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Friday, June 1
8:30–8:45
Welcome and Opening
Remarks [FAMB 103]
9:00–10:30
Concurrent Sessions A
A1 Risk,
Inequality, and Human Welfare
[FAMB 203]
Philip Kozel (Rollins College), Chair
Greg Hannsgen (Levy Economics Institute,
Bard
College), “Are the Welfare
Costs of the Business Cycle ‘Trivially Small’? A Critique of Robert
Lucas’s Calculus of Hardship”
Sasha C. Breger (University of Denver), “Risk Privatization,
Derivatives, and Development: The Case of Coffee”
Manuel Couret Branco (Universidade
de Évora, Portugal),
“Economics against Human Rights”
A2 Endogenous Money / Monetary Reform
[FAMB 101]
Steve Keen (University
of Western Sydney, Australia),
Chair
Gokcer Ozgur (Hacettepe University, Ankara) and
Korkut Erturk (University
of Utah), “The
Theory of Endogenous Money in the Age of Financial Liberalization”
Constantinos Alexiou (University
of Sheffield, UK),
“Theoretical Considerations of the Endogenous Money Hypothesis: The
Turkish Experience”
Simon Mouatt (Southampton Solent University, UK), “Evaluating Stephen Zarlenga’s
Interpretation of the Marxist and Keynesian View of Money”
A3 Whither Development?
[FAMB 205]
Wendy Olsen (University
of Manchester, UK), Chair
Cameron M. Weber (New School for Social Research), “Questioning
Development Orthodoxy”
Daniel Gay (University of Stirling, UK), “Modernism, Reflexivity, and the Washington Consensus”
Quentin Duroy (Denison
University), “An
Exploration of the Concept of Cultural Capital”
A4 Gendered Political Economies
[FAMB 204]
Diana Strassmann (Rice
University), Chair
Susan Bush (American University), “The Economics of Domestic
Violence: Using Services as Signals”
Robert L. Reinauer (University
of Massachusetts, Amherst), “Women, War and Peace: Social Change
in the Context of a Failed Peace Process”
Adem Y. Elveren (University of Utah),
“Gender Gaps in the Individual Pension System in Turkey”
A5 Economic Policy: Means, Ends, and
Politics [FAMB 202]
Fadhel Kaboub (Drew
University), Chair
Ric Holt (Southern Oregon
University), “Post
Keynesian Economics and Public Policy”
Carlos Eduardo Schonerwald da Silva (University
of Utah), “Participatory
Budgeting and Fiscal Federalism in
Brazil”
Andre Modenesi (Federal University,
Rio de Janeiro),
“Capital Controls and Financial Liberalization: Stripping the Political
Bias in Light of Recent Experience and the Contributions of Keynes and
Others”
A6 Pluralism and Economic Education
[FAMB 201]
Gilles Raveaud (Harvard
University), Chair
Alison Butler (Willamette
University), “The Illusion
of Objectivity: Implications for What and How We Teach Economics”
Rod O’Donnell (Macquarie University,
Sydney), “Teaching Economic Pluralism: Adding
Value to Students, Economies, and Societies”
Rob Garnett (Texas
Christian
University), “Pluralism as Academic Freedom:
A Liberal Arts Revision of Undergraduate Economic Education”
Ebrahim Hosseini-Nasab (Tarbiat Modares University,
Tehran),
“Pluralism in Graduate Education in Economics”
10:30–11:00
Tea/Coffee Break
11:00–12:30
Concurrent Sessions B
B1 Heterodox Institutionalisms
[FAMB 101]
Stephen Cullenberg (University
of California, Riverside), Chair
Paul Lewis (King’s College,
London), “Subjectivism, Social Structure, and the
Possibility of Socio-Economic Order: The Case of Ludwig Lachmann”
Sirisha C. Naidu (Wright
State
University), “Theories of the Forest Commons
within a Capitalist System”
Anne Mayhew (University of Tennessee,
Knoxville), “Heterodox Aggregates: Class,
Institutions, and Cultures in the 21st Century”
B2 Social Structures of
Accumulation Revisited [BuC
208]
Al Campbell (University
of Utah), Chair
Özgür Orhangazi (Roosevelt University), “Financialization and Capital
Accumulation in the Non-Financial Corporate Sector: A Theoretical and
Empirical Investigation of the
U.S.
Economy, 1973-2003”
Rogier Kamerling (University of Utah), “Neoliberalism and Finance Capital: A Detailed
Empirical Look at the Effects of Two Major Changes in U.S. Banking
Laws”
David M. Kotz (University of Massachusetts,
Amherst), “Social Structures of Accumulation and
the Rate of Capital Accumulation: A Revised Understanding of the SSA
Theory”
B3 Economic Ethnographies
[FAMB 202]
Susan Feiner (University of Southern Maine),
Chair
Mary V. Wrenn (Weber
State
University), “Agency and the Great
Capitalist Restoration”
Wendy Olsen (University of
Manchester, UK),
“Social Theory and Strategies in Rural Indian Labor Relations”
Michael Hillard (University of Southern Maine), “Petty-Bourgeois Syndicalists on the
Paper Plantation?
The Transformation of the
Maine
North Woods, 1940-2000”
B4 Teaching Economics with System
Dynamics [FAMB 204]
Edward McNertney (Texas
Christian
University), Chair
I. David Wheat Jr. (University of Bergen, Norway), “MacroLab: A Simulation
Model and Interactive Learning Environment for Teaching Undergraduate
Macroeconomics”
Steve Keen (University of Western Sydney, Australia), “A Simple Approach to
Modeling Endogenous Money”
Michael J. Radzicki (Worcester Polytechnic Institute), “A Graduate
Course in Macroeconomic Dynamics”
B5 Socially Embedded Markets and
Human Flourishing [FAMB 203]
Erik Hake (Eastern Illinois
University), Chair
Bernardo Stuhlberger Wjuniski (São Paulo School of Economics) and Ramón
García Fernández (São Paulo School of Economics), “The Welfare State in
Light of the Athenian Economy: Karl Polanyi’s Work in Perspective”
James E. Sawyer (Seattle
University and
L’Université du Littoral Côte d’Opale, Dunkerque), “Relative Capitalism”
Brandon Smith (Texas Christian University),
“Life, Liberty,
and the Pursuit of Happiness in the Post Cold War World”
B6 Alternatives to Capitalist
Development [FAMB 205]
David Kristjanson-Gural (Bucknell
University), Chair
Harwood D. Schaffer (University of Tennessee),
“Agricultural/Economic Policy for a New State in the Horn of
Africa”
Elizabeth Ramey (University of Massachusetts,
Amherst), “Poverty in Plenty:
Class and the Industry of Agriculture”
Erik Olsen (University of
Missouri, Kansas
City), “The Articulation of Class Structures in a Developing Country: A
Model”
B7 Pluralist Pedagogies
[FAMB 201]
Neva Goodwin (Tufts
University), Chair
Amy Cramer (University of Arizona and Pima Community College),
’I Don’t Care What You Think .
. . I Care Only that You
Think’: Using Alternative Perspectives to Teach the Principles of
Economics”
Stephan Boehm (University of Graz,
Austria), “Would ‘Regress’ Constitute
‘Progress’ in Economics?
Some Suggestions for Invigorating the Micro Textbook”
Benjamin Balak (Rollins College), “Computer Games and Teaching
Economics in Historical Perspective”
John Reardon (University
of Wisconsin,
Stout), “A Handbook for Pluralist Economics Education”
12:30–1:30
Lunch (provided on-site)
1:30–3:00
Concurrent Sessions C
C1
Roundtable: Pluralism in Undergraduate Economics: What Can We
Learn From Established Programs?
[FAMB 101]
Chuck Barone (Dickinson College), Chair
Benjamin Balak (Rollins College)
David Colander (Middlebury College)
Ramón García Fernández (São Paulo
School
of Economics)
Tom Green (University of British Columbia)
Fadhel Kaboub (Drew
University)
Philip Kozel (Rollins College)
Ebrahim Hosseini-Nasab (Tarbiat
Modares
University, Tehran)
C2 Pluralism and Ontology
[FAMB 201]
Paul Lewis (King’s College,
London), Chair
Dennis Badeen (York University,
Toronto), “Neoclassical Axioms and Ontology: A
Response to Arnsperger and Varoufakis’s ‘What is Neoclassical
Economics?’”
Romain Kroës (Université de Nancy,
France), “Which Pluralism?”
John B. Davis (University of Amsterdam and Marquette University),
“Complex Individuals: The Individual in Non-Euclidean Space”
C3 Orthodox Tools, Unorthodox
Outcomes [FAMB 202]
Terrence McDonough (National University
of Ireland,
Galway), Chair
Scott Gassler (Vesalius College, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, and Brussels School of International Studies), “The
Political and Social Economics of Alternative Globalization”
Benjamin Mitra-Kahn (City University,
London
and New School for Social Research), “Debunking the Myth Surrounding
Computable General Equilibrium Models”
Kevin Quinn (Bowling Green
State
University), “Game-Theoretic Indeterminacy,
Freedom, and Reason”
C4 Economic Development and
Well-Being [FAMB 203]
Travis Hale (University of Texas, Austin),
Chair
Jeff Bookwalter (University
of Montana),
“Keeping Up With the Joneses: The Importance of Relative Standing to
Well-Being”
David Kiefer (University
of Utah), “Revealed
Social Preferences for Equality and Growth”
Daphne Greenwood (University of Colorado,
Colorado Springs) and Ric Holt (Southern Oregon
University), “Growth,
Development, and Quality of Life: Mainstream and Heterodox Approaches”
C5 World Political Economy
[FAMB 204]
David M. Kotz (University of Massachusetts,
Amherst), Chair
Alan Freeman (University of Greenwich, UK), “The Modernity of Backwardness”
Lucy Badalian (Millennium
Workshop, USA), “Heterodox Economics and the
Theory of Coenoses: The Next 10-25 Years”
Radhika Desai (University of Manitoba),
“World Money and the End of
U.S.
Imperialism”
C6 The Social Constitution of
Market Processes [FAMB 205]
Virgil Storr (George
Mason
University), Chair
Joshua Frank (SUNY Cortland),
“The Social Construction of Market Value and its Application to Labor
Markets”
Wesley Pech (University of Massachusetts,
Amherst), “Behavioral Economics and the Economics
of Keynes”
Chris Brown (Arkansas
State
University), “Why Do Consumers Borrow? An
Application of the Institutional Theory of Habit Selection”
C7 Distributive Justice
[BuC 208]
Rod O’Donnell (Macquarie University,
Sydney), Chair
Eric A. Schutz (Rollins
College), “Distributive
Justice and Power Theories of Inequality”
Hasan Gürak (Istanbul),
“Factors of Production, Productive Factors, and Income Distribution”
Robert Ashford (Syracuse University,
College of Law), “Universalizing the Right to
Acquire Capital with the Earnings of Capital: Binary Economic Strategies
for Empowering Poor and Working People and Achieving More Sustainable
Growth”
C8 Logics and Fallacies of
Competition [BuC 210]
Faruk Eray Duzenli (Denison
University), Chair
Steve Keen (University of Western Sydney), “The Complete Guide to
Debunking the Neoclassical Theory of the Firm”
Frederic B. Jennings, Jr. (Center for Ecological, Economic, and Ethical
Education), “Hammers, Nails and New Constructions – Orthodoxy or
Pluralism: An Institutional View”
Jim Case (Baltimore, Maryland), “Breaking the Stranglehold”
Mike Joffe (Wellbeing Health and Economic Policy Services), “What Explains
the Dynamism of Capitalism?”
3:00–3:30
Tea/Coffee Break
3:30-5:30
Plenary Session I, “Pluralism and Economic Inquiry”
[FAMB 103]
Rob Garnett (Texas
Christian
University), Chair
John Davis (University of Amsterdam and Marquette University),
“The Turn in and Return of Orthodoxy in Recent Economics”
Frederic Lee (University of
Missouri, Kansas
City), “Pluralism and Contested Scientific Inquiry:
The Case of Mainstream and Heterodox Economics”
Diana Strassmann (Rice
University), “Raising
Dissonant Voices: Pluralism and Economic Heterodoxy”
Peter Söderbaum (Mälardalen
University, Västerås),
Commentator
5:30–7:30
Cocktail Reception (University
of Utah Museum of Fine Arts)
8:30-10:00
Concurrent Sessions D
D1 Pluralism, Realism, and Heterodoxy
[FAMB 102]
Rob Garnett (Texas
Christian
University), Chair
Rogier De Langhe (University of
Ghent, Belgium),
“Why Should I Adopt
Pluralism?”
Andrew Mearman (University of the West of
England
and Bristol Business School),
“Rhetorical Dualism and the Orthodox/Heterodox Distinction in Economics”
Tony Lawson (Cambridge
University), “Ontology,
Modern Economics, and Pluralism”
D2
Mixed Economies vs. Market Fundamentalism
[FAMB 101]
Gilles Raveaud (Harvard
University), Chair
Andrew Farrant (Dickinson College) and Edward McPhail (Dickinson College),
“Political Freedoms and Economic Freedoms: Was Samuelson Right about
Hayek’s Road to Serfdom?”
Kaan Berberoglu (Gazi University,
Ankara),
“Pluralism for Development: The South Korean Experience”
José Manuel Lasierra (Universidad
de Zaragoza, Spain),
“Austrian Entrepreneurship and Labor Rights Institutions: A
Complementary Relationship?”
D3 Trade, Development, and Public
Health: Feminist Perspectives
[FAMB 203]
Daniel Gay (University of
Stirling, UK),
Chair
Ebru Kongar (Dickinson College) and Mark Price (Keystone Research
Center), “Is White the New
Blue? The Impact of Trade in Services on Women”
Rosemary Russo (University
of Utah), “The
Feminist Critique of Neoclassical Development Economics:
The Gender Implications of Structural Adjustment Policies”
Deborah Johnston (London University), “Bias, Not Error: Assessments of the
Economic Impact of HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa”
D4 Transformative Trends in the Global
Economy [FAMB 204]
Sirisha C. Naidu (Wright
State
University), Chair
Keith Nurse (University of the West Indies), “Deindustrialization and
Migration under Neoliberalism: Is the Diasporic Economy a Solution for
Latin America and the Caribbean?”
Omar Dahi (Hampshire College), “Rethinking the Boundaries of
International Economic Interaction: South-South Cooperation and Economic
Development”
Minqi Li (University of Utah), “Capitalism, Socialism, and China: A World
Historical Perspective”
D5 Ecological Economics
[FAMB 201]
Martha Starr (American University), Chair
Ali Douai (Université Montesquieu
Bordeaux
IV, France), “Wealth, Well-Being, and Values: The Contribution of
Heterodox Economics to a (Real) Transdisciplinary Dialogue within
Ecological Economics”
Micheal Carr (University
of New Brunswick),
“Money and the Environment: A Heterodox Perspective”
Ken Zimmerman (Oregon
Public Utility Commission), “Energy Markets: An Overview of the
Construction of Energy Markets and an Assessment of Their Results and
Their Future”
Lisi Krall (SUNY Cortland),
“A Veblenian Perspective on Peak Oil”
D6 Marxian Economics
[FAMB 205]
Bruce Roberts (University
of Southern Maine),
Chair
David Kristjanson-Gural (Bucknell
University), “Money,
Demand, and Value: How Changes in Demand Affect the Monetary Expression
of Labor-Time in Marx”
Andrew Kliman (Pace
University), “The
Truthiness of Veneziani’s Critique of Marx and the TSSI”
Faruk Eray Duzenli (Denison
University), “Against
Labor Fetishism: What Can Marx Teach Us Today?”
D7 Accounting for Economic Growth
[BuC 210]
Zdravka Todorova (Wright
State
University), Chair
Gabila Fohtung (University
of the Western Cape,
Cape Town), “Foreign Direct Investment, Accelerated Growth,
and Economic Development in
South Africa”
Hee-Young Shin (New School for Social Research), “Alternative Measures of
Korean Unemployment since the 1990s”
Cihan Bozkus (University of Utah), “State Investment in Agricultural
Productivity as an Alternative Engine of Growth: A Turkish Case – The
Southeast Anatolian Project”
John Hall (Portland State University),
“Economic Pluralism and Neoclassical Economics: Explaining Economic and
Social Reality in the Eastern Region of Germany”
D8 Economics in the Human Conversation
[BuC 208]
Eric A. Schutz (Rollins
College), Chair
Perry Bezanis (Condition.org), “Human Nature and Continuing Human
Existence”
Roger Elletson (Grand Teton
University), “A MEESA
Response to ICAPE: Revisiting the Direction of Heterodoxy”
W. Robert Brazelton (University
of Missouri, Kansas
City), “Selected Interdisciplinary Inputs into a More Expansive Economic
Analysis”
10:00–10:30
Tea/Coffee Break
0:30-12:00
Concurrent Sessions E
E1
Rethinking Environmental Economics: Why a Heterodox Approach Matters
[FAMB 102]
Mary C. King (Portland
State
University),
Chair
Kristen A. Sheeran (St. Mary’s
College
of Maryland),
“Debunking Free Market Environmentalism”
Paul Baer (EcoEquity), “Managing Scientific Uncertainty and Ethical
Controversy in Climate Analysis: Catastrophic Impacts, Distributive
Justice, and Risk Aversion in the Stern Review”
Frank Ackerman (Global Development and Environment Institute; Center for
the Applied Study of Economics and the Environment), “Economic Theory
for a Warming World”
E2 Markets and Community
[FAMB 101]
Ted Burczak (Denison
University), Chair
Virgil Storr (George
Mason
University), “Hayek and Lefebvre on Market
Space and Extra-Catallactic Relationships”
Ioana Negru (Anglia Ruskin
University, UK),
“Gifts and Markets: A Pluralist Perspective”
Philip Kozel (Rollins
College), “Communities and
Commodities”
E3 Finance Capital and Economic
Growth [FAMB 203]
Chris Niggle (University
of Redlands), Chair
Firat Demir (University
of Oklahoma),
“Financial Anarchy, Capital Flow Volatility, and Fixed Investment in
Developing Countries: Asymmetric Effects of Capital Flows Revisited”
Korkut Erturk (University
of Utah),
“Speculation, Liquidity Preference and Monetary Circulation”
Rohit (Political Economy Research Institute,
University
of Massachusetts, Amherst, and Jawaharlal Nehru University, India), “Concentration, Finance, and
Growth”
E4 Socialism and Human
Development [FAMB 204]
Keith Nurse (University of the West Indies),
Chair
Stephen Cullenberg (University
of California, Riverside), “Rethinking Poverty beyond the
World Bank: Class and Ethical Dimensions of Poverty Eradication”
Enrico Luzzati (University of Turin), “A Study of Interest- and Community-Based
Cooperatives, with Special Reference to
Mozambique
and Senegal”
Al Campbell (University
of Utah), “The
Dialectical Relation of Human Development and Socialist Transformation”
E5 Pluralist Post Keynesianism
[FAMB 205]
Frederic Lee (University of
Missouri, Kansas
City), Chair
Zdravka Todorova (Wright
State
University), “Towards an Anthropogenic
Approach to Households in a Monetary Theory of Production”
Linwood Tauheed (University of
Missouri, Kansas
City), “A Proposed Methodological Synthesis of Post Keynesian and
Institutional Economics”
Gustavo Vargas Sánchez (Autonomous National
University of Mexico, Mexico
City), “The Theory of the Firm: A Comparative Analysis between the Labor
Theory of Value and the Post Keynesian Theory”
E6 Opening up the Economy, But to
What Ends? [FAMB 201]
Andrew Mearman (University of the West of
England
and Bristol Business School),
Chair
Vinca Bigo (Cambridge University), “Open and Closed Systems and the Cambridge School”
Hande Togrul (University of Utah) and Emel Memis (University of Utah),
“Dreaming About ‘Good’ Economics: Possible?”
Brian O’Boyle (National University
of Ireland, Galway) and
Terrence McDonough (National University
of Ireland, Galway),
“Critical Realism, Marxism, and the Critique of Neoclassical Economics”
E7 Unmeasured Contributors to
Economic Growth [BuC 210]
I. David Wheat Jr. (University of Bergen, Norway), Chair
Yongbok Jeon (University of Utah), “Total Factor Productivity, Income
Distribution, and Growth Accounting in China: A Methodological Critique”
John Tomer (Manhattan
College), “Intangible
Capital, Economic Growth, and Governmental Policy”
Hasan Gürak (Istanbul),
“An Alternative Growth Model”
E8 Starting Points for
Reconstructing Standard Economic Theory
[BuC 208]
Rogier DeLanghe (University of
Ghent, Belgium),
Chair
Tamás Dusek (Széchenyi István
University, Hungary),
“Methodological Problems in Neoclassical Treatments of Space”
Michael Joffe (Wellbeing Health and Policy Services, UK), “The Importance of
Heterogeneity in Economic Theory”
12:00-1:00
Lunch
(provided on-site)
1:00-2:30
Concurrent Sessions F
F1 Post
Keynesian Microfoundations
[FAMB 102]
Ric Holt (Southern Oregon
University), Chair
Ingrid Rima (Temple
University),
“Reinterpreting the Microeconomic Foundations for Understanding Labor
Market Outcomes”
Tuna Baskoy (Ryerson University,
Canada), “Post
Keynesian Theory of Dynamic Market Competition”
Chris Niggle (University
of Redlands),
“Evolutionary Keynesianism: The Institutionalist-Post Keynesian Approach
to Macroeconomics”
F2 Author Meets Critics:
Socialism after Hayek, Theodore A. Burczak (University of Michigan
Press, 2006) [FAMB 101]
mily Chamlee-Wright (Beloit
College), Chair
Erik Olsen (University of
Missouri, Kansas
City), Commentator
Kevin Quinn (Bowling Green
State
University), Commentator
Virgil Storr (George
Mason
University), Commentator
Ted Burczak (Denison
University), Respondent
F3 Beyond Economic Man?
[FAMB 201]
John B. Davis (University
of Amsterdam
and Marquette University), Chair
Roger McCain (Drexel
University), “Evolutionary
Schemas for a Unified Socio-Economic Science”
Tai Young-Taft (New School for Social Research), “The Taming of the
Economic Individual”
Yahya Mete Madra (Gettysburg
College), “Late
Neoclassical Economics: Restoration of Theoretical Humanism in
Contemporary Mainstream Economics”
F4 Inequality and Structural
Change [FAMB 203]
Travis Hale (University
of Texas Inequality
Project [UTIP]), Chair
Laura Spagnolo (UTIP), “Pay Inequality in Cuba during the Special Period”
Olivier G. Giovannoni (UTIP), “Labor Market Structure and the
Macroeconomic Dimension of Inequality”
Deepshikha Roychowdhury (UTIP), “European Wage Structure, 1980-2005: How
Much Flexibility Do We Have?”
Travis Hale (UTIP), “The Changing Geography of American Inequality: From
IT Bust to Big Government Boom”
F5 Critical Perspectives on Business Schools and Schooling
[FAMB 204]
Susan Feiner (University of Southern Maine),
Chair
Kenneth N. Ehrensal (Kutztown University of Pennsylvania), “[Re]producing
the Foot Soldiers of Capitalism”
Sarah Stookey (Central
Connecticut
State
University), “Through and
Past the ‘Values’ of Management”
F6 Hegemonic Ideas in Historical
Perspective [FAMB 205]
Laurie Johnson (University
of Denver), Chair
Stephen Ziliak (Roosevelt
University), “Guinness is
Good for You (and So Is Gosset): The Economic Origins of Student’s t”
Carlos Eduardo Suprinyak (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil),
“The Political Economy of Demographic Management: Power and Population
in 17th Century British Economic Thought”
David Vazquez-Guzman (University
of Stirling, UK),
“Historical Background of Rationality: Decision-Making Insights during
the Enlightenment”
Hüseyin Özel (Hacettepe University,
Ankara), “Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: Marx,
Weber, Schumpeter, and Polanyi”
F7 Labor Market Complexities
[BuC 210]
Brian O’Boyle (National University
of Ireland,
Galway), Chair
Joshua Frank (SUNY Cortland),
“Explaining Labor Markets in the Popular Arts: Superstar Phenomenon or
Recommendation Markets?”
Mary C. King (Portland State University)
and Leopoldo Rodriguez (Portland
State
University), “Working Semi-Formally: Mexican
Immigrants in an Urban Labor Market”
Ipek Ilkkaracan (Istanbul
Technical
University), “Collective Bargaining: An
Institution of Labor Market Rigidity or Flexibility?”
2:30-2:45
Tea/Coffee Break
2:45-4:15
Concurrent Sessions G
G1 Yesterday’s Radicals = Today’s
Leading Edge? [FAMB 102]
Anne Mayhew (University of Tennessee,
Knoxville), Chair
Edward McPhail (Dickinson College) and Andrew Farrant (Dickinson College),
“Robert Solow and Radical Economics”
David Colander (Middlebury
College), “How the
Economics Profession Really Works: Heterodox Economics through
Mainstream Eyes”
Ric Holt (Southern Oregon
University), “The Changing
Face of Economics: The Role of Heterodox Economics in Changing the
Direction of Mainstream Economics Today”
G2 Roundtable: E.K. Hunt’s
Contributions to Economic Pluralism
[FAMB 101]
Robin Hahnel (American
University), Chair
Ferda Dönmez Atbaşı (Ankara
University), “Marx,
Alienation and Academia”
Hüseyin Özel (Hacettepe University,
Ankara), “A Bridge over Troubled Waters? Radical
Institutionalism and ‘Anti-Essentialist’
Readings of
Marx”
Justin Elardo (Ohio
State
University), “Ethics in the Absence of a
Theory of Value: A Radical Critique of Sen’s Capabilities Approach”
G3 Author Meets Critics: Reclaiming
Marx’s “Capital”: A Refutation of the Myth of Inconsistency, Andrew
Kliman (Lexington Books, 2007)
[FAMB 201]
Alan Freeman (University of
Greenwich, UK),
Chair
Bruce Roberts (University
of Southern Maine),
Commentator
Erik Olsen (University of
Missouri, Kansas
City), Commentator
Hans Ehrbar (University
of Utah),
Commentator
Mat Forstater (University of
Missouri, Kansas
City), Commentator
Andrew Kliman (Pace
University), Respondent
G4 Economic Knowledge, Reframed
[FAMB 203]
Stephen Ziliak (Roosevelt
University), Chair
Ozan Isler (University of California,
Riverside), “Implications of Framing Effects for
the Future of Economics: Cognition, Social Norms, and Ideology”
Martha Starr (American
University), “Media
Representations of Economic News: Coverage of Lay-Offs and Business
Closures as Cultural ‘Meme’”
Dan Nuckols (Austin
College), “Economic
History as Literature”
G5 Power, Profit, and Capitalist
Competition [BuC 210]
Tuna Baskoy (Ryerson
University), Chair
Mehrene Larudee (DePaul
University), “Capital
Gains: A Neglected Area of Political Economy”
Michael Joffe (Wellbeing
Health and Policy Services,
UK),
“Power Relationships among Competitors”
Julian Wells (Kingston University, UK),
“Competition as Gravitation: Evidence from the U.K.”
G6 Pluralism among and within Schools
of Economic Thought [FAMB
204]
Andrew Mearman (University of the West of
England
and Bristol Business School),
Chair
Gustavo Marqués (University of Buenos Aires), “Is Commitment to Kuhn’s
Incommensurability Thesis a Good Basis for Constructing a Pluralist
Approach to Economics?”
William Waller (Hobart and William Smith Colleges),
“Is Convergence among Heterodox Schools Possible, Meaningful and/or
Desirable?”
Ioana Negru (Anglia Ruskin
University, UK),
“On Homogeneity and Pluralism within Economic Schools Of Thought”
G7 Economic Analysis with System
Dynamics [BuC 208]
John Hall (Portland
State
University), Chair
Oleg Pavlov (Worcester Polytechnic Institute), “A Microdynamic Analysis of
a Common Resource Problem”
Linwood Tauheed (University of
Missouri, Kansas
City), “Race, Class, and Culture-Influenced Nonlinearities in the
Interpretation of Cognitive Skill Growth”
Geert Dhondt (University of Massachusetts,
Amherst), “How
Prisons Increase Crime”
G8 Bounded Rationality and the
Intersubjectivity of Business Investment
[FAMB 205]
Dennis Badeen (York University,
Toronto), Chair
Rouslan Koumakhov (Reims
Management School, France),
“Herbert Simon Revisited: Bounded Rationality, Coordination, and Social
Representations”
Alexandra Strommer de Farias Godoi (Escola de Administração de Empresas de
São Paulo), “The Firm and the ‘Pharos’: A Bounded
Rationality Approach to the Firm’s Investment Decision Process”
Massimo Ricottilli (University
of Bologna),
“Self-Organized Criticality, Innovation Waves, and Investment”
4:15-4:30
Tea/Coffee Break
4:30-6:00
Plenary Session II, “Economics for the Common Good”
[FAMB 103]
Erik Olsen (University of
Missouri,
Kansas City), Chair
Gar Alperovitz (University of Maryland), “America beyond Capitalism”
Neva Goodwin (Tufts University and Global Development and
Environment Institute), “Coming Changes in Climate, the Macro Economy,
and Macroeconomics”
Robin Hahnel (American University), “From Competition and Greed
to Equitable Cooperation: What Do Heterodox Economists Have to Offer?”
Emily Chamlee-Wright (Beloit
College), Commentator
7:30–9:30
Conference Dinner (Salt
Lake City Marriott, University Park)
9:00-10:30
Concurrent Sessions H
H1 The Next Economics, After Modernism
[FAMB 102]
Diana Strassmann (Rice
University), Chair
Peter Söderbaum (Mälardalen
University,
Västerås), “Science, Ideology, and Development: Is There a
‘Sustainability Economics’?”
Lisa Morrison (Eastern Illinois University) and Eric Hake (Eastern Illinois University),
“Perestroika and Progress: The Post-Autistic Movement in Context”
Deirdre McCloskey (University of
Illinois, Chicago), “A Humanistic Science of the
Economy”
H2 Practicing Pluralism
[FAMB 101]
Andrew Kliman (Pace
University), Chair
Alan Freeman (University of Greenwich, UK),
“Catechism versus Pluralism: The Heterodox Response to the National
Undergraduate Curriculum Proposed by the UK Quality Assurance Authority”
Fred Lee (University of Missouri, Kansas
City), “Pluralism and Contested Knowledge: Marxian Economics and Working
Class Education in
Britain, 1900 - 1940”
John B. Davis (University
of Amsterdam
and Marquette University), “Why is Economics Not
Yet a Pluralistic Science?”
H3 Authors Meet Critics: Class and
Labor in Iran:
Did the Revolution Matter? Farhad Nomani and
Sohrab Behdad (Syracuse
University Press, 2006)
[FAMB 202]
Fadhel Kaboub (Drew
University), Chair and
Commentator
Firat Demir (University
of Oklahoma),
Commentator
Ted Burczak (Denison
University), Commentator
Sohrab Behdad (Denison
University), Respondent
Farhad Nomani (American University
of Paris),
Respondent
H4 Ecological Economics II
[FAMB 201]
Kristen A. Sheeran (St. Mary’s
College
of Maryland), Chair
Jean Maier (Sonoma
State
University), “Banking on a Future: Finance
and Environmental Sustainability”
Leopoldo Rodriguez (Portland State University),
“Scarcity Revisited: Thinking of Limits in the Age of Expanding Needs”
Hans Ehrbar (University
of Utah), “The Tail
Wagging the Dog: Parallels between Geophysiology and Marx’s Theory of
Capitalism”
H5 Currency Markets, Exchange Rates,
and Trade [FAMB 203]
Korkut Erturk (University
of Utah), Chair
Alexander Paplomatas (University of Denver), “The Effects of a Two-Tier
Currency Transaction Tax on Exchange Rate Volatility and Monetary Policy
Autonomy”
Tim Knight (Bristol,
UK), “Re-Engineering the ‘Money’
Processes”
Rudiger von Arnim (New
School for Social
Research), “Short-Run Adjustment in a Global Model of Current Account
Imbalances”
H6 Fishbanks: A Role-Playing Game about
Sustainable Development
[FAMB 204]
Michael Radzicki (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)
Oleg Pavlov (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)
Souleymane Bah (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)
10:30–11:00
Tea/Coffee Break
11:00-12:30
Plenary Session III, “Pluralism and Economic Education”
[FAMB 103]
Martha Starr (American University), Chair
KimMarie McGoldrick (University
of Richmond),
“Pluralism and Economic Education: Promoting Change -- Past, Present,
and Future”
Gilles Raveaud (Harvard University),
“A Pluralist Teaching of Economics: Why and How”
Yanis Varoufakis (University
of Athens), “A Most Peculiar
Success: Constructing a Doctoral Economics Program at the University of Athens,
Greece”
Susan Feiner (University of Southern Maine),
Commentator
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