excellent scholarly record is necessary. Review of applications will begin on November 15, 2007, and continue until the position is filled. We anticipate preliminary interviews at the ASSA meetings in New Orleans. Send letter of application, curriculum vitae, a sample of written work, and three current letters of recommendation. UMass Boston is an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Title IX employer. CONTACT: Personnel Committee, Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts Boston, 100 Morrissey Blvd., Boston, MA 02125-3393. -- Randy Albelda Professor of Economics University of Massachusetts Boston Boston, MA 02125 617-287-6963 randy.albelda at umb.edu From fkaboub at drew.edu Sat Sep 8 13:42:40 2007 From: fkaboub at drew.edu (Fadhel Kaboub) Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2007 15:42:40 -0400 Subject: [URPE] Economic Turmoil Explained - Sep. 13 @ 6 PM - Drew University Message-ID: <46E2C2DB.F2AA.0012.0@drew.edu> The Economics Department, the Economics Club, the CLA Dean's Office, and the Business, Society, and Culture Program of Drew University are pleased to present: "Understanding the Credit Crunch as a Minsky Moment" by Charles J. Whalen Thursday September 13, 2007 at 6 PM Mead Hall, Founders Room As observers of financial markets grapple with the current credit crunch, many are suggesting the arrival of a "Minsky Moment," a reference to the ideas of economist Hyman Minsky (1919-1996). In his presentation, Charles Whalen explains that Minsky's scholarship focused on three main areas -- financial instability, the evolution of economic systems, and economic policy -- and that the late economist's contributions in each area remain essential to making sense of the current economic turmoil. Charles J. Whalen is a Visiting Fellow at the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations. He specializes in the history of economics and in the labor-market implications of American economic development. He edits Perspectives on Work, a journal published by the Labor and Employment Relations Association, has served as associate economics editor at BusinessWeek, and taught economics as a professor at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. In the mid 1990s, Whalen and Minsky were colleagues and collaborators at the Jerome Levy Economics Institute of Bard College. Event is Free and Open to the Public. Light refreshments will be available. Please feel free to circulate this announcement to anyone who might be interested in this event. A printable flyer maybe downloaded here: http://depts.drew.edu/econ/Whalen-Sep-2007-flyer.pdf Fore more info contact Dr. Fadhel Kaboub at fkaboub at drew.eduor 973-408-3764. Drew University 36 Madison Avenue Madison NJ 07940 http://www.drew.edu/ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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This legacy, stretching back to the days of Emma Goldman's residence at the turn of the century, seemed to come to a sudden end with the 1988 Tompkins Square Park police riot and the subsequent repression in the neigbborhood of homeless people and squatters. In over fifty chapters by diverse authors Resistance, edited by Clayton Patterson, provides a fascinating examination of what can we learn from this neighborhood's colorful and empowering history. Jim Feast is coauthor of the novel Neo Phobe and (with Gary Null) AIDS: A Second Opinion. Sarah Ferguson is a freelance journalist with the Village Voice, The Nation, and Utne Reader. Alan Moore is an art historian who has been published in the anthologies Alternative Art New York and Collectivism After Modernism. Clayton Patterson is editor of Resistance and Captured: A Film History of the LES, and an archivist and video documenter of the 1988 riot. Seth Tobocman is the founder of WWIII Illustrated and noted illustrator of three graphic novels. Suggested donation: $6/$10/$15 Free for Brecht Forum Subscribers __ _________________________________________________ Tuesday, September 11 7:30 pm Political Change in Bolivia Current Analysis and Prospects Patricia Ch?vez, Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui, Pablo Mamani, Dunia Mokrani, Oscar Olivera & Luis Tapia. Moderated by Gerardo Renique >From the time of the "Water War" of April 2000 until now, Bolivia's popular movements have gained exceptional power to shape national politics and economic restructuring. In December 2005, they catapulted trade-union leader Evo Morales into presidential office. A delegation of Bolivian activists and analysts, including prominent political and intellectual figures as well as new voices, will be at the Brecht Forum to report on the current state of affairs. Central themes for this evening of debate and reflection include: Indian political projects, social movements and the state, the Constitutional Assembly, neoliberalism and natural resources, coca politics and the role of the United States. Participants include: Patricia Ch?vez, activist working on women's labor organization, sociologist who has studied political parties, social movements, and the dramatic political transformations in contemporary Bolivia. Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui, coca activist, co-founder of the Andean Oral History Workshop, and author of wide-ranging radical works including the classic "Oppressed but not Defeated": Struggles of the Quechua-Aymara Peasantry, 1900-1980 (1984). Pablo Mamani, Aymara sociologist from El Alto, author of works on recent social mobilization including El rugir de las multitudes: La fuerza de los levantamientos ind?genas en Bolivia/Qullasuyu (2004). Dunia Mokrani, activist working with vulnerable sectors of women workers, political analyst of the government of the Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS) and the Constitutional Assembly. Oscar Olivera, trade-union representative of factory workers who became a leading figure in the Cochabamba "Water War" and head of the Coordinadora del Agua grassroots organization. Luis Tapia, author of numerous works of political analysis including a major study of Bolivian theorist Ren? Zavaleta Mercado, and director of the Centro de Investigaci?n y Desarrollo in La Paz. Suggested donation: $6/$10/$15 Free for Brecht Forum Subscribers _________________________________________________ Thursday, September 13 7:30 pm FILM & DISCUSSION Afghan Women: A History of Struggle Discussion with Filmmaker Kathleen Foster Dir. Kathleen Foster | 69 minutes. | 2003 Afghan Women: A History of Struggle captures the resilience and courage of women who risk their lives on a daily basis to stand up for their rights. The film examines the drafting of the Afghan Women's Bill of Rights by women from across Afghanistan at a 2003 conference in Kandahar. The women look at the pivotal role women's struggle for equality has played in the country's tumultuous political history and debunk the myth that current U.S. intervention in Afghanistan has liberated Afghan women from the tyranny of fundamentalism. The film exposes the ?EURoeWar on Terror?EUR? as mainly a euphemism for expanding U.S. control of the region's oil and gas. Suggested donation: $6/$10/$15 Free for Brecht Forum Subscribers _________________________________________________ Friday, September 14 7:30 pm TALK & FILM SCREENING Co-sponsor: The Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory Shit Sr. Clare Marie Therese, ICM Sr. Clare Marie Therese, who lives and works in a Dalit community in Tamilnadu, India, will show the documentary film Shit, which depicts the deplorable conditions faced by manual scavengers of human feces, those people at the lowest rungs of India's caste system. Sr. Clare-Marie will discuss the caste system which perpetuates systemic discrimination, even in the 21st century and will examine the socio-economic and political realities and struggles of the 200 million dalits ("untouchables") in India, with a special focus on Dalit women. She will also share her own experiences of using theater as a tool for social change and empowerment. Clare Marie Therese is based in Tamilnadu, India where she has been involved for fifteen years in mobilizing people in the Dalit community, particularly women, in the struggle for social justice and full democratic rights. She uses theater extensively in her political work in Tamilnadu and elsewhere in India, and also in Sri Lanka, and has worked with women from indigenous groups like Dalits and other tribals, people from the beleaguered Muslim community, cadre and others in mass political movements, plantation workers in Sri Lanka and Sri Lankan repatriates in India, street children and child laborers, and other constituencies. She was a member of fact finding teams concerning atrocities committed against Muslim and Dalit women, and also against fisherfolk in Madras. She has been trained in both Playback Theater and Theater of the Oppressed. Suggested donation: $6/$10/$15 Free for Brecht Forum Subscribers ______________________________________________ Saturday, September 15 10:00 am - 5:00 pm WORKSHOP Co-sponsor: The Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory Exclusions & Space Facilitated by Sr. Clare Marie Therese, ICM Using various exercises from street theater, Playback Theater and Theater of the Oppressed (especially Forum Theater), participants will gain insights into the experiences and the limited space into which Dalits, especially Dalit women, are restricted and confined due to the many historical social exclusions they suffer in their daily lives. Clare Marie will demonstrate how she uses "space" in theater to help break through the culture of silence, exclusion and oppression. This workshop will be useful to people working with marginalized communities and constituencies in the United States. Clare Marie Therese is based in Tamilnadu, India where she has been involved for fifteen years in mobilizing people in the Dalit community, particularly women, in the struggle for social justice and full democratic rights. She uses theater extensively in her political work in Tamilnadu and elsewhere in India, and also in Sri Lanka where she has worked with women from indigenous groups like Dalits and other tribals, people from the beleaguered Muslim community, cadre and others in mass political movements, plantation workers in Sri Lanka and Sri Lankan repatriates in India, street children and child laborers, and other constituencies. She was a member of fact finding teams concerning atrocities committed against Muslim and Dalit women, and also against fisherfolk in Madras. She has been trained in both Playback Theater and Theater of the Oppressed. 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Thanks, Mark Levitan, Ph.D. Director of Poverty Research NYC Center for Economic Opportunity 212-331-4435 Position Title: SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER (CITY RESEARCH SCIENTIST III) Organization: NYC Human Resources Administration Job Type: Full-Time Description: The New York City Human Resources Administration's Office of Evaluation and Research in conjunction with the City's Center for Economic Opportunity is recruiting for a Senior Project Manager to provide leadership in research projects that develop and apply innovative measures of poverty, well-being, and economic opportunity in the City of New York. This position requires a management professional who will partner with lead researchers in other city agencies as well as other government and university-based research institutions; provide leadership in the development of new uses of administrative data and new forms of data collection; coordinate work with the City's Center for Economic Opportunity and other relevant city agencies; apply advanced techniques of statistical analysis to administrative and survey data; prepare written reports including technical and methodological papers on poverty measurement. Qualification Requirements: A master's degree from an accredited college or university with specialization in an social science and three years of responsible full-time experience, including one year of full-time experience in a responsible supervisory, administrative or research capacity in the appropriate field of specialization. Preference will be given to candidates who have: . A Ph. D in economics, sociology, or other related social science. . Expertise in statistical methods. . Experience in working with complex micro-data sets. . Knowledge of SPSS-PC (or other statistical software), Arc View (or other GIS programs), Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint. . Excellent oral and written communication skills with emphasis on ability to explain analytical work to a lay audience. . Knowledge of relevant research literature. Non-residents may be hired contingent upon becoming a New York City resident within 90 days of employment. Salary: $73,498. New York City offers an excellent and comprehensive benefits package. Send cover letter, writing samples of analytical research and resume to: Joan Belthrop Personnel Officer 180 Water Street - 4th Floor New York, NY 10038 E-mail: mailto:belthropj at hra.nyc.govFax: (212) 331-3186 HRA/CITY OF NEW YORK AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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The keynote address and panels will explore the issues of inter-temporal allocation and inter-generational equity raised by the global warming problem, and the political economy of policies to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions. Featuring: Graciela Chichilnisky, Columbia University Tom Ferguson, University of Massachusetts Neva Goodwin, Global Development and Environment Institute Geoffrey Heal, Columbia University Jeff Madrick, SCEPA Julie Nelson, Global Development and Environment Institute Lance Taylor, The New School for Social Research with keynote address by Duncan Foley, The New School for Social Research For more information or to RSVP e-mail cepa at 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 soapbox at comcast.net Tue Sep 11 05:37:10 2007 From: soapbox at comcast.net (Ruth Indeck) Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 07:37:10 -0400 Subject: [URPE] [NYC] NYC Area Dialogues on Immigration Message-ID: <46E67DE6.3060506@comcast.net> NYC Area Dialogues on Immigration with Jane Guskin & David Wilson authors of The Politics of Immigration: Questions & Answers For information: Website: http://thepoliticsofimmigration.org Blog: http://thepoliticsofimmigration.blogspot.com Email: thepoliticsofimmigration at gmail.com SEPTEMBER 2007 Tuesday, Sept. 11, between 10 and 11 am Interview on WBAI's "The War On Immigrants Report," hosted by Adem Carroll and Subhash Kateel In the New York area listen to: WBAI, 99.5 FM Live streaming and archives: http://wbai.org Previous interviews: "America's Work Force: The American Workers' Radio Network," hosted by Ed "Flash" Ferenc http://www.awfradio.com/segments.html (click on the Sept. 5 program) Interview with Jane Guskin by Vincenzo Ronchi and Ana Lourdes Alvarenga on the website of the Brazilian Community of Manhattan, a Catholic organization based at Our Lady of Pompeii Church in Greenwich Village http://www.catolicosny.org/?imigracao * * * * * * Dialogues on Immigration Have you heard an anti-immigrant argument that you feel is wrong, but need the facts to contest? (For example: "Immigrants are a drain on socialservices.") Do you have your own fear or concern about the issue? (For example: "Are the lowest-paid US-born workers really hurt by immigration?") Bring these arguments and concerns to a dialogue, and we'll work together to develop responses using facts, rational reasoning and personal experiences. To set up a dialogue in your community, write us at thepoliticsofimmigration at gmail.com Upcoming Dialogues in the NYC area: Thursday, Sept. 13, 7 pm Participatory dialogue at Bluestockings Bookstore 172 Allen St, New York, NY (at Stanton Street one block south of Houston Street, take the F or V train to Second Avenue) For more information: call 212-777-6028 or visit http://www.bluestockings.com or http://www.myspace.com/bluestockingsnyc * * * * * * Tuesday, Sept. 18, noon to 1:30 pm Participatory dialogue at meeting of Rockland Immigration Coalition St. Paul's Episcopal Church 26 South Madison Street Spring Valley, NY For more information: call 845-634-5729 ext 314 or email: peacepoet at aol.com * * * * * Thursday, Sept. 27, 7 pm Participatory dialogue at Vox Pop Cafe 1022 Cortelyou Road Ditmas Park, Brooklyn, NY (take the Q train to Cortelyou Road or the F to Ditmas Avenue) For more information: call 718-940-2084 or visit http://www.voxpopnet.net/ From mail at thomaspalley.com Tue Sep 11 11:35:17 2007 From: mail at thomaspalley.com (Thomas Palley) Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 13:35:17 -0400 Subject: [URPE] POLICY BRIEF: "The Fed and the Economy" Message-ID: Dear URPE Friends & Colleagues, This week's policy brief is titled "The Fed and America's Distorted Expansion". It is posted on my website at www.thomaspalley.com Please feel free to share it with others who may be interested in this subject. Sincerely, Tom Palley Thomas Palley Founder Economics for Democratic & Open Societies Project Tel: 202-667-5518 e-mail: mail at thomaspalley.com www.thomaspalley.com -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 736 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/urpe-announcements/attachments/20070911/566d8923/attachment.txt From soapbox at comcast.net Wed Sep 12 19:02:04 2007 From: soapbox at comcast.net (Ruth Indeck) Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 21:02:04 -0400 Subject: [URPE] New Dates for "Jobs for All Week" -- URPE speakers welcome Message-ID: <46E88C0C.5030303@comcast.net> To URPE Members and Friends, URPE has signed on as a supporting organization of the National Jobs for All Coalition's Drive for Decent Work. See below for a description of this project, and also see their website: http://www.njfac.org/sharedpros.htm Also see the article by Trudy Goldberg and Helen Ginsburg on p. 4 of the Spring URPE Newsletter, on URPE's website: http://urpe.org/newsletspr07.pdf Logan Martinez is organizing educational events on economic/labor/political issues, in communities and on campuses, starting in early November, but also continuing throughout the year; his letter is below. He will be contacting some URPE members, but if you particularly want to be involved, please let me and Logan know. Ruthie Indeck ********************************************** Dear Friends, We have decided to push back the Jobs for All Week to the first week in November. (Nov. 2 - 9) Many groups around the country have expressed support for the Jobs For All Week and THE DRIVE FOR DECENT WORK, but need more time to organize. We are encouraging groups to do local actions for the First Friday in November and to do ongoing events and actions in support of the unemployed and THE DRIVE FOR DECENT WORK. For Job and Peace, Logan Martinez Miami Valley Full Employment Council / National Jobs For All Coalition 937-275-7259 / americassafetynet at hotmail.com Jobs for All Week November 2nd to November 9th The National Jobs for All Coalition is calling for events and actions to highlight the fight for jobs and economic justice November 2nd through November 9th. Jobs for All Week is being organized to support THE DRIVE FOR DECENT WORK. This program will provide needed human services and infrastrucuture and other investment, and at the same time create decent jobs. Over 16 million Americans are unemployed or involuntary part-time workers, or among the "hidden unemployed"--those who would like a job but aren't currently looking. Other millions more are working at poverty wages. And millions more, even college graduates, are without pensions, health insurance, or job security. The need for for public investment was highlighted by the Katrina disaster and the recent bridge collapse in Minneapolis. All over the country, there are Katrinas and Minnesotas waiting to happen. Our proposal is a Win/Win Solution to deal with our double deficits in DECENT WORK and PUBLIC INVESTMENT in human and physical resources. THE DRIVE FOR DECENT WORK campaign supports legislation in the US Congress, bills that correct the underinvestment in vital human and physical resources and at the same create millions of decent jobs. Legislation includes the National Affordable Housing Trust Fund Act, Bringing America Home Act (HR 4347), Elementary and Secondary Education Act, a legislative proposal to hire 100,000 new teachers, proposals on renewable energy, youth employment, a Living Wage Jobs for All Act (HR 1050), and proposals for improving transportation and the environment. For the complete list, please consult THE DRIVE FOR DECENT WORK at http://www.njfac.org/sharedpros.htm or http://www.njfac.org/sharedpros.pdf We are also supporting national Health Care for All and have included proposals for legislation repairing the losses and investing in protections for the Gulf coast. The National Jobs for All Coalition is calling for activities in the fall "Jobs for All Week", including educational events at community centers and union halls. Universities might feature panel discussions highlighting local conditions, lay-offs, plant closings as well as the job opportunities in providing services and investments needed by their communities. Panels should included laid-off workers, those whose jobs or incomes are threatened, educators, trade unionists and low income advocates. We see these events as the kick-off of a national debate on jobs and needs for public investment and services which have gone unmet for so long. We encourage groups to organize actions at employment offices and Job Centers on Friday November 2, 2007. Informational picket lines and rallies will bring attention to the plight of working people. November 2nd, is the first Friday of the month, the day unemployment figures are released by the Dept. of Labor. We will have just a brief time to organize this effort but we believe we can get this off to a good start now. We could have a major impact on national politics. We are seeking endorsements and resolutions by city governments and other governmental bodies in support of Jobs for All Week and THE DRIVE FOR DECENT WORK. We are also seeking endorsements from both organizations and individuals for this drive. For more information contact Logan Martinez, Miami Valley Full Employment Council / National Jobs For All Coalition 937-275-7259 / americassafetynet at hotmail.com / www.njfac.org From robchang at sfsu.edu Sat Sep 15 15:56:02 2007 From: robchang at sfsu.edu (Robin Chang) Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2007 14:56:02 -0700 Subject: [URPE] John Bellamy Foster, Richard Lichtman, Sue-Ellen Case, and more on "Art as Social Praxis" Message-ID: <1189893362.46ec54f2b55a1@webmail.sfsu.edu> ART AS SOCIAL PRAXIS: The Bettina Stockton Memorial Symposium Monday, October 8, 2007, 1-6 p.m. Free and open to all HUMANITIES BUILDING, ROOM 587 SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY 1600 HOLLOWAY AVENUE SYMPOSIUM SCHEDULE 1:00 Introduction ? Sandra Luft, Interdisciplinary Humanities, SFSU 1:15-2:00 John Bellamy Foster, Sociology, University of Oregon ?Art and World Alienation? 2:15-3:00 Sue-Ellen Case, Chair of Critical Studies, Theater Dept, UCLA ?Beuys Will Be Beuys: Gender, Nature, and Critical Theory? 3:15-4:00 Richard Lichtman, Wright Institute, Emeritus ?Art as Social Praxis? 4:10-4:30 Tanya Augsburg, Liberal Studies, SFSU ?Learning A Social Sculpture? (performance) 4:30-5:15 Open Discussion ? audience, presenters, and Anatole Anton (Philosophy, Emeritus), Ed McCaughan (Sociology), and Joel Schechter (Theatre Arts) 5:15-6:00 Reception PRESENTER BIOGRAPHIES John Bellamy Foster?s books include The Faltering Economy: The Problem of Accumulation Under Monopoly Capitalism (1984), The Theory of Monopoly Capitalism: An Elaboration of Marxian Political Economy (1986), In Defense of History: Marxism and the Postmodern Agenda (1997), Capitalism and the Information Age: The Political Economy of the Global Communication Revolution (1998), The Vulnerable Planet: A Short Economic History of the Environment (1999), Hungry for Profit (2000), Marx?s Ecology: Materialism and Nature (2000), Pax Americana: Exposing the American Empire (2004), and Naked Imperialism: The U.S. Pursuit of Global Dominance (2006). He is editor of Monthly Review. Sue-Ellen Case has published widely in the fields of German theatre, feminism and theatre, performance theory, and lesbian critical theory, including articles in journals such as Theatre Journal, Modern Drama, differences, and Theatre Research International and in many anthologies. Her books include Feminism and Theatre (1988), The Domain-Matrix: Performing Lesbian at the End of Print Culture (1997), Performing Science and the Virtual (2006), and Playing Politics: The Staging of Civil Affairs (forthcoming), and edited anthologies of critical works and play texts. Her work has received several national awards. Richard Lichtman is a philosopher who specializes in the relationship between the social and psychological dimensions of human life. He has taught in departments of philosophy, humanities, sociology and psychology. His books include The Production of Desire: The Integration of Psychoanalysis into Marxist Theory (1982), Essays in Critical Social Theory: Toward a Marxist Criticism of Liberal Ideology (1993), and Dying in America: Mindful of His Death, A Memoir & The Illusion of Maturation in an Age of Decline (2001). Tanya Augsburg earned her Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Humanities at Emory University in 1996. Her areas of expertise and publication include contemporary feminist performance, self-transformation as a theme in literature and art, and interdisciplinary studies pedagogy. She curated the first retrospective exhibition on the work of Joanna Frueh and edited the exhibition catalogue, Joanna Frueh: A Retrospective (2005); she is also editing a collection of critical essays on Frueh tentatively titled, ?Performing Pleasure: Joanna Frueh and the Female Body.? ABOUT BETTINA STOCKTON Bettina Stockton earned an M.A. in Interdisciplinary Humanities at SFSU. At the time of her death in 2005, she was working on her doctoral dissertation at the University of Oregon on critical theory, the sociology of the art work, and the work of the influential German performance artist and activist Joseph Beuys. Bettina Stockton earned her M.A. in Interdisciplinary Humanities at SFSU in 1993 and a B.A. in Studio Art at UC Santa Barbara. She was pursuing a Ph.D. in Sociology at the University of Oregon with John Bellamy Foster when she died of ovarian cancer in 2005. Bettina was a student who captured our hearts and whom we wish to honor. She had a bright, questioning, imaginative mind and she was passionate about ideas and just as passionately committed to working for social justice. Drawn to German social-political theorists and artists, she spent several years in Germany learning the language and studying the social- political scene. In her Ph.D. dissertation, Bettina challenged the neglect of the arts in academic sociology, focusing specifically on the work and activism of Joseph Beuys. Beuys had belonged to the Hitler Youth and was a Luftwaffe pilot during the war. He turned the trauma of the Hitler years, and his complicity in it, into art that challenged German society in public performances and other media. He was influential in such critical movements as the German anti-nuclear, environmental, and student movements of the 60?s and 70?s, and co-founded the Green Party. Bettina said her ?dissertation challenges the ambivalent attitude of ?professional sociology? toward the arts and argues for the disciplinary relevance of art and the social relationships that attend its presence in the social fabric. As such it engages both the sociology of sociology and of knowledge.? Sponsored by the Colleges of Humanities, Behavioral and Social Sciences, and Creative Arts, San Francisco State University; Anatole Anton, Sandra Luft (Chair), and Mike Lunine, Symposium Organizers From leefs at umkc.edu Mon Sep 17 08:11:18 2007 From: leefs at umkc.edu (Lee, Frederic) Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 09:11:18 -0500 Subject: [URPE] revising heterodox econ. programs Message-ID: <9A72753A447165498D6B63479DB2E7C90335E307@KC-MSX3.kc.umkc.edu> Dear Colleague, I am revising the undergraduate and graduate program lists that appear in the "Informational Directory for Heterodox Economists" on the Heterodox Economics Newsletter web site: http://www.heterodoxnews.com. I have attached the information that currently appears in the "Informational Directory". If you think that any of this material should be changed, or if you know of any heterodox programs that should be added, could you please send me the information? In addition, I am embarking on a new project: to document the richness of heterodox course offerings in undergraduate and graduate economics programs. I would be grateful if you provide the following information about heterodox courses currently taught in your program: 1. Name of your institution and program 2 . Courses taught with a heterodox orientation (or significant heterodox content) * course titles * how often each course is offered * typical enrollment in each course * titles of heterodox books typically assigned in each course 3. [optional] Additional comments on the suitability of existing course books, or suggestions for new and improved books 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 at umkc.edu Book Series Editor of "Advances in Heterodox Economics" For Heterodox Economics Newsletter: http://www.heterodoxnews.com For the Association for Heterodox Economics: http://www.hetecon.com. International Confederation of Associations for Pluralism in Economics (ICAPE): http://icape.org/ For current and previous issues of the HEN see 'news' section of http://www.hetecon.com/ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: revisegrad.doc Type: application/msword Size: 134656 bytes Desc: revisegrad.doc Url : http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/urpe-announcements/attachments/20070917/5405df61/attachment-0002.doc -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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We are particularly interested in candidates with research and teaching interests in organizational behavior, industrial relations, human resources, international and comparative employment relations, workplace diversity, and new approaches to work and employment. Applicants should possess a Ph.D. in a relevant discipline. Candidates for the Assistant Professor rank should possess significant research and funding potential; candidates for the Associate Professor rank should have a strong research record and a demonstrated ability to obtain external funding. The Department of Labor Studies and Employment Relations is a multidisciplinary department with a large undergraduate program and a strong, masters program. The Department has existing strengths in industrial relations, human resources, comparative employment relations, and work and family. Applications consisting of a letter of application, curriculum vitae, three reference letters, and a writing sample should be sent to: Paul Clark, Professor and Head, Department of Labor Studies and Employment Relations, The Pennsylvania State University, 133 Willard Bldg., Box URPE, University Park, PA 16802. Applications received by October 15, 2007, will be assured of consideration; however, all applications will be considered until the position is filled. Penn State is committed to affirmative action, equal opportunity, and the diversity of its workforce. Paul F. Clark, Professor and Head Dept. of Labor Studies and Employment Relations & Professor of Health Policy and Administration Penn State University 124 Willard Bldg. University Park, PA 16802 Ph.: 814-865-0752 Fax: 814-863-3578 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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The background is this: the Bureau is revising its research classifications and is planning to remove history of economic thought(HET) and economic history from the economics listings. The people in the field are extremely upset and have sent letters in favor of keeping the fields under economics. Some leading scholars in the field argue that it is the heterodox schools' close affiliation with HET that has caused its demise even in the U.S.A. Some of us disagree and it also led to a discussion of heterodoxy. I sent links to the TPM blog on Hip Heterodoxy which we had discussed on this list. Following is my letter in support of our Australian colleagues in the history of economics field. In it I try to address the Bureau's concern about how research should be relevant to socio-economic objectives. Best, Sumitra ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I am joining my colleagues in the History of Economics Society in requesting you that the proposal to move history of economic thought (HET) as an academic field out of the economics departments should be rescinded. Sandra Peart, the president of HES, and the executive board and many others have ably made the case that such a change would be harmful to the teaching of economics and to the research activities of scholars interested in the field. I would like to focus on another area of research which is thriving in many economics departments in the U. S. I am referring to feminist economics which has emerged as an important specialization. Its investigations and findings are used by international bodies like United Nations to formulate policies which make a real difference in the lives of women around the world. That difference is crucial for the very survival of women in poor and developing countries. An example is the "Program on Knowledge Networking and Capacity Building on Gender, Macroeconomics and International Economics" at the University of Utah which is hosted by the economics department. One of the strengths of feminist economics is to understand the weaknesses of economics as currently practiced by revealing the biases built in the making of economic theory from its inception. The androcentric hidden assumptions of the discipline can make for misguided analyses and policy prescriptions that maybe harmful to women, even if impeccable scientific tools are applied in the process. The very development of gender as a category of economic analysis is based on critically examining the history of economic thought. That does not detract from the power of economics as a science; it only enriches it. I would like to suggest that it is the purpose of universities and public institutions to encourage multi-faceted research into the economic aspects of our lives. HET and feminist economics are integral parts of some of our research programs. And so it is true for many others which my colleagues have mentioned as closely dependent on the history of economics. Removing HET from the economics departments will adversely affect their viability. Thank you. Sumitra Shah St. John's University --- You are currently subscribed to $subst('List.Name') as: $subst('Recip.EmailAddr') To unsubscribe send a blank email to $subst('Email.UnSub') IAFFE-L is the official listserve of the International Association for Feminist Economics > >_______________________________________________ >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. 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To reply to sender >and/or list, click Reply All. >Please consider carefully before sending your reply to the entire list. > >TO CONTACT URPE: >Website: http://urpe.org/ >National Office: URPE at labornet.org, 413-577-0806 >Review of Radical Political Economics: >http://urpe.org/rrpehome.html; hg18 at cornell.edu >Economy Connection (speakers/resources): >http://www.urpe.org/ec-home.html; soapbox at comcast.net > >OTHER LISTS AND WEBSITES WITH DEBATES AND INFORMATION >Heterodox Economics Web: http://www.orgs.bucknell.edu/afee/HetDisc.htm >Association for Heterodox Economics: http://www.hetecon.com >Fred Lee's announcement list: leefs at umkc.edu; >http://l.web.umkc.edu/leefs/htn1.htm >Portside (Left political debates): >http://lists.portside.org/mailman/listinfo/portside >See http://www.urpe.org/Listserv.html for additional lists. -- Laurie Nisonoff Professor of Economics School of Social Science Hampshire College Amherst, MA 01002 p: 413-559-5397 f: 413-559-5620 e: lnisonoff at hampshire.edu From scott-carter at utulsa.edu Sun Sep 16 10:02:22 2007 From: scott-carter at utulsa.edu (scott-carter at utulsa.edu) Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2007 11:02:22 -0500 Subject: [URPE] URPE at the EEA Message-ID: <20070916110222.eqsjhcqeqskws0gs@webmail.utulsa.edu> Hi Ruthie. Here is the call for papers that was agreed on by the SC. Let me know if you need anything else. Scott ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ URPE at the EEA 2008: CALL FOR PAPERS!! Planning to submit a paper and/or organize a session for the upcoming Eastern Economics Association Conference in Boston (March 2008)? Then consider organizing your session as an URPE session! As we know the recent cutbacks of heterodox-oriented sessions at the ASSA Conference threaten theoretical diversity in the study of economics. The heterodoxy must stand its ground and to that effect URPE is soliciting proposals for papers and entire sessions to be organized under the auspice of URPE at the Eastern Economics Association Annual Conference. Let?s make a strong URPE presence at the EEA! Eligibility: 1. Presenters must adhere to all EEA guidelines regarding paper submission, registration information and criteria. 2. Those who submit must be current dues-paying URPE members for 2008 in order to be considered. Annual dues are inexpensive: $20 membership alone, $55 with year subscription to the Review of Radical Political Economics, $30 with RRPE for low income or students. Send payments to: URPE, 418 N. Pleasant St., Amherst, MA 01002-1735 Please submit your conference proposals and abstracts by October 31, 2007 to Scott Carter at the following email address: URPE_at_EEA at yahoo.com Graduate students are especially encouraged to send in individual proposals as well as entire sessions! Scott Carter can be reached at scott-carter at utulsa.edu, although inquiries may also be directed to the Yahoo address above. Let?s show how strong URPE presence at the EEA can send a powerful message to the profession! URPE Submission Deadline : October 31, 2007 EEA Submission Deadline : November 8, 2007 EEA Date and Location : March 7-9, 2007, Boston, MA From mail at thomaspalley.com Thu Sep 20 09:57:25 2007 From: mail at thomaspalley.com (Thomas Palley) Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 11:57:25 -0400 Subject: [URPE] POLICY OP-ED: Inflation, Chinese Style Message-ID: Dear URPE Friends & Colleagues, This week's policy brief is titled "Inflation, Chinese Style" and is posted on my website at www.thomaspalley.com Please feel free to share it with others who may be interested in this subject. Sincerely, Tom Palley Thomas Palley Founder Economics for Democratic & Open Societies Project Tel: 202-667-5518 e-mail: mail at thomaspalley.com www.thomaspalley.com -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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All heterodox traditions within the social sciences-including, but not limited to, Marxist, Institutionalist, Post Keynesian, Austrian, Feminist, and Poststructuralist/Postmodern-are welcome in the journal. Oeconomicus is sponsored by the Economics Club at the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC) and is published annually. We are currently soliciting submissions for our 2007-2008 issue and welcome students at all levels to submit full-length articles, book reviews, interviews or comments. Submissions should be no more that 5000 words and in MS Word format. Submissions and enquiries should be sent to the editors at karol.gil at umkc.edu. The deadline for submissions is December 1st, 2007. For further information about detailed instructions for authors, the journal, the Economics Club and/or the UMKC Economic Department please visit our website http://cas.umkc.edu/econ/Oeconomicus/. 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As = it is job season, there are a number of new jobs for heterodox = economists listed. You should also check out the New Economic Papers and = the new heterodox web sites for the Association for Integrity and = Responsible Leadership in Economics and Associated Professions and for = the Heterodox Economics for Environment and Development Network. Finally = there are a couple things under the FYI section that you should look at. = One concerns the response by the History of Economic Thought community = to an attempt to remove HET from economics and classify it as solely a = historical subject; and the second concerns 'freedom in classroom,' an = issue that certainly is relevant to those who teach in the US.=20 It is ASSA Conference registration time. Registration for the ASSA = conference and hotel can now be made on line: = http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AEA. Remembers when registering for the ASSA = tick the membership box for the Association for Social Economics or = Labor and Employment Relations Association. In 2006 ASE got $2951 ($990 = in 2005) which it uses to support heterodox economics and LERA got = $7,480 ($3,950 in 2005), but more is better. The breakdown for the ASSA = 2007 in Chicago is not yet available. For the AFEE, ASE, and the overall ASSA program at the ASSA see: http://www.orgs.bucknell.edu/afee/ASSA%20program%20&%20events%20Final%208= -31-07.doc =20 http://www.socialeconomics.org/modules.php?name=3DContent&pa=3Dshowpage&p= id=3D1=20 http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AEA/Annual_Meeting/ASSA08_program.htm =20 On Thursday evening of the ASSA Conference, the Association for Social = Economics is having its plenary session which is open to all economists = that support pluralism in economics. The reception after the session is = co-sponsored by ICAPE.=20 Thursday, January 3, 2008 Session: Inequality, Democracy, and the Economy Thursday, January 3, 2008, 6:30 pm Presiding: John B. Davis, University of Amsterdam and Marquette = University Co-sponsors: National Economic Association, International Association = for Feminist Economics, Union for Radical Political Economics Participants: Dean Baker, Center for Economic and Policy Research William J. Darity, Jr., Duke University Lourdes Beneria, Cornell University Reception follows co-sponsored by ICAPE Fred Lee In this issue: =20 Call for Papers =20 =20 - The 10th International Post Keynesian Conference and the Graduate = Summer School - The 6th Society of Heterodox Economists Conference - The XXXIInd Political Economy of the World-System (PEWS) Conference - AFIT Call for Papers and Student Competition Announcement - 10th Anniversary Conference of the Association for Heterodox Economics - Third Symposium of the European Association of Evolutionary Political = Economy =20 Conferences, Seminars and Lectures = =20 =20 - Dialogues: Economics - Berlin Conference 26-27 October 2007=20 - Historical Materialism Conference - What Makes Humans So Different? - Mapping Global Inequalities - Law and Economic Development: A Historical Perspective - Perspectives on Monetary Policy - Assessing Law and Economics in the Context of Development - European Business Elites - Post-Keynesian Perspectives on Development Economics - Globalization: Long-run Perspectives - Non-union Forms of Employee Representation in the Asia-Pacific Rim - Growth and Distribution - CofFEE - Keynes Lecture in Economics - The Economics of Global Warming =20 Job Postings for Heterodox Economists = =20 =20 - Western New England College - James Madison University - University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, MA - Missouri State University - Universidad Aut=F3noma Metropolitana - Unidad Cuajimalpa - NYC Human Resources Administration - The University at Albany, State University of New York =20 Heterodox Conference Papers and Reports and Articles = =20 =20 - NEP - New Economics Papers =20 Heterodox Journals and Newsletters = =20 =20 - New Political Economy=20 - Journal of Economic Methodology - Historical Materialism=20 - Levy News - Metroeconomica - Associative Economics Bulletin - September 2007 =20 Heterodox Books, Book Series, and Book Reviews = =20 =20 - Political Economy and Global Capitalism - A Survey of Critical Theories and Debates Since 1917 - The Enclave Economy - Research in Political Economy - Macroeconomics in Context =20 Heterodox Websites = =20 =20 - AIRLEAP - Political Economy Research Institute - Heterodox Economics for Environment and Development Network (HEEDnet) =20 For Your Information = =20 =20 - Canadian Tax and Credit Simulator - Gender and Trade Network - An Historical Injustice - AAUP Goes to Bat for 'Freedom in the Classroom' =20 ------_=_NextPart_001_01C7FC75.84907F80 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Heterodox Economics = Newsletter

Issue 49: September 20th 2007

 

From the Editor

This issue of the Newsletter = announces some new call for papers—check out the one for the Association for = Heterodox Economics. There is also a great many = interesting seminars, conferences and lectures to attend. As it is job season, there = are a number of new jobs for heterodox economists listed. You should also = check out the New Economic Papers and the new heterodox web sites for the = Association for Integrity and Responsible Leadership in Economics and Associated = Professions and for the Heterodox Economics for Environment and Development Network. Finally there are a couple things under the FYI section that you should = look at. One concerns the response by the History of Economic Thought = community to an attempt to remove HET from economics and classify it as solely a = historical subject; and the second concerns ‘freedom in classroom,’ an = issue that certainly is relevant to those who teach in the US.

It is ASSA Conference registration time. Registration for the ASSA = conference and hotel can now be made on line: http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AEA.=   Remembers when registering for the ASSA tick the membership box for the Association for Social Economics or Labor and Employment Relations = Association. In 2006 ASE got $2951 ($990 in 2005) which it uses to support heterodox economics and LERA got $7,480 ($3,950 in 2005), but more is better. The breakdown for the ASSA 2007 in Chicago is not yet available.

For the AFEE, ASE, and the overall ASSA program at the ASSA see:
http://www.orgs.bucknell.edu/afee/ASSA%20program%= 20&%20events%20Final%208-31-07.doc 
http://www.socialeconomics.org/modules.php?name=3DC= ontent&pa=3Dshowpage&pid=3D1
= http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AEA/Annual_Meeting/ASSA08_program.htm =

On Thursday evening of the ASSA Conference, the Association for Social = Economics is having its plenary session which is open to all economists that = support pluralism in economics. The reception after the session is co-sponsored = by ICAPE.

Thursday, January 3, 2008
Session: Inequality, Democracy, and the Economy
Thursday, January 3, 2008, 6:30 pm
Presiding: John B. Davis, University of Amsterdam and Marquette University
Co-sponsors: National Economic Association, International Association = for Feminist Economics, Union for Radical Political Economics
Participants:
Dean Baker, Center for Economic and Policy Research
William J. Darity, Jr., Duke University
Lourdes Beneria, Cornell University
Reception follows co-sponsored by ICAPE

Fred Lee

In this issue:

 

Call for Papers

 

- The 10th International Post Keynesian Conference and the Graduate = Summer School
- The 6th Society of Heterodox Economists Conference
- The XXXIInd Political Economy of the World-System (PEWS) = Conference
- AFIT Call for Papers and Student Competition Announcement
- 10th Anniversary Conference of the Association for Heterodox = Economics
- Third Symposium of the European Association of Evolutionary = Political Economy

 

Conferences, Seminars and = Lectures

 

- Dialogues: Economics
- Berlin Conference 26-27 October 2007
- Historical Materialism Conference
- What Makes Humans So Different?
- Mapping Global Inequalities
- Law and Economic Development: A Historical Perspective
- Perspectives on Monetary Policy
- Assessing Law and Economics in the Context of Development
- European Business Elites
- Post-Keynesian Perspectives on Development Economics
- Globalization: Long-run Perspectives
- Non-union Forms of Employee Representation in the Asia-Pacific = Rim
- Growth and Distribution
- CofFEE
- Keynes Lecture in Economics
- The Economics of Global Warming

 

Job Postings for Heterodox = Economists

 

- Western New England College
- James Madison University
- University of = Massachusetts Boston, Boston, = MA
- Missouri State University
- Universidad Aut=F3noma Metropolitana - Unidad Cuajimalpa
- NYC Human Resources Administration
- The University at Albany, State = University of = New York

 

Heterodox Conference Papers and Reports and = Articles

 

- NEP - New Economics Papers

 

Heterodox Journals and = Newsletters

 

- New Political Economy
- Journal of Economic Methodology
- Historical Materialism
- Levy News
- Metroeconomica
- Associative Economics Bulletin - September 2007

 

Heterodox Books, Book Series, and Book = Reviews

 

- Political Economy and Global Capitalism
- A Survey of Critical Theories and Debates Since 1917
- The Enclave Economy
- Research in Political Economy
- Macroeconomics in Context

 

Heterodox Websites

 

- AIRLEAP
- Political Economy Research Institute
- Heterodox Economics for Environment and Development Network = (HEEDnet)

 

For Your Information

 

- Canadian Tax and Credit Simulator
- Gender and Trade Network
- An Historical Injustice
- AAUP Goes to Bat for 'Freedom in the Classroom'

 

------_=_NextPart_001_01C7FC75.84907F80-- From mzweig at notes.cc.sunysb.edu Mon Sep 24 13:28:02 2007 From: mzweig at notes.cc.sunysb.edu (mzweig at notes.cc.sunysb.edu) Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 15:28:02 -0400 Subject: [URPE] How Class Works - 2008 conference CFP Message-ID: Please note that we have redesigned and updated the Website for the Center for Study of Working Class Life. You will need to create a new bookmark for the page on your browser although the old URL - www.workingclass.sunysb.edu - still works. PLEASE POST AND FORWARD TO ALL INTERESTED HOW CLASS WORKS - 2008 CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS A Conference at SUNY Stony Brook June 5-7, 2008 The Center for Study of Working Class Life is pleased to announce the How Class Works ? 2008 Conference, to be held at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, June 5 - 7, 2008. Proposals for papers, presentations, and sessions are welcome until December 17, 2007 according to the guidelines below. For more information, visit our Web site at < www.workingclass.sunysb.edu>. Purpose and orientation: The conference seeks to explore ways in which an explicit recognition of class helps to understand the social world in which we live, and ways in which analysis of society can deepen our understanding of class as a social relationship. Presentations should take as their point of reference the lived experience of class; proposed theoretical contributions should be rooted in and illuminate social realities. Presentations are welcome from people outside academic life when they sum up social experience in a way that contributes to the themes of the conference. Formal papers will be welcome but are not required. All presentations should be accessible to an interdisciplinary audience. Conference themes: The conference welcomes proposals for presentations that advance our understanding of any of the following themes. The mosaic of class, race, and gender. To explore how class shapes racial, gender, and ethnic experience and how different racial, gender, and ethnic experiences within various classes shape the meaning of class. Special focus: the legacy of Theodore W. Allen?s work on the invention of the white race and its implications in the new racial and ethnic mix of 21st century U.S. society. Class, power, and social structure. To explore the social content of working, middle, and capitalist classes in terms of various aspects of power; to explore ways in which class and structures of power interact, at the workplace and in the broader society. Class and community. To explore ways in which class operates outside the workplace in the communities where people of various classes live. Class in a global economy. To explore how class identity and class dynamics are influenced by globalization, including experience of cross-border organizing, capitalist class dynamics, international labor standards. Middle class? Working class? What's the difference and why does it matter? To explore the claim that the U.S. is a middle class society and contrast it with the notion that the working class is the majority; to explore the relationships between the middle class and the working class, and between the middle class and the capitalist class. Class, public policy, and electoral politics. To explore how class affects public policy, with special attention to health care, the criminal justice system, labor law, poverty, tax and other economic policy, housing, and education; to explore the place of electoral politics in the arrangement of class forces on policy matters. Special focus: class, health, and health care. Class and culture: To explore ways in which culture transmits and transforms class dynamics. Pedagogy of class. To explore techniques and materials useful for teaching about class, at K-12 levels, in college and university courses, and in labor studies and adult education courses. How to submit proposals for How Class Works ? 2008 Conference Proposals for presentations must include the following information: a) title; b) which of the eight conference themes will be addressed; c) a maximum 250 word summary of the main points, methodology, and slice of experience that will be summed up; d) relevant personal information indicating institutional affiliation (if any) and what training or experience the presenter brings to the proposal; e) presenter's name, address, telephone, fax, and e-mail address. A person may present in at most two conference sessions. To allow time for discussion, sessions will be limited to three twenty-minute or four fifteen-minute principal presentations. Sessions will not include official discussants. Proposals for poster sessions are welcome. Presentations may be assigned to a poster session. Proposals for sessions are welcome. A single session proposal must include proposal information for all presentations expected to be part of it, as detailed above, with some indication of willingness to participate from each proposed session member. Submit proposals as hard copy by mail to the How Class Works - 2008 Conference, Center for Study of Working Class Life, Department of Economics, SUNY, Stony Brook, NY 11794-4384 or as an e-mail attachment to . Timetable: Proposals must be received by December 17, 2007. Notifications will be mailed on January 16, 2008. The conference will be at SUNY Stony Brook June 5- 7, 2008. Conference registration and housing reservations will be possible after February 15, 2008. Details and updates will be posted at http://www.workingclass.sunysb.edu. 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Name: HCW 2008 call for papers.doc Type: application/octet-stream Size: 30720 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/urpe-announcements/attachments/20070924/f269d7e3/attachment-0001.obj From urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu Tue Sep 25 22:17:48 2007 From: urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu (urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu) Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 00:17:48 -0400 Subject: [URPE] [NYC] CEPA Economic Policy Workshop * James Heintz, UMass * September 26, 12:30-2pm Message-ID: <46F9DD6C.8080108@lists.econ.utah.edu> SCEPA Economic Policy Workshop on Wednesday, September 26th featuring: James Heintz, UMASS Amherst *Employment and Poverty Reduction: Policy Issues and Strategies* Workshop will be held on Wednesday, September 26 from 12:30 p.m.-2:00 p.m. 79 Fifth Avenue, 10th Floor, Room 1009 (note new location) FREE and open to the New School community and the public. James Heintz holds a Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts and a master's degree from the University of Minnesota. He has written on a wide range of economic policy issues, including job creation, global labor standards, egalitarian macroeconomic strategies, and investment behavior. He has worked as an international consultant on projects in Ghana and South Africa, sponsored by the International Labor Organization and the United Nations Development Program, that focus on employment-oriented development policy. He is co-author, with Nancy Folbre, of The Ultimate Field Guide to the U.S. Economy . From 1996 to 1998, he worked as an economist at the National Labour and Economic Development Institute in Johannesburg , a policy think tank affiliated with the South African labor movement. His current work focuses on global labor standards, employment income, and poverty; employment policies for low- and middle-income countries; and the links between macroeconomic policies and distributive outcomes. SCEPA FALL 2007 ECONOMIC POLICY WORKSHOP SERIES TIME: 12:30 - 2:00 p.m. (unless otherwise noted) PLACE: 79 Fifth Avenue, 10th Fl, Room 1009 (unless otherwise noted) September 26 12:30 p.m. James Heintz, UMASS Amherst ?Employment and Poverty Reduction: Policy Issues and Strategies? October 3 12:30 p.m. Ann Harrison, UC Berkeley ?Offshoring Jobs? Multinationals and US Manufacturing Employment? October 23 12:30 p.m. Eileen Appelbaum, Rutgers University ?Economics and Politics of Work and Family Policy" November 29 12:30 p.m. Janet Currie, Columbia University TBA December 5 *12:10 p.m. Michael Grossman, CUNY and NBER ?Parental Education and Child Health: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Taiwan? (*Note: Joint session with Milano. Held at 72 Fifth Ave. 3rd Fl., Henry Cohen Conference Room from 12:10-1:30 p.m.*) Please check our website regularly at www.newschool.edu/cepa for an updated schedule and other research and events. * * 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 Sep 25 22:19:54 2007 From: urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu (urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu) Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 00:19:54 -0400 Subject: [URPE] [NYC] Brecht Forum Events This Week Message-ID: <46F9DDEA.5000903@lists.econ.utah.edu> PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY Brecht Forum Events This Week ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Wednesday, September 26 7:30 pm The Zapatistas & the World Reflections from Exchanges between US-based Organizers & the Zapatista Communities Kolya Abramsky, Carwil James, Prita Lal & M. 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In most cases the classes would meet twice a week (M, Thurs. OR Tues, Fri) during the day. Purchase College is a selective liberal arts school with a heterodox economics major, and an elective concentration in business. The College is 35 miles from Manhattan and reachable by car or public transportation. Please send cover letter, CV, graduate school transcript, evidence of teaching ability, and three letters of reference (or names of referees whom you have requested to send letters) to Professor Peter F. Bell, School of Natural and Social Sciences, Purchase College, New York 10577. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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We will show use how capitalist, socialist and communist class structures coexisted inside the USSR and shaped the following: the 1917 revolution and civil war, Lenin's New Economic Policy, Stalin's industrialization and agricultural collectivization, post-WW2 Soviet growth, and the 1980s collapse. We aim to draw important lessons for the left today from the achievements and failures of the Soviet system. The central text will be Class Theory and History: Capitalism, Communism and the USSR by Stephen Resnick and Richard Wolff (New York and London: Routledge Publishers, 2002). It is available in paperback in bookstores and via the internet. Further readings will be provided. Rick Wolff teaches economics at the University of Massachusetts. Among other works, he is the author, with Stephen Resnick, of Knowledge and Class: A Marxian Critique of Political Economy, and their latest (2006) New Departures in Marxian Theory. 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Commercialisation of agriculture, global water crisis and role of women * *? **Agricultural Trade Liberalisation and Gender* *? **Strengthening Gender Advocacy in Trade* ------------------------------ Accessing the Discussion Forum The link to the discussion forum is as follows ** - *Visit The Discussion Forum * You are required to register yourself first to participate in the discussion forum.Please follow the link below and register yourself. - *Register * You are also encouraged to contribute to the existing discussions or initiate a new topic of discussion of your choice under - *Your Suggested Topics * You are also free to post a query related to the area in - *Ask a Question * -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Register NOW to assure a space at the conference! What's the economy for, anyway? Is it just about having the biggest GDP or the highest Dow Jones Average? Or is it about providing for a healthy, happy, fair and sustainable society? If you think quality of life matters, and wonder how the United States compares to other countries when it comes to providing for its people, then the WHAT'S THE ECONOMY FOR, ANYWAY? Conference is for you! Dozens of prominent experts and activists will offers parts of the answer to the big question and offer out-of-the-box ideas about what we can do to make our economy serve us instead of vice-versa. Three tracks include QUALITY OF LIFE, SOCIAL JUSTICE and SUSTAINABILITY. A number of CPE advisory board and staff economists will be presenting, including: Nancy Folbre, feminist economist, author of The Invisible Heart Jim Boyce, director of the environment program at the Political Economy Research Institute and author of Reclaiming Nature Juliet Schor, author of The Overworked American. Hector Saez, prof. of environmental studies at Bainbridge Graduate Institute and Univ. of Vermont Emily Kawano, director, Center for Popular Economics Other speakers include: Jerome Ringo, President of the Apollo Alliance Gar Alperovitz, author of America After Capitalism Vicki Robin, author of Your Money or Your Life Riane Eisler, author of The Real Wealth of Nations, The Chalice and the Blade Dean Baker, author of The United States Since 1980 Hunter Lovins, co-author of Natural Capitalism John de Graaf, Take Back Your Time Ann Crittenden, author of The Price of Motherhood John Stauber, author of Trust Us, We're Experts, Weapons of Mass Deception Jared Bernstein, director of The Economic Policy Institute Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner, co-author of The Motherhood Manifesto Frances Moore Lappe, author of Diet for a Small Planet, Hope's Edge Karen Nussbaum, AFL-CIO, former director, Women's Bureau, US Dept. of Labor Bill McKibben, author of Deep Economy, The End of Nature Peter Barnes, co-founder of Working Assets and author of Capitalism 3.0 Karen Kornbluh, Policy Director for Senator Obama Miles Rapoport, director, DEMOS David Moberg, Senior Editor, In These Times Julie Nelson, author Economics for Humans The conference offers 25 individual speeches and nearly 30 workshops. To see the complete agenda, go to: http://www.timeday.org/economyconference/agenda.asp Workshops will include in-depth analysis of current problems, comparisons to the economic performance of other industrial countries, and concrete policy solutions for a happier, healthier, most just and sustainable United States. Conference organizers hope that this conference will mark the beginning of a new national campaign to put the question, "What's the economy for, anyway?" on the agenda of the 2008 election campaigns and beyond. Whether you consider yourself an environmentalist, an advocate of social justice, family-friendly policies or universal health care, a union organizer or enlightened business leader, a practitioner of simple living, a student of economics, psychology or politics, a journalist or a wonk, a Democrat, moderate Republican or Green, this conference is for you. The "What's the Economy for, Anyway?" project is a program of the Forum on Social Wealth. Financial support for the project comes from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. The conference is self-supporting and made possible by a generous donation of space from the Green Festival. Contact: John de Graaf: jodg at comcast.net (206) 443-6747 or Laura Pacheco: laurapacheco at comcast.net (617) 694-7998 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Additional information about the environmental studies program is available on our website - URL below. Thank you Carlos *************************************************** Carlos Davidson Director and Associate Professor Environmental Studies Program San Francisco State University 1600 Holloway Avenue San Francisco, CA 94132 Office: 332 HSS Phone: (415) 405-2127 Fax: (415) 338-6243 Email: carlosd at sfsu.edu Web: http://bss.sfsu.edu/cdavidson Program office phone: (415) 338-1149 Program web page: http://bss.sfsu.edu/envstudies *************************************************** From nicadlw at earthlink.net Sun Sep 30 21:57:27 2007 From: nicadlw at earthlink.net (David L. Wilson) Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 23:57:27 -0400 Subject: [URPE] "Politics of Immigration" Authors Plan Dialogues in Midwest, California Message-ID: "Politics of Immigration" Authors Plan Dialogues in Midwest, California Most authors do talks and signings in bookstores to promote their new books. Jane Guskin and David Wilson, the New York City-based authors of "The Politics of Immigration: Questions and Answers," have a different approach. Instead of delivering lectures, they prefer facilitating public dialogue sessions where participants share experiences and work together to confront myths about immigrants and immigration--and they're as likely to schedule the events with a suburban immigrant rights coalition as with a Manhattan bookstore. "Our book is designed as a practical guide, encouraging people to take a deeper look at immigration and providing the facts and solid reasoning in favor of a rational policy," says Guskin. "The dialogues take the process a step further by connecting this information to people's own experiences and helping them respond more effectively to the misconceptions being spread by politicians and pundits." Called "a powerful weapon against racism" by labor journalist David Bacon, The Politics of Immigration was released in July by Monthly Review Press, which is now preparing a second printing. After five sessions in New York City and its suburbs, Guskin and Wilson are taking their dialogues on the road in October and November. Guskin will be in the Midwest from Oct. 2 through 18, with public dialogue events confirmed in Madison, Wisconsin (Oct. 2); Chicago (Oct. 3); and Bloomington, Indiana (Oct. 10). Wilson is traveling to the San Francisco Bay Area in late October and expects to do several dialogues there. In early November, Guskin will be in southern California at the invitation of north San Diego County activists who are finding "The Politics of Immigration" to be a much-needed resource in their work defending day laborers from attacks by rightwing vigilante groups. Guskin and Wilson are scheduling more events in the New York metropolitan area for the second half of November, and have been invited to lead a public dialogue in late November at the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, a designated National Historic Site. They have also been asked to train the museum staff and facilitators who conduct "Kitchen Conversations" with visitors touring the tenement. "Kitchen Conversations" are dialogues where facilitators tie in contemporary immigration issues to the historical lessons of the museum. "We see the issues raised in 'The Politics of Immigration' and the dialogue model being used by the authors as perfect learning tools for our staff and facilitators," said Tenement Museum Education Associate Prachi Patankar. To set up dialogue events or media interviews (English or Spanish), contact Guskin and Wilson at thepoliticsofimmigration at gmail.com. For more information about the book, see http://thepoliticsofimmigration.org MIDWEST EVENTS, with Jane Guskin (confirmed) Madison, Wisconsin Tuesday, October 2, 2007, at 7 pm Rainbow Bookstore 426 West Gilman, just off State http://rainbowbookstore.org/ Co-sponsored by Community Action on Latin America (CALA) http://calamadison.org and Union de Trabajadores Inmigrantes (UTI) http://immigrantworkers.org Chicago, Illinois Wednesday, October 3, 2007, at 7 pm Open University of the Left 2040 N. Milwaukee Ave. at the In These Times building, second floor http://openuniversityoftheleft.org Bloomington, Indiana Wednesday, October 10, 2007, at 7 pm Boxcar Books and Community Center 310A South Washington Street http://boxcarbooks.org ### From urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu Mon Oct 1 21:00:10 2007 From: urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu (urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu) Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2007 23:00:10 -0400 Subject: [URPE] The Confiscation of American Prosperity Message-ID: <4701B43A.8080203@lists.econ.utah.edu> My new book, The Confiscation of American Prosperity, will appear tomorrow. This book resembles a crime story in four parts. The first part, The Plunder, uses the example of the regressive redistribution of income in the United States since 1970 -- a redistribution that quantitatively dwarfs the Russian or the Chinese Revolutions -- to give a sense of the extent of the right wing revolution, which has remade all branches of government, the legal system, and perhaps most of all, the way people understand their condition in society. In the process, I show how the official statistics fail to capture the scope of this revolution, using examples such as corporate jets for executives and excessive fees and interest rates charged to the poor. The second part, The Plot, tells the story of the right wing takeover in the United States from the perspective of political economy. The third and most extensive part, Retribution, explains how this right wing revolution is laying the foundation for the next Great Depression, a cataclysm that will cost everyone dearly, even intended beneficiaries of the revolution. The final part, The Impotence of the Economics Profession, tells the story of the missing cop on the beat the economics profession -- showing how we economists have nurtured a trained incapacity for doing what should be our most important work, warning about dangerous tendencies in the economy and pointing to a better way. http://www.amazon.com/Confiscation-American-Prosperity-Right-Wing-Depression/dp/0230600468/ref=sr_1_5/103-0846498-1105414?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1175802382&sr=1-5 Blurbs: "The Confiscation of American Prosperity is a highly readable work that offers equal servings of serious economics and controlled anger. Michael Perelman is outraged by 30 years of deepening disparities in the U.S. economy, and by the fact most economists either ignore the reality before them or worse, provide academic firepower on behalf of a more unequal and unstable society. Read Perelman, and prepare to be challenged, both intellectually and morally." --Robert Pollin, Professor of Economics and Co-Director of the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI), University of Massachusetts-Amherst "This book gives an original perspective on the changes in the country over the last three decades. It documents how the wealthy have managed to structure the economy so that they could monopolize the gains from growth over this period. It shows how the resulting growth in inequality is undermining economic stability and productivity growth, creating an economy and society that will not be sustainable in the long-run." --Dean Baker, Co-Director, Center for Economic and Policy Research "Michael Perelman is author of a long series of important works on the history and theory of capitalism. In his latest book The Confiscation of American Prosperity, he offers an integrated account of economic and political developments in the postwar period that could not be more timely. Going beyond moral denunciation of the ever-worsening distribution of income and wealth, he shows the way in which an ascendant far right used the levers of power to counter declining profitability, but, in the process of assaulting American living standards and further enriching the wealthy, ended up weakening the mainsprings of the economy and preparing the ground for devastating crisis. This is a story that economic orthodoxy cannot tell but one that everyone needs to hear." --Robert Brenner, Director, Center for Social Theory and Comparative History, UCLA "In this age of ever-increasing concentrations of power and wealth, economists have been quick to attribute changes in inequality to factors such as globalization and technological change, while paying much less attention to the social and political forces that have shaped the outcome. With its analysis of the political, economic, and social forces behind recent changes in the distribution of power, wealth, and income, this book takes important steps to fill this void. Beginning with its analysis of the right wing's exploitation of the discontent from the unraveling of the Golden Age as a means to promote free-market ideology, continuing with its analysis of later efforts to further free-market ideology in the political and public arenas, and ending with its characterization of where we are now, this book helps us understand how we attained the level of inequality we have today, and where we might be headed next." --Mark Thoma, Associate Professor of Economics, University of Oregon Rather than bother you more details, in case you are not interested, I provided more information about the book on my blog: http://michaelperelman.wordpress.com/2007/10/01/shameless-self-promotion-new-book-announcement/ ----- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University michael at ecst.csuchico.edu Chico, CA 95929 530-898-5321 fax 530-898-5901 www.michaelperelman.wordpress.com -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University michael at ecst.csuchico.edu Chico, CA 95929 530-898-5321 fax 530-898-5901 www.michaelperelman.wordpress.com -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Evenings will offer documentaries, entertainment, veterans' voices, and roundtable brainstorming for solutions. *Conference Location* The *Building a New World Conference* will be held at Radford University, in Radford, Virginia, from May 19-25, 2008. *Important Deadlines* *January 1, 2008* ? Deadline for Conference Paper and Workshop Proposals to be received at wpaeditor at gmail.com or editor at wpaconference.org. *February 1, 2008* ? Accept and decline notifications will be sent via email. More details will be available at www.wpaconference.org. *About the Theme:* When we are faced with the fact that millions of the world's population lives in abject poverty, missing one or more of the five necessities of life: food, clothes, shelter, health care and education, when we are further faced with the fact that inhuman war crimes and crimes against humanity are being perpetrated in the Middle East, when megacorporations by their policies are committing economic genocide, economic terrorism, against millions of unsuspecting, hapless, simple human beings, whose only desire is to leave a peaceful life that includes the five minimum necessities, it then behooves us to find solutions and determine courses of action. It behooves us to educate each other on the issues, on the sins of the leaders and the suffering of the people. We need to move past the unbounded military and economic crimes of Empire and seek new local and global paradigms. For this reason, the First Summit of the World Prout Assembly will feature sessions focusing on both problems and solutions, including Ending Empire, After Capitalism, Immigration Rights, Health Care Rights, Facing Fundamentalism, Undoing Racism, Economic Exploitation, Cooperatives on the Ground, Localization, Bioregionalism, Secession, Neohumanism, Predatory Lending, Prout economy, Global Warming, New Monetary Policy, Animal Rights, Venezuela and the Bolivarian Revolution, Solidarity Economy, Civilian Democratic Earth Federation, The Fight for Economic Democracy, The Water Crisis, Women's Liberation, Surviving Economic Depression, Community Currencies, and Iraq Veterans Speak Out. The overall theme of "Building a New World" is broad enough to invite various forms of disciplinary and interdisciplinary inquiry as well as a full array of pedagogical, activist, cultural and spiritual work. Possible proposal topics from disciplinary or interdisciplinary perspectives in contemporary or historical contexts could include but are not limited to: Collapsing empires Critiques of militarization Solidarity economy Venezuelan revolution Economic localization the fight for economic freedom Fundamentalisms and terrorisms Theorizing race and racism across national boundaries From bogus@does.not.exist.com Wed Jul 25 10:06:53 2007 From: bogus@does.not.exist.com () Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 16:06:53 -0000 Subject: No subject Message-ID: and movements Short and long-term effects of global warming Women's local and global, economic, intellectual and spiritual liberation We invite all of those interested to submit proposals for panels, papers, workshops, and performances that represent the wide range of anti-hegemonic scholarship in the US and beyond. The World Prout Assembly also welcomes proposals that do not directly address the theme, but are relevant to the topic categories found on the WPA website =96 www.worldproutassembly.org. *Guidelines for Submitting All Proposals* Note that all proposals must be submitted electronically to wpaeditor at gmail.com or editor at wpaconference.org, or may be mailed to World Prout Assembly, 7 Bordeaux Drive, Highland Heights, Kentucky 41076, USA. Electronic and snail mail submissions must be submitted lastest by midnight EST on January 1, 2008. Please note: No submissions will be returned; email submissions will be deleted after the "Accept or Decline" notifications are sent. Hard copy submissions will be re-cycled. Please keep your own copies. We especially encourage complete panel/session submissions. Note that full panels must include at least three presenters with complete contact information and affiliation for ALL panel participants as well as a non-presenting moderator, who will be charged with introducing speakers, keeping time, and coordinating discussion. Moderators will be listed in the conference program and must register for the conference. WPA will assist with assigning moderators for individual proposals. We request that all speakers, panelists and presenters provide a one-page synopsis of their material for presentation along with their proposal, whic= h can later be distributed to participants and posted on the WPA Conference website. *Panel vs. Paper and Other Session Formats* There will be a variety of formats for examining and presenting the conference themes: panel sessions, paper sessions, poster sessions, performances, workshops and roundtables. Panels provide an opportunity for examining specific problems or topics fro= m a variety of perspectives given that they include 3-5 participants. Panels may present alternative solutions, interpretations, or contrasting points o= f view on a specified subject or in relation to a common theme. Panel member= s are expected to prepare papers addressing central questions described in th= e proposal. We especially encourages prospective participants to network and find colleagues with whom to develop complete panel sessions. Paper proposals are typically submitted individually and arranged into sessions by the Proposal Review Committee. In paper sessions, authors present 10-12 minute papers followed by audience discussion. A typical structure with four papers allows approximately 5 minutes for the moderator to introduce the session, 10 minutes for each presenter, and 30 minutes for discussion. *Creative Writing Series* announces a call for submissions to the *Building a New World Conference* in Radford, Virginia. Sessions in the series run concurrently with conference panels and papers and are a supportive and lively venue for presenting creative work. The Creative Writing Series Committee is especially interested in receiving manuscripts that address th= e conference theme, but other themes/topics will be considered as well. We look forward to making space for writing which expresses ideals related to pressing political, cultural and social issues in poetry, fiction, non-fiction, dramatic monologue, and experimental creative writing. Submit creative works using the online proposal form. Provide a 50-100 word abstract or description of your work and in place of the proposal description, submit no more than 10 double-spaced pages of sample work in any genre. *Film Series* =96 The WPA Film Series announces a call for submissions. The two-day Film Series runs concurrently with the panels and papers and is a supportive and lively venue for screening films and videos. We are interested in receiving work that responds to the conference themes of (1) Resisting hegemonies and Empire; (2) The politics of race in and across nations and regions; (3) After capitalism: modeling for new economic, political, agricultural and cultural paradigms. Films will be accepted until January 1, 2008, and selections will be made b= y February 1, 2008. The films selected are then loaned to the WPA for projection during the conference and are returned to you by mid-July 2008. Films are projected as video/DVD. The WPA Program Book carries (1) a 75-100 word description of the film; (2) Name of the film producers/sponsors; and (3) Ordering information, including names, addresses, and websites of distributors. Videos should be submitted with a cover sheet to: World Prout Assembly 7 Bordeaux Drive Highland Heights, KY 41076 USA *Roundtables* typically include a moderator and 4-6 presenters who make brief, informal remarks about a specific idea or project. It allows for extensive discussion and audience participation. *Poster sessions* are an efficient format given their informal nature and their networking potential. Therefore we will provide ample space for poste= r sessions and encourage prospective participants to consider this option. Poster sessions present research or analysis on a topic by combining graphics and text on a 4' x 8' board. The poster session presenter is available during a= n assigned session time in order to interact on a one-to-one basis with the attendees viewing the poster. A well-planned poster communicates its message in a visually and textually powerful way, allowing the attendee to grasp the information quickly. *Workshops* provide an opportunity to exchange information or work on a common problem, project or shared interest. Workshops are typically experientially oriented and include brief presentations that allow adequate time for reflective discussion and interaction. *Note:* All panel proposals must include complete contact information for participants, plus a non-presenting moderator. Incomplete panels with less than three participants will not be considered for review. Workshops and roundtable proposals that feature multiple participants must include all participants' names and contact information at the time of proposal submission. One-person workshops will also be considered. Abstracts for all proposals should be 50-100 words. Abstracts explain to potential attendees the topic, foci and/or goals of the presentation or reading in a clear and succinct manner in the conference program book. Abstracts may be revised or edited for the printed program. One to two-page* *proposal descriptions (250-500 words) will serve as the basis for evaluation by the Proposal Review Committee and thus should include some or all of the following as appropriate: (1) Objective or purpose of the paper, panel, workshop, etc. (2) Perspective and/or theoretical framework and/or references to relevant, specific texts, authors, or research, or on-going debates in related fields; (3) Results and/or conclusions and point of view; (4) Relevance to the conference theme= ; (5) Discussion of how the session will be structured. Proposal description= s will assist proposal reviewers with evaluating the session or paper's appropriateness for inclusion in the conference program. Abstracts and proposal descriptions may not exceed the word limits given above. We look forward to receiving your proposals, to your participation, and to dialoguing with you next May in Radford, Virginia. With best wishes, Garda Ghista www.wpaconference.org www.worldproutassembly.org --=20 Garda Ghista President World Prout Assembly http://www.worldproutassembly.org Email: wpaeditor at gmail.com Tel: 859 781-4979 Skype: garda.ghista ------=_Part_6195_17482335.1191293611300 Content-Type: text/html; charset=WINDOWS-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline

The Call for Proposals for 2008

Building a New World: Moving Past Empire

Towards New Local and Global Paradigms

May 19-25, 2008, Radford, Virginia

www.wpaconferenc= e.org

 

 

The Building a New World Conference will open on Monday, May 19, with Regi= stration and the Keynote Address.   The General Conference begi= ns on Tuesday morning, May 20 and concludes Sunday morning, May 25.  It will feature Presidential Sessio= ns, Critical Issues sessions, and Paper, Poster and Workshop presentations.   Evenings will offer documen= taries, entertainment, veterans' voices, and roundtable brainstorming for s= olutions.

 

 

Con= ference Location

The Building a New World Conference will be held at Radford University, in= Radford , Virginia, from May 19-25, 2008.

 

 

Imp= ortant Deadlines

 

Jan= uary 1, 2008= =96 Deadline for Conference Paper and Workshop Proposals to be received at= =20 wpaeditor at gmail.com or editor at wpaconference.org. <= /p>

 

Feb= ruary 1, 2008 =96 Accept and decline notifications will be sent via email.

 

More details will be available at www.wpaconference.org.

 

 

Abo= ut the Theme:  

When we are faced with the fact that millions= of the world's population lives in abject poverty, missing one or more of = the five necessities of life: food, clothes, shelter, health care and educa= tion, when we are further faced with the fact that inhuman war crimes and c= rimes against humanity are being perpetrated in the Middle East, when megac= orporations by their policies are committing economic genocide, economic te= rrorism, against millions of unsuspecting, hapless, simple human beings, wh= ose only desire is to leave a peaceful life that includes the five minimum = necessities, it then behooves us to find solutions and determine courses of= action.   It behooves us to educate e= ach other on the issues, on the sins of the leaders and the suffering of th= e people. 

 

We need to move past the unbounded military a= nd economic crimes of Empire and seek new local and global paradigms. For t= his reason, the First Summit of the World Prout Assembly will feature sessi= ons focusing on both problems and solutions, including Ending Empire, After= Capitalism, Immigration Rights, Health Care Rights, Facing Fundamentalism,= Undoing Racism, Economic Exploitation, Cooperatives on the Ground, Localiz= ation, Bioregionalism, Secession, Neohumanism, Predatory Lending, Prout eco= nomy, Global Warming, New Monetary Policy, Animal Rights, Venezuela and the= Bolivarian Revolution, Solidarity Economy,=20  Civilian Democratic Earth Fe= deration, The Fight for Economic Democracy, The Water Crisis, Women's Liber= ation, Surviving Economic Depression, Community Currencies, and Iraq Vetera= ns Speak Out.

 

The overall theme of "Building a New World" i= s broad enough to invite various forms of disciplinary and interdisciplinar= y inquiry as well as a full array of pedagogical, activist, cultural and sp= iritual work.   Possible proposal topics fr= om disciplinary or interdisciplinary perspectives in contemporary or histor= ical contexts could include but are not limited to:

 

Collapsing empires

Critiques of militarization

Solidarity economy

Venezuelan revolution

Economic localization the fight for economic = freedom

Fundamentalisms and terrorisms

Theorizing race and racism across national bo= undaries

From Katrina to Lebanon to Iraq: the politics= of displacement, migrations and movements

Short and long-term effects of global warming=

Women's local and global, economic, intellect= ual and spiritual liberation

 

We invite all of those interested to submit p= roposals for panels, papers, workshops, and performances that represent the= wide range of anti-hegemonic scholarship in the=20 US and beyond.  The World Pro= ut Assembly also welcomes proposals that do not directly address the theme,= but are relevant to the topic categories found on the WPA website =96 www.worldproutassembly.org.

 

 

Gui= delines for Submitting All Proposals

Note that all proposals must be submitted ele= ctronically to wpaeditor at gmail.com or=20 editor at wpaconference.org, o= r may be mailed to World Prout Assembly, 7 Bordeaux Drive, Highland Heights= , Kentucky 41076, USA. Electronic and snail mail submissions must be submit= ted lastest by midnight EST on January 1, 2008.

 

Please note:  No submissions will be returned; email submissions will be d= eleted after the "Accept or Decline" notifications are sent.   Hard copy submissions will = be re-cycled. Please keep your own copies.

 

We especially encourage complete panel/sessio= n submissions. Note that full panels must include at least three presenters= with complete contact information and affiliation for ALL panel participan= ts as well as a non-presenting moderator, who will be charged with introduc= ing speakers, keeping time, and coordinating discussion. Moderators will be= listed in the conference program and must register for the conference.   WPA will assist with assign= ing moderators for individual proposals.&= nbsp;  

 

We request that all speakers, panelists and p= resenters provide a one-page synopsis of their material for presentation al= ong with their proposal, which can later be distributed to participants and= posted on the WPA Conference website.=20

 

Pan= el vs. Paper and Other Session Formats

There will be a variety of formats for examin= ing and presenting the conference themes: panel sessions, paper sessions, p= oster sessions, performances, workshops and roundtables.  

 

Panels provide an opportunity for examining s= pecific problems or topics from a variety of perspectives given that they i= nclude 3-5 participants.   Panels may present alternat= ive solutions, interpretations, or contrasting points of view on a specifie= d subject or in relation to a common theme. 

Paper proposals are typically submitted indiv= idually and arranged into sessions by the Proposal Review Committee. In pap= er sessions, authors present 10-12 minute papers followed by audience discu= ssion.   A typical structure with fo= ur papers allows approximately 5 minutes for the moderator to introduce the= session, 10 minutes for each presenter, and 30 minutes for discussion.

 

Cre= ative Writing Series announces a call for submissions to the Building a New World Conference in Radford, Virginia. Sessions = in the series run concurrently with conference panels and papers and are a = supportive and lively venue for presenting creative work.   The Creative Writing Series= Committee is especially interested in receiving manuscripts that address t= he conference theme, but other themes/topics will be considered as well. We= look forward to making space for writing which expresses ideals related to= pressing political, cultural and social issues in poetry, fiction, non-fic= tion, dramatic monologue, and experimental creative writing.  

 

Submit creative works using the online propos= al form. Provide a 50-100 word abstract or description of your work and in = place of the proposal description, submit no more than 10 double-spaced pag= es of sample work in any genre.=20

 

Fil= m Series =96= The WPA Film Series announces a call for submissions. The two-day Film Ser= ies runs concurrently with the panels and papers and is a supportive and li= vely venue for screening films and videos.   We are interested in receiv= ing work that responds to the conference themes of (1) Resisting hegemonies= and Empire; (2) The politics of race in and across nations and regions; (3= ) After capitalism: modeling for new economic, political, agricultural and = cultural paradigms.  

 

Films will be accepted until January 1, 2008,= and selections will be made by February 1, 2008.   The films selected are then loaned to the WPA for projection = during the conference and are returned to you by mid-July 2008.  Films are projected as video/DVD. The = WPA Program Book carries (1) a 75-100 word description of the film; (2) Nam= e of the film producers/sponsors; and (3) Ordering information, including n= ames, addresses, and websites of distributors.   Videos should be submitted = with a cover sheet to:

 

World Prout Assembly

7 Bordeaux Drive

Highland Heights, KY 41076

USA

 

Rou= ndtables typ= ically include a moderator and 4-6 presenters who make brief, informal rema= rks about a specific idea or project. It allows for extensive discussion an= d audience participation.

 

Pos= ter sessions= are an efficient format given their informal nature and their networking p= otential. Therefore we will provide ample space for poster sessions and enc= ourage prospective participants to consider this option.=20  Poster sessions present rese= arch or analysis on a topic by combining graphics and text on a 4' x 8' boa= rd. The poster session presenter is available during an assigned session ti= me in order to interact on a one-to-one basis with the attendees viewing th= e poster.   A well-planned poster commu= nicates its message in a visually and textually powerful way, allowing the = attendee to grasp the information quickly. 

 

Wor= kshops provi= de an opportunity to exchange information or work on a common problem, proj= ect or shared interest.   Workshops are typically exp= erientially oriented and include brief presentations that allow adequate ti= me for reflective discussion and interaction.

 

Not= e:   All panel proposals must include complete contact information= for participants, plus a non-presenting moderator.  Incomplete panels with less than three participants= will not be considered for review.   Workshops and roundtable pr= oposals that feature multiple participants must include all participants' n= ames and contact information at the time of proposal submission.  One-person workshops will also be considered.

 

Abstracts for all proposals should be 50-100 = words. Abstracts explain to potential attendees the topic, foci and/or goal= s of the presentation or reading in a clear and succinct manner in the conf= erence program book. Abstracts may be revised or edited for the printed pro= gram.=20

 

One to two-page proposal descriptions (250-500 words) will serve as the ba= sis for evaluation by the Proposal Review Committee and thus should include= some or all of the following as appropriate:   (1) Objective or purpose of= the paper, panel, workshop, etc. (2) Perspective and/or theoretical framew= ork and/or references to relevant, specific   Proposal descriptions will assist proposal reviewers with eva= luating the session or paper's appropriateness for inclusion in the confere= nce program.  Abstracts and p= roposal descriptions may not exceed the word limits given above.  

 

We look forward to receiving your proposals, = to your participation, and to dialoguing with you next May in Radford, Virg= inia .

 

With best wishes,

 

Garda Ghista

www= .wpaconference.org

www.worldproutassembly.org

 



-- Garda Ghista
President
World Prout Assembly
http://www.worldproutassembly.org
Email:  wpaeditor at gmail.com
Tel:  859 781-4= 979
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If your department is hiring, could you send me an = advert to put in the Newsletter. Also of particular interest are some = new websites which you may no be aware of. Finally, under FYI, the = winners of the AFEE-EAEPE Veblen prize are announced including, I am = proud to say, a recent dissertation student of mine Dr. Zdravka = Todorova. Fred Lee In this issue: =20 Call for Papers =20 =20 - The 10th International Post Keynesian Conference - Graduate Summer School in Post Keynesian Economics - 10th Anniversary Conference of the Association for Heterodox Economics = - Second Annual Conference on the History of Recent Economics (HISRECO) = Technical University of Lisbon - URPE at the EEA 2008 - Developing Quantitative Marxism - Cooperation - Oeconomicus - Convocatoria para Ensayos: Oeconomicus - CHORD Workshop - How Class Works - Art, Praxis, and Social Transformation: Radical Dreams and Visions - Building a New World =20 Conferences, Seminars and Lectures = =20 =20 - 1st Witten Lectures in Economics and Philosophy - Science of Logic - Marx and Philosophy Society Afternoon Seminar - Returns of Marxism - Seminaire Arc 2 - Cambridge Realist Workshop - Env=EDo del Programa del Segundo Seminario de Microeconom=EDa = Heterodoxa - Berlin Conference 26-27 October 2007 =20 Job Postings for Heterodox Economists = =20 =20 - Penn State University - Eastern Washington University, Cheney and Spokane, WA - City College of San Francisco - Washington College - University of Redlands - Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - BC Office - Purchase College (SUNY) - De Anza College - The Environmental Studies Program - Starr Professorship in Women's & Gender Studies =20 Heterodox Conference Papers and Reports and Articles = =20 =20 - Papers from A. Fiorito - GDAE Papers - Geoff Tily's book on Keynes's General Theory =20 Heterodox Journals and Newsletters = =20 =20 - Economia e Sociedade, Campinas - JPKE Symposium on Monetary Policy - New School Economic Review =20 Heterodox Books, Book Series, and Book Reviews = =20 =20 - The Confiscation of American Prosperity - Frontiers in Ecological Economic Theory and Application =20 Heterodox Websites = =20 =20 - Council of Georgist Organizations - DESA on Climate Change - Portes Para El Debate Teorico - International Sorokin-Kondratieff Institute =20 For Your Information = =20 =20 - The Veblen 150 Prize Winners: Announcement - The Global Development And Environment Institute (www.gdae.org) - The 2007 Routledge - GCP&S Essay Prize - Elimination of the Tradition at University of Marburg, Germany =20 ------_=_NextPart_001_01C80AB2.5BD193F9 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Heterodox Economics Newsletter

Issue 50: October 9, = 2007

 

From the Editor

The 50th issue of the Heterodox Economics = Newsletter has a number of new Call for Papers and some interesting seminars and = lectures. Being hiring season for heterodox economists, there are a number of = interesting job postings. However, there must be more job postings for heterodox = economists than this. If your department is hiring, could you send me an advert to = put in the Newsletter. Also of particular interest are some new websites which you may no be aware of. Finally, under FYI, the winners of the AFEE-EAEPE Veblen prize are = announced including, I am proud to say, a recent dissertation student of mine Dr. = Zdravka Todorova.

Fred Lee

In this issue:

 

Call for = Papers

 

- = The 10th International Post Keynesian Conference
- Graduate Summer School in Post Keynesian Economics
- 10th Anniversary Conference of the Association for Heterodox = Economics
- Second Annual Conference on the History of Recent Economics = (HISRECO) Technical University of Lisbon
- URPE at the EEA 2008
- Developing Quantitative Marxism
- Cooperation
- Oeconomicus
- Convocatoria para Ensayos: Oeconomicus
- CHORD Workshop
- How Class Works
- Art, Praxis, and Social Transformation: Radical Dreams and = Visions
- Building a New = World

 

Conferences, Seminars and Lectures

 

- = 1st Witten = Lectures in Economics and Philosophy
- Science of Logic
- Marx and Philosophy Society Afternoon Seminar
- Returns of Marxism
- Seminaire Arc 2
- Cambridge Realist Workshop
- Env=EDo del Programa del Segundo Seminario de Microeconom=EDa Heterodoxa
- Berlin Conference 26-27 October 2007

 

Job Postings for Heterodox = Economists

 

- = Penn = State University
- Eastern Washington = University, Cheney and Spokane, WA
- City College of San = Francisco
- Washington College
- University of Redlands
- Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - BC Office
- Purchase College (SUNY)
- De Anza College
- The Environmental Studies Program
- Starr Professorship in Women’s & Gender = Studies

 

Heterodox Conference = Papers and Reports and Articles

 

- = Papers from A. Fiorito
- GDAE Papers
- Geoff Tily’s book on Keynes’s General = Theory

 

Heterodox Journals and Newsletters

 

- = Economia e Sociedade, Campinas
- JPKE Symposium on Monetary Policy
- New School Economic Review

 

Heterodox Books, Book = Series, and Book Reviews

 

- = The Confiscation of American Prosperity
- Frontiers in Ecological Economic Theory and = Application

 

Heterodox = Websites

 

- = Council of Georgist Organizations
- DESA on Climate Change
- Portes Para El Debate Teorico
- International Sorokin-Kondratieff = Institute

 

For Your = Information

 

- = The Veblen 150 Prize Winners: Announcement
- The Global Development And Environment Institute (www.gdae.org)
- The 2007 Routledge - GCP&S Essay Prize
- Elimination of the Tradition at University of Marburg, Germany

 

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More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sunday, October 14 5:00 pm Afro-Latino Cafe More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Wednesday, October 17 7:30 pm VIVA CHE! BEHIND & BEYOND THE ICON Che's Life & Work Reggie Boorstein, John Gerassi & Joseph Harris Forty years after his death, the image of Che the Heroic Guerilla endures, but what has too often been obscured is the person of Che Guevara... More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Brecht Forum logo The Brecht Forum Needs Your Support! Please click here to make a DONATION The BRECHT FORUM 451 West Street (Between Bank & Bethune) New York, NY 10014 (212) 242- 4201 www.brechtforum.org Directions -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Subject: Ya sali? n?mero 1 de revista de la SEPLA From: Alejandro Valle Baeza Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2007 19:23:36 -0500 To: Economistas de Izquierda Su browser no acpta im?genes Revista Electr?nica Econom?a Pol?tica en el Siglo XXI Numero 1 - Septiembre, 2007 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Contenido Presentaci?n de la Revista A Planifica??o Socialista em Cuba e o Grande Debate dos Anos Sessenta Un Socialismo para el Siglo 21: Cuadro sint?tico de reflexi?n Marxismo y Econom?a Pol?tica de la Transici?n Socialista en la periferia del Capitalismo en la ?poca contempor?nea Tend?ncias Sist?micas e Anti-Sist?micas: Um Olhor Sobre a Am?rica Latina no Contexto do Desenvolvimiento do Sistema Mundial Moderno La Experiencia Brasile?a: Deuda Externa, FMI y Pol?tica Econ?mica Pol?tica Econ?mica en la transici?n al Socialismo del Siglo XXI Miembros El n?mero 1 de la revista puede descargarse en: http://sepla.homelinux.org/sepla/Revista.htm Alejandro Valle Baeza -- Posgrado Facultad de Econom?a Av. 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Azari) Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 11:49:25 -0400 Subject: [URPE] Heterodox Position at SUNY--New Paltz In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <470E4605.9030201@newpaltz.edu> STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK?NEW PALTZ, New Paltz, NY JEL Classification codes: J00 - Labor and Demographic Economics J16 - Economics of Gender B54 - Feminist Economics The Department of Economics at SUNY?New Paltz invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track position at the Assistant Professor level with fifty percent of teaching responsibilities in the Women?s Studies program, starting in Fall 2008. Ph.D. and teaching experience are required. ABD will be considered if the date of defense is prior to September 2008. In addition to a Ph.D. in Economics, academic credentials in Women's Studies (such as a degree or certificate) or equivalent academic expertise is preferred. Fields of specialization must be in Labor Economics, with preference given to sub-fields of Economics of Gender, and Feminist Economics. Preference will be given to applied policy oriented research. In addition to theory and other core courses in Economics, teaching responsibilities would include upper division courses in Labor Economics, Women and Work, and lower division courses in Economics of Globalization, and Women Images and Realities. Participation in the department?s ongoing summer program with the Istanbul Technical University is required. 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 # F07-14, SUNY?New Paltz, Department of Economics JFT 814, 600 Hawk Drive, New Paltz, NY 12561-2440. SUNY?New Paltz is an AA/EOE/ADA employer Deadline: December 1, 2007 From palermo at eco.unibs.it Fri Oct 12 01:01:15 2007 From: palermo at eco.unibs.it (Giulio Palermo) Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 09:01:15 +0200 Subject: [URPE] The myth of the global market Message-ID: <470F1BBB.3090808@eco.unibs.it> Hi comrades, I have recently published a book titled "The myth of the global market. Critique of neoliberalism". The book is in Italian, but a Cuban comrade has translated it into Spanish in order to publish it in his revolutionary island. With this message I would like to ask you if you have any contact with some Cuban (or other Spanish language) publisher, where I might submit the book. Thanks Giulio Palermo From urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu Sun Oct 14 11:19:03 2007 From: urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu (urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu) Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 13:19:03 -0400 Subject: [URPE] INVITE: Bridging the Gaps National Conference, 10/18 Message-ID: <47124F87.9070203@lists.econ.utah.edu> You are invited to join us for the Bridging the Gaps National Conference October 18, 2007 8:00 am - 10:45 am 485 Russell Senate Office Building Washington, DC 11:15 am - 4:30 pm Top of the Hill Banquet and Conference Center One Constitution Avenue, NE Washington, DC In the United States, it is generally assumed that that getting a job is enough to make ends meet. But, in today's labor market, where nearly a quarter of jobs pay low wages and offer no benefits, this couldn't be further from the truth for millions of workers and their families. Work supports?programs to ensure access to basics, such as health care, child care, food, and housing?are supposed to fill in the gaps for working families. The Bridging the Gaps project finds that these work supports are often quite effective, however, their impact is limited by the fact that many working families who need these supports do not get them. At the Bridging the Gaps conference, esteemed researchers and advocates will debate how work supports should be structured in the future. What would be ideal? How could it happen politically? Panelists will offer both big ideas and practical examples of how to ensure access to work supports for low-wage workers and their families. To view the agenda or to register , visit http://www.bridgingthegaps.org/conference . Organized by We thank Senator Edward Kennedy for his assistance in making this event possible. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Subscribe ? Unsubscribe ? Update Subscriptions ? 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More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Friday, October 19 7:30 pm LAUNCH PARTY / PHOTOS & DISCUSSION Salaam Shalom Solh Nonviolence & Resistance in the Middle East & Beyond Ellen Davidson & Judith Mahoney Pasternak Join us for a Launch Party for the War Resisters League 2008 Peace Calendar and a presentation by Ellen Davidson and Judith Mahoney Pasternak of their ?Pictures from Palestine? More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Saturday, October 20 10:00 am - 6:00 pm 2-DAY WORKSHOP BEGINS Consensus, Facilitation & Liberation Facilitators: Autumn Brown, Samuel Conway, Carter Klenk, Danielle Sered The consensus process is much more than a decision-making tool. It is an opportunity to participate in a creative process... More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monday, October 22 7:30 pm Displacing Conflict Refugees from the War in Iraq Hiba Dawood, Robert S. Eshelman & Richard Rowley. Moderated by Heather Rogers As a direct result of the US war and occupation an estimated 2 million Iraqis are now refugees... More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Wednesday, October 24 7:30 pm Credit Crisis, Financial Panic, Housing Meltdown: What is Happening? Max Fraad Wolff & Richard Wolff Analysis of turbulent economic times and their implications for US and global income, wealth and growth. Presentation followed by Q and A. More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Brecht Forum logo The Brecht Forum Needs Your Support! Please click here to make a DONATION The BRECHT FORUM 451 West Street (Between Bank & Bethune) New York, NY 10014 (212) 242- 4201 www.brechtforum.org Directions -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Yates discusses his new book Cheap Motels & a Hot Plate at Food for Thought Books 106 North Pleasant Street, Amherst Wednesday, October 24, 7pm The road trip is a staple of modern American literature. But nowhere in American literature, until now, has a left-wing economist hit the road, observing and interpreting the extraordinary range and spectacle of U.S. life, bringing out its conflicts and contradictions with humor and insight. Disillusioned with academic life after thirty-two years teaching economics, Michael D. Yates took early retirement in 2001. He and his wife Karen sold their house, got rid of their belongings, and have moved around the country since then, often spending months at a time on the road. Cheap Motels and a Hot Plate is both an account of their adventures and a penetrating examination of work and inequality, race and class, alienation and environmental degradation in the small towns and big cities of the contemporary United States . For more info call (413) 253-5432, or visit www.foodforthoughtbooks.com. erika arthur events coordinator food for thought books 106 n. pleasant st. amherst, ma 01002 413.253.5432 www.foodforthoughtbooks.com a worker-owned collective bookstore since 1976 "The only dream worth having, I told her, is to dream that you will live while you're alive and die only when you're dead... To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget." -Arundhati Roy, "The End of Imagination" -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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We are working to correct this issue as soon as possible.* SCEPA Economic Policy Workshop on Tuesday, October 23rd featuring: Eileen Appelbaum, Center for Women and Work at Rutgers University ?Economics and Politics of Work and Family Policy" Workshop will be held on Tuesday, October 23 from 12:30 p.m.-2:00 p.m. (Note this is a Tuesday, not Wednesday) 79 Fifth Avenue, 10th Floor, Room 1009 FREE and open to the New School community and the public. Eileen Applebaum joined Rutgers University as Professor and Director of the Center for Women and Work in March 2002. Formerly she was Research Director at the Economic Policy Institute in Washington, D.C. and Professor of Economics at Temple University. Dr. Appelbaum has 20 years of experience carrying out empirical research on workplace practices and labor-management cooperation. Her research focuses on work processes and work-life practices of organizations. Her recently published papers include "Organizations and the Intersection of Work and Family: A Comparative Perspective," in The Oxford Handbook on Work and Organizations; "Contesting Time: International Comparisons of Employee Control Over Working Time," in Industrial and Labor Relations Review; and "Balancing Work and Family: The Role of High Commitment Workplaces and Industrial Relations," in Industrial Relations. Her CWW report "Achieving a Workable Balance" examines NJ employers' experiences with employee leaves and turnover. Dr. Appelbaum has published numerous articles on workforce, employment and labor market issues. She has also published widely on the labor market experiences of women.She co-edited Low Wage America: How Employers Are Reshaping Opportunity in the Workplace (2003). This book was also selected for Noteworthy Books in Industrial Relations and Labor Economics. Dr. Appelbaum received her Ph.D. in economics from the University of Pennsylvania. SCEPA FALL 2007 ECONOMIC POLICY WORKSHOP SERIES TIME: 12:30 - 2:00 p.m. (unless otherwise noted) PLACE: 79 Fifth Avenue, 10th Fl, Room 1009 (unless otherwise noted) October 23 12:30 p.m. Eileen Appelbaum, Rutgers University ?Economics and Politics of Work and Family Policy" November 7 12:10 p.m. Joel Slemrod, University of Michigan "Why Is Elvis on Burkina Faso Postage Stamps? The Commercialization of State Sovereignty" (*Note: Joint session with Milano. Held at 72 Fifth Ave. 3rd Fl., Henry Cohen Conference Room from 12:10-1:30 p.m.*) November 29 12:30 p.m. Janet Currie, Columbia University TBA December 5 *12:10 p.m. Michael Grossman, CUNY and NBER ?Parental Education and Child Health: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Taiwan? (*Note: Joint session with Milano. Held at 72 Fifth Ave. 3rd Fl., Henry Cohen Conference Room from 12:10-1:30 p.m.*) Please check our website regularly at http://www.newschool.edu/cepa/events/events_epwksp.htm for an updated schedule and other research and events. * * For help with this mailing list go to the CEPA Web site: * http://www.newschool.edu/cepa/ From smita at econs.umass.edu Thu Oct 18 16:45:33 2007 From: smita at econs.umass.edu (Smita Ramnarain) Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 18:45:33 -0400 Subject: [URPE] UMass Job Advertisement Message-ID: <1192747533.4717e20dd7250@mail-www.oit.umass.edu> Hello, Please post this ad on your list-serve. Thanks. The Economics Department of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst is inviting applications at the assistant professor level for one position starting in Fall 2008. Ph.D. in Economics preferred. Salary will be commensurate with experience. We are soliciting applications in all fields. Applicants should submit curriculum vitae, three letters of reference, a copy of a recent research paper and, if possible, evidence of teaching effectiveness. For full consideration, applications must be received by December 4, 2007. Candidates will be interviewed at the American Economics Association meetings in New Orleans. Please send application materials electronically to hiring at econs.umass.edu or in hard copy by mail to Chair, Hiring Committee, Economics Department, Thompson Hall, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003. The University of Massachusetts is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity employer. The Economics Department is committed to developing a more diverse faculty, student body and curriculum. http://www.umass.edu/economics/facjobs.html From urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu Thu Oct 18 17:34:39 2007 From: urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu (urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu) Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 19:34:39 -0400 Subject: [URPE] [WMASS] W. Mass. Reportback from the US Social Forum Message-ID: <4717ED8F.9010802@lists.econ.utah.edu> Reportback from the United States Social Forum Monday, October 22nd, 6:30pm at Food for Thought Books, 106 N. Pleasant St. Amherst, MA * Youth activist videographers from Video Vanguards will present testimony from Iraq veterans they interviewed at the USSF * Emily Kawano, Center for Popular Economics will report on the development of a national Solidarity Economy Network that emerged from the USSF * Next Steps for the Social Forum Movement in Western MA Held June 27th -July 1st 2007, the USSF sent a powerful message to other people's movements around the world that there is an active movement in the US opposing US Policies at home and abroad. We must declare what we want our world to look like and begin planning the path to get there. A global movement is rising. This event is a potluck. Please bring a dish to share. 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This faculty member will be part of a new initiative in Sustainability. Hamilton College is a highly selective liberal arts college in central New York with 11 full-time faculty members in the Economics Department. We are looking for candidates who will be both productive scholars and engaging undergraduate teachers. The standard teaching load in the department is 5 courses per year. Applicants should hold a Ph.D. in Economics or expect to complete all requirements by Fall 2008. Applicants should send vita, three letters of recommendation, research sample, graduate transcript (unofficial or official), and documentation of teaching effectiveness to: Stephen Wu, Economics Department, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY 13323. Hamilton College is an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer and is committed to diversity in all areas of the campus community. Hamilton provides domestic partner benefits. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Papers that are concerned with current debates around affordability and housing stress, homelessness, the circumstances of different tenure groupings, gated communities and the roles of public and community housing would be especially welcomed. Symposium Current Issues in Development in Theory and Practice The 2007 Symposium on the political economy of development at the Society of Heterodox Economists Conference will welcome the submission of papers focused on development issues and particularly those exploring questions of theory and development practice. Papers would be welcomed that are concerned with current debates such as the role of human rights in development, institutions and development and assessing progress towards the Millennium Development Goals as well as emerging areas, such as that assessing the impact of the current 'turbulence' in financial markets in developed countries on developing ones. Papers adopting an economic, social or political approach or are interdisciplinary in character are welcomed, Symposium on Australia's Energy Future' The 2007 Society of Heterodox Economists Conference will welcome the submission of papers focusing on the security of supply, including climate change, issues as well as the Owen Inquiry etc. Symposium on WorkChoices The 2007 Society of Heterodox Economists Conference will welcome the submission of papers focusing on a heterodox interpretation or narrative around the government?s WorkChoice legislation, which represents the one of the most radical changes to Australia?s industrial relations framework. The Australasian Chapter of the International Association for Feminist Economics is organising a session for the 6th Conference of the Australian Society for Heterodox Economics on 10?11 December 2007. Further details at: http://www2.economics.unsw.edu.au/nps/servlet/portalservice?GI_ID=System.LoggedOutInheritableArea&maxWnd=_SixthConference_Symposia2007 SHE Home Page: she.wbe.unsw.edu.au Peter Kriesler School of Economics University of NSW Sydney NSW 2052 http://www.economics.unsw.edu.au/PeterKriesler -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 3399 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/urpe-announcements/attachments/20071020/f1f9b2db/attachment.txt From bwyss at wheatonma.edu Mon Oct 22 08:31:18 2007 From: bwyss at wheatonma.edu (Brenda Wyss) Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 10:31:18 -0400 Subject: [URPE] Job Opening at Wheaton College, MA Message-ID: The following ad will appear in the next edition of the JOE. Wheaton College is in a great location within commuting distance of both Boston, MA and Providence, RI. The Economics Department is ideologically diverse (with almost half radical political economists) and the Women's Studies Program is strong, involving maybe half of Wheaton's faculty members. We'd love to have applications from feminist economists interested in teaching both Women's Studies and economics courses. Best, Brenda WHEATON COLLEGE, Norton, MA JEL Classification Codes: B5 -- Feminist Economics J1 -- Economics of Gender The Women's Studies Program invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of assistant professor with expertise in transnational feminisms. This position requires PhD in relevant field with significant training in women?s and/or gender studies. We are particularly interested in candidates whose host department would be Economics, Philosophy, or Psychology. The annual teaching load is three courses in Women's Studies and two in the host department. The candidate must be able to teach introduction to women's studies and feminist theory and develop a core course on transnational feminist issues. Fields of specialization for candidates within Economics must include gender and one of the following: International Economics, Development Economics, or Environmental Economics. Economics teaching responsibilities would include upper division courses and introductory economics. Wheaton is a private coeducational liberal arts college near Boston and Providence. Wheaton College is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer committed to attracting applicants from groups under-represented in our community. Please send letter of application, vita, selected publications, evidence of teaching effectiveness, and three letters of reference to: Kim Miller Ph.D., Coordinator, Women's Studies Program, Wheaton College, Norton, MA 02766. Application deadline is December 10th. For more information: http://wheatoncollege.edu/Admin/HumanResources/FacultyListing.html Brenda Wyss Associate Professor and Chair Economics Department Wheaton College Norton, MA 02766 USA (508)286-3665 bwyss at wheatonma.edu From robchang at sfsu.edu Sun Oct 21 13:49:09 2007 From: robchang at sfsu.edu (Robin Chang) Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 12:49:09 -0700 Subject: [URPE] Sunday, October 28 12:30 PM: The Politics of Immigration: Questions and Answers; Oakland, CA Message-ID: <20071021124909.7j1fne8ug4w8g4c8@webmail.sfsu.edu> The Politics of Immigration: Questions and Answers with David Wilson Special Public Dialogue Session with Reception Sunday, October 28 12:30 PM The Institute for the Critical Study of Society www.tifcss.org 510-595-7417 6501 Telegraph Avenue, cross street Alcatraz, Oakland, CA In the spring of 2006, a tidal wave of resistance was triggered by HR4437, a bill conceived and designed to punish unauthorized immigrants. Millions of immigrants, students and supporters staged walkouts, slowdowns, and demonstrations, while untold others observed a national consumer boycott to demonstrate their solidarity. This unprecedented show of force, and the ensuing anti-immigration backlash--in the form of punitive raids, detentions, threats and promises of tougher legislation--pushed the topic of immigration to the front and center of U.S. politics. Polls show the public increasingly divided, with the debate framed as a choice between "deport them all" and "give everyone amnesty." But dialogue is possible as we dig deeper. Why are people leaving their homes? Why are they coming here? What is the impact of our current enforcement policies? What kinds of alternatives exist? As part of a series of public dialogue sessions being held across the nation, David Wilson, co-author (with Jane Guskin) of The Politics of Immigration, will facilitate a public discussion to analyze the issues around immigrants and immigration: to look at the facts and myths around immigration, the arguments in favor of a rational policy, how to connect this information to people's own experiences, and how to help them respond more effectively to the misconceptions and mischief being spread by politicians, pundits and the media. David L. Wilson is a co-editor, with Jane Guskin, of Weekly News Update on the Americas; he has contributed articles on Latin American issues to Monthly Review, Extra!, and New York's El Diario-La Prensa. He and Guskin coauthored The Politics of Immigration http://thepoliticsofimmigration.org, released in July by Monthly Review Press; it is now in a second printing. The authors were recently interviewed on KPFA's Against the Grain. www.againstthegrain.org "The book is a great reality check, a good teaching tool, and a powerful weapon against racism." -David Bacon "This book gives powerful meaning to the slogan 'No Human Being is Illegal'. I hope it will be widely read"-Howard Zinn From Andrew_Kliman at msn.com Mon Oct 22 02:45:47 2007 From: Andrew_Kliman at msn.com (Drewk) Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 03:45:47 -0500 Subject: [URPE] Book Launch in NYC for Reclaiming Marx's "Capital" Message-ID: U.S. Book Launch RECLAIMING MARX'S "CAPITAL": A REFUTATION OF THE MYTH OF INCONSISTENCY by Andrew Kliman (Lexington Books, 2007) Thursday, November 8 at 7:00 p.m. Sociology Lounge CUNY Graduate Center 365 Fifth Avenue, Manhattan (between 34th & 35th Streets) New York City (check in at front desk; must show photo ID to enter) Speakers: ========= Stanley Aronowitz, Dept. of Sociology, CUNY Graduate Ctr. Andrew Kliman, author of _Reclaiming Marx's "Capital"_ Bertell Ollman, Dept. of Politics, New York University Richard Wolff, Dept. of Economics, U Mass - Amherst _Reclaiming Marx's "Capital"_ will be available for purchase for $22 (18% off the list price of $26.95). Written especially for the non-specialist reader, with minimal math, _Reclaiming Marx's "Capital"_ seeks to reclaim _Capital_ from the myth of inconsistency, a myth that serves to justify the censorship of Marx's critique of political economy and present-day research based on it. Kliman shows that the alleged inconsistencies are actually caused by misinterpretation. Praise for _Reclaiming Marx's "Capital"_: ========================================= "A tremendously powerful refutation of all those smart ass economist dude arguments that 'Marx is inconsistent.'" -- Glenn Rikowski, educational theorist "Returns Marx's own work to centre stage. An important unifying work, rather than just another divisive personal opinion." -- Nick Potts, Southampton Solent U. "Sorts out a bewildering tangle of approaches and issues in order to demonstrate that the charge of internal inconsistency is false." --Thomas Jeannot, Philosophy, Gonzaga U. "Kliman demonstrates that the Marxist theory can by all means be *interpreted* in a way that avoids the purported inconsistencies." -- Wolfgang Fritz Haug, _Das Argument_ "He has stripped away the obfuscations of the neo-Ricardians. Marx did not make theoretical errors (at least in the areas that the critics have claimed)." -- Michael Roberts, marxist.com economics columnist "A strong case to be considered the most compelling and consistent interpretation of _Capital_." -- Joseph Choonara, _International Socialism_ journal "Someone has finally rescued Marx from the Marxists." -- Alan Freeman, U. of Greenwich "I was impressed with Kliman's refutation of the Okishio theorem. I didn't think that was possible." -- Robert Vienneau, "Thoughts on Economics" blog "Kliman's answers make sense. They convince me that much of what passes as Marxist economics is deeply flawed." -- Sam Friedman, amazon.com review ========================================= The Book Launch is sponsored by The New SPACE (The New School for Pluralistic Anti-Capitalist Education) new-space at mutualaid.org Tel: 1 (800) 377-6183 See http://new-space.mahost.org for Fall courses and talks ========================================= For more information about _Reclaiming Marx's "Capital"_, see the author's website:http://akliman.squarespace.com/reclaiming/ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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ABD (all but dissertation) applicants will be considered for one-year terminal appointment as Lecturer with conversion to tenure track Assistant Professor if all requirements for the Ph.D. are successfully completed by June 2009. A commitment to teaching excellence and active research is required. Preferred: An institutional, historical perspective in applied macroeconomics and monetary economics is desired. Preferred secondary fields include one or more of the following: forecasting, health economics, urban/regional economics, and history of economic thought. Teaching experience in intermediate macroeconomics and principles of economics is preferred. The department encourages applications from individuals who will bring diverse cultural and ethnic perspectives or experiences to campus. Responsibilities Primary responsibilities include teaching undergraduate courses (in macroeconomics, monetary economics and economic principles), research and publication, and involvement in department, university and community service. The candidate will be expected to serve as a resource to the Departments FED Challenge Team and to organize the teams participation in the FED Challenge, a prestigious national competition sponsored and conducted by the Federal Reserve Bank. Salary Salary is commensurate with qualifications and experience. The University of Wisconsin System provides a liberal benefits package, including participation in a state pension plan. To Apply Applicants must submit a cover letter, a curriculum vita, a written sample of recent research, evidence of effective teaching (if available), a statement of teaching philosophy, graduate transcripts, and three letters of reference (including the names, phone numbers and email addresses of the references). Applications received by November 15, 2007 are ensured full consideration; position remains open until filled. Submit application materials to: Professor Dennis A. Kaufman, Search & Screen Chair Department of Economics University of Wisconsin-Parkside 900 Wood Road Kenosha, WI 53144 Email: kaufman at uwp.edu Phone: 262.595.2192 Fax: 262.595.2120 From urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu Mon Oct 22 13:19:32 2007 From: urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu (urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu) Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 15:19:32 -0400 Subject: [URPE] Symposia for SHE Message-ID: <471CF7C4.6050003@lists.econ.utah.edu> The following symposia and calls for papers are being organised for the 2007 SHE Conference, in addition to the general sessions. If you would like to contribute in any way to any of these sessions, please get in touch with the designated contact person Symposium on Current Issues in Housing The 2007 Society of Heterodox Economists Conference will welcome the submission of papers focused on housing issues. Papers that are concerned with current debates around affordability and housing stress, homelessness, the circumstances of different tenure groupings, gated communities and the roles of public and community housing would be especially welcomed. Symposium Current Issues in Development in Theory and Practice The 2007 Symposium on the political economy of development at the Society of Heterodox Economists Conference will welcome the submission of papers focused on development issues and particularly those exploring questions of theory and development practice. Papers would be welcomed that are concerned with current debates such as the role of human rights in development, institutions and development and assessing progress towards the Millennium Development Goals as well as emerging areas, such as that assessing the impact of the current 'turbulence' in financial markets in developed countries on developing ones. Papers adopting an economic, social or political approach or are interdisciplinary in character are welcomed, Symposium on Australia's Energy Future' The 2007 Society of Heterodox Economists Conference will welcome the submission of papers focusing on the security of supply, including climate change, issues as well as the Owen Inquiry etc. Symposium on WorkChoices The 2007 Society of Heterodox Economists Conference will welcome the submission of papers focusing on a heterodox interpretation or narrative around the government?s WorkChoice legislation, which represents the one of the most radical changes to Australia?s industrial relations framework. The Australasian Chapter of the International Association for Feminist Economics is organising a session for the 6th Conference of the Australian Society for Heterodox Economics on 10?11 December 2007. Further details at: http://www2.economics.unsw.edu.au/nps/servlet/portalservice?GI_ID=System.LoggedOutInheritableArea&maxWnd=_SixthConference_Symposia2007 SHE Home Page: she.wbe.unsw.edu.au Peter Kriesler School of Economics University of NSW Sydney NSW 2052 http://www.economics.unsw.edu.au/PeterKriesler -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 3815 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/urpe-announcements/attachments/20071022/176e040f/attachment.txt -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... 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We usually raise this fee by dividing the cost of the panel among the panelists and chair (3-5 people); this panel fee entitles all members of the panel to attend the entire conference without paying individual registration fees (although the Left Forum will gladly accept additional donations). People who attend the LF 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 2008 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 2008 LF; 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 conferences work closely with panel organizers, and will have some voice in deciding which panels are accepted. It is likely that panels will be either videotaped or audiotaped. Individuals, radio stations and tv stations have requested recordings of URPE panels, and we would love to spread our ideas around. So if you join an URPE panel, please be prepared to sign a waver allowing your panel to be broadcast. The Left Forum organizers would like to have completed panel proposals by the end of December, so please e-mail panel suggestions by December 1 to: soapbox at comcast.net. From leefs at umkc.edu Tue Oct 23 13:24:42 2007 From: leefs at umkc.edu (Lee, Frederic) Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 14:24:42 -0500 Subject: [URPE] Heterodox Economics Newsletter 51 Message-ID: <9A72753A447165498D6B63479DB2E7C90368E676@KC-MSX3.kc.umkc.edu> Heterodox Economics Newsletter Issue 51: October 24 2007 From bogus@does.not.exist.com Sun Oct 14 15:21:57 2007 From: bogus@does.not.exist.com () Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 21:21:57 -0000 Subject: No subject Message-ID: For a long time, I have been asked by various publishers and authors if = I would include book reviews as a regular feature in the Newsletter. I = have succumbed to the pressure. Fadhel Kaboub has agreed to become the = Book Review editor for the Newsletter. The general orientation regarding = book reviews is as follows: The Newsletter will publish reviews of recently published books that are = relevant to the development of heterodox economics and to the open and = pluralistic intellectual debates in economics. The reviews will = contribute to building the community of heterodox economists, and to the = development of heterodox economic theory through the dissemination of = ideas/arguments. No books/arguments will be excluded as long as they = contribute to heterodox economics in whatever manner. A link to the "Guidelines for Book Review Authors = " is provided; in addition you can contact Fadhel at = fkaboub at drew.edu. =20 Fadhel and I are also working on another project that involves thematic = reviews of books, articles, theses, etc. in areas such as money and = finance, regulation of goods and services, and diversity of economic = approaches. More information will be forthcoming in the next few weeks. = In addition, over the past couple of weeks, I have received e-mails = asking about some unpublished work I have done on the methodology of = ranking heterodox journals and departments. While many find the ranking = game distasteful, it is nevertheless real for heterodox economists in = Australia for example. Finally, I received a nice little poem "Huzza to = the Heterodox!" by Richard and Alison Jolly. It is in the FYI section = and you may find it an enjoyable read.=20 Fred Lee In this issue: =20 Call for Papers =20 =20 - The 10th International Post Keynesian Conference - Graduate Summer School in Post Keynesian Economics - 10th Anniversary Conference of the Association for Heterodox Economics - Fourth International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic = and Social Sustainability - "The Spirit of Innovation III" - X AISPE conference =20 Conferences, Seminars and Lectures = =20 =20 - The Challenge to Restore Full Employment Conference - International Workshop on Adaptation and Reference Values - Reclaiming Marx's "Capital": A Refutation of the Myth of Inconsistency - Env=EDo del Programa del Segundo Seminario de Microeconom=EDa = Heterodoxa - When Finance Rocks - What is the future for central banks? - Seminars at Anglia Ruskin University - I Congreso De Economia Del Desarrollo "Jose Maria Vidal Villa" - Post Keynesian Perspectives on Development Economics - 'Dissent in Science': Events in November - 'Dissent in Science': Conference, 7/8 December 2007 =20 Job Postings for Heterodox Economists = =20 =20 - University of Missouri- Kansas City - University of Sydney - State University of New York- New Paltz, New Paltz, NY - The Evergreen State College - Fiscal Policy Institute - New York City - Franklin & Marshall College - The University of Wisconsin-Parkside - Jacobs University, Bremen - University of Massachusetts at Amherst - Wheaton College, Norton, MA - Hamilton College =20 Heterodox Journals and Newsletters = =20 =20 - The Spirit of Equity - Associative Economics Bulletin - October 2007=20 - Ethical Economics Support - Levy News - CASE Newsletter - Review of Political Economy - The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought=20 - Revista Electr=F3nica - Economic Systems Research - International Journal of Political Economy - Challenge =20 Heterodox Books, Book Series, and Book Reviews = =20 =20 - European Integration in Crises - Human Goods, Economic Evils - The New Spirit of Capitalism - The Price of Water - New Deal Banking Reforms and Keynesian Welfare State Capitalism =20 For Your Information = =20 =20 - Resolutions of the Congress for Planetary Initiatives 2007 - ILO DECENT WORK RESEARCH PRIZE - Huzza to the Heterodox! =20 =20 =20 ------_=_NextPart_001_01C815AA.5D25B190 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Heterodox Economics Newsletter

Issue 51: October 24 = 2007

 

 

From the Editor

For a long time, I have been asked by various = publishers and authors if I would include book reviews as a regular feature in the Newsletter. I have succumbed to the pressure. Fadhel Kaboub has agreed = to become the Book Review editor for the Newsletter. The general = orientation regarding book reviews is as follows:

The = Newsletter will publish reviews of recently published books that are relevant to = the development of heterodox economics and to the open and pluralistic = intellectual debates in economics. The reviews will contribute to building the = community of heterodox economists, and to the development of heterodox economic = theory through the dissemination of ideas/arguments. No books/arguments will be excluded as long as they contribute to heterodox economics in whatever = manner.

A link to the “Guidelines for Book Review Authors” is provided; in addition you can = contact Fadhel at fkaboub at drew.edu. 

Fadhel and I are also working on another project that involves thematic = reviews of books, articles, theses, etc. in areas such as money and finance, = regulation of goods and services, and diversity of economic approaches. More = information will be forthcoming in the next few weeks. In addition, over the past = couple of weeks, I have received e-mails asking about some unpublished work I have = done on the methodology of ranking heterodox journals and departments. While = many find the ranking game distasteful, it is nevertheless real for heterodox economists in Australia for example. Finally, I received a nice little poem “Huzza to the Heterodox!” by Richard and Alison Jolly. It is in the FYI section = and you may find it an enjoyable read.

Fred Lee

In this = issue:

 

Call for = Papers

 <= /p>

- = The 10th International Post Keynesian Conference
- Graduate Summer School in Post Keynesian Economics
- 10th Anniversary Conference of the Association for Heterodox = Economics
- Fourth International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic = and Social Sustainability
- "The Spirit of Innovation III"
- X AISPE conference

 

Conferences, Seminars and Lectures

 

- = The Challenge to Restore Full Employment Conference
- International Workshop on Adaptation and Reference Values
- Reclaiming Marx's "Capital": A Refutation of the Myth of Inconsistency
- Env=EDo del Programa del Segundo Seminario de Microeconom=EDa Heterodoxa
- When Finance Rocks - What is the future for central banks?
- Seminars at Anglia Ruskin University
- I Congreso De Economia Del Desarrollo "Jose Maria Vidal Villa"
- Post Keynesian Perspectives on Development Economics
- 'Dissent in Science': Events in November
- 'Dissent in Science': Conference, 7/8 December = 2007

 

Job Postings for Heterodox = Economists

 

- = University of Missouri- = Kansas City
- University of Sydney
- State University of New York— New Paltz, New = Paltz, NY
- The Evergreen State College
- Fiscal Policy Institute – New York City
- Franklin & Marshall College
- The University of Wisconsin-Parkside
- Jacobs University, Bremen
- University of = Massachusetts at Amherst
- Wheaton College, Norton, = MA
- Hamilton College<= /p>

 

Heterodox = Journals and Newsletters

 

- = The Spirit of Equity - Associative Economics Bulletin - October 2007
- Ethical Economics Support
- Levy News
- CASE Newsletter
- Review of Political Economy
- The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought
- Revista Electr=F3nica
- Economic Systems Research
- International Journal of Political Economy
- Challenge

 

Heterodox Books, Book Series, = and Book Reviews

 

- = European Integration in Crises
- Human Goods, Economic Evils
- The New Spirit of Capitalism
- The Price of Water
- New Deal Banking Reforms and Keynesian Welfare State = Capitalism

 

For Your = Information

 

- = Resolutions of the Congress for Planetary Initiatives 2007
- ILO DECENT WORK RESEARCH PRIZE
- Huzza to the Heterodox!

 

 

 

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Market commentators in general argue that the quality of household debt here is much higher than in the USA, and therefore there is no cause to worry. This symposium will provide heterodox perspectives on this issue. Contact: Steve Keen, School of Economics & Finance, University of Western Sydney at S.Keen at uws.edu.au Further details at: http://www2.economics.unsw.edu.au/nps/servlet/portalservice?GI_ID=System.LoggedOutInheritableArea&maxWnd=_SixthConference_Symposia2007 SHE Home Page: she.web.unsw.edu.au Peter Kriesler School of Economics University of NSW Sydney NSW 2052 http://www.economics.unsw.edu.au/PeterKriesler -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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The School of Urban and Public Affairs (SUPA) at University of Texas at Arlington invites applications for the position of Dean http://www.uta.edu/supa/About-SUPA/dean-search Successful candidates should have the following specific qualifications: ?an earned Ph.D. in a relevant field and record of scholarly achievement consistent with appointment as a tenured full professor (appointment at the well-established associate level will also be considered) ?demonstrated administrative and academic leadership along with demonstrated executive abilities in complex administrative and political environments, including budgetary experience ?a record of success in external relations, development, and fund-raising, including ability to maintain SUPA?s role as a resource valued by the State legislature ?demonstrated commitment to effective communication, consensus-building, and community relations/service learning Located in the heart of the economically flourishing and culturally diverse Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex, now the fifth largest region in the country, the University of Texas at Arlington, part of the University of Texas System, is a full service research and teaching university with over 25,000 students. SUPA regularly ranks as one of the best graduate schools of public affairs in the nation. SUPA has 17 tenured/tenure-track faculty members representing a rich variety of backgrounds and expertise in areas that include Economics, Geography, Law, Planning, Political Science, Psychology, Public Administration, Public Policy, Science and Technology Studies, Sociology, Social Sciences, and Urban Design. SUPA offers two nationally accredited master?s degrees: Master?s of Public Administration, and Master?s of City and Regional Planning; SUPA also offers a Master?s of Arts in Urban Affairs, two Ph.D.s (one in Public and Urban Administration, and the other in Urban Planning and Public Policy). At the undergraduate level, SUPA offers a B.A. and a B.S. in Interdisciplinary Studies. Review of applications begins immediately. 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Successful candidates must have a commitment to teaching excellence at the undergraduate level as well as serious interest in quality research and scholarship. Ph.D. is required by August 2008. All fields of specialization will be considered but preference will be given to candidates with interest in one or more of the following: international political economy, women in the economy, heterodox economics, mathematical and quantitative methods, methodology for collecting, estimating and organizing data, economic history, and empirical labor economics. Review of applications will begin on November 15, 2007, and will continue until the position is filled. Applicants should submit a letter of interest, curriculum vita, brief statement of teaching experience and summaries of teaching evaluations, and 3 letters of reference. Please send all materials as hard copy to Prof. Bobbie L. 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BEHIND & BEYOND THE ICON Che's Legacy in Latin America Today Joaquin Mauricio Chavez, Sujatha Fernandes, Forrest Hylton & Others TBA Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez once remarked that the nineteenth century was the century of Europe, the twentieth was the century of the United States, and the twenty-first is to be the century of Latin America... More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thursday, November 01 8:00 pm Beyond Brecht Brooklyn Playwrights Collective presents the premiere of short and original one-acts inspired by Bertolt Brecht and interspersed with songs and performance art with a political/humorous twist... More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Friday, November 02 6:30 pm DINNER & DISCUSSION New Strategies for Today's Labor Bhairavi Desai & Ed Ott In the 21st Century, conventional trade union organization has no longer proved to be sufficient for responding to the assaults on a labor force that is now fragmented into a variety of traditional and non-traditional working situations... More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Saturday, November 03 10:00 am - 6:00 pm 2-DAY WORKSHOP BEGINS Image Theater Focus on Immigration Issues Facilitators: Marie Claire Picher & Others TBA Image Theater is designed to develop individual skills of observation and self-reflection, and cooperative group interaction... 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(and, actually, the woman I spoke to about tickets said that it was almost certain that we could get tickets at the door) Come on out!!! Mary **************** Hi Everybody! I hope that you are coming to the IAFFE sessions at the ASSA meeting in New Orleans! I am going to buy several tickets to a concert of dance music by Nathan and the Zydeco Cha Chas, and you should all plan to come out with me on Thursday, January 3rd at 8:30 pm! If you?re not familiar with the U.S., you may not know that New Orleans is an incredibly important musical center, famous for it?s jazz, blues, funk, zydeco, cajun, Mardi Gras party music, and all kinds of great musicians! (not to mention fabulous food!) I am particularly in love with zydeco music, which is great dance music and just plain fun to listen to. It developed out of the blend of cultures in New Orleans, including African, French, Spanish and Native American, and has stayed in conversation with rhythym & blues, blues, rock n roll, soul, pop, everything! People dance as partners to zydeco music, or individually, just however you feel like! Or you can listen and people-watch, which is great fun! One of the top zydeco bands, Nathan and the Zydeco Cha Chas (http:// www.concertedefforts.com/artists_nath.html#links), is playing at the Rock n Bowl on Thursday, January 3rd at 8:30. (Only in New Orleans would you have one of the best places to hear live music attached to a bowling alley!) They don?t yet have their January calendar up on the web, but I called, and the band is booked! So, let me know if you?re interested and let?s go out! Laissez les bon temps roulez!! Mary King kingm at pdx.edu *********************************************** Mary C. King, Professor Economics Department Portland State University P.O. Box 751 Portland, OR 97207 kingm at pdx.edu (o) 503-725-3940 (fax) 503-725-3945 ************************************************ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 4555 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/urpe-announcements/attachments/20071029/d6c67fb9/attachment.txt From Ellen.Mutari at stockton.edu Mon Oct 29 17:16:58 2007 From: Ellen.Mutari at stockton.edu (Mutari, Ellen) Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 19:16:58 -0400 Subject: [URPE] Stepping out in New Orleans! In-Reply-To: <64F1611B-8A7C-4825-A618-E6512E15C827@pdx.edu> Message-ID: <1CF020A6D794F04E8AC86CD34595C34BA2AB53@exchange1.Stockton.edu> Since the ASE plenary involves URPE members as well as IAFFE members, I thought I would send Deb Figart's post to IAFFE-mail to the URPE list as well. - Ellen ---------------- Ellen Mutari, Associate Professor of General Studies and Women's Studies Coordinator Richard Stockton College of New Jersey Pomona, NJ 08240-0195 USA 1 (609) 626-6085 Ellen.Mutari at stockton.edu Friends, I admire Mary King's energy re inviting us to attend the concert of dance music by Nathan and the Zydeco Cha Chas on Thursday, January 3rd at 8:30 pm. I hope that IAFFErs will consider attending -- but late. Please be aware that our own Lourdes Beneria is speaking at a fine ASE/NEA/IAFFE/URPE Plenary that evening, followed by an ICAPE reception with food and drink: "Inequality, Democracy and the Economy," cosponsored by ASE/NEA/IAFFE/URPE Speakers: Lourdes Beneria, William Darity, Jr., and Dean Baker Moderator: John B. Davis 6:30 - 9:30 pm at the Sheraton/Rhythms II and III [ballroom] ASE (Association for Social Economics) always has the evening plenary (as one of its counted sessions) the evening before the main sessions. Our Vice-President, John B. Davis, a longtime IAFFE supporter and member, has kept the tradition alive to co-sponsor a valued commodity, sessions, with IAFFE. While I hope we will all have time to enjoy the community and culture of New Orleans and infuse some dollars into that local economy, I also hope that we will support ASE and IAFFE as well. You will be treated to an excellent plenary followed by a nice reception (and you won't likely leave hungry). Deb 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 at stockton.edu Co-Editor, Review of Social Economy -----Original Message----- From: urpe-announcements-bounces at lists.econ.utah.edu [mailto:urpe-announcements-bounces at lists.econ.utah.edu] On Behalf Of Mary C. King Sent: Monday, October 29, 2007 2:07 PM To: URPE-Announcements at lists.econ.utah.edu Subject: [URPE] Stepping out in New Orleans! Hi All! I have just sent this message to all IAFFE members, so I apologize to those of you who've just received it that way. Let me also invite all URPE members to come out to hear some zydeco music in New Orleans!!!! (and, actually, the woman I spoke to about tickets said that it was almost certain that we could get tickets at the door) Come on out!!! Mary **************** Hi Everybody! I hope that you are coming to the IAFFE sessions at the ASSA meeting in New Orleans! I am going to buy several tickets to a concert of dance music by Nathan and the Zydeco Cha Chas, and you should all plan to come out with me on Thursday, January 3rd at 8:30 pm! If you're not familiar with the U.S., you may not know that New Orleans is an incredibly important musical center, famous for it's jazz, blues, funk, zydeco, cajun, Mardi Gras party music, and all kinds of great musicians! (not to mention fabulous food!) I am particularly in love with zydeco music, which is great dance music and just plain fun to listen to. It developed out of the blend of cultures in New Orleans, including African, French, Spanish and Native American, and has stayed in conversation with rhythym & blues, blues, rock n roll, soul, pop, everything! People dance as partners to zydeco music, or individually, just however you feel like! Or you can listen and people-watch, which is great fun! One of the top zydeco bands, Nathan and the Zydeco Cha Chas (http://www.concertedefforts.com/artists_nath.html#links), is playing at the Rock n Bowl on Thursday, January 3rd at 8:30. (Only in New Orleans would you have one of the best places to hear live music attached to a bowling alley!) They don't yet have their January calendar up on the web, but I called, and the band is booked! So, let me know if you're interested and let's go out! Laissez les bon temps roulez!! Mary King kingm at pdx.edu *********************************************** Mary C. King, Professor Economics Department Portland State University P.O. Box 751 Portland, OR 97207 kingm at pdx.edu (o) 503-725-3940 (fax) 503-725-3945 ************************************************ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Each tradition also has it's own dance, with Zydeco being more of a two person waltz type dance, and the Second Line being more individual. Zydeco is very, very high tempo music, based from the wash board and the accordian. Still all those who attend should have a good time. Zydeco is perhap one of the most enjoyable dance music forms in the world. However, for those of a younger audience, who want to see a live performance from a New Orleans Brass Band, I suggest checking out the club, 'Les Bon Temps Roule' on Magazine street uptown also on Thursday night. It is free to get in and every thursday one of my personal favorite bands, The Soul Rebels, play to a packed crowd. But as I mentioned it is younger crowd, 21 and up. Diverse group really fun if you don't mind a little sweat, bumping and grinding on the dance floor... Khalil From americassafetynet at hotmail.com Tue Oct 30 05:15:09 2007 From: americassafetynet at hotmail.com (America's Safety Net) Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 11:15:09 +0000 Subject: [URPE] Dayton Jobs for All Week Message-ID: Dayton Jobs for All Week The Miami Valley Full Employment Council has two events we're planning for Jobs for All Week, Nov. 2 - 14, 2007. On Friday, Nov. 2 the Full Employment Council is sponsoring a "Rally for Jobs!" at noon at the Job Center 111 S. Edwin C Moses Blvd. Please mark it on your calendar and please let us know if your planning on attending. You're also invited to a Town Hall Meeting on "Jobs and the Future of Dayton" Wed. Nov. 14, 2007 at 7 p.m. at the AFL-CIO Headquarters at 4127 E. Second St. The meeting is being co-sponsored by Dayton-Miami Valley AFL-CIO, Miami Valley Full Employment Council and Organize! Ohio This the start of a public dialog on the future of Dayton that focuses on jobs and social justice. Dayton is at the crossroads We want everyone's input on the goals we should set and how we achieve them. In Dayton, Montgomery Co. area from 2000 to 2005 we lost 12,712 Jobs. From bogus@does.not.exist.com Sun Oct 28 08:56:44 2007 From: bogus@does.not.exist.com () Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 14:56:44 -0000 Subject: No subject Message-ID: GM Truck and Bus by eliminating third shift, we lost another 2666 jobs=20 Over the last five years: Ohio Household Income is Down an average of $1000.00 dollars 53,000 New Families are on Food Stamps in Ohio. 171,000 Ohio Families Lost Homes in foreclosures. 580,021 More Ohioans now live in Poverty. 1.5 million People in Ohio are without Health Insurance. For more information contact Logan Martinez. Miami Valley Full Employment Council / National Jobs For All Coalition 937-275-7259 / americassafetynet at hotmail.com Jobs for All Week November 2 - 14, 2007 The National Jobs for All Coalition is calling for events and actions to = highlight the fight for jobs and economic justice November 2nd through Nove= mber 9th. Jobs for All Week is being organized to support THE DRIVE FOR DE= CENT WORK. This program will provide needed human services and infrastruct= ure and other investment, and at the same time create decent jobs. Over 16= million Americans are unemployed or involuntary part-time workers, or amon= g the "hidden unemployed"--those who would like a job but aren't currently = looking. Other millions more are working at poverty wages. And millions mor= e, even college graduates, are without pensions, health insurance, or job s= ecurity. The need for for public investment was highlighted by the Katrina disaster= and the recent bridge collapse in Minneapolis. All over the country, ther= e are Katrinas and Minnesotas waiting to happen. Our proposal is a Win/Win = Solution to deal with our double deficits in DECENT WORK and PUBLIC INVESTM= ENT in human and physical resources. THE DRIVE FOR DECENT WORK campaign supports legislation in the US Congress= , bills that correct the underinvestment in vital human and physical resour= ces and at the same time creates millions of decent jobs. Legislation inclu= des the National Affordable Housing Trust Fund Act, Bringing America Home A= ct (HR 4347), Elementary and Secondary Education Act, a legislative proposa= l to hire 100,000 new teachers, proposals on renewable energy, youth employ= ment, a Living Wage Jobs for All Act (HR 1050), and proposals for improving= transportation and the environment. For the complete list, please consult = THE DRIVE FOR DECENT WORK at http://www.njfac.org/sharedpros.htm=20 We are also supporting national Health Care for All and have included prop= osals for legislation repairing the losses and investing in protections for= the Gulf coast. The National Jobs for All Coalition is calling for activities in the fall= "Jobs for All Week", including educational events at community centers and= union halls. Universities might feature panel discussions highlighting loc= al conditions, lay-offs, plant closings as well as the job opportunities in= providing services and investments needed by their communities. Panels sho= uld included laid-off workers, those whose jobs or incomes are threatened, = educators, trade unionists and low income advocates. We see these events as= the kick-off of a national debate on jobs and needs for public investment = and services which have gone unmet for so long. We encourage groups to organize actions at employment offices and Job Cent= ers on Friday November 2, 2007. Informational picket lines and rallies will= bring attention to the plight of working people. November 2nd, is the fir= st Friday of the month, the day unemployment figures are released by the De= pt. of Labor. We will have just a brief time to organize this effort but w= e believe we can get this off to a good start now. We could have a major im= pact on national politics. We are seeking endorsements and resolutions by city governments and other = governmental bodies in support of Jobs for All Week and THE DRIVE FOR DECEN= T WORK. We are also seeking endorsements from both organizations and indivi= duals for the THE DRIVE FOR DECENT WORK.=20 For more information contact Logan Martinez = =20 National Jobs For All Coalition / Miami Valley Full Employment Council=20 937-275-7259 / americassafetynet at hotmail.com / www.njfac.org _________________________________________________________________ Climb to the top of the charts!=A0 Play Star Shuffle:=A0 the word scramble = challenge with star power. http://club.live.com/star_shuffle.aspx?icid=3Dstarshuffle_wlmailtextlink_oc= t= From urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu Wed Oct 31 06:47:06 2007 From: urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu (urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu) Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 07:47:06 -0500 Subject: [URPE] feminist economist hire-The Evergreen State College Message-ID: <4728794A.5040304@lists.econ.utah.edu> The Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington www.evergreen.edu/facultyhiring Feminist Economist - 08 The Evergreen State College is seeking a Feminist Economist (a broadly trained economist who has a strong background in feminist theory and feminist approaches to economics) to teach in the field of political economy within interdisciplinary programs with faculty colleagues from the arts, social sciences, humanities and sciences. We generally teach micro and macroeconomics, neo-classical and alternatives in an interdisciplinary context that incorporates development, justice, poverty, labor, gender, race, and environment. The successful candidate will be able to apply the study of these issues to the situation in the United States and in some other geographic region. A successful candidate will also be able to integrate quantitative and qualitative methods (such as ethnography and oral history) into interdisciplinary programs. Faculty have a significant amount of direct contact with students and enjoy a high degree of freedom to determine the subject matter, pace, emphasis, classroom strategies and modes of evaluation in the programs that they teach. We are particularly interested in candidates who have experience or interest in using innovative pedagogy to engage students in developing their conceptual understanding of economics, particularly feminist economics, in understanding our contemporary social reality. The successful candidate should be interested in working with undergraduate students at all levels from introductory through advanced. Candidates who have a background and interest in interdisciplinary teaching beyond economics and in teaching with faculty from other disciplines are particularly encouraged to apply. We also encourage applicants who have had experience teaching and/or working with students from underrepresented populations. Minimum Qualifications: ? M.A. in Economics or ABD in Economics ? College level teaching ? Experience with interdisciplinary teaching and/or research Preferred Qualifications: ? Ph.D. in Economics ? Evidence of feminist studies, feminist economics ? Interest and ability to teach college level writing ? Experience teaching and/or working with students from underrepresented populations. This is a Regular Faculty position, eligible for continuing appointment after two, three-year renewable contracts. All requirements for this position must be completed by the end of academic year 2007-08. The review of complete applications begins November 12, 2007 and will continue until finalists are selected. ABOUT EVERGREEN Evergreen is a public liberal arts college emphasizing integrated interdisciplinary study and team-teaching throughout the undergraduate curriculum and in three graduate programs. Teaching at Evergreen allows faculty members to exercise broad-ranging intellectual curiosity and to work collaboratively with faculty colleagues and students formulating interdisciplinary questions and inquiry. Faculty members team-teach in full-time interdisciplinary programs. With their teaching colleagues they collaboratively design thematically centered programs that bring together multiple disciplines. Faculty teams also strive to address core academic experiences we believe should be included in all programs: teaching writing and quantitative reasoning; deepening students' academic, artistic and interpretative abilities and skills; promoting culturally diverse traditions of knowledge; and creating inclusive learning environments for students and faculty members. We recognize diversity as a defining characteristic of the 21st century. The college has intensified its efforts to become a multicultural and diverse institution. Substantive experience working across cultural differences is therefore highly desirable for all positions. Committed to equal opportunity and affirmative action, TESC is working to build a diverse, broadly trained faculty. We particularly encourage applications from candidates whose race, national origin, sex, age, religion, marital status, sexual orientation, veteran status or physical disability will contribute to our diversity. Faculty membership is unranked with salary determined on a non-competitive, open scale based on earned degrees and years of relevant experience. Evergreen's fundamental academic commitments are summarized in the Five Foci: * Interdisciplinary study * Personal engagement in learning * Linking theoretical perspectives with practice * Collaborative/cooperative work * Teaching across significant differences Faculty affiliate with one Planning Unit. For more information on our Planning Units, review our website at: http://www.evergreen.edu/catalog/2007-08/planningunits.htm To apply, please enter the following information to our online application form at: http://www.evergreen.edu/facultyhiring ? Contact Information ? Work Experience ? Affirmative Action Submit the following items as an attachment(s) with your email: * Curriculum vitae. ? Letter of application. ? 1-2 page statement of your teaching philosophy and practice. Please focus specifically on your understanding and experience of interdisciplinary study and what you believe should distinguish a liberal arts education today. ? 1-2 page statement of your multicultural experience and/or practice. ? 1-2 page statement of your understanding of feminist economics. ? Examples of scholarly or artistic work. (Research papers or reviews) ? Evaluations by students (if available) ? Two to three current letters of reference from professional colleagues that speak to your teaching experience; in addition, letters from students are often useful. Letters of reference may be emailed or mailed directly to our faculty hiring office. If you cannot attach the application materials please mail the information to the faculty hiring office: Faculty Hiring Coordinator The Evergreen State College 2700 Evergreen Parkway, L-2211 Olympia, WA 98505 (360) 867-6861 voice (360) 867-6794 fax (360) 867-6834 TDD facultyhiring at evergreen.edu The Review of complete application files has been extended. Review of complete files begins November 12, 2007. We will continue to accept applications until finalists are selected. The College reserves the right to extend searches or not offer positions advertised. All position offers are contingent on funding. Persons with disabilities can receive accommodations in the hiring process by contacting the Faculty Hiring Coordinator. The Evergreen State College is an equal opportunity employer. www.evergreen.edu/facultyhiring -- web-page: http://www2.evergreen.edu/bohmerp -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Lourdes Beneria, Cornell University Laurie Nisonoff, Hampshire College Arthur MacEwan, University of Massachusetts, Boston Howard Wachtel, American University Frank Thompson, University of Michigan will moderate. There will be plenty of time for audience members to offer their own recollections of the "glorious days of yesteryear" and to think about URPE's accomplishments and future. If you have been part of URPE over the years, please do come and celebrate URPE's anniversary. (Others of course are welcome too.) This information is also in the program and on the URPE website. Lane Vanderslice lvanderslice at verizon.net From urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu Fri Nov 2 21:05:38 2007 From: urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu (urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu) Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2007 22:05:38 -0500 Subject: [URPE] [NYC] REMINDER!! URPE Party Nov. 10 -- Please RSVP Message-ID: <472BE582.8050204@lists.econ.utah.edu> To URPE Members and Friends -- COME TO A PARTY TO WELCOME THE URPE STEERING COMMITTEE TO NYC Date: Saturday, November 10 Time: Starting at 7:30 pm Place: The home of Martha and Barry Herman 740 West End Avenue (corner of 96th street) Apt. 134 Bring a snack or drink to share. If you know in advance, please let us know if you are planning to come by replying to Frances at the URPE National Office: urpe at labornet.org See you there! -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 1637 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/urpe-announcements/attachments/20071102/4a722a96/attachment.txt -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... 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More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Wednesday, November 07 8:30 pm Not Media Reform, Not Media Democracy ? Media Justice! A Conversation on Successes & Challenges Hye-Jung Park, Nan Rubin, Martha Wallner & Betty Yu From the Media Reform Conference in January, through the U.S. Social Forum in July, and at a host of regional gatherings, FCC hearings and grassroots media trainings in between, this is an exciting year for the people of color-led Media Justice Movement... More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thursday, November 08 7:00 pm EXHIBIT OPENING & RECEPTION Censorship Curated by L2EL Arts More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Friday, November 09 8:30 pm From a Popular Front to a Progressive Majority The Long (and Contentious) Strategic Journey of the US Left Mark Solomon More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Saturday, November 10 10:00 am - 7:00 pm PAULO FREIRE METHODOLOGY WORKSHOP Power & Oppression Part 2: "TO ANALYSE & TO DO" Maria Arettines, Carmelina Cartei, Kate Cavanagh, Esperanza Martell, Julie Nevies, Fernando Real & Other Popular Educators! Part II of this Paulo Freire Methodology Intensive will focus on analysis and action plans... More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Saturday, November 10 10:00 pm NEUES KABARETT 2Sky Trio Marco Cappelli, Jennifer Choi & Vong Pak Featuring the world premiere of the Brecht Forum-commissioned Improbaile for violin, guitar and korean percussion by Marco Cappelli... More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sunday, November 11 6:00 pm Afro-Latino Cafe More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monday, November 12 8:30 am READING Writing Aloud More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tuesday, November 13 8:30 am Vietnam Agent Orange Public Health Tour Nguyen Thi Ngoc Phuong More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Wednesday, November 14 8:30 pm Global Warming Real vs Bogus Solutions Patrick Bond, Jessica Lee & Others TBA More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Brecht Forum logo The Brecht Forum Needs Your Support! 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We'll work together to develop effective responses using facts, rational reasoning and personal experiences. Thursday November 8, 2007, at 5pm Social Justice Seminar UC San Diego John Muir College 1103 Muir Biology Building 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093 Sponsored by Human and Earth Rights Organization (HERO) Free and open to the public For details: saier at biomail.ucsd.edu Thursday November 8, 2007, at 7pm Cal State University San Marcos Academic Hall 102, San Marcos, CA Driving directions: http://www.csusm.edu/resources/images/maps/driving_directions.htm Sponsored by Student Life & Leadership Cross Cultural Center, National Latino Research Center (NLRC) & CSUSM MEChA Free and open to all CSUSM students, staff, faculty and invited guests For details: agaribay at csusm.edu Friday, November 9, 2007, 7pm program (social hour with refreshments at 6pm) Palomar Unitarian?Universalist Fellowship 1600 Buena Vista Drive, Vista, CA 92081 (in the Shadowridge section of Vista) Free and open to the public Saturday, November 10, 2007, at 11am Escondido Public Library (www.escondido.org/library/) Turrentine Room 239 South Kalmia, Escondido, CA 92025 Sponsored by North County Forum, http://northcountyforum.org/ Free and open to the public To set up a dialogue in your community, write the authors at thepoliticsofimmigration at gmail.com For more information about the book: http://thepoliticsofimmigration.org -- Note email address change! ================================================== David L. Wilson * 212-674-9499 * Co-author, The Politics of Immigration: Questions & Answers: http://thepoliticsofimmigration.org Subscribe to the NY Activist Calendar; send a blank email to: nycalendar-subscribe at lists.riseup.net For online calendar, visit http://nycalendar.org ================================================== From Andrew_Kliman at msn.com Wed Nov 7 11:26:54 2007 From: Andrew_Kliman at msn.com (Drewk) Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2007 13:26:54 -0500 Subject: [URPE] Tomorrow: RMC Book Launch in NYC (reminder) Message-ID: U.S. Book Launch RECLAIMING MARX'S "CAPITAL": A REFUTATION OF THE MYTH OF INCONSISTENCY by Andrew Kliman (Lexington Books, 2007) Thursday, November 8 at 7:00 p.m. Sociology Lounge CUNY Graduate Center 365 Fifth Avenue, Manhattan (between 34th & 35th Streets) New York City (check in at front desk; must show photo ID to enter) Speakers: ========= Stanley Aronowitz, Dept. of Sociology, CUNY Graduate Ctr. Andrew Kliman, author of _Reclaiming Marx's "Capital"_ Bertell Ollman, Dept. of Politics, New York University Richard Wolff, Dept. of Economics, U Mass - Amherst _Reclaiming Marx's "Capital"_ will be available for purchase for $22 (18% off the list price of $26.95). Written especially for the non-specialist reader, with minimal math, _Reclaiming Marx's "Capital"_ seeks to reclaim _Capital_ from the myth of inconsistency, a myth that serves to justify the censorship of Marx's critique of political economy and present-day research based on it. Kliman shows that the alleged inconsistencies are actually caused by misinterpretation. Praise for _Reclaiming Marx's "Capital"_: ========================================= "A tremendously powerful refutation of all those smart ass economist dude arguments that 'Marx is inconsistent.'" -- Glenn Rikowski, educational theorist "Returns Marx's own work to centre stage. An important unifying work, rather than just another divisive personal opinion." -- Nick Potts, Southampton Solent U. "Sorts out a bewildering tangle of approaches and issues in order to demonstrate that the charge of internal inconsistency is false." --Thomas Jeannot, Philosophy, Gonzaga U. "Kliman demonstrates that the Marxist theory can by all means be *interpreted* in a way that avoids the purported inconsistencies." -- Wolfgang Fritz Haug, _Das Argument_ "He has stripped away the obfuscations of the neo-Ricardians. Marx did not make theoretical errors (at least in the areas that the critics have claimed)." -- Michael Roberts, marxist.com economics columnist "A strong case to be considered the most compelling and consistent interpretation of _Capital_." -- Joseph Choonara, _International Socialism_ journal "Someone has finally rescued Marx from the Marxists." -- Alan Freeman, U. of Greenwich "I was impressed with Kliman's refutation of the Okishio theorem. I didn't think that was possible." -- Robert Vienneau, "Thoughts on Economics" blog "Kliman's answers make sense. They convince me that much of what passes as Marxist economics is deeply flawed." -- Sam Friedman, amazon.com review ========================================= The Book Launch is sponsored by The New SPACE (The New School for Pluralistic Anti-Capitalist Education) new-space at mutualaid.org Tel: 1 (800) 377-6183 See http://new-space.mahost.org for Fall courses and talks ========================================= For more information about _Reclaiming Marx's "Capital"_, see the author's website: http://akliman.squarespace.com/reclaiming/ From mail at thomaspalley.com Wed Nov 7 20:13:40 2007 From: mail at thomaspalley.com (Thomas Palley) Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2007 22:13:40 -0500 Subject: [URPE] POLICY OP-ED: Through the Looking Glass Message-ID: Dear URPE Friends & Colleagues, This week's policy op-ed is titled "Through the Looking Glass: Saving Glut or Demand Shortage". It is posted on my website at www.thomaspalley.com Please feel free to share it with others who may be interested in this subject. Sincerely, Tom Palley Thomas Palley Founder Economics for Democratic & Open Societies Project Tel: 202-667-5518 e-mail: mail at thomaspalley.com www.thomaspalley.com -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 1216 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/urpe-announcements/attachments/20071107/50b673d5/attachment.txt From urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu Thu Nov 8 20:48:50 2007 From: urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu (urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu) Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2007 22:48:50 -0500 Subject: [URPE] [NYC] LAST REMINDER!! URPE PARTY SATURDAY NIGHT, 7:30 -- PLEASE RSVP Message-ID: <4733D8A2.8050401@lists.econ.utah.edu> To URPE Members and Friends -- COME TO A PARTY TO WELCOME THE URPE STEERING COMMITTEE TO NYC Date: Saturday, November 10 Time: Starting at 7:30 pm Place: The home of Martha and Barry Herman 740 West End Avenue (corner of 96th street) Apt. 134 Bring a snack or drink to share. If you know in advance, please let us know if you are planning to come by replying to Frances at the URPE National Office: urpe at labornet.org See you there! From soapbox at comcast.net Thu Nov 8 21:47:17 2007 From: soapbox at comcast.net (Ruth Indeck) Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2007 23:47:17 -0500 Subject: [URPE] URPE at 2008 Left Forum -- SECOND CALL! -- Respond by Dec. 1 Message-ID: <4733E655.5050408@comcast.net> Dear URPE Members, The Left Forum is generally attended by a few thousand activists and academics, and there is always a strong interest in economic aspects of current issues like wars, financial crises, energy issues, growing inequality, to name a few. URPE people have a lot to contribute to the general Left discourse. Please think about participating in a panel! The Left Forum would like to have panels mostly organized by mid December, so we need suggestions very soon. **************************************************** 2008 Left Forum: CALL FOR PANELS March 14-16, Cooper Union, NYC " www.leftforum.org URPE will be able to sponsor two panels at the 2008 Left Forum. Individuals can sometimes be placed on panels sponsored by other groups. Each panel pays $120 to the Forum. We usually raise this fee by dividi