254 results for author: iippe

[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 economic policies and policy alternatives. Global neoliberalism, international ...

[IIPPE 2014] Economy and Religions in Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

Proposed Panel Call for Papers “Economy and Religions in Historical and Contemporary Perspectives: Crisis of Capitalism, Ethics and Development”.  In light of the challenges that contemporary economy and society launches, this Panel aims to analyzes the primary role played by Religions – especially Christianity, Protestantism and Islam – for the formation of an alternative thought in the context of European history form the sixteenth century to the present day. The study of this topic, means the study of essential elements: such as to illuminate the roots of the concrete-historical and foundational aspects of Ethical Economy characterized ...

[IIPPE 2014] Minerals and Energy Complex and Comparative Industrialisation Working Group

Deadlines for Both Panel Calls 20 March 2014: Deadline for abstracts (maximum of 500 words) to be considered for the proposed panels Abstracts submitted via the electronic form at www.iippe.org before the 1st April may also be considered. Please visit www.iippe.org for further information on the conference including deadlines 1 May 2014: Author notification concerning acceptance 1 September 2014: Deadline for submission of full paper MECCI Panel 1 - Emerging conflicts in response to the crisis in extractive accumulation and Alternatives Submission for internal call: Samantha Ashman (pdf5@uj.ac.za) & Basani Baloyi (bbasibal@yahoo...

[IIPPE 2014] Financialisation and the restructuring of production

Panel proposed for IIPPE 2014 conference Call for papers Lynne Chester & Susan Newman The origins of financialisation have been traced to the 1970s. The literature has illuminated the impact of financialisation on business strategies, for example the shareholder value movement and the shift from patient to impatient capital in investment decision making. Empirical studies of these processes and phenomena, however, have failed to fully reveal their complexity, firm, sector and industry specificity, because they have predominantly been conducted at the macro level and focused upon quantitative dimensions, for example trends in dividend payments ...

IIPPE Sixth Training Workshop

“Marx, Keynes and Economic Crises in the 20th and 21st Centuries” LUBS, 31st of March 2014 (9.00-18.15)  As the end of the current crises and the ensuing policies of austerity are nowhere in sight, discomfort and disconcert with the rigid scholastic dogmatism pervading the discipline of economics is rife. In particular, both the students of economics and the general public are increasingly dissatisfied with the lack of pluralism in the discipline, its teaching and the conventional wisdom following from it. However, economic thinking is not as monolithic as the mainstream of the discipline tends to portray it, and as it can often appear to ...

IIPPE Fifth Training Workshop

“Class” London, 24th and 25th of March 2014. Following the success of previous Training Workshops, the International Initiative for the Promotion of Political Economy will run a two-day introductory training workshop in Marxist Political Economy on class formation and transitions. This will take place on the 24th and 25th of March 2014, at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. The workshop will be led by Henry Bernstein, Adam Hanieh, Alfredo Saad-Filho, and Ben Selwyn. We are seeking an audience of undergraduate and postgraduate students, junior academics and activists, who have a particular interest in acquainting themselves with ...

[IIPPE 2014] Poverty Working Group

The economic crisis that started in 2007 has become the deepest global contraction since the Great Depression, 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 decively to this grim picture, with Greek governments leading the way. The necessary destruc...

[IIPPE 2014] Social Capital Working Group

Call for Papers – Panel organised by Social Capital Working Group The Dark Side of Social Capital: Alternative Ways of Understanding and Confronting Corruption, Distrust and Conflicts Asimina Christoforou, Athens University of Economics and Business Luca Andriani, Birkbeck, University of London Putnamian conceptions of social capital tend to focus on the positive side of associational behaviour. Norms and networks are usually conceived as factors that are naturally and inevitably conducive to protecting social interests by cultivating social cohesion, generalised trust and inclusive networks of heterogeneous social groups. This often ...

[IIPPE 2014] Economic Methodology

5TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE IN POLITICAL ECONOMY  “CRISIS: SCHOLARSHIP, POLICIES CONFLICTS AND ALTERNATIVES”  NAPLES, 16-18 SEPTEMBER 2014 PANEL/STREAM PROPOSAL: ECONOMIC METHODOLOGY Over the last 30 years, there has been an extensive debate within the philosophy of science over the meaning and content of scientific activity. This debate has important implications for both natural and social sciences, including economics – and has resulted in a growing recognition of the importance of methodology in economic discourse. This interest, however, has been confined to economic methodologists and has left the economics profession and the way ...

Plenary II: Political Economy, Activism and Alternative Economic Strategies Outside Europe

Speakers: Peter Alexander, Yuezhi Zhao and Fred Fuentes, 4th Annual IIPPE conference, 11th July 2013 http://youtu.be/tkoIMiUpXl4