URPE AT EEA SCHEDULE
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25
7:45 a.m. Conference L
THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF MIGRATION: STATELESSNESS AND DEVELOPMENT
Session Chair: Alex Julca, United Nations Development Policy and Analysis Division
Alex Julca, The End of Outward-Looking Development Strategies? Remittances, Migration and Other Panaceas of Our Time
Ilene Grabel, University of Denver. Economies of Statelessness: A Livelihoods Analysis.
Maureen Lynch, Refugees International; Brad K. Blitz, International Observatory on Statelessness
International Governance of Migration.
Colleen Thouez, United Professor, School of International Service, American University and Senior Advisor, UNITAR Exploitation of Migrant Laborers, Direct Action and Remittances: 2005-2010.
Immmanuel Ness, Brooklyn College/CUNY Graduate Center. Economic and Border Walls.
Alex Julca, United Nations Development Policy and Analysis Division
Discussants: Alex Julca, Sara Dustin, University of New Hampshire at Manchester; Julio Huato, St. Francis College; Xiao Jiang, New School for Social Research;
9:30 a.m. Riverside Ballroom
THE EMPLOYER OF LAST RESORT APPROACH TO FULL EMPLOYMENT: ANALYSES AND APPLICATIONS
Session chair: Philip Harvey, Rutgers University Law School and National Jobs for All Coalition
Philip Harvey, Minsky’s Big Bank and Big Government Program: A Radical Proposal?
Fadhel Kaboub, Denison University Simulating the Employer of Last Resort Approach in Dynamic Capitalist Economies.
Michael J. Murray, Central College. Comparing the Employer of Last Resort to Traditional Fiscal Policies Using an Augmented Minskian-Kaleckian Model.
Pavlina Tcherneva, Franklin & Marshall College. Red/Black/Green Jobs: Reflections on ELR and Marxism, Racism, and the Environment.
Mathew Forstater, University of Missouri at Kansas City
Discussants: Avi Baranes, Denison University; Leanne Ussher, Queens College; Ed Nell, New School for Social Research; Philip Harvey
11:15 a.m. Conference L
UNEMPLOYMENT AND FINANCIAL INSTABILITY IN CAPITALIST ECONOMIES
Session chair: Ed Nell, New School for Social Research
Ed Nell, The Aggregate Demand-Employment Disconnect.
Deepankar Basu, University of Massachusetts Amherst; Duncan Foley, New School for Social Research. Financial Fragility Radar Detector: A Financial Meltdown Prevention Plan
Bernard Chen, Denison University. A Minskian Analysis of the Evolution of the Shadow Banking System
Avi Baranes, Denison University. Cost of Job Loss and the Great Recession
Aaron Pacitti, Siena College
Discussants: Phillip Harvey, Rutgers University and National Jobs for All Coalition; Ed Nell, Armagan Gezici, Keene State College; Immmanuel Ness, Brooklyn College/CUNY Graduate Center
11:15 a.m. Riverside Ballroom
MARXIST THEORY I: MONEY, FINANCE, AND FINANCIALIZATION
Session Chair: Xiao Jiang, New School For Social Research
Xiao Jiang, Endogeneity of Money and the State in Marx’s Theory of Non-Commodity
Hyun Woong Park, University of Massachusetts Amherst. Financial Profit: Profit from Production and Profit upon Alienation
Iren Levina, University of Massachusetts Amherst; Costas Lapavitsas, SOAS, University of London
A Marxian Theory of Financialization
Tomas Nielsen Rotta, University of Massachusetts Amherst; Rodrigo Alves Teixeira, Pontificia Universidade Católica de Sao Paulo and Central Bank of Brazil. Finance and Crises: A Contribution to Marxian Understanding of Modern Finance
Ozgur Orhangazi, Roosevelt University
Discussants: Alberto Handfas, New School for Social Research; Ozgur Orhangazi, Roosevelt University; Paulo L. Dos Santos, SOAS, University of London; Aleksandr V. Gevorkyan
1:15 p.m. Riverside Ballroom
GLOBAL CRISIS, TERMS OF TRADE, AND THE GENDER WAGE GAPS
Session Chair: José Antonio Ocampo, Columbia University
José Antonio Ocampo, The Global Economic Crisis and Terms-of-Trade Movements
José Antonio Ocampo, Columbia University; Bilge Erten, Drew University Terms of Trade and Output Fluctuations in Colombia.
Gonzalo Hernandez Jimenez, University of Massachusetts Amherst. Trade and Gender Gaps in the United States, 1990-2008
Erin Hinchey, American University. Management of Primary Commodity Price Volatility and Natural Resource Wealth in Asia and the Pacific
Scott Standley, United Nations Development Programme, Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific
Discussants: Scott Standley, United Nations Development Programme, Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific; Bilge Erten; Fatma Gul Unal, Bard College at Simon’s Rock and Levy Institute; Erin Hinchey
3:00 p.m. Conference L
THE REAL EXCHANGE RATE AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Session Chair: Peter Skott, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Peter Skott, Real Exchange Rate, Endogenous Growth and Income Distribution.
Gilberto Tadeu Lima, University of Sao Paulo Brazil; Gabriel Porcile, Federal University of Parana Brazil. Capital Flows and Real Exchange Rate Appreciation in Mexico.
Carlos Ibarra, University of the Americas, Puebla, Mexico. Policy Coordination in a Competitive Real Exchange Rate Strategy for Development
Martin Rapetti, University of Massacusetts Amherst/CEDES Argentina. Poverty Reduction and Strategies.
Gul Unal, Bard College at Simon’s Rock and Levy Institute
Discussants: Peter Skott; Carlos Ibarra; Matias Vernengo, University of Utah; Robert Blecker, American University
3:00 p.m. Riverside Ballroom
MARXIST THEORY II: THE STATE AND CIVIL SOCIETY
Session Chair: Nathaniel Cline, University of Utah
Nathaniel Cline, Dialectics of the State and Civil Society: A Disenchanted World, A Disentangled World, and an Intoxicated World
Xiao Jiang, New School For Social Research. Did Marx ‘Turn’ the Original Class Struggle?
Cameron Weber, New School for Social Research. Subjectivist Inquiry into Marx’s Economic Categories.
Manaf Qweider, New School for Social Research. Postcolonial State: Overdeveloped or Bonaparte’s Brumaire?
Fahd Ali, New School for Social Research
Discussants: Cameron Weber; Manaf Qweider; Hyun Woong Park, New School for Social Research; Iren Levina, University of Massachusetts Amherst
4:45 p.m. Riverside Ballroom
POLICY RESPONSES TO THE GREAT RECESSION AND THEIR IMPACT ON MARGINALIZED GROUPS
Session Chair: James Heintz, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Political Economy Research Institute
James Heintz, A Stimulus for Affirmative Action? The Impact of ARRA Infrastructure Spending on Women in the Construction Industry
Jeannette Wicks-Lim, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Political Economy Research Institute. The Great Recession, Racial InequaliIty and Alternative ‘Public Options.’
Darrick Hamilton, Milano Graduate School, Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis, The New School Economic Crisis and Gender (Un)Aware Policy Responses: Case Studies from Turkey, Bulgaria and Romania
Fatma Gul Unal, Bard College at Simon’s Rock and Levy Institute; Yelda Yucel, Bilgi University Turkey; Armagan Gezici, Keene State College. Monetary and Fiscal Policy and Human Rights
James Heintz, University of
Massachusetts Amherst, Political Economy Research Institute; Radhika Balakrishnan,
Rutgers University
Discussants: Marie Duggan, Keene State College; Matthew Forstater, University of Missouri at Kansas City; Ilene Grabel, University of Denver
SATURDAY FEBRUARY 26
7:45 a.m. Conference L
SOCIAL CONTROL: INCENTIVES, TAXES, AND NEWS
Session Chair: Michael Carr, University of Massachusetts Boston. Method of Pay as a Form of Control: The Beginnings of Theory
Michael Carr, University of Massachusetts Boston. The Gatekeeper: 60 Years of Economics at the New York Times.
Robert Chernomas, University of Manitoba; Ian Hudson, University of Manitoba. A Marxian Model of Economic Growth
Mohammad R. Moeini, University of Massachusetts Amherst and Central Connecticut University
Discussants: Justin Polchlopek,
University of Utah; Marie Duggan, Keene State College; Mohammad R. Moeini, University of Massachusetts Amherst and Central
Connecticut University; David
Laibman, Science and Society
7:45 a.m. Riverside Ballroom
MARXIST THEORY III: SOCIAL AND PHILISOPHICAL INQUIRIES
Session Chair: Iren Levina, University of Massachusetts Amherst and Kingston University UK. An Aristotelian View of Marx’s Method
Nathaniel Cline, University of Utah; William McColloch, University of Utah; Kirsten Ford, University of Utah. The Ideological Effects of the Nomothetic Construction of Economics
Mark Silverman, University of Massachusetts Amherst. Beyond Equilibrium in Political Economy: Totality, Contradiction, and Why ‘Policy’ Alone Is Not Sufficient
Aleksandr V. Gevorkyan, Capco, New York University and St. John’s University. Causes of the Soviet Collapse: The Marxist Views
Mihnea Tudoreanu, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Discussants: Xiao Jiang, New School for Social
Research; Nathaniel Cline, University of Utah; Fabian Balardini, Borough of Manhattan Community
College; Fahd Ali, New School for Social Research
9:15 a.m. Riverside Ballroom
ROUNDTABLE ON ALTERNATIVE THEORIES OF COMPETITION
Session Chair: Cyrus Bina, University of Minnesota at Morris
Cyrus Bina, Strategic Competition, Persistent Intra-industrial Technology Differentials and Transient Entry Barriers: Theory and Business History
Jamee K. Moudud, Sarah Lawrence College. Competition and Competitive Grouping: Organization and Theory of Competition
Jack High, George Mason University. On Sraffa’s Early and late Views on Marshall and the Theory of the Competitive Firm: A Review and Suggested Interpretation.
Scott Carter, The University of Tulsa; Andres Lazzarini, University of Alicante Spain
Discussion amongst participants
11:00 a.m. Conference L
[I16] ROUNDTABLE ON SOCIALIST PLANNING: HISTORICAL EXPERIENCE AND NEW CHALLENGES
Session chair: Julio Huato, St. Francis College
Julio Huato, Incentive Design, Iterative Planning and Local Knowledge in a Maturing Socialist Economy.
David Laibman, Science and Society. Planning the Venezuelan Economy
Victor Alvarez, Centro Internacional Miranda Venezuela. Economics and the Theory of Socialist Planning: Where Are We Today?
Discussion amongst participants
2:00 p.m. Riverside Ballroom
ROUNDTABLE ON ALTERNATIVE THEORIES OF COMPETITION: EVIDENCE
Session Chair: Jamee K. Moudud, Sarah Lawrence College
Jamee K.Moudud, Explaining Long-term Exchange Rate Behavior in the United States and Japan
Anwar Shaikh, New School for Social Research. Capitalist Competition and World Oil: Why Isn’t Mainstream Theory True or False?
Cyrus Bina, University of Minnesota at Morris. Are Megafirms Competitive? Empirical Tests Using the Nonfinancial Dow Jones Industrial Average Firms.
John Sarich, New York City Department of Finance
Discussion amongst participants
3:45 p.m. Riverside Ballroom
MARXIST THEORY IV: COMMODITY, PROFIT, AND PRICE: OLD CONCEPTS, NEW IDEAS
Session Chair: Manaf Qweider, New School for Social Research
Manaf Qweider, Smith’s `Perfect Liberty’ and Marx’s Equalized Rate of Surplus-Value
Jonathan F. Cogliano, Department of Economic, New School. Turnover and its Influence on the Rate of Profit
Zhun Xu, Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Hyun Woong Park,Department of Economics, U.of Massachusetts, Amherst. A Marxian Inflation-Deflation Model: an Empirical and Theoretical Approach
Alberto Handfas, Department of Economics, New School. Market-value and “Social Need” in Marx and in Marxian Economics
Fabian Balardini, Borough of Manhattan Community College
Discussants: Tomas Nielsen Rotta, University of Massachusetts Amherst; Jonathan F. Cogliano, New School for Social Research; Ozgur Orhangazi, Roosevelt University; Mihnea Tudoreanu, U. of Massachusetts Amherst
5:30 p.m. Riverside Ballroom
ECONOMIC CRISIS IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
Session Chair: Marie Duggan, Keene State College
Marie Duggan, The Crisis of 2008-09 in Historical Perspective
Simon Mohun, University of London. On the Eve of State Capitalism: Notes on the History of Interwar Economics.
Fernando Rugitsky, New School for Social Research/Brazilian Center of Analysis and Planning. The Gold Standard of the 1920s and Keynes’ Turn against Laissez Faire
Marie Duggan, Crisis and Macroeconomic Policy: Canada 2008-2011
Fletcher Baragar, University of Manitoba Canada
Discussants: Duncan Foley, The New School for Social Research; Marie Duggan; Matthew Forstater, University of Missouri at Kansas City; Nina Eichacker, U of Massachusetts Amherst
8:00 p.m.
URPE Reception
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 27
8:00 a.m. Riverside Ballroom
GLOBAL FINANCE: MONEY AND
ARCHITECTURE
Session Chair: Marie Duggan,
Keene State College
Marie Duggan, Public
Debt, Finance and Imperialism
Ramaa Vasudevan, Colorado State University Would Keynes’ 1943 ICU Have
Prevented Current China/US Imbalances?
Marie Duggan, Linking Money to the Real World: The International
Commodity Reserve Currency Leanne Ussher, Queens College
Discussants: Ozghur Orhangazi,
Roosevelt College; Thomas Bernardin,
University of Massachusetts Amherst; Marco
Missaglia, University of Pavia, Italy; Ramaa Vasudevan
9:45 a.m. Riverside Ballroom
DECLINE IN QUALITY OF LIFE:
CRIME, FALLING WAGES, RISING COST OF HEALTH AND CHILDCARE
Session Chair: Scott Carter,
Tulsa University
Scot, Carter, The
Bluntness of Incarceration: Crime and Punishment in Tallahassee Neighborhoods:
1995-2002.
Geert Dhondt, John Jay College. Work-Family Articulation: Does
Democratic Management Make a Difference?
Diane-Gabrielle
Trembley,
Tele-université UQAM Quebec. What Do Unions
Do in Childcare?
Lynn A. Hatch, Eastern Conneticut State
University. Medical Expenditure Growth and the Diffusion of Medical Technology
Justin Polchlopek, University of Utah
Discussants: Lynn A. Hatch,
University of Massachusetts Amherst; John Sarich,
New York City Department of Finance; Jeannette Wicks-Lim, University of
Massachusetts Amherst, Political Economy Research Institute; Scott Carter
11:15 a.m. Riverside Ballroom
EXPLOITATION IN THE PERIPHERY
Session Chair: Scott Carter,
Tulsa University
Scott Carter, Reproduction
of Noncapital Under Capitalist Development: A Study of Informal Manufacturing
in India.
Snehashish Bhattacharya,
Franklin and Marshall College. Relations
of Production and Modes of Knowledge Appropriation: A Case-Study of Weaving in
India
Amit Basole, University of Massachusetts Amherst. Property Rights
and Household Income Diversification in Rural Malawi
Hema Swaminathan, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore; Caren Grown, American University; Marya Hillesland,
American University Co-Benefits of
Short-Lived Climate Forcers (SLCFs): A Game Changer?
Paul Bartlett, Saint Peter’s College
Discussants: Amit Basole; Alex
Julca, United Nations; Snehashish
Bhattacharya, Franklin and Marshall College;
