Institutions

New book: Is Socialism Feasible? Towards an Alternative Future

October 17, 2019

Category: Geoffrey M. Hodgson, Institutions, Political economy, Socialism

by Geoffrey M. Hodgson. From Edward Elgar: After being proclaimed dead, there is now a major revival of socialist ideol

Call for papers: Productive Structures, Institutions and Distribution

January 11, 2018

Category: Call For Papers, conferences, Development, Distribution, Heterodox Economics, INET, Institutions

The YSI Economic Development Working Group is pleased to announce a Call for Papers on the theme of Productive Structur

Call for papers: Putting the Social Back into Economics

November 19, 2017

Category: Association for Social Economics, Call For Papers, Critical Social Science, economics, Heterodox Economics, Institutionalist, Institutions, Political economy, Radical Economics, Social Economics, Steve Pressman

16th World Congress of the Association for Social Economics Putting the Social Back into Economics Colorado State Uni

New Book: Stories of Progressive Institutional Change – Challenges to the Neoliberal Economy

July 5, 2017

Category: Deborah M. Figart, Development, Human Potential, Institutionalist, Institutions, Neoliberalism, Political economy, Social Action, Social Justice, Social Movements

By Deborah M. Figart. From Palgrave: This book presents a series of political economy short stories of collective agen

New Book: Money as a Social Institution – The Institutional Development of Capitalism

June 13, 2017

Category: Ann Davis, Capitalism, David Fields, Finance, Heterodox Economics, Institutions, Money, Political economy

By Ann E. Davis. From Routledge: Money is usually understood as a valuable object, the value of which is attributed to it

International Post-Keynesian and Institutionalist Conference: Instability, Growth & Regulation

February 18, 2017

Category: Classical-Keynesian, conferences, crisis, Critical Social Science, David Fields, Financial Crisis, Growth, Heterodox Economics, Instability, Institutionalist, Institutions, Keynes, Keynesianism, Marxian Economics, Post-Keynesian, ROKE

7-9 December 2017. Grenoble University, Grenoble, France This multidisciplinary conference aims at bringing toget

Institutions, Monetary Operations and a Demand-Led Global Economy

January 12, 2017

Category: Classical-Keynesian, David Fields, Effective Demand, Endogenous Money, Growth, Institutions, Keynes, Macroeconomics, Money, Post-Keynesian, world economy

Macroeconomic controversies usually center on causation. Two questions of significance for policymaking concern o

New Book by Giulio Palermo: Economics and Power – A Marxist critique

June 8, 2016

Category: Capitalism, David Fields, Giulio Palermo, Heterodox Economics, ideology, Institutions, mainstream, Marginalist, Marx, Marxian Economics, Marxism, Methodology, Neoclassical Economics, Neoliberalism, Power, Radical Economics, Research, Scholarship, Science & Society

From Routledge: In the economic debate, power is defined and studied mainly as an interpersonal relation occurring ou

New Book: Megacity Malaise, by Carlo Fanelli

June 5, 2016

Category: austerity, Canada, Carlo Fanelli, Critical Social Science, David Fields, financialization, Fiscal Crisis, Fiscal Policy, Inequality, Institutions, Neoliberalism, Political economy, Privatization, Scholarship

From Fernwood Publishing: Megacity Malaise documents how municipal governance, labour-management relations and p

DisORIENT: Money, Technological Development and the Rise of the West

May 20, 2016

Category: Arrighi, David Fields, Development, economic history, Geography, Great Divergence, Gunder Frank, Institutions, International Political Economy, M Vernengo, Marginalist, Money, Neoclassical Economics, Pomeranz, Review of Radical Political Economics, Rise of the West, Scholarship, State Theory, Technology, world economy

By Matias Vernengo A very short paper on a very broad subject, co-written with David Fields, which was presented at the l

Capital, Accumulation, Production and Employment: A WEA Online Conference

May 16, 2016

Category: Capitalism, Class Conflict, conferences, crisis, Critical Social Science, David Fields, Democracy, Development, Distribution, Economic Policy, Effective Demand, employment, Finance, Freedom, Globalization, Growth, Heterodox Economics, Human Potential, Inequality, Instability, Institutions, International Political Economy, jobs, Labour, Living Standards, Methodology, Neoliberalism, Political economy, Poverty, Power, Praxis, Production, Research, Scholarship, Social Action, Social Change, Social Justice, Social Movements, Sustainability, Well-being, Work, Workers, World Economics Association (WEA), world economy

Can We Bend the Arc of Global Capital Toward Justice? is an online conference sponsored by the World Economics Associat

Canada, Left-Nationalism, and Alternatives

May 14, 2016

Category: Canada, Capitalism, David Fields, Development, economic history, Growth, History, Institutions, International Political Economy, Left, Marxism, Paul Kellogg, Political economy, Robin Chang, Staples theory, State Theory, world economy

Paul Kellogg interviewed by Robin Chang on Escape from the Staples Trap: A concrete understanding of contemporary Can

URPE @ The 2016 Left Forum

May 13, 2016

Category: Capitalism, Class Conflict, Communism, conferences, Critical Social Science, CUNY, David Fields, Democracy, Environment, Feminism, Freedom, Heterodox Economics, Human Potential, Human Rights, Humanism, Institutions, Left, Left Forum, Living Standards, Marx, Marxian Economics, Marxism, Neoliberalism, Political economy, Power, Praxis, Protest, Race, Radical Economics, Research, Revolution, Scholarship, Social Action, Social Change, Social Justice, Social Movements, Strategy, URPE

URPE encourage everyone who lives in or near New York City, or can make it to the conference, to attend URPE’s 7 spo

Alex Prichard & Owen Worth on a convergence between Marxism and Anarchism

April 23, 2016

Category: Alex Prichard, Antonio Gramsci, Capital & Class, Capitalism, Class Conflict, Communism, Critical Social Science, David Fields, Democracy, Freedom, Human Potential, Humanism, ideology, Institutions, Marx, Marxism, Owen Worth, Political economy, Power, Praxis, Revolution, Social Action, Social Movements, Socialism, Strategy

New paper published by Capital & Class. From the abstract: In this article, we argue that despite there being littl

Ilene Grabel on Capital Controls

April 22, 2016

Category: Capital Controls, crisis, David Fields, Debt, Development, Economic Policy, Financial Crisis, Financial Liberalization, Geography, Globalization, Ilene Grabel, IMF, Institutions, International Political Economy, Neoliberalism, PERI, world economy

New paper published by PERI. From the abstract: The startling resuscitation of capital controls during the global cri

A Short Account of the Rise of Neoliberalism

April 11, 2016

Category: Bretton Woods, Capitalism, Class Conflict, David Fields, economic history, Economic Policy, Fed, Finance, financialization, Fiscal Policy, Globalization, History, Institutions, Labour, Macroeconomics, Monetary Policy, Money, Neoliberalism, United States, US Hegemony, world economy

By David M. Fields Between roughly the early 1940’s and early 1970’s, the financial architecture of the w

A Brief Sketch of the Classical-Keynesian Perspective

April 8, 2016

Category: Capitalism, Class Conflict, Classical-Keynesian, Critical Social Science, David Fields, Debt, Distribution, Effective Demand, Finance, Fiscal Policy, Growth, Heterodox Economics, Institutions, Keynes, Labour, Long-Period, Macroeconomics, Marx, Marxian Economics, Methodology, Modern Monetary Theory, Monetary Policy, Money, Political economy, Post-Keynesian, Power, Prices, Radical Economics, Sraffa, Sraffian Economics, Supermultiplier, unemployment, Value Theory, Wages

By David M. Fields From a Classical-Keynesian perspective (Bortis, 1997, 2003), rates of interest regulate rates of p

YSI Workshop @ 2016 ECLAC Summer School on Latin American Economies

April 7, 2016

Category: Balance of Payments Constraint, Call For Papers, conferences, David Fields, Debt, Dependency Theory, Development, ECLAC, Economic Policy, Esteban Perez, Finance, Fiscal Policy, Gilberto Tadeu Lima, Growth, Heterodox Economics, Imperialism, Inequality, Instability, Institutions, International Political Economy, Latin America, Living Standards, Macroeconomics, Monetary Policy, Neoliberalism, Periphery, Radical Economics, Research, Robert Blecker, Tommasso Ciarli, UN, Well-being, world economy

The YSI Latin America Working Group is hosting a workshop at the ECLAC/UN Summer School on Latin American economies. Th

New Book by Heather Boushey: Finding Time: The Economics of Work-Life Conflict

March 25, 2016

Category: Capitalism, Commodification, David Fields, Feminism, Gender, Heather Boushey, Heterodox Economics, Inequality, Institutions, jobs, Leisure, Neoliberalism, Political economy, Power, Radical Economics, Social Change, Social Justice, Well-being, Work

From Harvard University Press: Employers today are demanding more and more of employees’ time. And from campaign barb

New Levy Paper by Pavlina R. Tcherneva: Money, Power, and Monetary Regimes

March 8, 2016

Category: Capitalism, Chartalism, Currency, David Fields, Dollarization, Exchange Rates, Finance, Heterodox Economics, History, Institutions, Keynes, Levy, Macroeconomics, Methodology, Modern Monetary Theory, Monetary Policy, Money, Pavlina R. Tcherneva, Political economy, Post-Keynesian, Power, Prices, Research, State Theory, Value Theory

By Pavlina R. Tcherneva From the abstract: Money, in this paper, is defined as a power relationship of a specific kind, a

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