URPE
at the ASSAs: January 3 – 5, 2002, Washington DC
1) Labor Resistance: Local and Global Contexts.
Jan 3, 8.00am; Convention Center/Room 16
George DeMartino, Graduate School of International Studies, University of Denver, “Organizing the Service Sector: From ‘Labor’ to ‘Stakeholder Unionism.”
Catherine Mulder, Department of Labor Studies, Indiana University at Fort Wayne, “Unions and the Strategy of Class Transformation: The Case of the Broadway Musicians.”
Asatar Bair, Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, “An Economic Analysis of Prison Labor in the United States.”
Stephen Cullenberg, Department of Economics, University of California at Riverside, “Human Development and International Trade: Revenue Effects of a SITS Regime.”
Discussants:
Ramya Vijaya, American University
Robert Buchele, Smith College
Chair:
George DeMartino, Graduate School of International Studies, University of Denver, 2201 S. Gaylord Street, Denver, CO 80208
2) Neoliberalism and the Social Structure of Accumulation
Jan 3, 8.00am, Convention Center/Room 17
Michael Reich, University of California at Berkeley, “The New Economy and the New Inequality: A Social Structure of Accumulation Perspective”
Michele I. Naples, The College of New Jersey, “ Institutionalizing Conflict-Management for Finance and Industry: Movements Towards the Next SSA?”
Marty Wolfson, University of Notre Dame, “Neoliberalism, The Social Structure of Accumulation, and Stages of Capitalism”
David M. Kotz, University of Massachusetts, “Neoliberalism and the SSA Theory of Long-run Capital Accumulation
Terrence McDonough, National University of Ireland, Galway, “ What Does Long Wave Theory Have to Contribute of the Globalization Debate?”
Discussants:
Gerald Dumenil, Seeminaire d’Etudes Marxistes
Bill Fergusn, Grinnell College
Chair:
Marty Wolfson, Department of Econmics, University of NotreDame, South Bend, In 46616
3) Are We in a New Stage of Capitalism/Long Wave?
Jan 3, 10.15am; Convention Center/ Room 16
Gerard Dumenil, Seminaire d’Etudes Marxistes, “The New Phase of Capitalism: Europe Before and After the Structural Crisis of the 1970s”
Mike Best, University of Massachusetts-Lowell, “A New Wave or Technological Fetishism? Lessons from America’s High Tech Districts”
Eduardo da Motta e Albuquerque, Dept of Economics and Cedeplar, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil, “Long Waves and Less-Developed Countries”
Discussant:
Terry McDonough, National University of Ireland, Galway
Chair:
Terry McDonough, Dept of Economics, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
4) New Directions in Gender and International Economics
Jan 3, 10.15am, Convention Center/ Room 17
Elissa Braunstein, Political Economy Research Institute, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, “The Impact of FDI on Women’s Wages and Employment in Semi-Industrialized Countries”
Shaianne T. Osterreich, Ithaca College, “Engendering Uneven Development: The Impact of Gender Wage Differentials on North-South Manufacturing Terms of Trade”
Marzia Fontana, Institute for Development Studies, Sussex, England, “Modelling the Effects of Trade on Women: Bangladesh and Zambia Compared”
Karin Astrid Siegmann, Center for Development Research, University of Bonn, Germany, “Effects of Foreign Direct Investment: Gender-Specific Employment in Indonesia”
Discussant:
Stephanie Seguino, University of Vermont
Chair:
Elissa Braunstein, Political Economy Research Institute, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003
5) Value and the World Economy Today
Jan 3, 2.30pm; Convention Center/ Room 16
Robert Albritton, York University, “The Commodity Form and Subjectivity”
Thomas T. Sekine, Aichi Gakuin University, “What Might We Learn from Value Theory?”
Gerald Dumenil, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, MODEM, Universite Paris-X Nanterre, “Production and Management: Marx’s Theory of Unproductive Labor”
Richard Westra, Pukyong National University, “Globalization: The Retreat of Capital to the ‘Interstices’ of the World?”
Discussants:
Fred Mosley, Mount Holyoke College
Carol Biewener, Simmons College
Chair:
Richard Westra, Division of
International and Area Studies, Pukyong National University, 599-1, Daeyeon
3-Dong, Pusan, 608-737, Republic of Korea
Jan 3, 2.30pm; Convention Center/Room 15
Recession, Inflation and Prospects of Equitable Growth
Presiding: Mieke Meurs, American University
Andrew Glyn, Oxford University—Labor Market Deregulation and European Unemployment
Robert Gordon, Northwestern University—Did the Phillips Curve Survive the Boom of the 1990s
Edmund Phelps, Columbia University—Back to Normalcy, But What Does that Mean?
Robert Pollin, University of Massachusetts-Amherst—The Political Economy of U.S. Unemployment, Inflation and Wage Determination
6) New Perspectives on Volume I of Capital.
Jan 4, 8.00am; Convention Center/Room 16
Fred Moseley, Mount Holyoke College, “Money and Totality: Marx’s Logic in Volume I of Capital.”
Martha Campbell, State University of New York at Potsdam, “Value Objectivity versus Intention in Marx’s Concept of Economic Interaction.”
Riccardo Bellofiore, University of Bergamo, “Luxemburg’s Interpretation of Marx’s Theory of Relative Surplus-Value.”
Discusssants:
Fred Mosely, Mount Holyoke College
Martha Campbell, SUNY Potsdam
Riccardo Bellofiore, University of Bergamo
Chair:
Fred Moseley, Economics Department, Mount Holyoke College,
S. Hadley, MA 01075.
7) New Institutions for a New Global Economy
Jan. 4, 8 am, Convention Center 17
Robert Buchele, Smith College, “Worker Rights and Socio-Economic Performance in the Advanced Capitalist Economies”
Robert E. Scott, Economic Policy Institute, “Globalization and Wages in the Americas”
Christian E. Weller, Economic Policy Institute, Ramya Mahadevan-Vijaya, American University, and Laura Singleton, Economic Policy Institute, “Does More Democracy Lead to Stronger Financial Systems?”
Robert Pollin, PERI, University of Massachusetts-Amherst and James Heintz, PERI, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, “Global Standards, Worker’s Rights and Living Wages”
Discussant:
Thea Lee, AFL-CIO
Chair:
Beth A. Almeida, IAMAW, Economic Policy Institute, 1660 L Street, NW, Suite 1200, Washington, DC 20036
8) New Critiques of Neo-Classical Theory
Jan 4, 10.15am; Convention Center/ Room 16
Frederic S. Lee, University of Missouri-Kansas City, “Neoclassical Microeconomic Theory: Should Heterodox Economists Accord it any Respect?”
John McDermott, State University of New York, “Introducing Positive Time Intervals into Basic Microeconomics”
Jeffrey P. Carpenter, Middlebury College, “Behavioral Marxism: On Human Nature”
Ron Baiman, University of Illinois at Chicago, “Ricardo Turned Upside Down: Why Comparative Advantage Won’t Work Even if All of Ricardo’s Assumptions are Given”
Discusssants:
David Kotz, University of Massachusetts
TBA
Chair:
Frederic S. Lee, Department of Economics, 211 Haag Hall, UMKC, 5100 Rockhill Road, Kansas City, Missouri 64110
9) Contributions to the History of Economic Thought.
Jan 4, 10.15am; Convention Center/Room 17
Steve Shuklian, Department of Finance and Economics, Marshall University, “Game Theory as a Chapter in the History of Economic Thought: Much Ado About Nothing.”
Armando C. Ochangco, University of the Philippines, “Human Development and Its Historical-Institutional Context: Insight from the Writings of Marx.”
Ann Davis, Marist College, “Paradoxes of Property: Historical Shifts and Future Prospects.”
Michael Perelman, Deparment of Economics, California State University–Chico, “Intellectual Property Rights and the Commodity Form: New Dimensions in the Legislated Transfer of Surplus Value.”
Discussants:
Martha Campbell, SUNY-Potsdam
Robert LaJeunesse, SUNY-New Paltz
Chair:
Steve Shuklian, Department of Finance and Economics, Marshall University, 2505 First Avenue, Huntington, WV 25703
10) New Models of Labor Processes and Organization.
Jan 4, 2.30pm; Convention Center/Room16
Bill Ferguson, Department of Economics, Grinnell College. “Worker Motivation with Fair Wages, Effort Comparisons and Turnover Costs.”
Alan Day Haight, Economics Department, Bowling Green State University. “Winner Take-a-Hike Markets: The Arrogant Agent Problem in a Model of Devious Selection.”
Alper Duman, Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts at Amherst. “Trade Unions Against Cooperatives.”
Peter Skott, Department of Economics, University of Aarhus (Denmark).”Norms of Fairness as a Source of Hysteresis in Employment and Relative Wages.”
Discussants:
George DeMartino, University of Denver
Mieke Meurs, American University
Chair:
Bill Ferguson, Department of Economics, Grinnell College, 1210 Park Street, D-3, Grinnell, Iowa 50112-1670.
11) Firm Management, Strategic Behavior and Productivity Outcomes
Jan 4, 2.30pm; Convention Center/ Room 17
Cyrus Bina, University of Minnesota-Morris and Bart D. Finzel, University of Minnesota-Morris, “Strategic Convergence in the Air Transport Industry”
Fred Schiff, University of Houston, “An Oligopoly Model of the Newspaper Industry, 1977-2002”
William T. Ganley, Buffalo State College, “Enron, GE and Veblen’s Theory of Corporate Finance”
Robert M. LaJeunesse, SUNY-New Paltz, “Keeping Labor Productive: How Technology affects Veblen’s Reserve Capacity and Procyclical Productivity”
Discussants:
Michele Naples, The College of New Jersey
Dorene Isenberg, Drew University
Chair:
Cyrus Bina, Economics and Management, University of Minnesota,
Morris, 600 E. 4th Street, Morris, MN 56267
12) Alternative Macroeconomics
Jan 5, 8.30am; Convention Center/Room 16
Rafat Fazeli, University of Redlands, “Natural Rate of Unemployment: An Alternative Approach”
Armagan Gezici, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, “A Keynesian Look at the Role of Expectations in Investment Decisions”
Cuauhtemoc Calderon, Centro de Estudios Socioeconomicos, Leticia Hernandez-Bielma, Centro de Estudios Socioeconomicos, “Determination of the Monetary Supply in Mexico”
Ellen Frank, Emmanuel College, “The International Role of the US Dollar”
Discussants:
Reza Fazeli, California State University-Fullerton
Christopher Gunn, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
13) Political Economy of Africa: Class Gender, and Capitalism
Jan 5, 8.30am; Convention Center/Room 17
Esther Wangari, Towson State University, “Women’s Studies through an African Lens”
Mwangi wa Githinji, Gettysburg College and Stephen E. Cullenberg, University of California, Riverside, “Deconstructing the Peasantry: Class and Development in Rural Kenya ”
Mathew Forstater, University of Missouri-Kansas City, “Taxation: A Secret of Colonial Capitalist (So-Called) ”
Discussants:
Nitasha Kaul, University of Hull
William A. Darity, Jr., University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Derrick Gondwe, Gettysburg College
14) Labor Standards and Foreign Direct Investment
Jan 5, 10.45am; Convention Center/Room 16
Stephanie Seguino, University of Vermont, “Promoting Gender Equality through Labor Standards and Living Wages: An Exploration of the Issues for Semi-Industrialized Economies”
Ramya Vijaya, American University, “Evaluating the Interaction between Labor Productivity Labor Standards and Exports”
Monaco Diane, Manchester College, “Simulating Sweatshop Manufacturing”
Carlos F. Liard-Muriente, University of Massachusetts, “Investment Incentive Programs in Puerto Rico”
Discussants:
Elissa Braunstein, University of Massachusetts
Christian Weller, Economic Policy Institute
Chair:
Stephanie Seguino, University of Vermont, Department of Economics, Old Mill 338, Burlington, VT 05405
15) Gender and Global Human Security
Jan 5, 10.45am; Convention Center/Room 17
Maria Floro, American University, “Macroeconomic Policies, Globalization and Gender: Issues and Challenges in an Era of Declining Economic Security”
Nahid Aslanbeigui, Monmouth University, Gale Summerfield, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, “Gender Equity as a Global Public Good”
Marianne Ferber, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , Carole A. Green, “The Long-Run Effect of Part-Time Work”
Ellen Mutari, Richard Stockton College, “Radical Political Economy and the State: Lessons from Gender Theory”
Discussants:
Shaianne Osterreich, Ithaca College
Esther Wangari, Towson State University
Chair:
Gale Summerfield, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Champaign,
IL: 61820
16) Finance In a Global Context
Jan 5, 1.30pm; Convention Center/Room 16
James Crotty, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, “The Effects of Financialization on Nonfinancial Corporate Performance in the Neoliberal Era”
Ilene Grabel, University of Denver, “ Predicting Financial Crisis: Astronomy or Astrology”
G.C. Harcourt, Emeritus, Cambridge University, and Jan Toporowski, South Bank University “The Lender of Last Resort and Capital Market Stability”
Dorene Isenberg, Drew University, “The Emergence of Financial De-Regulations in the United States: For Whom? When? What? And Why?”
Discussants:
Teresa Ghilarducci, University of Notre Dame (Grabel)
Noemi Levy, Autonomous University of Mexico (Harcourt and
Toporowski)
Rob Parentau, Dresdner RCM Global Investors (Crotty)
Martin Wolfson, University of Notre Dame (Isenberg)
Chair:
Dorene Isenberg, Drew University, 147 Morris Ave., Summit, NJ 07901
17) Research on International Political Economy
Jan 5, 1.30pm; Convention Center/ Room 17
Jason Hecht, Ramapo College of New Jersey and John Sarich, New York City Council, “Capital Flows, Profitability and the Stock Market: Some International Evidence”
Anwar Shaikh, New School University and Jamee K. Moudud, Sarah Lawrence College, “Alternative Measures of Capacity Utilization: An International Comparison”
Esteban Perez, UN ECLAC, “Special and Differential Treatment in Trade Agreements and its Impact on Small Developing Economies”
Discussants:
Mwangi wa Githinji, Gettysburg College
David Laibman, Brooklyn College
Jim Devine, Loyola Marymount Collect
Chair:
Mathew Forstater, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Dept Of Economics, Haag 211, UMKC, Kansas City, MO 64110