From dgoldsmi at ccsf.edu Fri Jan 2 11:03:00 2009 From: dgoldsmi at ccsf.edu (Deborah Goldsmith) Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2009 10:03:00 -0800 Subject: [URPE] Job announcement Message-ID: From soapbox at comcast.net Fri Jan 2 17:12:56 2009 From: soapbox at comcast.net (Ruth Indeck) Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2009 19:12:56 -0500 Subject: [URPE] Left Forum Panel Submission Deadline Extended to Feb. 1 -- More Rooms available at Pace Message-ID: <495EAD88.1080501@comcast.net> Message forwarded from Seth Adler of the Left Forum: ***************************** Dear past conference panelists and Left Forum participants, While the new year may well bring more harrowing than heartening economic news, organizers at the Left Forum and at Pace university have been able to secure more rooms and conference space. The increased number of people that will now be able to present and attend provides an unprecedented opportunity to expand the Left dialogue and raise many voices in this time of growing challenges to all of our struggles. We are thus extending the panel submission deadline to February 1st. If you haven't already submitted we would like to suggest that you and your colleagues consider this opportunity to join us at the Forum. To submit a panel proposal, please press the "call for panels" link on the opening page of the website (www.leftforum.org) or call or email us at leftforum at leftforum.org. (212) 817-2003. We realize that the winter holidays are not the best time for people to get excited about participating in a spring conference but a long lead time is necessary in planning and we hope can get you in motion so that you will not be disappointed come April. We would not have been able to offer this extension of the deadline, but have gotten word from the facilities folks that we now have the expanded conference space. We look forward to hearing from you. Seth Adler Conference coordinator seth at leftforum.org 212 817-2003 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 4553 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/urpe-announcements/attachments/20090102/ea7d9ce1/attachment.txt From BSnyder at bentley.edu Mon Jan 5 09:22:31 2009 From: BSnyder at bentley.edu (Snyder, Bryan) Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 11:22:31 -0500 Subject: [URPE] text help! In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <645E663E29C3FA43B7A8B898526E6FA24C85565418@V-EXCH01.gold.ad.bentley.edu> Dear Folks, I have had the following inquiry as to a text for this upcoming Spring semester as follows: I'm looking for a book for one of my spring courses (mid-level). It should examine macro-economic policy of the fed government -- fiscal and tax policy -- and how it affects income, wealth, and inequality in America. I'm looking for a book and not an article. Any suggestions?! I can think of the Levy Institutes: The Distributional Effects of Government Spending and Taxation Edited by Dimitri B. Papadimitriou For a start.......but this is for an undergraduate class focusing on the American economy. Any Thoughts?! Sincerely, Prof. Bryan Snyder Department of Economics Bentley University Waltham, MA From urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu Mon Jan 5 13:30:06 2009 From: urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu (urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu) Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2009 15:30:06 -0500 Subject: [URPE] [NYC] Brecht Forum: Outside the Blues/ Diabetic Dramas Message-ID: <49626DCE.3070402@lists.econ.utah.edu> PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY Brecht Forum Outside the Blues/ Diabetic Dramas Click here to check out the Brecht Forum's new ECONOMY WATCH webpage for left analyses of the global financial crisis. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Saturday, January 17 7:30 pm Outside the Blues a Forum & Concert Considering New Uses of an Old Language More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Friday, January 23 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm WORKSHOP Diabetic Dramas Robbie McCauley Award-winning actress Robbie McCauley returns to the Brecht Forum to lead a series of workshops called "Diabetic Dramas" based on subject matter from her performance piece, Sugar, which looks at everything there is to see about sugar, from slavery to colonialism to American mythologies to diabetes... 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Tamar -------------- next part -------------- An embedded message was scrubbed... From: Damla Isik Subject: Suggestions and Participants on a possible panel proposal at 2009 AAA Meetings Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 12:57:45 -0500 Size: 10923 Url: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/urpe-announcements/attachments/20090107/d8b5e387/attachment.eml From tamardiana at yahoo.com Wed Jan 7 15:33:08 2009 From: tamardiana at yahoo.com (Tamar Diana Wilson) Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 14:33:08 -0800 (PST) Subject: [URPE] articulation of modes of production biblio Message-ID: <84593.15850.qm@web31814.mail.mud.yahoo.com> One of the URPE members asked me to post the results of my query as to literature on the articulation of modes of production debate. Below please find a list of what various members have kindly sent me. Tamar Diana Wilson See: Bottomore's "Dictionary of Marxist Thought". John Taylor "From Modernization to Modes of Production" Bailey and Llobera "The Asiatic Mode of Production". Studies in the development of capitalism by Maurice Dobb http://www.amazon.com/Brenner-Debate-Development-Pre-industrial-Publications/dp/0521349338 http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/economicHistory/pdf/WP9406Epstein.pdf https://www.vedamsbooks.com/no47987.htm a series from India called the "Subaltern Studies" that spoke especially on the Asiatic MOP; a book edited by Diptendra Banerjee entitled MARXIAN THEORY AND THE THIRD WORLD (1985; Sage Publications). In that book there are several entries in Part I: SOME THEORETICAL PROBLEMS; three specifically seem to be relevant for your inquiries: Diptendra Banerjee "In Search of a Theory of Pre-Capitalist Modes of Production" (Chapter 1) Miomir Jaksic "Marx's Theory of Modes of Production: Problems of Colonialism and Underdevelopment" (chapter 5); Harold Wolpe "The Articulation of Modes and Forms of Production" (Chapter 6). Cited in these chapters are some of the following seminal literature: Aidan Foster-Carter, ""The Modes of Production Controversy", New Left Review, Jan-Feb 1978; Barry Hindess and Paul Hirst PRE-CAPITALIST MODES OF PRODUCTION (1975) Miomir Jaksic THE THEORY OF MODES OF PRODUCTION (1983) Harold Wolpe (1980) THE ARTICULATION OF MODES OF PRODUCTION. Also the JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY ASIA had a lot of stuff on this in the 1970's and early 1980's; that is a good place to get some references as well. For a developing country perspective try: Agrarian Relations and Accumulation : The Mode of Production Debate in India by Utsa Patnaik (Editor) and Global capitalism, deflation and agrarian crisis in developing countries / Utsa Patnaik From breenn at mail.nih.gov Thu Jan 8 10:03:03 2009 From: breenn at mail.nih.gov (Breen, Nancy (NIH/NCI) [E]) Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 12:03:03 -0500 Subject: [URPE] Call for papers on Macroeconomics, Political Systems, and Population Health and Health Inequities Message-ID: Next year's American Public Health Association (APHA), the Spirit of 1848, a notable year for public health as well as radical economics, is inviting speakers to discuss aspects of Macroeconomics, Political Systems, and Population Health and Health Inequities. The APHA is in Philidephia, PA in 2009 and the session will take place on Monday, November 9th, in the 2:30 to 4:00. Please send your abstract to the website below the description. You may also wish to copy Nancy Krieger who founded and leads the Spirit of 1848 caucus at APHA. Cheers, Nancy POLITICS OF PUBLIC HEALTH DATA SESSION "Macroeconomics, Political Systems, and Population Health and Health Inequities" Based on discussion at the Spirit of 1848 business meeting at the 2008 annual meeting of the American Public Health Association, the Politics of Public Health Data session will have an OPEN CALL FOR ABSTRACTS that critically examine how macroeconomics and political systems shape population health and health inequities, that is, the political economy of health writ large. Examples of presentations could include results from empirical studies that demonstrate how the current economic market crisis affects population health and the magnitude of health inequities, or studies that demonstrate relationships between macroeconomic factors and/or political systems and temporal trends in overall levels of population health and/or the magnitude of health inequities. Additional possibilities include how policies of international economic institutions (e.g., The World Bank) or trade agreements (e.g., NAFTA) affect population health and health inequities, including with regard to policies and agreements pertaining to water and sanitation. Presentations based on research in the U.S. or in other countries are welcome; studies can focus on only one country or do cross-country or cross-region comparisons. The session will consist of 2-3 presentations and a discussant, and will allow for adequate time to solicit questions or comments from the audience. Reminder: for this session we are issuing an open call for abstracts, meaning that: presentations for this session will be selected from abstracts submitted in response this "call for abstracts." This session will take place at the 137th annual meeting of the American Public Health Association, in Philadelphia, PA, on Monday, November 9th, in the 2:30 to 4:00 pm APHA time slot. For any questions about this session, please contact Spirit of 1848 Coordinating Committee member Catherine Cubbin (email: ccubbin at austin.utexas.edu) Abstracts are due on FEBRUARY 11, 2009. Submit to http://apha.confex.com/apha/137am/oasys.epl From crmk at pdx.edu Thu Jan 8 15:20:55 2009 From: crmk at pdx.edu (Mary C. King) Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 14:20:55 -0800 Subject: [URPE] Employment Impacts of Social Investments? Message-ID: Hi All, Can any of you help me with supporting materials for this argument: We should steer a substantial portion of any fiscal stimulus into Social Investment, i.e. healthcare and education because a) we would get a lot of employment bang for the buck, these are labor intensive industries, b) we would get increased productivity in the future, given the huge payback to public education, Head Start, the GI bill, etc. and c) we need to be employing women, particularly single mothers, who are concentrated in these fields, and almost entirely absent from construction and other industries involved in ideas of a "Green New Deal." I am trying to make this case locally, and would Very Much Appreciate any supporting material you may be able to suggest. THANKS!!! Mary *********************************************** Mary C. King, Professor Economics Department Portland State University P.O. 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URPE welcomes proposals on radical political economic theory and applied analysis from a wide variety of theoretical traditions. The deadline for proposed papers and sessions is May 1, 2009. At that time individual and panel proposals will be checked to be sure everyone is current with their URPE dues or the proposals will be set aside. 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. A registration form must be completed for each paper. Proposals for individual papers should include the title, the abstract, and the author's name, institutional affiliation, and email. You should also complete the registration form. 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) at the time of submission of the paper or panel proposal. Contact urpe at labornet.org or 413-577-0806 for membership information. We will confirm membership prior to accepting 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 Laurie Nisonoff, Hampshire College fmoseley at mtholyoke.edu lnisonoff at hampshire.edu URPE AT ASSA Atlanta January 3-5, 2010 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 currently paid 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 at labornet.org or 413-577-0806 and complete your membership or renewal before you submit the proposal. We will be checking prior to accepting panels or assigning individuals to panels. If ANY paper presenter on a panel is not a current member of URPE the entire panel will not be considered as a group; individual papers may be included in other panels. It is the responsibility of the organizer of a panel to ensure this membership requirement prior to May 1. Any individual paper whose author is not a current member will be set aside and not considered for inclusion. 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I'm especially interested in issues relating to class and ethnicity, ideology, and political economy (the political side of economic issues, and the more economic issue of how products get from a place like Malaysia to Kmart). I have a biology and anthropology background. Michael ____________________________________________________________ Best Weight Loss Program - Click Here! http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2141/fc/PnY6rw1mBfloOCI3KEWXr94SrhP4xFIqTJShkVYcLKqFfcxS6QT2j/ From urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu Mon Jan 12 13:56:37 2009 From: urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu (urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu) Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 15:56:37 -0500 Subject: [URPE] [NYC] Panel on Climate Change with Fred Curtis, Thurs. Jan. 15, Teaneck, NJ References: <496B98CD.2060100@comcast.net> <496B532F.9108.00A6.0@drew.edu> <496BA092.4010204@comcast.net> Message-ID: <496BAE85.7020900@lists.econ.utah.edu> URPE Member Fred Curtis will be speaking on economic and policy issues related to climate change this Thursday. Thursday, January 15, 7:00 p.m. Puffin Foundation, Teaneck, NJ Human/Nature: Green, Black and Blue Experts Panel (in conjunction with a gallery exhibit) The Climate Change Imperative - no longer an "inconvenient" truth Presentations and discussion with Drew University Professor of Economics & Environmental Studies, Fred Curtis , who will provide informative introductions and lead discussions during our film series in January and February, and Marc Sussman , endorsed presenter for Al Gore's Climate Project and host/producer of The Money Message, a nationally syndicated progressive financial talk radio show about green investing heard on the Air America network and XM Satellite Radio. 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It's commercial (provided by a private company with ad-based revenues), but not terribly obnoxious. It makes it easier for people to keep track, and communicate with, others. Facebook provides its users with tools that allow to control how much of themselves they wish to expose to others. As those of us who use it notice, it is fairly efficient and complements regular e-mail very nicely while providing a much fuller sense of communication. In a phrase, it makes horizontal cooperation among URPE members easier. And that's the whole point, since URPE's goals can best be accomplished through broader cooperation among its members. Most young people I know are already Facebook users. Less young people seem to have more reservations. It's not my intention to advocate for Facebook here. So, I'd just like to let everyone know that, if she/he is already on Facebook or is inclined to join it, check out and join URPE's group. If you join the group, please feel *entirely free* to -- at your convenience -- add content and use the tools available to communicate, share information, etc. The more active the group becomes, the more useful will become to us all. To join Facebook, go to www.facebook.com and once you have a profile, plug "URPE" on the search box and you'll be able to join the group with a click. The idea of the blog (http://urpe.wordpress.com) is to provide another chanel for URPE members to communicate their ideas to other URPE members and to the rest of the world. Any URPE member can become a blogger, help administer the blog, etc. If you already blog and would like to have your personal blog linked on URPE's blog, you can plug the link yourself or, if you prefer, you can e-mail it to me, and I'll do it for you. You may also post on your personal blog and on URPE's blog at once. Aside from the restriction that the person plugging content in the blog be a URPE member, the only other requirement is that the content plugged be reasonably consistent (something that we should interpret broadly and generously) with URPE's general goals: http://www.urpe.org/about/abouthome.html It's clear that at the moment the blog's functionality, look and feel, etc. are rather basic, if not primitive. Please do not let that keep you from using it to its max. If the blog takes off and we need to make it better, we'll cross that bridge as we get to it. For now, please blog your soul away! If you need help to set up your blog account or to post your thoughts on the blog, please contact me directly and I'll be glad to assist you: juliohuato at gmail.com These are exciting times for the left, and we need to have a sense of urgency in presenting our ideas to the rest of the world. Comradely, Julio Huato Brooklyn, NY From randy.albelda at umb.edu Tue Jan 13 08:42:30 2009 From: randy.albelda at umb.edu (Randy Albelda) Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 10:42:30 -0500 Subject: [URPE] Call for joint URPE/IAFFE papers at ASSA 2010, Jan 3-5 Atlanta Message-ID: <496CB666.806@umb.edu> Call for Papers - Annual Meeting Atlanta, Georgia January 3-5, 2010 Joint URPE/IAFFE sessions using feminist and radical political economy approaches Once again, URPE (Union of Radical Political Economics) and IAFFE (International Association for Feminist Economics) plan to co-sponsor up to three sessions at the ASSA annual meeting in 2010. I will be coordinating these for IAFFE and working closely with URPE panel coordinators for the ASSAs (Fred Moseley and Laurie Nisonoff) and IAFFE panel coordinator (and president-elect) Eudine Barriteau. I welcome proposals on feminist and radical political economic theory and applied analysis. One of the panels will focus on papers which address the gendered, racial and class impacts of the economic crisis. The other two will be based on the topics of proposals received. The number of panels allocated to heterodox organizations is very limited. The joint IAFFE/URPE panels are allocated to URPE. Please note that anyone who presents a paper must be a member of URPE or IAFFE at the time of submission of the paper or panel proposal. Preference will be given to presenters who are members of both organizations. Proposals for individual papers should include the title, the abstract, and the author's name, institutional affiliation, phone, email and the completed URPE registration form (included below). I will also need to know about your (and any co-authors) membership status in URPE and/or IAFFE. Please send these proposals materials to randy.albelda at umb.edu. Proposals for complete sessions are possible. If you want to propose a panel, please contact me at randy.albelda at umb.edu. If you are interested in/willing to be a chair or discussant, please let me know. The deadline for proposed papers for joint URPE/IAFFE panels is April 13, 2009. Contact urpe at labornet.org or 413-577-0806 for URPE membership. Contact iaffe.org for IAFFE membership information. We will confirm membership prior to accepting proposals. URPE is very serious about this and will cancel panels in which any members (besides chairs or discussants) are not URPE or IAFFE members. Please note that the date, time, and location of sessions is assigned by ASSA, not URPE or IAFFE. You should receive word from me that your paper/session was accepted by mid-June. ASSA will not assign dates and times until much later in the summer. Regards, Randy Albelda PROGRAM REGISTRATION FORM URPE AT ASSA/ Atlanta January 3-5, 2010 Please fill out this form for each panel participant. For submission to joint URPE/IAFFE panels, please include this form with you proposal submission and send to randy.albelda at umb.edu. 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 currently paid URPE member: -- Randy Albelda Professor of Economics University of Massachusetts Boston Boston, MA 02125 617-287-6963 randy.albelda at umb.edu From urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu Tue Jan 13 13:25:22 2009 From: urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu (urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu) Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:25:22 -0500 Subject: [URPE] [NYC] Brecht Forum: Outside the Blues/ Diabetic Dramas/Latin America Message-ID: <496CF8B2.6090109@lists.econ.utah.edu> PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY Brecht Forum Outside the Blues/ Diabetic Dramas/Latin America Click here to check out the Brecht Forum's new ECONOMY WATCH webpage for left analyses of the global financial crisis. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Friday, January 16 7:30 pm BILINGUAL FORUM Introducci?n a la Permacultura/ Introduction to Permaculture Eric & Marikler Gir?n Toensmeier More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Saturday, January 17 7:30 pm Outside the Blues a Forum & Concert Considering New Uses of an Old Language More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thursday, January 22 7:30 pm Indigenous Peoples' Mobilizations in 3 Andean Countries Forest Hylton, Mario Murillo & Gerardo Renique During the past months Indigenous Peoples in Latin America have again occupied center stage in the struggle for democratic rights and defense of national resources and autonomy... More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Friday, January 23 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm WORKSHOP Diabetic Dramas Robbie McCauley Award-winning actress Robbie McCauley returns to the Brecht Forum to lead a series of workshops called "Diabetic Dramas" based on subject matter from her performance piece, Sugar, which looks at everything there is to see about sugar, from slavery to colonialism to American mythologies to diabetes... More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sunday, January 25 5:00 pm - 9:00 pm Afro-Latino Cafe Join us on occasional Sundays for music and dance from some of the many Afro-Latino communities in the New York region.... 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The fictitious capital circulating within the financial sector is thereby affecting also the so-called ?real? economy. In fact, as modern circuit theory shows, monetary circuits concern economic magnitudes that have both a real and a financial dimension, in so far as they are the result of the monetization by banks of a past, present, or future production activity. The emergence of finance-led capitalism, however, changed the monetary circuit landscape: a purely nominal flow of money, deprived of any actual or forthcoming real assets (wealth), can be issued by banks as well as by the ?shadow banking system? that has been generated by the two-decade long series of ever complex financial engineering practices, such as securitization, as well as by financial institution deregulation. The rising importance of ?financialization? has raised concern that for every monetary unit linked to production, a dozen or far more units of money are issued and circulated in purely financial transactions that have no real stuff behind them (now and then). The purpose of this special issue of the European Journal of Economic and Social Systems is to bring together a selected collection of high-quality theoretical and empirical papers devoted to studying and explaining the causes and consequences of the 2008 economic and financial crisis referring to the conceptual apparatus of the modern theory of the monetary circuit, also known as the monetary theory of production, which takes stock of Keynes?s ?entrepreneur, or wage, economy,? and considers, in light of Wicksell and Schumpeter, the importance of banks (and their credit lines) for economic activity and development in any money-using economies. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: ? stock-and-flow analyses of finance-led capitalism with emphasis on the finance sector ? the emergence and development of a shadow financial system beyond the banking system ? the rise and fall of banks as providers of advances to finance production and consumption ? the re-emergence of banks? core business as a result of the 2008 global financial crisis ? the roles of central banks in the payments industry and in financial crises management ? population aging, pension funds, monetary policy, and financial stability issues at stake ? conflicts between short-term (fictitious) financial capital and long-term (real) fixed capital ? global imbalances as a result of the lack of international settlements and a world currency Submission procedure A PDF file containing a completed draft or an extended abstract (800?1200 words) should be e-mailed to lprochon at laurentian.ca and to sergio.rossi at unifr.ch by 28 February 2009. Every submitted paper will be blind reviewed by (at least) two referees and by both Guest Editors. Abstracts should contain JEL classification codes. The authors? full name, affiliation, address, phone/fax, and e-mail for correspondence should also be indicated. An entire paper may be submitted, when available, but it must include an abstract and the relevant JEL codes. Accepted papers will have to be formatted by their authors according to the EJESS house style (relevant information will be provided by the Guest Editors to those authors whose proposal is accepted by 30 March 2009). Proposals and full papers may be either in English or in French, as the EJESS is a bilingual journal (http://ejess.revuesonline.com/revues/34/EJESS_07.pdf). A paper submission implies that the paper has not been, or will not be, published elsewhere, and that it is not currently being refereed for another publication in the same language. Notification to authors Authors will be notified via e-mail about the acceptance of their proposals by 30 March 2009. Completed drafts of the full paper are due by 29 June 2009. Authors will be given two months after the refereeing process is completed to finalize their papers for publication, respecting the EJESS (house-style) guidelines that they will receive with the initial editorial decision. Timetable and important deadlines Deadline Production process 28 Feb 2009 Submission of extended abstracts (800 to 1200 words) to the Guest Editors 30 Mar 2009 Initial editorial decision and communication on accepted paper proposals 29 Jun 2009 Submission of full papers (7000 to 8000 words) to the Guest Editors 31 Aug 2009 Authors receive (at least two) referee reports and Guest Editors? comments 31 Oct 2009 Submission of revised papers by their authors to the Guest Editors 31 Dec 2009 Publication date From leefs at UMKC.EDU Thu Jan 15 15:49:09 2009 From: leefs at UMKC.EDU (Lee, Frederic) Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 16:49:09 -0600 Subject: [URPE] [UMKCLEE-URPE] Heterodox Economics Newsletter - 75 Message-ID: <9A72753A447165498D6B63479DB2E7C905C6F078@KC-MSX3.kc.umkc.edu> Heterodox Economics Newsletter www.heterodoxnews.com Issue 75: January 15, 2008 From al.campbell at utah.edu Fri Jan 16 18:29:41 2009 From: al.campbell at utah.edu (Al Campbell) Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 18:29:41 -0700 Subject: [URPE] Prograssive Economists Statement Message-ID: <6E235B78FF0F2642A2F6F6FF3AD5E006EE7686@CAMPUSV3.xds.umail.utah.edu> Dear URPE members and friends, As many of you know, there was a large meeting in December at the Schwartz Center in New York of economists from across the wide progressive spectrum, to try to work out a common progressive proposal for a response to our serious current economic problems and the connected existing financial structure. This statement has now been edited and published on the Web at the PERI web site, www.peri.umass.edu . There are two documents there. There is a shorter "Principles For Economic Recovery And Financial Reconstruction From Progressive Economists." There is longer document with more concrete details "Progressive Program for Economic Recovery and Financial Reconstruction." I want to encourage as strongly as I can all URPE members and friends to read these collective efforts by US progressive economists. Then for those of you that find you agree with their general content, I want to encourage you to do two things: 1) sign on in support of the document at the third link that is provided with the other two link, and 2) use the documents in your teaching and activist work, and let others know of their existence. I also would be interested in knowing if anyone is fundamentally NOT in agreement with the documents (and of course why), from a left perspective. If that is the case, and if we can get such a person to the URPE summer conference in August, I think we could have an excellent debate on how progressive economists should move forward in responding to this economic crisis, the biggest and in addition most structurally threatening to the status quo (and therefore, hopefully, the biggest opportunity for fundamental change) that any of us have seen in our lifetimes. In solidarity, Al Campbell (Al at economics.utah.edu) -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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The petition proposes action: * To ensure that jobs created are accessible by women as well as youth, minorities and the poor; * To ensure that the job creation initiative includes social services and community upgrading, alongside infrastructure development, technology and green jobs; * To ensure that all proposed projects are designed, evaluated and monitored from the standpoint of their employment impact; * To set up consultative mechanisms which involve civil society, women's organizations, trade unions and employers' associations; and * To provide a forum for sharing international experiences on public job creation. The petition is posted on www.economistsforfullemployment.org . Petition to support and contribute to the design and implementation of the Job Creation initiative, part of the economic stimulus plan proposed by the Incoming Administration of President-elect Obama Sponsored by: Economists for Full Employment Network PETITION LETTER POSTED ON JANUARY 10, 2009 AT http://www.economistsforfullemployment.org (EFE) President-elect Obama and his incoming administration have announced an ambitious and visionary plan for job creation through infrastructure investments, green jobs and technology development. We applaud this initiative. Yet, in addition to these proposed areas of job creation, there are vast numbers of hidden vacancies in social care and community development desperately needed and waiting to be filled. Furthermore, unused and underutilized labor resources can and should be mobilized in ways that promote equitable employment opportunities for women, youth and minorities while improving life in our communities. Making the best use of public funds will require consultations with civil society and careful selection of projects for maximum direct employment impact and for indirect benefits through economic and social revival in our communities. Many Economists, joined by other concerned Social Scientists, Policy Makers and Development Practitioners, have signed the petition already (see below). Join us in encouraging Congress and the in-coming U.S. Administration to ensure that the promise of job creation is kept for all of society and that community upgrading is at the heart of the job creation initiative. HELP US PUT THE ISSUE ON THE POLICY AGENDA! Best Regards, Rania Antonopoulos, The Levy Economics Institute of Bard College, Research Scholar; Economists for Full Employment Network (EFE), Principle Coordinator Steven K. Miller, International Labour Office (retired); New School University, Global Program International Affairs; Economists for Full Employment (EFE), Co-coordinator 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 "Routledge 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 ----- To be removed from this mailing list, please send an email message to the address leefs at umkc.edu asking to be removed from this list. Problems or questions should be directed to sullivanmw at umkc.edu. &*TO; -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 18793 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/urpe-announcements/attachments/20090116/56cbecaa/attachment.txt From sanha926 at gmail.com Sun Jan 18 11:58:56 2009 From: sanha926 at gmail.com (Sandy Hager) Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2009 13:58:56 -0500 Subject: [URPE] CfP - The Financial Crisis: Responses and Implications in Europe Message-ID: <9e12b9b50901181058w6ab34be2y6505200536b6b405@mail.gmail.com> Critical Political Economy RN at the ESA conference, Lisbon, 2-5 September 2009 The financial crisis: Responses and implications in Europe Europe is experiencing its most serious financial crisis since the Great Depression. The response of the EU and member states to this crisis has been paradoxical. The crisis has discredited the 'Anglo-American' model of finance-led capitalism and gravely weakened the American imperium. Yet, the countries of Europe have been unable either individually or collectively to devise a concerted regional solution to the crisis. The result has been rising unemployment, the intensification of intra-regional disparities, signs of inter-state rivalries and is likely to result in growing poverty. Notwithstanding the deployment of massive resources to failing banks, the EU and member states continue to pursue the main planks of the neoliberal agenda, including labour market reforms, privatisation, and financialisation. This session seeks to address the prospects for a European alternative to U.S.-led neoliberalism. Addressing the theme of this conference, we aim to consider to what extent does the current crisis unite or divide Europe and prospective allies in the world order, and what are its implications for the European project of integration. We invite papers which consider at least one of the following: ? Limits and contradictions of the mode of development currently in crisis, which may enable us to understand the current conjuncture. ? The problem of translating intellectual criticism into policy prescription or alternative strategies ? The political consequences of the crisis, its implication for political strategies pursued in relation to the 'European model' as well as to the regulatory frameworks on national and sub-national levels ? The issue of contemporary social and political mobilization and attendant effects on the 'limits of the possible'. Abstracts should be submitted by 26 February 2009 (online submission form: view Call for Abstracts button at http://www.esa9thconference.com) More information on CPE RN: http://criticalpoliticaleconomy.blogspot.com/ From mccabem9 at student.wpunj.edu Mon Jan 19 13:29:37 2009 From: mccabem9 at student.wpunj.edu (McCabe, Michael [mccabem9]) Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 15:29:37 -0500 Subject: [URPE] Nat'l Radical Youth & Student Activist Conference (NYC: 2/27-3/1, 2009) Message-ID: <3523C5E334DC0B4BBBD41E731B7D8C47FE29DE@venus.stu.campus.wpunj.edu> THE YOUNG DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISTS PRESENTS: BEYOND THE BALLOT: MAKING THE MOVEMENT MATTER Dates: Friday, February 27 - Sunday, March 1 http://www.ydsusa.org/news/beyond-the-ballot-2009 * Register here: http://www.dsausa.org/yds/Feb2009/confreg.html * Travel Subsidies Application Deadline is February 1st! (see registration page for application) * Register before February 24th and save $10. The deadline for requesting travel subsidies is February 1st. The deadline for requesting housing is February 15th. Location: Academy of Environmental Science; 410 East 100 Street, in Manhattan's Spanish Harlem in New York City For directions: http://www.ydsusa.org/news/directions-to-the-academy-of-environmental-science For a list of affordable hostels: http://www.ydsusa.org/news/hostels-2009 For The Facebook event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=43782462860 For Fundraising tips: http://www.ydsusa.org/news/tips-on-conference-economizing.html POLITICAL CONTEXT Progressive social movements need to capitalize on the energy and excitement aroused by the Obama victory. Simultaneously, as the economic crisis worsens, students and aspiring students need to be especially wary of cuts to education budgets. We must offer "critical support" to the Obama administration and begin pressuring him to enact policies that benefit America's youth and working-class majority. The Left helped to propel Obama into the White House; therefore, we should not allow him to appease corporations, conservatives and neoliberals in the name of "bi-partisanship." Our task is to build the social movements that will pull him to the left and ensure that he lives up to his promise of "change we can believe in." As Barack Obama begins his tenure as leader of our country we must remind him that young people overwhelmingly voted for Obama. Obama captured two-thirds of under-30 voters - a nine point increase from what 2004 Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry received. Now is the time to reap the fruits of our labor. Please join our discussion about how to continue the trend of progressive victories. Let's make the most of this political crossroad! FEATURED SPEAKERS Workshops and panels will feature organizers and trainers from the anti-racist, feminist, youth, queer rights, labor union, green, and peace movements, as well as noted activist scholars and voices from the democratic left. Full program is still being developed, but the preliminary list of speakers includes: Amy Goodman, is a syndicated columnist, author and the host and executive producer of Democracy Now!, a national, daily, independent, award-winning news program airing on 700 radio and television stations in North America. Time Magazine named Democracy Now! its "Pick of the Podcasts." Goodman has written three books with her brother, journalist David Goodman. The latest is the NY Times bestseller Standing Up to the Madness: Ordinary Heroes in Extraordinary Times. Their two previous books are also New York Times bestsellers Static: Government Liars, Media Cheerleaders, and the People Who Fight Back, and The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media That Love Them. Independent bookstores chose it as the #1 political book of the 2004 election season. Bill Fletcher Jr., longtime trade union activist. Former president of TransAfrica Forum, former co-chair of United for Peace and Justice, founder of the Black Radical Congress, and former Education Director of the AFL-CIO. He is also co-author (with Fernando Gapasin) of the book on the crisis of organized labor, Solidarity Divided. Member of Democratic Socialists of America, YDS's parent organization. Frances Fox Piven, is widely recognized as one of America's most thoughtful and provocative commentators on America's social welfare system. In the 1960s, Piven worked with welfare-rights groups to expand benefits; in the eighties and nineties she campaigned relentlessly against welfare cutbacks. A veteran of the war on poverty and subsequent welfare-rights protests both in New York City and on the national stage, she has been instrumental in formulating the theoretical underpinnings of those movements. She currently teaches at the Graduate School of the City University of New York, author of The War at Home: The Domestic Costs of Bush's Militarism, Poor People's Movements, Why Americans Don't Vote, and The New Class War, and is an Honorary Chair of the Democratic Socialists of America. Jeffrey J. Williams, has analyzed the fate of higher education, especially the near-complete corporatization of universities and the growth of student debt. He also writes on contemporary criticism and other literary topics. His work has appeared in more popular as well as academic venues, such as the Voice Literary Supplement, Dissent, American Literary History, and College English. He is one of the editors of the textbook The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism, and he is editor of the literary and critical journal, the Minnesota Review. He is currently a professor of Literary and Cultural Studies at Carnegie Mellon University. Liza Featherstone, is the author of Selling Women Short: The Landmark Battle for Workers' Rights at Wal-Mart, and co-author, with United Students Against Sweatshops, of Students Against Sweatshops. Featherstone is a contributing writer to The Nation magazine, where she writes about labor and social justice issues. Her writing also appears in Slate, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Newsday, Columbia Journalism Review, Salon, Left Business Observer, and Dissent, and many other publications. Featherstone teaches in the Union Semester program at CUNY's Murphy Institute for Labor Studies, as well as in the political science department at the CUNY Graduate Center and in the Journalism School at New York University. Christine Kelly, is a professor, author and longtime activist. She teaches political science at William Paterson University and her specialties include social and political theory, social movements and youth politics. She is the author of numerous articles and review essays which have appeared in journals like New Political Science, Logos, and New Politics. Her first book Tangled Up in Red White and Blue: New Social Movements in America is now being followed by Chimes of Freedom: Student Protest and the Changing American University (Rowman & Littlefield), due out the end of 2009. Christian Parenti, is the author of The Freedom: Shadows and Hallucinations in Occupied Iraq (New Press) and a former visiting fellow at CUNY's Center for Place, Culture and Politics. His articles and ground-breaking reporting regularly appear in The Nation magazine and in several other progressive publications. Parenti is the author of numerous other books including, The Soft Cage: Surveillance in America from Slavery to the War on Terror and Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis. Stephen Eric Bronner, distinguished Professor of Political Science and Comparative Literature at Rutgers University and author of the new book: Peace Out of Reach: Middle Eastern Travels and the Search for Reconciliation. His other works include Blood in the Sand: Imperial Fantasies, Right-Wing Ambitions, and The Erosion of American Democracy, and Socialism Unbound. He is the Senior Editor of Logos: A Journal of Modern Society and Culture. Member of Democratic Socialists of America. Joseph Schwartz, Chair, Department of Political Science, Temple University and Chair of Steering Committee of the Democratic Socialists of America and Vice Chair of Democratic Socialists of America. Schwartz is the author of the recently released book, The Future of Democratic Equality. Corey D. B. Walker, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at Brown University, author of the forthcoming book, Between Transcendence and History: Theology, Critical Theory, and the Politics of Liberation. He is a member of the National Political Committee of the Democratic Socialists of America. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Performers TBA More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Wednesday, January 21 7:30 pm Indigenous Peoples' Mobilizations in 3 Andean Countries Forest Hylton, Mario Murillo & Gerardo Renique During the past months Indigenous Peoples in Latin America have again occupied center stage in the struggle for democratic rights and defense of national resources and autonomy... More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thursday, January 22 7:30 pm Building the Solidarity Economy in the Northeast US Visions, Practices & Strategies Pasqualino Colombaro, Michael Menser & Nancy Romer More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Friday, January 23 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm WORKSHOP Diabetic Dramas Robbie McCauley Award-winning actress Robbie McCauley returns to the Brecht Forum to lead a series of workshops called "Diabetic Dramas" based on subject matter from her performance piece, Sugar, which looks at everything there is to see about sugar, from slavery to colonialism to American mythologies to diabetes... More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sunday, January 25 5:00 pm - 9:00 pm Afro-Latino Cafe Join us on occasional Sundays for music and dance from some of the many Afro-Latino communities in the New York region.... More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monday, January 26 7:30 pm FILM SCREENING & DISCUSSION Marat/Sade The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade Discussion with Michael Lardner & Members of the "Revolutions" Class Adapted from the 1963 play by Peter Weiss, Marat/Sade is almost entirely a "play within a play." Set in the historical Charenton Asylum, now d?H?pital Esquirol, the main story takes place on July 13, 1808, after the French Revolution; the play directed by de Sade within the story takes place during the Revolution... More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tuesday, January 27 7:30 pm FILM & DISCUSSION The Internet is Serious Business The Internet has become an essential tool for political activism, education, employment and more, but half the city lacks a cable or DSL connection. Those of us who are online don't really understand what happens to our message when we hit send... More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thursday, January 29 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm Exhibit Opening Our Flesh of Flames Collages by Theodore A. Harris with Captions by Amiri Baraka More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Saturday, January 31 10:00 am - 5:00 pm 2-DAY WORKSHOP BEGINS Forum Theater The American Dream Facilitated by Marie-Claire Picher More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Saturday, January 31 9:00 pm NEUES KABARETT Carl Maguire & Floriculture with Stephanie Griffin, John Hebert, Oscar Noriega, Dan Weiss More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monday, February 02 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm 4-DAY INTENSIVE FOR ACTIVIST YOUTH BEGINS Black Resistance History Facilitated by Sam Anderson More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monday, February 02 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm 6-SESSION CLASS BEGINS The Grundrisse Bill DiFazio More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monday, February 02 7:30 pm FILM SCREENING & DISCUSSION Burn! Discussion with Michael Lardner Jeremy Glick & Members of the "Revolutions" Class A Caribbean island in the mid-1800s. Slaves on vast Portuguese sugar plantations are ready to turn their misery into rebellion - and the British are ready to provide the spark... More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monday, February 02 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm WORKSHOP & STUDY GROUP Part II- 12 SESSIONS Revolutions Part 2. The Haitian Revolution Michael Lardner with Others TBA A compelling series has been issued by Verso Books titled Revolutions. It is a series concerning works that ?took center-stage during a period of revolution, incendiary words that roused populations to insurrection. Major contemporary radical writers introduce each book, discovering that the words still have the power to inspire, to provoke and maybe to ignite new revolutions....? More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tuesday, February 03 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm 8-SESSION CLASS BEGINS Capitalism?s Crisis A Marxian Analysis Richard Wolff We will focus on (1) why capitalism finds itself in so profound a global crisis, (2) why currently favored ?solutions? ? bailouts, infrastructure investment, and re-regulating corporations ? offer little change or hope, and (3) why alternative solutions make more sense. More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tuesday, February 03 7:30 pm 6-SESSION CLASS BEGINS Consensus Mechanics: Decision-making as Change Autumn Brown Consensus Mechanics is a study of Consensus Decision-making as a revolutionary and liberating tradition. Participants will learn the practical skills and tools that make Consensus work - including Active Listening, Co/Facilitation, Agenda Planning, and Mediation - through discussion, storytelling, games, and role plays. More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Wednesday, February 04 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm 8 SESSION CLASS BEGINS Anarchism & Communism Russell Dale Anarchism and communism are, historically, the two main wings of the socialist movement... More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Wednesday, February 04 7:30 pm BOOK PARTY / FORUM Hubert Harrison The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918 Jeff Perry Hubert Harrison was an immensely skilled writer, orator, educator, critic, and political activist who, more than any other political leader of his era, combined class consciousness and anti-white-supremacist race consciousness into a coherent political radicalism... More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thursday, February 05 7:30 pm SLIDESHOW & DISCUSSION Ecovillages Where They Are, What They're Doing, Why They're Important Diana Leafe Christian With over 400 photos, this presentation shows how ecovillages worldwide integrate ecological, economic, and social/cultural/spiritual sustainability and will look at how ecovillages manifest permaculture design, natural building, off-grid power alternative technology, and sustainable agriculture... More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Saturday, February 07 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm WORKSHOP Diabetic Dramas Robbie McCauley Award-winning actress Robbie McCauley returns to the Brecht Forum to lead a series of workshops called "Diabetic Dramas" based on subject matter from her performance piece, Sugar, which looks at everything there is to see about sugar, from slavery to colonialism to American mythologies to diabetes... More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sunday, February 08 11:00 am - 4:00 pm Co-sponsor: Go to Health!, Heal the Healer Facilitated by Kira-Laura Ferrand Our inability to adapt to stress causes hypertension, ulcers, gastric disorders, sleep and sexual dysfunction, anxiety, and both endocrine and general central nervous system overload... More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sunday, February 08 5:00 pm - 9:00 pm Afro-Latino Cafe Join us on occasional Sundays for music and dance from some of the many Afro-Latino communities in the New York region. More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Brecht Forum logo The Brecht Forum Needs Your Support! 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Link www.uni-service.it/economia a.hermann at libero.it Best greetings, Arturo Hermann From programs at populareconomics.org Thu Jan 22 13:59:00 2009 From: programs at populareconomics.org (Emily Kawano) Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 15:59:00 -0500 Subject: [URPE] Forum on the Solidarity Economy - workshop proposal deadline Message-ID: <4986fb200901221259x72f1587bm58258352a9cb2fec@mail.gmail.com> Just a reminder that the deadline for workshop proposals is tomorrow, Friday, Jan 23rd. If you need a little more time, let me know. I'll be out of the office until Monday. Best, Emily Please circulate as widely as possible. Thanks! The U.S. Solidarity Economy Network invites you to the first national *Forum on the Solidarity Economy: * *Building Another World* March 19-22, 2009 w Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst Co-convened with Universidad de los Andes (Venezuela) & RIPESS-N.A. (Intercontinental Social Solidarity Network-N. America) The first U.S. Forum on the Solidarity Economy aims to bring together a diverse array of people and organizations to share ideas and practices, to forge new connections, and to build a more powerful and cohesive movement for a just, democratic and sustainable economy. This four day conference will include an inspiring range of solidarity economy tours, workshops, plenaries and cultural events. We invite solidarity economy practitioners and resource organizations, social movement activists, workers, academics, students, researchers, cultural workers, journalists and other fellow travelers, to come and be part of the growing global movement to build 'another economy' and 'another world'. *What is the solidarity economy? * The Solidarity Economy (SE) is an alternative framework for economic development that is grounded in principles of solidarity, equity in all dimensions, participatory democracy, sustainability and pluralism. The solidarity economy framework seeks transformation rather than band-aid solutions, yet rejects one-size-fits-all blueprints. It isn't abstract theory nor pie in the sky utopianism. Rather, it pulls together and builds upon the many elements of the solidarity economy that already exist. Some are new innovations, some are old. Other elements have yet to be realized or even imagined, and the journey of creation is ongoing. *Growing Movement* A vibrant movement for another economy is growing in the U.S. and around the world. People are working together to build an economy that is grounded in principles of social solidarity, cooperation, egalitarianism, sustainability and economic democracy. Indeed, we need not build a new economy from scratch; the seeds of a robust solidarity economy are already planted. Many features of existing economies are likely 'keepers', for example, environmental protections, minimum wage and labor regulations and public education. Other elements of the solidarity economy could be characterized as 'economic alternatives' such as worker, consumer and housing cooperatives, land trusts, social currencies, community supported agriculture, social investment funds, participatory budgeting, green technologies, and the commons movement. Solidarity economy practices are also powerfully rooted in social and economic justice movements that are organizing against the oppression of women, people of color, poor people, people with disabilities, workers, immigrants, indigenous peoples and against the destruction of the planet. Taken together, all of these elements offer stepping stones toward a new way of organizing our economy that social movements around the world are calling the "solidarity economy." There is a growing global movement to advance this framework as an alternative to the failed model of *neoliberal,*[1]corporate-dominated globalization. While some elements of the solidarity economy have existed for hundreds of years, the framework itself is young and still evolving. Defining the solidarity economy is an ongoing process of practice, research, reflection, discussion, and debate, and we look forward to engaging with all of you with open minds and spirits. *Why a Forum on the Solidarity Economy* We face today an historic opening to create and push for a new framework for social and economic development ? one that puts people and planet before private profits and power. There are serious cracks in the ruling model of economic globalization that we call *neoliberalism*. Its policies that privilege big corporations and Wall Street have contributed very generously to the crisis that we currently face: a world sliding into a serious economic downturn, greased by a teetering financial system, an obscene divide between rich and poor, deepening poverty, growing unemployment, rising food and energy prices, and climate change. Its global promoters - the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the World Trade Organization are dogged by protesters and beleaguered by criticism from outside and inside their ranks. In Brazil, Venezuela, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, Ecuador, and Bolivia, left-leaning governments have been swept to power under the banner of anti-neoliberalism. Ironically, the global penetration of neoliberalism has created conditions of misery and poverty that are fueling the growth of the solidarity economy. In the midst of growing inequality and corporate power, government cutbacks, privatization and de-regulation, many people and communities are building pieces of the solidarity economy. These may be acts of resistance, idealism, practicality, survival or desperation. In Brazil and Venezuela[2] the government and grassroots are working together to foster the social solidarity economy with remarkable success. In the context of the current economic crisis and the possible death throes of neoliberalism, we have an opportunity to push for a fundamental transformation in our economic and social system, one in which the very assumptions about 'what the economy is for' are challenged and transformed. Is the economy about maximizing profits and growth, producing and consuming ever more and more, and a rising stock market? Or should it be about people, our communities, connecting with family, friends, neighbors, kindred spirits and fellow humans; decent healthcare, jobs, education, and a healthy environment; opportunities to realize the best of our human potential; and the ability to have a say in how we achieve all of this? The solidarity economy is a global movement to push for the latter kind of economy.[3] While the U.S. has many solidarity economy practices and institutions, the term itself is almost unknown in this country. This Forum on the Solidarity Economy seeks to remedy that. In the midst of what has been called the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, it is time to build the solidarity economy in the U.S and link up with the global movement for economic and social transformation. The Forum will be a space to meet, network, learn, discuss, debate, share, strategize, tour the local solidarity economy, celebrate and join the movement. *Aims of the Forum * 1) Raise awareness and understanding of the solidarity economy among the general public, practitioners, support organizations, labor, academics, and social movements. 2) Strengthen cross-national linkages between all social solidarity economy sectors, practitioners, academics, and social movements. This includes strengthening linkages through RIPESS (see co-convenors below) and its continental networks. 3) Build up the U.S. Solidarity Economy Network and strengthen linkages between all solidarity economy sectors in this country. 4) Identify concrete strategies to advance the solidarity economy and where possible lay the groundwork for implementation. 5) Celebrate the solidarity economy. 6) Publish a book of the conference proceedings. 7) Publish a special issue of the *Cayapa* (Venezuelan journal on the social solidarity economy) focusing on the social solidarity economy in the U.S. 8) Seed a cross-national research working group on the social solidarity economy. *Co-conveners* The U.S. Solidarity Economy Network (SEN) has convened this Forum as the first such conference on the solidarity economy in the U.S. SEN emerged out of a series of solidarity economy meetings at the U.S. Social Forum in June 2007. This Forum will be our inaugural meeting and we have interspersed several SEN organizational meetings in the schedule where we will make key decisions about structure, strategy and priorities. These meetings are open to anyone and we welcome input from all, although only members will be allowed to vote. Individuals and organizations will be able to join SEN at the Forum. We are delighted that the Universidad de los Andes in Venezuela is working with us to convene this Forum. It just so happened that they were planning a conference in the U.S., focusing on the social solidarity economy in both the U.S. and Venezuela around the same time that we were planning to have ours. It made sense to combine the conferences and work together. Venezuela is engaged in some of the most innovative and wide-reaching initiatives to build the solidarity economy, in large part due to the serious support of the Venezuelan government. At the same time, we want to be clear that this is one model among many, and while tremendously important and inspiring, it is not the only path. We are also happy to have RIPESS (Intercontinental Network for the Promotion of the Social Solidarity Economy) on board. This global network of networks connects solidarity economy networks that exist in North and South America, Europe, Asia and Africa. RIPESS was instrumental in SEN's founding meetings at the U.S. Social Forum, and brings to this conference great knowledge, experience, and international connections regarding the solidarity economy. RIPESS will be having its Fourth International Forum on the Solidarity Economy in April 2009 in Luxemburg. We plan to organize a delegation from the U.S. to attend the Luxemburg conference and will dovetail this effort with the organizing and outreach for our Forum. *Forum Participation* The program will kick off on Thursday March 19 with a tour of the solidarity economy in the Pioneer Valley. The rest of the program will include plenaries, concurrent workshops, and cultural events. We are working hard to integrate a process in which participants get to meet each other, brainstorm and strategize. Our hope is that people will take away some concrete next steps. We currently have 10 broad tracks for workshops. Workshops can be cross listed under multiple tracks. 1) Solidarity based finance, complementary currency 2) Commons movement, social welfare programs, housing 3) Solidarity based production, jobs, labor, unions 4) Solidarity based distribution, marketing, consumption 5) Solidarity Economy (SE) & the environment, sustainability, climate change 6) SE & food sovereignty, food security, agricultural sustainability 7) SE & democratic participation/ local economies 8) SE research, measurement, collaborations 9) SE networking, organizing & social movements 10) Housing, land and community If you are interested in organizing a workshop, please send in your Registration and Workshop Proposal Formby *Jan. 23rd*. We will try to accommodate as many proposals as possible while maintaining a balance in terms of what (issue), who (race, class, gender, age, academic, SE practitioner, SE support organization, activist), and where (geographical base). * * *Support the Forum on the Solidarity Economy **Co-sponsorship*: Support the Forum on the Solidarity Economy by co-sponsoring the event. This means including your organization's name in our materials, providing a sliding scale contribution and helping with outreach. For more details, see FSE Co-sponsorship . *Buy an ad: *Support the Forum by taking out an ad in the FSE Program Booklet. For rates and deadlines, see FSE ads . *Join us! * *Mark your calendars! Save the date! Spread the word!* Another world is possible and the foundation exists all around us. Come and build the solidarity economy together. For more information or to get involved in a working group, please contact: Emily Kawano, Coordinator, U.S. Solidarity Economy Network, www.ussen.org, 413-545-0743, emily at populareconomics.org U.S. Solidarity Economy Network Coordinating Committee Carl Davidson, Global Studies Association, N. America Tanya Dawkins, Global-Local Links Jessica Gordon Nembhard, Eastern Conference for Workplace Democracy Melissa Hoover & John Parker, U.S. Federation of Worker Coops Emily Kawano, Director, U.S. SEN & Center for Popular Economics Julie Matthaei & Jenna Allard, Guramylay: Building the Green Economy Michael Menser, Amer. Fed. of Teachers, City Univ., NW Ethan Miller, Grassroots Economic Organizing Cliff Rosenthal & Dan Apfel, National Federation of Community Development Credit Unions Neelam Sharma, Community Services Unlimited Dan Swinney & Erica Swinney, Center for Labor and Community Research Elandria Williams, Highlander Research & Education Center ------------------------------ [1]Neoliberalism is currently the dominant global economic model which favors the corporate and financial elite by pushing for an agenda of privatization, de-regulation, lower taxes, 'free' trade and markets, and minimal government. [2] In Venezuela the term "social economy" is often used instead of "solidarity economy" to refer to transformative economic institutions and organizing efforts. In other countries, most notably Canada and the E.U., "social economy" refers to enterprises with a social aims and doesn't necessarily embrace broad economic transformation. [3] More information about the solidarity economy framework, including articles and in-depth papers, can be found in SEN's Resource Library at http://www.ussen/node/resource_library -- Emily Kawano Exec. Dir., Center for Popular Economics 413-545-0743 -- Emily Kawano Exec. Dir., Center for Popular Economics 413-545-0743 -- Emily Kawano Exec. Dir., Center for Popular Economics 413-545-0743 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Set in the historical Charenton Asylum, now d?H?pital Esquirol, the main story takes place on July 13, 1808, after the French Revolution; the play directed by de Sade within the story takes place during the Revolution... More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tuesday, January 27 7:30 pm FILM & DISCUSSION The Internet is Serious Business The Internet has become an essential tool for political activism, education, employment and more, but half the city lacks a cable or DSL connection. Those of us who are online don't really understand what happens to our message when we hit send... More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Wednesday, January 28 7:30 pm - 10:00 pm Biggie, Brooklyn & the World Conversations on the NOTORIOUS B.I.G. Harry Allen, Anika Lani Haynes & Michael Partis More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thursday, January 29 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm Exhibit Opening Our Flesh of Flames Collages by Theodore A. Harris with Captions by Amiri Baraka More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Friday, January 30 7:30 pm A Radical Party? Is Now the Time? 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Discussion with Michael Lardner Jeremy Glick & Members of the "Revolutions" Class A Caribbean island in the mid-1800s. Slaves on vast Portuguese sugar plantations are ready to turn their misery into rebellion - and the British are ready to provide the spark... More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monday, February 02 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm WORKSHOP & STUDY GROUP Part II- 12 SESSIONS Revolutions Part 2. The Haitian Revolution Michael Lardner with Others TBA A compelling series has been issued by Verso Books titled Revolutions. It is a series concerning works that ?took center-stage during a period of revolution, incendiary words that roused populations to insurrection. Major contemporary radical writers introduce each book, discovering that the words still have the power to inspire, to provoke and maybe to ignite new revolutions....? More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tuesday, February 03 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm 8-SESSION CLASS BEGINS Capitalism?s Crisis A Marxian Analysis Richard Wolff We will focus on (1) why capitalism finds itself in so profound a global crisis, (2) why currently favored ?solutions? ? bailouts, infrastructure investment, and re-regulating corporations ? offer little change or hope, and (3) why alternative solutions make more sense. More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tuesday, February 03 7:30 pm 6-SESSION CLASS BEGINS Consensus Mechanics: Decision-making as Change Autumn Brown Consensus Mechanics is a study of Consensus Decision-making as a revolutionary and liberating tradition. Participants will learn the practical skills and tools that make Consensus work - including Active Listening, Co/Facilitation, Agenda Planning, and Mediation - through discussion, storytelling, games, and role plays. 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More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thursday, February 05 7:30 pm SLIDESHOW & DISCUSSION Ecovillages Where They Are, What They're Doing, Why They're Important Diana Leafe Christian With over 400 photos, this presentation shows how ecovillages worldwide integrate ecological, economic, and social/cultural/spiritual sustainability and will look at how ecovillages manifest permaculture design, natural building, off-grid power alternative technology, and sustainable agriculture... More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Saturday, February 07 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm WORKSHOP Diabetic Dramas Robbie McCauley Award-winning actress Robbie McCauley returns to the Brecht Forum to lead a series of workshops called "Diabetic Dramas" based on subject matter from her performance piece, Sugar, which looks at everything there is to see about sugar, from slavery to colonialism to American mythologies to diabetes... 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To see the current list of those who have signed on, please visit http://www.americanprogressaction.org/issues/2009/stimulus_letter.html. Pleae note that we need a reply by the end of today. Please let Luke Reidenbach (lreidenbach at americanprogress.org) know if you would like to sign on. Please include your full name, job title and affiliation, and city and state. Please feel free to pass this on to your colleagues. Thank you! ------------------------------------------------------------ We the undersigned encourage Congress to quickly pass the Economic Recovery and Reinvestment Act and stem the tide of rising joblessness. The United States is in a recession that threatens to be deep and protracted. Each month, employers are shedding hundreds of thousands of jobs. To stop the hemorrhaging of jobs and pull the economy back from the edge, policymakers must act quickly and decisively. A critical needed action is significant fiscal stimulus specifically designed to boost employment and economic growth. To this end, Congress and the new Administration have put together an economic recovery plan of unprecedented scope and size. The $825 billion Economic Recovery and Reinvestment Act is of the scale and breadth necessary to begin tackling the mounting problems faced by our economy. The plan proposes important investments that can start to overcome the nation's damaging loss of jobs by saving or creating millions of jobs and put the United States back onto a sustainable long-term growth path. We do not have the luxury of a lengthy debate over the best course of action. This legislation may not be enough to solve all the economy's problems, but it is urgently needed and an important step in the right direction. ------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 4438 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/urpe-announcements/attachments/20090126/9e1565b2/attachment.txt From abasole at econs.umass.edu Mon Jan 26 17:59:32 2009 From: abasole at econs.umass.edu (Amit Basole) Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 19:59:32 -0500 Subject: [URPE] Announcing: Challenge of Eurocentrism and World Peace Congress Message-ID: <1233017972.497e5c740a44a@mail-www.oit.umass.edu> Dear Colleagues I would like to inform you of two items of interest; a forthcoming book from Palgrave, The Challenge of Eurocentrism, and a meeting, the Second World Peace Congress to be held in Bangalore, India (Feb 27-Mar 1, 2009). Please see detailed announcements below. Regards, Amit Basole Forthcoming (May 2009) from Palgrave Macmillan: The Challenge of Eurocentrism: Global Perspectives, Policy and Prospects Edited by Rajani Kannepalli Kanth This volume brings several leading scholars as well as new voices together to offer a comprehensive critique of, and alternatives to Eurocentrism and Modernism in received theory. In his two most recent books, Breaking with the Enlightenment and Against Eurocentrism, Rajani K. Kanth has developed a comprehensive and transcendent critique of Eurocentrism thereby deepening and enlarging the scope of the term as well as of its critique. In the present volume he assembles a team of 13 authors drawn from Economics, Philosophy, Mathematics, Political Science, Sociology and Cultural Studies. The volume is organized in three parts. Part One "Received Theory, Science and Eurocentrism" challanges Eurocentrism in the History of Mathematics and Science and in Economic Theory. Part Two "Perspectives on Africa and South and East Asia" take on the problem of Eurocentrism in Economic Development. Part Three "Perspectives on West Asia, the Americas, and the West" reflect on American and European History, on Cultural Bongage as well as Pan-African and Afro-Asian alternatives and critiques. Kanth himself contributes an Introduction, a chapter, as well as a Postface that outline his current thinking on the issue. The other contributors are Arun Bala, Amit Basole, Rajesh Bhattacharya, Ravi Batra, Firat Demir, Mat Forstater, John Hobson, Nick Hostettler, George Joseph, Fadhel Kaboub, Kho Tung-yi, Rajiv Malhotra and Ali Mazrui. Many of the chapters are modified versions of paperrs presented at a Festschrift celebration of the Life and Work of Rajani Kannepalli Kanth, a Special Event held at the Chicago Meetings of the American Economics Association, in 2007. _________________________________________________________________________________________ Annoucement: The Second World Peace Congress, February 27- March 1st, Bangalore, India. Website: http://www.worldpeacecongress2008.net/ The first World Peace Congress, held in Salt Lake City, Utah, from August 24-26, 2007, began with the Agenda of fostering dialog that transcended boundaries of Geography, Gender, Ideology, Ethnicity, Language, Philosophy, Religion, Culture, and Politics (see www.congress2007.net for more information). It assembled over 40 distinguished panelists from all across the globe and different walks of life and duly completed its set task of drafting Key Resolutions across Three Days of intense deliberations that would provide the future basis for moving forward in its Quest of Peace. Congress 2008/09, slated for February 27- March 1, 2009, and to be held in Bangalore, India, is its destined follow-through. Once again thhe Congress will bring together scholars, activists, artists, people from different walks of life committed to the goal of Peace, and will attempt to embody, in concrete, Grassroots Projects , scattered worldwide, the Resolutions proffered by Congress 2007. The Objective of this set of Meetings is to set up an Institutional basis for co-respective and co-operative Peace between Peoples, unmediated by state, government, or politics, understood in their traditional sense. The Final Goal of these efforts is equally clear: to achieve, as a binding precept, the Universal Renunciation of War as a means/end of Social and Political Policy, now and forever. Congress 2008/09 welcomes all those who share such a Vision to join us in helping enshrine this Idea via Dialog, Discussion and Conversation, now and in the future. For more information on participating in Congress 08/09 please write to worldpeacecongress at gmail.com. -- Amit Basole Department of Economics Thompson Hall University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA 01003 Phone: 413-665-2463 http://www.people.umass.edu/abasole/ blog: http://www.mehr-e-niimroz.org/ From urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu Thu Jan 29 18:13:34 2009 From: urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu (urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu) Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 20:13:34 -0500 Subject: [URPE] [NYC] Brecht Forum: A Radical Party? Is Now the Time? at Brecht Forum Friday, January 30 7:30 Message-ID: <4982543E.2030602@lists.econ.utah.edu> Reminder..................... the Brecht Forum: 451 West Street (between Bank & Bethune Streets, New York, NY 10014 Phone: (212) 242-4201 - Email: brechtforum at brechtforum.org Friday, January 30 7:30 pm A Radical Party? Is Now the Time? Members of the 15th Street Manifesto Group & Others TBA Motivated by the current cultural, economic and political crisis facing all of us, a gathering of leftist intellectuals founded the 15th Street Manifesto Group (Stanley Aronowitz, Rick Wolff, William DiFazio, Harriet Fraad and Michael Pelias). The Group has created and circulated a Manifesto for a Left Turn which calls for a new radical political formation. Written in the spirit of manifestoes of the lefrist past, it engages the current situation, how we arrived at this conjuncture, and sets tasks to be done. Join the 15th Street Manifesto Group for an evening of ideas of how to overcome the inertia of left political organization, i.e. lack of a radical political party. They welcome your critiques, your perspectives, and want you to engage in serious discussion and action toward building an alternative future which will confront the politics of the audacity of hype and the absurdity of hope. Sliding scale: $6/$10/$15 Free for Brecht Forum Subscribers ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ A Good Credit Score is 700 or Above. See yours in just 2 easy steps! -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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But conventional accounts of the crisis, focused on the role of subprime mortgage lending, complex mortgage-backed securities, derivatives, "shadow" banking, deleveraging, and widespread fraud leaves the deeper structural issues of capital accumulation, class relations, and systemic evolution out of the picture. How should the current crisis be understood in light of Marxist theoretical conceptions of capitalist dynamics? The current economic collapse has brought forth many questions. Is the ongoing crisis an event that is bringing about a new phase of capitalism? Will the crisis, and the responses to it, shift or disperse the geographic foci of capitalism? How do current theories of accumulation and the stages of capitalism hold up under recent events? How will the crisis affect the globalization of capitalist power; will it reinforce or damage it? What specific role will the state play in attempting to preserve capitalist accumulation? Is a new round of nationalization and decommodification on the agenda? If so, how extensive is this likely to be? What are the probable effects of the crisis, and of governmental responses to the crisis, on the working and living conditions of workers and on their political self-organization? How will women and minorities be affected? What is the future of relations among different sectors of the international working class, particularly between richer and poorer countries? As financial markets recoil, what direction will the economy take when a system that appeared to be invulnerable has failed? What will be the policy direction of the new rising economic powers, in particular the BRIC countries? What can be said about the current potential for revolutionary change? How will the recent attempts at social change in Latin America weather the international crisis? What are the consequences of the crisis for imperialism? Environmental crisis and capitalist accumulation are intertwined; in what new ways must existing theories of capitalist dynamics be altered to understand environmental degradation along with economic crisis? Science & Society encourages a diversity of views, and we do not expect any sort of convergence to settled conclusions. We are, however, hoping to focus on fundamental aspects of capital accumulation and crises in 21st-century capitalism from a Marxist standpoint, rather than on current developments and reportage belonging in publications that appear more frequently. Papers should not exceed 4,500 words in length. We will ask contributors to comment on each other?s work, with eventual responses to the comments, in what will emerge as a dialog format. The deadline for the first-round papers is September 1, 2009. The Guest Editors for the issue are Dr. Julio Huato (Department of Economics, St. Francis College), and Dr. Justin Holt (The Gallatin School, New York University), both of whom are members of the Science & Society Editorial Board. Potential contributors should contact, and contributions sent directly to, the Guest Editors at juliohuato at gmail.com, and jh129 at nyu.edu. From leefs at UMKC.EDU Sat Jan 31 10:34:06 2009 From: leefs at UMKC.EDU (Lee, Frederic) Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 11:34:06 -0600 Subject: [URPE] [UMKCLEE-URPE] heterodox economics newsletter 76 Message-ID: <9A72753A447165498D6B63479DB2E7C905E0F75E@KC-MSX3.kc.umkc.edu> Heterodox Economics Newsletter http://www.heterodoxnews.com Issue 76: January 30, 2009 From soapbox at comcast.net Sun Feb 1 11:13:29 2009 From: soapbox at comcast.net (Ruth Indeck) Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2009 13:13:29 -0500 Subject: [URPE] Left Forum Panel Submission Deadline Extended to End of February Message-ID: <4985E649.9000508@comcast.net> Dear URPE members, The organizers of the Left Forum, having acquired more space, are once again extending the deadline for submission of panels to the end of February. The Left Forum will take place at Pace University (NYC, near City Hall) April 17-19, 2009. The theme is "Turning Points." See the following page on the URPE website for information about submitting panels: http://urpe.org/conf/lf/call09.html Also see the Left Forum website: http://www.leftforum.org/ From Bhkramer at aol.com Wed Feb 4 17:59:10 2009 From: Bhkramer at aol.com (Bhkramer at aol.com) Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 19:59:10 EST Subject: [URPE] data and source Message-ID: Folks, I know that almost none of the activity on the stock market (in normal times) is new investment, but have no idea where that info is from, or what the % actually is. Anyone have a source (and a %)? thanks, Brent Kramer ************** Great Deals on Dell Laptops. Starting at $499. (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100000075x1217883258x1201191827/aol?redir=http://ad. doubleclick.net/clk;211531132;33070124;e) -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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In support of the university?s strategic plan priority to ?promote a culturally diverse and inclusive university community,? the fellowship program will contribute to this priority by inviting post doctoral (and terminally degreed?e.g., MFA) and doctoral candidates who have completed their coursework, comprehensive exams, and other requirements and are in the dissertation writing phase. Candidates must have defended the dissertation proposal. Doctoral or other terminal degree candidates will be invited to the university for 9 months. Post doctoral candidates are invited for 9 months, with opportunity for renewal. Participants may be considered for tenure- track faculty positions as appropriate. Program goals are to: * Establish relationships with scholars from other institutions, with the goal of enhancing relationships between other scholars and faculty, staff, and students at UT Arlington. * Support and enhance the campus climate of diversity and inclusion. * Increase the number of role models for students from underrepresented minority groups in particular and majority groups as well. * Identify potential candidates for tenure-track faculty positions. Eligibility The fellowship programs are open to all areas of study (see www.uta.edu). U.S. citizens or permanent residents from underrepresented minority groups who meet the following criteria may apply: * Graduate students in the final year of their dissertation or completion of their terminal degree. * Postdoctoral students or terminally degreed students (e.g., MFA) who have completed their dissertation or terminal degree between July 31, 2008 and July 31, 2009. * Professionals transitioning to academic careers having appropriate credentials (e.g., PhD, MFA, or other appropriate terminal degrees). Awards Beginning in the Fall 2009, UT Arlington will award three in-residence fellowships. The duration of the dissertation fellowships is through May 2010. Postdoctoral fellowships run from the fall of 2009-2010 through May 2010, but are renewable. Stipends and Allowances Fellows will receive an annual stipend of $30,000 USD and a research allowance of $2,000 USD. The university will also provide a medical and dental benefits package. Application Procedure 1. A fellowship application (which would include a personal statement and reason for applying to UT Arlington). 2. A curriculum vitae. 3. An official transcript from institution granting terminal degree. 4. Statement of research goals. 5. Three letters of reference from individuals familiar with applicant?s scholarly or creative work. 6. Submission of one of the following: * defended dissertation proposal (doctoral students who have not yet defended the dissertation) * statement of how the applicant?s professional experience prepares her or him for a faculty position (for professionals entering academe after a period of receiving terminal degree). Deadlines All materials must be received by February 15, 2009. Applicants will be notified of decisions by March 31, 2009 and commitments must be made by April 30, 2009. Incomplete applications will not be reviewed. Materials will not be returned. 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It assembled over 40 distinguished panelists from all across the globe and different walks of life and duly completed its set task of drafting Key Resolutions across Three Days of intense deliberations that would provide the future basis for moving forward in its Quest of Peace. Congress 2008/09, slated for February 27- March 1, 2009, and to be held in Bangalore, India, is its destined follow-through. Once again the Congress will bring together scholars, activists, artists, people from different walks of life committed to the goal of Peace, and will attempt to embody, in concrete, Grassroots Projects , scattered worldwide, the Resolutions proffered by Congress 2007. The Objective of this set of Meetings is to set up an Institutional basis for co-respective and co-operative Peace between Peoples, unmediated by state, government, or politics, understood in their traditional sense. The Final Goal of these efforts is equally clear: to achieve, as a binding precept, the Universal Renunciation of War as a means/end of Social and Political Policy, now and forever. Congress 2008/09 welcomes all those who share such a Vision to join us in helping enshrine this Idea via Dialog, Discussion and Conversation, now and in the future. For more information on participating in Congress 08/09 please write to worldpeacecongress at gmail.com ----- To be removed from this mailing list, please send an email message to the address leefs at umkc.edu asking to be removed from this list. Problems or questions should be directed to sullivanmw at umkc.edu. &*TO; -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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It is a series concerning works that ?EURoetook center-stage during a period of revolution, incendiary words that roused populations to insurrection. Major contemporary radical writers introduce each book, discovering that the words still have the power to inspire, to provoke and maybe to ignite new revolutions....?EUR? More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monday, February 02 7:30 pm FILM SCREENING & DISCUSSION Burn! Discussion with Michael Lardner Jeremy Glick & Members of the "Revolutions" Class A Caribbean island in the mid-1800s. Slaves on vast Portuguese sugar plantations are ready to turn their misery into rebellion - and the British are ready to provide the spark... More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tuesday, February 03 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm 8-SESSION CLASS BEGINS Capitalism?EUR^(TM)s Crisis A Marxian Analysis Richard Wolff We will focus on (1) why capitalism finds itself in so profound a global crisis, (2) why currently favored ?EURoesolutions?EUR? ?EUR" bailouts, infrastructure investment, and re-regulating corporations ?EUR" offer little change or hope, and (3) why alternative solutions make more sense... More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tuesday, February 03 7:30 pm 6-SESSION CLASS BEGINS Consensus Mechanics: Decision-making as Change Autumn Brown Consensus Mechanics is a study of Consensus Decision-making as a revolutionary and liberating tradition. 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More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sunday, February 08 11:00 am - 4:00 pm Co-sponsor: Go to Health!, Heal the Healer Facilitated by Kira-Laura Ferrand Our inability to adapt to stress causes hypertension, ulcers, gastric disorders, sleep and sexual dysfunction, anxiety, and both endocrine and general central nervous system overload... More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sunday, February 08 5:00 pm - 9:00 pm Afro-Latino Cafe Join us on occasional Sundays for music and dance from some of the many Afro-Latino communities in the New York region. More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monday, February 09 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm 8-SESSION CLASS BEGINS Beginning Spanish Marisol Ruiz More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monday, February 09 7:00 pm BOOK PARTY & DISCUSSION Halliburton's Army How a Well-Connected Texas Oil Company Revolutionized the Way America Makes War Pratap Chatterjee The New York launch of muckraker Pratap Chatterjee's brilliant expose of Halliburton, the Texas oil company that transformed how America wages war... More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tuesday, February 10 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm 8-SESSION CLASS BEGINS Intermediate Spanish Jose Rosa More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Wednesday, February 11 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm 3-SESSION CLASS BEGINS The New Deal and the Left of the 1930s 1. 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More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sunday, February 22 5:00 pm - 9:00 pm Afro-Latino Cafe Join us on occasional Sundays for music and dance from some of the many Afro-Latino communities in the New York region... 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... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 27421 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/urpe-announcements/attachments/20090204/e90859e1/attachment.txt -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... 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Those clients and the investment banks are willing to buy the new shares hat provide money to the issuing company only because they think they can resell the shares through public stock markets. Once the transactions appear on the stock exchanges, the company issuing the shares are already out of the loop - they have received money for their business activity from the shares already sold through the investment bank, which when they are resold on the stock markets generate revenues to those who purchased the shares originally. I hope tis clarifies matters. best Michael Bhkramer at aol.com Sent by: urpe-announcement To s-bounces at lists.e urpe-announcements at lists.econ.utah. con.utah.edu edu cc 02/04/09 10:17 PM Subject [URPE] data and source Folks, I know that almost none of the activity on the stock market (in normal times) is new investment, but have no idea where that info is from, or what the % actually is. Anyone have a source (and a %)? thanks, Brent Kramer ************** Great Deals on Dell Laptops. Starting at $499. ( http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100000075x1217883258x1201191827/aol?redir=http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;211531132;33070124;e )_______________________________________________ This is the listserve of the Union for Radical Political Economics, an interdisciplinary association devoted to the study, development and application of radical political economic analysis to social problems. This is a moderated announcement-only listserve. Messages will be kept to a minimum. The content of announcements must be strongly related to radical political economics, i.e. jobs, conferences, talks, classes, resources. Please submit messages exactly as you would like them to go out (spelling, etc.). Messages will go out in plain text. Do not include attachments. 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This position offers an unusual opportunity to join a dynamic team of workers and others organizing for improved working conditions in the nation's largest private sector industry. Background: Founded initially after September 11th, 2001 by workers displaced from the World Trade Center tragedy, Restaurant Opportunities Centers United is a national restaurant workers' organization with affiliates in New York, Chicago, Detroit, New Orleans, Maine, and Miami, and soon to include even more. ROC engages in campaigns against high-profile exploitative restaurant companies while simultaneously promoting good employers and conducting research and policy work to lift conditions industry-wide. Each local ROC affiliate a worker-led membership organization conducting local restaurant industry research in a participatory manner, which serves as the basis for local policy efforts. At the national level, ROC-United is supporting this local research and compiling it into national findings, to serve as the basis for federal policy efforts. Our current federal policy campaign is a campaign to increase the minimum wage for tipped workers, currently $2.13 at the federal level. The Position: The Research Coordinator will support local research efforts around the country and collapse them for national research. Responsibilities will include: 1 Supporting local research efforts: : ? Collating and analyzing government data on local restaurant industry ? Coordinating the input of surveys (500 for each affiliate) and analyzing the results ? Coordinating the input of employer and worker interview data and analyzing the results ? Coordinating the development of report outlines with each local affiliate ? Coordinating the writing of the local affiliates' reports on their restaurant industry ? Training the local affiliate to conduct future research 2 Conducting national research: ? Collating and analyzing government data on national restaurant industry ? Collapsing survey data from around the country ? Analyzing the economics of low-wage service industries, drawing on government data, academic research and industry trade press ? Summarizing the state of economic research on the restaurant industry ? Authoring research reports and policy papers 3 Developing public education and media materials for campaigns 4 Representing ROC at coalition meetings and community events, and taking the lead on one or more local New York campaigns 5 Coordinating with external researchers that are collaborating with ROC 6 Contributing to grant proposal writing, project reporting, newsletters and drafting of web materials Qualifications: The candidate should have a master?s degree or higher in economics, industrial relations, sociology or public policy, and a very strong grounding in labor market policy and low-wage and immigrant worker rights. Additional qualifications are: Required: 1 Excellent analytic and research skills, including: ? Experience manipulating and analyzing web-based labor market and industry data ? Ability to implement a research agenda to help the development of new policy models or support existing campaigns ? Knowledge of applied statistics and actual experience with primary data analysis using standard statistical software packages 2 Excellent writing skills 3 Ability to supervise and coordinate the work of others Preferred, But Not Required: 4 Experience working with grassroots organizations 5 Fluency in another language 6 Experience conducting qualitative research and synthesizing multiple data types into a coherent analysis 7 Strong oral communication skills and ability to make public presentations The Research Coordinator will join a national team of three organizers, plus staff at each of the local affiliates, most of whom are former restaurant workers. The position starts immediately. Salary: We offer a salary and benefits package competitive with those of other leading non-profit employers in New York City. Applications: Please send (a) cover letter, (b) resume, (c) the names and telephone numbers of three references, and (d) three writing samples which illustrate ability to present empirical research and dissect public policy debates to: saru at rocunited.org, with "Research Coordinator job opening" in the subject line. Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis until the position is filled. Restaurant Opportunities Center is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer and actively recruits people of color, women, persons with disabilities, and lesbians and gay men. -- <<<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>> Bruce Pietrykowski, Ph.D. Professor of Economics Director, Urban and Regional Studies Program Department of Social Sciences University of Michigan-Dearborn Dearborn, MI 48128 Midwest Regional Director, Association for Social Economics Editorial Board Member, Review of Social Economy Editorial Board Member, Review of Radical Political Economics Editorial Board member, Journal of Transport History 313-593-9970 313-593-5096 From ksheeran at ecotrust.org Fri Feb 6 11:07:22 2009 From: ksheeran at ecotrust.org (Kristen Sheeran) Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2009 10:07:22 -0800 Subject: [URPE] Internship Program for Heterodox Grad Students in Economics Message-ID: <46CB75777B3BD047A4C175E9E47D34D0616C654C@Pony.ecotrust.org> ________________________________________ From: Kristen Sheeran Sent: Friday, February 06, 2009 9:42 AM To: e3network Subject: Internship Program for Grad Students in Economics Can you please forward to the list. Thanks, Kristen Economics for Equity and the Environment Network (E3) is inviting applications to its summer graduate student internship program. E3 Network is a national network of economists developing and applying new arguments for environmental protection. Economists in our network emphasize social equity in their research. Our goals are to 1) to improve economic research on equity and the environment; and 2) to involve economists more pro-actively in environmental policy debates, through dialogue and cooperation with environmental advocates, decision makers, and the media. For more information about E3 Network, please visit our website at www.e3network.org. Every summer, E3 Network pays for graduate students in economics to work with non-governmental organizations on environmental issues during the summer months. NGOs benefit from the expertise of the interns' training in economics and gain a better appreciation for the role economics can play in environmental protection. Graduate students gain insights into the real world issues confronting the environmental community and explore possible avenues for their research and professional development. Past interns have been placed with the Natural Resources Defense Council, International Rivers Network, Union of Concerned Scientists, Clean Air-Cool Planet, New Voice for Business, Environmental Law and Policy Center, the Global Development and Environment Institute, as well as others. We anticipate that this year's stipend will be $5000 for 8 weeks of full-time work. You can meet out past interns and learn about their exciting summer projects at http://www.e3network.org/internship.php. The deadline for applications is March 15, 2009. Graduate students who are interested in applying should send the following materials via email to Kristen Sheeran, director of E3 Network (director at e3network.org) by the deadline. Curriculum vita One letter of reference A two-page statement of your research interests and how they relate to E3 Network's mission. Kristen Sheeran Ph.D. Executive Director Economics for Equity and the Environment Network a program of Ecotrust 721 NW Ninth Avenue, Portland, OR 97209 T (503) 467.0811| F (503) 222.1517 | www.e3network.org From osobabrj at mail.ccsu.edu Fri Feb 6 20:19:11 2009 From: osobabrj at mail.ccsu.edu (Osoba, Brian (Economics)) Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2009 22:19:11 -0500 Subject: [URPE] Suggestions on Resources for Microeconomics and LGBT Issues? Message-ID: <00B6876B29ADFC478B2C3872822787B3BB647C@EXCHANGE2.facstaff.ccsu.edu> Dear Colleagues, I am teaching a principles of microeconomics course this semester that intends to relate the subject matter to diverse groups of people. While I have readings and web-based multimedia resources dealing with many diverse groups, I am lacking resources that relate to LGBT individuals. I am writing to see if anyone can suggest resources related to both principles of micro content and LGBT issues. Syllabi for specialized courses (e.g., gender and economics, etc.) have led me to many rather long readings on LGBT topics (e.g., workplace discrimination, etc.). However, since the course is not really listed as a specialty course - it's just the standard baby micro "infused" with diversity - I need to be careful to keep the ancillary content relatively short and manageable. I am specifically looking for resources like the following: 1) Relatively brief web videos (60 minutes or less) like those produced by Frontline World 2) Relatively brief podcasts 3) Written stories (e.g., newspaper, magazine, blog, etc.) that are less than 1000 words (+/-) 4) Sub-sections of longer articles, book chapters, etc. that can be extracted and understood without the adjacent text The best resources will be personal LGBT stories with content that can be related to basic micro topics. 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More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tuesday, February 10 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm 8-SESSION CLASS BEGINS Intermediate Spanish Jose Rosa More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Wednesday, February 11 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm 8-SESSION CLASS BEGINS Advanced Spanish Marisol Ruiz More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Wednesday, February 11 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm 3-SESSION CLASS BEGINS The New Deal and the Left of the 1930s 1. A Critical Survey of the Issues Rust Gilbert As the current economic crisis deepens and threatens to become a full-blown, worldwide depression as deep or deeper than that of the 1930s, there is much talk of a ?New New Deal?... More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Wednesday, February 11 7:30 pm FILM SCREENING & DISCUSSION The Price of Pleasure Pornography, Sexuality and Relationships Discussion with Chyng Sun, Tess Fraad-Wolff & Robert Wosnitzer Once relegated to the margins of society, pornography has become one of the most visible and profitable sectors of the cultural industries in the United States... More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thursday, February 12 7:30 pm Colors of Resistance Collage, Abstraction & African American Art Theodore A. Harris, Geoffrey Jacques & Howardena Pindell The collage emerged at the time of social reproduction of everyday life and has been a primary tool for social activists seeking to subvert the established order of capitalist logic... More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Friday, February 13 7:30 pm - 10:00 pm Resistance in Rhyme Amiri Baraka, Theodore A Harris & Fred Moten. Moderated by Jeremy Glick More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Saturday, February 14 10:00 am - 5:00 pm 2-DAY WORKSHOP BEGINS Cop-in-the-Head: Looking at Internalized Racism A Workshop for People of Color Facilitated by Gail Burton & Kayhan Irani More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Saturday, February 14 7:00 pm - 11:00 pm Revolutionary Love for Revolutionary Singles "Imagine how much easier it would be for us to learn how to love if we began with a shared definition." -bell hooks, ALL ABOUT LOVE More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monday, February 16 7:30 pm Which Way Out of the Crisis of Neoliberalism? Variants of Post-Neoliberal Strategies Ulrich Brand & David Harvey In the last 30 years, neoliberal policies have been implemented in almost every country... More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Wednesday, February 18 7:30 pm BOOK PARTY / FORUM Dignity and Defiance Stories from Bolivia's Challenge to Globalization Melissa Draper, Roberto Fernandez Teran & Jim Shultz More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Friday, February 20 7:00 pm 2-DAY CONFERENCE BEGINS FRIDAY 7:00pm - 9:30pm SATURDAY 10:00am - 6:00pm Money & the Movement Grassroots Fundraising in Times of Economic Crisis Sha Grogan-Brown, Bhairavi Desai, Lucia Leandro Gimeno, Harmony Goldberg, Arun Gupta, Hugh Hogan, Jeanette Lee, Charles Lenchner, Lynn Lewis, Akinlabi E. A. Mackall,Tej Nagaraja, Emily Nepon, Yasmeen Perez, Alexandra Lopez Reitzes, Wanda Salaman, Ben Shepard, Dara Silverman, Christy Thornton, Helena Tubis, Max Uhlenbeck, Manish Vaidya & More Speakers TBA Join us Friday evening for our opening plenary and all day Saturday for a series of exciting discussions and hands-on workshops and skill shares... More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sunday, February 22 5:00 pm - 9:00 pm Afro-Latino Cafe Join us on occasional Sundays for music and dance from some of the many Afro-Latino communities in the New York region... More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Wednesday, February 25 7:30 pm Is Malcolm X Still Relevant Today?: Politics in the Age of Obama Jasmin Young, Lee Bynum and Garrett Felber Join a panel of activists and intellectuals to discuss the legacy of Malcolm X and if he is still relevant in today's society. 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Message-ID: <499062A4.80604@lists.econ.utah.edu> Dear Friends, Please join us for an exciting Black history program at the Brecht Forum, including our art exhibit, Our Flesh of Flames, collages by Theodore A Harris and captions by Amiri Baraka. The Brecht Forum 451 West Street (Between Bank and Bethune) New York, NY 10011 To RSVP: 212-242-4201 or www.brechtforum.org Thursday, February 12 7:30 pm Colors of Resistance Collage, Abstraction & African American Art Theodore A. Harris, Geoffrey Jacques & Howardena Pindell The collage emerged at the time of social reproduction of everyday life and has been a primary tool for social activists seeking to subvert the established order of capitalist logic. As part of the exhibition Our Flesh of Flames, (collages by Theodore A Harris and captions by Amiri Baraka) the Brecht Forum will hold an intriguing discussion with pioneering African American abstract painter Howardena Pinell, collage painter Theodore A Harris and critic Geoffrey Jacques on the history and tensions of abstraction in visual arts as well as current trends in African American arts. Known for the wide variety of techniques and materials used in her artwork, Howardena Pindell has created abstract paintings, collages, "video drawings," and "process art." Her work explores texture, color, structures, and the process of making art; it is often political, addressing the issues of racism, feminism, violence, slavery, and exploitation. She has exhibited her work almost constantly since the 1970s and has held fellowships and appointments at several major institutions, including the Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim Foundation. Pindell is primarily an abstract painter and her mature work has helped to redefine painting since the 1970s. Her work goes beyond paint on canvas to include three-dimensional objects and even mutilated canvases that she stitches roughly back together; she has also created mosaics and murals for public spaces. Pindell has won many awards, including the Women's Caucus for Art award for Distinguished Contributions and Achievements in Arts. Besides being a practicing artist she has worked as an exhibition curator and, since 1979, a teacher at Stony Brook, State University of New York (SUNY). In 1984 she became professor of drawing and painting at Stony Brook. Theodore A. Harris is a poet, muralist and collagist born in New York City and currently residing in Philadelphia, PA. As a muralist he has been painting with the Mural Arts program of Philadelphia since 1983. In addition to being exhibited in one-man and group shows from coast to coast, Harris' work has appeared in numerous publications, including Long Shot, The Hammer, Unity & Struggle, AAR, and the important anthologies Role Call: A Generational Anthology of Social & Political Black Literature and Art and In Defense of Mumia Geoffrey Jacques is a critic whose articles have appeared in Callaloo, NKA and countless other publications. His latest collection of poetry is entitled Just For a Thrill. Sliding scale: $6/$10/$15 Free for Brecht Forum Subscribers Friday, February 13 7:30 pm - 10:00 pm Resistance in Rhyme Amiri Baraka, Theodore A Harris & Fred Moten. Moderated by Jeremy Glick Join us for an historic evening as painter Theodore A Harris (featured artist of Our Flesh and Flames exhibit at the Brecht Forum) is joined by legendary writer and social activist Amiri Baraka and hip hop critic Fred Moten. Baraka and Moten, both collaborators with Harris will read from their respective works and lead a discussion on art and social movements in the 21st century. Amiri Baraka, born in 1934, in Newark, New Jersey, USA, is the author of over 40 books of essays, poems, drama, and music history and criticism, a poet icon and revolutionary political activist who has recited poetry and lectured on cultural and political issues extensively in the USA, the Caribbean, Africa, and Europe. Baraka wrote the captions to the current exhibit Our Flesh of Flames. Theodore A. Harris is a poet, muralist and collagist born in New York City and currently residing in Philadelphia, PA. As a muralist he has been painting with the Mural Arts program of Philadelphia since 1983. In addition to being exhibited in one-man and group shows from coast to coast, Harris' work has appeared in numerous publications, including Long Shot, The Hammer, Unity & Struggle, AAR, and the important anthologies Role Call: A Generational Anthology of Social & Political Black Literature and Art and In Defense of Mumia Fred Moten works at the intersection of black studies, performance studies, poetry and critical theory. He is author of Arkansas (Pressed Wafer Press, 2000), In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition (University of Minnesota Press, 2003), I ran from it but was still in it. (Cusp Press, 2007), Hughson's Tavern (Leon Works, 2008) and of two forthcoming books, B Jenkins (Duke University Press, 2010) and Open Secret: Blackness and the Form of Life (University of Minnesota Press, 2010). Monday February 23rd 7:00 PM Screening: Disappearing Voices: The Decline of Black Radio Wednesday, February 25 7:30 pm Is Malcolm X Still Relevant Today?: Politics in the Age of Obama Jasmin Young, Lee Bynum and Garrett Felber Join a panel of activists and intellectuals to discuss the legacy of Malcolm X and if he is still relevant in today's society. As one of the foremost Black orator, agitator and activist of Black Nationalism, Malcolm's legacy is remembered by many. In the last year of his life, Malcolm attempted to mount a movement based on Human rights, self-determination and community control. For him, integration was not a viable option he believed American capitalism and imperialism were perils of human rights. However, recent developments in our society including the first Black President leads us to question if Malcolm X is still relevant today. 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This will also accommodate the panel organizing activity among students and faculty at Pace where Friday student-faculty (panel based and teach-in style) sessions will feed into the plenary event and the conference as a whole (April 17-19 at Pace University, NYC). This will be one of the most broad-based Forum conferences yet, with: ? theater, music and art, integrated into panel and room sessions ? more panels than ever before ? a Saturday night performance event (with excerpts from the Pace/Actors Studio production of "The Cradle Will Rock") ? a Friday night plenary on turning points in the economy, society, culture and politics with Walden Bello - Focus On the Global South/University of the Philippines, Arlie Hochschild - author of Global Woman?/U.C. Berkeley, Katja Kipping - German Left party and member of Parliament, Adolph Reed (Perils of Obamamania/U. of Penn.), and Richard D. Wolff - Knowledge and Class/U. Mass Amherst Above all, we really would like you to join us to turn your panel ideas from art into artistry. Consider also the absence of cogent?let alone persuasive?alternatives coming out of Washington and the mainstream press as to the nature of our troubling conditions. This may truly be a time when the public is poised for the very type of dialogues that all of us will offer. To submit a panel or room event proposal, go to the website at www.leftforum.org and press the call for panels phrase on the opening page. Thank you, Seth Adler Conference coordinator 212 817-2003 seth at leftforum.org -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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And then go hear some of our great sessions and panels! In solidarity, Pat Duffy Office Manager URPE National Office From al.campbell at utah.edu Tue Feb 10 18:12:10 2009 From: al.campbell at utah.edu (Al Campbell) Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 18:12:10 -0700 Subject: [URPE] Employee Free Choice Act Message-ID: <6E235B78FF0F2642A2F6F6FF3AD5E006010380AE@CAMPUSV3.xds.umail.utah.edu> Dear URPE members, Most of you are very aware of the Employee Free Choice Act, and the upcoming battle there will around getting it passed. Some of you will want materials on it for use in various of your classes or political activity. PERI has just put up a very nice page on it on its web site. You can go to the usual PERI link http://www.peri.umass.edu and you will find a place to click in the left column of the page, or you can go directly to this EFCA page with the address http://www.peri.umass.edu/efca/ . The page has a summary of the Act, the whole Act, and then a lot of material discussing it - scholarly studies, reports, blogs, lots of stuff you could use for a discussion in a class or group. Finally, the page has a link to a very brief, and very interdisciplinary statement (not just economists, thank god), Scholars in Support of the Employee Free Choice Act, that I encourage people to sign on in support of (the page is set up to sign on there). Just to get the URPE polemical juices flowing, I will throw out that I consider this the most important piece of labor legislation since the Taft-Hartley Act (and of course, on the other side of the barricades) (and not just because of the words it includes, but more so because of the social situation that has been unfolding now (and for at least 3 decades, one could make an argument for longer) that this is a response to - OK, that's enough on my opinions) One can also go directly to the sign on page at http://www.peri.umass.edu/sefca/ . 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Theories of socialism and the transition period formulated subsequently by those who claimed to follow Marx (and Engels) often ignored this legacy. Kamran Nayeri will lead a discussion to explore some of these issues historically, theoretically and methodologically with a view to formulating alternatives that build on past lessons of success and failure and speak to the present problems of the world. PRESENTER BIO: Kamran Nayeri joined the socialist movement in 1971 as a way to radically transform his home country and the world. He participated in the Iranian revolution of 1979 and contributed to the movement for a revolutionary socialist alternative. After the consolidation of the Islamic Republic he moved to the US to continue his political work. He has a doctoral degree in economics from New School for Social research and has taught or worked as a researcher at the State University of New York (1982-97), University of California, Berkeley (1997-2006), an the University of California, Office of the President since 2006. His interest includes socialist theory and history, and practice and the theory and history of development. His recent interest is in eco-socialism. From urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu Sat Feb 14 08:07:44 2009 From: urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu (urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu) Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2009 10:07:44 -0500 Subject: [URPE] Rick Wolff's new documentary film on the economic crisis Message-ID: <4996DE40.1000702@lists.econ.utah.edu> Dear Friends, I hope that you may find a new film that I made with the Media Education Foundation (MEF) interesting and useful. Called "Capitalism Hits the Fan," it is aimed at colleges, universities, and also high schools for instructional use, but it can serve other purposes as well. You can get a sense of it at www.capitalismhitsthefan.com . The dvd can be ordered now and will be shipped by month's end. It is also possible to view the full-length version (just under an hour) freely, albeit in low resolution, at the MEF website: http://www.mediaed.org/cgi-bin/commerce.cgi?preadd=action&key=139 . While the institutional prices are high, individuals can order the dvd for $ 19.95. The dvd contains both the full-length version and a shorter 35-minute version. You may be especially interested in the critical analytical approach to explaining the causes of the current crisis, in the critique of Keynesian stimulus-cum-reregulation "solutions," and in the sketch of an alternative solution. Your comments and criticisms would be welcome. 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Message-ID: <20090217132928.e1h262pis80oksks@webmail.sfsu.edu> Dear URPE community, I was wondering if anyone could recommend a book that gives a historical overview of the world economy from at least 1776 to around present. Ideally it would be comprehensive but concisely written. Many thanks, Robin From Bhkramer at aol.com Thu Feb 19 18:34:58 2009 From: Bhkramer at aol.com (Bhkramer at aol.com) Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 20:34:58 EST Subject: [URPE] stock market data (URPE response) Message-ID: Several weeks ago I sent out an appeal for a source for the fact that almost none of the activity on the stock market leads to new investment. A few of you asked to be notified what I found out, so I'm doing that directly, and also sending this to the URPE broadcast list. There were several responses, the most helpful of which was from Jim Stanford of the Canadian Auto Workers (thanks!), and my direct outreach to Doug Henwood got a nice response as well. I still don't have a percentage, but feel quite confident that "almost none" is a fair approximation. Here's what I've gotten: Jim Stanford, Economics for Everyone (2008), pp.218-219: Well over 95 percent of trading on major stock markets simply represents the recycling of already-issued assets. [no source cited] [in Jim?s note to me he pointed out that even if one had the percent of stock market activity that involved new shares, one would still need to figure out what portion of the money raised was going into new capital, as opposed to speculation, paying down debt, or whatever] From dgoldste at allegheny.edu Wed Feb 18 15:16:13 2009 From: dgoldste at allegheny.edu (Don Goldstein) Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 17:16:13 -0500 Subject: [URPE] immigration data Message-ID: <7.0.0.16.2.20090218171319.02328cf8@allegheny.edu> Colleagues, I'm looking for data on employer sanctions (fines) under the 1986 Immigration Reform & Control Act (IRCA). If anyone can point me to where it's available, I would be most appreciative. Thanks, Don Goldstein Professor of Economics Allegheny College Meadville, PA 16335, USA 814-332-3340 From leefs at UMKC.EDU Wed Feb 18 06:59:26 2009 From: leefs at UMKC.EDU (Lee, Frederic) Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 07:59:26 -0600 Subject: [URPE] [UMKCLEE-URPE] Post Keynesian Summer School 2009 -- Deadline for application is 2nd March (i1) Message-ID: <9A72753A447165498D6B63479DB2E7C905EEACCA@KC-MSX3.kc.umkc.edu> S U M M E R S C H O O L 2 0 0 9 C A L L F O R P A R T I C I P A N T S "Keynesian Macroeconomics and European Economic Policies" 2. Summer School of the Research Network Macroeconomics and Macroeconomic Policies 2 - 9 August 2009, Berlin-Pichelssee, Germany Location: IGM-Bildungsstaette *Deadline for application: 2nd March 2009* The summer school aims at providing an introduction to Post-Keynesian economics and to the problems of European economic policies as well as presenting some ongoing research to interested graduate students (MA and PhD) and junior researchers. It will consist of overview lectures, a panel discussion, student study groups and academic papers. Issues of monetary economics, the theory of growth and distribution, and the relation of Post-Keynesian Economics to other heterodox traditions, but also to the now prevalent New Keynesian approach, will be covered as well as applications of Keynesian theory to issues of the current financial market crisis, unemployment, monetary policy and macroeconomic policy coordination in the EU. Preliminary programme: _Lectures_ History and Method of Post-Keynesian Macroeconomics Marc Lavoie, University of Ottawa Money, Credit and Finance Marc Lavoie, University of Ottawa Distribution & Growth Robert A. Blecker, American University, Washington DC Financialisation -- Post-Keynesian Perspectives Eckhard Hein, Berlin School of Economics Labour Market Engelbert Stockhammer, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration Economic Policies in Europe Philip Arestis, University of Cambridge _Academic papers by_ Hansj?rg Herr (Berlin School of Economics), Robert A. Blecker (American University, Washington DC), ?zlem Onaran (Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration), Margit Schratzenstaller (WIFO Vienna), Camille Logeay (Federal Ministry for Labour and Social Affairs, Germany), Torsten Niechoj/Achim Truger (Macroeconomic Policy Institute, Germany), and Philip Arestis (University of Cambridge). _Panel discussion on Financial Instability & Crisis_ with Marc Lavoie, Robert A. Blecker, Philip Arestis, Marica Frangakis, and Till van Treeck (as host) Summer school language is English. There is a fee of ? 250,- for each participant for accommodation and meals. Travelling costs cannot be covered. Application: Send a letter of motivation (max. 2 pages), your CV, the questionnaire (http://www.boeckler.de/pdf/v_2009_08_02-09_questionnaire.pdf) and the address of one academic adviser who may be contacted for reference to mailto:susanne-stoeger at boeckler.de no later than *02nd March, 2009*. Accepted participants will be informed by mid-April and will be provided with a reading package for the Summer School. Programme, questionnaire and updates on the summer school: http://www.boeckler.de/33_94099.html This call in extensive form as PDF (including programme): http://www.boeckler.de/pdf/v_2009_08_02-09_application.pdf More information on the research network: in English: http://www.boeckler.de/91434_36330.html in German: http://www.boeckler.de/62170_62199.html From robchang at sfsu.edu Fri Feb 20 16:43:48 2009 From: robchang at sfsu.edu (Robin Chang) Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 18:43:48 -0500 Subject: [URPE] works on the history of the world economy Message-ID: <20090220184348.odiu0u2348okw4o8@webmail.sfsu.edu> Dear URPE community, Many thanks again to everyone who kindly replied to my query on works on the history of the world economy from around 1776 to present. Below are books people recommended. Sincerely, Robin Abu-Lughod, Janet. Before european hegemony: the world system a.d. 1250 to 1350. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991. Allen, Larry. Global financial system: 1750-2000. Reaktion Books, 2002. Anderson, Perry. Lineages of the absolutist state. London: Verso, 1996. Arrighi, Giovanni. Adam smith in beijing. London: Verso, 2008. Arrighi, Giovanni. The long 20th century. London, Verso, 1994. Bagchi, Amiya Kumar. Perilous passage: mankind and the global ascendancy of capital. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 2005. Braudel, Fernand. The wheels of commerce. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992. Cameron, Rondo. A concise economic history of the world: from paleolithic times to the present, 4th ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. Deane, P.M. The first industrial revolution, 2nd ed. Cambridge University Press, 1980. Dobb, Maurice. Studies in the development of capitalism. Findlay, Ronald. Power and plenty. Princeton University Press, 2007. Forstater , Mathew. Little book of big Ideas: economics. Chicago Review Press, 2007. Frank, Andre. ReOrient. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. Heilbroner, Robert and William Milberg. The making of economic society, 12th ed. Prentice Hall, 2007. Hobsbawm, Eric. The age of capital 1848-1875. New York: Vintage, 1996. Hobsbawm, Eric. The age of empire 1875-1914. New York: Vintage, 1996. Hobsbawm, Eric. The age of revolution 1789-1848. New York: Vintage, 1996. Langlois, Richard N. The dynamics of industrial capitalism. London: Routledge, 2007. Mann, Charles C. 1491: New revelations of the americas before columbus. New York: Vintage Books, 2006. North, Douglass C. Structure and change in economic history. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1981. North, Douglass C. and Robert Paul Thomas. The rise of the western world: a new economic history. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1976. Polanyi, Karl. The great transformation. Beacon Press, 2001. Rider, Christine. An introduction to economic history. South-Western College Publishers, 1994. Stravrianos, Leften. A global history: from prehistory to the 21st century, 7th ed. Prentice Hall, 1998. various authors, Cambridge economic history of europe series Williams, Eric. From columbus to castro: a history of the Caribbean 1492-1969. New York: Vintage, 1984. Zinn, Howard. People's history of the united states: 1492 to present. From urpe at igc.org Fri Feb 20 09:32:39 2009 From: urpe at igc.org (urpe at igc.org) Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 11:32:39 -0500 (GMT-05:00) Subject: [URPE] Eastern Economic Association 2.27 - 3.1 NYC Message-ID: <31726798.1235147560082.JavaMail.root@elwamui-polski.atl.sa.earthlink.net> Check out the great URPE panels and speakers lined up for next weekend's EEA meeting: http://www.urpe.org/conf/eea/eeaurpeprog.html This is a conference well worth coming to. It's at the Sheraton New York, 811 Seventh Ave, @ 53rd St. Also be sure to stop by the URPE / Dollars & Sense table in the exhibit hall. Pat Duffy Office Manager URPE National Office From ianhfletcher at yahoo.com Sat Feb 21 09:30:53 2009 From: ianhfletcher at yahoo.com (Ian Fletcher) Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2009 08:30:53 -0800 Subject: [URPE] Seeking Canadian, Australian and British economists for country-specific editions of new book criticizing free trade Message-ID: <003101c99441$c3cd0c30$4b672490$@com> I am looking for Canadian, Australian, and British economists interested in preparing country-specific editions of my new book criticizing free trade. The edition I have already written is from an American perspective and would need to be adapted. This would be on a co-author basis and compensated accordingly. Best Regards, Ian Fletcher Adjunct Fellow US Business & Industry Council 225 Bush St. Suite 1641 San Francisco, CA 94114 USA 415.439.8377 | 415.358.4320 (fax) | 415.238.8145 (cell) americaneconomicalert.org ian.fletcher at usbic.net -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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With wide-ranging contributions from artists, community organizers, and scholars from around the world, and more scheduled panels and speakers than ever before, the 2009 Left Forum appears poised to contribute to the type of critical dialogues needed at this historical moment. While there is no doubt that the times call for nothing less, we are humbled at the extent of the involvement of people and Left communities from around the region, country and the world. A few of the more than 150 confirmed panels include: * On the Brink of Depression: Turning Point in World Capitalism? Nationalization of the Auto Industry * Childhood, Capitalism and Resistance * Crisis Politics: What Way Forward for Obama? * Afghanistan & the Global Peace Movement * Women, Incarceration and Resistance * Religion & Empire: A Christian-Marxist Dialogue * Black Workers and the Current Economic Crisis * China's Labor Movement: Global Dimensions * Debating Long Term Strategies for "the Left" * Left Psychology Explores US Personal Life * Illustrating Resistance: Art & Activism * The End of the Sexuality & Culture Wars? * Street Children of Tegucigalpa & Wash. Politics * The Debate Over Green Capitalism * Health Care Reform: Building Left Unity Is Critical * Progressive Program for Financial Reconstruction * New School Occupation, New Political Moment? * Systematic Destruction of Poor Black & Latino Families in NYC * State Capitalism - a new, New Deal? * Gay Marriage: Should the Left Care? * Hip Hop and the Left * Gaza - Jews & Arabs Speak Out * Corporate Media's Magic Trick: Disappearance of the Working Class o The Food Democracy Movement A few of the confirmed speakers include: 1. Arlie Hochschild 2. Walden Bello 3. Adolph Reed 4. Richard D. Wolff 5. Barbara Kopple 6. Stanley Aronowitz 7. Frances Fox Piven 8. Gihan Perera 9. Barbara Epstein 10. Bill Fletcher, Jr. 11. Barbara Ransby 12. Katja Kipping 13. Laura Flanders 14. Bobby Seale 15. Jose LaLuz 16. Craig Calhoun 17. Ai-jen Poo 18. Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz 19. Benjamin Chavis 20. Anwar Shaikh 21. Harmony Goldberg 22. Richard Kim 23. Hugo Blanco 24. Sahar Shafqat 25. Robin Blackburn 26. Radhika Balakrishnan 27. Staughton Lynd 28. Sheila Collins 29. Jeff Chang 30. Nomi Prins 31. Leo Panitch 32. Ruth Wilson Gilmore 33. Doug Henwood 34. Houzan Mahmoud 35. Bashir Abu-Manneh 36. Silvia Rivera 37. Cindy Milstein 38. JoAnn Wypijewski 39. Douglas Kellner 40. Mark Solomon 41. Jane Slaughter 42. Marsha Neimier 43. Roger Salerno 44. Laura Whitehorn 45. Brigitte Kahl 46. John Bellamy Foster 47. Michael Menser 48. Ching Kwan Lee 49. Bertell Ollman Among the highlights of the weekend will be a Saturday performance event, including excerpts from "The Cradle Will Rock" by Pace/Actor's Studio, "Letters from Guantanamo," music, dance, and more; a day of student discussions, panels, and roundtables (all of which will precede the opening plenary); and theater, visual art, and film integrated into the panels, hallways, and performance events. Please join us for this extraordinary political moment. To register for the conference go to: __ register for Left Forum 2009 Conference . We look forward to seeing you on the 17th of April, The Volunteers, Staff and Board Members of the Left Forum Left Forum _leftforum at leftforum.org _ __ P.S. for early registration discounts ($45) go to: register for Left Forum 2009 Conference . To volunteer at the conference (and receive a registration discount or waiver/spaces are limited) email us at _volunteer at leftforum.org _ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 34951 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/urpe-announcements/attachments/20090222/64346a30/attachment.txt From robchang at sfsu.edu Sun Feb 22 09:22:56 2009 From: robchang at sfsu.edu (Robin Chang) Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 11:22:56 -0500 Subject: [URPE] additional works on the history of the world economy Message-ID: <20090222112256.jb7mslaagws44wog@webmail.sfsu.edu> Beaud, Michel. History of capitalism, 1500-1980. New York: Monthly Review Press, 2001. Rist, Gilbert. The History of Development, Zed Books, 2009. Sherman, Howard J. How Society Makes Itself. Armonk: M.E. Sharpe, 2005. Wallerstein, Immanuel. The modern world system, volume three. Academic Press, 1988. Wolf, Eric. Europe and the people without history. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982. From urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu Mon Feb 23 16:46:04 2009 From: urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu (urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu) Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:46:04 -0500 Subject: [URPE] Women of Color Resource Center Seeking Economic Justice & Human Rights Program Director Message-ID: <49A3353C.6020103@lists.econ.utah.edu> Economic Justice & Human Rights Program Director Position Open Until Filled The Women of Color Resource Center (WCRC) is looking for a skilled, energetic and resourceful Economic Justice & Human Rights Program Director rooted firmly in economic and racial justice politics, feminist analysis, and social transformation at local, national and international levels. Founded in 1990 and headquartered in Oakland, the Women of Color Resource Center (WCRC) is a national political education and leadership development organization. Its mission is to promote the political, economic, social and cultural wellbeing of women and girls of color in the United States. Informed by a social justice perspective that takes into account the status of women internationally, WCRC is committed to organizing and educating women across lines of race, ethnicity, religion, nationality, class, sexual orientation, physical ability and age. WCRC has embarked on a strategic planning process in 2009, which will culminate in the creation of a 3-5 year plan. The two current projects of the EJHR program include the Welfare Rights Education & Advocacy Project (WREAP), which currently focuses on research and education strategies related to creating a just welfare policy, and the Technological Empowerment and Media Project of Oakland (TEMPO), a skills training and leadership development project for low-income women. Responsibilities: Sustain programmatic components of WREAP & TEMPO projects. Evaluate past work, current context, and provide recommendations for projects going forward. Lead the program redesign and implementation of the overall Economic Justice & Human Rights program work in relationship to strategic planning efforts. Strengthen current partnerships and build new organizational allies. Work closely with Peace & Solidarity Program Director to develop and promote cross-program linkages. Lead and design popular education workshops on economic justice and human rights topics. Write articles, blogs and op/eds that reflect organizational political perspective for broad audiences. Collaborate with Development Director and Executive Director to advance fundraising efforts on behalf of program. Actively participate in organizational assessments, program planning and evaluation processes. Engage in additional staff responsibilities and tasks as needed. Qualifications: Proven commitment to gender, racial, social and economic justice and a strong desire to build a broader social justice movement. Study or training in social movement history, radical political theory, and/or other relevant political development. Strong progressive community experience in development leadership and constituencies among low-income women of color. Policy advocacy and campaign experience to advance programmatic goals. Familiarity with program planning, evaluation and budgeting processes. High level of initiative and ability to work well in collaborations. Solid verbal and written communication skills. Strong computer skills. Personable, approachable and flexible. Salary and hours: This position will be 1.00 FTE with a salary of $39,000-$43,000 annually. Salary will be commensurate with experience. Generous benefits, including vacation, holidays, and health and dental insurance. This staff person should expect to work more than 40 hours per week, at times, as schedule varies depending on the activities of the organization. Occasional flexibility with evenings and weekends required. How to apply: Submit a resume, cover letter, and 3 references to the Search Committee at info at coloredgirls.org. No calls, please. From urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu Tue Feb 24 10:14:05 2009 From: urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu (urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 12:14:05 -0500 Subject: [URPE] [NYC] Brecht Forum: Malcolm X Today/ Neues Kabarett/ Our Flesh of Flames Message-ID: <49A42ADD.7020601@lists.econ.utah.edu> PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY Brecht Forum Malcolm X Today/ Neues Kabarett/ Our Flesh of Flames Click here to check out the Brecht Forum's new *ECONOMY WATCH* webpage for left analyses of the global financial crisis. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Wednesday, February 25 7:30 pm Is Malcolm X Still Relevant Today?: Politics in the Age of Obama Jasmin Young, Lee Bynum and Garrett Felber Join a panel of activists and intellectuals to discuss the legacy of Malcolm X and if he is still relevant in today's society. As one of the foremost Black orator, agitator and activist of Black Nationalism, More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thursday, February 26 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm EXHIBIT CLOSING Our Flesh of Flames Onome Djere & Jeremiah Hosea More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Friday, February 27 8:00 pm DRAMATIC READING Innocents Abroad /Innocents Abroad/ is a new screenplay by Adam Klasfeld based on the Beacon High School's class trip to Cuba in Spring 2005... More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Saturday, February 28 9:00 pm NEUES KABARETT Ned Rothenberg with Mivos Quartet Olivia De Prato, Joshua Modney, Victor Lowrie, Isabel Castellvi More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tuesday, March 03 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm 3-SESSION CLASS BEGINS Antonio Gramsci Revolutionary Strategy & the War of Position Harmony Goldberg More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Wednesday, March 04 7:30 pm AUTHOR MEETS CRITIC BOOK PARTY Critical Theory and Democratic Vision Herbert Marcuse and Recent Liberation Philosophies Arnold Farr with Stephen Eric Bronner, Peter Marcuse & Russell Rockwell More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Friday, March 06 7:30 pm Stigma, Denial & the Power of Concurrency Going Beneath the Surface of HIV Helen Epstein, Lipuo Moteete & Jonny Steinberg with a Musical Performance by the Peace Trio & Special Guests More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Saturday, March 07 10:00 am - 5:00 pm 2-DAY WORKSHOP BEGINS Demasking Stereotypes A Workshop in Healing through Storytelling Facilitated by Potri Ranka Manis More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Saturday, March 07 7:30 pm OPENING RECEPTION Ocean Anna Rising Presents: Refuge and Resistance How do we live at home when it can often be a mortally dangerous space? How do we make and maintain home when it is so often a space of both refuge and resistance? How do we reclaim and celebrate home despite this violence and conflict? Refuge and Resistance is a mixed medium, multimedia installation that documents and imagines our myriad home spaces as we live through ?gendered violence.? It poses these questions and invites the ?observer? to experience and reflect upon the ways that we create safe space within the environment of a violent culture. More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sunday, March 08 4:00 pm - 8:00 pm Afro-Latino Cafe Join us on occasional Sundays for music and dance from some of the many Afro-Latino communities in the New York region... 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Name: Attached Message Part Url: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/urpe-announcements/attachments/20090224/fabef4f0/attachment-0002.txt From soapbox at comcast.net Tue Feb 24 14:46:56 2009 From: soapbox at comcast.net (Ruth Indeck) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:46:56 -0500 Subject: [URPE] Sign-on Letter to Governor Corzine from New Jersey Economists Message-ID: <49A46AD0.4040400@comcast.net> *Please reply with your name and affiliation by Friday, March 6, to either Eva Bonime at eva at njworkingfamilies.org or (973) 986-4578, or to info at betterchoicesfornj.org ************************************************** * SIGN-ON LETTER FROM NEW JERSEY ECONOMISTS As of Feb. 20, 2009 Dear Governor Corzine: The challenges confronting New Jersey are daunting. As this is written the state faces a huge potential shortfall in the Fiscal Year 2010 budget. The depth of what could be a severe national recession is yet to be determined, but it appears clear there will be no rapid turnaround. We commend you for the leadership you have shown in trying to strengthen New Jersey state government's financial situation. And we agree with you that the federal government must do its part by providing meaningful fiscal relief to help states maintain essential public services during this crisis. We are concerned, however, that state budget cuts of the magnitude being discussed will seriously worsen the effects of this economic downturn on low- and moderate-income New Jersey residents. The requirement of a balanced budget presents states with difficult choices in balancing their budgets during recessions. The only two options are budget cuts and revenue increases. It is important to point out that the best course is a combination of the two, as opposed to balancing the budget by cuts alone. Economic theory and historical experience make this clear: it is preferable from an economic standpoint to raise taxes on those with high incomes than to cut state spending. The reasoning is straightforward: in a recession, it is important to raise (or not decrease) the level of total spending---by households, businesses and government---in the economy. Doing so keeps people employed and making purchases, and makes it more likely that businesses will want to invest in order to serve that consumer demand. Budget cuts, on the other hand, reduce the level of total spending. Raising taxes on high income households also will reduce spending, but by much less than the amount of the tax increase. That is because those with plenty of income typically spend only a fraction of their income. By contrast, almost every dollar of state and local government spending on transfer payments to the needy and for the salaries of public servants providing vital services to our communities enters the local economy right away. That means it generates a greater economic impact. The New Jersey local spending impact difference is even greater when you consider that much of the higher state income tax will be deductible against federal income taxes. A state tax increase on households making $250,000-plus a year would affect only four percent of tax filers in New Jersey, while raising significant revenue to ease the impact of budget cuts. It is a crucial part of a balanced approach that also would include federal assistance and some level of inevitable state budget cuts. Raising taxes and maintaining public expenditures and investments also helps New Jersey and the nation in meeting their long run needs. America today faces two major problems---inadequate investments, especially in infrastructure, and growing inequality. The poor are particularly dependent on government expenditures, and cutbacks would hurt them the most. Our nation is at an historic juncture. In both Washington and Trenton, we need to move toward economic and fiscal policies that restore a better balance between the private and public sectors and share the burden of sacrifice more equitably than has been the case in recent years. Signed, Eileen Appelbaum, Rutgers Center for Women and Work Ron Caplan, The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey Henry A. Coleman, Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers University Oliver Cooke, The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey Deborah M. Figart, The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey Teresa Ghilarducci, Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis, The New School for Social Research Reza Ghorashi, The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey Norman J. Glickman, Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers University Ellen Mutari, The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey Michele Naples, School of Business, The College of New Jersey Carl Pray, Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics, Rutgers University Robert H. Scott III, Monmouth University Eldar Shafir, Princeton University Stuart Shapiro, Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers University To add your name to the list, please email info at betterchoicesfornj.org or call Eva Bonime at (973) 986-4578. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Enid --- Enid Arvidson, Ph.D. Associate Professor School of Urban and Public Affairs Box 19588 University of Texas at Arlington Arlington, TX 76019 Graduate Advisor for Ph.D. in Urban Planning & Public Policy http://www.uta.edu/supa/uppp and Master's in City & Regional Planning http://www.uta.edu/supa/cirp 817-272-3349 http://www2.uta.edu/arvidson/arvidsoncv/ > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 6052 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/urpe-announcements/attachments/20090224/f54dc7ac/attachment.txt From afreeman at iwgvt.org Sat Feb 28 08:06:26 2009 From: afreeman at iwgvt.org (Alan Freeman) Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 09:06:26 -0600 Subject: [URPE] Ann Pettifor in the Guardian on heterodox economics and the crisis Message-ID: <49A952F2.7050600@iwgvt.org> A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Organize Local Press Conferences and Demonstrations to Protest Growing Unemployment, and Devastating Impacts on Workers and Communities We, the undersigned, call for regular local press conferences and demonstrations on the First Friday of each month, to 1) demand decent, living wage jobs for everyone who wants to work; 2) ensure there is adequate income and support for all unemployed, underemployed and underpaid workers; and 3) call attention to priority public needs that can be addressed through new programs of public and private job creation. Across the U.S., unemployment and underemployment are rising at a dramatic rate. In January, 2009 alone, nearly 600,000 jobs were lost in just one month, the highest rate of job loss since 1974, bringing the national unemployment rate to 7.6% 11.4 million people are now officially unemployed, and an additional 13.6 are classified as ?hidden unemployed,? either because they can?t find full-time work, or have given up looking because they are too discourage. This means there now 9 job seekers for every available job opening. In addition, many employed workers do not even earn a living wage. In 2007, 17.6 million workers ? 16.2% of the fulltime workforce, worked full-time, year-round, yet earned less than the official poverty level for a family of four. Behind these statistics lies a grim, lethal reality. Unemployment, underemployment and inadequate wages devastate the people who are denied adequate work and a decent living, and disrupts family and community life. The chronic shortage of decent jobs contributes directly to increased marital and family breakup, increased evictions and homelessness, rising crime and community abandonment. Rising unemployment not only causes hardships for job losers but reduces tax revenues by billions of dollars?dollars that could finance vital social programs and create more jobs. Unemployment literally throws away billions of dollars of potential national output?schools and housing not built, child and elder care not provided. As the economy continues in free fall, workers and representatives of community, labor and religious organizations must organize and speak out, and call attention to the growing unemployment crisis. Why the First Friday? On the first Friday of each month the Labor Dept. releases the previous month's unemployment numbers, and the issue of unemployment and joblessness gets regular attention from the news media. This is an excellent time to call attention to rising job loss and its devastating human and financial consequences. Beginning on April 3, 2009, the National Jobs for All Coalition urges activist groups and unemployed workers to hold news conferences, vigils, pickets at unemployment offices, and to take other creative action to demand jobs and an effective safety net to protect the unemployed and others hurt by this economic crisis. The National Jobs For All Coalition is calling for Drive for Decent Work -- a package of additional federal bills to improve our society and create millions of needed jobs. The federal economic stimulus bill is a good start, but much more needs to be done to stem the employment crisis. The U.S. has a huge backlog of needs for fixing our physical infrastructure and increasing public services such as education, health care, and child care. We propose to link the movement for good jobs for all to grassroots movements to meet unmet needs for clean energy, better schools and housing, mass transportation, education and other public services. The Drive for Decent Work is our blueprint for job creation, but we welcome your ideas and suggestions. Please check our web site www.njfac.org for the most current update. We are also asking groups to consider organizing town meetings or forums on the economic crisis and its impact in their communities. The country needs a lively public debate on the directions we might take to deal with the recession/depression. We face both a difficult time and a time of great opportunity to build a grassroots movement for change. These actions, modest though they may be at the outset, will require work to coordinate and then build upon. We believe that these actions -- and the community dialogue and activism they generate ? can become a driving force for a much more powerful movement for jobs and economic justice. Through the First Friday movement, we will work to build up a national network of community, labor, religious and civic organizations concerned about rising unemployment and lasting solutions to the economic crisis. We will also work to gather organizational endorsements and target key cities and towns for endorsing resolutions supporting the Drive for Decent Work, and calling for passage of additional job creation and economic stimulus measures. For Jobs & Peace. Logan Martinez, Outreach Coordinator937-275-7259 / cell 937-609-3701Email: loganmartinez2u at yahoo.com YES! I want to endorse the National Call for First Friday Actions to Demand Good Jobs for All Now! Name:_________________________________________ Affiliation, if any:__________________________________ Address:________________________________________City/State/ZIP:___________________________________Telephone:______________________________________ E-mail:_________________________________________ __ This is an organizational endorsement__ This is a personal endorsement (organization listed for affiliation only. National Jobs for All Coalition (NJFAC) c/o Council on International and Public Affairs 777 United Nations Plaza, Suite 3C, NY, NY 10017 ? Tel: 212-972-9877. Fax. 212-972-9878Website: www.NJFAC.org Blog: www.DriveForDecentWork.org ? Email: njfac at njfac.org The National Jobs for All Coalition is a project of the Council on International and Public Affairs. _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live? 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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 enid at uta.edu Mon Mar 2 05:38:14 2009 From: enid at uta.edu (Enid Arvidson) Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 06:38:14 -0600 Subject: [URPE] SEIU Texas looking to build networks with progressive economists In-Reply-To: <2164264F-78CE-442A-BF00-07565DA81A64@uta.edu> References: <2164264F-78CE-442A-BF00-07565DA81A64@uta.edu> Message-ID: <0883AEA3-1474-4BA2-9F88-41018D36867D@uta.edu> Hi all, It might be useful to add that Joe McLaughlin is educated (he has a degree in economics from one of them fancy east coast colleges, Georgetown or somewhere), and he is in Texas organizing low-paid, mostly non-white service workers. He is interesting to talk to, and he wants to build networks with intellectuals and academics who are interested in or supportive of the labor movement. I don't think he will take much of your time or make many demands (he may ask you to read an SEIU research paper to make sure the economics make sense, or invite you to talk over coffee... or whatever time you can afford). I know he would be appreciative of any connections he can make with academics. He is also on Facebook if you want to contact him there. Enid On Feb 24, 2009, at 8:23 PM, Enid Arvidson wrote: > Dear Progressive Economists, > > The SEIU Texas is looking to build networks with progressive > economists in Texas. SEIU Texas is involved in a number of local > efforts in Texas cities, and is looking to build coalitions and > networks between the union and academics. More information about > SEIU Texas is here: > http://www.seiutx.org/ > > If you are interested in learning more, especially if you live in > Texas, please contact: > Joe McLaughlin > joesmcl at gmail.com > 281.685.6215 > > Or, please feel free to contact me about my own personal experiences > with them. > > Enid > --- > Enid Arvidson, Ph.D. > Associate Professor > School of Urban and Public Affairs > Box 19588 > University of Texas at Arlington > Arlington, TX 76019 > > Graduate Advisor for Ph.D. in Urban Planning & Public Policy > http://www.uta.edu/supa/uppp > and Master's in City & Regional Planning > http://www.uta.edu/supa/cirp > 817-272-3349 > http://www2.uta.edu/arvidson/arvidsoncv/ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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It will take some time to put these together, but if you're interested, please drop me a line at ian.fletcher at usbic.net and I will put you on a list to be contacted when something is available. Please indicate your geographic location in your message. Best Regards, Ian Fletcher Adjunct Fellow US Business & Industry Council 225 Bush St. Suite 1641 San Francisco, CA 94114 USA 415.439.8377 | 415.358.4320 (fax) | 415.238.8145 (cell) americaneconomicalert.org From shipranigam1 at gmail.com Sun Mar 1 20:51:04 2009 From: shipranigam1 at gmail.com (shipra nigam) Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2009 22:51:04 -0500 Subject: [URPE] Heterodox economic lectures in new york Message-ID: <28a3e2150903011951r3f3df215o9a0a6af09e254103@mail.gmail.com> Please forward ......heterodox economics lectures open to general public at Columbia and the New School. PLEASE NOTE :The timings for the 2/03/09 lecture have changed. Its at 11 a.m now. COMMITTEE ON GLOBAL THOUGHT AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY *How to Think About the Financial Crisis Monday, March 2, 2009. 301 Uris Hall. 11 am* Synopsis: One of India's most distinguished economists and political commentators, *PrabhatPatnaik,* and Nobel Prize-winning economist, *Joseph Stiglitz*, will discuss "*How to Think About the Financial Crisis*." Jomo Kwame Sundaram, UN Assistant Secretary General for Economic Affairs, will chair. Co-sponsored by the Committee on Global Thought This event is free and open to the public. No Tickets, no reservations required. Seating is on a first come, first served basis. Presented by: Heyman Center for the Humanities, Columbia University AND ?*The Accumulation Process in An Era of Globalization*? Professor Prabhat Patnaik, Chair/Discussant: Professor Duncan Foley, The New School on Wednesday, March 4, 2009 at 12:30 pm Location: Machinist Room, 65 5th Avenue - Ground Floor The New School of Social Research Sponsored by The Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis AND *Is Marxism Relevant Today*? Wednesday, March 11, 2009. Davis Auditorium, the Schapiro Center. 6:15pm Synopsis: David Harvey,Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, Prabhat Patnaik, one of India's most distinguished economists and political commentators, and Duncan Foley, Professor of Economics at the New School for Social Research, will discuss the question "Is Marxism Relevant Today?" Co-sponsored by the Committee on Global Thought This event is free and open to the public. No Tickets, no reservations required. Seating is on a first come, first served basis. Click here for the location of the Schapiro Center. Presented by: Heyman Center for the Humanities, Columbia University On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 11:23 AM, America's Safety Net < americassafetynet at hotmail.com> wrote: > > > Please Forward. > > *NATIONAL CALL FOR ?FIRST FRIDAY? ACTIONS* > > *TO DEMAND GOOD JOBS FOR ALL NOW!!* > > > > Organize Local Press Conferences and Demonstrations to Protest Growing > Unemployment, and Devastating Impacts on Workers and Communities > > > We, the undersigned, call for regular local press conferences and > demonstrations on the First Friday of each month, to 1) demand decent, > living wage jobs for everyone who wants to work; 2) ensure there is adequate > income and support for all unemployed, underemployed and underpaid workers; > and 3) call attention to priority public needs that can be addressed through > new programs of public and private job creation. > > > > Across the U.S., unemployment and underemployment are rising at a dramatic > rate. In January, 2009 alone, nearly 600,000 jobs were lost in just one > month, the highest rate of job loss since 1974, bringing the national > unemployment rate to 7.6% > > > > 11.4 million people are now officially unemployed, and an additional 13.6 > are classified as ?hidden unemployed,? either because they can?t find > full-time work, or have given up looking because they are too discourage. > > > > This means there now 9 job seekers for every available job opening. In > addition, many employed workers do not even earn a living wage. In 2007, > 17.6 million workers ? 16.2% of the fulltime workforce, worked full-time, > year-round, yet earned less than the official poverty level for a family of > four. > > > > Behind these statistics lies a grim, lethal reality. Unemployment, > underemployment and inadequate wages devastate the people who are denied > adequate work and a decent living, and disrupts family and community life. > The chronic shortage of decent jobs contributes directly to increased > marital and family breakup, increased evictions and homelessness, rising > crime and community abandonment. > > > > Rising unemployment not only causes hardships for job losers but reduces > tax revenues by billions of dollars?dollars that could finance vital social > programs and create more jobs. Unemployment literally throws away billions > of dollars of potential national output?schools and housing not built, child > and elder care not provided. > > > > As the economy continues in free fall, workers and representatives of > community, labor and religious organizations must organize and speak out, > and call attention to the growing unemployment crisis. > > > > Why the First Friday? On the first Friday of each month the Labor Dept. > releases the previous month's unemployment numbers, and the issue of > unemployment and joblessness gets regular attention from the news media. > This is an excellent time to call attention to rising job loss and its > devastating human and financial consequences. > > > > Beginning on April 3, 2009, the National Jobs for All Coalition urges > activist groups and unemployed workers to hold news conferences, vigils, > pickets at unemployment offices, and to take other creative action to demand > jobs and an effective safety net to protect the unemployed and others hurt > by this economic crisis. > > > > The National Jobs For All Coalition is calling for Drive for Decent Work -- > a package of additional federal bills to improve our society and create > millions of needed jobs. The federal economic stimulus bill is a good > start, but much more needs to be done to stem the employment crisis. > > > > The U.S. has a huge backlog of needs for fixing our physical infrastructure > and increasing public services such as education, health care, and child > care. We propose to link the movement for good jobs for all to grassroots > movements to meet unmet needs for clean energy, better schools and housing, > mass transportation, education and other public services. > > > > The Drive for Decent Work is our blueprint for job creation, but we welcome > your ideas and suggestions. Please check our web site www.njfac.org for > the most current update. > > > > We are also asking groups to consider organizing town meetings or forums on > the economic crisis and its impact in their communities. The country > needs a lively public debate on the directions we might take to deal with > the recession/depression. We face both a difficult time and a time of > great opportunity to build a grassroots movement for change. > > > > These actions, modest though they may be at the outset, will require work > to coordinate and then build upon. We believe that these actions -- and the > community dialogue and activism they generate ? can become a driving force > for a much more powerful movement for jobs and economic justice. > > > > Through the First Friday movement, we will work to build up a national > network of community, labor, religious and civic organizations concerned > about rising unemployment and lasting solutions to the economic crisis. We > will also work to gather organizational endorsements and target key cities > and towns for endorsing resolutions supporting the Drive for Decent Work, > and calling for passage of additional job creation and economic stimulus > measures. > > > > For Jobs & Peace. > > > > Logan Martinez, Outreach Coordinator > > 937-275-7259 / cell 937-609-3701 > > Email: loganmartinez2u at yahoo.com > > > > YES! I want to endorse the National Call for First Friday Actions to > Demand Good Jobs for All Now! > > > > Name:_________________________________________ > > Affiliation, if any:__________________________________ > > Address:________________________________________ > > City/State/ZIP:___________________________________ > > Telephone:______________________________________ > > E-mail:_________________________________________ > > > > __ This is an organizational endorsement > > __ This is a personal endorsement (organization listed for affiliation > only. > > > > National Jobs for All Coalition (NJFAC) c/o Council on International and > Public Affairs > > 777 United Nations Plaza, Suite 3C, NY, NY 10017 ? Tel: 212-972-9877. > Fax. 212-972-9878 > > Website: www.NJFAC.org Blog: www.DriveForDecentWork.org ? Email: > njfac at njfac.org > > > > The National Jobs for All Coalition is a project of the Council on > International and Public Affairs. > > ------------------------------ > Windows Live? 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My questions for the economist are: For employers, are unpaid internships a luxury of growing economies? Are workers more likely to be exploited in a recession? Where is the line between "apprentice" and essential, uncompensated employee? Is it ethical to offer unpaid employment when the prospect of paid employment in one's industry is shrinking (as in publishing) or unknown? My deadline for this piece is Wednesday morning. Would anyone have time to speak tomorrow (Tuesday) briefly? Please let me know. Many thanks, Eric Eagan Reporter, Columbia Graduate School of Journalism -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Unfortunately in Canada we have moved to a system which compares to the USA in terms of increasing dependency on temporary migrant workers, and an immigration system tilted toward employer demands. ? http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2009/02/24/temporary-foreign-workers/ ? Please feel free to circulate. ? In solidarity, Salimah Valiani Independent Researcher ? -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Candidates should send a letter of application, curriculum vitae, graduate transcript, three letters of recommendation and teaching evaluations to Robert Jones (rjones at skidmore.edu), Department of Economics, Skidmore College, 815 North Broadway, Saratoga Springs, NY 12866. Applications will be accepted until the positions are filled. Skidmore College seeks applications from a diverse pool of applicants. Please encourage interested persons to apply, ----- To be removed from this mailing list, please send an email message to the address leefs at umkc.edu asking to be removed from this list. Problems or questions should be directed to sullivanmw at umkc.edu. &*TO; -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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We invite contributions from the full range of academic disciplines-the hard sciences, the social sciences, the humanities, and the creative arts. How might we persuade the nation to focus on higher education as a public good rather than a private good? How do we ensure that the intellectual capital of the nation is invested to promote human progress rather than individual greed? And perhaps most importantly, how do we best educate our students in the New Progressive Era? In addition to Special Focus submissions, Thought & Action welcomes compelling articles on all aspects of life in the academy, especially teaching and learning, professional development, higher education policy, and union issues. Authors should send submission to the address below. Guidelines are available at www.nea.org/he/taguid.html or contact: pubint3 at nea.org or clehane at nea.org. Deadline: June 1, 2009 Con Lehane, Editor NEA Higher Education Publications 1201 16th Street, N.W. Washington, DC 20036-3290 Phone: 202-822-7214 Fax: 202-822-7206 E-mail: clehane at nea.org Truphena M. Choti Graduate Assistant, Higher Education Publications National Education Association 1201 16th Street, N.W. Washington, DC 20036 tel: 202.822.7280 fax: 202.822.7206 e-mail: pubint3 at nea.org ******************************************************************* Only the individual sender is responsible for the content of the message, and the message does not necessarily reflect the position or policy of the National Education Association or its affiliates. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 9383 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/urpe-announcements/attachments/20090304/43ac8279/attachment.txt From PaddyQuick at aol.com Tue Mar 10 13:11:21 2009 From: PaddyQuick at aol.com (PaddyQuick at aol.com) Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:11:21 EDT Subject: [URPE] Join me in Venezuala? Message-ID: I am going on the Global Exchange "Community-Based Organizing and the Bolivarian Revolution" program to Venezuala May 23 - June 3. If any URPE members (or friends of URPE) are interested in joining me, it would be terrific. For more info contact GloablExchange: _www.globalexchange.org/tours/940.html_ (http://www.globalexchange.org/tours/940.html) or me _paddyquick at aol.com_ (mailto:paddyquick at aol.com) . Cost is $1550 (not including airfare.) **************A Good Credit Score is 700 or Above. See yours in just 2 easy steps! (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1219671244x1201345076/aol?redir=http:%2F%2Fwww.freecreditreport.com%2Fpm%2Fdefault.aspx%3Fsc%3D668072%26hmpgID %3D62%26bcd%3DfebemailfooterNO62) -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 1539 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/urpe-announcements/attachments/20090310/97ec695a/attachment.txt From urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu Tue Mar 10 13:47:54 2009 From: urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu (urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu) Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:47:54 -0400 Subject: [URPE] Research Assistant for Gar Alperovitz Message-ID: <49B6C3EA.7050009@lists.econ.utah.edu> Job Opening Research Assistant for Gar Alperovitz, www.garalperovitz.com Review of applications will begin March 23, 2009. Late applications, however, may possibly be considered in special cases. Applications received after April 3, 2009 will not be considered. Salary: $35,000-$45,000, depending on work and academic experience and qualifications. Job includes health benefits and three weeks vacation. Length of position: Two-year commitment (contingent on satisfactory 90-day and annual review) necessary to insure continuity of support in completion of book in progress. Position can extend beyond two years by mutual agreement. Start date: May 1st (Preferred). Later start date will be considered, but strongly prefer to start no later than May 18th in order to ensure two weeks overlap with outgoing research assistant. To Apply: Send r?sum?, cover letter and writing sample related to requirements of job to Research Associate Steve Dubb sgdubb at yahoo.com. Only those selected for an interview will be contacted. Basic Function Provides research assistance in support of progressive political-economist and historian Gar Alperovitz, author of America Beyond Capitalism [Wiley 2005], Just Deserts [New Press, 2008], The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb [Knopf 1995] and many other books. Undertakes independent research assignments with minimal supervision; drafts summaries of findings; and assists with preparation of publications. Work includes handling a wide range of detailed ?information requests? related to the development of books, articles, and speeches. Must be comfortable working in a support role. Must interact with the public in an open and pleasant manner. The job also involves spending a great deal of time working alone in an office, so must also be comfortable working in an environment with limited daily face-to-face interaction. Education/Experience Requirements Bachelor?s degree in a social science or history required. Master?s degree and/or equivalent work experience (e.g., policy work, research experience, and/or journalism experience) preferred. Evidence of previous work demonstrating extreme accuracy and attention to detail critical. Knowledge Requirements Familiarity with and knowledge of and interest in left/progressive American politics, economics, and history broadly defined, required. Must be proficient in working in Word and Excel. Must have a thorough knowledge of library and online research resources with capacity to conduct independent research desired. Strong interpersonal and organizational skills are required. Must have an exceptional ability to synthesize information and write clearly and precisely without supervision. Must be able to pay attention to detail; precision is critical. Prior knowledge of HTML and/or basic familiarity with basic quantitative data analysis (e.g., SPSS, GIS) preferred. Principal Duties and Responsibilities 75% Research Assistance Researches and collects documents and information from various sources (government agencies, universities, libraries, Internet, non-profit research organizations, etc.) for long-term research projects on a broad range of topics including, but not limited to, social security; health care reform; tax policy; income distribution; public and nonprofit forms of business ownership; energy and climate change; and other issues in American politics and economics. Collects and prepares data from various sources for qualitative (and occasionally quantitative) analysis. Compiles, reads, abstracts, synthesizes, analyzes, and organizes written and electronic material into summarized form. Analyzes and produces written summaries of quantitative data. Provides editing assistance for research products in preparation for publication. Provides general research on a variety of short-term projects. Prepares and verifies factual entries based on above in manuscripts on a regular basis. 25% Administrative and Outreach Answers phone, types some dictations, going to post office, answers the door, arranges travel, provides first-level ?trouble shooting? assistance with computer network. Will also coordinate hiring process for and supervise part-time administrative assistant to handle some of these tasks. Identifies areas of focus for the assistant position, reviews r?sum?s, conducts interviews, and collaborates with Dr. Alperovitz to select assistant. Maintains http://www.garalperovitz.com website and other publication-related websites. Provides assistance with publicity as needed. Acts as a support person for research seminar. Women and people of color are strongly encouraged to apply. (Only applicants meeting minimum qualifications for the position will be considered. No phone calls please.) From urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu Tue Mar 10 16:38:34 2009 From: urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu (urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu) Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 18:38:34 -0400 Subject: [URPE] Left Forum conference announcements In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <49B6EBEA.4050808@lists.econ.utah.edu> From emily at populareconomics.org Wed Mar 11 14:02:41 2009 From: emily at populareconomics.org (Emily Kawano) Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 15:02:41 -0500 Subject: [URPE] Forum on the Solidarity Economy - new info on tour, cabaret, logistics Message-ID: <4986fb200903111302h36da2347u62d925b4fe6fbc28@mail.gmail.com> Please forward as widely as possible *Forum on the Solidarity Economy: **b**uilding another world* co-convened by the U.S. Solidarity* *Economy Network, Universidad de los Andes, Venezuela and RIPESS, N. America *March 19-22, 2009 * Isenberg SOM Bldng, UMass Amherst (Campus map ) The current economic crisis provides an historic opportunity to push for an economic system that puts people and planet front and center. The solidarity economy is a growing global movement that is building real world practices & policies, grounded in principles of solidarity, sustainability, equity, participatory democracy and pluralism. Join us to learn, exchange, network, celebrate, and build ?another world.? *Register online * * * *Visit the Forum webpage for updated schedule, logistical information, map, parking, transportation from airport.* *artwork by Rini Templeton*** *Thursday ? Solidarity Economy Tours* *Meet at Isenberg SOM building 12:30, depart at 12:50. $10 per person to cover bus and driver. Limited seats, first come, first served. To reserve a spot: *contact Lauren Spinney* *laurenspinney at gmail.com 774-402-0111 and let her know which tour you prefer. * * *Southbound to Holyoke: *Simple Gifts CSA, Pioneer Valley Co-housing, Food for Thought Books (worker collective), Collective Copies (worker co-operative), Nuestras Raices (urban agric. & economic development in Latino Community) * * *Northbound to Greenfield: * Simple Gifts CSA, Pioneer Valley Co-housing, Greenfields Market Co-operative, Franklin County Community Development Corporation (commercial kitchen, business incubator), Co-op Power (alternative energy co-op), PVSquared (photo-voltaic co-op) *Saturday night cabaret* 8:30-10:30, Mahar Auditorium free and open to the public. Featuring the Raging Grannies, Red Valley Fog, Hay Market/May Day excerpt, Hip Hop for a Cool Planet, Jay Mankita, Improv. theater from the Villa Jidiots, and Ethan Miller for more info. please visit the U.S. SEN website:* **www.ussen.org* *Many thanks to the generous support of Forum co-sponsors* BALLE Center for Popular Economics Center for Labor & Community Research Charter of Human Responsibilities Collective Copies Community Services Unlimited Co-op Power Cooperative Development Institute Cooperative Fund of New England Common Good Finance Dean's Beans Grassroots Economic Organizing/Ecological Democracy Institute of North America Good Work Guramylay: Growing the Green Economy Highlander Research & Education Center Jubiliee Economics Ministries National Association of Student Cooperatives National Federation of Community Development Credit Unions On the Commons Sabbath Economics Collaborative School of Community Economic Development, SNHU Sea Change Radio U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives *This Forum was made possible with the generous support of:* Frances Fund, Inc. 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SECOND INTERNATIONAL GATHERING ON ?THE WORKERS? ECONOMY? ?WORK AND SELF-MANAGEMENT IN TIMES OF GLOBAL CRISIS? Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, University of Buenos Aires Dates: July 29-August 1, 2009 Location: University of Buenos Aires, Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, Puan 470, Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, Argentina Please send a 250-word (max) abstract by May 31, 2009. All completed papers must be received by June 20, 2009 (see below for paper formats) Send abstracts, papers, and all correspondence in Spanish to: fabierta at filo.uba.ar or centrodoc at gmail.com. Send abstracts, papers, and all correspondence in English to: UBA.selfmanagement at gmail.com The Facultad Abierta (Open University) Program of the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters at the University of Buenos Aires, together with a group of academic institutions, social movements, labor organizations, and other workers? groups from Argentina and beyond, invites you to the Second International Gathering on ?The Workers? Economy? on the theme of ?Work and Self-management in Times of Global Crisis.? We welcome all who have thought about the problems, challenges, and possibilities of achieving an alternative economic reality, including academics committed to social transformation and individuals and organizations actually practicing alternative forms of social organization, politics, and self-management. A continuation of the first international gathering held in the city of Buenos Aires in July 2007 on the topic of ?Self-management and the Distribution of Wealth,? (see: http://www.recuperadasdoc.com.ar/encuentro/index.htm), the main objective of this year?s forum is to generate a space of exchange between scholars, activists, and workers concerned with the problems and possibilities of self-management, as well as the renewal of a political, economic and social strategy by workers and social movements during hard economic times. This year we look to broaden the debates of the first gathering in 2007 by specifically considering the situation created by the current capitalist global crisis. In particular, we are most interested in focusing on the responses by workers and their organizations to the crisis, highlighting what can be learned from the experiences and challenges of self-managed work on the path towards the workers? economy. As well, we would like to consider how these processes are gendered, and what opportunities they may open for women?s leadership roles and gender equality within alternative economies and self-managed workspaces. We are also concerned with critically examining the academic practices of those who are doing research with or on social movements and workers; we want to also use the gathering to reflect on the impact that academics and students can have in supporting alternative, bottom-up struggles for economic autonomy and self-reliance. Background The first international gathering on ?The Workers? Economy? in 2007 brought together over 300 participants which included researchers, workers, and social organization protagonists from over fifteen countries from the Americas, Europe and Africa. The 2007 participants almost unanimously felt that the debates and exchanges engaged in then successfully brought together two broad groups: radical academics and workers and their organizations. Most often the interests of these two heterogeneous groups tend to run on separate tracks?the theoretical advancements of academe often do not dialogue with or get nourished by the concrete practices of workers? organizations and their struggles, and vice versa. Participants in 2007 felt that these two groups were indeed able to fruitfully engage in mutual reflection and discussion on the broad theme of the workers? economy. Tellingly, most participants at the 2007 forum agreed that a similar gathering should be organized in the near future. The current global capitalist crisis adds new urgencies to the issues we discussed in 2007. This discussion should not simply be centered on understanding the origins of the crisis or attempting to ?correctly? define the hegemonic system that nurtures it. Nor should it only be about assessing this system?s negative impacts on the worlds? people, or only about discussing the role of work organizations in the context of a new political and economic paradigm. To be sure, these are important topics to think through. However, more than just delineating or defining our current conjuncture or discussing the immediate economic impact of its institutional frameworks, the main purpose of convening this second gathering on the workers? economy is to collectively and collaboratively think through the potential for the creation of political and economic alternatives to the current system in crisis. Moreover, the 2009 gathering seeks to begin this collective, collaborative thinking from the standpoint of the organizational experiences of workers, both from the perspective of self-management and from myriad daily struggles against forms of exploitation old and new. Here is where for us 2009?s forum begins to take on new meaning. What conclusions can be drawn from the social, political, and economic practices that have already been developed by self-managed workers for conceiving a workers? economy as an alternative to the economy of capital? How should union organizations undertake the struggle for the defense of workers? rights and interests in a global system that has not only radically restructured itself in the past few decades, but that has shown its limits within that very restructuring? Is it possible to propose new strategies and tactics for local and global struggles against capital on the basis of the numerically marginal experiences of self-management and the workers? economy to date? How would proposals for and struggles toward a new social and economic model incorporate the experiences of the masses of unpaid and precarious workers? How would these proposals include the heterogeneous group of marginalized people that suffer under poor living conditions, a group whose numbers have multiplied exponentially over the last few decades of neoliberalism and crises? What has been the impact of neoliberalism on women?s lives, and how have women, within the context of the workers? economy, addressed these challenges? How have academics contributed to these processes and what research and pedagogical practices have worked best to build long-lasting relations of mutual support and learning? Perhaps it begins with transforming this new global economic crisis into an opportunity for thinking through and possibly even advancing the goal of achieving an economic system self-managed by workers and those living on the margins. Perhaps this current crisis is an opportunity do so on the basis of the concrete experiences of the past and present, experiences that have actually materialized into real self-managed organizational and economic options. Indeed, our current conjuncture may be an opportunity to recuperate and reinvent alternative theoretical, conceptual, and political frameworks from which to think about a different economic project. These are some of the issues we invite you to consider with us at this year?s gathering. We convene this second international gathering of ?The Workers? Economy? in hopes of stimulating much needed debates and discussions by those thinking about and practicing alternatives to exploitative and alienating economic life in these hard times, both within Argentina and throughout the rest of the world. As in 2007, we hope that these debates will be broad, accessible, and inclusive. We therefore welcome to the gathering, in particular, the participation of socially committed intellectuals of all stripes, grassroots social and political organizations, unions and their members, protagonists of worker-recuperated enterprises and those practicing other forms of self-managed production, and members of collectives engaged in social, economic, and political struggle for alternative forms of life. Conference themes ? The new crisis of global capitalism: Analysis and responses from the point-of-view of the workers? economy. ? Self-management within our current conjuncture: The possibilities and limits of contemporary experiences for generating new logics for managing economic life. ? The gender of the economic crisis: Opportunities and threats to women, constructions of gender in social movements, and recovered factories. ? The economy from below: The social economy or the socialization of the economy? ? Workers? organizations in light of new changes to the organization of work by capital. ? The union model in crisis: Labor struggles from the perspective of new workers? organizations. ? Informal, precarious, and menial work: Social exclusion or the reformulation of work within global capitalism? ? The challenges faced by popular governments in the social management of the economy and the state. ? A critical assessment of the cooperative movement. ? The university, workers, and social movements: Issues concerning the methodologies and practices of co-research and mutual support. Principal organizers ? The Facultad Abierta (Open University) Program, Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, University of Buenos Aires Co-organizers ? Federation of Energy Workers of Argentina (FeTERA-CTA) (http://www.feteracta.org.ar/) ? Centre for Global Justice, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico (http://www.globaljusticecenter.org/) ? Argentina Autonomista Project (http://www.autonomista.org) ? International Institute for Self-Management, Frankfurt, Germany (http://www.iism.net/) ? Centre of Advanced Studies, National University of C?rdoba, Argentina ? Movement of Territorial Liberation (Movimiento Territorial de Liberaci?n, MTL) ? Department of Social Relations, Autonomous University of Mexico-Xochimilco, Mexico Due dates Please send a 250-word (max) abstract by May 31, 2009. All completed papers must be received by June 20, 2009. Completed papers sent before this date will be included in the event?s CD. Spanish papers and correspondence should be sent to: fabierta at filo.uba.ar or centrodoc at gmail.com English papers and correspondence should be sent to: UBA.selfmanagement at gmail.com Paper formats Completed papers should be no longer than 25 pages. Text should be 12 point set to Times New Roman or a similar font. Papers should be double-spaced. Free admission The gathering is free for participants and audience members. Elizabeth A. Bowman, Ph.D., President and Research Associate Center for Global Justice, www.globaljusticecenter.org personal mailing address: 220 N Zapata Hwy #11 Box 1039 Laredo TX 78043 From barone at dickinson.edu Tue Mar 17 10:50:43 2009 From: barone at dickinson.edu (Charles Barone) Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 12:50:43 -0400 Subject: [URPE] Radical Political Economy 2nd Edition? Message-ID: <49BFD4E3.3000007@dickinson.edu> We are planning to update my text _RADICAL POLITICAL ECONOMY: A Concise Introduction_ and would like suggestions and feedback on the current edition. Any and all suggestions or feedback would be most welcome, especially from those of you who have used this text in your courses but also for those of you have not used this text it would be helpful to know what changes might be made that would make it a text that you would adopt. A few words about the nature of this text: This text was written as an accessible introductory text for undergraduates that could be taught in a few weeks. It was not written as a text for a semester long course course in radical economics. I wrote this text for a required course for econ majors on heterodox economics at Dickinson College where multiple perspectives are covered in addition to RPE including Institutional, Feminist, and Austrian economics. Of course we are lucky here to have a pluralist economics program and it would be good to hear from users of this text how you have used it and in what courses, as well as how it could be improved and updated. Any and all comments will be most helpful and appreciated. Chuck Barone From taeheejo at gmail.com Wed Mar 18 08:57:47 2009 From: taeheejo at gmail.com (Tee-Hee Jo) Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 10:57:47 -0400 Subject: [URPE] Call for Papers: 4th Bi-Annual Cross-Border Post Keynesian Conference Message-ID: Dear URPE members, The Economics and Finance Department at Bu?alo State College (SUNY) invites papers and participants for the 4th Bi-Annual Cross-Border Post Keynesian Conference in October 2009. Following the tradition of the Conference which was held in Vermont (U.S), Ottawa and Montreal (Canada), we are encouraging Post Keynesian scholarship. While the main theme is ?Financial Crisis and Reform,? the Conference is also open to all perspectives and topics. Selected papers will be published in a conference volume. The deadline for paper/session proposals is April 1, 2009. See the complete call for papers here: http://faculty.buffalostate.edu/joth/pk2009/Site/cfp2.html More detailed information can be found in the Conference webpage: http://buffalostate.edu/economics/pk2009.xml Best regards. Tae-Hee Jo Assistant Professor Economics and Finance Department SUNY, Buffalo State College 1300 Elmwood Avenue Buffalo, NY 14222 USA Tel: (716) 878-6933, Fax: (716) 878-6907 Personal Webpage: http://faculty.buffalostate.edu/joth Post Keynesian Conference at Buffalo State: http://buffalostate.edu/economics/pk2009.xml From leefs at UMKC.EDU Thu Mar 19 11:46:17 2009 From: leefs at UMKC.EDU (Lee, Frederic) Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 12:46:17 -0500 Subject: [URPE] [UMKCLEE-URPE] Two tenure track positions at California State University-Fresno Message-ID: <9A72753A447165498D6B63479DB2E7C90623B010@KC-MSX3.kc.umkc.edu> The Department of Economics, California State University-Fresno invites applications for two tenure track assistant professor positions to begin Fall 2009: MACROECONOMICS: E0 General Macroeconomics E4 Money and Interest Rates O4 Economic Growth E3 Business Fluctuations E5 Monetary Policy We seek candidates with teaching and research interests in macroeconomics and money and banking, and one or more of the following fields: economic growth, business fluctuations, or monetary policy. In addition, candidates will be expected to teach principles of economics as well as intermediate macroeconomics. Faculty responsibilities include research and publication, advising students, and service at all levels of the university. An earned doctorate (Ph.D.) in Economics is required for appointment to a tenure track position. Candidates nearing completion of the doctorate (ABD) may be considered for a lectureship (temporary position) with the possibility of conversion to tenure track upon completion of the doctorate. Preference will be given to candidates with teaching experience and strong commitment to excellence in undergraduate instruction. The Department is committed to economic pluralism and welcomes applicants from all economic perspectives. Applicants are encouraged to have all application materials on file by April 15, 2009 to ensure consideration. Send application form (www.csufresno.edu/aps/vacancy/sc1.pdf), vita, 3 letters of reference and evidence of teaching performance to: Dr. Va Nee Van Vleck, Search Committee Chair, Department of Economics, California State University, Fresno, 5245 North Backer Avenue M/S PB 20, Fresno, CA 93740-8001, Phone: (559) 278-4932, Fax: (559) 278-7234, Email: vanvleck at csufresno.edu REGIONAL ECONOMICS: R1 General Regional Economics R11 Growth, Development and Change E0 General Macroeconomics H Public Economics Q5 Environmental Economics We seek candidates with teaching and research interests in regional economics, and one or more of the following fields: macroeconomics, public economics, or environmental economics. In addition, candidates will be expected to teach principles of economics. Faculty responsibilities include research and publication, advising students, and service at all levels of the university. An earned doctorate (Ph.D.) in Economics is required for appointment to a tenure track position. Candidates nearing completion of the doctorate (ABD) may be considered for a lectureship (temporary position) with the possibility of conversion to tenure track upon completion of the doctorate. Preference will be given to candidates with teaching experience and strong commitment to excellence in undergraduate instruction. The Department is committed to economic pluralism and welcomes applicants from all economic perspectives. Applicants are encouraged to have all application materials on file by April 15, 2009 to ensure consideration. Send application form (www.csufresno.edu/aps/vacancy/sc1.pdf), vita, 3 letters of reference and evidence of teaching performance to: Dr. Janice Peterson, Search Committee Chair, Department of Economics, California State University, Fresno, 5245 North Backer Avenue M/S PB 20, Fresno, CA 93740-8001, Phone: (559) 278-2673, Fax: (559) 278-7234, Email: japeterson at csufresno.edu California State University-Fresno is an equal opportunity employer. ----- To be removed from this mailing list, please send an email message to the address leefs at umkc.edu asking to be removed from this list. Problems or questions should be directed to sullivanmw at umkc.edu. &*TO; From urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu Fri Mar 20 06:14:11 2009 From: urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu (urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu) Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 08:14:11 -0400 Subject: [URPE] Left Forum 2009 panels announced! Message-ID: <49C38893.9030300@lists.econ.utah.edu> Note to URPE List: This is forwarded from the Left Forum. The flyers are not attached; they can be downloaded from: http://www.urpe.org/conf/lf/visitlf.html ************************** Dear Friends, We are pleased to direct you to our website for a list of 2009 panels. Although this year's conference is larger than ever before (with over 200 panels and events), we have reduced registration prices from last year and added new scholarship categories to make that sure all can attend. Please note that early registration, which ends March 31st, helps make this conference possible by ensuring that we have the revenue necessary to bring you a range conference programming and activities. Among the many conference highlights this year are dynamic Friday and Saturday evening plenary sessions. The opening plenary will explore the current global economic crisis and its social, political, environmental and cultural dimensions. It will feature Walden Bello (Philippines), Katja Kipping (Germany), Adolph Reed, Richard D. Wolff and Arlie Hochschild. The Saturday plenary will bring together Bill Fletcher Jr. (moderator), Gihan Perera, Barbara Ransby, Frances Fox Piven, Barbara Epstein and Stanley Aronowitz in a round-table conversation about the Left and the Obama campaign and presidency. Attached to this email you will find the latest Left Forum conference announcement and flyer produced by artist Jonathan Matas, who is also developing large-scale banners for the weekend of the conference. Please utilize these materials in whatever ways you can (e.g. print out and post them, email them to your friends and colleagues) to spread the word about Left Forum 2009 so that no one misses the opportunity to participate in what is turning out to be an outpouring of voices from a vast spectrum of left activists, intellectuals and political and social movements. 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Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 4594 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/urpe-announcements/attachments/20090320/2560de61/attachment.txt From leefs at UMKC.EDU Fri Mar 20 07:53:55 2009 From: leefs at UMKC.EDU (Lee, Frederic) Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 08:53:55 -0500 Subject: [URPE] [UMKCLEE-URPE] Heterodox Economics Newsletter 79 Message-ID: <9A72753A447165498D6B63479DB2E7C90623B13B@KC-MSX3.kc.umkc.edu> Heterodox Economics Newsletter www.heterodoxnews.com Issue 79: March 19 , 2009 From bogus@does.not.exist.com Sat Mar 14 10:11:06 2009 From: bogus@does.not.exist.com () Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2009 16:11:06 -0000 Subject: No subject Message-ID: Heterodox economics continues to make the news, as indicated by many of = the entries in the FYI section. The Ivory Tower article created a lot of = work for me because it mentioned the Newsletter with the result I got a = lot of requests to be added to the mailing list. Heterodox economists = view econometrics as just one kind of research tool, but rarely is there = extensive discussion, except among critical realist heterodox = economists, of alternative research tools. One alternative tool is oral = history; so I would like to call your attention to the 'Oral History = Workshop' in the Conferences section. Finally, in the heterodox Websites = section there is a very interesting website on the financial crisis put = together by Barbara Hopkins and her wonderful and wacky heterodox = colleagues at Wright State-take a look at it. Fred Lee In this issue: =20 Call for Papers = =20 =20 - Assessing Heterodox Economics in a European Context - A Workshop - The Global Food Crisis - 2010 HOPE Conference: History of Econometrics as an Exact and = Inseparate Science - The flexibilization of labor market between globalization and the = global economic crisis: Comparing Japan and Germany - 2009 Thought & Action: A New Progressive Era in Higher Education - 6th International Conference Developments in Economic Theory and = Policy - Special Issue of Journal of Critical Realism - International Journal of Pluralism and Economics Education - Forum de la R=E9gulation 2009 - The EAEPE Conference 2009 =20 Conferences, Seminars and Lectures = =20 - Oral History Workshop - Forum on the Solidarity Economy: building another world - Innovative Economic Policies for Climate Change Mitigation Job Postings for Heterodox Economists = =20 =20 - California State University-Fresno =20 Heterodox Conference Papers and Reports and Articles = =20 =20 - Boom for Whom? - A (Post-) Keynesian perspective on "financialisation" - Rethinking Macro Economic Strategies from a Human Rights Perspective - The finance-dominated growth regime, distribution, and aggregate = demand in the US=20 Heterodox Journals and Newsletters = =20 =20 - economic sociology - the european electronic newsletter=20 - Review of Social Economy - CASE Newsletter - Cuadernos de Relaciones Laborales - Local Economy - The Friends of Associative Economics Bulletin - Development Dialogue - International Journal of Political Economy - Marxist Interventions - PERI In Focus: Winter 2009 - Levy News - International Socialist Review =20 Heterodox Books and Book Series = =20 =20 - Handbook on Trade and Environment - Workers of the World: Essays toward a Global Labor History=20 - Economic Abundance: An Introduction - Why Unions Matter =20 Heterodox Websites and Blogs = =20 =20 - Financial Crisis - Blog Grupo Lujan=20 - Rethinking Finance =20 Queries from Heterodox Economists = =20 =20 - Updating Radical Political Economy: A Concise Introduction =20 For Your Information = =20 =20 - PhilPapers - Time For The World To Turn The Page To Chapter 11 - Ivory Tower Unswayed by Crashing Economy=20 - World Recession Forces Economic Re-thinking - Folly of excluding the hard-won wisdom of the past - The Economic Crisis and the Developing World: What Next? - John Maynard Keynes (Great Thinkers in Economics) - The unfortunate uselessness of most 'state of the art' academic = monetary economics - Warning - Promoting Excellence in Research - The Revenge of Karl Marx =20 ----- To be removed from this mailing list, please send an email message to the address leefs at umkc.edu asking to be removed from this list. 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Heterodox Economics = Newsletter

www.heterodoxnews.com

Issue 79: March 19 , = 2009

 

From the Editor

Heterodox economics = continues to make the news, as indicated by many of the entries in the FYI section. The = Ivory Tower article created a lot of work for me because it mentioned the = Newsletter with the result I got a lot of requests to be added to the mailing list. Heterodox economists view econometrics as just one kind of research = tool, but rarely is there extensive discussion, except among critical realist = heterodox economists, of alternative research tools. One alternative tool is oral history; so I would like to call your attention to the ‘Oral = History Workshop’ in the Conferences section. Finally, in the heterodox = Websites section there is a very interesting website on the financial crisis put together by Barbara Hopkins and her wonderful and wacky heterodox = colleagues at Wright State—take a look at it.


Fred Lee

In this issue:

 

Call for Papers

 

- Assessing Heterodox Economics in a European Context = – A Workshop
- The Global Food Crisis
- 2010 HOPE Conference: History of Econometrics as an Exact and = Inseparate Science
- The flexibilization of labor market between globalization and the = global economic crisis: Comparing Japan and Germany
- 2009 Thought & Action: A New Progressive Era in Higher = Education
- 6th International Conference Developments in Economic Theory and = Policy
- Special Issue of Journal of Critical Realism
- International Journal of Pluralism and Economics Education
- Forum de la R=E9gulation 2009
- The EAEPE Conference 2009

 

Conferences, Seminars and = Lectures

- Oral History Workshop
- Forum on the Solidarity Economy: building another world
- Innovative Economic Policies for Climate Change = Mitigation

Job Postings for Heterodox = Economists

 

- California State = University-Fresno

 

Heterodox Conference Papers and Reports and = Articles

 

- Boom for Whom?
- A (Post-) Keynesian perspective on "financialisation"
- Rethinking Macro Economic Strategies from a Human Rights = Perspective
- The finance-dominated growth regime, distribution, and aggregate = demand in the US

Heterodox Journals and = Newsletters

 

- economic sociology - the european electronic = newsletter
- Review of Social Economy
- CASE Newsletter
- Cuadernos de Relaciones Laborales
- Local Economy
- The Friends of Associative Economics Bulletin
- Development Dialogue
- International Journal of Political Economy
- Marxist Interventions
- PERI In Focus: Winter 2009
- Levy News
- International Socialist Review

 

Heterodox Books and Book = Series

 

- Handbook on Trade and Environment
- Workers of the World: Essays toward a Global Labor History
- Economic Abundance: An Introduction
- Why Unions Matter

 

Heterodox Websites and = Blogs

 

- Financial Crisis
- Blog Grupo Lujan
- Rethinking Finance

 

Queries from Heterodox = Economists

 

- Updating Radical = Political Economy: A Concise Introduction

 

For Your Information

 

- PhilPapers
- Time For The World To Turn The Page To Chapter 11
- Ivory Tower Unswayed by Crashing Economy
- World Recession Forces Economic Re-thinking
- Folly of excluding the hard-won wisdom of the past
- The Economic Crisis and the Developing World: What Next?
- John Maynard Keynes (Great Thinkers in Economics)
- The unfortunate uselessness of most ’state of the art’ = academic monetary economics
- Warning
- Promoting Excellence in Research
- The Revenge of Karl Marx

 

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This month, legislation that would enhance workers' organizing rights -- known as the Employee Free Choice Act -- was introduced in both houses of Congress. The law would impose real penalties on employers who harass or fire union sympathizers, or otherwise try to scare workers away from a union. If a majority of employees at a workplace sign cards favoring a union, the act would require an employer to recognize it, rather than undertaking a long, costly and destructive battle. The act also would bring in a third-party arbitrator to produce a fair contract if the two sides can't agree on one within a year. EPI prepared a question-and-answer document to explain the Employee Free Choice Act, and has been instrumental in making the economic argument in its favor. EPI President Lawrence Mishel, along with Richard Freeman of Harvard and Frank Levy of MIT, authored a statement signed by 40 prominent economists, including three Nobel Prize winners, who agreed that the reform would be an overall benefit to the economy, and would provide a boost to workers when they need it most. Now they are inviting other economists to add their voices by signing the same statement. Over the years, EPI's staff economists and associated scholars have conducted extensive research on unions and the economy. A partial list of significant studies and analysis follow: State of Working America 2008/2009, excerpts from select chapters This signature publication by EPI, which has documented the economic well-being of American workers since 1988, contains a wealth of information on union benefits for members and non-members, especially for African-Americans, Hispanics and Asians. Still Open for Business: Unionization Has No Causal Effect on Firm Closures, by John DiNardo, 2009 DiNardo, a University of Michigan professor and research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, offers overwhelming evidence that unionization does not cause businesses to fail. Squandering the Blue Collar Advantage, by Josh Bivens, 2009 Bivens shows why unions are not to blame for the loss of U.S. manufacturing jobs, and that in fact, the real culprits are manipulated currency rates that make U.S.-made goods overly expensive. A dysfunctional health care system that burdens responsible employers with outsized costs, and high executive and managerial salaries, also contribute to any lack of competitiveness. Organizing Prosperity, by Matt Vidal with David Kusnet, 2009 Using twelve case studies from a variety of industries, including nursing, meatpacking and janitorial, the authors show how unions can benefit workers and communities while making companies more productive. 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Not just another bank with a social agenda. This is a social agenda with a bank! ? - Profits go to local schools and nonprofits. ? - Depositors decide what the bank should invest in. ? - Free local credit card processing for local businesses. ? - Micro-loans for new businesses and community projects. ? - A full range of secure, FDIC-insured banking services. ? - Committed to sustainability and economic justice. Once the first common good bank opens, any community ANYWHERE can start one in just a few days, with no need for a bank building. THE WORK ? - Promote the common good bank concept locally ? - Get 65+ people to sign up as future depositors ? - Raise $2,000 to $4,000 in donations ? - Find a local nonprofit partner ? - Find 5 local business partners ? - Find accredited investors who will invest a total of $30,000 ? - Report progress / share ideas with other Community Division Organizers ? - Other tasks that may arise (optional) WHAT IT TAKES ? - Courage ? - Integrity ? - Respect and friendliness ? - Passionate commitment to social and economic justice ? - Enthusiasm about the common good bank idea ? - Can work independently and as part of a team ? - Can talk easily with anyone and say things simply and clearly ? - Basic computer skills SUPPORT Common Good Finance and the other Community Division Organizers will supply ? - promotional materials (model posters, business cards, handout cards, ??????? press releases, emails, displays and videos) ? - step-by-step suggestions for each task ? - web-based training session on the common good bank idea ? - ongoing advice, encouragement and feedback PAY Community Division Organizers will work as independent contractors. (That means no insurance benefits and different income tax forms.) Common Good Finance is prepared to pay $10 to $20 an hour for 100-200 hours, plus expenses, to be negotiated based on the contractor's experience, needs and speed. TO APPLY For more information, visit commongoodbank.com Tell us your experience and why you want to do this work. Email letter, resume and references to: info at commongoodbank.com ABOUT COMMON GOOD FINANCE Common Good Finance is a partnership of many organizations, working together to design and create a global network of common good banks. Partner organizations include: ? - American Banking Financial Institution Consultants ? - The Brick House ? - Class Action ? - Co-op Power ? - Earth Action ? - Gasoline Alley Foundation ? - Living Learning In Faith Everyday ? - Meadowbrook Lane Capital (MBLC) Investment Bank ? - New England Small Farm Institute ? - Peace Development Fund ? - Post Oil Solutions ? - Society to Benefit Everyone ? - United for a Fair Economy ? - many more, informally -- William Spademan President Common Good Finance Corporation democratic economics for a sustainable world 48 Buckland Road, PO Box 21 Ashfield, MA 01330 USA +1 413-628-3336 Be one of our 4,000 founding depositors Sign up now at www.commongoodbank.com with no cost or obligation From lvanderslice at verizon.net Fri Mar 27 10:19:02 2009 From: lvanderslice at verizon.net (Lane Vanderslice) Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 09:19:02 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [URPE] For those of us who knew Chuck Craypo, very sad news Message-ID: <486537.86502.qm@web84208.mail.re3.yahoo.com> Charles Craypo, professor emeritus of economics at the University of Notre Dame, died Sunday. He was 73. A native of Jackson, Mich., Craypo served for two years in the Marines before attending Michigan State University where he earned bachelor?s, master?s and doctoral degrees in economics. He joined the Notre Dame faculty in 1978 as an associate professor of economics leaving in 1982 for Cornell University, where he was a professor of industrial and labor relations until 1984. He returned that year to Notre Dame to serve as chairman of the department of economics. In 1993, he became first director of Notre Dame?s Higgins Labor Studies Program, which supports research, teaching, discussion and publication on labor and the economy based on Craypo?s premise that ?an understanding that social justice and efficiency are essential ingredients of a truly successful economy.? ?I have known Chuck Craypo for almost 30 years,? said Charles K. Wilber, professor emeritus of economics and Craypo?s predecessor as Notre Dame?s economics chair. ?In addition to being a first class teacher, he did path-breaking research on labor relations within the context of industrial organization. He was a great mentor to our doctoral students, directing many dissertations and aiding the new graduates to obtain excellent positions in academia, government and labor organizations. He always had time for colleagues and students alike. He will be sorely missed.? Craypo was engaged in community-based research for many years, writing and editing numerous books and articles on industrial and labor relations and frequently testifying before federal legislative committees including the U.S. House Committee on Labor; the Senate Judiciary Committee; and the House Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs. His study in the late 1980s of the effects of de-industrialization in ?Rust Belt? cities examined in particular the closure of the Studebaker Corporation in South Bend. In the 1990s he was commissioned by the United Way of St. Joseph County to conduct a study of the ?working poor,? the results of which were featured in a widely viewed video production entitled ?Climbing the Down Escalator.? Chuck is survived by his wife, Mary, their son, Jack, their daughters, Carrie Leitzell and Sue Storms, and three granddaughters. A private memorial service was held on March 24. Condolences may be sent via an online guest book at www.hooverfuneralhome.com, and the family has asked that contributions in Craypo?s memory be made to the Higgins Labor Studies Program, 511 Flanner Hall, Notre Dame, IN 46556. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Your participation is vital to creating a forum that can truly be as inclusive, expressive, informed, and mobilized as we all can make it. Low income, student, and group discounts are now available on our website. We look forward to seeing you at the conference. In Solidarity, Stanley Aronowitz Eric Canepa Vivek Chibber Bill Fletcher, Jr. Nancy Holmstrom Jamie McCallum Frances Fox Piven Michael Steven Smith Hobart A. Spalding William K. Tabb Richard D. Wolff Julia Wrigley The Board of Directors of the Left Forum -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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We believe that in addition to?continued short-term "stimulus", a permanent and far- reaching?restructuring of the real economy is necessary for lasting and sustainable economic revitalization?rather than?continued efforts to?reinflate the financial bubble and hope for "trickle down"! ? In Solidarity, ? Ron Baiman ? For the Chicago Political Economy Group (CPEG) ? ? -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 1241 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/urpe-announcements/attachments/20090327/4525a2e9/attachment.txt From soapbox at comcast.net Sat Mar 28 10:21:40 2009 From: soapbox at comcast.net (Ruth Indeck) Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 12:21:40 -0400 Subject: [URPE] URPE Table at Left Forum (April 17-19) needs People Message-ID: <49CE4E94.8080401@comcast.net> To URPE Members and Friends, Once again URPE will be sponsoring a table at the Left Forum. The Left Forum will take place Friday evening, April 17, through Sunday, April 19, 2009 in NYC at Pace University (near the Brooklyn Bridge). The LF is in a new venue, and the table we were able to get is 5 feet, rather than the usual 8 feet. We aren't sharing it with Dollars and Sense this year, but we have requested that the tables be next to each other so we can help each other out. The program is not yet on the website, so we don't know the specific time slots, or which panels will be in which time slot. Last year the time slots were: Sat: 10am-Noon, Noon-2 pm, 2-3 pm, 3-5 pm, 5-7 pm Sun: 10am-Noon, Noon-2 pm, 2-3 pm, 3-5 pm PRELIMINARY REQUEST: PLEASE LET US KNOW IF YOU ARE WILLING TO SIT AT THE URPE TABLE FOR A 2-HOUR TIME SLOT ON SATURDAY OR SUNDAY. Please reply to soapbox at comcast.net. More info on the Left Forum: http://leftforum.org/ http://leftforum.org/2009 From tamardiana at yahoo.com Sat Mar 28 11:39:24 2009 From: tamardiana at yahoo.com (Tamar Diana Wilson) Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 10:39:24 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [URPE] Fw: [ABSDISCOURSE] resources for Marxist scholars Message-ID: <349165.37951.qm@web31815.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Thought this info might interest the listserve. Tamar --- On Fri, 3/27/09, Jerry Carr wrote: > From: Jerry Carr > Subject: [ABSDISCOURSE] resources for Marxist scholars > To: ABSDISCOURSE at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU > Date: Friday, March 27, 2009, 11:48 AM > A Critical Sociological Discourse > Listserv > > > > > > > > > > > ? I have used > "A Dictionary of Marxist > Thought" for many years.?Tom Bottomore is the > editor. ?It is > actually a very good compilation of key terms and > subjects with detailed > discussions all arraigned in alphabetical order.? I > have the 1985 edition > but I see that there is a second edition and it is in > print.?? > Marxists.Org (Google it) is a very good resource also. It > is international. > Volunteers are translating previously unavailable > writings and putting them > up.? It has most of the works of Marx and Engels and > the work of many > older and new Marxist writers.? It is well organized > for searching by > specific documents, words, topics, and so forth. > > ? > ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? > > Regards,? Jerry > Carr > From urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu Sun Mar 29 18:37:17 2009 From: urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu (urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu) Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 20:37:17 -0400 Subject: [URPE] =?windows-1252?q?Call_for_Papers_URPE_Summer_Conference_Au?= =?windows-1252?q?gust_15_=96_18=2C_2009?= Message-ID: <49D0143D.9070906@lists.econ.utah.edu> Call for Papers URPE Summer Conference August 15 ? 18, 2009 Greetings! Papers and workshops proposals are being accepted for the URPE 2009 Annual Summer Conference held August 15 - 18, 2009. The theme of this year?s conference is ?Economic Crises: Opportunities for Radical Change.? Now is the time for Heterodox Economists of all persuasions to find creative solutions and to do serious analysis and speak out about the domestic and global economic recession and financial crisis! As always we are looking for Political Economy papers from all disciplines (including at least sociology, political science, urban studies, and anthropology in addition to economics). The conference always has a mix of relatively more technical presentations of Political Economy research from scholars and graduate students in all stages of development with more popular and activist oriented presentations. Political Economy papers that address the current economic crises are encouraged, especially those that say something about how the current crisis provides opportunities for radical change. More general political economy submissions are of course as every year warmly welcomed as well !! Please consider forming a workshop with 2 to 4 papers on a common theme that your and colleagues might be working on. Or just submit a paper. Please send all submissions to: laura.ebert at marist.edu . Workshops and papers will be accepted until all space is filled? while last minute submissions are welcome they might not be accepted if there is no space , so please get your submission in early. Laura Ebert Assistant Professor of Economics Dyson Hall 308 School of Management Marist College Poughkeepsie , New York 12601 office 845-575-3000 X2904 cell 845-337-0061 laura.ebert at marist.edu http://www.academic.marist.edu/~jf3s/ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Gettysburg College is a highly selective liberal arts college located within 90 minutes of the Baltimore/Washington metropolitan area. Established in 1832, the College has a rich history and is situated on a 220-acre campus with an enrollment of over 2,500 students. It is consistently ranked in the top 50 liberal arts colleges in the nation. Gettysburg College celebrates and seeks to enhance its diversity. An equal opportunity - affirmative action employer. You may learn more about the College and the department through the Website: www.gettysburg.edu . Applications will be considered until the position is filled. Send a letter of application, three reference letters, a writing sample, and curriculum vitae to: Visiting Position Search Committee, Department of Economics, Box 391, Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, PA 17325. Electronic submissions may be sent to sholz at gettysburg.edu . JOB POSTING: Community Division Organizer - Common Good Banks (please forward to friends and colleagues) Common Good Finance is looking for experienced community organizers to start common good bank community divisions anywhere in the world. At first, each organizer will be responsible for starting a community division just in his or her own community, full or part time over the course of a month or two. Successful organizers will likely be invited to continue this work in nearby communities. WHAT IS A COMMON GOOD BANK(tm)? Not just another bank with a social agenda. This is a social agenda with a bank! * Profits go to local schools and nonprofits. * Depositors decide what the bank should invest in. * Free local credit card processing for local businesses. * Micro-loans for new businesses and community projects. * A full range of secure, FDIC-insured banking services. * Committed to sustainability and economic justice. Once the first common good bank opens, any community ANYWHERE can start one in just a few days, with no need for a bank building. THE WORK * Promote the common good bank concept locally * Get 65+ people to sign up as future depositors * Raise $2,000 to $4,000 in donations * Find a local nonprofit partner * Find 5 local business partners * Find accredited investors who will invest a total of $30,000 * Report progress and share ideas with other Community Division Organizers * Other tasks that may arise (optional) WHAT IT TAKES * Courage * Integrity * Respect and friendliness * Passionate commitment to social and economic justice * Enthusiasm about the common good bank idea * Can work independently and as part of a team * Can talk easily with anyone and can say things simply and clearly * Basic computer skills SUPPORT Common Good Finance and the other Community Division Organizers will supply: * promotional materials (model posters, business cards, handout cards, press releases, emails, displays and videos) * step-by-step suggestions for each task * web-based training session on the common good bank idea * ongoing advice, encouragement and feedback PAY Community Division Organizers will work as independent contractors. (That means no insurance benefits and different income tax forms.) Common Good Finance is prepared to pay $10 to $20 an hour for 100-200 hours, plus expenses, to be negotiated based on the contractor's experience, needs and speed. TO APPLY For more information, visit commongoodbank.com Tell us your experience and why you want to do this work. Email your letter, resume and references to: info at commongoodbank.com ABOUT COMMON GOOD FINANCE Common Good Finance is a partnership of many organizations, working together to design and create a global network of common good banks. Partner organizations include: * American Banking Financial Institution Consultants * The Brick House * Class Action * Co-op Power * Earth Action * Gasoline Alley Foundation * Living Learning In Faith Everyday * Meadowbrook Lane Capital (MBLC) Investment Bank * New England Small Farm Institute * Peace Development Fund * Post Oil Solutions * Society to Benefit Everyone * United for a Fair Economy * many more, informally -- William Spademan President Common Good Finance Corporation democratic economics for a sustainable world PO Box 21, Ashfield, MA 01330 USA +1 413-628-3336 The Department of Economics, Faculty of Arts at The University of Manitoba invites applications and nominations for the position of Head of the Department of Economics. Department of Economics Headship Faculty of Arts University of Manitoba Position Vacancy # CA666 & 06727 The Department of Economics, Faculty of Arts at The University of Manitoba invites applications and nominations for the position of Head of the Department of Economics. The successful candidate must hold a PhD and be eligible for appointment as a tenured position within Economics at the rank of Associate Professor or Professor commensurate with qualifications and experience. The appointment as Head is normally for a five year period to begin January 1, 2010 or as soon thereafter. The administrative duties of Department Heads in the Faculty of Arts are governed by University Policy 1009 and also by the terms of collective agreements and the policies and protocols of the Faculty of Arts. The criteria to be used in assessing candidates for the Headship will include the applicant's or nominee's excellence in research (field and specialization are open), performance in teaching, and service, the ability to represent the interests of the Department in working with the Dean and other Heads of Departments, the ability to foster and promote the success of the Department's academic staff, the ability to sustain apositive working environment for faculty, support staff and graduate students, and the ability to respond effectively to both undergraduate and graduate student issues. Evidence of strong administrative leadership skills are required. Short-listed candidates for the position will be expected to address a public forum of faculty, support staff, and students, and make a research presentation. The University of Manitoba encourages applications from qualified women and men, including members of visible minorities, Aboriginal peoples, and persons with disabilities. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority. Confidential applications and nominations should include a curriculum vitae, a letter of intent and three confidential letters of reference and should be received no later than noon (CST) on August 15, 2009 (please note this is a new closing date). All materials should be sent to: Dr. Janice Ristock, Chair Economics Headship Search Advisory Committee Dean's Office, Faculty of Arts University of Manitoba 310 Fletcher Argue Building Winnipeg, Manitoba R3T 2N2 Further information concerning the Department and the University may be obtained from http://www.umanitoba.ca/faculty/arts/economics. Application materials, including letters of reference, will be handled in accordance with the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (Manitoba). Please note that curriculum vitas may be provided to participating members of the search process. ----- To be removed from this mailing list, please send an email message to the address leefs at umkc.edu asking to be removed from this list. Problems or questions should be directed to sullivanmw at umkc.edu. &*TO; From urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu Mon Mar 30 08:44:47 2009 From: urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu (urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu) Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 10:44:47 -0400 Subject: [URPE] [NYC] Brecht Forum: Reportback from El Salvador/Signs of the Time Art Opening Message-ID: <49D0DADF.3060505@lists.econ.utah.edu> PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY Brecht Forum Reportback from El Salvador/Signs of the Time Art Opening Click here to check out the Brecht Forum's new *ECONOMY WATCH* webpage for left analyses of the global financial crisis. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thursday, April 02 7:30 pm ?El Salvador Venci?! Reflections on the FMLN Presidential Election Victory The March 15th victory of the FMLN presidential candidate Mauricio Funes is an historic victory for the Salvadoran people, but its impact goes beyond the boundaries of a small Central American nation... More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Saturday, April 04 4:00 pm - 8:00 pm EXHIBIT OPENING & RECEPTION Signs of the Times Paintings by Francisco Verastegui More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sunday, April 05 10:00 am - 4:00 pm ONE-DAY WORKSHOP Looking at Internalized Racism A Workshop Series for People of Color Facilitated by Gail Burton & Kayhan Irani Building on the explorations of the Cop-in-the-Head workshop on Internalized Racism in February 2009, we have started a new series for people of color to examine internalized racism using the tools from the Theater of the Oppressed arsenal... More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sunday, April 05 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm Afro-Latino Cafe Join us on occasional Sundays for music and dance from some of the many Afro-Latino communities in the New York region... More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monday, April 06 7:30 pm URUGUAY FILM FESTIVAL El Viaje Hacia El Mar - A Trip Toward the Ocean /RECEPTION AT 6:30/ The birth place of writer Eduardo Galeano and home to a thriving folk and rock scene, Uruguay is a small country with enormous cultural output. In anticipation of Uruguay's national election, the Brecht Forum in conjunction with the Ministry of Culture of Uruguay is proud to host this year's Uruguay Film Festival 2009. More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thursday, April 09 7:30 pm BOOK PARTY / FORUM Film Noir, American Workers and Postwar Hollywood More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monday, April 13 7:30 pm URUGUAY FILM FESTIVAL La Matinee-The Matinee /RECEPTION AT 6:30/ The protagonists of this documentary are the veterans of Murga (a traditional musical and theatrical performance at Montevideo carnival). More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tuesday, April 14 7:30 pm FILM SCREENING & DISCUSSION Venezuela Revolution from the Inside Out Discussion with Filmmaker Clifton Ross More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Wednesday, April 15 7:30 pm The Crisis In (Left) Publishing Rev. 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Thank you! --Kim Christensen **************************************************************************** Assistant Professor of Economics (Part-time) Department: School of Natural & Social Sciences Deadline: Until Filled Description: The Economics program at Purchase College SUNY seeks an economist to fill a one-year, half-time position. The teaching load is one course per semester plus advising and supervision of six senior projects. Candidates should have experience teaching financial economics, managerial economics, economics of the arts, and economics of art and entertainment and be able to contribute to the college's Arts Management program. Qualifications: The successful candidate should have completed a PhD in economics by the date of appointment. Salary: $22,500 (Subject to budgetary approval) Start Date: September 1, 2009 Review of candidates will begin immediately and will continue until the search committee determines a final pool. Women and minorities are strongly encouraged to apply. Purchase College is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative action employer. To apply, please send statement of interest referencing Job Code ECO031609 and current CV (including names of three references) to: Affirmative Action Officer Purchase College SUNY 735 Anderson Hill Road Purchase, NY 10577 Fax 914-251-5977 Email: human.resources at purchase.edu (preferred method) -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Qualifications: The successful candidate should have completed a PhD in economics by the date of appointment. Salary: $22,500 (Subject to budgetary approval) Start Date: September 1, 2009 Review of candidates will begin immediately and will continue until the search committee determines a final pool. Women and minorities are strongly encouraged to apply. Purchase College is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative action employer. To apply, please send statement of interest referencing Job Code ECO031609 and current CV (including names of three references) to: Affirmative Action Officer Purchase College SUNY 735 Anderson Hill Road Purchase, NY 10577 Fax 914-251-5977 Email: human.resources at purchase.edu (preferred method) Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics Hampshire College, an independent, innovative liberal arts institution and member of the Five College consortium, is accepting applications for a one year Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics position with the possibility of an additional year depending on future funding. The School of Social Science seeks a general economist with a strong commitment to teaching. Applicants with a focus on heterodox approaches to theory and practice, U.S. economics/financial markets, economic development, and feminist economics are particularly encouraged to apply. Teaching load is two courses per semester and one course during January Term. Interest in assisting students with their own independent research projects is expected. Interdisciplinary approaches encouraged. Ph.D. preferred. Hampshire College is committed to building a culturally diverse intellectual community and strongly encourages applications from women and minority candidates. This position begins fall 2009, pending budgetary approval. We offer a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits program. Review of applications begins April 15, 2009. Applicants should submit a statement of educational philosophy, teaching and research interests, curriculum vita, sample of written work, and three letters of recommendation to: Economics Search Committee School of Social Science Hampshire College 893 West Street Amherst, MA 01002-3359 www.hampshire.edu Hampshire College is an equal opportunity institution, committed to diversity in education and employment. ----- To be removed from this mailing list, please send an email message to the address leefs at umkc.edu asking to be removed from this list. Problems or questions should be directed to sullivanmw at umkc.edu. &*TO; -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Laurie Nisonoff Professor of Economics Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics Hampshire College, an independent, innovative liberal arts institution and member of the Five College consortium, is accepting applications for a one year Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics position with the possibility of an additional year depending on future funding. The School of Social Science seeks a general economist with a strong commitment to teaching. Applicants with a focus on heterodox approaches to theory and practice, U.S. economics/financial markets, economic development, and feminist economics are particularly encouraged to apply. Teaching load is two courses per semester and one course during January Term. Interest in assisting students with their own independent research projects is expected. Interdisciplinary approaches encouraged. Ph.D. preferred. Hampshire College is committed to building a culturally diverse intellectual community and strongly encourages applications from women and minority candidates. This position begins fall 2009, pending budgetary approval. We offer a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits program. Review of applications begins April 15, 2009. Applicants should submit a statement of educational philosophy, teaching and research interests, curriculum vita, sample of written work, and three letters of recommendation to: Economics Search Committee School of Social Science Hampshire College 893 West Street Amherst, MA 01002-3359 www.hampshire.edu Hampshire College is an equal opportunity institution, committed to diversity in education and employment. -- 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 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Shliefer basically dismisses "our" side and notes that all the data (world wide) supports the argument of Fischer and Balcerowicz and their colleagues that MILTON FRIEDMAN was/is right and the liberalization since 1980 has produced a dramatic improvement in the world's standards of living ... I was disgusted in reading the review and believe the JEL should be BOMBARDED with letters complaining about it ... ESPECIALLY in the context of the world wide implosion of the neo-liberal model the JEL is behaving ridiculously irresponsibly ... I hope enough people I'm writing to share my outrage so as to send in letters ... Solidarity, Mike (Michael Meeropol) -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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In the words of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. who gave his life fighting for the rights of the Memphis sanitation workers and for a poor people's movement for economic rights, "A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth?and say: `This is not just.'" /The program (partial list): / * *Dean Baker*, Co-Director, Center for Economic and Policy Research, and author of */Plunder and Blunder: The Rise and Fall of the Bubble Economy /* * *Stanley Aronowitz*, Prof. of Sociology, & Urban Education, CUNY Graduate Center, and author of Left Turn: Forging a New Political Future ; University wide Officer, Professional Staff Congress, AFT * *Ajamu Sankofa*, Private Health Insurance Must Go Coalition * *Lillian Roberts*, Ex. Dir. DC 37, American Federation of State County & Municipal Employees (AFSCME) * video message from U.S. Representative *Dennis Kucinich * * Representatives of the April 3 and 4 marches on Wall Street Coalitions * presenters from housing and community service coalitions /Suggested donation $10, (no one will be turned away) To Benefit for WBAI and the NY Society for Ethical Culture / Further information: buildingbridgesradio at gmail.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ /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./ Center for Economic and Policy Research, 1611 Connecticut Ave, NW, Suite 400, Washington, DC 20009 Phone: (202) 293-5380, Fax: (202) 588-1356, Home: www.cepr.net Subscribe ? Unsubscribe ? Update Subscriptions ? RSS -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 7365 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/urpe-announcements/attachments/20090331/976cd293/attachment.txt -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Job duties include normal teaching load in general and specialty areas ( introductory, intermediate, and advanced courses in macroeconomics, quantitative analysis, and in areas of individual interest/research such as International Finance, Financial Economics, and Public Finance/Public Sector Economics, research leading to publication in academic journals, student advisement and recruitment activities, and college service activities. Required qualifications: Ph.D. by date of appointment, one year of teaching experience, developed research agenda. Generalist with fields of interest - E0, Macroeconomics, C0 Mathematical and Quantitative Methods, H0 Public Economics, G0 Financial Economics Preferred qualifications: Ph.D. already awarded, established record of scholarship and publications, specialization in at least one of the fields of interest. Experience with course instructional technologies such as Blackboard, Angel, and online course management systems. To apply, submit a letter of application, c.v., a separate statement of teaching philisophy and methodology, teaching evaluations, unofficial copy of graduate transcripts, one short writing sample (no more than 15 pages), names and contact information of three references. Candidates invited for interviews will be asked to make a presentation on their research as well as a separate teaching demonstration. Apply to: Economics Search, HEP, Farmingdale State College, 2350 Broadhollow Road, Farmingdale, NY 11735. Only fully complete application packages will be reviewed. Review of applications begins April 24, 2009 and continues until the position is filled. For more information go to Human Resources at www.farmingdale.edu. Farmingdale State College, a campus of the State University of New York, is a co-educational, public college with an enrollment of more than 6,800 undergraduate students. The College is located on Long Island, just 25 miles east of New York City. 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Thanks Scott Carter Department of Economics The University of Tulsa +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ "American Marxism: Lessons in Movement Building from Oklahoma Socialists" An evening with Jim Bissett, Chair and Professor Department of History and Geography, Elon University, North Carolina Introductory Comments by Scott Carter, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, The University of Tulsa WHEN AND WHERE: April 20, 2009 7 PM Lecture Hall Helmerich #219 Collins Business Building, The University of Tulsa 800 South Tucker Drive, Tulsa, OK 74104 In his provocative book "Agrarian Socialism in America: Marx, Jefferson, and Jesus in the Oklahoma Countryside, 1904-1920", Professor Bissett chronicles the rise and fall of the Socialist Party of Oklahoma during the first two decades of the twentieth century, when socialism in the United States enjoyed its golden age. To explain socialism's popularity in Oklahoma, Bissett looks back to the state's strong tradition of agrarian reform. Drawing most of its support from working farmers, the Socialist Party of Oklahoma was rooted in such well-established organizations as the Farmers Alliance and the Indiahoma Farmers Union. And to broaden its appeal, the Party borrowed from the ideologies of both the American Revolution and Christianity. By making Marxism speak in American terms, the author argues, Party activists counteracted the prevailing notion that socialism was un-American. Come hear Professor Bissett speak about this fascinating history and the lessons that can be drawn from it for 21st Century movement building. Sponsored by the Social Science Interest Group of The University of Tulsa -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Message-ID: <49D40F31.5090806@lists.econ.utah.edu> The Brecht Forum Presents: Noam Chomsky at Riverside Church Friday, June 12, 2009 "Crisis & Hope: Theirs and Ours" http://brechtforum.org/events/crisis-hope-theirs-and-ours On the forty-year anniversary of the publishing of his classic "American Power & the New Mandarins," Noam Chomsky comes to the historic Riverside Church in Harlem, New York City, to address a wide range of issues from the global economic crisis, US military intervention in the Middle East and South Asia, left electoral and social movement upsurges in places like El-Salvador, Bolivia and Venezuela, and the election of Barack Obama. Chomsky, whom The New York Times Book Review has called "arguably the most important intellectual alive," is the author of over 100 books including in the last few years; What We Say Goes: Conversations on U.S. Power in a Changing World, Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy and Hegemony or Survival. /Sliding scale: $20/$30/$50/$100+/ This is a special fundraiser event to ensure the survival of the Brecht Forum during the current economic crisis, please donate what you can. http://brechtforum.org/events/crisis-hope-theirs-and-ours Max Uhlenbeck Development Coordinator Brecht Forum (212) 242-4201 ex 12 Max at brechtforum.org -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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The first is that the lines at the registration table will be long (despite our best efforts to staff them with many volunteers). Second, we have pre-conference expenses. Your early registration helps us financially to meet up-front expenses. Third, you will save a good bit of money. Thank you to those who have already registered in advance. In order to ensure that everyone is able to come to the Left Forum we are extending early registration through April 9th. After this point online and mail registration will end. Registration will be available at the door at Pace (One Pace Plaza, across the street from New York City Hall). You can register online by clicking here . Seth Adler Conference Coordinator 212-817-2003 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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The overall theme was 'Building Another World,' and drew participants from the East Coast, South and Midwest of the US, even Alaska and Puerto Rico. Internationally, delegations came from Quebec, Venezuela, Peru, Mexico, and Canada. People represented economic justice and green jobs projects, food coops and credit unions, worker coops and labor unions, and peace and justice organizing efforts. "Our diversity was very dynamic and creative," said Julie Matthaei, a USSEN coordinating committee member. "It served us well in affirming our unity, discussing differences, and helping us reach a deeper understanding of the solidarity economy in our context." ************************** Please read the rest of this article at: http://www.solidarityeconomy.net/ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Roger Even Bove, PhD Department of Economics & Finance (retired) West Chester University West Chester PA 19383-2220 rbove at wcupa.edu or rebove at post.harvard.edu Please request home email, address and phone number from me by emailing me here.. ________________________________ From: paolo conti [mailto:paolo.conti at cedites.org] Sent: Thu 4/2/2009 10:19 AM To: The Crisis Observer Subject: Crisis Observer, an new online collaborative initiative aimed at contributing to making sense of the developing global financial crisis Dear member of the American Economic Association, I am writing you to let you know about Crisis Observer , an new online collaborative initiative aimed at contributing to making sense of the developing global financial crisis. Cedites, a non-profit organization based in Milan, Italy, coordinates a group of journalists and economists in several countries who monitor a growing number of newspapers, magazines, blogs and online resources on a daily basis to select the most important and best international stories that will help readers to understand the global scenario. Crisis Observer is not a simple online news aggregator: it does not suggest readers each and every story on the Net, but only a short selection of the Must-Reads, to allow them to know the essentials in just half an hour every day. This website sports a growing, global readership among bankers, investors, journalists, bloggers and other people interested in understanding the financial crisis from a broader point of view. I hope you will find Crisis Observer useful and I apologize if this email has reached you by mistake. Finally, we are always interested in increasing our network of collaborators. 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We will focus on comparisons and connections between China, Mexico, and the United States. Speakers at the conference will include scholars and activists from all three countries. Major themes of the conference include: * The impact of economic and environmental crisis on workers * The role of TNCs * Migration trends and impacts * Prospects for labor law reform and labor rights * Strategies for overcoming inequality For more information, please visit http://irle.ucla.edu/workandinequality2009.htm Chris Tilly Director, Institute for Research on Labor and Employment and Professor of Urban Planning IRLE UCLA 10945 Le Conte Ave., Suite 2107 Los Angeles, CA 90095-1478 Phone 310-267-4738, Fax 310-794-6403 Chris_Tilly at irle.ucla.edu http://irle.ucla.edu http://www.spa.ucla.edu/dept.cfm?d=up&s=faculty&f=faculty1.cfm&id=515 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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There is a group of graduate students from the University of Missouri at Kansas City already planning to go; if you wish to join them, please write to Ian Fletcher at ian.fletcher at usbic.net. Best Regards, Ian Fletcher Adjunct Fellow US Business & Industry Council 225 Bush St., 16th Fl. San Francisco, CA 94104 USA 415.439.8377 | 415.358.4320 (fax) | 415.238.8145 (cell) americaneconomicalert.org -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 5083 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/urpe-announcements/attachments/20090404/cbebf6d3/attachment.txt From mameerop at gmail.com Sat Apr 4 09:42:43 2009 From: mameerop at gmail.com (Michael Meeropol) Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2009 10:42:43 -0500 Subject: [URPE] Lousy review in JEL by A. Shliefer Message-ID: <474bd0eb0904040842r5bf05894hcc5003c57d002bc4@mail.gmail.com> Dear Folks: (sorry for earlier confusions) The JEL just published a joint review of two books on the impact of globalization on world poverty and world inequality -- It is written by A. Shliefer Here is a link to the Journal of Economic Literature ABSTRACT of the article by Shliefer--- http://www.aeaweb.org/articles.php?doi=10.1257/jel.47.1.123 American Economic Association members can read the article on line. If not, those having access to a library that gets the JEL (March 2009) can read the article ... The SHORT VERSION of the right-wing book reviewed (the more heterodox book includes some radical economists together with Joe Stiglitz) is that between 1980 and 2005 the rise of Milton Friedman style economics was a great success --- faster economic growth, reduced poverty, reduced inflation, increased democracy --- you name it. Stiglitz and company who disagree with the right wing book under review are virtually dismissed with an anecdote which points out that at one point in the book Stiglitz et al argue that budget deficits do not do much harm but at another point they criticize GW Bush's deficits --- Most importantly, you would never know from Shliefer's review that the neo-liberal model he supports (and the book he supports) had collapsed in flames this winter! --- You can't blame the book under review which was published in 2006 but Shliefer has less of an excuse. I urge people to check out the review and perhaps write to the editor of the JEL stating that since the issues are CONTESTED it is essential that the JEL be opened to debate rather than have Shliefer's review the last word ... Mike Meeropol -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Best, Cyrus Nina binac at umn.edu As a service to our authors, we are pleased to provide you with a monthly report tracking readership for any articles you publish with The Berkeley Electronic Press: "OPEC in the Epoch of Globalization: An Event Study of Global Oil Prices" 4 full-text downloads between 2009-03-05 and 2009-04-05 473 full-text downloads since date of posting (2007-02-20) To encourage readership, simply refer people to the following web address: http://www.bepress.com/gej/vol7/iss1/2 "Skill Formation, Outsourcing, and Craft Unionism in Air Transport" 1 full-text download between 2009-02-13 and 2009-04-05 300 full-text downloads since date of posting (2005-03-25) To encourage readership, simply refer people to the following web address: http://www.bepress.com/gej/vol5/iss1/4 Please note that "full-text download" refers specifically to the number of times the entire paper or article was downloaded from the site. To find out what makes bepress's methodology for counting downloads exceptional, go to http://www.bepress.com/download_counts.html . Thank you again for publishing your work with The Berkeley Electronic Sincerely, Aaron Edlin Co-Founder, The Berkeley Electronic Press The Berkeley Electronic Press NOTE: For substantive replies or inquiries, please contact support at bepress.com. Responses to the email address from which this message was sent will not be read. From urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu Mon Apr 6 07:18:11 2009 From: urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu (urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu) Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2009 09:18:11 -0400 Subject: [URPE] [NYC] Brecht Forum: Uruguayan Film Series/Left Turn/Film Noir Message-ID: <49DA0113.4070204@lists.econ.utah.edu> PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY Brecht Forum Uruguayan Film Series/Left Turn/Film Noir Click here to check out the Brecht Forum's new *ECONOMY WATCH* webpage for left analyses of the global financial crisis. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monday, April 06 7:15 pm URUGUAYAN FILM SCREENINGS El Viaje Hacia El Mar - A Trip Toward the Ocean /RECEPTION AT 6:30/ The birth place of writer Eduardo Galeano and home to a thriving folk and rock scene, Uruguay is a small country with enormous cultural output. In anticipation of Uruguay's national election, the Brecht Forum in conjunction with the Ministry of Culture of Uruguay is proud to host this year's Uruguay Film Festival 2009. More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Wednesday, April 08 7:30 pm The Need for Left Political Organization An Open Forum on Issues Raised by the /Manifesto for a Left Turn/ The 15th Street Manifesto Group The 15th Street Manifesto Group will open the evening with a short presentation updating the current state of the political, economic, familial and cultural crisis facing us... More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thursday, April 09 7:30 pm BOOK PARTY / FORUM Film Noir, American Workers and Postwar Hollywood More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monday, April 13 7:15 pm URUGUAYAN FILM SCREENINGS La Matinee-The Matinee /RECEPTION AT 6:30/ The protagonists of this documentary are the veterans of Murga (a traditional musical and theatrical performance at Montevideo carnival). More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tuesday, April 14 7:30 pm FILM SCREENING & DISCUSSION Venezuela Revolution from the Inside Out Discussion with Filmmaker Clifton Ross More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Wednesday, April 15 7:30 pm The Crisis In (Left) Publishing Rev. Rachel Guidera, Ramsey Kanaan, Colin Robinson & Amy Scholder More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thursday, April 16 7:30 pm BOOK PARTY & FORUM Gringo: A Coming-of-Age in Latin America Chesa Boudin ?This is not Latin American for Yuppies, which shouldn't be much of a surprise, knowing the lineage. It's cheap beer, fried plantains, long dusty bus rides, radical politics, the repeated kindness of desperately poor people sharing what they have with an outsider, and Chesa Boudin's eagerness to share what he's seeing and what he's feeling, with sympathy and empathy?as he tries to sort it all out. There's much to learn in this book." ?Seymour Hersh, staff writer at the New Yorker More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Saturday, April 18 10:00 am - 5:00 pm 2-DAY WORKSHOP BEGINS Cop-in-the-Head Facilitators TBA More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sunday, April 19 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm Afro-Latino Cafe Join us on occasional Sundays for music and dance from some of the many Afro-Latino communities in the New York region... More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monday, April 20 7:15 pm URUGUAYAN FILM SCREENINGS La Perrera--The Dog Pound /RECEPTION AT 6:30/ More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Wednesday, April 22 7:30 pm FILM SCREENING & DISCUSSION Coraz?n de Fabrica/Heart of the Factory Discussion with Filmmaker Ernesto Ardito More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Wednesday, April 22 7:30 pm FILM SCREENING & DISCUSSION Coraz?n de Fabrica/Heart of the Factory Discussion with Filmmaker Ernesto Ardito More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Saturday, April 25 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm WORKSHOP Diabetic Dramas Robbie McCauley Award-winning actress Robbie McCauley returns to the Brecht Forum to lead a series of workshops called "Diabetic Dramas" based on subject matter from her performance piece, /Sugar,/ which looks at everything there is to see about sugar, from slavery to colonialism to American mythologies to diabetes... 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--------------060205010400090908040401-- --------------010900020601060302010000 Content-Type: text/plain; name="Attached Message Part" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename="Attached Message Part" _______________________________________________ Leftforum2009 mailing list Post: Leftforum2009 at lists.people-link.net List info: http://lists.people-link.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/leftforum2009 To Unsubscribe Send email to: Leftforum2009-unsubscribe at lists.people-link.net Or visit: http://lists.people-link.net/cgi-bin/mailman/options/leftforum2009/soapbox%40comcast.net You are subscribed as: soapbox at comcast.net --------------010900020601060302010000-- From urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu Tue Apr 7 17:07:38 2009 From: urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu (urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu) Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2009 19:07:38 -0400 Subject: [URPE] [NYC] 4/8: Manhattan Neighborhood Network Presents "Scary Times: The Economic Crisis" @ 9:30 PM Message-ID: <49DBDCBA.7070209@lists.econ.utah.edu> Dear Friends, The Brecht Forum and Manhattan Neighborhood Network are proud to broadcast "Scary Times: The Economic Crisis with Max Fraad Wolff and William Tabb." This one hour special will explore the roots of the economic crisis and potential for social movements to fight against cutbacks. Don't miss this special broadcast! The show will air on Channel 34 at 9:30 PM on April 8, 2009. Future broadcasts will be on: Wed, 4/15 at 9 PM, channel 34 Thur, 4/23 at 12:30 PM, channel 34 Please tune in and spread the word! The Brecht Forum _______________________________________________ Brechtevents1 mailing list Brechtevents1 at lists.mayfirst.org https://lists.mayfirst.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/brechtevents1 From urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu Thu Apr 9 05:55:33 2009 From: urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu (urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu) Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2009 07:55:33 -0400 Subject: [URPE] [NYC] CEPA Tax Expenditures and Social Policy Message-ID: <49DDE235.6070709@lists.econ.utah.edu> Tax Expenditures and Social Policy: Are We Getting Our Money?s Worth? Friday, April 17, 2009, 9:30 AM-11:30 AM New America Foundation Conference Room, 1899 L Street, NW (4th Floor), Washington, DC To sign up for this event, please go to the New America Foundation's page at http://www.newamerica.net/events/2009/tax_expenditures_and_social_policy The federal government spends more than $700 billion annually (about the size of the TARP program) on exclusions, deduction and credits provided to individual taxpayers to encourage certain economic and social behaviors. Join the New America Foundation and the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis for a lively debate on the cost and effectiveness of these federal tax expenditures, and how they might be reformed-featuring advocates and critics from government, academia and the business community. Keynote Address: Robert Frank Henrietta Johnson Louis Professor of Management, Cornell University ?Economic View? Columnist, The New York Times Setting the Table: Distributional analysis of tax expenditures - Dr. Eric Toder, Senior Fellow, Urban Institute Proposal for tax expenditure reform -- Maya MacGuineas, President, Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget Panel Discussion - The Pros and Cons of Existing Tax Expenditures: Moderated by the Honorable Jim Nussle Former Director, Office of Management and Budget; Former Chairman, US House Budget Committee THE HEALTH CARE PREMIUM EXCLUSION Roy Ramthun Visiting Fellow at the Council for Affordable Insurance; Former Senior Health Policy Advisor to President George W. Bush Douglas Holtz-Eakin, President, DHE Consulting; Director of domestic and economic policy, 2008 John McCain presidential campaign; Former director, Congressional Budget Office THE HOME MORTGAGE DEDUCTION Paul C. Bishop Managing Director of Real Estate Research, National Association of Realtors Dr Danilo Pelletiere Research Director, National Low Income Housing Coalition THE RETIREMENT PLAN EXCLUSION David Wray President, Profit Sharing/401k Council of America (PSCA) Teresa Ghilarducci Irene and Bernard L. Schwartz Professor of Economic Policy Analysis, New School for Social Research * * For help with this mailing list go to the CEPA Web site: * http://www.newschool.edu/cepa/ From leefs at UMKC.EDU Thu Apr 9 16:04:00 2009 From: leefs at UMKC.EDU (Lee, Frederic) Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 17:04:00 -0500 Subject: [URPE] [UMKCLEE-URPE] Heterodox Economics Newsletter 80 Message-ID: <9A72753A447165498D6B63479DB2E7C90641416C@KC-MSX3.kc.umkc.edu> Heterodox Economics Newsletter www.heterodoxnews.com Issue 80: April 9 , 2009 From bogus@does.not.exist.com Thu Apr 2 09:08:15 2009 From: bogus@does.not.exist.com () Date: Thu, 02 Apr 2009 15:08:15 -0000 Subject: No subject Message-ID: Sometimes I wish for a quite couple of weeks when I do not get much copy = for the Newsletter and relax a little bit. But do heterodox economics = agree with this? Noooooo. This past couple of weeks I received numerous = calls for papers for conferences I never heard of from places I never = realized had heterodox activities going on. Then there were many e-mails = about seminars, jobs, books, journals, and even a new interdisciplinary = doctoral program in Marxism. So the invisible hands of heterodox = economists are making sure I never get a break.=20 The FYI section of the Newsletter is for miscellaneous material which = may be of interest to heterodox economists. Thus, it includes such items = as information about prizes, lectures, and different kinds of = political-economic activities. It is always worth a quick glance because = among its varied items you might find something really interesting. The = FYI section is also the place obituaries are put; and it saddens me to = point out the obituary of Charles Craypo, a very nice and important = heterodox economist who was for many years a major contributor to the = heterodox program at Notre Dame. Fred Lee In this issue: =20 Call for Papers = =20 - What is the Common? - Second International Gathering on "The Workers' Economy" - II Jornadas de Econom=EDa Cr=EDtica - 6th International Marx & Engels Colloquium - Marxist Literary Group - Labour, Capital and Society/Travail, capital et soci=E9t=E9 - Historical Materialism Sixth Annual Conference, 27-29 November 2009, = Central London - URPE Summer Conference August 15 - 18, 2009=20 - The HETSA 2009 Conference - Methodology of Economics Research Area - "Oportunidades y Obst=E1culos para el Desarrollo de Argentina. = Lecciones de la post-convertibilidad" - FIRB-RISC Conference - New Marxian Times - EAEPE Conference 2009 - The Society of Government Economists (SGE) - 41st UK History of Economic Thought Conference - "Work & Inequality in the Global Economy: China, Mexico, US" - Colloque au CEPN - The International Network of Economic Methodology (INEM) - Capital as Power - Bulletin of Political Economy - Second Conference on Early Economic Developments =20 Conferences, Seminars and Lectures = =20 - The Japanese Society for Post Keynesian Economics - International Initiative for Promoting Political Economy - Association of Heterodox Economics - Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture - H2S Workshop Series - Innovazione, crescita, occupazione, produzione internazionale - What Lies Behind: Causes and Consequences of the World Economic Crisis - "American Marxism: Lessons in Movement Building from Oklahoma = Socialists" Job Postings for Heterodox Economists = =20 =20 - Economic and Fiscal Policy Officer - Gettysburg College - Community Division Organizer - Common Good Banks - The University of Manitoba - Purchase College SUNY - Hampshire College - Institute of Social Studies - Farmingdale State College =20 Heterodox Conference Papers and Reports and Articles = =20 =20 - GDAE =20 Heterodox Journals and Newsletters = =20 =20 - MARXISM 21 - Journal of Economic Methodology - The Revista de Economia del Caribe - Challenge - New Political Economy - Bulletin of Political Economy =20 Heterodox Books and Book Series = =20 =20 - The Official History of Privatisation Vol. I - Hegel's Logic - The Myth of the Free Market - Keynes And Macroeconomics After 70=20 - Nature, Social Relations and Human Needs =20 Heterodox Graduate Program and Scholarships = =20 =20 - Gyeongsang National University =20 For Your Information = =20 =20 - 2009 Daniel Singer Essay Contest and Prize - Charles Craypo - Permanent Jobs Program for the U.S. - Joan Robinson Lectures - The Bourbons of Global - International Conference on Peer Reviewing - Crisis Observer - The Solidarity Economy Movement Emerges in Its First U.S. Conference=20 - Interview de Sergio Rossi - Computational Economics Clashes with Mainstream Economics - First Factory Tour for Economics Graduate Students and Faculty =20 =20 =20 ----- To be removed from this mailing list, please send an email message to the address leefs at umkc.edu asking to be removed from this list. 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Heterodox Economics Newsletter

www.heterodoxnews.com

Issue 80: April 9 , 2009

 

From the Editor

Sometimes I wish for a quite couple of weeks when I do not get much copy for the Newsletter and relax a little bit. But do heterodox economics agree with = this? Noooooo. This past couple of weeks I received numerous calls for papers = for conferences I never heard of from places I never realized had heterodox activities going on. Then there were many e-mails about seminars, jobs, = books, journals, and even a new interdisciplinary doctoral program in Marxism. = So the invisible hands of heterodox economists are making sure I never get a = break.

The FYI section of the Newsletter is for miscellaneous material which = may be of interest to heterodox economists. Thus, it includes such items as = information about prizes, lectures, and different kinds of political-economic = activities. It is always worth a quick glance because among its varied items you = might find something really interesting. The FYI section is also the place = obituaries are put; and it saddens me to point out the obituary of Charles Craypo, a = very nice and important heterodox economist who was for many years a major = contributor to the heterodox program at Notre Dame.

Fred Lee

In this issue:

 

Call for Papers

- What is the Common?
- Second International Gathering on "The Workers' = Economy"
- II Jornadas de Econom=EDa Cr=EDtica
- 6th International Marx & Engels Colloquium
- Marxist Literary Group
- Labour, Capital and Society/Travail, capital et soci=E9t=E9
- Historical Materialism Sixth Annual Conference, 27-29 November 2009, Central London
- URPE Summer Conference August 15 – 18, 2009
- The HETSA 2009 Conference
- Methodology of Economics Research Area
- “Oportunidades y Obst=E1culos para el Desarrollo de Argentina. = Lecciones de la post-convertibilidad”
- FIRB-RISC Conference
- New Marxian Times
- EAEPE Conference 2009
- The Society of Government Economists (SGE)
- 41st UK History of Economic Thought Conference
- "Work & Inequality in the Global Economy: China, Mexico, = US"
- Colloque au CEPN
- The International Network of Economic Methodology (INEM)
- Capital as Power
- Bulletin of Political Economy
- Second Conference on Early Economic = Developments

 

Conferences, Seminars = and Lectures

- The Japanese Society for Post Keynesian Economics
- International Initiative for Promoting Political Economy
- Association of Heterodox Economics
- Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture
- H2S Workshop Series
- Innovazione, crescita, occupazione, produzione internazionale
- What Lies Behind: Causes and Consequences of the World Economic = Crisis
- "American Marxism: Lessons in Movement Building from Oklahoma Socialists"

Job Postings for Heterodox = Economists

 

- Economic and Fiscal Policy Officer
- Gettysburg College
- Community Division Organizer - Common Good Banks
- The University of Manitoba
- Purchase College SUNY
- Hampshire College
- Institute of Social Studies
- Farmingdale State College

 

Heterodox Conference Papers and Reports and = Articles

 

- GDAE  

Heterodox Journals and = Newsletters

 

- MARXISM 21
- Journal of Economic Methodology
- The Revista de Economia del Caribe
- Challenge
- New Political Economy
- Bulletin of Political Economy

 

Heterodox Books and Book = Series

 

- The Official History of Privatisation Vol. I
- Hegel's Logic
- The Myth of the Free Market
- Keynes And Macroeconomics After 70
- Nature, Social Relations and Human Needs

 

Heterodox Graduate Program and = Scholarships

 

- Gyeongsang National University

 

For Your Information

 

- 2009 Daniel Singer Essay Contest and Prize
- Charles Craypo
- Permanent Jobs Program for the U.S.
- Joan Robinson Lectures
- The Bourbons of Global
- International Conference on Peer Reviewing
- Crisis Observer
- The Solidarity Economy Movement Emerges in Its First U.S. Conference =
- Interview de Sergio Rossi
- Computational Economics Clashes with Mainstream Economics
- First Factory Tour for Economics Graduate Students and = Faculty

 

 

 

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This story should be followed by an article in the student newspaper, The Bowdoin Orient, latter today. Hopefully the story, particularly the web article, will be picked up by a national news organization that will expose the lies told by the Administration (like the door wasn't locked it was just heavy or our lawyer sanctioned the violations of due process) through investigative reporting. My experience should generate national interest, particularly given the favorable decision in the Ward Churchill case last week that IHE decided to play off of. If this happens, hopefully the tide will turn. The IHE story can be found at http://www.insidehighered.com/news . Also the FIRE site (Foundation for Individual Rights in Education) may have access to more extensive documents later today. (http://www.thefire.org/ ). Please feel free to forward this message to relevant listserves. If so inclined, you can also send a message to Bowdoin's President, Barry Mills: bmills at bowdoin.edu Once again, thanks for your support. Best regards, Jon -- Jonathan P. Goldstein Professor Department of Economics 9600 College Station Bowdoin College Brunswick ME 04011 207 725 3595 207 725 3691 (fax) -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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From the origin of the industrial revolution to the present neoliberal capitalist era, workers councils have been recognized as a tangible means of both expressing working-class radicalism and grasping and consolidating power and control from the ruling class following labor organizing and direct insurgency. The editors Dario Azzellini and Immanuel Ness are seeking submissions for a special collection on issue on worker councils and worker control from a comparative and historical perspective. The editors consider worker councils as a significant form of challenging capitalism and obtaining and securing worker power over workplaces and communities. We are seeking essays that demonstrate how worker councils have engendered and advanced perceptible gains for labor. We also seek essays that examine the endogenous and exogenous state and capitalist forces aligned against workers councils and democracy under labor control. We encourage submissions that are both contemporary and historical, including case studies and theoretical essays that range over any geographical space (including international, cultural, country, or regional focus). The editors are seeking academically rigorous essays that also are accessible to workers, trade unionists, and activists. We encourage submissions that are free of jargon and rooted in historical experience. The culmination of the essays will be a book on workers councils published in many languages that embraces theory and action and easily grasped by a wide range of readers seeking democratic and socialist transformation through workers councils. Possible topics for submission may include the following: ? Theoretical and philosophical consideration of worker councils and worker control ? Historical case studies of worker councils drawn from throughout the world ? Contemporary regional and national examples of workers councils ? Worker councils as a means toward revolutionary transformation The editors consider the questions related to workers councils as praxis as essential to reclaiming democratic participation from capitalist forms of domination in general and, and particularly significant in the contemporary era of financial crisis. As such, please ensure that the essays are accessible to a broad range of readers, and offer a tangible contribution to research and praxis of social transformation. Proposals for essays are welcome and are due and will be accepted through August 15, 2009. Manuscript submissions are due November 15, 2009, with anticipated publication in early 2010. Essays should range from 5,000 to 7,500 words in length, although the editors will consider shorter or longer manuscripts on a case by case basis. Essays will be published in a volume to appear in several languages. The editors have already secured publication agreements from publishers for this work in several languages. Please send all proposals and manuscript submissions electronically to both editors: Dario Azzellini dnapress at gmx.net and Immanuel Ness iness at brooklyn.cuny.edu Postal Addresses and telephone: Dario Azzellini Immanuel Ness Lausitzer Str. 10 Brooklyn College Graduate Center/CUNY 10999 Berlin 25 Broadway - 7th Floor Germany New York 10004 NY (US) Tel. +49-30-61288162 Tel. +011-212-822-1715 Fax: +49-30-61288162 Fax. +011-212-966-4038 Email: dnapress at gmx.net iness at brooklyn.cuny.edu www.azzellini.net www.immanuelness.net Please circulate this call widely to all interested parties. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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And please consider picking up some URPE and Economy Connection brochures, and some Summer Conference flyers, from our table, and passing them out at panels with URPE members. From soapbox at comcast.net Tue Apr 14 21:09:54 2009 From: soapbox at comcast.net (Ruth Indeck) Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 23:09:54 -0400 Subject: [URPE] [Fwd: Left Forum starts Friday! (plenary schedule)] Message-ID: <49E55002.3090502@comcast.net> -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Left Forum starts Friday! (plenary schedule) Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 22:16:23 -0400 From: left forum To: leftforum2009 at lists.people-link.net Dear Friends, Left Forum is just a few days away! With over two hundred events, including panels, performances, bookfair exhibitions, and parties, this conference is the largest and most diverse that Left Forum has organized to date. Our opening plenary on Friday April 17th will kickoff the event at 6:30pm: THE CURRENT CRISIS: ECONOMIC, POLITICAL, ENVIRONMENTAL, AND CULTURAL DIMENSIONS Walden Bello - Focus on the Global South (Philippines) Katja Kipping - Die Linke (The Left Party, Germany) Adolph Reed Jr. - Political Science, University of Pennsylvania Richard D. Wolff - Economics, The New School Arlie Hochschild ? Sociology, University of California, Berkeley Julia Wrigley (Moderator) ? Sociology, The Graduate Center, CUNY The opening plenary will be followed by performance vignettes of ?The Cradle Will Rock,? ?Yo Miss: Teaching Inside the Cultural Divide,? and others. Registration opens at 5pm on Friday night. Please arrive on time to avoid lines! Feel free to join us at a small cocktail party before the opening plenary (tickets sold at registration desk). For a map of the area and directions to Pace University, see below. On Saturday, April 18th, registration opens at 8:30am. If you have already registered, please pick up your conference badge at our registration desk. The first panels and the Left bookfair begin at 10am. You can view our program online here: http://leftforum.org/?q=2009/program Our Saturday evening plenary at 7:30 pm will close out the night: THE OBAMA CAMPAIGN AND PRESIDENCY: LESSONS FOR THE LEFT Bill Fletcher, Jr. (Moderator) - Center for Labor Renewal, Black Commentator Stanley Aronowitz ? Sociology, The Graduate Center, CUNY Frances Fox Piven - Political Science, The Graduate Center, CUNY Barbara Epstein - History of Consciousness, University of California,Santa Cruz Gihan Perera- Miami Workers Center, Right to the City Alliance Barbara Ransby ? Gender and Women?s Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago Our closing plenary on Sunday evening, which addresses possibilities for social movements to make radical change today, will take place at 5pm: TURNING POINTS Nancy Holmstrom (Moderator) - Philosophy, Rutgers Medea Benjamin - Co-founder, Code Pink and Global Exchange Johanna Brenner - Sociology, Portland State University Kate Bronfenbrenner, Director of Labor Education and Research, New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University Bhairavi Desai - Executive Director, New York Taxi Workers Alliance Thank you so much for your support of this event. We look forward to seeing you on Friday night! In Solidarity, Left Forum Map and Directions: Left Forum 2009 will take place at One Pace Plaza, in New York City. For directions, see our website: http://leftforum.org/?q=2009/directions Check us out on Facebook and Myspace ! -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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The price for dinner is $25. (*RSVP required* - please see bottom of email. *Cash or Check Only for Dinner?No Credit Cards.*) * * *SPEAKER* */Nancy Rose /* Professor and Chair of Department of Economics at California State University, San Bernardino This seminar will explore the massive and innovative government employment programs set up during the Great Depression of the 1930s. It will focus on the work relief programs--the WPA, and the lesser known but even more interesting and controversial Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) and Civil Works Administration (CWA. These programs were indeed impressive. They provided work each month for 1.4 to 4.4 million people, paid decent wages, and developed an array of socially useful projects, in construction and repair of roads and public facilities, education and other services, the arts, and production of consumer goods. We will look at the development of these programs, the pressures that surrounded them, and the resulting constraints, which led almost inevitably to charges of inefficiency and ?make-work? or ?boondoggles,? criticisms that continue to plague government job-creation programs to this day. Actual shortcomings, especially the treatment of women and African-Americans, will also be explored. Finally, lessons will be drawn from these programs for the current Obama administration economic stimulus package as well as proposals for a permanent government jobs program. *ABOUT THE SPEAKER* NANCY ROSE is Professor and Chair of the Department of Economics at California State University, San Bernardino. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 1985, and specializes in gender studies, political economy, and U.S. economic history. Professor Rose has published several journal articles on gender, race, employment policy and welfare history, and is the author of /Put to Work: Relief Programs in the Great Depression/ (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1994, to be reissued in a new edition later this year) and /Workfare or Fair Work: Women, Welfare, and Government Work Programs /(New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1995). Her current research is on radical pedagogy and gay families. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please return the following to *Lisa Sachs *at* Lisasachs at gmail.com *by *Friday, April 17 at noon.* ____ I will ____ I will not attend the meeting on Monday, April 20. ____ I will ____ I will not join the group for dinner Name:_______________________ Phone:_____________________ (If you reserve for dinner and find you cannot come, please let Lisa Sachs know in advance at *Lisasachs at gmail.com )* 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.collins65 at verizon.net . Columbia University encourages persons with disabilities to participate in its programs and activities. University Seminar participants with disabilities who anticipate needing accommodations or who have questions about physical access may contact the Office of Disability Services at212-854-2388 or disability at columbia.edu . Disability accommodations, including sign-language interpreters, are available on request. Requests for accommodations must be made two weeks in advance. On campus, Seminar participants with disabilities should alert a Public Safety Officer that they need assistance accessing campus. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Message-ID: *Join us for an exciting conference on Saturday, April 18th!* *NEW DIRECTIONS FOR NEW JERSEY* http://betterchoicesfornj.org/content/get-involved Sponsored by the Better Choices Budget Campaign along with BlueWaveNJ, the Communications Workers of America, the Council of New Jersey State College Locals, the Grassroots Institute of New Jersey, Health Professionals and Allied Employees, the Housing and Community Development Network of New Jersey, the National Association of Social Workers - New Jersey Chapter, the National Housing Institute, the New Jersey Black Issues Convention, New Jersey Citizen Action, the New Jersey Education Association, the New Jersey Environmental Federation, the New Jersey Immigration Policy Network, New Jersey Policy Perspective, New Jersey Tenants Organization, the New Jersey Work Environment Council, the New Jersey Working Families Alliance, Service Employees International Union and the Sierra Club *Keynote speaker Robert Kuttner, Co-editor of American Prospect, Senior Fellow at Demos, Author of Obama?s Challenge: America?s Economic Crisis and the Power of a Transformative Presidency * *Register now!* Over the last year, New Jersey and the nation have fallen into the greatest economic crisis since the 1930s. But while the new leadership in Washington is committed to driving recovery through much-needed public investment, New Jersey is stuck in the tired, old pattern of short-sighted budget cuts and tax breaks that give the most to those who need the least help. In past years, Trenton?s response to the crisis has forced everyone but the rich to make sacrifices. We need new directions and a new discussion in New Jersey about what?s needed to put the state on the path to prosperity for all. You?re invited to hear from experts and join the dialogue on fresh approaches for fixing New Jersey?s broken tax system, making needed investments in schools and infrastructure, creating good, green jobs and facing up to other crucial issues like health care and criminal justice. We can meet our social needs and grow our economy. *Join us for an exciting day of sharing new ideas and planning how we can change the discussion in our state. * *Saturday, April 18th, 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., East Brunswick Hilton* WORKSHOPS: NINE BETTER CHOICES FOR NEW JERSEY - New Jersey?s Tax Structure 101 - Investing in Education - Reducing Poverty - Making Higher Education Affordable - Reforming Our Criminal Justice System - Green Jobs and Infrastructure Investments - Quality Health Care for All - Protecting the Rights of Immigrants - Foreclosure and Eviction Prevention Guest speakers and facilitators include Cornell Brooks of the New Jersey Institute for Social Justice; Nelson Carrasquillo of the Farmworkers Support Committee; Henry Coleman of the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy; Mary Forsberg of New Jersey Policy Perspective; Elsie Foster-Dublin of the Borough Council of Highland Park; James Harris of NAACP; Greg Le Roy of Good Jobs First; Ev Liebman of New Jersey Citizen Action; Serena Rice of Legal Services of New Jersey; Cuqui Rivera of Hispanic Directors Association; Joel Rogers of COWS; Daniel Santo Pietro of Hispanic Directors Association; Matt Shapiro of New Jersey Tenants Organization; Jon Shure of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities; and Nick Yovnello of the Council of New Jersey State College Locals. 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As you might remember, Nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega recently made some comments concerning the Summit of the Americas in which he mentioned that the absence of Cuba and Puerto Rico tarnishes the name of the event, and then he added that without these two countries there?s not Summit of The Americas, comments that we hope will bring the colonial case of Puerto Rico back to the agenda of the international community. For now the blog only has postings in spanish. Please circulate widely to those that you think will be interested in participating. Cheers, Ian -- Ian J. Seda-Irizarry Department of Economics 818 Thompson Hall University of Massachusetts-Amherst Phone: (413)-687-3889 From kris at nationalpriorities.org Wed Apr 22 10:02:53 2009 From: kris at nationalpriorities.org (Kris Elinevsky) Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 11:02:53 -0500 Subject: [URPE] Job Opportunity Message-ID: <010801c9c363$cbade680$aa00a8c0@kris> RESEARCH DIRECTOR National Priorities Project seeks Research Director with strong quantitative skills for dynamic, progressive research organization to plan and execute research for reports, web-based materials; provide socio-economic framework for materials; oversee database; supervise research staff. Requires Masters in economics, political science or related field; knowledge of federal social, tax and national security policies; quantitative skills; experience in research department of public policy or education organization; supervisory experience. Send resume, cover letter, references, writing sample to: Research Director Search, National Priorities Project, 243 King St # 239 Northampton, MA 01060 or kris at nationalpriorities.org. Review of resumes will begin mid-April. See www.nationalpriorities.org for details. AA/EOE -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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All completed papers must be received by June 20, 2009 (see below for paper formats) Send abstracts, papers, and all correspondence in Spanish to:/ *_fabierta at filo.uba.ar_ or _centrodoc at gmail.com_. /*Send abstracts, papers, and all correspondence in English to:*/* *_UBA.selfmanagement at gmail.com _The Facultad Abierta (Open University) Program of the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters at the University of Buenos Aires, together with a group of academic institutions, social movements, labor organizations, and other workers' groups from Argentina and beyond, invites you to the Second International Gathering on "*The Workers' Economy*" on the theme of "*Work and Self-management in Times of Global Crisis*." We welcome all who have thought about the problems, challenges, and possibilities of achieving an alternative economic reality, including academics committed to social transformation and individuals and organizations actually practicing alternative forms of social organization, politics, and self-management. A continuation of the first international gathering held in the city of Buenos Aires in July 2007 on the topic of "Self-management and the Distribution of Wealth," (see: _http://www.recuperadasdoc.com.ar/encuentro/index.htm_), the main objective of this year's forum is to generate a space of exchange between scholars, activists, and workers concerned with the problems and possibilities of self-management, as well as the renewal of a political, economic and social strategy by workers and social movements during hard economic times. This year we look to broaden the debates of the first gathering in 2007 by specifically considering the situation created by the current capitalist global crisis. In particular, we are most interested in focusing on the responses by workers and their organizations to the crisis, highlighting what can be learned from the experiences and challenges of self-managed work on the path towards the workers' economy. As well, we would like to consider how these processes are gendered, and what opportunities they may open for women's leadership roles and gender equality within alternative economies and self-managed workspaces. We are also concerned with critically examining the academic practices of those who are doing research with or on social movements and workers; we want to also use the gathering to reflect on the impact that academics and students can have in supporting alternative, bottom-up struggles for economic autonomy and self-reliance. /*Background */The first international gathering on "The Workers' Economy" in 2007 brought together over 300 participants which included researchers, workers, and social organization protagonists from over fifteen countries from the Americas, Europe and Africa. The 2007 participants almost unanimously felt that the debates and exchanges engaged in then successfully brought together two broad groups: radical academics and workers and their organizations. Most often the interests of these two heterogeneous groups tend to run on separate tracks-the theoretical advancements of academe often do not dialogue with or get nourished by the concrete practices of workers' organizations and their struggles, and vice versa. Participants in 2007 felt that these two groups were indeed able to fruitfully engage in mutual reflection and discussion on the broad theme of the workers' economy. Tellingly, most participants at the 2007 forum agreed that a similar gathering should be organized in the near future. The current global capitalist crisis adds new urgencies to the issues we discussed in 2007. This discussion should not simply be centered on understanding the origins of the crisis or attempting to "correctly" define the hegemonic system that nurtures it. Nor should it only be about assessing this system's negative impacts on the worlds' people, or only about discussing the role of work organizations in the context of a new political and economic paradigm. To be sure, these are important topics to think through. However, more than just delineating or defining our current conjuncture or discussing the immediate economic impact of its institutional frameworks, the main purpose of convening this second gathering on the workers' economy is /to collectively and collaboratively think through the potential for the creation of political and economic alternatives to the current system in crisis/. Moreover, the 2009 gathering seeks to begin this collective, collaborative thinking from the standpoint of the organizational experiences of workers, both from the perspective of self-management and from myriad daily struggles against forms of exploitation old and new. Here is where for us 2009's forum begins to take on new meaning. What conclusions can be drawn from the social, political, and economic practices that have already been developed by self-managed workers for conceiving a workers' economy as an alternative to the economy of capital? How should union organizations undertake the struggle for the defense of workers' rights and interests in a global system that has not only radically restructured itself in the past few decades, but that has shown its limits within that very restructuring? Is it possible to propose new strategies and tactics for local and global struggles against capital on the basis of the numerically marginal experiences of self-management and the workers' economy to date? How would proposals for and struggles toward a new social and economic model incorporate the experiences of the masses of unpaid and precarious workers? How would these proposals include the heterogeneous group of marginalized people that suffer under poor living conditions, a group whose numbers have multiplied exponentially over the last few decades of neoliberalism and crises? What has been the impact of neoliberalism on women's lives, and how have women, within the context of the workers' economy, addressed these challenges? How have academics contributed to these processes and what research and pedagogical practices have worked best to build long-lasting relations of mutual support and learning? Perhaps it begins with transforming this new global economic crisis into an opportunity for thinking through and possibly even advancing the goal of achieving an economic system self-managed by workers and those living on the margins. Perhaps this current crisis is an opportunity do so on the basis of the concrete experiences of the past and present, experiences that have actually materialized into real self-managed organizational and economic options. Indeed, our current conjuncture may be an opportunity to recuperate and reinvent alternative theoretical, conceptual, and political frameworks from which to think about a different economic project. These are some of the issues we invite you to consider with us at this year's gathering. We convene this second international gathering of "The Workers' Economy" in hopes of stimulating much needed debates and discussions by those thinking about and practicing alternatives to exploitative and alienating economic life in these hard times, both within Argentina and throughout the rest of the world. As in 2007, we hope that these debates will be broad, accessible, and inclusive. We therefore welcome to the gathering, in particular, the participation of socially committed intellectuals of all stripes, grassroots social and political organizations, unions and their members, protagonists of worker-recuperated enterprises and those practicing other forms of self-managed production, and members of collectives engaged in social, economic, and political struggle for alternative forms of life. /*Conference themes */o The new crisis of global capitalism: Analysis and responses from the point-of-view of the workers' economy. o Self-management within our current conjuncture: The possibilities and limits of contemporary experiences for generating new logics for managing economic life. o The gender of the economic crisis: Opportunities and threats to women, constructions of gender in social movements, and recovered factories. o The economy from below: The social economy or the socialization of the economy? o Workers' organizations in light of new changes to the organization of work by capital. o The union model in crisis: Labor struggles from the perspective of new workers' organizations. o Informal, precarious, and menial work: Social exclusion or the reformulation of work within global capitalism? o The challenges faced by popular governments in the social management of the economy and the state. o A critical assessment of the cooperative movement. o The university, workers, and social movements: Issues concerning the methodologies and practices of co-research and mutual support. /*Principal organizers */o The Facultad Abierta (Open University) Program, Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, University of Buenos Aires /*Co-organizers */o Federation of Energy Workers of Argentina (FeTERA-CTA) (_http://www.feteracta.org.ar/_) o Centre for Global Justice, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico (_http://www.globaljusticecenter.org/_) o Argentina Autonomista Project (_http://www.autonomista.org_) o International Institute for Self-Management, Frankfurt, Germany (_http://www.iism.net/_) o Centre of Advanced Studies, National University of C?rdoba, Argentina o Movement of Territorial Liberation (Movimiento Territorial de Liberaci?n, MTL) o Department of Social Relations, Autonomous University of Mexico-Xochimilco, Mexico /*Due dates */Please send a 250-word (max) abstract by May 31, 2009. All completed papers must be received by June 20, 2009. Completed papers sent before this date will be included in the event's CD. Spanish papers and correspondence should be sent to: _fabierta at filo.uba.ar_ or _centrodoc at gmail.com_ English papers and correspondence should be sent to:* *_UBA.selfmanagement at gmail.com _/*Paper formats */Completed papers should be no longer than 25 pages. Text should be 12 point set to Times New Roman or a similar font. Papers should be double-spaced. /*Free admission */The gathering is free for participants and audience members. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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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. 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. 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 ? 2010 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 - 2010 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 14, 2009. Notifications will be mailed on January 19, 2010. The conference will be at SUNY Stony Brook June 3- 5, 2010. Conference registration and housing reservations will be possible after February 15, 2010. Details and updates will be posted at http://www.workingclass.sunysb.edu. 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While interesting and relevant, the = economy is more than finance and peoples lives can be adversely affect = by other kinds of economic events. So it was nice to listen to some = presentations that dealt with a Post Keynesian/heterodox approach to = welfare, to the role of cultural filters contributing to discriminatory = hiring practices, and to the role of anti-chain stores laws in fighting = against the Wal-Mart hegemony. In the current climate, these kinds of = research and contributions to heterodox economics are often downplayed = as unimportant and doctoral students are encouraged to direct their = interests crisis topics rather than these kind of micro topics. If = heterodox economics is to advance, then contributions in all research = areas is necessary--not just a few that are in the news. Fred Lee In this issue: =20 Call for Papers = =20 - The Financial and Monetary Crisis - La Crise Financiere Et Monetaire - The Egyptian Labour Movement - A Green Economics Conference - Society of Government Economists=20 - Gender and Global Economic Crisis - Call for Essays: Workers Councils in Historical and Comparative = Perspective - Sixth International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic = and Social Sustainability - The New and Old Institutionalisms in Development =20 - The impact of the global financial crisis on economic reform processes = in Africa - Uncertain Crisis? Comparing institutional responses to macroeconomic = change - The EAEPE Conference 2009 - 41st UK History of Economic Thought Conference =20 Conferences, Seminars and Lectures = =20 - The Centre of Full Employment and Equity (CofFEE) - Training in Qualitative Comparative Analysis - Association of Heterodox Economics - The Financial Institutions and Economic Security - Feelbad Britain: How to make it better - The Green Economics Institute - Conference on 21st Century Keynesian Economics - The 2nd Mecpoc Symposium - Seminar Series in Radical Political Thought - The Ethical Critique of Capitalism Job Postings for Heterodox Economists = =20 =20 - University of Glasgow =20 Heterodox Conference Papers and Reports and Articles = =20 =20 - An agenda for social democracy - SOAS Research on Money and Finance Discussion Papers=20 - Recent Rise in Federal Government and Federal Reserve Liabilities: = Antidote to a Speculative Hangover - It's That "Vision" Thing: Why the Bailouts Aren't Working, and Why a = New Financial System Is Needed - A "People First" Strategy: Credit Cannot Flow When There Are No = Creditworthy Borrowers or Profitable Projects - What Role for Central Banks in View of the Current Crisis? - New Estimates of Economic Inequality in America, 1959-2004 - Background Considerations to a Regulation of the U.S. Financial = System: Third Time a Charm? Or Strike Three? - Feelbad Britain: How to make it better =20 Heterodox Journals and Newsletters = =20 =20 - Le N=B03 de la Revue Fran=E7aise de Socio-Economie sortira en = librairie =E0 la mi-avril - The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought - Ethical Economics Support - Forum for Social Economics - Journal of Post Keynesian Economics - International Journal of Political Economy=20 =20 Heterodox Books and Book Series = =20 =20 - Introducing Macroeconomic Analysis: Competing Views - Let Them Eat Junk: How Capitalism Creates Hunger and Obesity - The Political Economy of Consumer Behavior: Contesting Consumption - Victorian Investments - Two Bits - Monetary Policy And Financial Stability - The Food Wars - Introduction to Marx's Capital - Meltdown: The End of the Age of Greed by Paul Mason - The Ecological Revolution - Nature, Social Relations and Human Needs - REVUE FRAN=C7AISE DE SOCIO-=C9CONOMIE Heterodox Book Reviews = =20 =20 - Money Uncertainty and Time =20 Heterodox Web Sites and Associations = =20 =20 - Initiative for Promoting Political Economy (IIPPE) =20 For Your Information = =20 =20 - Global Justice Website=20 =20 ----- To be removed from this mailing list, please send an email message to the address leefs at umkc.edu asking to be removed from this list. 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Heterodox Economics Newsletter

www.heterodoxnews.com

Issue 81: April 23, 2009

 

From the Editor

Last week I attended the annual conference of the Association for = Institutionalist Thought (AFIT). Many of the sessions had papers dealing with the ongoing = economic crisis. While interesting and relevant, the economy is more than finance = and peoples lives can be adversely affect by other kinds of economic events. = So it was nice to listen to some presentations that dealt with a Post Keynesian/heterodox approach to welfare, to the role of cultural filters contributing to discriminatory hiring practices, and to the role of = anti-chain stores laws in fighting against the Wal-Mart hegemony. In the current = climate, these kinds of research and contributions to heterodox economics are = often downplayed as unimportant and doctoral students are encouraged to direct = their interests crisis topics rather than these kind of micro topics. If = heterodox economics is to advance, then contributions in all research areas is = necessary--not just a few that are in the news.

Fred Lee

In this issue:

 

Call for Papers

- The Financial and Monetary Crisis
- La Crise Financiere Et Monetaire
- The Egyptian Labour Movement
- A Green Economics Conference
- Society of Government Economists
- Gender and Global Economic Crisis
- Call for Essays: Workers Councils in Historical and Comparative = Perspective
- Sixth International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic = and Social Sustainability
- The New and Old Institutionalisms in Development 
- The impact of the global financial crisis on economic reform = processes in Africa
- Uncertain Crisis? Comparing institutional responses to macroeconomic = change
- The EAEPE Conference 2009
- 41st UK History of Economic Thought Conference

 

Conferences, Seminars = and Lectures

- The Centre of Full Employment and Equity (CofFEE)
- Training in Qualitative Comparative Analysis
- Association of Heterodox Economics
- The Financial Institutions and Economic Security
- Feelbad Britain: How to make it better
- The Green Economics Institute
- Conference on 21st Century Keynesian Economics
- The 2nd Mecpoc Symposium
- Seminar Series in Radical Political Thought
- The Ethical Critique of Capitalism

Job Postings for Heterodox = Economists

 

- University of Glasgow

 

Heterodox Conference Papers and Reports and = Articles

 

- An agenda for social democracy
- SOAS Research on Money and Finance Discussion Papers
- Recent Rise in Federal Government and Federal Reserve Liabilities: = Antidote to a Speculative Hangover
- It’s That “Vision” Thing: Why the Bailouts = Aren’t Working, and Why a New Financial System Is Needed
- A “People First” Strategy: Credit Cannot Flow When There = Are No Creditworthy Borrowers or Profitable Projects
- What Role for Central Banks in View of the Current Crisis?
- New Estimates of Economic Inequality in America, 1959–2004
- Background Considerations to a Regulation of the U.S. Financial = System: Third Time a Charm? Or Strike Three?
- Feelbad Britain: How to make it better 

Heterodox Journals and = Newsletters

 

- Le N=B03 de la Revue Fran=E7aise de Socio-Economie = sortira en librairie =E0 la mi-avril
- The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought
- Ethical Economics Support
- Forum for Social Economics
- Journal of Post Keynesian Economics
- International Journal of Political Economy

 

Heterodox Books and Book = Series

 

- Introducing Macroeconomic Analysis: Competing = Views
- Let Them Eat Junk: How Capitalism Creates Hunger and Obesity
- The Political Economy of Consumer Behavior: Contesting = Consumption
- Victorian Investments
- Two Bits
- Monetary Policy And Financial Stability
- The Food Wars
- Introduction to Marx’s Capital
- Meltdown: The End of the Age of Greed by Paul Mason
- The Ecological Revolution
- Nature, Social Relations and Human Needs
- REVUE FRAN=C7AISE DE SOCIO-=C9CONOMIE

= Heterodox Book = Reviews

 

- Money Uncertainty and Time

 

Heterodox Web Sites and = Associations

 

- Initiative for Promoting Political Economy = (IIPPE)

 

For Your Information

 

- Global Justice Website

 

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To be removed from this mailing list, please send an email message to the address leefs at umkc.edu asking to be removed from this list. Problems or questions should be directed to sullivanmw at umkc.edu.

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Scott Carter The University of Tulsa ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Nora Hamilton Date: Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 12:24 PM Subject: CAS-LASA] Charges against William Robinson To: cas-lasa at lists.acomp.usf.edu Dear Colleagues, As some of you may know, the University of California, Santa Barbara, has brought charges against one of our colleagues, William Robinson, following complaints by two students in his class and by the Anti-Defamation League regarding an email he sent to his students criticizing Israeli actions in Gaza. The charges accuse him of being anti-Semitic, in effect equating criticism of Israel and its policies with anti-Semitism, and of sending students material irrelevant to the course he was teaching on Global Studies. The Committee for Academic Freedom at Santa Barbara has asked that letters be sent protesting this attack on academic freedom and requesting that the charges against Prof. Robinson be dropped. Detailed information about the case, as well as an email that can be sent to officials at UC Santa Barbara, can be found on the Committee's website: http://sb4af.wordpress.com . Those wishing to send separate letters should address them to Prof. Joel Michaelsen, Chair, Academic Senate (joel.michaelsen at senate.ucsb.edu) and to Chancellor Henry Yang (henry.yang at chancellor.ucsb.edu). Copies may be sent to:: 'mgscharl at math.ucsb.edu'; 'gene.lucas at evc.ucsb.edu'; 'moliver at ltsc.ucsb.edu'; 'mazer at lifesci.ucsb.edu'; 'joel at geog.ucsb.edu'; 'sarah at isber.ucsb.edu'; 'butler at chem.ucsb.edu'; 'scott at theaterdance.ucsb.edu'; 'hcallus at music.ucsb.edu'; 'gaulin at anth.ucsb.edu'; 'spieker at gss.ucsb.edu'; 'stemmer at mrl.ucsb.edu'; 'caselle at lifesci.ucsb.edu'; 'goulias at geog.ucsb.edu'; 'amar at lawso.ucsb.edu'; 'Stephanie.smagala at senate.ucsb.edu'; 'ettenberg at psych.ucsb.edu'; 'hualee at ece.ucsb.edu'; 'mithun at linguistics.ucsb.edu'; 'zok at engineering.ucsb.edu'; 'cdaf.ucsb at gmail.com'; 'wirobins at soc.ucsb.edu' For those wanting to contact Prof. Robinson, his email is wirobins at soc.ucsb.edu. Please let me know if you have any further questions. Best, Nora Hamilton -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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To post your opinion to the Blog, send an > e-mail to the administrator at urpe.mail at gmail.com. > > Scott Carter > The University of Tulsa From urpe at igc.org Mon Apr 27 14:18:12 2009 From: urpe at igc.org (urpe at igc.org) Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 16:18:12 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [URPE] May Day Celebration Message-ID: <3522218.1240863493118.JavaMail.root@mswamui-cedar.atl.sa.earthlink.net> Friday May 1 CELEBRATE INTERNATIONAL WORKERS DAY & THE MOVEMENT FOR GOOD GREEN JOBS 7-9pm {doors open 6:30}, Campus Center Auditorium, UMass Amherst (note room change from original announcement) (maps & free parking info at http://parking.umass.edu). Join your hosts: Western Massachusetts Jobs with Justice, Co-op Power, WMUA 91.1FM, UMass Labor Relations & Research Center, UMass Labor/Management Workplace Education, UMass Graduate Student Senate, UMass Student Government Association, University Staff Association / Massachusetts Teachers Association, AFSCME Local 1776, Massachusetts Society of Professors / MTA, and American Friends Service Committee, in a May Day celebration and fundraiser for Western Massachusetts Jobs with Justice. Music by The Raging Grannies * Verne McArthur * Jos? Ayerve * Tom Neilson & Kat Allen * Red Valley Fog * Jay Mankita. Rousing speech by long-time community and labor organizer Stewart Acuff, Special Assistant to the President of the AFL-CIO; National Jobs with Justice Board Member. Donation Requested but no one will be turned away for lack of funds. $5 for School Age, Seniors, Low Income. $10 for Everyone Else (or more if you can afford it). At the door or by mail to Jobs with Justice, PO Box 296, Granby MA 01033. Free for Co-op Power?s annual Sustainable Energy Summit Summit-goers. Register at www.cooppower.coop. Please answer ?WMJwJ? at ?How did you find out about the Summit?? Sponsor a Stanza: $100 includes listing next to one of the songs in the program book (if received by Noon on April 28) and two seats. Reserve a seat by email: wmjwj at wmjwj.org. Donations are to the Warren J. Plaut Charitable Trust Jobs with Justice Fund and are tax deductible. From enid at uta.edu Mon Apr 27 08:24:52 2009 From: enid at uta.edu (Enid Arvidson) Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 09:24:52 -0500 Subject: [URPE] RRPE special issue deadline extended: Economic Democracy Message-ID: <13728EC5-59FD-4639-AD5F-99089A5A7D06@uta.edu> Call for Papers: Special Issue of RRPE on Economic Democracy download pdf copy of CFP here: http://www.urpe.org/rrpe/media/CFPSpecialIssueEconomicDemocracy.pdf Manuscript submission deadline: extended to 1 December 2009 Economic democracy is a theme that has run through radical and progressive theory and practice. Broadly, it stands for an expansion of democratic practice beyond the political realm, into the economic aspects of our lives. It has been applied at the microeconomic level in pursuit of workers? self-management and related cooperative structures. It also suggests the need for planning, where democracy would be fundamental to decision making about an economy?s objectives and means of achieving them. It has been used as a term to expand the role of organized labor in management, and to link unions more fundamentally to national political processes. Today it also has application to household decision making, and to aspirations for global forms of redistribution. All of the themes mentioned above are relevant to this special issue, and there are no doubt others of importance that we have overlooked. In the past few decades, the term economic democracy has appeared in book titles, and as an aspiration of political movements. The RRPE?s Editorial Board thinks that it is time to reinvestigate issues that fall under this theme, and a special issue is put forward as a partial means to that end. We see this discussion as critical to renewing radical thought and re-energizing the left in the United States, and in other nations and localities. We invite papers on all aspects of economic democracy, at levels from the household to the global economy, and on topics related to inclusion, participation in decisions that affect one?s life, self- fulfillment, and realization of aspirations to be a more engaged citizen. Race, gender, ecology, and other fields of inquiry are appropriate, if linked to expanding our practice of democracy or barriers to doing so. It is a common belief that capitalism sets strict limits on how much democratic practice is possible in society. Is this the case? If so, how would various forms of socialist society remove this barrier? All aspects of economic activity are relevant to this topic, as we seek to encourage broad rethinking of what it means to use democratic practice in material provisioning. Various forms of democratic practice are also at issue, including direct participation and representative democracy; geographic forms that suit local, national, and global practice; and democratic practice across households, private for-profit and nonprofit firms, the cooperative sector, and the public sector itself. For more information, please visit the RRPE website: http://www.urpe.org/rrpe/Announcements/CallForPapers/CFPSpecialIssueEconomicDemocracy.htm Please send four copies by 1 December 2009 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, U.S.A. phone: 315-789-1414 email: hg18 at cornell.edu Submissions must follow the instructions to contributors listed in each issue of the Review, or available from the Managing Editor. All submissions are subject to the usual review procedures and they should not be under review with any other publication. 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The four panelists/papers include Sam R and myself, Ric McIntyre of URI, and Gerry Friedman of UMass Amherst. All four papers look at the rise and fall of the US labor movement in the 20th century US, and speak also to the specific topic of the "postwar limited capital labor accord" and how recent work in US working class history either rejects or moves beyond the accord conceptual framework. If you would be willing to serve as a discussant on this panel, please email by Wednesday (am, east coast time) at mhillard at maine.edu so that we can get our complete proposal in this week. Thanks, Michael Hillard From urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu Mon Apr 27 19:21:04 2009 From: urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu (urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu) Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 21:21:04 -0400 Subject: [URPE] [NYC] Brecht Forum: May 1st Celebration/ We Are Gaza: Nawal El Saadawi Message-ID: <49F65A00.8040601@lists.econ.utah.edu> PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY Brecht Forum May 1st Celebration/ We Are Gaza: Nawal El Saadawi Click here to check out the Brecht Forum's new *ECONOMY WATCH* webpage for left analyses of the global financial crisis. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monday, April 27 7:15 pm URUGUAYAN FILM SCREENINGS Plumas al Cielo -- Feathers to the Sky & Por Esos Ojos - For These Eyes /RECEPTION AT 6:30/ More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tuesday, April 28 7:30 pm BOOK PARTY/FORUM Arthur O'Connor The Most Important Irish Revolutionary You May Never Have Heard Of Cliff Conner Although Arthur O'Connor has not become an icon of romantic legend, he was the most important leader of the United Irishmen, the powerful conspiracy that culminated in the Rebellion of 1798... More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Wednesday, April 29 7:30 pm Taking Liberties The Cold War Against Labor & the New Deal Sam Sills with Bob Schrank How great was the damage done by the campaign against organized labor and the New Deal, inadequately called McCarthyism? More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Friday, May 01 6:00 pm - 10:00 pm MAY DAY: CELEBRATING THE 50th ANNIVERSARY OF THE CUBAN REVOLUTION EXHIBIT OPENING & RECEPTION Walking the Winding Streets of Havana Street Photographs 2008 Photography by Ana Ratner & Jacob Ratner It has been fifty years since Fidel arrived in Havana to meet the enormous crowd that awaited him in the streets, but today the city looks largely unchanged, simply a bit more weathered from the spray of the sea that shoots over the Malec?n... More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Saturday, May 02 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm We Are Gaza Connecting the Dots Between Gaza, Afghanistan, Iraq, Kashmir & Pakistan Fawzia Afzal-Khan, Faheed Bitar, Miriam Cooke, Nawal El Saadawi, Kathleen Foster, Remi Kanazi, Bruce Lawrence, Brant Lyon, Barbara Nimri Aziz, Michael Schwartz, Roger Sedarat, Miriam Stanley, Carmela Tal Baron & Others TBA Join us for an evening of documentary film, music, poetry, personal narratives and discussion... More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Saturday, May 02 9:00 pm Jazz Meets The Near East Festival: Mohammad Kundos and MOCHILA - CD Release of "Green Bullets" A We Are Gaza Concert Mohammad Kundos & MOCHILA A "mochila" is a large leather bag made by Indian farmers in Colombia. Despite its simple materials and structure, it can hold a lot of weight. Like the bag, the band Mochila presents and manages a combination of different identities, a fusion of cultures and rituals. Mochila was created by Mohammad Kundos, a Palestinian from Jaffa and a film and music double major at Brandeis University, as a tool for building bridges between peoples on both a human and a musical level through the universal language of music. More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sunday, May 03 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm Afro-Latino Cafe Join us on occasional Sundays for music and dance from some of the many Afro-Latino communities in the New York region... More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tuesday, May 05 7:30 pm The Myth of the Unflawed Super Leader A Panel Discussion Featuring Artists & Activists Offering New Models for Leadership Autumn Brown, Andre Lancaster, Ione Lloyd, Gaurav Jashnani/RJ Maccani & Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai In the age of a biracial, center-progressive U.S. leader with a mandate for change, there is a real specter of a character flaw revelation that could derail the good and the bad of his agenda. More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Saturday, May 09 9:00 pm Marc Ribot & Ensemble Dissonanzen with special guests Scelsi Morning featuring Marc Ribot (guitar), Tommaso Rossi (flutes), Marco Sannini (trumpet), Marco Cappelli (guitar and bass), Francesco d'Errico (synthesizer) and special guests Christine Bard (drums) and Jenny Lin (piano). 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Name: Attached Message Part Url: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/urpe-announcements/attachments/20090427/46229e95/attachment-0002.txt From sjchilvers at gmail.com Tue Apr 28 08:41:46 2009 From: sjchilvers at gmail.com (Simon Chilvers) Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 10:41:46 -0400 Subject: [URPE] 1st cfp - Region Formation in Contemporary South Asia Message-ID: Dear colleagues, This is to inform you of the forthcoming political economy conference on 'Region Formation in Contemporary South Asia' at the University of Delhi, 25th to 27th November 2009. Details are below. The conference builds upon the successful 2008 event 'The Character & Trajectory of the Indian Economic Formation'. Regards, Simon Chilvers ---------- Region Formation in Contemporary South Asia Wednesday 25th November to Friday 27th November 2009 University of Delhi, India This interdisciplinary conference seeks to promote discussion of the economic and political significance of regions in the subcontinent. Arguably, contemporary South Asia cannot be fully understood without considering the contradictions of regional social formations and wider structural processes. It can be held that, on the one hand, relationships between different regions are important to study. On the other hand, the internal constitution of a region and the various relationships that underlie it must be appreciated. Today, many important debates in the subcontinent are framed by reference to what might be termed a 'region question'. The region, as it were, manifests itself in (discussions of) everyday practices, as well as forms of consciousness. Given such ubiquity ? and yet specificity ? theoretical review of 'the region' and the actually existing regional situations of South Asia is overdue. The conference focuses upon two important observations of contemporary South Asia. The first is that relations of production, exchange and 'kinship' (including those of caste, tribe and gender) continue to have significant spatial variation. Given the many combinations of social relations in the subcontinent, an examination is necessary of the structural processes permitting reproduction of distinctive regional formations. However, the aim is not to simply counterpoise meta-processes, or abstract 'necessary' relations, to place-bound contingencies. Rather, empirically-informed studies are sought of how South Asian livelihoods have become intricately connected to the reproduction of exploitative structures and circuits. Concrete analysis of the different relationships, processes and nodal points of the subcontinent will help scholar-activists to better assess the current struggles and strategies of (pan-)regional social movements. The second observation is that asymmetry exists between region boundaries and the superimposition of administrative units. The conference is interested in the peculiarities of how regions and state administrative units relate, given the perpetuation of regions and highly geographically uneven development throughout South Asia. Since regional identities have proved so tenacious and important, the relations and processes that facilitate their development and reproduction require discussion. Correctly understanding the different social movements throughout South Asia demanding greater regional autonomy/independence is, arguably, most important. In this respect, the conference seeks to facilitate the development of a historical materialist theory of the formation and persistence of regions that will enable scholar-activists to understand identity and regional movements from a perspective other than from within the limits of rights-based discourses. The conference is necessarily situated at the confluence of several disciplines. Historical-environmental study skills will be invaluable to unravelling long-term processes that constitute a region, especially the layering of different identities and modes of production over time. However, importantly, a region is not just a space. On the contrary, there is a dynamic of space and society that accords the peoples inhabiting a region with a sense of place. Sociological and literary expertise will thus be required to identify and analyse the cultural material practices that constitute regional spaces into geo-cultural places. Furthermore, the presence of the region in politics has long been a field of inquiry in political science ? especially with regard to debates over the constitution of individual states and questions of self-determination. In light of the above, the organisers call for the submission of abstracts for case studies of South Asian regions. (Studies from other world regions will be considered on comparative/conceptual merit.) *** How to participate - Interested scholars should submit their work address, provisional paper title and one page abstract to the organising committee at indian.formation at gmail.com Proposals for special sessions within the conference will be considered by the organising committee. Delegates employed/sponsored by institutions outside of South Asia will be required to pay a registration fee of 150 USD. Concessions may be granted. All delegates with accepted papers have the option of staying without charge November 24th to November 28th in clean and comfortable guesthouse accommodation adjacent to the conference venue. (N.B. This applies to South Asian and international delegates alike.) Keynote - The opening address will be given by Professor David Seddon, author of many important works on Third World social formations. Other - The conference website (www.arts.yorku.ca/neoliberalism) will be up-dated with further details. The conference is organised as an interdisciplinary and politically independent gathering. The organisers are of the opinion that an open and democratic debate is necessary of the issues faced by South Asian populations. The conference finances will be available for inspection at the close of proceedings. Copies of receipts for all donations and expenditures will be available on request. Executive organisers are Kumar Sanjay Singh and Simon Chilvers. From emily at populareconomics.org Wed Apr 29 15:20:17 2009 From: emily at populareconomics.org (Emily Kawano) Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:20:17 -0400 Subject: [URPE] Venezuelan Ambassador - speaking tour Message-ID: <4986fb200904291420s2321a942l4b0c8d4a3af874fc@mail.gmail.com> Would anyone be interested in inviting Ambassador Escalona to speak? The embassy will cover expenses. His resume below sounds pretty impressive. Best, Emily ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: omar sierra Date: Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 1:29 PM Subject: Hello from Boston, proposal To: Emily Kawano Hello Emily, I am planing to bring Ambassador Escalona, former director of the School of Economics at the Central University of Venezuela, to speak in Boston. His main topic will be the roots of poverty in Latin America, but he can address many other topics. Please consider to invite him to your campus. Let me know what do you think, I will cover any expenses (transportation, food, etc) here below his bio. On the other hand, we are working with Julio Chavez on the paper about the communal councils, just let us know the dead line. Thanks! Omar > H.E. Ambassador Julio Escalona is Venezuela's Adjunct Ambassador to > the United Nations in New York. He holds degrees in economics, > geopolitics and environmental issues, and is a former director of the > School of Economics at the Universidad Central de Venezuela (UCV) in > Caracas and head of its department of human development. He is a > professor of economics, general economic history, economic education > in Latin America, contemporary Marxism and contemporary social > problems. He has coordinated research seminars on economic > integration, local economies and local development, and alternative > technologies and has been a participant and guest lecturer at > seminars, forums, academic institutions in Peru, Brazil, Japan, Paris, > Mexico and Venezuela. > > > -- Emily Kawano Exec. Dir., Center for Popular Economics & SEN 413-545-0743 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 2209 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/urpe-announcements/attachments/20090429/c7a2b766/attachment.txt From urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu Thu Apr 30 08:11:09 2009 From: urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu (urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu) Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 10:11:09 -0400 Subject: [URPE] [NYC] CEPA Policy Workshop Message-ID: <49F9B17D.2010109@lists.econ.utah.edu> Miriam Rehm PhD Candidate and SCEPA Research Assistant Presents: Unemployment Compensation and High European Unemployment: A Reassessment with New Benefit Indicators Date: Wednesday, May 6, 2009 Time: 12:30 p.m. Location: 80 Fifth Avenue, Room 802, 8th Floor * * For help with this mailing list go to the CEPA Web site: * http://www.newschool.edu/cepa/ From ksheeran at ecotrust.org Thu Apr 30 13:56:14 2009 From: ksheeran at ecotrust.org (Kristen Sheeran) Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 12:56:14 -0700 Subject: [URPE] RealClimateEconomics.org In-Reply-To: <46CB75777B3BD047A4C175E9E47D34D0616C654C@Pony.ecotrust.org> References: <46CB75777B3BD047A4C175E9E47D34D0616C654C@Pony.ecotrust.org> Message-ID: <46CB75777B3BD047A4C175E9E47D34D0C4EDB0A2@pony> Economics for Equity and the Environment Network (E3) has launched a new website, www.RealClimateEconomics.org, to demonstrate the weight of economic analysis in the peer reviewed literature that supports immediate, large-scale policy responses to the climate crisis. The Real Climate Economics website offers a reader's guide to the real economics of climate change, an emerging body of scholarship that is consistent with the urgency of the problem as seen from a climate science perspective. As the climate policy debate intensifies, economic analysis is playing an increasingly central role. The case for inaction is no longer argued on the grounds of skepticism about the science; instead, some have claimed that it will be too expensive to take more than token initiatives. There is now extensive economic analysis that challenges and refutes this idea. The peer-reviewed articles included on this website demonstrate that: * Risk and uncertainty are fundamental to the climate problem; * Ethics and equity are inseparable from economic analysis of climate change * Marginal analysis of small changes and modest adjustments of market-based instruments are inadequate to the task of understanding and protecting the earth's climate. E3 is a national network of economists doing applied economic research on environmental issues with a social equity focus. For more about E3's programs and to get involved, please visit our website at www.e3network.org From ralbritt at yorku.ca Sat May 2 07:38:42 2009 From: ralbritt at yorku.ca (ralbritt at yorku.ca) Date: Sat, 02 May 2009 09:38:42 -0400 Subject: [URPE] New Book--Let Them Eat Junk Message-ID: <1241271522.49fc4ce288b82@mymail.yorku.ca> Some of you may be interested in my book: LET THEM EAT JUNK: HOW CAPITALISM CREATES HUNGER AND OBESITY. I mobilize a large amount of factual information to support my arguments that the capitalist food system undermines human health, environmental health, social justice, and democracy. The book has been published in Britain by Pluto Press and in Canada by Arbeiter Ring Press. Rob Albritton Professor Emeritus York University Toronto From urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu Sat May 2 08:51:10 2009 From: urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu (urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu) Date: Sat, 02 May 2009 10:51:10 -0400 Subject: [URPE] [NYC] SCEPA Milano Seminar Message-ID: <49FC5DDE.6000100@lists.econ.utah.edu> May 6th Andrew Haughwout, Federal Reserve Bank of NY, Subprime Mortgage Pricing: The Impact of Race, Ethnicity and Gender on the Cost of Borrowing All sessions meet 12:10 to 1:30 p.m. on Wednesdays, 72 Fifth Avenue (between 13th and 14th Streets), Henry Cohen conference Room, 3rd Floor. All university community members are welcome, including students, alumni and the general public. This is a free series and reservations are not required. Papers, if available, will be circulated in advance only at the request of the speaker. This one is available at http://www.newyorkfed.org/research/staff_reports/sr368.html . All the Seminars are brown bag. For questions, or to be added to the seminar email list, contact Prof. Alec Gershberg gersh at newschool.edu, 212.229.5311 x1412. * * For help with this mailing list go to the CEPA Web site: * http://www.newschool.edu/cepa/ From sturr at dollarsandsense.org Fri May 1 12:19:21 2009 From: sturr at dollarsandsense.org (Chris Sturr) Date: Fri, 1 May 2009 14:19:21 -0400 Subject: [URPE] Query from Dollars & Sense about possible health care textbook and labor textbook Message-ID: <15d8394e0905011119u250b06f7pa6b205c0040d8b20@mail.gmail.com> Dear URPE folks, We at Dollars & Sense are considering expanding our roster of textbooks to offer two new titles: *Real World Labor* and *Real World Health Care. *These would be (like most of our other textbooks) anthologies of articles from *Dollars & Sense* magazine (though we could include new material and/or material that has been published elsewhere if that would help round out coverage of key topics). We are asking for help from URPE members so that we can decide whether it is worth going ahead with either of these projects, and (if so) to decide how we should proceed. We are most interested in hearing from URPE members who teach classes in the relevant areas and (especially) who might be interested in adopting these textbooks if we decide to go ahead with them. *Real World Labor *would be (we are thinking) for labor economics and labor studies courses. We think our coverage of labor issues has been quite strong over the years. We publish an annual (Sept/Oct) labor issue of the magazine, each of which includes three or four feature articles and four or five shorter articles on labor topics; the other five issues in any given year, taken together, include about an equivalent number of labor-related articles. Several professors we have met at the ASSA and the EEA and other conferences have told us that there is a real need for a reader of this sort. What we need advice on is what kinds of courses a D&S labor anthology might be used in, how we can tailor it to those courses, what topics are essential, what a useful chapter organization would be, what gaps there might be in our recent coverage in the magazine, etc. *Real World Health Care *would be for health economics courses or for introductory econ courses for students in health-related degree programs. Our precedent for this book is that an econ professor at a pharmacology program asked us to put together a reader for him last fall; he wanted *all* of our articles related to health care, public health, etc. (single payer, health-care finance, Medicare/Medicaid, Medicare Part D, the global AIDS crisis, inequality and health, etc.), plus a few articles not directly about health care but that would be useful for students evaluating health policy (e.g. critiques of cost-benefit analysis and of basic assumptions of mainstream economics). We came up with a nice little reader that the professor found useful, but we think a lot more work would need to be done to make this into a useful (and marketable) textbook. (For one thing, the reader we put together is not divided into chapters; the articles are just in reverse chronological order according to when they appeared in the magazine. For another thing, it is quite likely that there are gaps in our coverage.) We need information about: what courses such a reader might be adopted for, what topics it should definitely cover, what a useful chapter organization would be, what gaps there are in our current coverage, etc. For both of these (potential) projects, we are seeking people who can give us quick feedback on the issues I mention above. But we are also hoping to find people who would be willing to co-edit the books (with our staff editors) or to be on an advisory committee. We are also hoping to line up in advance instructors who can commit to adopting the book for their courses. We are both cash- and time-strapped, so we are leery of investing in these projects without having an idea in advance about whether the books will sell well enough to repay our efforts. If we knew in advance that two or three instructors who teach relatively large classes (and who had a hand in putting the books together so that they meet their needs) could guarantee sales, we would be much more likely to go ahead with these projects. One option would be to micro-publish one or the other of these textbooks (as something between a coursepack and a textbook) for one or more instructors, as sort of a "dry-run," and then spruce it up and market it the following semester. We have started to work with a "print-on-demand" company that makes it possible for us to do smaller print-runs (this is how we were able to produce the health care reader I described above), and this will make it possible for us to experiment in putting out textbooks on narrower topics. (We are also thereby able to produce custom textbooks; please contact us if you're interested in anthologies of D&S articles on topics other than these, or in a different mix of articles than we have in our existing textbooks.) Anyone who is willing to help us with either of these two projects is invited to send feedback to me and to our book editor, Dan Fireside ( fireside at dollarsandsense.org). Also let us know whether (even if you can't help us out) whether you want us to let you know when these books come out (if they do). *On a different (but related) topic:* we would appreciate any feedback URPE members can give us about some of the challenges we are facing given the rapid changes in the publishing industry. For example: while subscriptions to the print edition of *Dollars & Sense* have declined (something all print publications are facing) and printing and mailing costs are increasing, we are trying to figure out how to go electronic with the magazine. But at least some of the ways of doing so (e.g. putting all of our archives online, for access via password for e-subscribers) risk undercutting our textbook sales, which is the source of most of our revenue. Similarly, we want to make our articles widely available, and so have for years allowed online databases like ProQuest to make our archives available to colleges and universities by subscription. But we are worried that this, too, undermines textbook sales. Also, we would like to be able to offer e-book versions of our textbooks (possibly as a lower-cost alternative to our print editions). But we don't have the in-house expertise to create e-books that would allow us to protect our copyrighted material. While we have our political objections to copyright, but relying on it is currently the only way that we can pay the bills. Since we have always operated on a shoe-string and on the edge financially, it's really important that we figure out a viable way to survive in the changing publishing industry; even a small decline in our textbook revenue could mean the end of Dollars & Sense. So please send us any thoughts you have about these topics (viable online subscription systems that won't undercut our textbook sales; e-books that you have had your students use that worked well; alternative models for making our content available to professors that also allow us to stay afloat financially). I hope that it goes without saying that if you make use of our articles in the classroom without paying for them (or having your students pay for them), we very much hope you will consider either adopting our textbooks, paying for copyright permission, working with us to develop a custom textbook, or at least making a donation. We are celebrating our 35th year as a collectively-run publishing house dedicated to making left economic analysis accessible to the general public, including students and professors. If you find what we produce useful, please help us continue to produce it. In solidarity, Chris Sturr (co-editor, *Dollars & Sense*) -- -- Chris Sturr Co-editor, Dollars & Sense 29 Winter St. Boston, Mass. 02108 phone: 617-447-2177, ext. 205 fax: 617-447-2179 email: sturr at dollarsandsense.org -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 8085 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/urpe-announcements/attachments/20090501/608ebb53/attachment.txt From hamideh222 at yahoo.com Sat May 2 10:47:14 2009 From: hamideh222 at yahoo.com (hamideh sedghi) Date: Sat, 2 May 2009 09:47:14 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [URPE] Call for new books on gender Message-ID: <391064.72685.qm@web51901.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Hello all: As the editor of Women/Politics, the newsletter of the American Political Sceince Association Organized Section on Women and Politics Research, I am collecting information on books related to gender that were published in 2008-09. If interested, please send me your book blurbs, desciption, date and place of publication. Only a 10-12 line description (not reviews of the book) would be sufficient. Feel free to consult our site for past issues of the newsletter: http://www.apsanet.org/~wpol/Newsletter.html Note: the firm deadline is May 8, 2009. Looking forward to seeing your book. Hamideh Sedghi hsedghi at fas.harvard.edu From ianhfletcher at yahoo.com Sun May 3 10:49:10 2009 From: ianhfletcher at yahoo.com (Ian Fletcher) Date: Sun, 3 May 2009 09:49:10 -0700 Subject: [URPE] NY Times article defending Euro-socialism for the middle class Message-ID: <000d01c9cc0f$19280a40$4b781ec0$@com> A fascinating article in the NY Times defending Euro-socialism for the middle class: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/03/magazine/03european-t.html?pagewanted=1&_r =1&ref=magazine Best Regards, Ian Fletcher Adjunct Fellow US Business & Industry Council 225 Bush St., 16th Fl. 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Authoritative proof of the '1929' nature of the present crisis - to be read in conjunction with the first-quarter US economy results released on 29 April, which appear to be the worst quarterly outturn ever recorded, on almost every count. A From urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu Mon May 4 09:05:47 2009 From: urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu (urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu) Date: Mon, 04 May 2009 11:05:47 -0400 Subject: [URPE] Papers on Saudi Arabia? Message-ID: <49FF044B.9030206@lists.econ.utah.edu> Does anybody know a good piece, paper, book on economic history, economic performance, economic structure and socio-economic situation of Saudi Arabia? Thanks, Rudi From urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu Tue May 5 08:48:15 2009 From: urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu (urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu) Date: Tue, 05 May 2009 10:48:15 -0400 Subject: [URPE] [NYC] Brecht Forum: Marc Ribot/Myth of the Flawless Leader Message-ID: <4A0051AF.9030400@lists.econ.utah.edu> PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY Brecht Forum Marc Ribot/Myth of the Flawless Leader Click here to check out the Brecht Forum's new *ECONOMY WATCH* webpage for left analyses of the global financial crisis. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tuesday, May 05 7:30 pm The Myth of the Unflawed Super Leader A Panel Discussion Featuring Artists & Activists Offering New Models for Leadership Autumn Brown, Andre Lancaster, Ione Lloyd, Gaurav Jashnani/RJ Maccani & Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai In the age of a biracial, center-progressive U.S. leader with a mandate for change, there is a real specter of a character flaw revelation that could derail the good and the bad of his agenda. More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Saturday, May 09 9:00 pm Marc Ribot & Ensemble Dissonanzen with special guests Scelsi Morning featuring Marc Ribot (guitar), Tommaso Rossi (flutes), Marco Sannini (trumpet), Marco Cappelli (guitar and bass), Francesco d'Errico (synthesizer) and special guests Christine Bard (drums) and Jenny Lin (piano). 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What should a well-functioning economy do? What's the connection behind lower wages for ordinary workers and large Wall Street bonuses? How do we build a more just and sustainable economy? ...then this course is for you! *The Economic Crisis and the Case for a Solidarity Economy *An Online Course offered by the Center for Popular Economics Summer Session I (June 1 - July 9, 2009) Course Fee: $900 for THREE Univ. of Massachusetts Credits or $400 for non-credit students. 40-60 Professional Development Points (in MA) or 3.6 Continuing Education Credits (outside MA) available. Scholarships are available for non-credit students. The Center for Popular Economics, in collaboration with the Forum on Social Wealth and the Political Economy Research Institute at Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst is offering a special topics 3-credit online course (Econ 197) this Summer. The course runs from Monday, June 1st till Thursday July 9th, 2009. No background in Economics is required. The course is suited for students as well as activists and community members who want to learn more about the current economic crises, its causes and its solutions. Please see attached flyer and visit http://www.populareconomics.org/online_course_2009.html for more information. You can also contact Amit Basole at abasole at gmail.com or Emily Kawano at emily at populareconomics.org for more details on registering for the course. Overview: The current economics crisis has once again raised the question with great urgency: what purpose do we want our economy to fulfill? Is it fulfilling this purpose today? If not, what can we do about it? In this course we will place special emphasis on the ongoing economic and financial crisis and its long-term and short-term causes and consequences. We will also discuss various alternative economic models rooted in principles of economic democracy, cooperation and sustainability. Finally, we will talk about a vast store of wealth that communities everywhere possess and on which they can draw for constructing alternatives. The course is comprised of two main parts. Part One takes a look at how 30 years of neoliberal economic policy created the conditions for the present crisis, which threatens to be the most severe since the Great Depression. Falling or stagnant wages for the majority of Americans, rising and unsustainable levels of debt in the economy, and a poorly regulated financial sector all played a part in precipitating the crisis. We will also go beyond the crisis and attempt fo understand how our economic model has allowed unprecedented accumulation of wealth by a few and while bringing low wages, longer work hours, and rising healthcare and education costs for the many, in addition to a deterioration of our natural and social environment. We start with a look at the historical roots of neoliberalism and then try to understand the economics behind it. In Part Two, we will talk about how some of the things that we saw going wrong in Part One can be set right. Building a just economy that is not prone to repeated crises depends on the efforts we make. In the midst of growing inequality and corporate power, many grassroots economic alternatives have been springing up throughout the U.S. as well as the rest of the world. This is the new "Solidarity Economy." Grounded in principles of economic democracy, social solidarity, cooperation, egalitarianism, and sustainability, this is an alternative to the Neoliberal vision of the economy. In this part of the course we will look at some examples of such alternatives, including alternatives to the current financial system, as well as understand the economics behind them. We will also see how an economy organized around solidarity principles can tap into reservoirs of social wealth, assets that all communities possess; our cultural and ecological commons and our capacity to work for those we care. -- Amit Basole Department of Economics Thompson Hall University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA 01003 Phone: 413-665-2463 http://www.people.umass.edu/abasole/ blog: http://thenoondaysun.blogspot.com/ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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For heterodox economists in the 1960s/70s who were interested in Sraffa-Leontief models (and most were), Schwartz?s section contained some very interesting reading, if only because it dealt with a theory of prices, a topic not usually associated with Leontief models. In this Newsletter there are some interesting conferences and seminars including one on Proudhon, journal issues including the EJESS issue on money and technological change, and books?Political Economy Now! is of particular interest as it deals with the struggle to teach heterodox economics at the University of Sydney. From June 1 to the first week in July I shall be at the University of Bremen, Germany giving some lectures. And Wolfram and I will be hosting a Workshop on Assessing Heterodox Economics in a European Context?information about it is given in the Newsletter under Conferences, Seminars and Lectures. All are welcome to participate. But what this means is that I shall be away from my office for around 6 weeks. Hopefully this will not affect the timely publication of the Newsletter, but one can never tell. Fred Lee In this issue: Call for Papers - The EAEPE 2009 Conference - The Critique to Political Economy in 19th Century - How Class Works ? 2010 Conference - A Green Economics Conference - Special Issue of RRPE on Economic Democracy - Region Formation in Contemporary South Asia - 6th International Conference Developments in Economic Theory and Policy - The World Economy in Crisis ? The Return of Keynesianism? - The Financial and Monetary Crisis - JSPE 57th Annual Conference- 2009 - 3rd International Research Workshop Conferences, Seminars and Lectures - Revue de la r?gulation - S?minaire H?t?rodoxies du CES - Matisse - Causes and Consequences of the Current Financial Crisis - Globalisation and European Integration - Congreso Anual 2009 - 6th EUROFRAME Conference on Economic Policy Issues in the European Union - Assessing Heterodox Economics in a European Context Heterodox Conference Papers and Reports and Articles - Paper assets, real debts: An ecological-economic exploration of the global economic crisis - Minsky Conference Audio and Papers Now Available Online Heterodox Journals and Newsletters - International Review of Applied Economics - Feminist Economics - European Journal of Economic and Social Systems - Economia e Sociedade - Critical Perspectives on International Business - Challenge - Friends of Associative Economics Bulletin Heterodox Books and Book Series - From Economics Imperialism to Freakonomics - From Political Economy to Economics - John Maynard Keynes - Political Economy Now! Heterodox Graduate Program and Scholarships - Productivity, Employment and Competitiveness - Program on Gender Analysis in Economics (PGAE) Heterodox Web Sites and Associations - Economics for Equity and the Environment Network Queries from Heterodox Economists - Wanted papers on the History of Economic Thought from a Non-Western Perspective For Your Information - New Paper Finds IMF Lending Still Requires Harmful and Inappropriate Economic Conditions - Origins of Institutional Economics According to Baylor University Economists - Declaraci?n fundacional de la Asociaci?n de Econom?a para el Desarrollo de la Argentina (AEDA) - Players of Political Economy - The Economic Crisis and the Case for a Solidarity Economy - Comments on the Financial Crisis - ?The Economic Crisis and Obama?s Response -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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My view is that government has always > been involved in business, first with the thieves of the nobility, > the raising of tolls on some roads, and so on, and throughout > history through the setting of institutions. In other words, I > would like to give this course a bit of historical perspective and > was wondering whether you could recommend a suitable text for this purpose. I suggested Polanyi, and told him I hadn't taught IO for over 15 years. He's not a Marxist or Institutionalist -- got his Ph.D. at USC, but he's clearly receptive. I taught the history of thought in the doctoral program there (since canceled), and he was definitely an outstanding student. He's also fluent in French, born I think in the C?te d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast). Please send any suggestions to me at , or post to the list if you think it worthwhile. Many thanks. Larry Shute From leefs at UMKC.EDU Mon May 11 08:47:54 2009 From: leefs at UMKC.EDU (Lee, Frederic) Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 09:47:54 -0500 Subject: [URPE] [UMKCLEE-URPE] Fulbright Opportunites for Heterodox Economists Message-ID: <9A72753A447165498D6B63479DB2E7C9066D0E7B@KC-MSX3.kc.umkc.edu> Fulbright Scholar Program for US Faculty and Professionals for 2010-2011 is open The Fulbright Scholar Program offers 105 awards in lecturing, research or combined lecturing/research in economics, including seven Fulbright Distinguished Chairs and the Middle East and North Africa Regional Research Program. Even better, faculty and professionals in economics also can apply for one of the 144 "All Discipline" awards open to all fields. The application deadline is August 1, 2009. U.S. citizenship is required. For a full listing of all Fulbright programs and other eligibility requirements, please visit our website at www.cies.org or send a request for materials to scholars at cies.iie.org . 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Jim Devine jdevine at lmu.edu From urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu Mon May 11 13:25:48 2009 From: urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu (urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu) Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 15:25:48 -0400 Subject: [URPE] [NYC] Brecht Forum: Education for Liberation/Ensemble Dissonanzen Message-ID: <4A087BBC.9070206@lists.econ.utah.edu> PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY Brecht Forum Education for Liberation/Ensemble Dissonanzen Click here to check out the Brecht Forum's new *ECONOMY WATCH* webpage for left analyses of the global financial crisis. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monday, May 11 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm EARLY AND MODERN IMPROVISATIONS Ensemble Dissonanzen Tommaso Rossi ? recorder, flute / Marco Sannini - trumpet / Marco Cappelli ? guitar, Francesco D'Errico - keyboards / special guest: Andrew Drury - drums More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Friday, May 15 8:00 pm DRAMATIC READING Hercules Comes Back More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Saturday, May 16 9:00 am - 5:00 pm Education for Liberation: Weekend Workshop An Introduction to Paulo Freire?s Concepts & Techniques Carmelina Cartei, Kate Cavanagh, Sally Hyppolite, Esperanza Martell, Julie Novas & Others TBA More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Saturday, May 16 6:00 pm - 10:00 pm Annual Roses & Bread Performance Benefit for the New Jersey 4 More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sunday, May 17 9:00 am - 5:00 pm WEEKEND WORKSHOP Education for Liberation An Introduction to Paulo Freire?s Concepts & Techniques Carmelina Cartei, Kate Cavanagh, Sally Hyppolite, Esperanza Martell, Julie Novas & Others TBA More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monday, May 18 7:30 pm RIGHT TO THE CITY SERIES Whose Land Is It? A Discussion with Miami's Take Back the Land Movement on Housing, Squatting, Showdowns, & Takeovers in the Face of Economic Crisis Max Rameau We all know the government is bailing out banks, while many of these same banks are ramping up foreclosures, and profiting from housing and land that people need. Take Back the Land (takebacktheland.org) has been on the front lines of this crisis, taking direct community action, pushing human rights on the national agenda against corporate greed. 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Name: Attached Message Part Url: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/urpe-announcements/attachments/20090511/5accb711/attachment-0001.txt From SCEPA at newschool.edu Mon May 11 14:05:37 2009 From: SCEPA at newschool.edu (SCEPA) Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 16:05:37 -0400 Subject: [URPE] Economic Recovery Conference - Note new location Message-ID: <4A084CD0.38B7.0043.0@newschool.edu> Teresa Ghilarducci Irene and Bernard L. Schwartz Professor of Economic Policy Analysis, The New School for Social Research; Director, SCEPA invites you to attend a conference entitled: ?Economic Recovery - Is It Time for A Mid-Course Correction?? - link for copy of program is http://www.newschool.edu/cepa/events/conferences/EconomicRecovery_Program.pdf RSVP by May 14, 2009 to scepa at newschool.edu or 212.229.5901 x4911 Sponsored by The Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis (SCEPA) at The New School for Social Research Speakers include: William Black Associate Professor of Economics and Law, University of Missouri - Kansas City Alexander Field Michael and Mary Orradre Professor of Economics, Santa Clara University Duncan Foley Leo Model Professor of Economics, The New School Richard Freeman Herbert Ascherman Professor of Economics, Harvard University and Program Director for Labor Studies, National Bureau of Economic Research Leo Hindery, Jr. Managing Partner, InterMedia Partners William Rodgers Professor of Public Policy, Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy and Chief Economist, John J. Heldrich Center of Workforce Development Allen Sinai Chief Global Economist, Strategist and President of Decision Economics, Inc. Peter Temin Elisha Gray II Professor of Economic, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Moderators: Teresa Ghilarducci Irene and Bernard L. Schwartz Professor of Economic Policy Analysis, The New School for Social Research; Director, SCEPA Jeff Madrick Senior Fellow, SCEPA, The New School Tuesday, May 19, 2009 The New School 8:30 am - 12:30 pm 66 West 12th Street, Room 510, 5th Floor, New York City From ian.fletcher at usbic.net Mon May 11 18:24:18 2009 From: ian.fletcher at usbic.net (Ian Fletcher) Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 17:24:18 -0700 Subject: [URPE] Factory Tours for Economists Message-ID: <004d01c9d297$fdd4dbd0$f97e9370$@fletcher@usbic.net> The factory tours for economists (in Grand Island, NE) that were previously announced on this list have now taken place. As you can see below, they seem to have been a success, so I am going to try to organize some more (in whatever cities I can find willing plant owners.) Please e-mail me to get on the list to be notified if a tour comes up in your area. Best Regards, Ian Fletcher Adjunct Fellow US Business & Industry Council 225 Bush St., 16th Fl. San Francisco, CA 94104 USA 415.439.8377 | 415.358.4320 (fax) | 415.238.8145 (cell) americaneconomicalert.org BEGIN FORWARDED MESSAGE: Yes, we did go. There ended up being eight of us that went, and although I think that more people were interested, but busy, it seemed the appropriate size for such an event. Too many more and Mr. Patten may have been aggravated by our questions and subject-dancing as follow-up questions usually came from several different people, all with different areas of interest. I cannot express enough how helpful, open, informed, patient and kind Mr. Patten was. I hope to do a dissertation on causes and consequences of as well as solutions to the loss/decline of our manufacturing sector and I believe one of the best ways to get at this is engaging in conversations such as the one we had Friday. I only wish I had had more time with Mr. Patten to discuss the difficulty he has faced as a result of government trade and tax policies as well as his opinion concerning how government policy changes could make it easier/possible to survive in a global economy. It was an excellent learning experience, something in which I hope to be able to participate repeatedly in the future. The other two businesses we visited had us participate in something more of a tour, rather than a question and answer session, although this too was extremely enlightening for us, as a group of academics, with little connection to the real world. I have spoken to most of the group since we returned and have received nothing but positive feedback. 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Message-ID: <4A09AFD4.5020107@mtholyoke.edu> In today's Financial Times there is a big insert (glossy color) called "The Future of Capitalism" with articles by: Lionel Barber Gary Becker Larry Fink Chrystia Freeland Alan Greenspan Francesco Guerrera Paul Kennedy Nigel Lawson Kishore Mahbubani Kevin Murphy Edmund Phelps Amartya Sen Robert Shiller Sir Martin Sorrell Joseph Stiglitz Martin Wolf This seems to me like a golden opportunity for radical economists to respond with letters and perhaps op-eds, commenting on what is right or wrong about the analysis. It looks to me like an opportunity that will be particularly available for a day or two (literally), since that's usually the time frame on which newspapers operate. There is also some video and audio on www.ft.com/capitalism of some of the debates that are printed in abbreviated form in the insert. I hope some people on this list will read/view this, and write in response. My impression is that the FT is somewhat more open than most newspapers (at least most financial newspapers) to wide-ranging debate. I would LOVE to see an op-ed by an URPE member in the FT. Mehrene Larudee From emily at populareconomics.org Wed May 13 15:10:39 2009 From: emily at populareconomics.org (Emily Kawano) Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 17:10:39 -0400 Subject: [URPE] CPE 2009 Summer Institute Message-ID: <4986fb200905131410o553421dfgab97bf507b90a2c9@mail.gmail.com> The Center for Popular Economics & the N.H. Program of the AFSC invite you to the 2009 Summer Institute *After the Economic Meltdown:** Building a Solidarity Economy* World Fellowship Center, Conway, N.H. July 12-17, 2009 *Learn how the economy works and *gain tools to make your activism more effective. CPE?s Summer Institute* *CPE?s Summer Institute is a week-long intensive training in economics for activists, educators, and anyone who wants a better understanding of economics. We focus on how economic systems impact our lives and work every day. Our trainings are highly participatory and build on the knowledge and experience of our participants. *No background in economics is required. * Core Classrooms At the heart of the Summer Institute program are two core courses, one on the *U.S. Economy*, one on the *International Economy*. All participants must choose one core course. The core classes meet each day in the mornings. Below is a sample of topics. U.S. Economy - *Economy, race, class and gender* - *Personal to global economic histories* - *Labor and the workplace* - *Roots of the Economic Meltdown & policy solutions (eg. fiscal & monetary)* - *An intro. to international economics* - *Economic alternatives* *International Economy * - * Brief history of the global economy* - *International trade* - *International production* - *International finance, roots of the Economic Meltdown and solutions* - *Creating a new world economy* Afternoon and evening events: In addition to the core courses is a rich selection of workshops, panels and discussion groups. We are also planning a special field trip to Bretton Woods where global economic structures such as the IMF, World Bank, and global trade agreements were hammered out after WWII. There will also be time for relaxation, recreation and networking. Special Track: After the Economic Meltdown: Each year, we choose an issue area that we focus on in the workshops and panels as well as in the core classrooms. Given the global economic crisis the clear choice was to focus on not only understanding the roots of the crisis, but how to get beyond it for the long term. This year?s special track will look at: ? How did we get into this economic mess? Was it individual greed or the way the system is rigged? ? What drives these booms and busts? Why do they happen on a regular basis? ? Could the economic crisis have been avoided? ? Is there a better way - one that puts people and planet front and center? ? What is the solidarity economy all about? Participants have described these courses as ?inspiring, intense, stimulating, comprehensive.? We cover a lot of material in a short amount of time, which can be both challenging and rewarding. All participants must choose one core course. The core classes meet each day in the mornings. *Fees: * The fee for tuition for the week is based on a sliding scale of $125-250. Using a sliding scale is an act of solidarity - those who can afford more pay at the higher end to enable those with fewer resources to pay at the lower end. The tuition fee mainly goes towards paying the teaching teams. A payment plan is an option. The cost of food & lodging is in addition to the program fee. Fees for food and lodging range from $294 for camping to $613 for the best single at the World Fellowship Center. Please contact the World Fellowship Centerdirectly. * Special rates available for N.H. residents.* Academic and professional development credit is available through the UMass-Amherst Continuing education Department. Earn 3 undergraduate or graduate credits; 67.5 Professional Development Points; or 6.75 Continuing Education Units. For more information visit our website: http://www.populareconomics.org/summer_new.htm or email: programs at populareconomics.org or call us at (413) 545-0743. *Location and Facilities: *The Summer Institute will be held at the beautiful World Fellowship Center (WFC), a retreat center ?with a social conscience.? World Fellowship is an inter-generational summer camp and conference center with a mission of promoting peace and social justice through education and dialog inspired by nature. There are a variety of housing options available. Please visit the WFC website (www.worldfellowship.org) or call 603-447-2280 for more info. and to reserve a space. TO REGISTER: please download and fill out the SI09 Registration Formand email it back to programs at populareconomics.org . *To get an idea of past Summer Institutes, Click Here * * * ? PO Box 785 ? Amherst, MA 01004 ? Phone 413-545-0743 ? Email: programs at populareconomics.org ? 2006 Center for Popular Economics -- Emily Kawano Exec. 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This summer we will be reading Marx?s early writings. The plan is to read over the period leading up to the conference, starting the week of May 25th and continuing until mid August. The reading list (see below) is organized on a weekly basis. The discussion will have the following format: ? The primary goal is to have a 1-2 day intensive discussion group (under the assumption of the readings being already done) among those who can make it to the URPE summer conference. To facilitate the discussion when we meet, we will have an email list or blog where participants can post questions as we read. ? For those who are interested in the reading group but cannot make it to the conference, there will also be an online discussion from May 25th till August 15th. There is no expectation that everyone participating in the summer conference group will also take part in the online discussion. You can do either or both, depending on your schedule and your preferences. We would be delighted to have other URPE members join us for the reading group. (Again, we are primarily looking for graduate students and young scholars, but there is no hard age cutoff.) We are hoping this group will help create connections among graduate students and young scholars working in the Marxist tradition, and lay the foundations for other collaborative projects in the future. If you are interested in joining the group, be it the meeting in August or only the online discussion, please let us know by sending an email to one of the members of the organization committee. Hope to see you there! Reading group organization committee: Amit Basole, abasole at gmail.com Hasan Comert, hcomert at gmail.com Iren Levina, ilevina at econs.umass.edu Josh Mason, jwmasonnyc at gmail.com ---------------- Summer Reading Group on Marx?s Early Writings Reading List The readings are organized on a weekly basis, with the first week being 5/24/09- 5/31/09. Most of the works are by Marx himself, with the only exception ? a book by Michael L?wy, The Theory of Revolution in the Young Marx. Most of the writings by Marx below are in a book Karl Marx. Early Writings by Vintage, copyright 1975, and they are also accessible via www.marxists.org. Number of pages per week is in parenthesis, with our goal being about 60 pages per week to make it manageable. Week 1: L?wy, Introduction (21 pp) and Chapter 1, The Transition to Communism (1842 ? 44)(39 pp). Week 2: Critique of Hegel's Doctrine of State (1843) (first half out of 143 pp) Week 3: Second half of material from the last week. Letters from the Franco- German Yearbook (1843) (11 pp). Week 4: On the Jewish Question (1843) (31 pp) and A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right. Introduction (1843-40) (14 pp), and Excerpts from James Mill's Elements of Political economy (1844)(20 pp). Week 5: L?wy, Ch 2 ? The Theory of Communist Revolution (55 pp). Week 6: Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts (1844) (122 pp). Week 7: second half of material from last week, plus Critical Notes on the Article 'The King of Prussia and Social Reform. By a Prussian (1844)(20 pp). Week 8: The Holy Family (Marx and Engels, 1844) (62 pp online). Week 9: Theses on Feuerbach (3 pages) and The German Ideology (Marx and Engels, 1845-6) (61 pp online). Week 10: The Poverty of Philosophy (1846-7) (102 pp online). Week 11: Second half (or final third) of Poverty of Philosophy and Speeches on Poland (Marx and Engels, 1847) (short). Week 12: Wage Labor and Capital (1847) (37 pp on line). From enid at uta.edu Sat May 16 23:59:39 2009 From: enid at uta.edu (Enid Arvidson) Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 00:59:39 -0500 Subject: [URPE] Books to Review for RRPE Message-ID: Friends, The Review of Radical Political Economics has just updated its list of books for review. The list can be found here: http://www.urpe.org/rrpe/reviews.htm The Review of Radical Political Economics welcomes and actively recruits reviews of significant books that are of interest to RRPE readers. Contributors are invited to prepare reviews of books on the list, and contributors are also welcomed and encouraged to prepare reviews of significant books not on the list but of interest to RRPE readers. RRPE publishes three different types of reviews: 1. Reviews of individual books, both books on the list which have been received from publishers, as well as books not on the list that are related to radical political economics. These reviews should be 1200-1500 words in length. 2. Review essays encompassing three or four books that bring together an important literature in significant areas for political economists. These reviews should be about 2500 words in length. 3. Ambitious examinations of bodies of literature that should be better known by RRPE readers. These reviews should also be about 2500 words in length. Please contact the RRPE book review editor, David Barkin, for assistance in obtaining review copies of books. More detailed instructions will accompany the book when it is sent. The book review editor and one other member of the Editorial Board serve as referees of reviews of single books. Reviews should be submitted within sixty days of receipt of the book. All reviews should be submitted in both electronic and printed form to the RRPE Managing Editor, Hazel Gunn. RRPE Book Review Editor: David Barkin Universidad Aut?noma Metropolitana - Xochimilco Calzada del Hueso 1100 Col. Villa Quietud 04960 Coyoac?n, D.F. MEXICO barkin at correo.xoc.uam.mx RRPE Managing Editor: Hazel Dayton Gunn Department of City and Regional Planning 106 W. Sibley Hall Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 hg18 at cornell.edu -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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The survey starts by asking whether economists think the minimum wage and an inflation adjusted minimum is good or bad for the economy. It then asks their opinions about unions and finally about whether the Employee Free Choice Act would be good for the economy in a recession. The survey is being done by someone at the University of New Hampshire. I called to ask if this was sponsored research. The researcher got real nervous and said she'd call me back but had to talk to her boss first to find out how much she could reveal. Then she called back to say it was Employment Policies Institute and that she'd add their name so people could see it after they've filled out the survey (so as not to bias the results). To see more about EPI go to www.epionlline.org. The head of EPI is Rick Berman who is well-known for his anti-union antics. He's the guy who also sponsors the Center for Union Facts and works as a lobbyist for the tobacco industry. You can find a profile on Berman at http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Rick_Berman if you have any doubts about his lack of integrity. What I'm asking is that you use your lists to send out a note encouraging progressive economists to fill out the survey if they receive it and to be aware what its purpose is when they do so. Even if they're not labor economists, and they receive the survey, they should fill it out. So if you have received the survey request, you may want to fill it out with your eyes wide-open. 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 "Routledge 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 From: Fowler, Tracy [mailto:Tracy.Fowler at unh.edu] Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 12:54 PM To: Lee, Frederic Subject: Labor Economist Survey Dear Frederic S. Lee, I am writing to urge you to participate in an important survey on current issues in the area of labor economics. This survey is being conducted by the UNH Survey Center on behalf of a public policy research firm. As unemployment numbers are rising, policymakers are in the middle of determining appropriate responses the economic situation. As specialists in the field, your responses will help provide a better context for some of the policy conversations under way this year. Please take a few moments of your valuable time to complete the survey. To begin, simply click the link below. The survey should not take more than 5 minutes of your time. Please use the following ID to enter the survey: 6462 http://www.unh.edu/survey-center/les09.htm The UNH Survey Center is compiling responses to ensure their confidentiality. Please complete the questionnaire ASAP so that your opinions can be included in the compiled results. If you have any questions about this survey, please contact Tracy Fowler at the UNH Survey Center at (603) 862-1060. Sincerely, Tracy Fowler Research Associate UNH Survey Center (603) 862-1060 ----- To be removed from this mailing list, please send an email message to the address leefs at umkc.edu asking to be removed from this list. Problems or questions should be directed to sullivanmw at umkc.edu. &*TO; -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 13020 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/urpe-announcements/attachments/20090521/5ba70350/attachment.txt From soapbox at comcast.net Thu May 21 19:22:16 2009 From: soapbox at comcast.net (Ruth Indeck) Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 21:22:16 -0400 Subject: [URPE] [NYC] Brecht Forum: Be a part of history -- Meet Noam Chomsky at Riverside Church and support the Brecht Forum! Message-ID: <4A15FE48.8090902@comcast.net> Friends, Three weeks to go until Noam Chomsky comes to Riverside Church, if you have not done so already click here to book your tickets today! In addition to the main event, we will be hosting a special reception to honor Noam Chomsky from 5:30-7:00pm before his talk. If you are interested in attending, please RSVP with Max at: max at brechtforum.org or 212.242.4201 ex 12 Tickets are available for a sliding scale donation of $50-$500. 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Chomsky, whom The New York Times Book Review has called "arguably the most important intellectual alive," is the author of over 100 books including in the last few years; What We Say Goes: Conversations on U.S. Power in a Changing World, Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy and Hegemony or Survival. /Sliding scale: $20/$30/$50/$100+/ This is a special fundraiser event to ensure the survival of the Brecht Forum during the current economic crisis, please donate what you can. http://brechtforum.org/events/crisis-hope-theirs-and-ours Co-Sponsors: The Education Ministry of the Riverside Church, Mission and Social Justice Commission of The Riverside Church, Theatre of the Oppressed at the Riverside Church, Theatre of the Oppressed at the Riverside Church, Bluestockings Books, The Indypendent and the Theatre of the Oppressed Laboratory (TOPLAB). 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From leefs at UMKC.EDU Thu May 28 13:17:23 2009 From: leefs at UMKC.EDU (Lee, Frederic) Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 14:17:23 -0500 Subject: [URPE] [UMKCLEE-URPE] Heterodox Economics Newsletter 83 Message-ID: <9A72753A447165498D6B63479DB2E7C90686B0E4@KC-MSX3.kc.umkc.edu> Heterodox Economics Newsletter www.heterodoxnews.com Issue 83: May 28, 2009 From bogus@does.not.exist.com Sat Apr 25 06:45:05 2009 From: bogus@does.not.exist.com () Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 12:45:05 -0000 Subject: No subject Message-ID: Earlier this year the editor of the American Journal of Economics and = Sociology , = Professor Larry Moss, died. After a search for a new editor, the = Journal's Board appointed me as the new editor, effective 1 July = 2009-click here = for announcement. Continuing its = intellectual tradition, I welcome any submissions that critically = investigates the social provisioning process utilizing different = theoretical and methodological approaches; that engage in critical = analysis and empirical studies of current social-economic micro and = macro policies affecting the social provisioning process; and that = evaluate past and current intellectual arguments and disciplinary = developments which had or currently have an impact on understanding and = investigating the social provisioning process. Being editor of a journal = means that I will have to reorganize my activities and commitments (see = below with regard to ICAPE). In particular, I will have to give up my = editorship of my Routledge Advances in Heterodox Economics book series-I = am working on finding a replacement so that the book series can = continue. In addition, doing both this Newsletter and being the editor = of AJES may be too difficult to manage, which means that there will = changes regarding the former. Only time will tell. The content of the Newsletter is again quite remarkable for its = diversity and activities, such as the Minksy String Quartet (see FYI). = The conferences, seminars, papers books, and journals noted below span = the broad interest of heterodox economists as well as brings them = together. In this regard, the pending new book on Economics Pluralism, = which is the conference volume from the last ICAPE conference, deserves = attention. Finally, for those who are interested in issues of ranking = journals, assessing research performances of departments, and the future = of heterodox economics in Europe, you might want to participate in the = University of Bremen workshop on Assessing Heterodox Economics in a = European Context-see below for details. Fred Lee In this issue: =20 Call for Papers =20 - Labour Underutilisation - Unemployment & Underemployment - Capital as Power - Global Financial Crisis - 3rd International Research Workshop in Political Economy - The 2nd Conference of the International Forum for Contemporary Chinese = Studies (IFCCS) - JSPE 57th Annual Conference, 2009 - Growth, Trade and Economic Development: Theory and Evidence - International Journal of Trade and Global Markets - Research on Money and Finance Discussion Papers series - RM2009: New Marxian Times =20 Conferences, Seminars and Lectures = = =20 - S=E9minaire CEPN et MSH Paris Nor - 2009 Summer Institute - The Geopolitics of Global Energy - The third History of Recent Economics (HISRECO) Conference - 6th History of Economics as History of Social Science Workshop - Politique mon=E9taire, r=E8gles de taux d'int=E9r=EAt et = fonctionnement du march=E9 mon=E9taire - IIPPE's International Research Workshop - Cambridge Seminar in the History of Economic Analysis - Assessing Heterodox Economics in a European Context Job Postings for Heterodox Economists = =20 =20 - The Oregon Center for Public Policy (OCPP) - City University London =20 Heterodox Conference Papers and Reports and Articles = =20 =20 - GDAE Papers - LEVY Papers - GDAE launches reports at LASA in Rio Heterodox Journals and Newsletters = = =20 =20 - Metroeconomica=20 - Review of Political Economy - CIRCUS - The Journal of Philosophical Economics - Local Economy - CASE Newsletter - INTERNATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR PROMOTING POLITICAL ECONOMY (IIPE) = Newsletter =20 Heterodox Books and Book Series = =20 =20 - The Political Economy of Consumer Behavior: Contesting Consumption - ZED Books - Unravelling Capitalism: A Guide To Marxist Political Economy - Bankruptcies and Bailouts - The Political Economy of Monetary Circuits=20 - Capital as Power: A Study of Order and Creorder - Economic Pluralism - The American Journal of Economics and Sociology Book Series - Social Inequality, Analytical Egalitarianism and the March Towards = Eugenic Explanations in the Social Sciences - Henry George: Political Ideologue, Social Philosopher and Economic = Theorist - Ernest Mandel: A Rebel's Dream Deferred - Routledge Advances in Heterodox Economics Series Heterodox Book Reviews = =20 =20 - The Life and Times of Ra=FAl Prebisch, 1901-1986=20 - Economics in Russia: Studies in Intellectual History =20 Heterodox Web Sites and Associations = =20 =20 - Hasan Gurak International Confederation of Associations for Pluralism in Economics = - News =20 =20 - ICAPE News =20 For Your Information = =20 =20 - The Minsky String Quartet - Remarques pr=E9par=E9es par Andrew Cornford pour l'occasion de la = publication du livre de Professor Paul Dembinski - Toxic Textbooks - The 2009 Routledge-GCP&S Essay Prize - La Continuidad te=F3rica entre Marx y Sraffa=20 - Corporate Governance Network (CGN) - eInsight - Revolutions fought & refought? - Robert Rowthorn interviewed by Alan Macfarlane 13th June 2008 =20 ----- To be removed from this mailing list, please send an email message to the address leefs at umkc.edu asking to be removed from this list. 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Heterodox Economics Newsletter

www.heterodoxnews.com

Issue 83: May 28, 2009

 

From the Editor

Earlier this year the editor = of the American = Journal of Economics and Sociology, = Professor Larry Moss, died. After a search for a new editor, the Journal’s Board = appointed me as the new editor, effective 1 July 2009—click here for announcement. Continuing its intellectual tradition, I welcome any submissions that critically investigates the social provisioning process utilizing different theoretical and methodological approaches; that = engage in critical analysis and empirical studies of current social-economic micro = and macro policies affecting the social provisioning process; and that = evaluate past and current intellectual arguments and disciplinary developments = which had or currently have an impact on understanding and investigating the = social provisioning process. Being editor of a journal means that I will have = to reorganize my activities and commitments (see below with regard to = ICAPE). In particular, I will have to give up my editorship of my Routledge = Advances in Heterodox Economics book series—I am working on finding a = replacement so that the book series can continue. In addition, doing both this Newsletter = and being the editor of AJES may be too difficult to manage, which means that = there will changes regarding the former. Only time will tell.

The content of the Newsletter is again quite = remarkable for its diversity and activities, such as the Minksy String Quartet (see = FYI). The conferences, seminars, papers books, and journals noted below span = the broad interest of heterodox economists as well as brings them together. = In this regard, the pending new book on Economics Pluralism, which is the = conference volume from the last ICAPE conference, deserves attention. Finally, for those = who are interested in issues of ranking journals, assessing research = performances of departments, and the future of heterodox economics in Europe, you might = want to participate in the University of Bremen workshop on Assessing Heterodox = Economics in a European Context—see below = for details.


Fred Lee

In this issue:

 

Call for = Papers

- Labour Underutilisation - Unemployment & = Underemployment
- Capital as Power
- Global Financial Crisis
- 3rd International Research Workshop in Political Economy
- The 2nd Conference of the International Forum for Contemporary = Chinese Studies (IFCCS)
- JSPE 57th Annual Conference, 2009
- Growth, Trade and Economic Development: Theory and Evidence
- International Journal of Trade and Global Markets
- Research on Money and Finance Discussion Papers series
- RM2009: New Marxian Times

 

Conferences, Seminars and = Lectures

- S=E9minaire CEPN et MSH Paris Nor
- 2009 Summer Institute
- The Geopolitics of Global Energy
- The third History of Recent Economics (HISRECO) Conference
- 6th History of Economics as History of Social Science Workshop
- Politique mon=E9taire, r=E8gles de taux d'int=E9r=EAt et = fonctionnement du march=E9 mon=E9taire
- IIPPE’s International Research Workshop
- Cambridge Seminar in the History of Economic Analysis
- Assessing Heterodox Economics in a European = Context

Job Postings for Heterodox = Economists

 

- The Oregon Center for Public Policy (OCPP)
- City University London

 

Heterodox = Conference Papers and Reports and Articles

 

- GDAE Papers
- LEVY Papers
- GDAE launches reports at LASA in Rio

Heterodox Journals and = Newsletters

 

- Metroeconomica
- Review of Political Economy
- CIRCUS
- The Journal of Philosophical Economics
- Local Economy
- CASE Newsletter
- INTERNATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR PROMOTING POLITICAL ECONOMY (IIPE) = Newsletter

 

Heterodox Books and Book = Series

 

- The Political Economy of Consumer Behavior: = Contesting Consumption
- ZED Books
- Unravelling Capitalism: A Guide To Marxist Political Economy
- Bankruptcies and Bailouts
- The Political Economy of Monetary Circuits
- Capital as Power: A Study of Order and Creorder
- Economic Pluralism
- The American Journal of Economics and Sociology Book Series
- Social Inequality, Analytical Egalitarianism and the March Towards = Eugenic Explanations in the Social Sciences
- Henry George: Political Ideologue, Social Philosopher and Economic = Theorist
- Ernest Mandel: A Rebel’s Dream Deferred
- Routledge Advances in Heterodox Economics = Series

Heterodox Book = Reviews

 

- The Life and Times of Ra=FAl Prebisch, 1901-1986
- Economics in Russia: Studies in Intellectual = History

 

Heterodox Web Sites and = Associations

 

- Hasan Gurak

International Confederation of Associations for = Pluralism in Economics - News

 

- ICAPE News

 

For Your Information

 

- The Minsky String Quartet
- Remarques pr=E9par=E9es par Andrew Cornford pour l’occasion de = la publication du livre de Professor Paul Dembinski
- Toxic Textbooks
- The 2009 Routledge–GCP&S Essay Prize
- La Continuidad te=F3rica entre Marx y Sraffa
- Corporate Governance Network (CGN)
- eInsight
- Revolutions fought & refought?
- Robert Rowthorn interviewed by Alan Macfarlane 13th June = 2008

 

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Please consider forming a workshop with 2 to 4 papers on a common theme that your and colleagues might be working on. Or just submit a paper. Please send all submissions to: laura.ebert at marist.edu . Workshops and papers will be accepted until all space is filled? while last minute submissions are welcome they might not be accepted if there is no space , so please get your submission in early. Laura Ebert Assistant Professor of Economics Dyson Hall 308 School of Management Marist College Poughkeepsie , New York 12601 office 845-575-3000 X2904 cell 845-337-0061 laura.ebert at marist.edu http://www.academic.marist.edu/~jf3s/ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Link to the ECWD website: http://www.east.usworker.coop/ Link to the conference brochure and on-line registration: http:// www.east.usworker.coop/registration.html Link to mailable registration form: http://www.east.usworker.coop/ 2009/ecwd_registrationform_2009.pdf Link to the scholarship form: http://www.east.usworker.coop/2009/ ecwd_scholarshipapp_2009.pdf We look forward to seeing you there! Mary Hoyer, Lead Organizer 413-256-0726 5th Biennial Eastern Conference for Workplace Democracy with Small Planet Institute, Ohio Employee Ownership Center, and Coalition of Black Trade Unionists Pittsburgh Democracy Works: Worker Cooperatives, Labor Solidarity, and Sustainability Friday to Sunday, July 31st - August 2nd, 2009 Duquesne University ? Pittsburgh, PA www.east.usworker.coop Join worker co-ops, majority worker-owned firms, and support organizations committed to workplace democracy as we move towards sharing our knowledge, strengthening our businesses and the economic democracy movement, and organizing for workplace democracy in the eastern region of the U. S. Conference workshops will focus on what worker cooperatives are, how to create them, and improving business skills, as well as encouraging democratic ESOPs and building the economic democracy and labor solidarity movements. Keynote speaker Frances Moore Lapp?: Historian Howard Zinn says, ?A small number of people in every generation are forerunners in thought, action, and spirit, swerving past barriers to hold a torch high for the rest of us. Lapp? is one of those.? Ms. Lapp? is the author of sixteen books and has received seventeen honorary doctorates. In her books such as Getting a Grip: Clarity, Creativity, and Courage in a World Gone Mad, Democracy?s Edge: Choosing to Save Our Country by Bringing Democracy to Life, You Have the Power: Choosing Courage in a Culture of Fear, and Casting New Molds: First Steps Toward Worker Control in a Mozambique Steel Factory, Ms. Lapp? has been addressing the urgent need for working people to take control of their economies and societies from toxic oligarchies and elites, drawing attention to a powerful though frequently invisible citizens? revolution. In America, this represents the emergence of a new historical stage of democracy in which people are rising up to change the ground rules, tackling problems that stymie the experts. Plenary panelists Hazel Corcoran (Canadian Federation of Worker Co-ops), John Curl (author), John Logue (Ohio Employee Ownership Center), Melissa Hoover (U.S. Federation of Worker Co-ops), and Charles McCollester (Indiana University of Pennsylvania; invited) will speak on Economic Discovery: Moving Toward Democratic Control covering the following issues: Worker Ownership: Lessons Learned; Historic and Current Crises; and Recovery: What do Worker Co-ops Have to Offer? Supporters to Date Patrons: Equal Exchange, Red Sun Press, U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives Sponsors: Carey Center for Democratic Capitalism, Chroma Technology, Collective Copies, Cooperative Development Institute, Cooperative Fund of New England, Cooperative Home Care Associates, East End Food Co-op, Gaia Host Collective, Grassroots Economic Organizing Collective, National Cooperative Business Association, Ownership Associates, Southern New Hampshire University School of Community Economic Development Contributors: City University of New York Graduate Center for Worker Education, Community Builders Co-op, Cooperative Development Foundation, Democracy Collaborative at University of Maryland, Dollars and Sense Magazine, Praxis Consulting, Ronin Tech Collective, South Mountain Company, Steel Valley Authority, Vermont Employee Ownership Center -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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The Department of Economics of UPorto is one of the most prestigious in the country and has a strong and significant group of faculty interested in the History of Economic Thought, including Antonio Almodovar, Maria de F?tima Brand?o, and M?rio Gra?a Moura. HET is a compulsory course at the undergraduate and graduate level. Roger Backhouse has been Visiting Professor in the Department for the last 10 years teaching at the PhD programme in Economics. Conditions: - The starting salary of an Assistant Professor is around 2,000? (netto) paid 14 months (12 months plus extra payment in June and December). - Assistant Professors are expected to teach an average of 6-8h per week, 28 weeks per year, though in some cases they may concentrate their teaching in one semester (14 weeks). - Teaching is mainly in Portuguese at the undergraduate level and in English at the Graduate level. - The academic year starts in mid-September and ends in mid-July. Selection Criteria: - Candidates should have a PhD in a relevant field for those areas, completed in the last 5 years. - The selection committee will give priority to candidates showing strong research potential, namely through publications in prestigious international outlets. Candidates should send their CV until the 19th June 2009: - either electronically for the following address: srh at fep.up.pt - or by normal mail to: Servi?o de Recursos Humanos, Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto, Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, 4200 Porto, Portugal - candidates willing to send their publications may do it, either electronically or in a CD/memory stick. Potential interested candidates may contact me for any further information. Pedro Nuno Teixeira From urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu Mon Jun 15 16:51:28 2009 From: urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu (urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu) Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 18:51:28 -0400 Subject: [URPE] [CEPA] Economic Recovery Conference Message-ID: <4A36D070.5060009@lists.econ.utah.edu> Dear All, On May 19, SCEPA hosted the Economic Recovery - Is It Time For a Mid-Course Correction? conference. We are pleased to announce that you may view the conference on YouTube. It is posted in three parts. Below are the links. Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbhQ0Ty_q4c Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIi9_YZuNGY Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9kzOwP07oc Please also stay up to date with SCEPA news by visiting our website at: http://www.newschool.edu/cepa/index.htm . Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis The New School 6 East 16th Street New York, NY 10003 Tel: (212) 229-5901, x4911 Fax: (212) 229-5903 email: scepa at newschool.edu http://www.newschool.edu/cepa/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 Tue Jun 16 09:17:58 2009 From: urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu (urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu) Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 11:17:58 -0400 Subject: [URPE] [NYC] Brecht Forum -- Spanish Classes/Bill Tabb/ Paul Buhle Message-ID: <4A37B7A6.9060900@lists.econ.utah.edu> PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY Brecht Forum Spanish Classes/Bill Tabb/ Paul Buhle Click here to check out the Brecht Forum's new *ECONOMY WATCH* webpage for left analyses of the global financial crisis. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tuesday, June 16 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm 8-SESSION CLASS BEGINS Intermediate Spanish Marisol Ruiz More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Wednesday, June 17 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm 8-SESSION CLASS BEGINS Advanced Spanish Marisol Ruiz More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Wednesday, June 17 7:30 pm The Current Crisis & Alternative Globalizations An Interview with Bill Tabb This interview with noted political theorist Bill Tabb will be recorded for a class at the Sustainability Institute at the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa. It will be one of several interviews with analysts from other regions including Africa, India, Europe and Cuba. More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thursday, June 18 6:00 pm @ Brooklyn College Graduate Center for Worker Education, 25 Broadway (7th Floor Auditorium) Manhattan, across from Bowling Green Embedded with Organized Labor Journalistic Reflections on the Class War at Home Steve Early More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Friday, June 19 6:00 pm DINNER / DISCUSSION 5th ANNUAL HARVEY GOLDBERG CLASSROOM BENEFIT GALA Radicals & Historians Harvey Goldberg in Madison's Golden Age Paul Buhle /Plus/ The SDS Comic Show Exhibit & a Musical Performance TBA We are pleased to announce that this year's Goldberg lecture will be given by the eminent American historian and UW graduate student, Paul Buhle... More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Saturday, June 20 10:00 am - 1:00 pm 5-SESSION CLASS BEGINS Intermediate Spanish Jose Rosa More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Saturday, June 20 10:00 am - 1:00 pm 5-SESSION CLASS BEGINS Beginning Spanish Jairo Jimenez Ruiz More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Saturday, June 20 10:00 am - 4:00 pm 2-DAY WORKSHOP BEGINS Using Cop-in-the-Head to Look at Internalized Homophobia A Workshop for LGBT People Facilitated by Ellen Baxt & Gail A. Burton More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Saturday, June 20 6:00 pm - 11:00 pm Pride Mixer! More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monday, June 22 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm 8-SESSION SERIES BEGINS ONGOING STUDY GROUP, JOIN ANY TIME Revolutions Background to 1848 Led by Russell Dale & Michael Larder Beginning June 22 we will read Eric Hobsbawm?s /Age of Revolution: 1789-1848./ We will convene eight Mondays over the summer, though not consecutive?June 22, 29, July 13, 20, August 10, 17, and 24... More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tuesday, June 23 7:30 pm ON THE EVE OF THE UN CONFERENCE ON THE ECONOMIC CRISIS Towards a People-Centered Economy Alternative Responses to the Crisis Diana Aguiar, Sarah Anderson, Larry Holmes, Arjun Karki, Pedro Paez, Jana Silverman & Steve Suppan Despite optimistic claims in the mainstream media that the global economic crisis is entering its final phases, more realistic analysts confirm that this worldwide financial downturn continues to worsen... More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Saturday, June 27 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm FOLLOWING THE UN CONFERENCE ON THE ECONOMIC CRISIS: A Round-Table with WSF Founding Activist Fran?ois Houtart Fran?ois Houtart, Chris Rude, David Wilson & A Representative of Dos Pueblos Sister City Project TBC 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... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 12745 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/urpe-announcements/attachments/20090616/918cf44a/attachment.txt -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Our plenaries are "Radical Restructuring and Institutions" and "Grassroots Organizing and Responses," and our special David Gordon Lecture is "Finance without Financiers: Prospects for Radical Change in Financial Governance." We have workshop topics ranging from carbon emissions and GDP growth to the oil strategies of Hugo Chavez. See details below, and click here for a preliminary list of workshops. *Workshop proposals are still being accepted*; contact Laura Ebert -- laura.ebert at marist.edu . As always, there are opportunities for hiking, swimming, and great socializing with friends old and new! *Please register by July 31!* For more information, visit our webpage www.urpe.org or contact the National Office at 413-577-0806 urpe at labornet.org. And look at the Summer Conference section of our website for specific information about transportation, rates, etc. ********** Below is a list of plenaries: Plenary 1: *RADICAL RESTRUCTURING AND INSTITUTIONS* /The Current World Economic Crisis, Neoliberalism and the Role of Finance Capital/ Paul Cooney, Universidade Federal do Par?, Brazil /Rewriting the Book on Money and Banking/ Jane D'Arista, Research Associate at PERI /Who Lost Wall Street? Should We Try to Find It Again?/ Gerald Epstein, University of Massachusetts /The New Regional Financial Architecture in South America and its Relation with the Current Crisis/ Matias Vernengo, University of Utah Plenary 2: *GRASSROOTS ORGANIZING AND RESPONSES* /Uncovering the Costs of Employment-based Health Insurance/ Jenny Brown, co-chair of the Alachua County Labor Party (Gainesville, Florida) and project director, Redstockings of the Women's Liberation Movement /Stopping Foreclosures and Evictions/ Roxan McKinnon, Executive Director, City Life/Vida Urbana /Organizing the Urban Unemployed: From Mass Incarceration to a Green Justice Economy/ Aaron Tanaka, Director, Boston Workers Alliance David Gordon Lecture: *FINANCE WITHOUT FINANCIERS: PROSPECTS FOR RADICAL CHANGE IN FINANCIAL GOVERNANCE* Gerald Epstein, University of Massachusetts, Amherst & co-director, PERI (Political Economy Research Institute) -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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The Pennsylvania Cover Letter to the Scientists and Economists' Call for Swift and Deep Cuts in Greenhouse Gas Emissions will be delivered to Pennsylvania representatives during the week of June 22nd and to senators later this summer or fall.The cover letter and underlying statement are open to Pennsylvania Ph.D. or doctoral candidate professionals with expertise relevant to our understanding of the scientific and economic dimensions of climate change, its impacts, and solutions. If you meet these criteria, we ask that you become a supporter. To read and sign the letter, visit http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/what_you_can_do/pennsylvania-letter.html. Kate Cell Consultant, UCS Climate Program kcell at katecell.com 413.259.9129 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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The AFL-CIO is hosting a national conference call for academics who support the Employee Free Choice Act, at 2pm Eastern Time, on Tuesday, June 23. URPE members who are interested in participating should contact Sheldon Friedman at sfriedma at aflcio.org or 202-637-5310. After he hears from you, he will send you call-in information and an agenda for the call. Beyond that, if you have any questions about the EFCA you can either ask me (Al at economics.utah.edu), or if you want to talk to a much more knowledgeable person (ie, on top of all the details), Sheldon would be happy to answer any questions - and he is good at getting back to email. In solidarity, Al From rbalakrishnan at mmm.edu Thu Jun 18 09:23:27 2009 From: rbalakrishnan at mmm.edu (Radhika Balakrishnan) Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 11:23:27 -0400 Subject: [URPE] Human Rights Response to the Economic Crisis in the United States Message-ID: <6F959BAD63C6B34DB4F6B654FA94B5769F7377E35D@mstamsx07.mmc.mmm.edu> Please join us for a strategic session on building movements around the economic crisis, human rights, and the US. Human Rights Response to the Economic Crisis in the United States Thursday, June 25th, 2009 (6-8pm) 10th Floor, Church Center 777 UN Plaza, (44th Street and First Avenue), New York Speakers include: United States Mission Representative to the United Nations (invited) Radhika Balakrishnan, MMC / CWGL Diana Salas, Women of Color Policy Network It is clearly time to assess economic policy using the ethical lens of universally-recognized human rights standards. This panel will look at the impact of the economic crisis on the economic and social rights of people in the United States, and illustrate how a human rights framework is needed to analyze why the crisis was allowed to happen and what we can do about it. Sponsored by: Marymount Manhattan College, ESCR-Net, Women of Color Policy Network, Political Economy Research Institute (PERI), CWGL and the US Human Rights Network 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 leefs at UMKC.EDU Mon Jun 22 01:53:04 2009 From: leefs at UMKC.EDU (Lee, Frederic) Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 02:53:04 -0500 Subject: [URPE] [UMKCLEE-URPE] UMKC Economics Blog Message-ID: <9A72753A447165498D6B63479DB2E7C906A5818F@KC-MSX3.kc.umkc.edu> A new, UMKC blog is up and running, and is already attracting serious attention. Featured are Stephanie Kelton, Randy Wray, Bill Black, Jamie Galbraith, Eric Tymoigne, Scott Fullwiler, Felipe Rezende among others. Please have a look: it just might be the most sensible thing out there! http://neweconomicperspectives.blogspot.com/ ----- To be removed from this mailing list, please send an email message to the address leefs at umkc.edu asking to be removed from this list. Problems or questions should be directed to sullivanmw at umkc.edu. &*TO; -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tuesday, June 23 7:30 pm ON THE EVE OF THE UN CONFERENCE ON THE ECONOMIC CRISIS Towards a People-Centered Economy Alternative Responses to the Crisis Diana Aguiar, Sarah Anderson, Larry Holmes, Arjun Karki, Pedro Paez, Jana Silverman & Steve Suppan Despite optimistic claims in the mainstream media that the global economic crisis is entering its final phases, more realistic analysts confirm that this worldwide financial downturn continues to worsen... More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Saturday, June 27 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm FOLLOWING THE UN CONFERENCE ON THE ECONOMIC CRISIS: A Round-Table with WSF Founding Activist Fran?ois Houtart Fran?ois Houtart, Michele Kervyn, Chris Rude & Christy Thorton (TBC) For activists in the US, the UN conference on the Economic Crisis represents an "eruption" into the usual politics of the General Assembly. What does it mean to the Left in the US? How are we to relate to it? More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tuesday, June 30 7:30 pm SANKOFA FILM SERIES The Media and the Hidden Wars of the Congo Gil Noble, Dr. Yaa Lengi M. Ngemi, HEAL Africa Over 250,000 people have been internally displaced in the Democratic Republic of the Congo... More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Saturday, July 04 6:00 pm @ SURREAL ESTATE 15 Thames St., Brooklyn, NY L train to Morgan Avenue 4th on Fire! A Benefit Concert for the Brecht Forum & Left Turn Magazine Mahina Movement, Earthdriver, Rebel Diaz, Young Lady, Koba, Rude Mechanical Orchestra and Mustglow Fuego More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thursday, July 09 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm 8-SESSION CLASS BEGINS Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit Pamela Brown & Russell Dale Hegel's philosophy has had a great influence to much that has happened in the world since his time. Hegel is crucial to understanding much of modern philosophy as well as to understanding Marxism and the socialist tradition in its varied aspects... 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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Towards a People-Centered Economy: Alternative Responses to the Economic Crisis Tuesday, June 23rd, 7pm - 9pm This event will be a warm up to the UN conference and features social movements organizing for solutions to the economic crisis, against the G-20 and for the ?G-192? (all countrys in the United Nations). Panelists: Pedro Paez, Former Minister of Economic Coordination, Ecuador and member of UN Commission of Experts on the crisis ? Sarah Anderson, Institute for Policy Studies ? Arjun Karki, LDC Watch (Nepal) ? Steve Suppan, Institute of Agriculture and Trade Policy and Our World is Not for Sale Network ? Diana Aguiar, International Gender and Trade Network ? Larry Holmes, Bail Out the People Movement (NYC) ? Jana Silverman, Social Watch will be the moderator. A Round-Table with WSF Founding Activist Fran?ois Houtart Saturday, June 27th, 1pm - 3pm For activists in the US, the UN conference on the Economic Crisis represents an "eruption" into the usual politics of the General Assembly. What does it mean to the Left in the US? How are we to relate to it? This panel looks at the origins of this unique conference ? both in it's challenge to the G20's handling of the economic crisis and in the context of the history of recent Latin American liberation struggles, from Nicaragua to Venezuela to Bolivia. In his time as a Sandinista Foreign Minister in the 1980s d'Escoto successfully brought the United States before the International Court of Justice for its paramilitary activities in Latin America. He also openly criticized both Israeli policy in the occupied Palestinian territories and US policy under the 2nd Bush administration for "acts of aggression" in Iraq and Afghanistan. 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While working on the = preparations for the Workshop I received the following e-mail from an = Australian colleague: Just back from a deeply depressing staff meeting, at which we learned = that the Deputy VC (Research) intends to actively discourage staff from = publishing in B-ranked journals, on the grounds that 'it will pull down = the average'. When implemented (as it will be), this will eradicate = heterodox economics (and HET) altogether....A longer-term cloud on the = horizon is staff support for compulsory (mainstream micro, macro, = econometrics) coursework for all new PhD students, which will eradicate = heterodox research students too. When I pointed out the effect on anyone = doing research in HET or political economy (all 4 of my current PhD = students), it was suggested that they might be exempted because they are = 'not doing economics'.=20 The issues that the Workshop will address are indeed important ones for = heterodox economists. Fred Lee In this issue: =20 Call for Papers =20 - The European Society for the History of Economic Thought - Association for Institutional Thought [AFIT] - The Research Network Macroeconomics and Macroeconomic Policies (FMM) - The Japanese Society for Post Keynesian Economics - URPE Summer Conference, August 15 - 18, 2009 - International Walras Association 2010 Conference - 2009 International Historical Conference Critical Thought =20 Conferences, Seminars and Lectures = = =20 - ISHET - International Symposium on the History of Economic Thought - Forum the Spirit of Innovation IV - The 41st Annual UK History of Economic Thought Conference - Eastern Conference for Workplace Democracy 2009 - Is Black and Red Dead? - 15th Workshop on Alternative Economic Policies in Europe =20 Heterodox Conference Papers and Reports and Articles = =20 =20 - Alternative Explanations of the Operation of Capitalist Economy: = Efficient Market Theory vs. Keynes's Liquidity Theory - The Debate on the Developmental State: Evidence from the Indian = Software Industry Heterodox Journals and Newsletters = = =20 =20 - Economia e Sociedade - Levy News - Associative Economics Bulletin - International Review of Applied Economics - Journal of Innovation Economics (JIE) - Innovations, Cahiers d'Economie de l'Innovation - HEI- History of Economic Ideas - Review of Social Economy - Economic Systems Research - The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought =20 Heterodox Books and Book Series = =20 =20 - Nice Work If You Can Get It - Following Marx: Method, Critique and Crisis=20 - Rethinking Foreign Investment for Sustainable Development: Lessons = from Latin America - Embedded With Organized Labor - Heterodox Macroeconomics - ZED Books- Development Studies - Development of Economic Analysis, 7e Heterodox Book Reviews = =20 =20 - Lawrence E. Mitchell, _The Speculation Economy: How Finance Triumphed = over Industry - The Case for Big Government =20 Heterodox Web Sites and Associations = =20 =20 - The International Adam Smith Society - El Grupo de Investigaci=F3n en Pensamiento y Teor=EDa Econ=F3mica = (GIPTE) - Charles Leopold Mayer Foundation Initiative for Re-thinking the = Economy - Economic Perspectives from Kansas City =20 For Your Information = =20 =20 - Survey on Education for Sustainable Development - James Galbraith - Videos from Professor Sidney Winter - The Phillips Machine - Academics languish behind the curve set by journalists - Warren Samuels Prize - Interview- Paul Davidson - The Association for Institutional Thought=20 - The Nature of Capital in the Knowledge-Based Economy - Economics for Equity and the Environment Network (E3) - Center for the History of Political Economy - Center for Global Justice - Centro Para la Justicia Global - The Union of Concerned Scientists =20 ----- To be removed from this mailing list, please send an email message to the address leefs at umkc.edu asking to be removed from this list. 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Heterodox Economics Newsletter

www.heterodoxnews.com

Issue 84: June 24, 2009

 

From the Editor

In two days, the Bremen Workshop on Assessing Heterodox Economics Research = in a European Context will take place. While working on the preparations for = the Workshop I received the following e-mail from an Australian = colleague:

Just back from a deeply depressing staff meeting, at = which we learned that the Deputy VC (Research) intends to actively discourage staff from publishing in B-ranked journals, on the grounds that ‘it will pull = down the average’. When implemented (as it will be), this will = eradicate heterodox economics (and HET) altogether....A longer-term cloud on the = horizon is staff support for compulsory (mainstream micro, macro, econometrics) coursework for all new PhD students, which will eradicate heterodox = research students too. When I pointed out the effect on anyone doing research in = HET or political economy (all 4 of my current PhD students), it was suggested = that they might be exempted because they are ‘not doing = economics’.

The issues that the Workshop will address are indeed important ones for heterodox economists.


Fred Lee

In this issue:

 

Call for = Papers

- The European Society for the History of Economic = Thought
- Association for Institutional Thought [AFIT]
- The Research Network Macroeconomics and Macroeconomic Policies = (FMM)
- The Japanese Society for Post Keynesian Economics
- URPE Summer Conference, August 15 – 18, 2009
- International Walras Association 2010 Conference
- 2009 International Historical Conference Critical = Thought

 

Conferences, Seminars = and Lectures

- ISHET – International Symposium on the History = of Economic Thought
- Forum the Spirit of Innovation IV
- The 41st Annual UK History of Economic Thought Conference
- Eastern Conference for Workplace Democracy 2009
- Is Black and Red Dead?
- 15th Workshop on Alternative Economic Policies in = Europe

 

Heterodox Conference Papers and Reports and = Articles

 

- Alternative Explanations of the Operation of = Capitalist Economy: Efficient Market Theory vs. Keynes's Liquidity Theory
- The Debate on the Developmental State: Evidence from the Indian = Software Industry

Heterodox Journals and = Newsletters

 

- Economia e Sociedade
- Levy News
- Associative Economics Bulletin
- International Review of Applied Economics
- Journal of Innovation Economics (JIE)
- Innovations, Cahiers d'Economie de l'Innovation
- HEI- History of Economic Ideas
- Review of Social Economy
- Economic Systems Research
- The European Journal of the History of Economic = Thought

 

Heterodox Books and Book = Series

 

- Nice Work If You Can Get It
- Following Marx: Method, Critique and Crisis
- Rethinking Foreign Investment for Sustainable Development: Lessons = from Latin America
- Embedded With Organized Labor
- Heterodox Macroeconomics
- ZED Books- Development Studies
- Development of Economic Analysis, 7e

Heterodox Book = Reviews

 

- Lawrence E. Mitchell, _The Speculation Economy: How = Finance Triumphed over Industry
- The Case for Big Government

 

Heterodox Web Sites and = Associations

 

- The International Adam Smith Society
- El Grupo de Investigaci=F3n en Pensamiento y Teor=EDa Econ=F3mica = (GIPTE)
- Charles Leopold Mayer Foundation Initiative for Re-thinking the = Economy
- Economic Perspectives from Kansas City

 

For Your Information

 

- Survey on Education for Sustainable Development
- James Galbraith
- Videos from Professor Sidney Winter
- The Phillips Machine
- Academics languish behind the curve set by journalists
- Warren Samuels Prize
- Interview- Paul Davidson
- The Association for Institutional Thought
- The Nature of Capital in the Knowledge-Based Economy
- Economics for Equity and the Environment Network (E3)
- Center for the History of Political Economy
- Center for Global Justice
- Centro Para la Justicia Global
- The Union of Concerned Scientists

 

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The Fool at the Foot of the Cross with a Prologue by Machiavelli Adapted & Performed by Tony Palmieri More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Saturday, June 27 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm FOLLOWING THE UN CONFERENCE ON THE ECONOMIC CRISIS *NOTE TIME CHANGE* A Round-Table with WSF Founding Activist Fran?ois Houtart Fran?ois Houtart, Michele Kervyn, Chris Rude & David Wilson For activists in the US, the UN conference on the Economic Crisis represents an "eruption" into the usual politics of the General Assembly. What does it mean to the Left in the US? How are we to relate to it? More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monday, June 29 7:30 pm South Asian Migrant Worker Struggles Regional & Global Resistance Syed Armughan al-Asar, Immanuel Ness & Karin Astrid Siegmann The panel examines the regional and global dimensions of South Asian migrant labor struggle against multinational corporate exploitation... More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Saturday, July 18 9:30 am - 6:00 pm 4-DAY INTENSIVE INTRODUCTION TO MARXISM JULY 18-19 & 25-26 Marxism A Revolutionary Cure for Capitalism's Depression? Humberto Brown, Vivek Chibber, Harriet Fraad, Harmony Goldberg, Lisa Maya Knauer, Peter Marcuse, Liz Mestres, Wasir Mohammed, Manny Ness, Cleo Silvers, Bill Tabb, Lincoln Van Sluytman, Rick Wolff & Others TBA It?s becoming increasingly apparent that the ?cures? that are prescribed for capitalism?s ills just temporarily suppress the symptoms--only to have the disorder reemerge more virulently a bit later... More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Brecht Forum logo The Brecht Forum Needs Your Support! 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For more than a year, the Forum for Other Indicators of Wealth (FAIR: http://www.idies.org/index.php?category/FAIR) has emphasised the need for a democratic debate on these issues. The issues addressed, which /de facto/ relate to the values on which our societies are built and which guide our economic and social policies, should not be the exclusive domain of experts. Many people would like to provide feedback on the Commission?s proposals, but do not have the time to compile a submission or the words to express their thoughts. If you share the views set out in the seven points listed below (further developed on FAIR\'s website), please do not hesitate to use them as a basis for your comments on the Commission?s website ?http://www.stiglitz-sen-fitoussi.fr/en/index.htm. You are also invited to forward this message to your contacts, although we would ask you to delete any previous email addresses to avoid sending blanket messages. *For the attention of the Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress.* Many of us think that: 1. There is an urgent need to redefine social progress and the way it is measured in order to ensure the economy serves the interelated social and environmental goals. 2. In this regard, the Commission is addressing a number of key issues and has provided a well-argued critique of the current measurement tools. 3. However, its response lacks coherence and does not go far enough by failing to fully explore the concerns raised by its own questions (by often focusing on measures of societal progress based on monetary equivalences). 4. Future indicators should reflect the essential values that our societies aim to promote, alert us to the most serious risks, and be easily understood by everyone. 5. The development of these indicators should therefore be the subject of a far-reaching democratic debate at government and territorial level. 6. The consultation proposed by the Commission does not fully meet this requirement: a report available exclusively in English in a style written for experts and a very short feedback period will not encourage the expected debate. 7. Citizens, trade unions, associations and various organisations feel concerned by these issues and have resources, both at local and international levels, which should be recognised in order to develop a convincing and legitimate response on which to build our common future. ----- To be removed from this mailing list, please send an email message to the address leefs at umkc.edu asking to be removed from this list. 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He is a member of the UN advisory group on the World Economic Crisis and his book 'The Value of Money" (Columbia University Press) was published earlier this year. ======================================================================= Prabhat Patnaik is also speaking at: AHE Colloquium on 'The Economics of Tomorrow', Monday 13 July 2009, 9:30am-5:00pm, Kingston University to book, visit http://bit.ly/ahe2009 or contact l.hall at KINGSTON.AC.UK 11th Annual Conference of the Association for Heterodox Economics, 9-12 July 2009, Kingston University http://fass.kingston.ac.uk/activities/item.php?updatenum=1112 ======================================================================== From aducey at ucalgary.ca Fri Jul 3 14:42:54 2009 From: aducey at ucalgary.ca (Ariel Ducey) Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 14:42:54 -0600 Subject: [URPE] new book on the political economy of job training and health care Message-ID: Cornell University Press has just published my (first!) book on education and job training in the health care sector, a sociological book under the influence of radical political economy. Cheers, Ariel Ducey * * * Ariel Ducey, Never Good Enough: Health Care Workers and the False Promise of Job Training. Cornell University Press, 2009. Description: In Never Good Enough, Ariel Ducey assesses the investment of hundreds of millions of dollars for training and educating frontline health care workers in New York beginning in the mid-1990s. In her thoughtful and provocative critique, Ariel Ducey explores the history and the extent of job training initiatives for health care workers and lays out the political, economic, and emotional significance of these programs beyond the obvious goal of career advancement. Examining the most heavily funded training programs, she argues that both the content of many training and education programs and the sheer commitment of time they require pressure individual health care workers to compensate for the irrationalities of America's health care system, for the fact that caring labor is devalued, and for the inequities of an economy driven by the relentless creation of underpaid service jobs. In so doing, the book also analyzes the roles that unions--particularly SEIU 1199 in New York--and the city's academic institutions have played in this problematic phenomenon. The book is based on Ducey's three years as an ethnographer in several hospitals and in-depth interviews with key players in health care training. 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We will focus on comparisons and connections between China, Mexico, and the United States. Speakers at the conference will include scholars and activists from all three countries, including: * China: Shen Yuan (Tsinhua University), He Gaochao (Zhongshan University) * Mexico: Enrique Dussel Peters (National Autonomous University, UNAM), Betha Lujan (Authentic Labor Front, FAT) * US: former Labor Secretary Ray Marshall, Maria Elena Hincapi? 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Using the poetry and theory of black lesbian feminist warrior mother Audre Lorde to create activities and discussion topics, this performance/workshop is especially designed for those seeking to build community through progressive organizing and creative transformation. More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Wednesday, July 08 6:30 pm - 9:30 pm OFFSTAGE FORUMS 2009 FAMILIES NOW! Working Class & LGBT Families Surviving The Great Recession The econ can't stop these alternative and working-folk families from surviving and thriving... More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thursday, July 09 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm 8-SESSION CLASS BEGINS Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit Pamela Brown & Russell Dale Hegel's philosophy has had a great influence to much that has happened in the world since his time. Hegel is crucial to understanding much of modern philosophy as well as to understanding Marxism and the socialist tradition in its varied aspects... More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thursday, July 09 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm EXHIBIT OPENING The Art of Palestinian Children The Art of Palestinian Children is a traveling exhibition. The paintings in this exhibition all come from Al-Jana, the Arab Resource Center for Popular Arts, in Beirut where the children (ages 8 to 13) attended art classes. More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monday, July 13 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm 4-SESSION CLASS BEGINS Marxian Economics An Intensive Introduction Rick Wolff This course provides a working foundation in the core concepts of Marxian economic theory ? necessary and surplus labor, labor power, surplus value, exploitation, capital accumulation, distributions of the surplus, capitalist crises, and the differences between capitalist and other class structures... More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tuesday, July 14 6:00 pm Reportback from Gaza & the West Bank Invited speakers include: Medea Benjamin, Felice Gelmon, Manijeh Saba, & Phil Weiss Hear eye witness accounts from members of delegations trying to break through the blockade of Gaza-some successfully and some not... More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Saturday, July 18 9:30 am - 6:00 pm 4-DAY INTENSIVE INTRODUCTION TO MARXISM JULY 18-19 & 25-26 Marxism A Revolutionary Cure for Capitalism's Depression? Humberto Brown, Vivek Chibber, Harriet Fraad, Harmony Goldberg, Lisa Maya Knauer, Peter Marcuse, Liz Mestres, Wasir Mohammed, Manny Ness, Cleo Silvers, Bill Tabb, Lincoln Van Sluytman, Rick Wolff & Others TBA It?s becoming increasingly apparent that the ?cures? that are prescribed for capitalism?s ills just temporarily suppress the symptoms--only to have the disorder reemerge more virulently a bit later... More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Wednesday, July 22 6:30 pm Offstage Forum Post Apocalyptic. New Freedoms. New Communities. Forever war. Economic disaster. Global warming. You ready? Come listen and dialogue... 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Name: Attached Message Part Url: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/urpe-announcements/attachments/20090706/08d6dee8/attachment-0001.txt From raberto at ru.is Wed Jul 8 02:42:11 2009 From: raberto at ru.is (Marco Raberto) Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 08:42:11 +0000 Subject: [URPE] Workshop on Managing Financial Instability in Capitalistic Economies, Reykjavik, September 3rd - 5th, 2009 Message-ID: <94A2D17F280177438CBF40DAB710C0CE01CA9BA6719A@HRCLUSTER.hir.is> First announcement: MAFIN 09 First International Workshop on Managing Financial Instability in Capitalistic Economies Reykjavik (Iceland), September 3rd - 5th, 2009 http://mafin09.ru.is Call for Papers: Researchers are invited to submit a paper to the First International Workshop on Managing Financial Instability in Capitalistic Economies (MAFIN 09), to be held in Reykjavik (Iceland), September 3rd - 5th, 2009. Aims and scope: The purpose of the workshop is twofold: to discuss new modelling paradigms in financial economics and to design new public intervention policies aimed to recover a capitalist economy from a deep recession caused by a credit crunch or a collapse in assets values. The Icelandic economy will be discussed as a case study. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following: ? Agent-based computational economics ? Behavioural finance and economics ? Economics of heterogeneous and interacting agents ? Financial Keynesianism and financial fragility ? Financial engineering and regulation ? Econophysics ? Endogenous and systemic risk management ? Evolutionary economics ? Financial econometrics ? Statistical equilibrium in economics This three-day event will offer presentations of papers selected by the Scientific Committee after a blindly double review, as well as keynote sessions by Invited Speakers. Discussions will have a large space in the final program. A final round table is foreseen in discuss new possible foundations to the science of economics. A related document, called Reykjavik manifesto, will be released. Venue: The workshop will be held at Reykjavik University in the Ofanleiti building, 103 Reykjavik, Iceland. Submissions: An extended abstract or a short paper should be submitted in PDF format by sending an email to: mafin09 at ru.is The deadline for the submission of extended abstracts or short papers is July 19th, 2009. The maximum length of contributions should be 6 pages. Please send an anonymous version without any author information to guarantee a double-blind review. Author(s) information must be included in the body of the email. Workshop Proceedings: After the event, we plan to publish in a special issue of a Journal with a JCR impact factor, the extended and revised versions of some selected papers modified after the remarks and discussions that will take place during the Workshop. Important dates: July 19th, 2009 Submission of extended abstracts or short papers August 15th, 2009 Notification of acceptance August 25th, 2009 Workshop registration deadline September 3rd ? 5th, 2009 Workshop October 31st, 2009 Submission of final papers Organizing Committe: Marco Raberto (Chair), Reykjavik University, Iceland Hlynur Stef?nsson (Co-Chair), Reykjavik University, Iceland Birgir Arnarson, Reykjavik University, Iceland Haraldur ?skar Haraldsson, Reykjavik University, Iceland Opening speech: Mr. Steingr?mur J. Sigf?sson, Minister of Finance, Republic of Iceland Invited speakers: Silvano Cincotti, University of Genova, Italy (title to be announced) Cees Diks, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands "Bounded rationality, herding, and endogenous evolution towards market instability" Mauro Gallegati, Polytechnic University of Marche, Ancona, Italy "Why financial markets are unstable?" Thomas Lux, University of Kiel, Germany "Mass psychology in action: identification of social Interaction Effects in the German stock market" Enrico Scalas, University of East Piedmont, Alessandria, Italy "Combinatorial stochastic processes and the reconstruction of macroeconomics" Willi Semmler, New School, New York, USA "Facts and modeling of the recent financial market meltdown" Leanne Ussher, City University of New York , USA "Monetary policy reform in an agent-based model" Scientific Committee: Marco Raberto (Chair), Reykjavik University, Iceland Farid Ait-Sahalia, University of Florida, USA Trond Andresen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway Fri?rik M?r Baldursson*, Reykjavik University, Iceland Giulio Bottazzi, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy Olivier Brandouy, University of Lille, France Charlotte Bruun, Aalborg University, Denmark Carl Chiarella, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Silvano Cincotti, University of Genova, Italy David Colander, Middlebury College, Vermont, USA Luca Colombo, Catholic University of Milan, Italy Andrea Consiglio, University of Palermo, Italy Carmen Costea, Academy of Economic Studies Bucharest, Romania Sergio Da Silva, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil Jon Danielsson*, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK Paul De Grauwe, University of Leuven, Belgium Roberto Dieci, University of Bologna, Italy Tiziana Di Matteo, King's College, London, UK Giorgio Fagiolo, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy Duncan Foley, New School for Social Research, New York, USA Xavier Gabaix, New York University,USA Mauro Gallegati, Polytechnic University of Marche, Ancona, Italy Eric Guerci, GREQAM, Marseilles, France Cars Hommes, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Peter Howitt, Brown University, Providence, USA Giulia Iori, City University, London, UK Steve Keen, University of Western Sydney, Australia Alan Kirman, GREQAM, Marseilles, France Thomas Lux, University of Kiel, Germany Diana Mangalagiu, Reims Management School, France Rosario Mantegna, University of Palermo, Italy Michele Marchesi, University of Cagliari, Italy Matteo Marsili, Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy John Moore, University of Edinburgh, UK Oddgeir ?g?st Ottesen, Reykjavik University, Iceland Marta Posada, Universidad de Valladolid, Spain Luciano Pietronero, Universit? la Sapienza, Rome, Italy Araceli Proto, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina Pietro Riechlin, Luiss Guido Carli, Rome, Italy Enrico Scalas, University of East Piedmont, Alessandria, Italy Andrea Scharnhorst, Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences, Netherlands Frank Schweitzer, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Willi Semmler, New School University, New York, USA Sorin Solomon, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel Eugene Stanley, Boston University, USA Hlynur Stef?nsson, Reykjavik University, Iceland Andrea Teglio, University of Genoa, Italy Frank Westerhoff, University of Bamberg, Germany Dasheng Wu, Reykjavik University, Iceland (*to be confirmed) Acknowledgments: The workshop is funded by the Reykjavik University Development Fund Vinsamlega athugi? a? uppl?singar ? t?lvup?sti ?essum og vi?hengi eru eing?ngu ?tla?ar ?eim sem p?stinum er beint til og g?tu innihaldi? uppl?singar sem eru tr?na?arm?l. 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Come with your questions about what is going on, and to together think through what forms ethical solidarity might take for those of us who are not in Iran. More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monday, July 13 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm 4-SESSION CLASS BEGINS Marxian Economics An Intensive Introduction Rick Wolff This course provides a working foundation in the core concepts of Marxian economic theory ? necessary and surplus labor, labor power, surplus value, exploitation, capital accumulation, distributions of the surplus, capitalist crises, and the differences between capitalist and other class structures... More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tuesday, July 14 6:00 pm Reportback from Gaza & the West Bank Invited speakers include: Medea Benjamin, Felice Gelmon, Manijeh Saba, & Phil Weiss Hear eye witness accounts from members of delegations trying to break through the blockade of Gaza-some successfully and some not... More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Wednesday, July 15 7:30 pm EMERGENCY TEACH-IN Honduras Coup Maintaining Elite Power or Reestablishing Democracy? Andres Conteris, Audelia Guadalupe Lopez de Kleutgens, Roberto Lovato More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thursday, July 16 7:30 pm Who's afraid of the Swine Flu? The Intersection of Capitalism, Food & Disease Dr. Laura S. 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Humberto Brown, Vivek Chibber, Bhairavi Desai, Harriet Fraad, Harmony Goldberg, Jon Kim, Lisa Maya Knauer, Lynn Lewis, Peter Marcuse, Liz Mestres, Wasir Mohammed, Manny Ness, Brian Purnell, Merle Ratner, Jean Rice, Rob Robinson, Cleo Silvers, Bill Tabb, Lincoln Van Sluytman, Hank Williams, Rick Wolff & Others TBA It?s becoming increasingly apparent that the ?cures? that are prescribed for capitalism?s ills just temporarily suppress the symptoms--only to have the disorder reemerge more virulently a bit later... CLICK HERE FOR SCHEDULE 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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Thank you. > ? > Eddie Rivera > ? > > > > > > > > > > From envjoel at ix.netcom.com Sun Jul 19 17:48:16 2009 From: envjoel at ix.netcom.com (Joel R Kupferman) Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2009 19:48:16 -0400 Subject: [URPE] Jon Stewart Takes on Goldman Sachs [Video] -- Seeking Alpha Message-ID: <009701ca08cb$63507140$29f153c0$@netcom.com> http://seekingalpha.com/article/149494-jon-stewart-takes-on-goldman-sachs-vi deo Very good concise economic analysis by Jon STEWART Joel R Kupferman New York Environmental Law & Justice Project National Lawyers Guild- Environmental Justice Committee -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Eventually, some seemingly obvious questions began to trouble me. Economics, which purports to explain the nature of a capitalist system motivated by profit maximization, lacks a theory of capital as well as any coherent explanation of the determination profits. One of reasons is simple: economics generally deals with a static conception of the world, yet fixed capital, which becomes increasingly important with the maturation of capitalism, calls out for a dynamic analysis, even with a static conception of the world. Read more at: http://michaelperelman.wordpress.com/2009/07/20/an-idiosyncratic-road-to-crisis-theory/ -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.com From leefs at UMKC.EDU Tue Jul 21 07:09:54 2009 From: leefs at UMKC.EDU (Lee, Frederic) Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 08:09:54 -0500 Subject: [URPE] [UMKCLEE-URPE] Heterodox Economics Newsletter 85 Message-ID: <9A72753A447165498D6B63479DB2E7C906CE36F9@KC-MSX3.kc.umkc.edu> Heterodox Economics Newsletter www.heterodoxnews.com Issue 85: July 20, 2009 From bogus@does.not.exist.com Mon Jul 6 09:31:04 2009 From: bogus@does.not.exist.com () Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:31:04 -0000 Subject: No subject Message-ID: Summer is upon those north of the equator and given the fine weather, = heterodox economists seem more apt to be sitting in beer gardens and = talking with friends than engaged in economics-which is a good thing. In = the Newsletter there are some interesting call for papers and an = interesting paper about understanding the financial crisis through = accounting models. There are also a long list of new and recent books, = many of which are in the Routledge Advances in Heterodox Economics book = series. Finally, check out the FYI section as it has some rather = interesting items, such as Haiku Economics by that wild and wacky = economist Steve Ziliak. 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Heterodox Economics Newsletter

www.heterodoxnews.com

Issue 85: July 20, 2009

 

 

From the Editor

Summer is upon those north of the equator and given the fine weather, heterodox = economists seem more apt to be sitting in beer gardens and talking with friends = than engaged in economics—which is a good thing. In the Newsletter = there are some interesting call for papers and an interesting paper about = understanding the financial crisis through accounting models. There are also a long = list of new and recent books, many of which are in the Routledge Advances in = Heterodox Economics book series. Finally, check out the FYI section as it has some = rather interesting items, such as Haiku Economics by that wild and wacky = economist Steve Ziliak.


Fred Lee

In this issue:

 

Call for = Papers

- SGE Annual Conference
- 13th SCEME Workshop in Economic Methodology
- MAFIN 09 First International Workshop on Managing Financial = Instability in Capitalistic Economies
- The Financial and Monetary Crisis
- La Crise Financiere Et Monetaire
- COST- ESF Conference

 

Conferences, Seminars = and Lectures

- Work & Inequality in the Global Economy: China, = Mexico, US
- Labour Underutilisation - Unemployment and = Underemployment

 

Heterodox Conference Papers and Reports and = Articles

 

- Understanding Financial Crisis Through Accounting = Models
- The Downside of Financialisation of International Commodity = Markets

Heterodox Journals and = Newsletters

 

- Challenge
- New Political Economy
- PERI Newsletter
- eInsight
- economic sociology
- Capitalism and Society
- Associative Economics Bulletin
- Journal of Post Keynesian Economics
- Cuadernos de Relaciones Laborales

 

Heterodox Books and Book = Series

 

- Macroeconomic Methodology – a Post-Keynesian Perspective
- Never Good Enough
- Global Finance and Social Europe
- Keynes and his Battles
- Routledge Advances in Heterodox Economics Book Series
- The Coming of Age of Information Technologies and the Path of Transformational Growth
- Cultural Economics and Theory
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&*TO; ------_=_NextPart_001_01CA0A04.8A059861-- From jbrown72073 at cs.com Tue Jul 21 08:20:20 2009 From: jbrown72073 at cs.com (jbrown72073 at cs.com) Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 10:20:20 -0400 Subject: [URPE] UCLA Labor Center needs solidarity In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <8CBD825834EE7A4-155C-2525@WEBMAIL-MZ28.sysops.aol.com> From: Scott Myers Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 8:25:45 PM Subject: Please support the UCLA Labor Center! Hello all, I apologize if you have received this or a similar e-mail from one of my colleagues at the UCLA Labor Center. I am writing to ask for your help in sending a fax to the chancellor of UCLA to ask him to take immediate action prevent the closure of the UCLA Labor Center. The UCLA Labor Center is the only program at UCLA that directly serves the needs of working people. First, the governor of California singled out our state funding for elimination in September 2008. Now the UCLA administration is also threatening to eliminate our UCLA-based funding. We need to generate letters and faxes to the chancellor to let him know the importance of our program. Could you please adapt one of the two enclosed sample letters [below] (one is for unions, the other is for all other organizations), print it on your organization's letterhead, and fax it to the chancellor? Please also e-mail or fax us a copy to 213-480-4160, so we can keep track of all the organizations who have gone on record in support of the UCLA Labor Center. THANK YOU for your support! Scott -- Scott E. Myers ??????? Project Director UCLA Downtown Labor Center 675 S. Park View St., 2nd Floor Los Angeles, CA 90057 tel: (213) 480-4155 x221 fax: (213) 480-4160 smyers at irle.ucla.edu scotteakinmyers at gmail.com http://www.labor.ucla.edu/ URGENT LETTER WRITING CAMPAIGN TO UCLA CHANCELLOR BLOCK Chancellor Gene Block UCLA 2147 Murphy Hall Los Angeles, CA 90095 FAX #310-206-6030 Dear Chancellor Block, I am writing to oppose the UCLA Administration's decision to close down the UCLA Labor Center as reported in the NY Times. The UCLA Labor Center and the UCLA Downtown Labor Center have provided invaluable resources in research and education to the broader community. They are one of the best known and best regarded outreach programs within UCLA. It would be a tragic mistake for UCLA to shut down one of the premier outreach centers, and would send a very bad message to the community. UCLA is a publicly funded university and should serve the entire community, and not disproportionately support corporate interests. The UCLA Labor Center receives a small fraction in funding compared to the UCLA business school. I encourage you to take immediate steps to restore funding to the UCLA Labor Center. Sincerely, URGENT LETTER WRITING CAMPAIGN TO UCLA CHANCELLOR BLOCK Chancellor Gene Block UCLA 2147 Murphy Hall Los Angeles, CA 90095 FAX #310-206-6030 Dear Chancellor Block, I am writing to oppose the UCLA Administration's decision to clos e down the UCLA Labor Center as reported in the NY Times. I am the (title) of the (union) representing (number of members) in Los Angeles. Our members have relied on the education and research offered by the UCLA Labor Center over the years, and it is the only UC program that serves the needs of unions and workers in Southern California. UCLA is a publicly funded university and should serve the entire community, and not disproportionately support corporate interests. The UCLA Labor Center receives a small fraction in funding compared to the UCLA business school. I encourage you to take immediate steps to restore funding to the UCLA Labor Center. Sincerely, ________________________________________________________________________ Email message sent from CompuServe - visit us today at http://www.cs.com From urpe at igc.org Tue Jul 21 11:25:46 2009 From: urpe at igc.org (urpe at igc.org) Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:25:46 -0400 (GMT-04:00) Subject: [URPE] Summer Conference Early-Registration Discounts! Message-ID: <10600660.1248197146384.JavaMail.root@elwamui-ovcar.atl.sa.earthlink.net> The URPE Summer Conference is August 15 - 18 and we have discounted fees for those who register before FRIDAY, JULY 31. In addition, we are proud to offer free childcare but can only guarantee said childcare for those who let us know they will be bringing their children by FRIDAY, JULY 31. Please join us! We have an exciting line-up of speakers and workshops including plenary speakers Jenny Brown, Paul Cooney, Jane D'Arista, Gerald Epstein, Roxann McKinnon, Aaron Tanake, and Matias Vernengo. Camp Deer Run in Pine Bush, NY, offers wonderful opportunities for hiking, swimming, and informal socializing. And our program, "Economic Crises: Opportunities for Radical Change," offers the chance to talk about today's most pressing issues from a radical point of view. For more information, contact the National Office at 413-577-0806 or urpe at labornet.org, and visit our website www.urpe.org. From zarembka at buffalo.edu Wed Jul 22 07:07:55 2009 From: zarembka at buffalo.edu (Paul Zarembka) Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 09:07:55 -0400 Subject: [URPE] Research in Political Economy (Vol. 25): Why Capitalism Survives Crises: The Shock Absorbers Message-ID: <4A670F2B.5040808@buffalo.edu> *Just published: Why Capitalism Survives Crises: The Shock Absorbers Volume 25, /Research in Political Economy /Paul Zarembka, editor *www.buffalo.edu/~zarembka/ *PART I. 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VALUE THEORY AND METHODOLOGY IN POLITICAL ECONOMY*** //***On the Labor Theory of Value: Statistical Artefacts or Regularities?* **//Lefteris Tsoulfidis , University of Macedonia, and Dimitris Paitaridis , University of Macedonia//**/ / **// //***Limits and Challenges of the Consistency Debate in Marxian Value Theory* **//Guglielmo Carchedi , University of Amsterdam //***Methodological Differences between Two Marxian Economists in Japan: Kozo Uno and Sekisuke Mita* ****//Shuichi Kakuta , Ritsumeikan University //**** ****//300 Pages, 2009 Emerald Group Publishing Limited Web page for Research in Political Economy //***** *****//===== (V23) THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF 9-11, Seven Stories Press softcover, 2008 2nd ed (V24) TRANSITIONS IN LATIN AMERICA .... (V25) WHY CAPITALISM SURVIVES CRISES ====> Research in Political Economy, Emerald Group, Bingley, UK ====> Paul Zarembka, Editor ====> http://www.buffalo.edu/~zarembka/ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 3389 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/urpe-announcements/attachments/20090722/07b9bd23/attachment.txt From ctilly at irle.ucla.edu Fri Jul 24 19:06:37 2009 From: ctilly at irle.ucla.edu (Chris Tilly) Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 18:06:37 -0700 Subject: [URPE] Call for papers: "Work Matters--International Labour Process Conference" - Stream on bad jobs Message-ID: <001901ca0cc4$2bd0fbc0$8372f340$@ucla.edu> URPE folks, I would like to call your attention both to the upcoming International Labour Process Conference (ILPC), crossing the Atlantic to the United States for a change, and to the conference stream on ?Are bad jobs inevitable??, in which I am involved. If you are not familiar with ILPC, it is interdisciplinary (primarily sociological, but definitely hospitable to economists like us), and involves a lot of European researchers. Best, Chris Tilly CALL FOR PAPERS Work Matters: 28th Annual International Labour Process Conference Rutgers University, March 15-17, 2010 The Conference: The Annual International Labour Process Conference is a leading conference on work and employment. It brings together academics and policy makers from the sociology of work and employment, labour studies, business and management, human resource management, industrial relations, organization studies and a range of other disciplines. With exciting new streams and issues, the 2010 event provides a great opportunity for diverse groups of labour-oriented workplace researchers from different continents to communicate and collaborate. Selections of conference papers are published in edited books, with twenty now published. It is intended that a selection of papers from the bad jobs stream will be published in a journal special edition. Abstracts for the stream should be between 350-500 words and can be either theoretical and/or empirical. Abstract contents should enable the referees to determine what issue, development or problem is being investigated, how it is investigated, what the findings are and what contribution is being made to understanding in the field. In addition to general papers the 2010 Conference will have the following special streams: * Accounting, the financial crisis and the labour process: Tony Tinker, Baruch College, City University of New York, US; Aida Sy, Manhattan College, US. * Alternative Work Organisations: Maurizio Atzeni, Loughborough University, UK; Dario Azzelleni, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Germany ; Immanuel Ness , Brooklyn College CUNY, US * Are bad jobs inevitable? Chris Warhurst, University of Strathclyde, UK; Patricia Findlay, University of Edinburgh UK; Francoise Carre, University of Massachusetts Boston, USA; Chris Tilly, UCLA, USA. * Representations and Realities of Women's Work: Juliette Summers Stirling University, UK; Doris Ruth Eikhof, Stirling University, UK; Marian Baird University of Sydney, AU; Eileen Appelbaum, Rutgers University, US. * Skill Creation Systems and the Restructuring of the Global Economy: David Finegold, Rutgers University, US. * The economy of feelings: emotional labour, 'soft' skills and emotional intelligence at work: Sharon C. Bolton, Strathclyde University Business School, UK; Irena Grugulis, Bradford School of Management. UK; Steve Vincent, Leeds University Business School, UK; Robin Leidner, University of Pennsylvania; US. * Worker Power and the Labour Process, Past and Present: Dorothy Sue Cobble, Rutgers University, US; Peter Winn, Tufts University, US. ILPC 20108 Conference Organizers: Paul Adler, University of Southern California, US. Eileen Appelbaum, Rutgers University, US. Dan Clawson, University of Massachusetts, US. Adrienne Eaton, Rutgers University, US. David Finegold, Rutgers University, US. Mary Gatta, Rutgers University, US. Ruth Milkman, University of California, Los Angeles, US For questions about the conference please contact: ilpc2010 at ilpc.org.uk Please submit to www.ilpc.org.uk by October 31, 2009 SPECIAL INTEREST STREAM: Are bad jobs inevitable? Despite or perhaps because of the recession, job quality has again become an issue. Until recently, government and academic interest has focussed on good jobs with high skill and high pay. However, evidence suggests a polarisation across the developed economies with good jobs and bad jobs. The latter are typically characterised by low skill, pay and prospects. They are often inadequately protected by collective bargaining and employment law. Often these jobs involve vulnerable workers, many of whom are female or racial/ethnic minorities, with low or no qualifications are often part-time and work in the retail, hospitality, health and social care sectors. Labour process analysis has long sought to explore and explain why bad jobs exist and has implicitly been concerned about improving such jobs. The aim of this stream is to generate discussion between different perspectives on bad jobs, including the labour process tradition, the low-wage work research agenda, and analyses of tradeoffs between quality and quantity of jobs. We ambitiously seek to attract papers from sociology, economics, industrial relations and related disciplines as well as from practitioners looking at: ? Defining and measuring bad jobs ? How to explain variation and change in job quality across sectors and countries ? Generating better understanding of the practices and policies that might make bad jobs more bearable ? Generating better understanding of the levers and obstacles to workers exiting bad jobs into better jobs ? Exploring the policies and strategies for making bad jobs better * Identifying any gaps in the evidence base and so future research agendas Papers can be conceptual, empirical and/or policy-focused. Stream Organisers: ? Chris Warhurst, University of Strathclyde, UK. Email: Chris.Warhurst at strath.ac.uk ? Patricia Findlay, University of Edinburgh UK. Email: P.Findlay at ed.ac.uk ? Fran?oise Carr?, University of Massachusetts Boston, USA. Email: Francoise.Carre at umb.edu ? Chris Tilly, UCLA, USA. 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Pat Duffy Office Manager URPE National Office From urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu Wed Jul 29 21:48:13 2009 From: urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu (urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu) Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 23:48:13 -0400 Subject: [URPE] [NYC] Brecht Forum: Spanish Classes Start Saturday / Films / Poetry / Urban Revolution Message-ID: <4A7117FD.9000001@lists.econ.utah.edu> PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY Brecht Forum Spanish Classes Start Saturday / Films / Poetry / Urban Revolution Click here to check out the Brecht Forum's new *ECONOMY WATCH* webpage for left analyses of the global financial crisis. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Saturday, August 01 10:00 am - 1:00 pm 5-SESSION CLASS BEGINS Beginning Spanish Jairo Jimenez Ruiz More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Saturday, August 01 10:00 am - 1:00 pm 5-SESSION CLASS BEGINS Intermediate Spanish Jose Rosa More Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Saturday, August 01 6:00 pm EXHIBIT OPENING Necropolis City of the Dead Over 30 artists from all backgrounds will come together to explore the metaphoric graveyard of modern life. 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Name: Attached Message Part Url: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/urpe-announcements/attachments/20090807/1c7120e0/attachment-0001.txt From PaddyQuick at aol.com Thu Aug 6 10:45:58 2009 From: PaddyQuick at aol.com (PaddyQuick at aol.com) Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 12:45:58 EDT Subject: [URPE] URPE Conference in Brooklyn, October 24,2009 Message-ID: Call for Papers and Participants - URPE Conference in Brooklyn, October 24, 2009 The Union for Radical Political Economics (URPE) is sponsoring a one-day conference on the topic of "Economic Crisis: Radical Analysis and Radical Responses." The conference will take place at St. Francis College, Brooklyn. The day will be structured into two segments. The morning will focus on the economic and political roots of the current crisis in the capitalist system, while the afternoon will concentrate on the ways in which activists are responding to the crisis. (There is, of course, no firm line dividing the two.) Each segment will begin with a keynote speaker. David Harvey (Distinguished Professor, CUNY) will be the speaker in the morning, and a New York City activist (not yet confirmed) will introduce the afternoon segment. Following this, those attending the conference will be invited to participate in one of a set of workshops (workshops will be an hour and a half in length.) The conference will include lunch and an end-of-day cocktail party to allow for and encourage informal discussions. We are looking for people to act as workshop leaders. One possible format for a workshop would be the presentation of a formal paper, and graduate students in particular are invited to share their work with others. Alternatively, people could take on the responsibility of introducing and then structuring a discussion on one particular aspect of the crisis. Each segment of the conference would conclude with brief reports from each workshop to the conference as a whole. Proceedings of the conference will be posted on the URPE website. Proposals or questions regarding the conference should be sent to the conference organizers, Paddy Quick and Julio Huato: _paddyquick at aol.com_ (mailto:paddyquick at aol.com) and _jhuato at gmail.com_ (mailto:jhuato at gmail.com) . Please share this announcement with others. ________________________ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 2936 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/urpe-announcements/attachments/20090806/6b55a799/attachment.txt From mameerop at gmail.com Sat Aug 8 12:20:17 2009 From: mameerop at gmail.com (Michael Meeropol) Date: Sat, 8 Aug 2009 13:20:17 -0500 Subject: [URPE] Query. Message-ID: <474bd0eb0908081120w72b73cf0w38c5872f8dd2a755@mail.gmail.com> Dear Folks: I am looking for a short piece that would be accessible to Principles level students that explains the mess the economy is in today. (Focus on US, not the world.) CHALLENGE and D & S usually have good pieces and I always enjoy reading MR [thought they might be a bit more difficult for my students] but I wonder if anyone has found a really outstanding (pedagogically) piece that might give students information while stirring up some thinking as well. I think many on this list would benefit from everyone's "nominations" of good accessible readings ... Thanks in advance, Mike Meeropol -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Here are the responses so far: ************ From Alan Nasser: Global Issues just had this on their site. It's very clear and comprehensive, for an intro: http://www.globalissues.org/article/768/global-financial-crisis Also, for more advanced students there are 2 good pieces in New Left Review: Peter Gowan, Crisis In The Heartland sorry, no date I think this can be printed out for free from NR's site. Robib Blackburn, Finance and the Fourth Dimension, May-June 2006 ************ From Barbara Hopkins: I've been collecting internet stuff on "the mess we're in" http://www.wright.edu/~barbara.hopkins/Financial_crisis.htm (I'm still updating a bunch of stuff that has appeared in my e-mail since April, but should be done soon.) You are looking for something with only one * behind it. I recommend Rick Wolf's video http://www.mediaed.org/cgi-bin/commerce.cgi?preadd=action&key=139&template=PDGCommTemplates/HTN/Item_Preview.html . I've had more than one student say in class, "Well, I heard this video by this prof. from UMass who says ...." And they seem to understand his point. ************ From Jack Hammond: Unaccustomed as I am to telling my students to watch television or listen to the radio, I am nevertheless planning to assign the following this fall: Inside/ / the Meltdown, PBS Frontline (broadcast last February) http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/meltdown/view/ three things by the NPR Planet Money team (They do short segments on the daily news occasionally but the following are all one hour documentaries) The Giant Pool of Money http://www.thisamericanlife.org/extras/radio/355_transcript.pdf Alex Blumberg and Adam Davidson. 2008. Another Frightening Show About the Economy. This American Life Program #365, National Public Radio, October 1. http://www.thislife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=365 This American Life Episode Transcript Program #375 2/23/2009 Bad Bank www.thisamericanlife.org/extras/radio/375_transcript.pdf The PBS show is about the banking crisis from the failure of Bear Stearns to the bailout of AIG. The three NPR shows are, first, about the subprime crisis, from the huge amounts of wealth looking for profitable outlets to the actual procedures for giving and securitizing mortgages; and bank failures and bank regulation. The NPR stories are somewhat jokey but really quite detailed but palatable explanations of fairly complex financial shenanigans. All these come with transcript and audio or video on line. Even more jokey but too true to be funny are Jon Steward on Jim Cramer of CNBC's egregious boostering of companies that were on the brink of failure http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-march-9-2009/in-cramer-we-trust (and several subsequent shows that rehash the issue and Bird and Fortune (British, er, economic analysts) on how markets really work http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwRFoxgEcHc those of you who want to explain it to students in principles of economics, pity me, with the even greater challenge of explaining it to sociology students (and making them understand why they should be interested. I look forwad to seeing other people's suggesions (in the next several days, I hope) ************ From Kathy and Ernie Brandon: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?sched=1242 http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200905/imf-advice ************ From Kathy McAffee: Mostly I have to do my own own explainin', but I've used Robert Wade's The Financial Crisis: Burst Bubble, Frayed Model from http://www.opendemocracy.net). It was published in 2007, which helps students see that the meltdown was predicted. I've also used Walden Bello's pieces, such as Wall Street Meltdown Primer, published September 26, 2008 by http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/5560 (Foreign Policy in Focus). I give other of Walden's pieces, such as my favorite: "Capitalism in an Apocalyptic Mood", to my upper-division students. The focus of these may be more international than what you're looking for. I've yet to see a good, short, student-friendly piece that ties together the effects of the crisis on working people in the US but with a big-picture framework. They exist, so I hope anybody who knows of one or writes one will let the entire list know ************ From Sandy Darity: Jamie (James Kenneth) Galbraith's website has a link to his columns, etc., that include 3 oor 4 brief pieces that provide a good flavor of the fundamental causes of the current crisis. ************ From Tony Zaragoza: I thought this piece in Rolling Stone was interesting and might give much to talk about (including that Goldman Sachs is as much a symptom or symbol of the problem as a cause): http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/29127316/the_great_american_bubble_machine Tony Zaragoza | Political Economy | The Evergreen State College http://academic.evergreen.edu/z/zaragozt/resources.htm ************ From Ruth Indeck: This isn't one outstanding piece, but you could look at the Crisis page on the URPE website -- it lists lots of web pages that are following the crisis. http://www.urpe.org/res/crisis.html Also, the URPE Blog has a few articles: http://urpe.wordpress.com/ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Global Issues just had this on their site. It’s very clear and comprehensive, for an intro:

http://www.globalissues.org/article/768/global-financial-crisis

Also, for more advanced students there are 2 good pieces in New Left Review:

Peter Gowan, Crisis In The Heartland  sorry, no date I think this can be printed out for free from NR’s site.
Robib Blackburn, Finance and the Fourth Dimension, May-June 2006

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From bogus@does.not.exist.com Mon Jul 6 09:31:04 2009 From: bogus@does.not.exist.com () Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:31:04 -0000 Subject: No subject Message-ID:
  I’ve been collecting internet stuff on “the mess we’re in”  http://www.wright.edu/~barbara.hopkins/Financial_crisis.htm  (I’m still updating a bunch of stuff that has appeared in my e-mail since April, but should be done soon.)  You are looking for something with only one * behind it.  I recommend Rick Wolf’s video http://www.mediaed.org/cgi-bin/commerce.cgi?preadd=action&key=139&template=PDGCommTemplates/HTN/Item_Preview.html .  I’ve had more than one student say in class, “Well, I heard this video by this prof. from UMass who says ….”  And they seem to understand his point.

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From bogus@does.not.exist.com Mon Jul 6 09:31:04 2009 From: bogus@does.not.exist.com () Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:31:04 -0000 Subject: No subject Message-ID:
Unaccustomed as I am to telling my students to watch television or listen to the radio, I am nevertheless planning to assign the following this fall:

Inside the Meltdown, PBS Frontline (broadcast last February)

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/meltdown/view/


three things by the NPR Planet Money team (They do short segments on the daily news occasionally but the following are all one hour documentaries)

The Giant Pool of Money
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/extras/radio/355_transcript.pdf


Alex Blumberg and Adam Davidson.  2008.  Another Frightening Show
About the Economy.  This American Life Program #365, National Public
Radio, October 1.

http://www.thislife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=365

This American Life Episode Transcript
Program #375 2/23/2009
Bad Bank
www.thisamericanlife.org/extras/radio/375_transcript.pdf

The PBS show is about the banking crisis from the failure of Bear Stearns to the bailout of AIG.  The three NPR shows are, first, about the subprime crisis, from the huge amounts of wealth looking for profitable outlets to the actual procedures for giving and securitizing mortgages; and bank failures and bank regulation.  The NPR stories are somewhat jokey but really quite detailed but palatable explanations of fairly complex financial shenanigans.

All these come with transcript and audio or video on line.

Even more jokey but too true to be funny are Jon Steward on Jim Cramer of CNBC's egregious boostering of companies that were on the brink of failure

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-march-9-2009/in-cramer-we-trust (and several subsequent shows that rehash the issue

and Bird and Fortune (British, er, economic analysts) on how markets really work

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwRFoxgEcHc

those of you who want to explain it to students in principles of economics, pity me, with the even greater challenge of explaining it to sociology students (and making them understand why they should be interested. I look forwad to seeing other people's suggesions (in the next several days, I hope)

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From bogus@does.not.exist.com Mon Jul 6 09:31:04 2009 From: bogus@does.not.exist.com () Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:31:04 -0000 Subject: No subject Message-ID:

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?sched=1242



http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200905/imf-advice

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From bogus@does.not.exist.com Mon Jul 6 09:31:04 2009 From: bogus@does.not.exist.com () Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:31:04 -0000 Subject: No subject Message-ID:
Mostly I have to do my own own explainin', but I've used Robert Wade's The Financial Crisis: Burst Bubble, Frayed Model from http://www.opendemocracy.net). It was published in 2007, which helps students see that the meltdown was predicted.

I've also used Walden Bello's pieces, such as Wall Street Meltdown Primer, published September 26, 2008 by http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/5560 (Foreign Policy in Focus). I give other of Walden's pieces, such as my favorite: "Capitalism in an Apocalyptic Mood", to my upper-division students.

The focus of these may be more international than what you're looking for. I've yet to see a good, short, student-friendly piece that ties together the effects of the crisis on working people in the US but with a big-picture framework. They exist, so I hope anybody who knows of one or writes one will let the entire list know

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From bogus@does.not.exist.com Mon Jul 6 09:31:04 2009 From: bogus@does.not.exist.com () Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:31:04 -0000 Subject: No subject Message-ID:
Jamie (James Kenneth) Galbraith's website has a link to his columns, etc., that
include 3 oor 4 brief pieces that provide a good flavor of the fundamental
causes of the current crisis.

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From bogus@does.not.exist.com Mon Jul 6 09:31:04 2009 From: bogus@does.not.exist.com () Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:31:04 -0000 Subject: No subject Message-ID:
I thought this piece in Rolling Stone was interesting and might give much to talk about (including that Goldman Sachs is as much a symptom or symbol of the problem as a cause):

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/29127316/the_great_american_bubble_machine

Tony Zaragoza | Political Economy | The Evergreen State College
http://academic.evergreen.edu/z/zaragozt/resources.htm

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From bogus@does.not.exist.com Mon Jul 6 09:31:04 2009 From: bogus@does.not.exist.com () Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:31:04 -0000 Subject: No subject Message-ID:
This isn't one outstanding piece, but you could look at the Crisis page on the URPE website -- it lists lots of web pages that are following the crisis.
http://www.urpe.org/res/crisis.html

Also, the URPE Blog has a few articles:
http://urpe.wordpress.com/
--------------030005020206050602050704-- From vogelrm at FARMINGDALE.EDU Mon Aug 10 16:15:19 2009 From: vogelrm at FARMINGDALE.EDU (vogelrm at FARMINGDALE.EDU) Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 18:15:19 -0400 Subject: [URPE] FW: NYSEA 2009 Extension of deadline for abstracts References: <7CB2FD9F4414254789029CB1B7EFC2170D9901D2@EXCHANGEN4.oneonta.edu> Message-ID: <747A6ED6CE9BEC45A38EA0A1C19D94AC07B0D0DE@mail1.it.farmingdale.edu> For anyone interested. I would like to also mention that the NYSEA publishes a journal and an online conference proceedings. Papers from the conference would be accepted for review to both publications. The conference is being held in Ithaca, NY in October. Richard Vogel, Chair History, Economics & Politics SUNY-Farmingdale College of Technology Farmingdale, NY 11735 Voice: 631.420.2063 Fax: 631.420.2235 email: richard.vogel at farmingdale.edu ________________________________ From: tompkide at oneonta.edu [mailto:tompkide at oneonta.edu] Sent: Mon 8/10/2009 8:21 AM Subject: NYSEA 2009 Extension of deadline for abstracts Members and Friends of the New York State Economics Association: I hope you are enjoying the last few weeks of summer. With this message, we are extending the deadline for submissions of both paper abstracts and pre-arranged sessions to September 4. Please consider sharing your current scholarly activity with us at this year's meeting in Ithaca. Currently we have a very good program in place, but if you are not included, this year's meeting will not reach its potential. You can obtain information on submission requirements and guidelines at: http://www.nysea.org Last year our two special panel discussions were well-attended and well-received. This year I would like to expand to three. David Ring will be organizing a panel discussion on teaching how the new tools of monetary policy are intended to work. I would like to encourage the organization in the general areas of 1) evaluating the impact of the economic stimulus legislation; and 2) health care system reform. If you are interested in organizing either of these panel discussions, or if you would like to serve as panelists, please feel free to contact me. My most difficult task in organizing the annual meeting is selecting discussants. If you do not have a candidate research project of your own, please consider volunteering, and send along your JEL codes for the areas in which you have an interest in serving as discussant or chair. This will really help to make my job easier in setting up individual sessions, and getting it right. I am looking forward to seeing you in October, William C. Kolberg, Kolberg at ithaca.edu President, NYSEA Dawn Tompkins, secretary Economics & Business Division SUNY Oneonta 226 Netzer Administration Bldg. Oneonta, NY 13820 607-436-3458 Fax: 607-436-2543 www.oneonta.edu/econbus From urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu Mon Aug 10 19:14:57 2009 From: urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu (urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu) Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 21:14:57 -0400 Subject: [URPE] Second Batch of Responses to Meeropol query on economic mess Message-ID: <4A80C611.9060803@lists.econ.utah.edu> Mike Meeropol wrote: I am looking for a short piece that would be accessible to Principles level students that explains the mess the economy is in today. (Focus on US, not the world.) CHALLENGE and D & S usually have good pieces and I always enjoy reading MR [thought they might be a bit more difficult for my students] but I wonder if anyone has found a really outstanding (pedagogically) piece that might give students information while stirring up some thinking as well. Here is the second batch of responses: ************ From Jonathan Goldstein: Dear Colleagues Below is a link to a short piece that I wrote on the current crisis that should be accessible to many different levels of students. The paper is as it appears in our recently published book (co-edited with Michael Hillard), Heterodox Macroeconomics: Keynes, Marx and Globalization published by Routledge. The piece originates from a Review Essay that will appear in the next issue of RRPE. The paper gives a general overview of the crisis and does not dwell on a lot of detail. I hope that you will find it useful. http://www.bowdoin.edu/faculty/j/jgoldste/pdf/currentcrisis.pdf ************ From Chris Sturr: I emailed Mike Meeropol directly to let him know about our financial crisis page (http://dollarsandsense.org/financialcrisis.html), which lists all (or almost all) the articles we've run about the current crisis. The best overview piece we've run is not available online--it is Arthur MacEwan's article from our March/April issue, "Inequality, Power, and Ideology." I can send it to any URPE member who's interested. Or they can find it in several of the new editions of our textbooks (including /Real World Macro /26th edition, /Current Economic Issues/ 13th edition, and our new textbook, /Real World Labor/). One last note: Fred Moseley is helping us put together a crisis reader that will anthologize all of our coverage of the crisis (and will include some new material). It will be available sometime this fall, in time for Winter and Spring terms. Anyone who's interested in the book should contact Fred or me (sturr at dollarsandsense.org ). ************ From Vincent Navarro: Dear Mike, At the risk of sounding like a salesman, I would suggest my own edited collection, /Neoliberalism, Globalization and Inequalities, /published by Baywood. I hope you find it helpful. ************ From Barbara Garson: I sent a reference to this "mystery story" that appeared first on the internet at TomDispatch.com. http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175094/barbara_garson_where_did_those_traders_in_toxic_assets_go_ ************ From Wilfred Berendsen: Actually this is the most outstanding reflection on about what is going on in our economies for longer times. Although a lot of people living inside their boxes might not understand The link to the PDF filw with explanation of why current economy is a mess: http://wilvon.com/download_center/index.php?Antenarrating_economy1.pdf ************ From Nchamah Miller: You may also wish to include some articles which give a sense of some of the jargon being used for example _http://www.harpers.org/archive/2008/02/0081908 _The next bubble: *Priming the markets for tomorrow's big crash * By Eric Janszen A financial bubble is a market aberration manufactured by government, finance, and industry, a shared speculative hallucination and then a crash, followed by depression. Also, *The Decline of Manufacturing and Machine Tools, and the Future of American Industry and the Working Class *by Dan La Botz http://www.monthlyreview.org/mrzine/labotz240709.html The U.S. economy continued in a deep recession and hopes for a rapid recovery faded as new national unemployment figures of 9.5 percent were announced early this month. If one includes discouraged workers and the underemployed (those with part-time jobs who would like full-time work) in the calculations, then the figure soars to 16.5 percent. The Federal Reserve on July 15 projected an approaching jobless recovery with unemployment continuing to rise to 9.8 or even 10.1 percent this year.1 Why has the economy not recovered more rapidly as many economists, pundits, and politicians predicted it would? I have over 800 articles on the current economic and political conjuncture and am only giving you a flavour, of the debates out there, another standpoint is: *Skip the Happy Talk This Depression is just beginning * http://informationclearinghouse.info/article23182.htm By Mike Whitney August 03, 2009 "Information Clearing House" -- Too bad Pulitzers aren't handed out for blog-entries. This year's award would go to Zero Hedge for its "The 'Money on the Sidelines' Fallacy" post. This short entry shows why the economy will continue its downward slide and why the US consumer will not get off the mat and resume spending as he has in the past. The fact is the Net Wealth of US Households has "declined from a peak of $22 trillion to just under $12 trillion in early March." The problem is compounded by the fact that Total US Household debt, as of first quarter 2009, amounts to roughly $13 trillion, and has stayed within that range for the last 3 and a half years. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 709 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/urpe-announcements/attachments/20090810/a8ce1f74/attachment.txt From bogus@does.not.exist.com Mon Jul 6 09:31:04 2009 From: bogus@does.not.exist.com () Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:31:04 -0000 Subject: No subject Message-ID:
Dear Colleagues
Below is a link to a short piece that I wrote on the current crisis that should be
accessible to many different levels of students. The paper is as it
appears in our recently published book (co-edited with Michael Hillard),
Heterodox Macroeconomics: Keynes, Marx and Globalization published by
Routledge. The piece originates from a Review Essay that will appear in
the next issue of RRPE. The paper gives a general overview of the crisis
and does not dwell on a lot of detail. I hope that you will find it useful.
http://www.bowdoin.edu/faculty/j/jgoldste/pdf/currentcrisis.pdf

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From bogus@does.not.exist.com Mon Jul 6 09:31:04 2009 From: bogus@does.not.exist.com () Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:31:04 -0000 Subject: No subject Message-ID:
I emailed Mike Meeropol directly to let him know about our financial crisis page (http://dollarsandsense.org/financialcrisis.html), which lists all (or almost all) the articles we've run about the current crisis.  The best overview piece we've run is not available online--it is Arthur MacEwan's article from our March/April issue, "Inequality, Power, and Ideology."  I can send it to any URPE member who's interested.  Or they can find it in several of the new editions of our textbooks (including Real World Macro 26th edition, Current Economic Issues 13th edition, and our new textbook, Real World Labor).

One last note:  Fred Moseley is helping us put together a crisis reader that will anthologize all of our coverage of the crisis (and will include some new material).  It will be available sometime this fall, in time for Winter and Spring terms. Anyone who's interested in the book should contact Fred or me (sturr at dollarsandsense.org).

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From bogus@does.not.exist.com Mon Jul 6 09:31:04 2009 From: bogus@does.not.exist.com () Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:31:04 -0000 Subject: No subject Message-ID:
Dear Mike,
 
At the risk of sounding like a salesman, I would suggest my own edited collection, Neoliberalism, Globalization and Inequalities, published by Baywood. I hope you find it helpful.

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From bogus@does.not.exist.com Mon Jul 6 09:31:04 2009 From: bogus@does.not.exist.com () Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:31:04 -0000 Subject: No subject Message-ID:
I sent a reference to this "mystery story" that appeared first on the internet at TomDispatch.com.

http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175094/barbara_garson_where_did_those_traders_in_toxic_assets_go_

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From bogus@does.not.exist.com Mon Jul 6 09:31:04 2009 From: bogus@does.not.exist.com () Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:31:04 -0000 Subject: No subject Message-ID:
Actually this is the most outstanding reflection on about what is going on
in our economies for longer times. Although a lot of people living inside
their boxes might not understand

The link to the PDF filw with explanation of why current economy is a mess:

http://wilvon.com/download_center/index.php?Antenarrating_economy1.pdf

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From bogus@does.not.exist.com Mon Jul 6 09:31:04 2009 From: bogus@does.not.exist.com () Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:31:04 -0000 Subject: No subject Message-ID:
You may also wish to include some articles which give a sense of some of the jargon being used for example

http://www.harpers.org/archive/2008/02/0081908
The next bubble:
Priming the markets for tomorrow's big crash
By Eric Janszen
 
A financial bubble is a market aberration manufactured by government,
finance, and industry, a shared speculative hallucination and then a
crash, followed by depression.


Also,

The Decline of Manufacturing and Machine Tools, and the Future of American Industry and the Working Class
by Dan La Botz
 
http://www.monthlyreview.org/mrzine/labotz240709.html  

The U.S. economy continued in a deep recession and hopes for a rapid recovery faded as new national unemployment figures of 9.5 percent were announced early this month.  If one includes discouraged workers and the underemployed (those with part-time jobs who would like full-time work) in the calculations, then the figure soars to 16.5 percent.  The Federal Reserve on July 15 projected an approaching jobless recovery with unemployment continuing to rise to 9.8 or even 10.1 percent this year.1  Why has the economy not recovered more rapidly as many economists, pundits, and politicians predicted it would?

I have over 800 articles on the current economic and political conjuncture and am only giving you a flavour, of the debates out there,  another standpoint is:

Skip the Happy Talk
 
This Depression is just beginning
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article23182.htm
By Mike Whitney
 
August 03, 2009 "Information Clearing House" -- Too bad Pulitzers aren't handed out for blog-entries. This year's award would go to Zero Hedge for its "The 'Money on the Sidelines' Fallacy" post. This short entry shows why the economy will continue its downward slide and why the US consumer will not get off the mat and resume spending as he has in the past. The fact is the Net Wealth of US Households has "declined from a peak of $22 trillion to just under $12 trillion in early March."
 

The problem is compounded by the fact that Total US Household debt, as of first quarter 2009, amounts to roughly $13 trillion, and has stayed within that range for the last 3 and a half years.




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Here is the second batch of responses: ************ >From Michael Perelman: "How to Think about the Crisis." Radical Notes (7 October 2008). ************ >From David Singer: A very understandable explanation of the crisis by Walden Bello: http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/5560 also: http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/bello031008.html ************ >From Mike Meeropol: Please convey my deep appreciation for all the responses --- It makes me proud and humble to be part of such a fine group of dedicated activist/economists. ************ >From Marion Lipshutz: As a non-economist who joined this list after the last Left Forum, I appreciate this feature as I am trying to make sense of the mess for myself too. And I consider it a great honor to be on a list serv that includes Mike Meeropol as one of its participants. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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No = booklets will be mailed unless specifically requested from the AEA. = Instead, the ASSA now sends only a postcard with registration = information on it-click here = . = Here is the link to the AEA website: www.vanderbilt.edu/AEA.=20 There is a EU project specially made for heterodox economists. The link = below calls for proposals by the European Union for a four to five years = research on finance that explicitly calls for alternative approaches to = finance from an interdisciplinary perspective. Given the amount of the = project (several million euros), it is expected to attract proposals of = teams composed of around ten or more research units coming from as many = Europeans countries as possible. The project has not only a scientific = objective, but also a normative one, and it should not only include = academic teams, but also engage stakeholders such as researchers having = some link to trade unions, organizations engaged in the protection of = the environment, among others. Ronan O'Brien, in charge of the project, = is very open to the socials studies of finance and is quite available = for any questions concerning the ways to submit an acceptable proposal. = Note that the deadline is in February. = http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/dc/index.cfm?fuseaction=3DUserSite.FP7Details= CallPage&call_id=3D252=20 Miriam Kennet of the Green Economics Institute ( = greeneconomicsinstitute at yahoo.com ) and the New Economics Foundation ( = sargon.nissan at neweconomics.org ) are thinking about making proposals. So = if you are interested, why not contact them. In addition there is a smaller EU project (Euro 2,700,000) whose call = title is SSH.2010.1.3.1 on "The public sector of the future" which may = interest heterodox economists.=20 http://ec.europa.eu/research/social-sciences/societal-challenges_en.html = http://tinyurl.com/lpmjrb=20 A few weeks ago there was a workshop at the University of Bremen on = "Assessing Economic Research in a European Context". The workshop seemed = to be quite successful. It was attended by twenty-one participants who = listened to ten papers. One of the interesting facts that emerged is = that as a group heterodox economists cite mainstream economists more = than they cite each other-a truly bizarre state of affairs. Some of the = outcomes that came out of the workshop included developing better = metrics for ranking journals and departments, better dissemination of = heterodox papers, promoting more intra-communication (in terms of = citations) among heterodox economists and their journals, increasing = activities that promote pluralism in economics, and developing a website = that would house ranking studies and lists and data bases. The papers = given at the workshop are in the process of being revised, but a number = of them will be given at conferences over the next few months and = eventually published in the American Journal of Economics and Sociology. = For a complete report on the workshop, click here = . One last thing, circa 2001 the JEL classifications were revised to = include "current heterodox approaches" (B5) under "Schools of Economics = Thought and Methodology". Does anybody know why? Similarly, last year = the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) revised their classification = of the fields of research for higher education identified heterodox = economics as research category, which is interesting because it was done = independently of any pressure by heterodox economists in Australia. = However, when I was looking at the ABS economic classifications, I = noticed that the history and philosophy of economics was classified not = as economics but as part of Philosophy and Religious Studies. This means = that in Australia anybody whose research is in history and philosophy of = economics is not doing economic research and hence are not really = economists. Fred Lee In this issue: =20 Call for Papers = =20 =20 - The 14th Annual ESHET Conference - ESHET Young Scholars Seminar - The Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics (EJPE) - 28th Annual International Labour Process Conference - Representations and Realities of Women's Work - Alternative Work Organisations - International Conference of the Charles Gide Association - L'analyse mon=E9taire de l'=E9conomie - Monetary Analysis - History of Macroeconomics Workshop - Annual Conference of the Society of Government Economists - SGE Annual Conference - RM09: New Marxian Times - Race, Labor & Citizenship in the Post-Emancipation South=20 =20 Conferences, Seminars and Lectures = =20 =20 - 1st Workshop in the History of Economic Theory (WHET) - Conference on the Recent Developments in Post-Keynesian Modeling - Towards Basel III: Regulating the Banking Sector after the Crisis =20 Job Postings for Heterodox Economists = =20 =20 - Institute for Comprehensive Analysis of Economy (ICAE) - International Labor Organization =20 Heterodox Conference Papers and Reports and Articles = =20 =20 - Towards a Reflection on Political Economy: Employment Theory - New Publications from GDAE Research Collaboration - 18th Annual Hyman P. Minsky Conference - Institutional Reforms to Protect China's Water Resources - New Working Papers on Ecological and "Happiness" Economics =20 Heterodox Journals and Newsletters = =20 =20 - INTERVENTION - Local Economy - METROECONOMICA - AMERICAN JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS AND SOCIOLOGY - Feminist Economics - Review of Political Economy - The Friends of Associative Economics Bulletin - CASE - Center for Social and Economic Research =20 Heterodox Books and Book Series = =20 =20 - Money And Households In A Capitalist Economy - The Survey of Economists: Prospects for European Economic Recovery - The Foundations of Non-Equilibrium Economics: The Principle of = Circular and Cumulative Causation - Punishing the Poor - Body Politics in Development - Celebrity and the Environment - Economics and Morality: Anthropological Approaches=20 - Why Capitalism Survives Crises: The Shock Absorbers - Poland's New Capitalism =20 Heterodox Book Reviews = =20 =20 - The Living Wage: Lessons from the History of Economic Thought - GENDER AND CHINESE DEVELOPMENT: TOWARDS AN EQUITABLE SOCIETY - NEW DIRECTIONS IN THE STUDY OF WORK AND EMPLOYMENT - The Secret Life of Real Estate =20 Heterodox Graduate Program and PhD Scholarships = =20 =20 - Dublin City University Business School =20 Heterodox Web Sites and Associations = =20 =20 - Mario Nuti's Blog - A Marxian Introduction to Modern Economics - II Jornadas de Econom=EDa Cr=EDtica - FOUNDATION FOR EUROPEAN PROGRESSIVE STUDIES =20 For Your Information = =20 =20 - THESIS - Journals going to Online Submissions - Business History Conference Proceedings - "Invitation to join the Green Economist Directory" - Research Network Macroeconomics and Macroeconomic Policies - The State of Macroeconomics - Where Economics Went Wrong - Introducing Stories Matter: Open Source Database Building Software - Urbanisme commercial et grande distribution - Commercial Urbanism and Large Retail in France - IMPACTS OF CLIMATE AND ENERGY POLICY ACROSS THE STATES - Insights from an editor of American Economic Review =20 ----- To be removed from this mailing list, please send an email message to the address leefs at umkc.edu asking to be removed from this list. 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Heterodox Economics Newsletter

www.heterodoxnews.com

Issue 86: August 12, 2009

 

From the Editor

This is an early reminder = that the annual ASSA meetings will be held January 3-5, 2010 in Atlanta, Georgia. Registration and housing information will be available from the AEA = website on September 15. No booklets will be mailed unless specifically requested = from the AEA. Instead, the ASSA now sends only a postcard with registration = information on it—click here. Here is the link to the AEA website: www.vanderbilt.edu/AEA.

There is a EU project specially made for = heterodox economists. The link below calls for proposals by the European Union for = a four to five years research on finance that explicitly calls for alternative approaches to finance from an interdisciplinary perspective. Given the = amount of the project (several million euros), it is expected to attract = proposals of teams composed of around ten or more research units coming from as many Europeans countries as possible. The project has not only a scientific objective, but also a normative one, and it should not only include = academic teams, but also engage stakeholders such as researchers having some link = to trade unions, organizations engaged in the protection of the environment, = among others. Ronan O'Brien, in charge of the project, is very open to the = socials studies of finance and is quite available for any questions concerning = the ways to submit an acceptable proposal. Note that the deadline is in February. = http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/dc/index.= cfm?fuseaction=3DUserSite.FP7DetailsCallPage&call_id=3D252

Miriam Kennet of the Green Economics Institute ( = greeneconomicsinstitute= @yahoo.com ) and the New Economics Foundation ( sargon.nissan at neweconomics= .org ) are thinking about making proposals. So if you are interested, why not contact them.

In addition there is a smaller EU project (Euro 2,700,000) whose call title is SSH.2010.1.3.1 on "The public sector = of the future" which may interest heterodox economists.

http://ec.europa.eu/research/social-sciences/societal-challenges= _en.html

http://tinyurl.com/lpmjrb

A few weeks ago there was a workshop at the = University of Bremen on “Assessing Economic Research in a European = Context”. The workshop seemed to be quite successful. It was attended by twenty-one participants who listened to ten papers. One of the interesting facts = that emerged is that as a group heterodox economists cite mainstream = economists more than they cite each other—a truly bizarre state of affairs. Some = of the outcomes that came out of the workshop included developing better = metrics for ranking journals and departments, better dissemination of heterodox = papers, promoting more intra-communication (in terms of citations) among = heterodox economists and their journals, increasing activities that promote = pluralism in economics, and developing a website that would house ranking studies and = lists and data bases. The papers given at the workshop are in the process of = being revised, but a number of them will be given at conferences over the next = few months and eventually published in the American Journal of Economics and Sociology. For a complete report on the workshop, click here.

One last thing, circa 2001 the JEL = classifications were revised to include “current heterodox approaches” (B5) under “Schools of Economics Thought and Methodology”. Does anybody = know why? Similarly, last year the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) = revised their classification of the fields of research for higher education = identified heterodox economics as research category, which is interesting because = it was done independently of any pressure by heterodox economists in Australia. However, when I was looking at the ABS economic classifications, I = noticed that the history and philosophy of economics was classified not as economics = but as part of Philosophy and Religious Studies. This means that in Australia = anybody whose research is in history and philosophy of economics is not doing = economic research and hence are not really economists.

Fred Lee

In this issue:

 

Call for = Papers

 

- The 14th Annual ESHET Conference
- ESHET Young Scholars Seminar
- The Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics (EJPE)
- 28th Annual International Labour Process Conference
- Representations and Realities of Women's Work
- Alternative Work Organisations
- International Conference of the Charles Gide Association
- L’analyse mon=E9taire de l’=E9conomie
- Monetary Analysis
- History of Macroeconomics Workshop
- Annual Conference of the Society of Government Economists
- SGE Annual Conference
- RM09: New Marxian Times
- Race, Labor & Citizenship in the Post-Emancipation South =

 

Conferences, Seminars and = Lectures

 

- 1st Workshop in the History of Economic Theory = (WHET)
- Conference on the Recent Developments in Post-Keynesian Modeling
- Towards Basel III: Regulating the Banking Sector after the = Crisis

 

Job Postings for Heterodox = Economists

 

- Institute for Comprehensive Analysis of Economy = (ICAE)
- International Labor Organization

 

Heterodox = Conference Papers and Reports and Articles

 

- Towards a Reflection on Political Economy: Employment = Theory
- New Publications from GDAE Research Collaboration
- 18th Annual Hyman P. Minsky Conference
- Institutional Reforms to Protect China’s Water Resources
- New Working Papers on Ecological and "Happiness" = Economics

 

Heterodox Journals and = Newsletters

 

- INTERVENTION
- Local Economy
- METROECONOMICA
- AMERICAN JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS AND SOCIOLOGY
- Feminist Economics
- Review of Political Economy
- The Friends of Associative Economics Bulletin
- CASE – Center for Social and Economic = Research

 

Heterodox Books and Book = Series

 

- Money And Households In A Capitalist Economy
- The Survey of Economists: Prospects for European Economic = Recovery
- The Foundations of Non-Equilibrium Economics: The Principle of = Circular and Cumulative Causation
- Punishing the Poor
- Body Politics in Development
- Celebrity and the Environment
- Economics and Morality: Anthropological Approaches
- Why Capitalism Survives Crises: The Shock Absorbers
- Poland’s New Capitalism

 

Heterodox Book = Reviews

 

- The Living Wage: Lessons from the History of Economic Thought
- GENDER AND CHINESE DEVELOPMENT: TOWARDS AN EQUITABLE SOCIETY
- NEW DIRECTIONS IN THE STUDY OF WORK AND EMPLOYMENT
- The Secret Life of Real Estate

 

= Heterodox Graduate Program and PhD = Scholarships

 

- Dublin City University Business = School

 

Heterodox Web Sites and = Associations

 

- Mario Nuti's Blog
- A Marxian Introduction to Modern Economics
- II Jornadas de Econom=EDa Cr=EDtica
- FOUNDATION FOR EUROPEAN PROGRESSIVE STUDIES

 

For Your Information

 

- THESIS
- Journals going to Online Submissions
- Business History Conference Proceedings
- “Invitation to join the Green Economist Directory”
- Research Network Macroeconomics and Macroeconomic Policies
- The State of Macroeconomics
- Where Economics Went Wrong
- Introducing Stories Matter: Open Source Database Building = Software
- Urbanisme commercial et grande distribution
- Commercial Urbanism and Large Retail in France
- IMPACTS OF CLIMATE AND ENERGY POLICY ACROSS THE STATES
- Insights from an editor of American Economic = Review

 

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Wilson * 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 https://lists.riseup.net/www/arc/nycalendar ================================================== From g.m.hodgson at herts.ac.uk Sat Aug 15 07:35:20 2009 From: g.m.hodgson at herts.ac.uk (Hodgson, Geoffrey M) Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2009 14:35:20 +0100 Subject: [URPE] 10 Leading British Economists Write to the Queen In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: In November 2008 the Queen asked why so few Economists had foreseen the credit crunch. Ten leading British Economists write to Her Majesty, claiming that the training of economists is too narrow: ?Mathematical technique should not dominate real-world substance.? During a visit to the London School of Economics in November 2008, the Queen asked why few economists had foreseen the credit crunch. Dated 22 July 2009, she received an answer from Professors Tim Besley and Peter Hennessy. This was widely quoted in the British press. Ten leading British economists ? including academics from top universities, three Academicians of the Academy of Social Sciences, academic journal editors, a former member of the Monopolies and Mergers Commission and the Chief Economic Advisor the Greater London Authority ? have responded by writing their own response to the Queen. They note that the letter by Professors Besley and Hennessy fails to consider any deficiency in the training of economists themselves. Following similar complaints by Nobel Laureates Ronald Coase, Wassily Leontief and Milton Friedman, the ten economists argue that economists has become largely transformed into a branch of applied mathematics, with little contact with the real world. The letter by Professors Besley and Hennessy does not consider how the preference for mathematical technique over real-world substance diverted many economists from looking at the whole picture. The ten economists uphold that the narrow training of economists ? which concentrates on mathematical techniques and the building of empirically uncontrolled formal models ? has been a major reason for the failure of the economics profession to give adequate warnings of the economic crises in 2007 and 2008. The ten signatories also point out that while Professors Besley and Hennessy complain that economists have become overly ?charmed by the market?, they mention neither the highly questionable belief in universal ?rationality? nor the ?efficient markets hypothesis?, which are both widely taught and promoted by mainstream economists. The ten economists call for a broader training of economists, involving allied disciplines such as psychology and economic history, as well as mathematics. ############ FOR THE TEXT OF THE LETTER TO THE QUEEN GO TO: www.feed-charity.org/revitalizing-economics-after-the-crash.htm For more information please contact: Professor Geoffrey M. Hodgson g.m.hodgson at herts.ac.uk www.geoffrey-hodgson.info The Business School, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, Hertfordshire AL10 9AB Signatories to the attached letter to the Queen: Sheila C. Dow Professor of Economics, University of Stirling and author of Money and the Economic Process and Economic Methodology Peter E. Earl Associate Professor of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia, and author of Business Economics: A Contemporary Approach John Foster Professor of Economics, University of Queensland, Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and President Elect of the International J. A. Schumpeter Society Geoffrey C. Harcourt Emeritus Reader, University of Cambridge, Emeritus Professor, University of Adelaide, Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences, Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia Geoffrey M. Hodgson Research Professor of Business Studies, University of Hertfordshire, Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Institutional Economics J. Stanley Metcalfe Emeritus Professor of Economics, University of Manchester and former member of the Monopolies and Mergers Commission Paul Ormerod Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences and author of the Death of Economics, Butterfly Economics, and Why Most Things Fail Bridget Rosewell Chairman of Volterra Consulting and Chief Economic Adviser to the Greater London Authority Malcolm C. 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I would very much like you to participate in the project through completing the questionnaire found at: http://cei.umkc.edu/Lee. The questionnaire contains 62 journals, but you need only evaluate the ones that you are familiar with. Thus, I do not think it will take you more than 15-20 minutes to complete the questionnaire. It would help me a great deal if you could complete the questionnaire by September 1, 2009. If you have any questions about the questionnaire, please e-mail me. Sincerely, Fred Lee Professor Frederic S. Lee Editor, American Journal of Economics and Sociology 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 "Routledge 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 ----- To be removed from this mailing list, please send an email message to the address leefs at umkc.edu asking to be removed from this list. Problems or questions should be directed to sullivanmw at umkc.edu. &*TO; -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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The book can already be ordered and will begin shipment Sept 30, 2009. Rick ********************************* Capitalism Hits the Fan The Global Economic Meltdown and What to Do About It Richard Wolff published 2009 ? 6? x 9? ? 256 pages ? charts ISBN 9781566567848 ? paperback ? $18.00 A breathtakingly clear analysis that breaks down the root causes of today?s economic crisis ?Withunerring coherence and unequaled breadth of knowledge, Rick Wolffoffers a rich and much needed corrective to the views of mainstreameconomists and pundits. It would be difficult to come away from this?with anything but an acute appreciation of what is needed to get us outof this mess.? ?Stanley Aronowitz, Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Urban Education, City University of New York Capitalism Hits the Fanchronicles one economist?s growing alarm and insights as he watched,from 2005 onwards, the economic crisis build, burst, and then dominateworld events. The argument here differs sharply from most otherexplanations offered by politicians, media commentators, and otheracademics. Step by step, Professor Wolff shows that deep economicstructures?the relationship of wages to profits, of workers to boardsof directors, and of debts to income?account for the crisis. The greatchange in the US economy since the 1970s, as employers stopped thehistoric rise in US workers? real wages, set in motion the events thateventually broke the world economy. The crisis resulted from thepost-1970s profit explosion, the debt-driven finance-industryexpansion, and the sequential stock market and real estate booms andbusts. Bailout interventions by the Federal Reserve and the US Treasuryhave thrown too little money too late at a problem that requires morethan money to solve. As this book shows, we must now ask basicquestions about capitalism as a system that has now convulsed the worldeconomy into two great depressions in 75 years (and countless lessercrises, recession, and cycles in between). The book?s essays engage thelong-overdue public discussion about basic structural changes andsystemic alternatives needed not only to fix today?s broken economy butto prevent future crises. Richard Wolff hasbeen a professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts,Amherst since 1981. He has been a visiting professor in the GraduateProgram in International Affairs, at the New School in New York since2007. Wolff?s major recent interests and publications include studiesof US economic history to ascertain the basic structural causes of thecurrent economic crisis and the examination of how alternative economictheories (neoclassical, Keynesian, and Marxian) understand and respondto the crisis in very different ways. His past work involvesapplication of advanced class analysis to contemporary globalcapitalism. He has written, co-authored, and co-edited many books anddozens of scholarly and popular journal articles. His recent analysesof current economic events appear regularly in the webzine of the Monthly Review. In 2009, Capitalism Hits the Fan, the documentary on the current economic crisis, was released by Media Education Foundation (www.mediaed.org). Visit http://www.rdwolff.com for more information. Olive Branch Press www.interlinkbooks.com This product will be in stock on Wednesday 30 September, 2009. -- -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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We hope that everyone will share ideas and experience. -- Daniel Fireside Book Editor Dollars & Sense 29 Winter Street Boston, MA 02108 (617) 447-2177 x 202 From dollars at dollarsandsense.org Wed Aug 19 14:01:38 2009 From: dollars at dollarsandsense.org (Dollars & Sense) Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 16:01:38 -0400 Subject: [URPE] New anthology: Real World Labor In-Reply-To: <5178c56f0908191228mfe8de4ds24096dd06c4a0925@mail.gmail.com> References: <5178c56f0908191228mfe8de4ds24096dd06c4a0925@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <6cd353b40908191301y266d1431mb8e4011ea5fef08a@mail.gmail.com> [image: bannerlogo.jpg] For immediate release: August 18, 2009 Contact: Linda Pinkow, (617) 447-2177, ext 204, linda at dollarsandsense.org *New Anthology Explores the State of Labor* Real World Labor Edited by Immanuel Ness, Amy Offner, Chris Sturr, and the *Dollars & Sense* Collective In this time of rapid economic change, the power of organized labor seems to be in decline. 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As a result, 2,500 workers and 200 management staff were left without jobs, while the closing is also sure to trigger the loss of thousands of related jobs and businesses. But the GM workers lost much more than jobs, including the pride they share in their work and the camaraderie built through the years. To the natives of Moraine and the greater Dayton area, General Motors wasn't just a car company - it was the lifeblood of the community. THE LAST TRUCK views the final months of the plant through the workers' eyes as they reflect on their work and consider their next steps. In revealing interviews with people who considered themselves more family than co-workers, the film reveals the emotional toll of losing not just a job, but a sense of self. The employees share poignant moments, such as the day every worker must remove his or her toolbox and give up their GM ID card. THE LAST TRUCK closes with footage of the actual "last truck" to be produced at Moraine Assembly. Among those interviewed in the documentary are: Kathy (body shop) - A 47-year-old mother of three with six grandchildren, Kathy viewed her co-workers as a second family. Kim (electrician) - A tearful Kim believes that working at the plant was "the greatest job I ever had." He recounts how everyone finished their work on the line and followed the last truck until all the work had been done. Then they all came together as a big group, a family saying goodbye. Popeye (toolmaker) - Popeye sees the bigger picture, viewing the plant's closing as the end of the good life, the end of American manufacturing as we know it. "My grandson will have a worse life than I had," he says at a nearby bar. Kate (forklift operator) - After the plant closes, Kate poignantly describes it as a "gentle dragon" taking its last breath before dying. While the film focuses on Moraine, the plant's closing reflects profound changes in the American manufacturing landscape as a whole. THE LAST TRUCK bears witness to the experience of job loss and offers a snapshot of a moment that may portend the end of the nation's blue-collar middle class. Directors and producers Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert won an Primetime Emmy? for their documentary "A Lion in the House," which followed children fighting cancer for five years. Bognar has shown four films at Sundance, including "Personal Belongings" and "Picture Day." Reichert has twice been nominated for a Best Feature Documentary Oscar?, for "Union Maids" and "Seeing Red." THE LAST TRUCK: CLOSING OF A GM PLANT was directed and produced by Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert; edited by Steven Bognar. For HBO: senior producer, Lisa Heller; executive producer, Sheila Nevins. _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live: Keep your friends up to date with what you do online. http://windowslive.com/Campaign/SocialNetworking?ocid=PID23285::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:SI_SB_online:082009 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 6664 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/urpe-announcements/attachments/20090818/e3191cee/attachment.txt From nomiprins at msn.com Wed Aug 19 21:54:28 2009 From: nomiprins at msn.com (nomi prins) Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 03:54:28 +0000 Subject: [URPE] My New Book: It Takes a Pillage Message-ID: Dear Friends, My new book, It Takes a Pillage: Behind the Bailouts, Bonuses and Backroom Deals from Washington to Wall Street is available for pre-order now, and will be distributed and in stores by Sept 29, 2009. In addition, a PDF version can be sent to you immediately. This book delves beyond the causes of this recent financial crisis to discuss why today, we are in FAR worse shape from an economic and financial stability standpoint than before, and what we must do to change this. It is a combination of insider-knowledge from my tenure working at the top echelons of firms like Goldman Sachs and Bear, Stearns; rigorous analysis of the real numbers behind the books of the major banks, the Fed, and the federal government; and a deep historical perspective. It is my hope that this book can be of help to your students in understanding how finance and politics congeal to become a disaster, given insight from my time on Wall Street. Please let me know if there is any additional information you may need. All the best to you, Nomi Prinshttp://www.nomiprins.com From bogus@does.not.exist.com Thu Aug 13 13:47:39 2009 From: bogus@does.not.exist.com () Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 19:47:39 -0000 Subject: No subject Message-ID: In It Takes a Pillage=2C former Wall Street insider turned muckraking journ= alist Nomi Prins argues vehemently and convincingly that the current crisis= has almost nothing to do with subprime mortgages and everything to do with= a financial system that rewards people who move money instead of people wh= o make things=2C operates outside of the media's gaze=2C is sheltered from = governmental supervision=2C and uses leverage to turn risky deals into insa= nely risky deals. Prins also takes you on a harrowing tour of the Wall Street mind-set=2C in = which making money is a game and colossal paychecks are a way of keeping sc= ore=97and getting a huge bonus after churning out fabricated securities and= taking down the entire world economy might be the biggest win of all. "The scariest part is that for all the trillions that have been spent or co= mmitted to the bloated stalwarts of Wall Street=2C our economic system rema= ins in disarray. Prins demonstrates that this failure stems from flaws not = in these institutions=2C but in the banking system itself. She shows how ir= responsible deregulation whetted both individual and institutional appetite= s for short-term gain=2C and produced an addiction to greed and power that = still rules the markets even after nearly destroying them. Complete with a savvy and well-developed proposal for extracting ourselves = from this downward financial spiral and stabilizing the economy=2C It Takes= a Pillage is packed with all the information you need to not just understa= nd the financial crisis=2C but identify policies that will solve the proble= m=2C rather than make it more severe.=20 Praise for It Takes A Pillage "If you want to understand why the Geithner-Summers plan won't solve the fi= nancial crisis=2C and why Wall Street is disgraced but still calling the sh= ots=2C you can't do better than the brilliantly written and documented It T= akes a Pillage=2C by former investment banker and financial critic Nomi Pri= ns. As she devastatingly shows=2C it took a pillage to destroy the financia= l system=2C and it will take a lot more than the cozy relationship of Geith= ner=2C Bernanke=2C and Summers with Wall Street to rebuild the financial ec= onomy." =97Robert Kuttner=2C co-editor=2C The American Prospect and author of Obama= 's Challenge "Nomi Prins has applied her unmatched expertise in Wall Street's arcane met= hods of turning your money into their bonuses to mapping the recent crisis.= In compelling=2C scathing prose=2C she shows how the key players escaped b= eing brought to account=2C and kept their pet officials in power." =97John Dizard=2C columnist=2C Financial Times "No one takes Wall Street to task like Nomi Prins. But this book is far mor= e than a pointed attack on how greed and bad regulation created a global ec= onomic meltdown=97it also offers concrete prescriptions for how to prevent = the next crisis. Let's hope Washington is listening." =97James Ledbetter=2C Editor=2C The Big Money "Nomi knows. Having been at Goldman Sachs=2C Nomi Prins knows the mind-set= =2C knows how to read spreadsheets=2C knows the people=2C and knows Wall St= reet's games. Nomi knows and now Nomi tells." =97Jim Hightower=2C author of Swim against the Current "This book will make readers angry=2C as they should be. This is a lively a= ccount of the Wall Street machinations and Washington deregulation that led= up to the economic crisis. Prins writes from the perspective of someone wh= o has seen the beast from the inside=2C having worked as a Wall Street bank= er." =97Dean Baker=2C Co-Director=2C Center for Economic and Policy Research=20 About the Author Nomi Prins=2C a former managing director at Goldman Sachs=2C writes on corr= uption in Washington and on Wall Street for Mother Jones=2C Fortune=2C Alte= rNet=2C the Nation=2C and many other publications. She is a senior fellow a= t the public-policy think-tank=2C Demos=2C and has appeared on The NewsHour= =2C Democracy Now!=2C and various CNBC=2C CNN=2C and Fox TV programs=2C as = well as numerous national radio stations=2C including NPR and Air America. = Her previous books are Other People's Money: The Corporate Mugging of Ameri= ca and Jacked.=20 --_d76e7f99-a17a-4c00-9396-36f23f77d3b5_ Content-Type: text/html; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

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All the best to you=2C

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From the Inside Flap

In It Takes a Pillage=2C former Wal= l Street insider turned muckraking journalist Nomi Prins argues vehemently = and convincingly that the current crisis has almost nothing to do with subp= rime mortgages and everything to do with a financial system that rewards pe= ople who move money instead of people who make things=2C operates outside o= f the media's gaze=2C is sheltered from governmental supervision=2C and use= s leverage to turn risky deals into insanely risky deals.


Prins also takes= you on a harrowing tour of the Wall Street mind-set=2C in which making mon= ey is a game and colossal paychecks are a way of keeping score=97and gettin= g a huge bonus after churning out fabricated securities and taking down the= entire world economy might be the biggest win of all.=


= "The scariest part i= s that for all the trillions that have been spent or committed to the bloat= ed stalwarts of Wall Street=2C our economic system remains in disarray. Pri= ns demonstrates that this failure stems from flaws not in these institution= s=2C but in the banking system itself. She shows how irresponsible deregula= tion whetted both individual and institutional appetites for short-term gai= n=2C and produced an addiction to greed and power that still rules the mark= ets even after nearly destroying them.


Complete with a savvy and well-devel= oped proposal for extracting ourselves from this downward financial spiral = and stabilizing the economy=2C It Takes a Pillage is packed with all the in= formation you need to not just understand the financial crisis=2C but ident= ify policies that will solve the problem=2C rather than make it more severe= .=A0


Praise for It Takes A Pillage


"= If you want to understand why the Geithner-Summers plan won't solve the fin= ancial crisis=2C and why Wall Street is disgraced but still calling the sho= ts=2C you can't do better than the brilliantly written and documented It Ta= kes a Pillage=2C by former investment banker and financial critic Nomi Prin= s. As she devastatingly shows=2C it took a pillage to destroy the financial= system=2C and it will take a lot more than the cozy relationship of Geithn= er=2C Bernanke=2C and Summers with Wall Street to rebuild the financial eco= nomy."

= =97Robert Kuttner=2C co-editor=2C= The American Prospect and author of Obama's Challenge=


= "Nomi Prins has appl= ied her unmatched expertise in Wall Street's arcane methods of turning your= money into their bonuses to mapping the recent crisis. In compelling=2C sc= athing prose=2C she shows how the key players escaped being brought to acco= unt=2C and kept their pet officials in power."

=97John Dizard=2C columnist=2C Financial Times<= font face=3D"Verdana">


<= span class=3D"EC_EC_EC_apple-style-span">= "No one takes Wall St= reet to task like Nomi Prins. But this book is far more than a pointed atta= ck on how greed and bad regulation created a global economic meltdown=97it = also offers concrete prescriptions for how to prevent the next crisis. Let'= s hope=A0Washington=A0is listening."
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=97= James Ledbetter=2C Editor=2C The Big Money


"Nomi knows. Having been at Goldman Sachs=2C Nomi Prins knows the mind-= set=2C knows how to read spreadsheets=2C knows the people=2C and knows Wall= Street's games. Nomi knows and now Nomi tells."

=97Jim Hightower=2C author of Swim against the Current


"This book = will make readers angry=2C as they should be. This is a lively account of t= he Wall Street machinations and Washington deregulation that led up to the = economic crisis. Prins writes from the perspective of someone who has seen = the beast from the inside=2C having worked as a Wall Street banker."=

<= span class=3D"EC_EC_EC_Apple-style-span" style=3D"color:rgb(0=2C 0=2C 0)"><= br>=97Dean Baker=2C Co-Director=2C Center for Economic and Policy Research<= /span>=A0


= About the Author

Nomi Prins=2C a former managing direc= tor at Goldman Sachs=2C writes on corruption in Washington and on Wall Stre= et for Mother Jones=2C Fortune=2C AlterNet=2C the Nation=2C and many other = publications. She is a senior fellow at the public-policy think-tank=2C Dem= os=2C and has appeared on The NewsHour=2C Democracy Now!=2C and various CNB= C=2C CNN=2C and Fox TV programs=2C as well as numerous=A0national radio sta= tions=2C including NPR and Air America. Her previous books are Other People= 's Money: The Corporate Mugging of America and Jacked.=A0
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= --_d76e7f99-a17a-4c00-9396-36f23f77d3b5_-- From urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu Mon Aug 24 07:50:38 2009 From: urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu (urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu) Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 09:50:38 -0400 Subject: [URPE] =?windows-1252?q?Tamar_Diana_Wilson_--_Women=92s_Migration?= =?windows-1252?q?_Networks_in_Mexico_and_Beyond?= Message-ID: <4A929AAE.4070803@lists.econ.utah.edu> Tamar Diana Wilson. 2009. Women?s Migration Networks in Mexico and Beyond. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. Women?s Migration Networks in Mexico and Beyond traces the migration history of a woman born on a rancho in Jalisco who sought work first in Mexico City and then in Mexicali. It gives an overview of her life and work, and the careers of two of her eight daughters who migrated from the border city of Mexicalli to the United States, one to Arizona and one to Nevada. Concepts such as networks, social capital, transnationalism and gender and migration are defined in one chapter and revisited throughout the book. Changes in gender relations in Mexico are explored to explain the greater incidence of women?s migration to the United States in recent times. It is shown that migration networks based in urban centers differ from migration networks based in rural communities, with women playing a greater role in cities. Principles explaining the dynamics of urban-based transnational migration networks are offered. From urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu Mon Aug 24 07:55:26 2009 From: urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu (urpe-moderator at lists.econ.utah.edu) Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 09:55:26 -0400 Subject: [URPE] Monthly Review 60th Anniversary Gala Celebration -- September 17 Message-ID: <4A929BCE.7040601@lists.econ.utah.edu> *Monthly Review 60th Anniversary Gala Celebration* The gala celebration takes place at 7pm on thursday, september 17, at the NY Society for Ethical Culture, 2 West 64th Street. Doors open at 6:30pm; reception with light refreshments to follow. http://monthlyreview.org/our-60th-anniversary.php Featured speakers include longtime activist Grace Lee Boggs, MONTHLY REVIEW editor John Bellamy Foster, author and media activist Robert W. McChesney, prominent lawyer and author Michael E. Tigar, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, and scholar Fred Magdoff. 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The study abroad program he and others have put together is invaluable for those students who would like to understand what is happening in Venezuela. In addition to class room learning, this program offers inspirational field trips to worker and farmer cooperatives in several areas of the country, as well as numerous opportunities to witness the ongoing activities of several government missions. If you know students who would benefit from this kind of experience, please let them know as soon as possible. The program is having some difficulties getting the word out. You can also request brochures for your college's study abroad program. Below please find blurbs from the current Global Exchange brochure as well as contact information. In solidarity, Howard Botwinick Paddy Quick From the Brochure: "Global Exchange's Fall/Spring Semester Study Abroad in M?rida, Venezuela is a 15-week academic program designed to increase students' knowledge of contemporary Venezuelan society and build bridges between advocates of social justice in the global North and like-minded activists in Latin America. The program is built around intensive Spanish language training; courses focused on Venezuelan social movements, history, and culture; and exchanges with community leaders involved in social change on the ground. Participants have the opportunity to earn 18 undergraduate or graduate credits from the prestigious Universidad de Los Andes while engaging with contemporary and alternative development issues both inside and outside the classroom." 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"Global Exchange's Fall/Spring Semester Study Abroad in Mérida, Venezuela is a 15-week academic program designed to increase students' knowledge of contemporary Venezuelan society and build bridges between advocates of social justice in the global North and like-minded activists in Latin America.

The program is built around intensive Spanish language training; courses focused on Venezuelan social movements, history, and culture; and exchanges with community leaders involved in social change on the ground. Participants have the opportunity to earn 18 undergraduate or graduate credits from the prestigious Universidad de Los Andes while engaging with contemporary and alternative development issues both inside and outside the classroom."

Contact:  Edward Ellis edward at globalexchange.org
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When registering, please register as a member of the = ASSOCIATION FOR SOCIAL ECONOMICS. In this way, some portion of your = registration fee will be given back to the ASE. In particular, all = members of AFEE, URPE, and IAFFE and any other heterodox economist = attending the ASSA should register as a member of ASE.=20 Secondly, the next ICAPE Conference will be at Western New England = College, Springfield, Massachusetts on 3-5 June 2009. There will be a = welcome reception on the 3rd, the conference sessions will take place on = 4-5 June. Karl Petrick ( kpetrick at wnec.edu ) is the local organizer. = Conference themes and a call for papers are forthcoming in the next week = or so.=20 It is unfortunate to note that The Center for Full Employment and Price = Stability (C-FEPS) and the Department of Economics at the University of = Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC) has announced that there will be no Post = Keynesian Workshop (International Conference and Summer School) at UMKC = in Summer, 2010. The announcement intends to assist past participants = and others who may have been exploring the possibility of attending the = PK Workshop in making their summer plans. The PK Workshop will be = resumed in the future, and information will be forthcoming with plenty = of advance time as to when the next PK Workshop will be held. The impact of the current crisis has extended to include economists, = economic departments, and economic majors. Two American universities = have used the crisis to restructure their academic activities and in the = process economists have been made redundant-but clearly there is more to = the decisions. However, in two cases, part of the decision was based on = too few economic majors (an issue that has also affected UK economics = departments over the past 15 years). The problem of too few economics = majors affects many departments, especially at smaller institutions. For = two stories that might interest you, see the following links: http://www.thenewsstar.com/article/20090822/NEWS01/908220320/1002/ULM = --to-drop-3-majors http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/08/14/economics.=20 Finally, perhaps you have heard (or not) of the Toxic Textbooks = Movement. It is a movement to encourage schools and universities to use = economics textbooks that engage honestly with the real world: = http://www.toxictextbooks.com. The website is quite interesting and you = should check it out. The concern about having non-toxic textbooks from = which you have to teach from is a real one. To produce a non-toxic = textbook takes a long time and a lot of work. However, for the near = future there are ways to get around the problem of the toxicity of = textbooks. I teach an introduction (or first year) microeconomics = course. This past year I decided to revise the content of the course = from one that gives a critical overview of neoclassical micro to one in = which the neoclassical component is reduced to 1/3 of the course. This = was made possible with the publication of Sherman, Hunt, et. al. = Economics: An Introduction to Traditional and Progressive Views (7th ed. = M.E. Sharpe). The book is divided into four parts: economics of history = and history of economics, microeconomics, macroeconomics, and = international and global policy. For the first 5 weeks of the course I = covered part I; the second five weeks part II supplemented by lecture = notes; and the third five weeks I introduced the students to heterodox = microeconomics utilizing lecture notes I have written. In the end, the = students got a more critical and pluralistic understanding of = microeconomics. The point here is that the toxicity associated with = teaching neoclassical micro for example can be dealt with by choosing a = Sherman-Hunt like text, introducing your own lecture notes into the = class, and expecting students to be to have the capabilities to engage = with diverse and opposing ideas. Fred Lee In this issue: =20 Call for Papers = =20 - JSHET Conference 2010 - ISEE 2010: Advancing Sustainability in a Time of Crisis - PKSG Workshop on the Current Crisis - ECONOMIC DEGROWTH TODAY - Economic Pedagogy - The Association for Institutional Thought=20 - Historical Materialism, 2nd North American Conference - Historical Materialism Sixth Annual Conference - Association for Institutional Thought [AFIT] - ASE at the Eastern Economic Association Meetings - 8th Society of Heterodox Economists Conference - The Hyman P. Minsky Summer Seminar =20 Heterodox Conference Papers and Reports and Articles = =20 =20 - Global Recession: Spending Cuts Are Not the Answer - Capital Controls and the Current Financial Crisis: Revisiting the = Malaysian Experience - LA LIQUIDACI=D3N DE LOS ACTIVOS DEL ESTADO - A Critical Assessment of Seven Reports on Financial Reform: A Minskyan = Perspective - Keynes and the financing of public works expenditures=20 - Conversation or Monologue? On Advising Heterodox Economists=20 Heterodox Journals and Newsletters = =20 =20 - eInsight - International Journal of Political Economy - Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation - Challenge - Recherche sur l'Innovation - Research Network of Innovation =20 Heterodox Books and Book Series = =20 =20 - Capitalism Hits the Fan - Political Economy and Globalization - Keynes on Monetary Policy, Finance and Uncertainty - It Takes a Pillage - Real World Labor - Women's Migration Networks in Mexico and Beyond - THE KEYNES SOLUTION - THE MAKING OF ECONOMICS - A BRIEF HISTORY OF ECONOMICS - An Updated Marxian Theory Of The Commodity by Pablo Emiliano Ahumada - Economic Pluralism Heterodox Book Reviews = =20 =20 - The Dynamics of Industrial Capitalism: Schumpeter, Chandler and the = New Economy =20 For Your Information = =20 =20 - how to rebuild a shamed subject - Mathematical technique should not dominate real-world substance - The Truth about Amnesty for Immigrants - Income Inequality Is At An All-Time High: STUDY - The American-German Divide - Rock Steady: MOVING TOWARD A STEADY-STATE ECONOMY - THE LAST TRUCK: CLOSING OF A GM PLANT - Center for the History of Political Economy - Bi-Annual Prize for Research in the History of Economic Thought - Monthly Review 60th Anniversary Gala Celebration - Grupo Lujan - SHOE: ANN--2009 Don Lavoie Memorial Graduate Student Essay Competition - ASE program at ASSA, times and room assignments =20 =20 =20 ----- To be removed from this mailing list, please send an email message to the address leefs at umkc.edu asking to be removed from this list. 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Heterodox Economics Newsletter

www.heterodoxnews.com

Issue 87: September 2, 2009

From the Editor

There is lots of news to = report in this Newsletter. First, on September 16, 2009 and after, you can register for = the ASSA at the AEA web site: www.vanderbilt.edu/AEA. The Association for = Social Economics sessions will take place at the Hilton Atlanta—see the = FYI section for more information. When registering, please register as a = member of the ASSOCIATION FOR SOCIAL ECONOMICS. In this way, some portion of your registration fee will be given back to the ASE. In particular, all = members of AFEE, URPE, and IAFFE and any other heterodox economist attending the = ASSA should register as a member of ASE.

Secondly, the next ICAPE Conference will be at = Western New England College, Springfield, Massachusetts on 3-5 June 2009. There = will be a welcome reception on the 3rd, the conference sessions will take place = on 4-5 June. Karl Petrick ( kpetrick at wnec.edu ) is the local organizer. Conference themes and a call for papers are = forthcoming in the next week or so.

It is unfortunate to note that The Center for = Full Employment and Price Stability (C-FEPS) and the Department of Economics = at the University of Missouri—Kansas City (UMKC) has announced that there = will be no Post Keynesian Workshop (International Conference and Summer = School) at UMKC in Summer, 2010. The announcement intends to assist past = participants and others who may have been exploring the possibility of attending the PK = Workshop in making their summer plans. The PK Workshop will be resumed in the = future, and information will be forthcoming with plenty of advance time as to = when the next PK Workshop will be held.

The impact of the current crisis has extended to = include economists, economic departments, and economic majors. Two American universities have used the crisis to restructure their academic = activities and in the process economists have been made redundant—but clearly = there is more to the decisions. However, in two cases, part of the decision was = based on too few economic majors (an issue that has also affected UK economics departments over the past 15 years). The problem of too few economics = majors affects many departments, especially at smaller institutions. For two = stories that might interest you, see the following links:

http://www.thenewsstar.com/article/20090822/NEWS01/908220320/1002/U= LM --to-drop-3-majors
http://w= ww.insidehighered.com/news/2009/08/14/economics.

Finally, perhaps you have heard (or not) of the = Toxic Textbooks Movement. It is a movement to encourage schools and = universities to use economics textbooks that engage honestly with the real world: http://www.toxictextbooks.com.=   The website is quite interesting and you should check it out. The = concern about having non-toxic textbooks from which you have to teach from is a real = one. To produce a non-toxic textbook takes a long time and a lot of work. = However, for the near future there are ways to get around the problem of the toxicity = of textbooks. I teach an introduction (or first year) microeconomics = course. This past year I decided to revise the content of the course from one that = gives a critical overview of neoclassical micro to one in which the neoclassical component is reduced to 1/3 of the course. This was made possible with = the publication of Sherman, Hunt, et. al. Economics: An Introduction to = Traditional and Progressive Views (7th ed. M.E. Sharpe). The book is divided into = four parts: economics of history and history of economics, microeconomics, = macroeconomics, and international and global policy. For the first 5 weeks of the course = I covered part I; the second five weeks part II supplemented by lecture = notes; and the third five weeks I introduced the students to heterodox = microeconomics utilizing lecture notes I have written. In the end, the students got a = more critical and pluralistic understanding of microeconomics. The point here = is that the toxicity associated with teaching neoclassical micro for = example can be dealt with by choosing a Sherman-Hunt like text, introducing your own lecture notes into the class, and expecting students to be to have the capabilities to engage with diverse and opposing ideas.

Fred Lee

In this issue:

 

Call for Papers

- JSHET Conference 2010
- ISEE 2010: Advancing Sustainability in a Time of Crisis
- PKSG Workshop on the Current Crisis
- ECONOMIC DEGROWTH TODAY
- Economic Pedagogy
- The Association for Institutional Thought
- Historical Materialism, 2nd North American Conference
- Historical Materialism Sixth Annual Conference
- Association for Institutional Thought [AFIT]
- ASE at the Eastern Economic Association Meetings
- 8th Society of Heterodox Economists Conference
- The Hyman P. Minsky Summer Seminar

 

Heterodox = Conference Papers and Reports and Articles

 

- Global Recession: Spending Cuts Are Not the = Answer
- Capital Controls and the Current Financial Crisis: Revisiting the = Malaysian Experience
- LA LIQUIDACI=D3N DE LOS ACTIVOS DEL ESTADO
- A Critical Assessment of Seven Reports on Financial Reform: A = Minskyan Perspective
- Keynes and the financing of public works expenditures
- Conversation or Monologue? On Advising Heterodox Economists =

Heterodox Journals and = Newsletters

 

- eInsight
- International Journal of Political Economy
- Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation
- Challenge
- Recherche sur l’Innovation
- Research Network of Innovation

 

Heterodox Books and Book = Series

 

- Capitalism Hits the Fan
- Political Economy and Globalization
- Keynes on Monetary Policy, Finance and Uncertainty
- It Takes a Pillage
- Real World Labor
- Women’s Migration Networks in Mexico and Beyond
- THE KEYNES SOLUTION
- THE MAKING OF ECONOMICS
- A BRIEF HISTORY OF ECONOMICS
- An Updated Marxian Theory Of The Commodity by Pablo Emiliano = Ahumada
- Economic Pluralism

= Heterodox Book = Reviews

 

- The Dynamics of Industrial Capitalism: Schumpeter, = Chandler and the New Economy

 

For Your Information

 

- how to rebuild a shamed subject
- Mathematical technique should not dominate real-world substance
- The Truth about Amnesty for Immigrants
- Income Inequality Is At An All-Time High: STUDY
- The American-German Divide
- Rock Steady: MOVING TOWARD A STEADY-STATE ECONOMY
- THE LAST TRUCK: CLOSING OF A GM PLANT
- Center for the History of Political Economy
- Bi-Annual Prize for Research in the History of Economic Thought
- Monthly Review 60th Anniversary Gala Celebration
- Grupo Lujan
- SHOE: ANN--2009 Don Lavoie Memorial Graduate Student Essay = Competition
- ASE program at ASSA, times and room = assignments

 

 

 =

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&*TO; ------_=_NextPart_001_01CA2C1E.5DF28D20-- From mckenna193 at aol.com Wed Sep 2 10:05:58 2009 From: mckenna193 at aol.com (mckenna193 at aol.com) Date: Wed, 02 Sep 2009 12:05:58 -0400 Subject: [URPE] "Capitalist Pig" Sacrifice & Swine Flu Pandemic In-Reply-To: <4A929BCE.7040601@lists.econ.utah.edu> References: <4A929BCE.7040601@lists.econ.utah.edu> Message-ID: <8CBF9FE64CEAA2A-1064-417E@webmail-m099.sysops.aol.com> CounterPunch August 31, 2009 ? Pig Sacrifice and Swine Flu Panic Profitting From Pandemics ? By Brian McKenna ? The swine flu pandemic can be plenty good for business. In his article, ?A Capitalist Pig?s View of Swine Flu,? investor Brian Orelli said that ?there is nothing wrong with drug companies and investors making money? from the crisis. ?If we do reach pandemic stage,? he said on April 27th, ?the big winners would be companies developing ways to quickly produce vaccines.? Possible winners were ?both Baxter and Novavax [who] are developing vaccines that are produced in cell culture and therefore can produce a vaccine in 12 weeks (Orelli 2009).? It?s now coming up on September and we are in the early stages of a full blown swine flu pandemic. Last week the World Health Organization warned the globe to pr epare for a second wave of outbreaks. As of August 23rd the WHO confirms 209,438 infections in over 170 countries with 2,185 deaths. This greatly underestimates the actual number of cases. In fact the chances may be as high as 1 in 3 that you will get infected. That?s what WHO chief Keiji Fukuda suggested at a press conference on May 7th. If you had taken Orelli?s advice you would have done very well. On April 27, Novavax was selling at $2.55 a share. As of August 30th it is up to $5.89. Its stock price has nearly tripled this year. In reality Big Pharma20gets rich coming or going. They already make millions supplying antibiotics (like penicillin, tetracycline and erythromycin) for corporate meat production in ?normal? times, including industrial hog farms like Smithfield (where the current H1N1 strain is suspected to have developed in North Carolina in 1998). In so doing they actually helped to create the swine flu pandemic by making it possible for millions of hogs to live in hellish conditions where they trade germs relentlessly. From bogus@does.not.exist.com Sat Aug 29 21:05:35 2009 From: bogus@does.not.exist.com () Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2009 03:05:35 -0000 Subject: No subject Message-ID: =80=93 there is a deeper and disturbing reality to the pandemic as of yet= poorly unaddressed. August 31, 2009 =C2=A0 Pig Sacrifice and Swine Flu Panic=20 Profitting From Pandemics=20 =C2=A0 By Brian McKenna=20 =C2=A0 The swine flu pandemic can be plenty good for business. In his article, = =E2=80=9CA Capitalist Pig=E2=80=99s View of Swine Flu,=E2=80=9D investor= Brian Orelli said that =E2=80=9Cthere is nothing wrong with drug companie= s and investors making money=E2=80=9D from the crisis. =E2=80=9CIf we do= reach pandemic stage,=E2=80=9D he said on April 27th, =E2=80=9Cthe big wi= nners would be companies developing ways to quickly produce vaccines.=E2= =80=9D Possible winners were =E2=80=9Cboth Baxter and Novavax [who] are de= veloping vaccines that are produced in cell culture and therefore can prod= uce a vaccine in 12 weeks (Orelli 2009).=E2=80=9D It=E2=80=99s now coming up on September and we are in the early stages of= a full blown swine flu pandemic. Last week the World Health Organization warned the globe to pr epare for a second= wave of outbreaks. As of August 23rd the WHO confirms 209,438 infections= in over 170 countries with 2,185 deaths. This greatly underestimates the= actual number of cases. In fact the chances may be as high as 1 in 3 that= you will get infected. That=E2=80=99s what WHO chief Keiji Fukuda suggest= ed at a press conference on May 7th.=20 If you had taken Orelli=E2=80=99s advice you would have done very well. On= April 27, Novavax was selling at $2.55 a share. As of August 30th it is= up to $5.89. Its stock price has nearly tripled this year. In reality Big Pharma gets rich coming or going. They already make million= s supplying antibiotics (like penicillin, tetracycline and erythromycin)= for corporate meat production in =E2=80=9Cnormal=E2=80=9D times, includin= g industrial hog farms like Smithfield (where the current H1N1 strain is= suspected to have developed in North Carolina in 1998). In so doing they= actually helped to create the swine flu pandemic by making it possible fo= r millions of hogs to live in hellish conditions where they trade germs re= lentlessly. From bogus@does.not.exist.com Sat Aug 29 21:05:35 2009 From: bogus@does.not.exist.com () Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2009 03:05:35 -0000 Subject: No subject Message-ID: =80=93 there is a deeper and disturbing reality to the pandemic as of yet= poorly unaddressed. Pigs for the Ancestors Like the stock market, pigs can be a barometer for how things are going in= the larger culture. In Roy Rappaport=E2=80=99s classic 1968 ethnography,= Pigs for the Ancestors: Ritual in the Ecology of=3D2 0a New Guinea People, for example, Rappaport argues that warfare among the= Tsembaga Maring tribe was actually regulated by a ritual pig feast that= came along every decade or so. Here=E2=80=99s how it worked.=C2=A0When the pig herd =E2=80=93 which ran= wild in the village =E2=80=93 increased to a big enough size where it was= uprooting yams and sweet potatoes in tribal gardens, quarrels would ensue= . Eventually the Tsembaga reached a consensus to hold a kaiko, a festival= that culminated in a magnificent pig feast in which most of the pigs woul= d be sacrificed. . .and eaten . . . . . .=C2=A0Rappaport argued that warfa= re followed the feast. In other words war was regulated by the feast=C2=A0= =E2=80=93 no fighting until the kaiko is done. He said the timing of the= ritual cycle =E2=80=9Cis itself a function of the speed of growth of the= pig population (Rappaport 1970:76).=E2=80=9D=20 Rappaport . . .conveyed a very important message: there was an invisible= linkage between ritual, environmental management, and war. Should we view the current pandemic as a ritual occasion, like that of the= Tsembega=E2=80=99s pig ritual? . . . .=C2=A0Are these resulting pandemics= =E2=80=93 like Tsembaga warfare =E2=80=93 attributable, then, to the sick= ening motions of capitalism? Yes. From bogus@does.not.exist.com Sat Aug 29 21:05:35 2009 From: bogus@does.not.exist.com () Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2009 03:05:35 -0000 Subject: No subject Message-ID: s are sacrificed for humans while under corporate capitalism, humans get= sacrificed for the, er, pigs. full: http://www.counterpunch.org/mckenna08312009.html ----------MB_8CBF9FE64D82FAA_1064_8575_webmail-m099.sysops.aol.com Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset="utf-8"

CounterPunch
August 31, 2009=
 
Pig Sacrifice and Swine Flu Panic
= Profitting From Pandemics
 
By Brian= McKenna
 
= The swine flu= pandemic can be plenty good for business. In his article, =E2=80=9CA Capi= talist Pig=E2=80=99s View of Swine Flu,=E2=80=9D investor Brian Orelli sai= d that =E2=80=9Cthere is nothing wrong with drug companies and investors= making money=E2=80=9D from the crisis. =E2=80=9CIf we do reach pandemic= stage,=E2=80=9D he said on April=20 27th, =E2=80=9Cthe big winners would be companies developing ways to quick= ly produce vaccines.=E2=80=9D Possible winners were =E2=80=9Cboth Baxter= and Novavax [who] are developing vaccines that are produced in cell cultu= re and therefore can produce a vaccine in 12 weeks (Orelli 2009).=E2=80=9D=
 
It=E2=80=99s now coming= up on September and we are in the early stages of a full blown swine flu= pandemic. Last week the World Health Organization warned the globe to pr= epare for a second wave of outbreaks. As of August 23rd the WHO confirms= 209,438 infections in over 170 countries with 2,185 deaths. This greatly= underestimates the actual number of cases. In fact the chances may be as= high as 1 in 3 that you will get infected. That=E2=80=99s what WHO chief= Keiji Fukuda suggested at a press conference on May 7th.

If you had taken Orelli=E2=80=99s advice you would have done very well. On= April 27, Novavax was selling at $2.55 a share. As of August 30th it is= up to $5.89. Its stock price has nearly tripled this year.

In reality Big Pharma gets rich coming or going. They already make million= s supplying antibiotics (like penicillin, tetracycline and erythromycin)= for corporate meat production in =E2=80=9Cnormal=E2=80=9D times, includin= g industrial hog farms like Smithfield (where the current H1N1 strain is= suspected to have developed in North Carolina in 1998). In so doing they= actually=20 helped to create the swine flu pandemic by making it possible for millions= of hogs to live in hellish conditions where they trade germs relentlessly= .

From bogus@does.not.exist.com Sat Aug 29 21:05:35 2009 From: bogus@does.not.exist.com () Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2009 03:05:35 -0000 Subject: No subject Message-ID: =80=93 there is a deeper and disturbing reality to the pandemic as of yet= poorly unaddressed.
 
Pigs for the Ancestors

Like the stock market, pigs can be a barometer for how thi= ngs are going in the larger culture. In Roy Rappaport=E2=80=99s classic 19= 68 ethnography, Pigs for the Ancestors: Ritual in the Ecology of a New Gui= nea People, for example, Rappaport argues that warfare among the Tsembaga= Maring tribe was actually regulated by a ritual pig feast that came along= every decade or so.

Here=E2=80=99s how it worked. When the pig herd =E2=80=93 which ran= wild in the village =E2=80=93 increased to a big enough size where it was= uprooting yams and sweet potatoes in tribal gardens, quarrels would ensue= . Eventually the Tsembaga reached a consensus to hold a kaiko, a festival= that culminated in a magnificent pig feast in which most of the pigs woul= d be sacrificed. . .and eaten . . . . . . Rappaport argued that warfa= re followed the feast. In other words war was regulated by the feast = =E2=80=93 no fighting until the kaiko is done. He said the timing of the= ritual cycle =E2=80=9Cis itself a function of=3D2 0the speed of growth of the pig population (Rappaport 1970:76).=E2=80=9D=

Rappaport . . .conveyed a very important message: there was an invisible= linkage between ritual, environmental management, and war.

Should we view the current pandemic as a ritual occasion, like that of the= Tsembega=E2=80=99s pig ritual? . . . . Are these resulting pandemics= =E2=80=93 like Tsembaga warfare =E2=80=93 attributable, then, to the sick= ening motions of capitalism?

Yes.
 
From an anthropological= perspective, one might say that in New Guinea, pigs are sacrificed for hu= mans while under corporate capitalism, humans get sacrificed for the, er,= pigs.
 
----------MB_8CBF9FE64D82FAA_1064_8575_webmail-m099.sysops.aol.com-- From leefs at UMKC.EDU Wed Sep 2 09:12:52 2009 From: leefs at UMKC.EDU (Lee, Frederic) Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2009 10:12:52 -0500 Subject: [URPE] [UMKCLEE-URPE] Announcing "Decent Work, Living Wages, and Government's Hidden Leverage" Message-ID: <9A72753A447165498D6B63479DB2E7C906CE38C1@KC-MSX3.kc.umkc.edu> This might be of some interest to those teaching introductory economic courses: My name is Adam Waxman, and I am writing to tell you about an exciting new report that is being released in September by The American Prospect, in collaboration with the think tank D?mos. The Prospect is a progressive magazine that covers politics and policy, and D?mos is a non-partisan public policy research and advocacy organization. We are proud to announce the publication of Decent Work, Living Wages, and Government's Hidden Leverage, a special report that examines how changes in government regulations could reap enormous benefits for millions of working Americans. The report features the writing of Steve Franklin, Nancy Cleeland, David Bensman, Peter Dreier, David Moberg, Steve Fraser, Annette Bernhardt, and Prospect founding editor Robert Kuttner. It covers topics including the trucking industry, day laborers, local government action and partnerships, and more. We?re very excited about the report, and eager to put it into the hands of those who will find it valuable. I am writing to you to let you know that if you would like copies of the report for a class, convention, conference, or other event, we at the Prospect are happy to provide them free of charge (or for a minimal cost to cover shipping n the case of very large orders). We are currently sending the report to the printer. If you would like copies, please be in touch with me by this coming Friday, September 4th, by 4 PM EST. My contact information is below, and I look forward to hearing from you. Also, please feel free to pass this announcement along to colleagues, list serves, and coworkers who might be interested in the report. Sincerely, Adam Waxman Publishing Fellow, The American Prospect 1710 Rhode Island Avenue NW, 12th Floor Washington, DC 20036 Ph. 202-776-0730 x119 / Fx. 202-776-0740 www.prospect.org Subscribe to TAP?s Weekly E-newsletter! Fred Lee Professor Frederic S. Lee Editor, American Journal of Economics and Sociology 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 "Routledge 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 Dear Dir. Judy Ancel, ----- To be removed from this mailing list, please send an email message to the address leefs at umkc.edu asking to be removed from this list. Problems or questions should be directed to sullivanmw at umkc.edu. &*TO; -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Lee Editor, American Journal of Economics and Sociology 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 "Routledge 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 ----- To be removed from this mailing list, please send an email message to the address leefs at umkc.edu asking to be removed from this list. Problems or questions should be directed to sullivanmw at umkc.edu. &*TO; -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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As a result, 2,500 workers and 200 management staff were left without jobs, while the closing is also sure to trigger the loss of thousands of related jobs and businesses. But the GM workers lost much more than jobs, including the pride they share in their work and the camaraderie built through the years. To the natives of Moraine and the greater Dayton area, General Motors wasn't just a car company - it was the lifeblood of the community. THE LAST TRUCK views the final months of the plant through the workers' eyes as they reflect on their work and consider their next steps. In revealing interviews with people who considered themselves more family than co-workers, the film reveals the emotional toll of losing not just a job, but a sense of self. The employees share poignant moments, such as the day every worker must remove his or her toolbox and give up their GM ID card. THE LAST TRUCK closes with footage of the actual "last truck" to be produced at Moraine Assembly. Among those interviewed in the documentary are: Kathy (body shop) - A 47-year-old mother of three with six grandchildren, Kathy viewed her co-workers as a second family. Kim (electrician) - A tearful Kim believes that working at the plant was "the greatest job I ever had." He recounts how everyone finished their work on the line and followed the last truck until all the work had been done. Then they all came together as a big group, a family saying goodbye. Popeye (toolmaker) - Popeye sees the bigger picture, viewing the plant's closing as the end of the good life, the end of American manufacturing as we know it. "My grandson will have a worse life than I had," he says at a nearby bar. Kate (forklift operator) - After the plant closes, Kate poignantly describes it as a "gentle dragon" taking its last breath before dying. While the film focuses on Moraine, the plant's closing reflects profound changes in the American manufacturing landscape as a whole. THE LAST TRUCK bears witness to the experience of job loss and offers a snapshot of a moment that may portend the end of the nation's blue-collar middle class. Directors and producers Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert won an Primetime Emmy? for their documentary "A Lion in the House," which followed children fighting cancer for five years. Bognar has shown four films at Sundance, including "Personal Belongings" and "Picture Day." Reichert has twice been nominated for a Best Feature Documentary Oscar?, for "Union Maids" and "Seeing Red." THE LAST TRUCK: CLOSING OF A GM PLANT was directed and produced by Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert; edited by Steven Bognar. 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The University of Sydney's Faculty of Arts has a proud history and tradition of intellectual rigour. It offers one of the most comprehensive and diverse range of humanities and social science studies in the Asia Pacific region, and a vibrant research and teaching environment. It is regularly ranked in the top 20 Arts faculties in the world. The School of Social and Political Sciences (SSPS), composed of the departments of Anthropology, Government and International Relations, Political Economy, Sociology and Social Policy, and Peace and Conflict Studies, offers innovative degrees at undergraduate and postgraduate level that attract the very best students from Australia and overseas. SSPS is the focus for the strategic development of the social sciences at Sydney with a view to our becoming Australia's leading centre for research and teaching in the area. The current recruitment round represents a further major investment in the School after the addition of twelve academic positions last year, including three full professors. Applications are invited for a full-time position for a Lecturer in Political Economy to commence in 2010 within the School of Social and Political Sciences in the Faculty of Arts. The Department of Political Economy at the University of Sydney is concerned with a critical perspective on economic theories, engaging Marxian, classical and neoclassical, Keynesian and post-Keynesian, institutional and feminist economic theories. The Department is also concerned with analysis of the social foundations of economic activity, globalisation, economic development, class, gender and economic policy. Interdisciplinary links to other social sciences are actively sought. Candidates should have a PhD or equivalent in political economy, economics or closely related field and the potential to publish in leading international and national journals. Preference will be given to those with an established track record of high quality research publications. Evidence of teaching ability and experience is also important, including potential to supervise honours and higher degree research students and contribute to curriculum development. Applications are particularly sought from people with expertise in economic theory, international political economy and development. The position is full-time continuing subject to the completion of a satisfactory probation period for new appointees. Membership of a University approved superannuation scheme is a condition of employment for new appointees. Remuneration package: a competitive remuneration package is available consisting of a Level B salary range (A$76,250 - A$90,546); plus leave loading and up to 17% employer's contribution to superannuation. All applications must be submitted online. To be considered applicants must respond to selection criteria; to do so complete your responses on the online application form. Please note that resumes need to include contact details of 3 referees. General enquiries can be directed to Ben Whitfield on (+61 2) 9351 3682. For further information about the position, contact Dr Stuart Rosewarne, Chair, Department of Political Economy, on (+61 2) 9351 2492, e-mail: stuart.rosewarne at usyd.edu.au Closing Date: 23 September 2009 For more information and to apply, please use Reference No. 433/0809 and visit http://usyd.edu.au/positions or www.theonlyplacetobe.com.au The University is an Equal Opportunity employer committed to equity, diversity and social inclusion. Applications from equity target groups and women are encouraged. Appointment is on merit; as women are under-represented at this employment level suitably qualified women are encouraged to apply. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 34099 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/urpe-announcements/attachments/20090904/c4d6f0e3/attachment.txt From jmrussell87 at gmail.com Thu Sep 3 11:05:03 2009 From: jmrussell87 at gmail.com (James Russell) Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 12:05:03 -0500 Subject: [URPE] undergrad student needing help Message-ID: <2f883fa40909031005o79b9afecw91f10ca6bf50ed6@mail.gmail.com> greetings, i'm an undergraduate student at Texas Christian U in Fort Worth, and an Antiochian (Antioch College) in exile seeking heterodox resources on community economic development. I'm in the beginning stages of a thesis focused on a number of a fields, including political economy, social & economic policy, food access (& the privilege & discrimination of the 'slow food movement' with emphasis on the negative impacts on immigrants to the U.S.). I am an Anthropology/Sociology major, so a qualitative framework is preferred. If anyone needs further info, as I realize that this is broad & perhaps confusing, don't hesitate to email me. in solidarity, -- James M. Russell TCU Anthropology & Sociology 2011 "Another world is not only possible . . . I can hear her breathing." -Arundhati Roy "Given my personality, that?s the way it had to be. I?m an evangelist, and I was hunting for a cause.? - Loren Pope From leefs at UMKC.EDU Thu Sep 3 08:35:19 2009 From: leefs at UMKC.EDU (Lee, Frederic) Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 09:35:19 -0500 Subject: [URPE] [UMKCLEE-URPE] 2 positions for heterodox economist Message-ID: <9A72753A447165498D6B63479DB2E7C906CE38DB@KC-MSX3.kc.umkc.edu> Dear Colleague, Sorry for the e-mail, but the closing dates for the two positions below are September 21 and 23 and my next Newsletter will probably come out after that date. If you are planning to hire this year, would you please send me the job advert so that I can put it in my Newsletter. Fred Lee Lebanon Valley College Department of Business and Economics Dr. David Rudd, Chair The job advert appeared in the Chronicle of Higher Education, September 4, 2009, p. A115 "We are looking for candidates who are dedicated to teaching, have a Ph.D. in economics, and a demonstrated commitment to heterodox approaches in economics and interdisciplinarity." Closing date for applications is 21 September 2009. Lecturer in Political Economy - Academic Level B School of Social and Political Sciences Faculty of Arts The University of Sydney, Australia Reference No. 433/0809 * Join the fast expanding School of Social & Political Sciences * Australia's top rated Faculty in the arts and humanities * A competitive academic salary is available The University of Sydney is Australia's premier University with an outstanding global reputation for academic and research excellence, and employs over 6,800 permanent staff supporting over 46,000 students. The University of Sydney's Faculty of Arts has a proud history and tradition of intellectual rigour. It offers one of the most comprehensive and diverse range of humanities and social science studies in the Asia Pacific region, and a vibrant research and teaching environment. It is regularly ranked in the top 20 Arts faculties in the world. The School of Social and Political Sciences (SSPS), composed of the departments of Anthropology, Government and International Relations, Political Economy, Sociology and Social Policy, and Peace and Conflict Studies, offers innovative degrees at undergraduate and postgraduate level that attract the very best students from Australia and overseas. SSPS is the focus for the strategic development of the social sciences at Sydney with a view to our becoming Australia's leading centre for research and teaching in the area. The current recruitment round represents a further major investment in the School after the addition of twelve academic positions last year, including three full professors. Applications are invited for a full-time position for a Lecturer in Political Economy to commence in 2010 within the School of Social and Political Sciences in the Faculty of Arts. The Department of Political Economy at the University of Sydney is concerned with a critical perspective on economic theories, engaging Marxian, classical and neoclassical, Keynesian and post-Keynesian, institutional and feminist economic theories. The Department is also concerned with analysis of the social foundations of economic activity, globalisation, economic development, class, gender and economic policy. Interdisciplinary links to other social sciences are actively sought. Candidates should have a PhD or equivalent in political economy, economics or closely related field and the potential to publish in leading international and national journals. Preference will be given to those with an established track record of high quality research publications. Evidence of teaching ability and experience is also important, including potential to supervise honours and higher degree research students and contribute to curriculum development. Applications are particularly sought from people with expertise in economic theory, international political economy and development. The position is full-time continuing subject to the completion of a satisfactory probation period for new appointees. Membership of a University approved superannuation scheme is a condition of employment for new appointees. Remuneration package: a competitive remuneration package is available consisting of a Level B salary range (A$76,250 - A$90,546); plus leave loading and up to 17% employer's contribution to superannuation. All applications must be submitted online. To be considered applicants must respond to selection criteria; to do so complete your responses on the online application form. Please note that resumes need to include contact details of 3 referees. General enquiries can be directed to Ben Whitfield on (+61 2) 9351 3682. For further information about the position, contact Dr Stuart Rosewarne, Chair, Department of Political Economy, on (+61 2) 9351 2492, e-mail: stuart.rosewarne at usyd.edu.au Closing Date: 23 September 2009 For more information and to apply, please use Reference No. 433/0809 and visit http://usyd.edu.au/positions or www.theonlyplacetobe.com.au The University is an Equal Opportunity employer committed to equity, diversity and social inclusion. Applications from equity target groups and women are encouraged. Appointment is on merit; as women are under-represented at this employment level suitably qualified women are encouraged to apply. ----- To be removed from this mailing list, please send an email message to the address leefs at umkc.edu asking to be removed from this list. Problems or questions should be directed to sullivanmw at umkc.edu. &*TO; -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Name: Attached Message Part Url: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/urpe-announcements/attachments/20090908/22cf9338/attachment-0001.txt From christian.fuchs at sbg.ac.at Mon Sep 7 16:57:27 2009 From: christian.fuchs at sbg.ac.at (Christian Fuchs) Date: Tue, 08 Sep 2009 00:57:27 +0200 Subject: [URPE] CfP: Call for Chapter Abstracts for the Book "The Internet & Surveillance" Message-ID: <4AA58FD7.8080603@sbg.ac.at> CfP: Call for Chapter Abstracts for the Book "The Internet & Surveillance" PDF version of CfP: http://fuchs.uti.at/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/CfP_Internet_Surveillance.pdf Editors: Christian Fuchs, Kees Boersma, Anders Albrechtslund, Marisol Sandoval Supported by COST: European Cooperation in Science and Technology (http://www.cost.esf.org, COST Action Living in Surveillance Societies (LiSS, IS0807), Working Group 2: Surveillance Technologies in Practice Abstract submissions until October 15, 2009 (deadline) to christian.fuchs at sbg.ac.at The overall aim of this collected volume is to bring together contributions that show how surveillance works on the Internet and which risks are connected to Internet surveillance in general and surveillance connected to "web 2.0" and "social software" in particular. The publication and publishing process is part of the COST Action "Living in Surveillance Societies" (LiSS) that is funded by the European Science Foundation (2009-2012, see http://w3.cost.esf.org/index.php?id=233&action_number=IS0807 for further information and details) and is a project by the LiSS working group "Surveillance Technologies in Practice". The editors are members of this working group. Routledge has expressed interest in publishing this volume. The collection of data for organizing bureaucratic and economic life is inherent in modern society. At the same time that privacy has been postulated as important value of modern society, privacy-threatening surveillance mechanisms have been structurally implemented and institutionalized in modern society. This collected volume explores perspectives on privacy, surveillance, and the privacy-surveillance-paradox in relation to the Internet. Background Many observers claim that the Internet has been transformed in the past years from a system that is primarily oriented on information provision into a system that is more oriented on communication and community building. The notions of "web 2.0", "social Software", and "social network(ing) sites" have emerged in this context. Web platforms such as Wikipedia, MySpace, Facebook, YouTube, Google, Blogger, Rapidshare, Wordpress, Hi5, Flickr, Photobucket, Orkut, Skyrock, Twitter, YouPorn, PornHub, Youku, Orkut, Redtube, Friendster, Adultfriendfinder, Megavideo, Tagged, Tube8, Mediafire, Megaupload, Mixi, Livejournal, LinkedIn, Netlog, ThePirateBay, Orkut, XVideos, Metacafe, Digg, StudiVZ, etc are said to be typical for this transformation of the Internet. No matter if we agree that important transformations of the Internet have taken place or not, it is clear that a principle that underlies such platforms is the massive provision and storage of personal data that are systematically evaluated, marketed, and used for targeting users with advertising. In a world of global economic competition, economic crisis, and fear of terrorism after 9/11, especially two kinds of actors are interested in accessing such personal data: corporations on the one hand and state institutions on the other hand. Will the Internet under the current societal conditions advance the intensification and extension of surveillance so that a coercive and totalitarian surveillance society that George Orwell would have only thought about in his worst dreams will emerge or not? Are there counter-tendencies? The contributions in this book deal with these topics by elaborating theoretical concepts and presenting the results of empirical case studies. We are especially interested in papers that do not primarily discuss single examples, but attempt to discuss Internet surveillance from a broad perspective that takes into account societal contexts or that embed examples or case studies into the discussion of societal contexts. Research Questions Chapters could for example relate to one or more of the following questions: * What is electronic surveillance? What are specific qualities of electronic surveillance on the Internet? How does Internet surveillance differ from other forms of surveillance? * Which theories do we need for thinking about Internet & surveillance? How important (or how outdated) are the thoughts by Michel Foucault and George Orwell for studying surveillance on the Internet? How suitable are the theories of thinkers like Max Weber, Karl Marx, Anthony Giddens, and others for the analysis and conceptualization of Internet surveillance? * What is the relationship of privacy and surveillance in respect to the Internet? * What is privacy, how should it be defined, and how does it change in the age of the Internet? * Is Internet surveillance a form of "new surveillance" (Gary Marx)? What are the differences and commonalities between Internet surveillance and concepts such as computer surveillance, dataveillance (Roger Clarke), the electronic panopticon (Mark Poster), electronic surveillance (David Lyon), the panoptic sort (Oscar H. Gandy), social Taylorism of surveillance (Frank Webster, Kevin Robins), or the synopticon (Thomas Mathiesen)? * What are the normative and ethical implications of Internet & surveillance? * What is a surveillance society and what is the role of the Internet in surveillance society? Should the notions of surveillance and surveillance society be used as general, neutral terms or as negative terms? What are the implications of certain definitions of surveillance and surveillance society for studying the Internet? * What does it mean to study Internet & surveillance critically? What is a critical theory of Internet surveillance, what are critical studies of Internet & surveillance? What are the ontological, epistemological, methodological, and axiological dimensions of such studies? * What are central aspects of the political economy of surveillance on the Internet? * What is the role of surveillance for "web 2.0" and "social software"? How is surveillance connected with mass self-communication and communication power/counter-power (Manuel Castells) in web 2.0? * What is the role of surveillance on social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook? * How is surveillance used in the Internet economy? What problems are connected to surveillance in the Internet economy? What is the role of surveillance for Internet business models? * How does targeted advertising work as economic mechanism for generating profit? What are the problems that are connected to it? * Presentation and generalization of case studies about how specific Internet platforms (Google, Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, etc) or applications use surveillance and about the connected problems and threats. * How are terms of use and privacy terms designed by Internet corporations in order to enable surveillance? What are the problems and societal implications connected to such practices? * How has surveillance on the Internet changed after 9/11? * Which different legal frameworks for surveillance on the Internet are there (international comparison) and how have they changed after 9/11? * What are the major threats and problems of surveillance on the Internet? * What is to be done in order to solve the problems that are connected to surveillance on the Internet? What is the role of information policies, data protection, governments, governance, civil society, and social movements in this respect? * How do social movements and groups that struggle against the establishment of a "maximum surveillance society" (Clive Norris and Gary Armstrong) make use of the Internet for cyberprotest and cyberactivism? * How do Internet & society have to be designed in order to avoid the emergence of a total surveillance society? Which alternative design principles for Internet & society are needed in this context? What is the role of privacy-enhancing Internet technologies in this context? * Which Internet surveillance technologies are there and how can they be systematically classified? * What is the role of surveillance and surveillance technologies in Internet-based eGovernment and eGovernance? Submission of Structured Abstracts: Please submit structured abstracts for chapter proposals, short author biography/biographies, and your contact details (in a word document) until October 15th, 2009 to Christian Fuchs by email: christian.fuchs at sbg.ac.at. The editors are interested in abstracts for original, unpublished contributions that have not been submitted for consideration in journals or other publications. The abstracts should adhere to the following structured format and should have approximately 650-900 words. (1) Purpose What are the reasons for writing this chapter? Why is the topic important? What are the aims of research? What are the research questions? (2) Approach/Theoretical framework/Design/Methodology How are the objectives achieved? Include the main method(s) used for the research [theory construction is also considered as a method in this context]. What is the approach to the topic and what is the theoretical or subject scope of the paper? (3) Findings What was found in the course of the work? What are the main results presented in the chapter? This will refer to analysis, discussion, or results. (4) Research limitations/implications (if applicable) Suggestions for future research and any identified limitations in the research process. Implications for academic fields, disciplines, state of the art. (4) Practical and societal implications (if applicable) What outcomes and implications for practice, applications and consequences are identified? How will the research impact upon society? How will it influence public attitudes? How could it inform civil society or public or industry policy? What changes to human practices should be made as a result of this research? How might it affect quality of life? Not all chapters must necessarily have practical and societal implications. (5) Originality/value What is new in the paper? How does it differ from and go beyond the state of the art in respective research fields? State the value of the paper and for whom it is relevant. Author short biographies should be approximately 200-300 words and contain information on academic position, institutional affiliation, research interests and topics, major publications, projects, networks, affiliations, roles, etc. Time Schedule October 15, 2009: deadline for the submission of structured abstracts of chapter proposals End of October 2009: notification of authors on acceptance/decline of proposals; submission of the overall proposal, abstracts, author data to Routledge End of November 2009: decision on publication by the publisher End of September 2010: deadline for the submission of full chapters (further details will be announced) End of November 2010: feedback of review comments to the authors End of December 2010: submission of final versions of chapters January 2011: submission of final manuscript to the publisher About the Editors Christian Fuchs is associate professor for ICTs and society at the University of Salzburg, Austria. He is management committee member of the ESF COST Action "Living in Surveillance Society" (LiSS) and member of the LiSS working group "Surveillance Technologies in Practice". Kees Boersma is associate professor for science and technology studies at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He is leader of the working group "Surveillance Technologies in Practice" and management committee member of the ESF Cost Action "Living in Surveillance Societies". Anders Albrechtslund is assistant professor for surveillance and ethics at Aalborg University, Denmark. He is management committee member of the ESF Cost Action "Living in Surveillance Societies" and member of the LiSS working group "Surveillance Technologies in Practice". Marisol Sandoval is research associate at the University of Salzburg, Austria. She is member of the working group "Surveillance Technologies in Practice" of the ESF Cost Action "Living in Surveillance Societies". - - - Priv.-Doz. 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New York: Routledge. http://fuchs.uti.at/?page_id=40 From ForstaterM at umkc.edu Fri Sep 4 10:08:59 2009 From: ForstaterM at umkc.edu (Forstater, Mathew) Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 11:08:59 -0500 Subject: [URPE] undergrad student needing help In-Reply-To: <2f883fa40909031005o79b9afecw91f10ca6bf50ed6@mail.gmail.com> References: <2f883fa40909031005o79b9afecw91f10ca6bf50ed6@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: Dear James You should check out the work of Jessica Gordon Nembhard, who sometimes co-authors on this topic with Curtis Haynes and others. For example: Gordon Nembhard, Jessica, 1999, "Community Economic Development: Alternative Visions for the 21st Century," in _Readings in Black Political Economy_, edited by John Whitehead and Cobie Kwasi Harris, Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company pp. 295-304. Haynes, Jr., Curtis, and Jessica Gordon Nembhard, 1999, Cooperative Economics--A Community Revitalization Strategy," _Review of Black Political Economy_, Vol. 27, Issue 1, pp. 47-72. Gordon Nembhard, Jessica. 2006, "Principles and Strategies for Reconstruction: Models of African American Community-Based Cooperative Economic Development," _Harvard Journal of African American Public Policy_, Vol. 12 (Summer), pp. 39-55. Also, see the contributions in this collection of critical essays focusing on Michael Porter's approach (i.e., "competitive advantage"): Boston, Thomas D., and Catherine L. Ross, eds., 1997, _The Inner City: Urban Poverty and Economic Development in the Next Century_, New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers. Good luck! maat Mathew Forstater, UMKC -----Original Message----- From: urpe-announcements-bounces at lists.econ.utah.edu [mailto:urpe-announcements-bounces at lists.econ.utah.edu] On Behalf Of James Russell Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 12:05 PM To: urpe-announcements at lists.econ.utah.edu Subject: [URPE] undergrad student needing help greetings, i'm an undergraduate student at Texas Christian U in Fort Worth, and an Antiochian (Antioch College) in exile seeking heterodox resources on community economic development. I'm in the beginning stages of a thesis focused on a number of a fields, including political economy, social & economic policy, food access (& the privilege & discrimination of the 'slow food movement' with emphasis on the negative impacts on immigrants to the U.S.). I am an Anthropology/Sociology major, so a qualitative framework is preferred. If anyone needs further info, as I realize that this is broad & perhaps confusing, don't hesitate to email me. in solidarity, -- James M. Russell TCU Anthropology & Sociology 2011 "Another world is not only possible . . . I can hear her breathing." -Arundhati Roy "Given my personality, that's the way it had to be. I'm an evangelist, and I was hunting for a cause." - Loren Pope _______________________________________________ This is the listserve of the Union for Radical Political Economics, an interdisciplinary association devoted to the study, development and application of radical political economic analysis to social problems. This is a moderated announcement-only listserve. For discussion or debate, please use the URPE Blog, the URPE Facebook page, or a different list. See info below. We try to keep the number of messages, and the length of messages, to a minimum. 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