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This is the schedule for the Conference in Cambridge that I am attending next week. If there are sessions that interest you and you want a report or further information, please say so and I will see if I can't get it for you.

Association for Heterodox Economics 10th Anniversary Conference Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, Thursday 3rd-Sunday 6th July, 2008

Programme of Events

Thursday 3rd July

Association for Heterodox Economics, 10th Anniversary Conference Anglia Ruskin University, 3rd-6th July, 2008

AHE CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

Friday 4th July Panel Session 1 9.00am-10.30am

Panel A: Financial Markets Venue: Hel 251

• Financial developments and Post-Keynesian economic growth: advancing theoretical and empirical grounds, Taha Chaiechi;
• The political economy of meritocracy: A Post-Kaleckian, Post-Olsonian approach to unemployment and income inequality in modern varieties of capitalism, Arne Heise;
• Pedagogical Lessons from the Financial Crisis: The need for Pluralism, Maria Alejandra Caporale Madi and Jack Reardon

Chair: Stuart Wall

Panel B: Welfare and Rationality Venue: Hel 252

• Redistributive impact of public policies in Turkey, Özlem Albayrak;
• A reformulation of the foundations of welfare economics, Randall G. Holcombe;
• Inheritance and the intention to bequeath: an examination of different aspects of intergenerational wealth transfers, Martin Schürz.

Chair: Ioana Negru

Panel C: Ecological Economics I Venue: Hel 251

• Growth dynamics, social inequalities and environmental quality: an empirical analysis applied to developing and transition countries, Matthieu Clément and André Meunié;
• Whither sustainable development? A Post-Keynesian perspective, Eric Berr;
• The relations between ecological economics and political ecology, Joan Martinez-Alier.

Chair: Ali Douai

Panel D: Marxian Economics and Money Venue: Hel 118

• Marx, subjugated banking and an emerging corporate monetary system, Simon Mouatt;
• Money, credit and state: Post-Keynesian theory of credit money and chartalism, Atsushi Naito.

Chair: Brian Roper Discussant: Michael J. Murray

Panel E: Economic History and Adam Smith Venue: Hel 106/107

• Systemic decline in British shipping 1870-1960, Greg Clydesdale;
• “I have little faith in political arithmetic”, Hugh Goodacre;
• Variations on a theme by Adam Smith: Culture, creativity and innovation in the internet age, Alan Freeman.

Chair: Alan Shipman

Friday 4th July Panel Session 2 13.30pm-15.00pm

Panel A: Ecological and Environmental Issues Venue: Hel 110/111

• Environmental policy in Turkey: an Institutionalist critique, Selin Efşan Nas, Eyüp Özveren and Emre Özçelik;
• The insurance value of biodiversity: effects of genetic diversity versus high-productivity crops on long-term agricultural performance, Sylvie Geisendorf;
• Migration and ecological consequences, V. P. Raghavan.
• Limitations in Orthodox Economic Analysis of Urban Reality, Shann Turnbull

Chair: Joel Magnuson

Panel B: Teaching Heterodox Economics Venue: Hel 251

• Explaining Mainstream Economics’ insistence on mathematics, Vinca Bigo;
• Comparative versus competitive advantage: how the Mainstream got that way, Alan Shipman;
• Mainstream Economics: searching where the light is, Rogier de Langhe.

Chair: Jeffrey David Turk

Panel C: Globalisation and Economic Cycles Venue: Hel 115

• Globalisation and the upward long wave, Bill Jefferies;
• Long cycles, long waves and expansionary phases, Keith Hassell.

Chair: Alan Griffiths Discussant: Arturo Hermann

Panel D: Consumption Theory Venue: Hel 252

• (Quasi) scarcity and global hunger: a sociological critique of the scarcity postulate with an effort to synthesis, Adel Daoud;
• Context and choice: a pluralistic approach to consumer behaviour, Peter E. Earl and Tim Wakeley;
• An evolutionary perspective on the economics of energy consumption: the crucial role of habits, Kevin Maréchal.

Chair: Josef Baum

Panel E: Marxian Economics I Venue: Hel 118

• Pasinetti, Marx and simple commodity production, Andrew B. Trigg;
• Valuation in the presence of stocks of commodities: exploring the temporal single system interpretation of Marx, Nick Potts;
• Dependency theory: How valid is it today? Amit Jyoti Sen.

Chair: Julian Wells

Panel F: Russian Roundtable I: Economic Problems and the Energy-Ecological Shift of the 21st Century Venue: Hel 106/107

• Presentation of the Part IV of a global forecast up to 2050s: “The Energy-Ecological Future of Civilizations”, Yakovets, YU V;
• Shaping national policies at the time of global technological change, Glazyev, S.Yu;
• The technological shift at the start of the 21st Century, Badalian L.

Chair: Victor Krivotorov

Friday 4th July Panel Session 3 15.30pm-17.00pm

Panel A: Green Economics and Ethics Venue: Hel 110/111

• Will climate change enforce global justice – the turning point for the North-South divide, Josef Baum;
• Mindful Ecology and Economy, Joel C. Magnuson;
• The political economy of the human right to water, Manuel Couret Branco and Pedro Damião Henriques.

Chair: Bronwen-Ann Rees

Panel B: Philosophical Debates I Venue: Hel 115

• Socialism, knowledge and the instrumental valuation principle, Andrew Cumbers and Robert McMaster;
• Traction in the world: economics and narrative interviews, Jeffrey David Turk.
• Capital Accumulation in less developed countries, Prabirjit Sarkar.

Chair: Bill Jefferies

Panel C: Book Discussion: Full Employment Abandoned: Shifting Sands and Policy Failures, William Mitchell and Joan Muysken Venue: Hel 251

• The abandonment of full employment: why sovereign governments have a choice, William Mitchell and Joan Muysken;
• Relevance of the book for economic policies in the integrated EMU with a common currency, Philip Arestis;
• Relevance of book for understanding ‘innocent frauds’ in modern policy making and how full employment and price stability can be achieved, Warren Mossler.

Chair: Mark Hayes

Panel D: Marxian Economics II Venue: Hel 106/107

• An instrumental approach to political economics, M. J. Murray;
• Cosmopolitan social democracy: a Marxist critique, Brian S. Roper.

Chair: Simon Mouatt Discussant: Gary Mongiovi

Panel E: Ecological Economics II Venue: Hel 118

• An inquiry on power and ecological economics, Bengi Akbulut and Ceren Ilkay Soylu;
• Are we ready to understand individuals and organizations as political actors? Peter Söderbaum;
• The ontology of environmental values: the contribution of historical institutionalism to (socio-) ecological economics, Ali Douai and Matthieu Montalban.

Chair: Martha A. Starr

Saturday 5th July Panel Session 4 9.00am-10.30pm

Panel A: Ethics in Economics Venue: Hel 118

• Towards an understanding of organizational transformation through ethical enquiry, Bronwen Rees and John Wilson;
• Cohen’s interpretation of Rawls’ theory of justice: an integration of mainstream in welfare economics, Tarrit Fabien;
• Philosophy of measurement of inequality: plural approaches in economics, David Vázquez-Guzmán.

Chair: Martin Schürz

Panel B: Philosophical Debates II Venue: Hel 251

• John Dewey’s theory of democracy and its links with the heterodox approach to economics, Arturo Hermann;
• Process philosophy and the critique of critical realism, James Juniper;
• The Althusserian challenge in retrospect and prospect, Erik Olsen.

Chair: Tony Lawson

Panel C: Finance and Methodology Venue: Hel 106/107

• Aspiration paradox in micro-finance: a difficulty and an opportunity, Wendy Olsen;
• The state of economic heterodoxy in research on the financial sector fragility and bank failures in Africa, Radha Upadhyaya;
• From credit crunch to depression, Brian Grogan.

Chair: Maria Alejandra Caporale Madi

Panel D: Institutionalism Venue: Hel 252

• Economics and historical specificity: a study in comparative analytics, Valentin Cojanu;
• Are conventions solutions? Contrasting visions of the relationship between convention and uncertainty, John Latsis.
• Flexicurity capitalism, Peter Flaschel and Sigrid Luchtenberg.

Chair: Jack Reardon Discussant: Ceren Soylu

Panel E: Ecological Economics III Venue: Hel 110/111

• Debated universes and environmental conventions, Valérie Boisvert and Franck-Dominique Vivien;
• Environmental conventions: the case of agriculture, Clarisse Cazals;
• “Toward partial reorientation of Land Management for Sustainability in view of material circulation”, Sylvie Ferrari, Kozo Mayumi and Atsushi Tsuchida.

Chair: Miriam Kennet

Saturday 5th July Panel Session 5 13.30pm-15.00pm

Panel A: Pluralism in Economics Venue: Hel 251

• Economics and the real world: students’ perceptions of economics and the role of heterodoxy in changing them, Andrew Mearman, Tim Wakeley and Gamila Shoib;
• Pluralism and green economics, Ioana Negru;
• Withering pluralism in Germany: Heterodox economics after five years of the post-autistic movement in Germany, Thomas Dürmeier.

Chair: Rogier DeLanghe

Panel B: Finance and Inflation in Latin America Venue: Hel 106/107

• The present Argentine inflation. The need of an heterodox vision to analyze its causes and specificities, Juilo Eduardo Fabris, Pablo Julio Lopez and José Villadeamigo;
• The Bank of Brazil: the path since the mid-90s, Rogerio Andrade and Simone Deos;
• A macroeconomic analysis of inflation and stagflation in less developed economies, Hamid Nazeman.

Chair: Arne Heise

Panel C: Markets and Firms Venue: Hel 110/111

• On companies’ microeconomic objectives; profit rate versus pure profit, Louis de Mesnard;
• Markets, prices and market power, Thomas Lines.

Chair: Carmen Costea Discussant: Steve Keen

Panel D: Marxian and Sraffian Approaches Venue: Hel 118

• Towards a generalized Marxian approach: a synthesis of heterodox economic approaches, Takashi Satoh;
• The capital controversy in historical perspective, Gary Mongiovi.

Chair: Steven Pressman Discussant: Simon Mouatt

Panel E: Ecological Economics IV Venue: Hel 252

• The social construction of normal standards in consumption, Inge Ropke;
• Global warming and high consumption: habits, needs and social values, Martha A. Starr;
• The environmental impacts of changing consumption patterns: evidence from Turkey, Bëgum Ozkaynak, Fikret Adaman and Unal Zenginobuz.

Chair: Sylvie Ferrari

Sunday 6th July Panel Session 6 9.30am-11.00am

Panel A: Russian Roundtable II: Economic Problems and the Energy-Ecological Shift of the 21st Century Venue: Hel 252

• Return to the Classical paradigm: the theory of Coenoses: Malthusianism with a Schumpeterian twist, Krivotorov V.;
• Sustainable global development and the principle of self-organization of complex systems, Chistilin, D.;
• Technology and psychology: a mechanism of anthropogenic crises, Nazaretyan, A.

Chair: Lucy Badalian

Panel B: Challenges to Neoclassical Economics Venue: Hel 110/111

• Anti-empiricism in economics: the case of Neoclassical axiomatism, Tamás Dusek;
• Pluralism about rationality in economics: theories as tools, C. Tyler Des Roches and Thomas Wells.
• Neoclassical Economics: determinism, choice and agency, Fran Smith.

Chair: João Rodrigues

Panel C: Theory of the Firm Venue: Hel 106/107

• Marshall’s theory should be discarded, Steve Keen and Carmen Costea;
• Prices and price strategies, James Case;
• Mexican multinational firm expansion: A heterodox microeconomic analysis, Gustavo Vargas.

Chair: Colin Richardson

Panel D: Post-Keynesian Economics Venue: Hel 118

• A critique of Post-Keynesian economics applied to the political economy of the Euro zone, Riccardo Bellofiore and Joseph Halevi;
• A Post-Keynesian approach to microeconomic policy, Steven Pressman;

Chair: Andrew Trigg Discussant: Giuseppe Fontana

Panel E: Doctoral Students’ Contributions (poster session) Venue: Hel 115

Contributors: Shira D. Jones, Alicia Giron, Vanessa da Costa Val Munhoz.

Chair: David Vázquez-Guzmán

Sunday 6th July, 11.30- 13.00 pm Panel Session 2

Panel A: Austrian Economics and Markets Venue: Hel 118

• Drawing the line: Mises, Hayek and the antinomies of neoliberalism, João Rodrigues;
• Computer grids and the catallaxy paradigm, Colin Richardson;

Chair: Randall Holcombe Discussant: Andy Denis

Panel B: Book Session: “Mindful Economics: Understanding American Capitalism, Its Consequences and Alternatives” by Joel Magnuson Venue: Hel 252

Contributors: Joel Magnuson, Alan Griffiths, Bronwen Rees.

Chair: Valentin Cojanu

Panel C: Ecological Economics VI: Final Roundtable Venue: Hel 251

Contributors: Joan Martinez-Alier, Miriam Kennet, Begüm Özkaynak, Martha A. Starr, Franck-Dominique Vivien, Peter Söderbaum, Ali Douai

Chair: Andrew Mearman

Panel D: Book Session: ‘Reclaiming Marx’s “Capital”: A Refutation of the Myth of Inconsistency’ by A. Kliman Venue: Hel. 110/111

Contributors: Andrew Kliman, Ioana Negru, Alan Freeman, Andrew Trigg

Chair: Erik Olsen

Panel E: Teaching Heterodox Economics II Venue: Hel 106/107

• Why do mainstream economists lie to students? Michael Joffe;
• Minds and Markets: Challenges to heterodox teaching in contemporary Brazil, Maria Alejandra Caporale Madi and Ricardo Gonçalves.

Chair: Jeffrey D. Turk Discussant: Alan Shipman