URPE at EEA Schedule, 2013
May 9-11, Sheraton New York Hotel & Towers, NYC, NY
(Program updated on May 2, 2013)
Please note that there will be an URPE membership meeting on Friday, at 6:30 p.m. to be followed by an URPE reception at 7:30 p.m. in Conference Room D
THURSDAY, MAY 9
8:00 - 9:20 am <Conference Room D>
[A18] TEACHING ECONOMICS FROM A POLITICAL ECONOMY PERSPECTIVE (JEL Code A)
Session Organizer and Chair: Lane Vanderslice, World Hunger Education Service
- Introductory Economics
Brent Kramer, Borough of Manhattan Community College - Political Economy
Jared Ragusett, Central Connecticut State University - Economics of Discrimination
Marie Duggan, Keene State College - Harmful Economic Systems
Lane Vanderslice, World Hunger Education Service - Income Distribution in Radical Political Economy
Scott Carter, The University of Tulsa
Discussion Among Participants
9:30 - 10:50 am <Conference Room D>
[B18] Gender, Poverty and Policy (JEL Code J)
Session Organizer and Chair: Thomas Masterson, Levy Economics Institute of Bard College
- It’s About Time: Time and Income Poverty in Argentina, Chile and Mexico
Ajit Zacharias, Levy Economics Institute of Bard College; Rania Antonopoulous, Levy Economics Institute of Bard College; Thomas Masterson, Levy Economics Institute of Bard College - Employment is Not Enough: A Look at Low-wage, Low-income Single Mothers, 1979-2011
Randy Albelda, University of Massachusetts Boston; Michael Carr, University of Massachusetts Boston
Discussant: Papa Seck, UN Women
11:00 am - 12:20 pm <Conference Room D>
[C18] The Information Economy (JEL Code O)
Session Organizer and Chair: Zoe Sherman, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
- The Concept of Value in Cognitive Capitalism Theory: A Critical Review of Recent Developments
Hyun Woong Park, UMass-Amherst - Advertising and the Creation of Exchange Value
Zoe Sherman, University of Massachusetts, Amherst - The Economics of Sharing Networks
Anders Fremstad, University of Massachusetts, Amherst - On Theories of a Democratically Planned Economy and the Coevolution of “pro Democratic Planning” Preferences
Leopoldo Gomez Ramirez, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Discussion Among Participants
1:00 - 2:20 pm <Conference Room D>
[D18] Capital Account and Domestic Prudential Regulations as Counter-cyclical Tools (JEL Code E)
Session Organizers: Bilge Erten, Columbia University, and Armagan Gezici, Keene State College
Sesison Chair: Bilge Erten, Columbia University
- Capital Account Regulations and Monetary Pressures
José Antonio Ocampo, Columbia University; Bilge Erten, Columbia University - Macroprudential Regulations and Capital Inflows: the Case of Turkey
Bilge Erten, Columbia University; Armagan Gezici, Keene State College - The resurrection and re-normalization of capital controls in an age of crisis
Ilene Grabel, University of Denver
Discussion Amongst Participants
2:30 - 3:50 <Conference Room D>
[E18] The Political Economy of Global Value Chains (JEL Code O)
Session Organizer: Xiao Jiang, The New School for Social Research, NY
Session Chair: William Milberg, The New School for Social Research, NY
- Economic and social upgrading of developing countries in the global apparel sector: Insights from using a parsimonious measurement approach
Tomas Bernhardt, The New School for Social Research, NY - Global Value Chains: Further Gains from Trade or Faster Race to the Bottom
Mary Borrowman, The New School for Social Research, NY; William Milberg, The New School for Social Research, NY - Trade and Employment in a Vertically Specialized World: Global Factor-Content Analysis and A Demystification of “Value-added Erosion”
Xiao Jiang, The New School for Social Research, NY - The Value of High Value-Added Output for Trade Gains
Jose Caraballo Cueto, The New School
Discussion Amongst Participants
4:00 - 5:20 pm <Conference Room D>
[F18] Development and Inequality: Agrarian and Structural Change (JEL Code O, J)
Session Organizer: Cem Oyvat, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Session Chair: Riko Rosete, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
- Agriculture and Modern Employment Creation in Dual Economies
Joao Paulo A. de Souza, University of Massachusetts Amherst - Wealth-Biased Property Rights Reform: Tenure Insecurity and Investment in Paraguay Revisited
Heath Henderson, Inter-American Development Bank; Leonardo Corral, Inter-American Development Bank; Eric Simning, Inter-American Development Bank; Paul Winters, Inter-American Development Bank - Micro and Macro Level Determinants of Women’s Employment in Turkey
Yasemin Dildar, University of Massachusetts Amherst - The Roots of Ginis: A comparative analysis of Turkey, Korea and Brazil
Cem Oyvat, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Discussion Among Participants
5:30 - 6:50 pm <Liberty 4>
[F17a] Technological Change and Accumulation (JEL Code R)
Session Organizers: Armagan Gezici, Keene State College; Scott Carter, University of Tulsa
Session Chair: David Laibman, Science and Society
- An Evolutionary Marxian Model of Competition, Technical Change, and Accumulation
Tomas N. Rotta, University of Massachusetts-Amherst - R&D, Technological Change and Economic Growth: Class vs. Non-class Analysis
Mohammad R Moeini-Feizabadi, Bard College at Simon’s Rock - The negative utility of desire and its implications for patterns of innovation
Mihnea Tudoreanu, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Discussion Among Participants
5:30 - 6:50 pm <Conference Room D>
[F18a] Financialization and crisis (JEL Code G)
Session Organizer and Chair: Cem Oyvat, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
- The ongoing crisis: Questions for Keynesian theory
Davide Gualerzi, University of Padua, Italy - Power Asymmetries and the European Crisis
Nina Eichacker, University of Massachusetts Amherst - After the crisis: An investigation of the state of the U.S. economy
Mathieu Dufour, John Jay College of Criminal Justice; Özgür Orhangazi, Kadir Has University - Managerial Capitalism, finance and the contradictions of the neoliberal phase of capitalism
Ramaa Vasudevan, Colorado State University
FRIDAY, MAY 10
8:00 - 9:20 am <Liberty 4>
[G17] Macroeconomic Analysis of the US (JEL Code E)
Session Organizers: Armagan Gezici, Keene State College; Scott Carter, University of Tulsa
Session Chair: Mona Ali, SUNY New Paltz
- Real Time Filtering and Prediction of US Business Cycles with a Stochastic Goodwin Model
Tai Young-Taft, Gulf University for Science and Technology - The housing bubble: a case of disproportion in the current U.S. crisis
Julio Goicoechea, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana - “Efficiency" in macroeconomic theory
Susan K. Schroeder, University of Sydney
Discussion Among Participants
8:00 - 9:20 am <Conference Room D>
[G18] The Political Economy of Credit and Finance (JEL Code G)
Session Organizer & Chair: J. W. Mason, University of Massachusetts Amherst
- The ‘financialization’ of the nonfinancial corporation: an empirical investigation of NFC balance sheets
Leila Davis, University of Massachusetts Amherst - Consumer Debt as Redistribution: Measuring Financial Expropriation
Sara M Bernardo, University of Massachusetts, Boston - Loose Money, High Rates: Interest Rate Spreads in Historical Perspective
J. W. Mason, University of Massachusetts Amherst; Arjun Jayadev, University of Massachusetts Boston - The Dynamic Process of Financial Innovation and its Implications: A Case Study Approach
Hasan Cömert, METU; Gerald Epstein, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Discussion Among Participants
9:30 - 10:50 am <Liberty 4>
[H17] Distributional Issues (JEL Code J)
Session Organizers: Armagan Gezici, Keene State College; Scott Carter, University of Tulsa
Session Chair: Mona Ali, SUNY New Paltz
- Pecuniary emulation in a Kaldorian model of income distribution
Soon Ryoo, Adelphi University - Incorporating Consumer Finance into the Circuits of Capital: New Mechanisms for the Realization of Value
Conrad M. Herold, Hofstra University - The impact of minimum wage laws on the wage structure: An updated analysis of the ripple effects
Jeannette Wicks-Lim, Political Economy Research Institute, UMass-Amherst
Discussion among participants
9:30 - 10:50 am <Conference Room D>
[H18] Explorations in Economic Methodology (JEL Code B)
Session Organizer & Chair: Armagan Gezici, Keene State College
- The Use of Mixed Methods in Economics: A Distinct Methodology?
Armagan Gezici, Keene State College - Diversity of Diversity: A transdisciplinary consideration of a pivotal concept
Hardy Hanappi, University of Technology of Vienna; Edeltraud Hanappi-Egger, University of Economics of Vienna - Development Economics, Gender, and the Cultural Turn: A Post-Structuralist Perspective
Natalia Bracarense, University of Missouri-Kansas City
Discussion Among Participants
11:00 am - 12:20 pm <Liberty 4>
[I17] Issues of Welfare: Migrants, Farmers, Vulnerability (JEL Code I, R)
Session Organizers: Armagan Gezici, Keene State College; Scott Carter, University of Tulsa
Session Chair: Jeannette Wicks-Lim, Political Economy Research Institute, UMass-Amherst
- Invisibility of labour mobility and misery
Alex Julca, UN Development Policy and Analysis Division - Capitalism in (Green) Disguise: The Political Economy of Organic Farming in the European Union
Charalampos Konstantinidis, University of Massachusetts Boston, Charalampos - Operationalizing The Capabilities Approach
Laurence O’Connell, New School for Social Research
Discussion among participants
11:00 am - 12:20 pm <Conference Room D>
[I18] Global South After the Great Recession I: Asia & Africa & Latin America (JEL Code P)
Session Organizers: Hasan Cömert, METU; Rex McKenzie, CSID, University of Witwatersrand
Session Chair: Anuradha Seth, Bureau of Development Policy United Nations Development Programme
- How Colombia has coped with the global financial crisis?
Daniel Munevar, General Direction of Macroeconomic Policy Ministry of Finance and Public Credit of Colombia - Developing Countries since the Crisis: The Case of Turkey
Hasan Cömert, METU; Selman Çolak, METU - Developing Countries since the Crisis: The Case of South Africa
Seeraj Mohamed, CSID, University of Witwatersrand
Discussants: Andrés Blancas, Institute of Economic Research at National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM); Mamadou Bobo Diallo, Economic Empowerment Section at UN Women; Seeraj Mohamed, CSID, University of Witwatersrand
2:00 - 3:20 pm <Liberty 4>
[J17] Development Economics (JEL Code O)
Session Organizer: Armagan Gezici, Keene State College; Scott Carter, University of Tulsa
Session Chair: Armagan Gezici, Keene State College
- Does Informal Economy Foster Income Inequality? Evidence from Causality and Cointegration Analysis for Turkey, 1963-2008
Adem Y. Elveren, Sutcu Imam University, Turkey; Gökçer Özgür, Hacettepe University, Turkey - Putting Chile’s Commodity Dependence in Perspective
Laura Ebert, State University of New York, New Paltz; Tania La Menza, State University of New York
Discussion among participants
2:00 - 3:20 pm <Conference Room D>
[J18] Global South After the Great Recession II: Latin America & the Caribbean (JEL Code P)
Session Organizer: Hasan Cömert, METU; Rex McKenzie, CSID, University of Witwatersrand
Session Chair: Hasan Cömert, METU
- Eclectic policy as a surviving approach to socioeconomic development
Luis Brunstein, Hiram College, Hiram, OH; Mariana De Maio, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL - Mexico’s Resistance: Avoiding world crisis by building local infernos
David Barkin, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Mexico City - The Brazilian economy after the crisis: challenges and opportunities
Marcos Reis, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro - In Ponzi’s Image; Ponzi Finance In Jamaica
Rex A McKenzie, CSID, University of Witwatersrand
Discussants: Ruth Felder, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina; Andrés Blancas, Institute of Economic Research at National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM); Marcos Reis, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
3:30 - 4:50 pm <Liberty 4>
[K17] Barry Commoner: Paul Revere of Ecology 1970 & Prophet of Political Economy 2012 – A Roundtable Discussion
Co-Sponsored by URPE & Capitalism, Socialism & Nature
Participants:
Michael Egan, McMaster University, Canada
Robert E. Scott, Economic Policy Institute
Vernice Miller-Travis, Miller-Travis & Associates
Discussion among participants
3:30 - 4:50 pm <Conference Room D>
[K18] Global South After the Great Recession III: Latin America & Asia (JEL Code P)
Session Organizer: Hasan Cömert, METU; Rex McKenzie, CSID, University of Witwatersrand
Session Chair: Rex McKenzie, CSID, University of Witwatersrand
- Argentina in the global crisis: external effects and domestic tensions
Viviana Patroni, York University, Canada; Ruth Felder, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina - Effects of FDI on Growth in Southeast Asian Countries: A Nonlinear Time Series Perspective
Tai Young-Taft, Gulf University for Science and Technology; Salah Nusair, Gulf University for Science and Technology - Export-Led or Tradable-Led Growth Strategies in Latin America: a Non-Negligible Aspect in the Aftermath of the Great Recession
Gonzalo Hernandez, UMass-Amherst; Arslan Razmi, UMass-Amherst - China and the US since the crisis: How does rising inequality affect prospects for international rebalancing?
Adam Hersh, Center for American Progress, Washington, DC
Discussants: Luis Brunstein, Hiram College, Hiram, OH; Gonzalo Hernandez, UMass-Amherst; Anuradha Seth, Bureau of Development Policy United Nations Development Programme; Daniel Munevar, General Direction of Macroeconomic Policy Ministry of Finance and Public Credit of Colombia
SATURDAY, MAY 11
8:00 - 9:20 am <Liberty 4>
[L17] The Political Economy of the Working Class I: Analytical and Practical Issues (JEL Code J)
Session Organizer and Chair: Scott Carter, University of Tulsa
- Introductory remarks: Radical Political Economy in Working Class Perspective
Scott Carter, University of Tulsa - Class and Contemporary Social Movements in the US
Penny Lewis, Murphy Institute for Worker Education and Labor Studies, CUNY - Why do Millionaires run the country?
Nicholas Carnes, Duke University - Understanding class differentiation in India: An overview of major issues
Ajit Zacharias, Levy Institute of Bard College
Discussion among participants
8:00-9:20 am <Conference Room D>
[L18] Global South After the Great Recession IV: Monetary Policy (JEL Code E)
Session Organizers: Hasan Cömert, METU; Rex McKenzie, CSID, University of Witwatersrand
Session Chair: Gonzalo Hernandez, UMass-Amherst
- Financial Fragility and Neoliberal Monetary Policy in Developing Countries: The Case of Mexico
Andrés Blancas, Institute of Economic Research at National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) - A Comparative analysis of the Turkish Central Bank’s Discourse and Practices before and after the crisis
Hasan Cömert, METU; Cendel Karaman, METU - Monetary Policy as a Seal of Approval: The Curious Case of Democratic South Africa
Rex A McKenzie, CSID, University of Witwatersrand
Discussants: Marcos Reis, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro; Tai Young-Taft, Gulf University for Science and Technology; Seeraj Mohamed, CSID, University of Witwatersrand; Adam Hersh, Center for American Progress Washington, DC
9:30 am - 10:50 am <Liberty 4>
[M17] The Role of Money and Interest in the Surplus Approach (JEL Code G)
Session Organizer: Andy Felkerson, University of Missouri – Kansas City
Session Chair: Scott Carter, University of Tulsa
- Introductory remarks
Scott Carter, The University of Tulsa - Sraffa Prices and Townshend Prices
Jan Kregel, Levy Economics Institute - Reading Sraffa's writings of the period 1925 to 1931
Ajit Sinha, Indira Gandhi Institute - Rate of Interest Revisited: The Importance of Sraffa's Critique of Hayek for The General Theory and Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities
James Andrew Felkerson, University of Missouri-Kansas City - The rate of interest and the conception of competition in the surplus approach and other heterodox traditions
Andres Lazzarini, Centro de Investigación en Epistmología de las Ciencias Económicas de la Universidad de Buenos Aires
Discussant: Scott Carter, The University of Tulsa
9:30 am - 10:50 pm <Conference Room D>
[M18] Global South After the Great Recession V: Developing Countries in General (JEL Code O)
Session Organizers: Hasan Cömert, METU; Rex McKenzie, CSID, University of Witwatersrand
Session Chair: Seeraj Mohamed, CSID, University of Witwatersrand
- Macroeconomic Vulnerability in Developing Countries: Approaches and Issues
Anuradha Seth, Bureau of Development Policy United Nations Development Programme; Amr Ragab, Bureau of Development Policy United Nations Development Programme - Post crisis fiscal response from selected sub-saharan african countries, and building a framework for long term sustainable growth
Mamadou Bobo Diallo, Economic Empowerment Section at UN Women - The “Great Recession” and labour: The faltering relations of Growth and Jobs in Turkey
Erinc Yeldan
Discussants: Gonzalo Hernandez, UMass-Amherst; Mamadou Bobo Diallo, Economic Empowerment Section at UN Women
11:00 am - 12:20 pm <Conference Room D>
[N17] The Political Economy of the Working Class II: Workers Organizing
Session Organizer and Chair: Scott Carter, University of Tulsa
- Introductory remarks: "We are not organizing workers, we are workers organizing": Reflections on working class consciousness in the 21st century
Scott Carter, University of Tulsa, - The Oklahoma Experiment: A Case Study in Twenty-first Century Capitalism or, Corporatism in Oklahoma: Progressive or Reactionary?
J.D. Thompson, Labor Policy Institute of Oklahoma - Title TBA
Penny Lewis, Murphy Institute for Worker Education and Labor Studies, CUNY, - Title TBA
Wing Lam, Executive Director, Chinese Staff and Workers Association
Discussion Among Participants
11:00 am - 12:20 pm <Conference Room D>
[N18] Studies of Neoliberalism (JEL Code B)
Session Organizers: Armagan Gezici, Keene State College; Scott Carter, University of Tulsa
Session Chair: Michael Meeropol, John Jay College of Criminal Justice of the City University of New York
- Fiscal Policy and Accumulation
Fletcher Baragar, University of Manitoba; Robert Chernomas, University of Manitoba - The End of Neoliberalism?
Melih Yeşilbağ, SUNY Binghamton - The New Normal: Persistent Austerity, Declining Democracy and the Globalization of Resistance
Henry Kelly, Trinity College, Dublin
Discussion Among Participants
