Council Meeting Minutes (September 2014)


Annual General Meeting (Naples, 2014)


IIPPE Training Workshop (November 2014, London)

Following its very successful Training Workshop in Naples in September, the International Initiative for the Promotion of Political Economy (IIPPE) has decided to repeat the Workshop on Wednesday 5 November 2014 at the Vernon Square campus of the School of Oriental and African Studies in London from 9.45am to 5pm. The morning session will be given by Marco Veronese Passarella, and will focus on the development of the labour theory of value through Smith, Ricardo and Marx, including a summary of Marx’s account of the formation of prices of production. The aftern...

Read More


IIPPE Election Results

The following candidates have been elected to the following bodies: Executive Committee: Chair: Ben Fine Vice Chair: Susan Newman Treasurer: Kate Bayliss General Secretary: Dimitris Milonakis Council: Abelardo Mariña Flores Alfredo Saad-Filho Bruno Tinel Heesang Jeon Lucia Pradella Niels Hahn Simon Mohun The detailed voting tally can be found here. IIPPE full members may also access it by following the link and instructions contained in the email that was recently sent through the Helios online voting system. For any questions, complaints or ...

Read More


Membership Meeting Agenda – Naples Conference

NAPLES IIPPE CONFERENCE 2014 IIPPE MEMBERSHIP MEETING AGENDA ROOM T.1, WEDNESDAY, 18:30-20:30 1. IIPPE Officers Elections Results: Dimitris Milonakis 2. Report on the Naples Conference: Al Campbell, Pietro Masina 3. 2015 IIPPE Leeds Conference: Nina Kaltenbrunner 4. IIPPE Working Groups and activities between conferences: Susan Newman and Ben Fine 5. IIPPE Training Workshop: Simon Mohun 6. IIPPE finances: Ben Fine, Kate Bayliss 7. IIPPE/Pluto Press book series in ‘Political Economy and Development”: Ben Fine, Dimitris Milonakis 8. IIPPE and social media and ...

Read More


Financialisation Working Group Social Hub

The Financialisation Working Group (FWG) will be presenting at the IIPPE Conference 2014 in Naples a record of 62 papers and 17 panels. Reviewing these panels and papers, we have noticed that many dimensions of financialisation have been addressed, such as the impact of finance on public finance, banking, state, housing, wages, emerging economies, global finance, the Eurozone, crisis, food, agriculture, gender, production, social reproduction and so on. The variety of subjects is exciting and gives us the opportunity to discuss several aspects of political economy with ...

Read More


Social Programme Registration

For the three days following the Fifth Annual Conference in Political Economy, IIPPE has organised a social programme with the idea to provide a space where people can meet and discuss their research in a relaxed informal environment. A meeting can mean sharing feedback and new insights and result in future research collaboration. The social programme will include trips to the archaeological site in Pompeii, to Procida, one of the islands of the Gulf surrounding Naples, and the Vesuvius crater. Each participant must pay for their own expenses, such as transport, guided ...

Read More


IIPPE Training Workshops

Continuing its Training Workshops programme, the International Initiative for the Promotion of Political Economy (IIPPE) announces TWO forthcoming training workshops. 1. Monday June 9 at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London: a one-day workshop on The Political Economy of Finance. Confirmed speakers include Simon Mohun and Tony Norfield. The morning will focus on productive and unproductive labour, and then what Marx had to say about interest and the rate of interest. The afternoon will focus on the relevance of the contribution of Hilferding, f...

Read More


[IIPPE 2014] Neoliberalism Working Group

Call for Papers for 5th IIPPE Conference 16-18 September 2014 (University of Naples, Italy) Alfredo Saad Filho (SOAS, University of London, UK) Kean Birch (York University, Toronto, Canada) The theme of the 5th IIPPE Conference is “Scholarship, Policies, Conflicts and Alternatives” (seehttp://iippe.org/wp/). Neoliberalism occupies a central position within this field, and the IIPPE Neoliberalism Working Group will be organising a stream of papers for presentation at the Conference. Submissions are invited on and around the following areas: Neoliberal ...

Read More


[IIPPE 2014] Financialisation Working Group

CfPs IIPPE Financialisation Working Group The Fifth Annual Conference in Political Economy. Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”, Naples, Italy  16 to 18 September, 2014   Over the last three decades developed and developing economies have gone through significant structural transformations under the ever increasing influence of finance. In critical political economy, the resultant mode of accumulation, and its corresponding social effects, have been analysed under the heading of financialisation and neoliberalism.  Whether the financial ...

Read More