URPE at ASSA, January 4-6 2019, Atlanta, GA
Friday, Jan. 4, 2019
8:00 AM – 10:00 AM
ACCOUNTING FOR GENDER DIFFERENTIAL OUTCOMES (IAFFE–URPE Joint Session)
Friday 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM Hyatt Regency Atlanta, Hanover A
Chair: Randy Albelda, randy.albelda@umb.edu, University of Massachusetts Boston
Paper#1: The US Department of Defense and Gender-Biased Human Capital Development
Tyler Saxon, tymatsaxon@gmail.com, Hamilton College
Paper#2: Ask and You Shall Receive? Gender Differences in Regrades in College
Cher Li hsueh-hsiang.li@colostate.edu, Colorado State University
Basit Zafar, Arizona State University
Paper#3: Gender and Mental Health in the United States: The Impact of Paid and Unpaid Work
Chiara Piovani, Chiara.Piovani@du.edu, University of Denver
Nursel Aydiner-Avsar, UNCTAD
Paper#4: Graduating During the Great Recession: The Effect of Student Loan Debt on Wages and Wage Growth of Recent Colleges Graduates
Alex Bernasek, Alexandra.Bernasek@colostate.edu, Colorado State University
Melanie G. Long, Colorado State University
Paper#5: Will the Different Retirement Age Enlarge the Gender Gap in Urban China?
Jin Feng, jfeng@fudan.edu.cn, Fudan University
Jin Liu, Central University of Finance
Discussion among presenters
CAPITALIST DEVELOPMENT AND THE NON-CAPITAL IN THE PERIPHERY
Friday 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM Hyatt Regency Atlanta, Hanover G
Chair/Organizer: Alejandro Garay-Huaman, alejandro.garay@fulbrightmail.org, Bucknell University
Paper #1: Economic development from a Marxian perspective: Main contributions and challenges
Juan E. Santarcángelo, jsantar@gmail.com, the Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Paper #2: Capitalist and non-capitalist articulation: Peruvian peasants and transnational mining corporations
Alejandro Garay-Huaman, alejandro.garay@fulbrightmail.org, Bucknell University
Paper #3: Empirical Evaluation of Informal Labor in Latin America, 1990-2014
Jose Galvez, joserolandogalvez@gmail.com, Colorado State University
Paper #4: Labor Market Outcomes in Global Value Chains: Wage and Income Distribution Effects of Trade Integration in Developing Economies
Arpan Ganguly, arpan.ganguly@colostate.edu, Colorado State University
Discussants:
Jacob Powell, jpkx7@mail.umkc.edu, University of Missouri Kansas City
Rafed Al-Huq, rifrafrif@gmail.com, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Friday, Jan. 4, 2019
10:15 AM – 12:15 PM
FINANCIAL IMBALANCES, FRAGILITIES AND POLICY SOLUTIONS
Friday 10:15 AM – 12:15 PM Hyatt Regency Atlanta, Hanover B
Chair: Eugenia Correa, correa@unam.mx, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Paper #1: The odd fiscal ‘implicit bargain’ between constituent states of the Eurozone, and how to make it work
Ignacio Ramirez Cisneros, irv22@mail.umkc.edu, University of Missouri – Kansas City
Paper #2: Evolution of Policy Proposals for the Eurozone Following the Global Financial Crisis of 2008
Nina Eichacker, ninaqeichacker@gmail.com, University of Rhode Island
Paper #3: The rise of net lending among G7 countries: a firm-level analysis.
Davide Villani, davide.villani@open.ac.uk, Open University
Paper #4: Shareholder Payouts and Wages: A Missing Link?
Lenore Palladino, lenorepalladino@gmail.com, Roosevelt Institute
Discussants:
Armagan Gezici, agezici@keene.edu, Keene State College
BLACK WOMEN AND WORK
Friday 10:15 AM – 12:15 PM Hyatt Regency Atlanta, Hanover G
Organizer/Chair: Jennifer Cohen, cohenje@miamioh.edu, Miami University and the University of the Witwatersrand
Paper #1: Beyond income: race, work, and health inequalities among women
Jennifer Cohen, cohenje@miamioh.edu, Miami University and the University of the Witwatersrand
Paper #2: Black Women and Non-Market Work: Theorizing the Community as a Site of Production
Nina Banks, nbanks@bucknell.edu, Bucknell University
Paper #3: Automation, AI, Robotics and older Black Women Workers
Chandra Childers, childers@iwpr.org, The Institute for Women’s Policy Research
Paper #4: Gender Violence and Work: Evidence from Dominican Bateyes
Cruz Caridad Bueno, buenoc@newpaltz.edu, State University of New York-New Paltz
Paper #5: Does Land Still Matter? Gender and Land Reforms in Zimbabwe
Sirisha Naidu, sirisha.naidu@wright.edu Wright State University
Lyn Ossome, lossome@misr.mak.ac.ug, Makerere Institute of Social Research, Uganda
Discussants:
Michelle Holder, mholder@jjay.cuny.edu, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY
Paddy Quick, paddyquick8@gmail.com, St. Francis College
2019 David Gordon Memorial Lecture
Friday, Jan. 4, 2019
12:30 PM – 2:15 PM
Hyatt Regency Atlanta, Hanover G
Social Structures and Macrodynamics
Anwar Shaikh, New School for Social Research
Friday, Jan. 4, 2019
2:30 PM – 4:30 PM
CHALLENGES FOR LATIN AMERICA
Friday 2:30 PM – 4:30 PM Hyatt Regency Atlanta, Hanover A
Chair: Ignacio Ramirez Cisneros, irv22@mail.umkc.edu, University of Missouri – Kansas City
Paper#1: Industrialization and structural change of the periphery in the global world
Margarita Olivera, marga.oli@gmail.com, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Paper #2: The second neoliberal counter-revolution: Argentina, Brazil and Ecuador
Eugenia Correa, correa@unam.mx, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Discussants:
Alejandro Garay-Huaman, alejandro.garay@fulbrightmail.org, Bucknell University
Devika Dutt, ddutt@umass.edu, University of Massachusetts Amherst
RACE, IMMIGRATION, GENDER: ADVANCES IN HETERODOX METHODOLOGY
Friday 2:30 PM – 4:30 PM Hyatt Regency Atlanta, Hanover G
Chair: Sirisha C. Naidu, sirisha.naidu@wright.edu, Wright State University
Paper #1: Stratification Economics and the Neoclassical “Economics of Race” as Evolutionary Scientific Communities: Can the Stratification Approach Succeed?
Kyle Moore, moork408@newschool.edu, New School for Social Research
Paper #2: The Fading Mark of Migration: Assimilation as Information Loss among US Immigrants
Noe Wiener, nwiener@umass.edu, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Paper #3: We’re All Feminists Now: Endogenizing Social Reproduction in Marxian Economics
Katherine A Moos, kmoos@umass.edu, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Paper #4: Relations of Production and Relations of Sex/Gender/Age
Paddy Quick, paddyquick8@gmail.com, St. Francis College
Discussants:
Darrick Hamilton, hamiltod@newschool.edu, The New School for Social Research
John Davis, john.davis@mu.edu, Marquette University
Friday, Jan. 4, 2019
URPE Membership Meeting
Hyatt Regency Atlanta, Hanover G
4:30 PM – 6:00 PM
URPE Reception
Hyatt Regency Atlanta, Hanover AB
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Saturday, Jan. 5, 2019
8:00 AM – 10:00 AM
STRATIFICATION AND INTERSECTIONALITY (IAFFE–URPE Joint Session)
Saturday 8:00am – 10:00am Hyatt Regency Atlanta, Hanover A
Chair: M.V. Lee Badgett, lbadgett@gmail.com, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Paper#1: Intersectionality and Returns in the Labor Market: Penalties of Race and Gender
Mark Paul, markvpaul62@gmail.com, New College of Florida
Khaing Zaw, khai.zaw@duke.edu, Duke University
Darrick Hamilton, hamiltod@newschool.edu, The New School for Social Research
William Darity, william.darity@duke.edu, Duke University
Paper #2: Are there macroeconomic costs to racial inequality in the US?
Stephanie Seguino, stephanie.seguino@uvm.edu, University of Vermont
Nancy Brooks, nancy.brooks@cornell.edu, Cornell University
Paper #3: Intersectionality and Suicide Over Business Cycles
Thomas Briggs, thomasmbriggs@gmail.com, Colorado State University
Discussant: Bryanna Dixon, Colorado State University
SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES: STRUCTURE AND AGENCY
Saturday 8:00am – 10:00am Hyatt Regency Atlanta, Hanover G
Chair: Kirstin Munro, munrok@stjohns.edu, St. John’s University
Paper #1: Macroeconomic Policy in an Environmentally-Constrained Economy: A Dialectical Materialist Application of the Harrod Growth Model
Hendrik Van Den Berg , hvandenberg@econs.umass.edu, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Alfredo Rosete, arosete@warren-wilson.edu, Warren Wilson College
Paper #2: Salvation or Commodification? The Role of Money and Markets in Global Ecological Preservation
Ann Davis, ann.davis@marist.edu, Marist College
Paper #3: The Communitarian Revolutionary Subject: New Forms of social transformation
David Barkin, barkin@correo.xoc.uam.mx, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana
Discussants:
Kirstin Munro, munrok@stjohns.edu, St. John’s University
Scott Carter, scott-carter@utulsa.edu, University of Tulsa
Saturday, Jan. 5, 2019
10:15 AM – 12:15 PM
CONCEPTUALIZING LABOR
Saturday 10:15am – 12:15pm Hyatt Regency Atlanta, Hanover A
Chair: Noe Wiener, nwiener@umass.edu, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Paper #1: Alternative Work Arrangements as Labor Discipline
Erik Olsen, olsenek@umkc.edu, University of Missouri Kansas City
Jacob Powell, jpkx7@mail.umkc.edu, University of Missouri Kansas City
Paper #2: Working as an end: The importance of autonomy of labor in shaping human development
Dai Duong, ddd5db@mail.umkc.edu, University of Missouri-Kansas City
Paper #3: Work Transfer and Household Recycling Sorting
Kirstin Munro, munrok@stjohns.edu, St. John’s University
Paper #4: Can ‘Landnahme’ finally locate the role of care work for the capitalist mode of production?
Anna Saave-Harnack, anna.saave-harnack@uni-jena.de, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena
Discussants:
Noe Wiener, nwiener@umass.edu, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Katherine A. Moos, kmoos@umass.edu, University of Massachusetts Amherst
SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH AND WEALTH
Saturday 10:15am – 12:15pm Hyatt Regency Atlanta, Hanover G
Chair: Michelle Holder, mholder@jjay.cuny.edu, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY
Paper #1: The Effects of Residential Segregation on Mortality Disparities in the US
Nancy Breen, breenn@mail.nih.gov, National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities
Paper #2: Quality Public Transportation Can Improve Access to Care
Darrell Gaskin, dgaskin1@jhu.edu, Johns Hopkins University
Paper #3: Intersection of Race Incarceration and Wealth
Darrick Hamilton, hamiltod@newschool.edu, The New School for Social Research
Paper #4: Affordable Housing in Westchester County, NY
Laurence O’Connell, larryoconnell64@gmail.com, The New School of Social Research
Discussants:
Patrick Mason, pmason@fsu.edu, Florida State University
Robert B. Williams, bwillia2@guilford.edu, Guilford College
Saturday January 5
Women’s Caucus Meeting
12pm – 1pm
Hyatt Regency Atlanta Learning Center
Saturday, Jan. 5, 2019
2:30 PM – 4:30 PM
EMPIRICAL STUDIES OF GROWTH AND DISTRIBUTION
Saturday 2:30 – 4:30pm Hyatt Regency Atlanta, Hanover G
Chair: Ozgur Orhangazi, ozgurorhangazi@gmail.com, Kadir Has University, Istanbul
Paper #1: Semi-Proletarianization in a Two-Sector Model: The Case of China
Hao Qi, hq@ruc.edu.cn, Renmin University of China
Paper #2: New Evidence in Cross-Country Growth: Balanced versus Unbalanced Growth Hypotheses Revisited
Xiao Jiang, jiangx@denison.edu, Denison University
Chau Nguyen, chaubo7001@gmail.com, Oxford University
Paper #3: Distributional Consequences of Monetary Policy in Emerging Markets
Zhandos Ybrayev, zybrayev@umass.edu, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Discussants:
Ozgur Orhangazi, ozgurorhangazi@gmail.com, Kadir Has University, Istanbul
Peter Bent, phbent@gmail.com, American University of Paris
HOW RACIST IDEOLOGY SHAPES ECONOMIC OUTCOMES
Saturday 2:30 – 4:30pm Hyatt Regency Atlanta, Grand Hall East A
Organizer/Chair: Nancy Breen, breenn@mail.nih.gov, National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities
Paper #1: Blacks for Trump: Who are the African Americans Who Supported the President and Why did these African Americans Vote for Him?
Patrick Mason, pmason@fsu.edu, Florida State University
Paper #2: Cult of the Confederacy and the Division of the Working Class
Scott Carter, scott-carter@utulsa.edu, University of Tulsa
Paper #3: Federal Wealth Policy and the Perpetuation of White Supremacy
Robert B. Williams, bwillia2@guilford.edu, Guilford College
Paper #4: Spatial Justice, Uneven Development, and Intergenerational Inequality: A ‘Postcolonial’ United States of America
Jordan Shipley, jksy8c@mail.umkc.edu, University of Missouri – Kansas City
Discussant: William Darity, william.darity@duke.edu, Duke University
Sunday, Jan. 6, 2019
8:00 AM – 10:00 AM
FINANCIAL FRAGILITY, SECULAR STAGNATION, AND INCOME DISTRIBUTION
Sunday 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM Hyatt Regency Atlanta, Hanover A
Chair: Leila Davis, ldavis@middlebury.edu, University of Massachusetts Boston
Paper #1: Induced shifting involvements and cycles of growth and distribution
Michalis Nikiforos, mnikiforos@levy.org, Levy Economic Institute
Paper #2: The Functions and Distribution of Household Debt – A Study on US Data
Orsola Costantini, ocostantini@ineteconomics.org, Institute for New Economic Thinking
Paper #3: Income shares, secular stagnation, and the long run distribution of wealth
Daniele Tavani, daniele.tavani@colostate.edu, Colorado State University
Paper #4: The evolution of financial fragility: A quantile decomposition of firm balance sheets
Leila Davis, ldavis@middlebury.edu, University of Massachusetts Boston
Discussion among presenters
MACROECONOMIC AND DEVELOPMENT POLICY IN A FINANCIALLY GLOBALIZED ECONOMY: CURRENT AND HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES
Sunday 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM Hyatt Regency Atlanta, Hanover G
Chair: Devika Dutt, ddutt@umass.edu, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Paper #1: The Return of the Sacred Cows: How the International Financial Institutions Approach New Forms of Finance
Ingrid Kvangraven, ingrid.kvangraven@york.ac.uk, University of York
Paper #2: The IMF and World Bank’s policy for development of government bond market in developing countries: primacy of monetary policy as the result of financial globalisation
Carolina Alves, cca30@cam.ac.uk, University of Cambridge
Paper #3: The role of aid on peace consolidation in post-conflict Sri Lanka
Narayani Sritharan, nsritharan@umass.edu, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Paper #4: Terms of Trade, Tariff Rates, and Recoveries from Financial Crises: The United States and Argentina in the 1890s
Peter Bent, phbent@gmail.com, American University of Paris
Paper #5: Can Reserve Accumulation be Counterproductive?
Devika Dutt, ddutt@umass.edu, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Discussion among presenters
Sunday, Jan. 6, 2019
10:15 AM – 12:15 PM
THE RELATION OF PROFIT TO MONOPOLY POWER, INVESTMENT, AND ECONOMIC EXPANSION IN THE CONTEMPORARY US ECONOMY
Sunday 10:15 AM – 12:15 PM Hyatt Regency Atlanta, Hanover A
Chair/Organizer: David Kotz, dmkotz@econs.umass.edu, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Paper #1: Exploring the phases of current business cycle expansion in the U.S. and contemplating the next recession
Erdogan Bakir, eb035@bucknell.edu, Bucknell University
Al Campbell, al@economics.utah.edu, University of Utah
Paper #2: The U.S. Corporate Profits, Monopoly Power and New Technologies
Armagan Gezici, agezici@keene.edu, Keene State College
Paper #3: The Rate of Profit, Aggregate Demand, and the Long Economic Expansion since 2009 in the U.S.
David Kotz, dmkotz@econs.umass.edu, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Paper #4: Revisiting the investment-profit puzzle: the role of intangible assets
Ozgur Orhangazi, ozgurorhangazi@gmail.com, Kadir Has University, Istanbul
Discussants: Leila Davis, ldavis@middlebury.edu, University of Massachusetts Boston and Carolina Alves, cca30@cam.ac.uk, University of Cambridge
URPE Special Events
2019 David Gordon Memorial Lecture
Hyatt Regency Atlanta, Hanover G
Friday, Jan. 4, 2019
12:30 PM – 2:15 PM
Social Structures and Macrodynamics
Anwar Shaikh, New School for Social Research
URPE Membership Meeting
Hyatt Regency Atlanta, Hanover G
Friday, Jan. 4, 2019
4:30 PM – 6:00 PM
URPE Reception
Hyatt Regency Atlanta, Hanover AB
Friday, Jan. 4, 2019
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Women’s Caucus Meeting
Hyatt Regency Atlanta Learning Center
Saturday January 5
12pm – 1pm