[CfP] Conference 2016 – Social Capital Working Group
Social Capital in Context: Crisis, Values and Power
Asimina Christoforou, Athens University of Economics and Business
Luca Andriani, Birkbeck, University of London
Economic models of social capital incorporate cooperative behaviour and trusting relations based on social norms and networks, challenging traditional assumptions of self-interest. Yet these models maintain instrumental, value-free, and individualist principles of rational choice, reducing cooperation, trust and solidarity to a means for satisfying individual preference and ensuring market efficiency. ...
New Book Series – Agenda Publishing
Agenda Publishing are delighted to announce the launch of a new Book Series:
Building Progressive Alternatives, edited by David Coates and Matthew Watson
The purpose of this series is to provide a space for, and to encourage the production of, high quality academic work by economists, political economists and other social scientists united in a common mission: to use their scholarship to create a coherent, credible and progressive economic growth strategy which, when accompanied by an associated set of wider public policies, can inspire and underpin the revival of a ...
1st International Conference in Contemporary Social Sciences
Crisis and the Social Sciences: New Challenges and Perspectives
Rethymno, 10 - 12 June 2016
Researchers from all fields within the social sciences and related scientific disciplines (including economics, political science, psychology, sociology and social anthropology) are invited to participate. Interdisciplinary approaches are particularly welcome. For further information, please see Call for Papers and Topics.
Leeds Conference Plenary Talks
Brett Christophers. The Great Leveler - Capitalism and Competition in the Court of Law
Gary A. Dymski. How to engage with the global crisis - The shape of jazz to come
Johnna Montgomerie. Why Debts Matter: how interdisciplinarity helps us rethink economics
Leda Maria Paulani. The End of Neo-Developmentalism - The Brazilian Experience between 2003 and 2014
Ania Skrzypek. From Rhetoric of Overspending to the Truth about Social Investments. European Next Left in a Search for a New Narrative
Bruno Tinel. FAPE and the Open ...
IIPPE Training Workshop, 4 November, SOAS
The International Initiative for Promoting Political Economy (IIPPE) announces its next Training Workshop at SOAS (Vernon Square campus, Room V111), London on 4 November 2015 (registration from 9.30am). In the morning session, (10am to 1pm), Simon Mohun will survey the Marxist approach to the workings of a capitalist economy. In the afternoon session (2pm to 5pm) Alfredo Saad-Filho will survey Marxist approaches to the theory of crisis.
IIPPE (pre-conference) Training Workshop on the Rate of Profit and Crisis
The International Initiative for Promoting Political Economy (IIPPE) announces a one-day training workshop on the rate of profit and crisis. This will take place on the day before IIPPE’s Annual Conference.
Date and venue: Tuesday 8 September 2015 (9.30am registration opens for prompt 10am start to 5.30pm) at the University of Leeds (room tba)
The workshop will be led by Simon Mohun and Alfredo Saad-Filho, and will focus on the political economy of the rate of profit and crisis, including both theoretical overview and application. As ever, we are seeking an ...
IIPPE Training Workshop on the Political Economy of Finance
The International Initiative for Promoting Political Economy (IIPPE) announces a one-day training workshop on the political economy of finance, financialization and financial crisis.
Date and venue: Monday 22 June 2015 (9.30am registration opens for prompt 10am start to 5.30pm) at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), Vernon Square Campus (Room V111), Vernon Square, Penton Rise, London, WC1X 9EW
The workshop will be led by Simon Mohun and Photis Lysandrou, and will focus on the Marxist theory of finance, contemporary accounts of financialization and the ...
[CfP] Conference 2015 – Africa working group
The recently-established Africa working group aims to promote intellectual and practical exchange between scholars and activists of African political economy, and those in other IIPPE working groups. Many of the most pressing questions and themes concerning Africa’s political economies – including land reform, the politics of resources, the influence of IFIs and econometric methodologies in development policy and academia, the relationship between state, capital and labour, financialisation and the changing and continuous nature of capitalist transformation – open up ...