Third IIPPE International Research Workshop

Workshop Programme

Date: 14 September 2009 Time: 8:45 AM
Finishes: 15 September 2009 Time: 5:30 PM
Venue: Ankara, Turkey
Type of Event: Workshop

Plenary: Workshop Welcome

Galip Yalman, Dimitris Milonakis and Pietro Masina

Plenary: Ben Fine – Fixing the Crisis

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

Session coordinator: Aylin Topal
Discussant: Susan Newman

Daniela Tavasci: The Political Economy of External Debt in Argentina
Ali Riza Guengen: Fictitious Capital Speculation and Financialisation: Critical Moments of Instability, Crisis and Intervention in the Turkish Experience
Jaime Marques Pereira: Money, Coordination and Systemic Risk in the 2001/2002 Argentinian Crisis and in the Present World Crisis
Nilgun Erdem: Financial Crises and New Patterns of Dependency in the Turkish Economy
Alessandro Vercelli: A Perspective on Minsky Moments: The Core of Financial Instability Hypothesis in the Light of the Subprime Crisis

Session 2A: Addressing Water

Session coordinator: Kate Bayliss

Robin de la Motte: Towards a socio-political ecology
Vasna Ramasar: Power and Politics in the Water Game: The Role of the South African State in the Historical Trajectory of Southern Africa’s Shared Rivers
Mine Islar: Crisis of Water: Interrogating Neo-Liberal Water Discourses in Turkey

Session 3A: Labour 1

Session coordinator: Bruno Tinel

Bruno Tinel: The Positive Contribution of Braverman on the Labour Process in Understanding Today’s Capitalism
Ozguen Sarimehmet Duman: Working Class Resistance to the State’s Labour Market Deregulation Policies: Greece vs Turkey
Valentina Prosperi: Labour Relations in the Construction Sector: A Case Study from Delhi

Session 1B: Neoliberalism 1

Session coordinator: Alfredo Saad-Filho
Discussant: Dae-Oup Chang

Bernd Mueller: Agrarian Commercialisation and Transition to Capitalist Agriculture in Rural Tanzania: Limitations of the Neo-liberal Perspective
Eser Pirgan: The Influence of International Institutions on Planning in Turkey in the Neo-Liberal Era
Sebnem Oguz: The Response of the Turkish State to the 2008 Crisis: A Further Step towards Neoliberal Authoritarian Statism
Janis Berzins: The Latvian disease: Neoliberalism and the development of underdevelopment

Session 2B: Finance 2

Session coordinator: Nurey Erguenes
Discussant: Alessandro Vercelli

Julian Mueller: Substance and Governance of International Accounting Regulation and the Dominance of Capital as Money
George Lambrinidis: The Evolution of the US Dollar as Quasi World Money
Jo Michell: Investment-Driven Credit Creation in the People’s Republic of China
Susan Newman: Systematised Capital Flight in South Africa
Sam Ashman: Finance, Accumulation and the Crisis in South Africa

Plenary: Political Economy in Time of Crisis: Taking IIPPE Forward

Roundtable Discussion

Session 1C: Labour 2

Session coordinator: Bruno Tinel

Umut Bozkurt: ‘We Are in the Same Boat’: Making Sense of Labour’s Politics of Consensus in Turkey in the Context of the Global Crisis
Adam Hanieh: Migrant Labour, Class Formation and the Geographical Displacement of Crisis: A Case Study of the Gulf Cooperation Council
Yasemin Oezguen and Oezguer Mueftueoglu: Turkish Unions in the face of the Crisis of Capitalism

Session 2C: Capitalism, Conflict, Crisis 1

Session coordinator: Pietro Masina

Adam Fabry: Reflecting unevenness – Hungary and the global economy since 1989
Koray Yilmaz: Crises in Turkish Capitalism and Individual Capitals as Invisible Gorgons of Crises
Alexandre Abreu: Migration, development and the “articulation of modes of production”
Giovanni, Bettini: Multidimensional Mobility – Politics of Place and People
Lorenzo Fusaro: Economic Downturns, Crises and Hegemonic Transitions: What is the Relevance of Economic Downturns and Crises for Hegemonic Transitions? An Overview of Different Perspectives

Session 3C: Finance 3

Session coordinator: Alessandro Vercelli

Ferda Doenmez Atbasi: Liberalized Capital Markets and Volatility
Annina Kaltenbrunner: Liquidity and Exchange Rate Dynamics in Brazil
Luigi Ventimiglia: The political economy of exchange rate in Peru
Eugenia Pires: Migrant Remittances: A Marxist Political Economy Approach
Gökçer Özgür and Hüseyin Özel: Can ‘Double Movement’ Explain Globalization and Its Crisis?

Plenary: Turkish Political Economy and the Political Economy of Turkey

Convenor: Galip Yalman Participants: Erol Taymaz (METU), Erinc Yeldan (Bilkent University), Korkut Boratav (TSSA)

Session 1D: Heterodoxy

Session coordinator: Dimitris Milonakis

George Soklis: Alternative Value Bases and Prices: Evidence from the Input-Output Tables of the Swedish Economy / Full text is not available. The paper is to be published in Journal of Applied Input-Output Analysis (Accepted in February 2010)
Stephane Longuet: Norms and Cognation in Individualist Theories of Democracy
Nikolaos Rodousakis: Goodwin’s Lotka-Volterra Model in Disaggregative Form: A Note

Session 2D: Finance 4

Session Convenor: Pinar Bedirhanoglu
Discussant: Annina Kaltenbrunner

Aurelian Beleau: Optimal Tax Theory and Macroeconomics
Juan-Pablo Painceira: The Financial Crisis of 2007-2009 and Emerging Countries: The Political Economy of Central Banks in the Brazilian and Korean Economies
Nurey Erguenes: Transformation of the Turkish Banking Sector within the Financialisation Process of the Turkish Economy
Elif Karacimen: Financialisation of the Turkish Economy: The Implications of the Transformation of Traditional Banking Sector Activities

Session 3D: Capitalism, Conflict, Crisis 2

Session Convenor: Dae-Oup Chang

Heesang Jeon: Cognitive Capitalism or Cognition in Capitalism?: A Critique of Cognitive Capitalism Theory
Gong Gimm: Marx as Global Thinker?: The Evolution of the Concept of the World Market and Its Place in Broader Intellectual Context
Romain Felli: International Law, Climate Change and Carbon Imperialism