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Another Successful Annual Conference
IIPPE in Brief Issue No. 12
IPPE’s 5th International Conference in Political Economy that took place 16-18 September 2014 at was a great success. The University of Naples L’Orientale hosted some 260 participants from 38 different countries and 5 continents. A diverse range of papers were presented in 71 Panels that ran across the 3 days of the conference. Each day of the conference concluded with a plenary session pertaining to the nature and prospects of the crisis and the possibilities of alternatives. The plenary speakers included prominent academics and activists Anastasia Nesvetailova, Anwar Shaikh, Trevor Evans, Francisco Louça, Hilary ...
Global Capitalism: Selected Essays
The essays in this book, written between 1983 and 2011, examine developments in global capitalism in recent decades from a socialist standpoint. Running through them all is a consistent understanding based on Marx’s critique of political economy: capitalism seen as a global system, with dynamics shaped by the structural opposition between capital and labour, rather than between states and markets.
Call for new members of the FEPS Young Academics Network
The FEPS Young Academics Network was established in March 2009 with an aim to gather promising progressive PhD candidates and young PhD researchers ready to use their academic experience in a debate about the Next Europe. Realised with the support of the Renner Institut in the framework of the FEPS "Next Left" Research Programme, the project has gathered more than 50 members.
This call is being launched with the new (4th) cycle. It is addressed to outstanding, young, European, progressive academics holding a status of either PhD candidates or post-doctoral researchers, who are eager to get involved in the debate about the future of Europe and are ...
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 afternoon session will be led by Simon Mohun, and will continue the morning session with ...
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 queries in relation to this electoral process, please contact elections2014@iippe...
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 IIPPE webpage: Florian Scheafer
9. Creation of central resource space for ...
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 tours and lunches. A detailed programme will be sent to registered participants by ...
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, followed by a critical survey of some contemporary approaches to financial approp...