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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
IIPPE Marxist Political Economy Training Workshop 3: Session 4: Roundtable discussion
http://youtu.be/sq8KITJU3fY
IIPPE Marxist Political Economy Training Workshop 3: Session3: Financial derivatives (Duncan Lindo)
http://youtu.be/tWTxfVPj_lI
IIPPE Marxist Political Economy Training Workshop 3: Session 2: Approaches to financialisation (Samantha Ashman)
http://youtu.be/a1u5fbRZz7w
IIPPE Marxist Political Economy Training Workshop 3: Session 1: Value and Money (Simon Mohun)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2D_KXXLTA0
IIPPE Fourth Marxist Political Economy Training Workshop
Following the success of previous Training Workshops, the International Initiative for the Promotion of Political Economy will run a one-day introductory training workshop in Marxist Political Economy on 6 November 2013 at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, the day before the start of the annual Historical Materialism Conference (also at SOAS).
Materials to download (from the 1st Training Workshop)
Session 1: Value and capital as the basis of the contemporary world financial and economic crisis (Andrew Brown)
Session 2: Capital, Surplus-Value, Exploitation and Accumulation (Simon Mohun)
Session 3: Money, credit and finance (Photis Lysandrou)
Session 4: Development, dependency, imperialism and globalization (Ben Fine)