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IIPPE statement on the crackdown on its members in Turkey

IIPPE Council has been concerned with events in Turkey in the wake of the failed coup. In particular, we condemn the restrictions and pressures that have been placed upon our own members, which have meant that significant numbers have been unable to attend our Annual Conference in Lisbon in September, 2016. We are also disturbed by the potential threat to the health of political economy and political economists in Turkey, and support the efforts of TSSA to sustain its presence in Turkish academic and social life as part and parcel of its more general endeavours to promote social science in Turkey. In this light, IIPPE supports the statement made by ...

IIPPE Training Workshop, 9 November 2016, SOAS, London

In the morning session, (10am to 1pm), Simon Mohun will consider Marxist approaches to the periodisation of a capitalist economy. In the afternoon session (2pm to 5pm) Matthew Eagleton-Pierce will talk about neoliberalism.

IIPPE Training Workshop: Imperialism Today

The International Initiative for Promoting Political Economy (IIPPE) announces a one-day training workshop on imperialism, with the following speakers: Lucia Pradella, Tony Norfield, John Smith and Michael Roberts.

IIPPE Training Workshop: Value and Price

The International Initiative for Promoting Political Economy (IIPPE) announces a one-day training workshop on value and price, surveying and evaluating the different approaches taken in contemporary Marxian economics (including the dualist approach, and those taken by the 'new interpretation', Moseley, the TSSI, Fine and Saad-Filho, and 'rethinking Marxism').

[CfP] Conference 2016 – The political economy of Portugal

The political economy of Portugal: social relations in times of austerity, European integration, and alternatives While Greece and Spain have been in the spotlight of debates about the crisis and alternatives to austerity, the case of Portugal has received far less attention from academia, the media and the left. In 2011, Portugal was the third European country to request an external bailout from the EC, IMF and ECB. The Memorandum of Understanding with the Troika set out to restructure a broad range of social relations in Portugal, and beyond cuts in fiscal expenditure, this was done through alterations in the regime for collective bargaining and ...

[CfP] Conference 2016 – Marxist Political Economy Working Group

International Initiative for Promoting Political Economy (IIPPE) 7th International Conference in Political Economy ‘Political Economy: International Trends and National Differences’ School of Economics & Management, University of Lisbon, Portugal September 7-9, 2016 From 2007 onwards, the world economy is undergoing the most severe and prolonged period of crises and depression in the post-war era, but mainstream economics only reveals its incapability of analysing what is going on, not to mention proposing effective policy prescriptions and alternatives. While Marxist political economy duly attracts much attention in this situation, ...

[CfP] Conference 2016 – Neoliberalism Working Group – Panel on Industrial Policy

IIPPE 7th International Conference in Political Economy ‘Political Economy: International Trends and National Differences’ School of Economics & Management, University of Lisbon, Portugal September 7-9, 2016 Call for Papers: Neoliberalism Working Group – Panel on Industrial Policy ‘Industrial Policy: International Practices and the Rhetoric of Neoliberalism' In many countries “industrial policy” has been banned for several decades from the public debate. For many years it has been labelled as an anachronistic, inefficient and ineffective practice. These were years of anti-government consensus: government was declared "the ...

[CfP] Conference 2016 – Agrarian Change Working Group

IIPPE 7th International Conference in Political Economy ‘Political Economy: International Trends and National Differences’ School of Economics & Management, University of Lisbon, Portugal September 7-9, 2016 Call for Papers: Agrarian Change Working Group ‘Agrarian Political Economy: making sense of land, labour and capital dynamics in times of crisis’ In a year with a strong El Niño, droughts and floods have accentuated the crisis of reproduction and unveiled the fragility of agricultural systems across the globe. The sluggish recovery from the 2007- 2008 financial crisis, the slowing down of Chinese demand and the ...

[CfP] Conference 2016 – Poverty Working Group

The economic crisis that started in 2007 has become the deepest global contraction since the 1930s, and the economic recovery has been the slowest and weakest on record. The costs of the crisis include a wave of unemployment and poverty that has only built on top on already existing pauperised working people. A whole generation, especially the youth, has been blighted by the crisis, which has had devastating consequences for hundreds of millions of people across the world. Austerity policies of unprecedented depth and severity have contributed decisively to this grim picture, and within Europe, Greek and Spanish governments leading the way. The ...

Microeconomics: A Critical Companion

By Ben Fine. Microeconomics: A Critical Companion offers students a clear and concise exposition of mainstream microeconomics from a heterodox perspective. Covering topics from consumer and producer theory to general equilibrium to perfect competition, it sets the emergence and evolution of microeconomics in both its historical and interdisciplinary context.