Second IIPPE International Research Workshop

The Second International IIPPE research workshop was held in Italy in September 2008. This was organised by L’Orientale University of Naples and brought together more than 70 participants from over 10 countries. Over 40 papers were presented, including 30 by research students and other young colleagues. 12 parallel sessions were held, of which six were closely associated with longer standing IIPPE Working Groups (three for finance, two for neoliberalism, and one for commodity studies) and three were related to newly formed Working Groups (developmental state, heterodoxy, and labour). The other three sessions covered the state, Marx and macroeconomics, each of which has strong synergies with continuing IIPPE activity. The workshop brought together young heterodox and Marxist researchers including academics and activists from the UK, Greece, Italy and Turkey. The workshop highlighted both diversity and common interests among young researchers, demonstrated the enthusiasm and need for IIPPE among upcoming scholars across the social sciences. The workshop was not only hard work and fruitful discussions but also a chance to develop social relations and get to know each other better over the culinary and touristic highlights offered by the stunning island setting.

Workshop Programme

Date: 10 September 2008 Time: 10:30 AM
Finishes: 12 September 2008 Time: 5:30 PM
Venue: Procida – Naples
Type of Event: Workshop

Session 1A: Beyond the Developmental State

Session coordinator: Pietro Masina

Fine, Ben: Beyond the Developmental State
Chang, Kyung-Sup: Against Neoliberalism in the Disguise of Developmental Statism: Candlelight Democracy in South Korea
Ikpe, Eka: The changing form of the Developmental State Paradigm – The role of the state in the current globalisation age
Pezzano, Antonio: Developmental local government: Disabused policy ambitions of the local state reform in South Africa?

Session 1B: Finance 1: Exploitation, Capital Markets and Marxist Theory

Session coordinator: Juan Pablo Painceira

dos Santos, Paulo: Capital Markets, Financial Mediation and Marxist Theory
Toporowski, Jan: Class, Savings and Financial Instability
Mohamed, Seeraj: The impact of the conflation of economic and corporate governance goals on economic development in South Africa

Session 2A: State

Session coordinator: Cristina Ercolessi

Ankarloo, Daniel: The dualities of the Swedish welfare model
Barak, Reut: Game Theory and the role of the Chinese central government in managing transboundary water resources
Gutierrez, Andriei: Middle class and State in Brazil in the nineties
Hahn, Niels: The Neocolonial State in the Age of Globalisation

Session 2B: Marx

Session coordinator: Paulo dos Santos

Ashman, Sam: The Primitive Accumulation, Accumulation by Dispossession, and Marxist Political Economy
Jeon, Heesang: Korean debate on the value of software and knowledge labour
Pradella, Lucia: Capitalist Development and Imperialism in Marx’s Capital

Session 3A: Labour

Session coordinator: Elisabetta Basile

Brown, Andrew and David Spencer: The Political Economy of Job Quality
Mezzadri, Alessandra: The informalisation of labour as a ‘state practice’: Evidence from the Indian garment sector
Miyamura, Satoshi: Political Economy of Labour Market Institutions and Implications for Developing Countries: from the Debates in India
Tinel, Bruno: Sub-contracting analysis based on French industry data
Smith, John: Offshoring, outsourcing and the “global labour arbitrage”

Session 3B: Finance 2: Capital Flows, Monetary Regimes and Contemporary Imperialism

Session coordinator: Paulo dos Santos

Painceira, Juan Pablo: Developing countries in the Era of Financialisation: From Deficit Accumulation to Reserve Accumulation
Kaltenbrunner, Annina: An Alternative View of Exchange Rate Dynamics in Emerging Markets: the Case of Brazil
Lamprinidis, George: Post-War Theories of World Money
Ayhan, Berkay: A Critical Approach to CB Independence

Session 4A: Neo-liberalism 1: Strategies of Class Rule

Session coordinator: Alfredo Saad-Filho

Campbell, Al: Reformism and the Politics of the Left in the Age of Neo-Liberalism
Yalman, Galip: Discourse and Practice of Poverty Reduction Strategies: Reflections on the Recent Experience in Turkey
Adduci, Matilde: Neoliberalism and Class Reproduction in India: The Political Economy of Privatisation in the Mineral Sector in the Indian State of Orissa

Session 4B: Heterodoxy

Session coordinator: John Marangos

Abreu, Alexandre: Orthodoxy and heterodoxy in migration theory
Astroulakis, Nikos: Development Ethics as a Means of Redefining Development
Christoforou, Asimina: Social Capital: A Path to a More Pluralistic Economics or Another Manifestation of Neoclassical Prominence?

Session 5A: CSWG

Session coordinator: Susan Newman

Fine, Ben: Global Value Chains: It Ain’t Global, It Ain’t Value, and Set Me Free
Newman, Susan: The new price makers: an investigation of the extent to which speculative actors on commodities exchanges drive price behaviour
Pons-Vignon, Nicolas: Looking at Globalisation From Below: Outsourcing of Forestry Work in South Africa

Session 5B: Macroeconomics

Session coordinator: John Marangos

Bozani, Vaso: Monetary Factors, Capital Accumulation and Employment: a post- Keynesian- Kaleckian model
Dafermos, Yannis: Finance, Inflation and Employment in a Post Keynesian Model

Session 6A: Neo-liberalism 2: Neoliberal Economic Policies