Call for Papers: URPE at ASSA 2027

January 3-5, 2027 (Sunday, Monday & Tuesday)

Washington, DC Marriott Marquis

URPE invites proposals for complete sessions and individual papers for the URPE at the ASSA’s program.  We welcome submissions on topics of interest to radical political economists from a wide variety of theoretical perspectives. We are especially interested in papers that provide contemporary or historical analyses of the current political economic juncture, of poly- and planetary crises, of the implications for anti-capitalist politics, and on other related themes.

• Click here to update your account
• Click here to join URPE
• Click here to submit an individual paper submission
• Click here to submit a complete session proposal

The deadline for proposed sessions and papers is April 27th 2026

Please note the following before planning your submission:

(i)  URPE does not provide any funding towards conference expenses or travel. Presenters must obtain funding from their own institutions or other sources.

(ii) While we understand that these deadlines are early and plans can change, please only submit an abstract if you aim, in good faith, to attend the ASSAs. URPE is allocated only a certain number of sessions and later withdrawals/cancellations end up taking a precious spot on the program.

(iii)  We will also continue to uphold our policy of a two-year ban on last minute no-shows.

(iv) URPE will only consider papers that are not under consideration elsewhere for the same meeting. When you submit your paper or panel proposal, please confirm that your submission is not under consideration for presentation at the ASSA meetings by another organization.

Please note that all session participants must be a current member of URPE in good standing at the time of submission of the session or paper proposal.  Anyone not current with their dues will be notified and given a one week grace period, after which proposals will be deleted if membership is not made current.  Membership information is available by clicking here.

Guidelines for Complete Sessions

Proposals for complete sessions should include the following information:

• Session title
• A brief abstract for each paper (limited to 250 words)
• Two JEL bibliographic codes for the proposed panel
• The names, institutional affiliations, and email addresses of all session participants

Proposals for sessions should contain at least four and up to five papers.  Session organizers are responsible for conveying administrative information to session members, including confirmation that the session has been accepted, the time and location of the session, and the deadlines for distributing papers.

Chairs and discussants should preferably be chosen amongst the panelists.  External discussants and chairs, as well as co-authors, will be not listed on the ASSA program.  However, they will be listed on an URPE program on the URPE website.  The ASSA allocation of sessions is based upon the number of people attending sessions, and the ASSA does not consider chairs, discussants, co-authors, and panelists as attendees.  Thus, we welcome the participation of those who would like to serve as external discussants or chairs, but will not include their names in our submission to the ASSA.

The total number of URPE sessions is limited by the ASSA, and we regret that high-quality session proposals may have to be turned down.

Guidelines for Individual Papers

Individual papers that are accepted will be assigned to sessions, and each session will have an assigned chair.  Session chairs are responsible for conveying administrative information to session members, including the time and location of the session, and the deadlines for distributing papers. Sessions will be organized based on the cohesiveness of papers around a central theme. We regret that high quality individual papers may be turned down due to the inability to place them in a session with papers with similar themes.

Proposals for individual papers should include the following information:

• Paper title
• Abstract (limited to 250 words)
• Two JEL bibliographic codes for the paper
• Author’s name, institutional affiliation, and email address (for all authors if co-authored paper).

Proposals submitted after the April 27th deadline will not be considered. You should receive word from URPE about the decision on your session or paper in late June.  The date and time of sessions are assigned by the AEA at the end of August.

Papers and panels that cannot be included on the URPE at ASSA program can automatically be considered for the ICAPE (International Confederation of Associations for Pluralism in Economics) conference that usually immediately follows the ASSA conference.  The ICAPE 2027 Conference will take place immediately following the ASSA conference. The ICAPE conference will also include a virtual component.

Please indicate with your submission whether you would like to be considered for inclusion into the ICAPE program if not accepted by URPE. ICAPE sessions are organized by Dr. Geoff Schneider, Bucknell University.

Applications for individual papers should be made to URPE@ASSA Individual Paper Proposals, or for complete session submissions to URPE@ASSA Complete Session Proposals.

If you have questions or problems with the online submission, please email the URPE National Office.  For questions about the meetings, please contact the URPE@ASSAs 2026 coordinators, Smita Ramnarain or Anastasia Wilson.

Each year the RRPE publishes a selection from the papers presented in a Proceedings Issue. If your paper is selected to be on the URPE@ASSAs 2027 program, you will receive an invitation to submit your conference paper for consideration in the 2027 RRPE Proceedings issue (which will be the December 2027 issue). Please follow the submission instructions described in the invitation you receive.

Please see the American Economic Association website for general logistical information about the conference, and our past programs page for more information on sessions at the conference.

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Happy new year! We are looking forward to seeing you this weekend at the ASSA Conference in Philadelphia. Below is the full program of URPE sessions.

In addition, please join us for the AFEE / ASE / HES / IAFFE / LERA / URPE Social on Sunday, Jan. 4 from 6:45 PM – 9:00 PM. It will be held at the Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, Grand Ballroom C&D.

Saturday, January 3

Gender Norms: Households, Jobs, and Credibility  (B5, J1)

Paper Session

Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026 10:15 AM – 12:15 PM (EST)

Philadelphia Convention Center, 302

Hosted By: Union for Radical Political Economics & International Association for Feminist Economics

Chair: Hoa Vo, American University

Roundtable on the Trump Economic Program and Its Impact: A Critical Assessment  (B5, H1)

Panel Session

Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026 2:30 PM – 4:30 PM (EST)

Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, Grand Ballroom Salon A

Hosted By: Association for Evolutionary Economics, Association for Social Economics & Union for Radical Political Economics

Moderators:
Geoffrey Schneider, Bucknell University and Howard Stein, University of Michigan

Environmental and Ecological Debates  (Q1, Q5)

Paper Session

Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026 2:30 PM – 4:30 PM (EST)

Philadelphia Convention Center, 301

Hosted By: Union for Radical Political Economics

Chair: Olivia Bullio Mattos, St. Francis College

Heterodox Perspectives on Technology, AI, and Digital Capitalism  (B5, O3)

Paper Session

Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026 2:30 PM – 4:30 PM (EST)

Philadelphia Convention Center, 302

Hosted By: Union for Radical Political Economics

Chair: Ali Alper Alemdar, St. Francis College

Sunday, January 4

Feminist Perspectives on Macroeconomics and Development  (B5, O1)

Paper Session

Sunday, Jan. 4, 2026 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM (EST)

Philadelphia Convention Center, 302

Hosted By: Union for Radical Political Economics & International Association for Feminist Economics

Chair: Milena Dehn, Colorado State University

Gender in Productive and Reproductive Work  (B5, J1)

Paper Session

Sunday, Jan. 4, 2026 10:15 AM – 12:15 PM (EST)

Philadelphia Convention Center, 302

Hosted By: Union for Radical Political Economics

Chair: Shaianne Osterreich, Ithaca College

Money, Debt, and Power  (B5, E4)

Paper Session

Sunday, Jan. 4, 2026 10:15 AM – 12:15 PM (EST)

Philadelphia Convention Center, 301

Hosted By: Union for Radical Political Economics

Chair: Nina Eichacker, University of Rhode Island

Political Economy of Modern Finance  (B5, G2)

Paper Session

Sunday, Jan. 4, 2026 2:30 PM – 4:30 PM (EST)

Philadelphia Convention Center, 301

Hosted By: Union for Radical Political Economics

Chair: Daniel Ossa, University of Denver

Monday, January 5

Political Economy of Space and Place  (B5, O1)

Paper Session

Monday, Jan. 5, 2026 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM (EST)

Philadelphia Convention Center, 302

Hosted By: Union for Radical Political Economics

Chair: Adelola Ojutiku, University of Massachusetts-Amherst

Political Economy Perspectives on the Chinese Economy  (B5, N1)

Paper Session

Monday, Jan. 5, 2026 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM (EST)

Philadelphia Convention Center, 301

Hosted By: Union for Radical Political Economics

Chair: Ningzhi He, University of Massachusetts-Amherst

Marxian Economic Thought  (B1, B5)

Paper Session

Monday, Jan. 5, 2026 10:15 AM – 12:15 PM (EST)

Philadelphia Convention Center, 302

Hosted By: Union for Radical Political Economics

Chair: Swayamsiddha Sarangi, University of Rhode Island

Political Economy Perspectives on the Environment  (Q4, Q5)

Paper Session

Monday, Jan. 5, 2026 10:15 AM – 12:15 PM (EST)

Philadelphia Convention Center, 301

Hosted By: Union for Radical Political Economics

Chair: Alfredo Rosete, Central Connecticut State University

Gender and Power Structures  (B5, J2)

Paper Session

Monday, Jan. 5, 2026 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM (EST)

Philadelphia Convention Center, 302

Hosted By: Union for Radical Political Economics & International Association for Feminist Economics

Chair: Bhumika Muchhala, New School

Wealth, Wages, and Power  (D3, B5)

Paper Session

Monday, Jan. 5, 2026 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM (EST)

Philadelphia Convention Center, 301

Hosted By: Union for Radical Political Economics

Chair: Izaura Solipa, Brown University

Call for Papers – URPE at ASSA 2026

January 3 – 5, 2026 (Friday – Sunday)

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Marriott Downtown

URPE invites proposals for complete sessions and individual papers for the URPE at the ASSA’s program.  We welcome submissions on topics of interest to radical political economists from a wide variety of theoretical perspectives. We are especially interested in papers that provide contemporary or historical analyses of the current political economic juncture, of poly- and planetary crises, of the implications for anti-capitalist politics, and on other related themes.

Click here to update your account or join URPE.

Click here to submit an individual paper submission.

Click here to submit a complete session proposal.

The deadline for proposed sessions and papers is April 25th, Friday 2025. 

Please note the following before planning your submission:

(i)  URPE does not provide any funding towards conference expenses or travel. Presenters must obtain funding from their own institutions or other sources.

(ii) While we understand that these deadlines are early and plans can change, please only submit an abstract if you aim, in good faith, to attend the ASSAs. URPE is allocated only a certain number of sessions and later withdrawals/cancellations end up taking a precious spot on the program.

(iii)  We will also continue to uphold our policy of a two-year ban on last minute no-shows.

(iv) URPE will only consider papers that are not under consideration elsewhere for the same meeting. When you submit your paper or panel proposal, please confirm that your submission is not under consideration for presentation at the ASSA meetings by another organization.

Please note that all session participants must be a current member of URPE in good standing at the time of submission of the session or paper proposal.  Anyone not current with their dues will be notified and given a one week grace period, after which proposals will be deleted if membership is not made current.  Membership information is available by clicking here.

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Guidelines for Complete Sessions

Proposals for complete sessions should include the following information:

• Session title
• A brief abstract for each paper (limited to 250 words)
• Two JEL bibliographic codes for the proposed panel
• The names, institutional affiliations, and email addresses of all session participants

Proposals for sessions should contain at least four and up to five papers.  Session organizers are responsible for conveying administrative information to session members, including confirmation that the session has been accepted, the time and location of the session, and the deadlines for distributing papers.

Chairs and discussants should preferably be chosen amongst the panelists.  External discussants and chairs, as well as co-authors, will be not listed on the ASSA program.  However, they will be listed on an URPE program on the URPE website.  The ASSA allocation of sessions is based upon the number of people attending sessions, and the ASSA does not consider chairs, discussants, co-authors, and panelists as attendees.  Thus, we welcome the participation of those who would like to serve as external discussants or chairs, but will not include their names in our submission to the ASSA.

The total number of URPE sessions is limited by the ASSA, and we regret that high-quality session proposals may have to be turned down.

______________________________________________________________________

Guidelines for Individual Papers

Individual papers that are accepted will be assigned to sessions, and each session will have an assigned chair.  Session chairs are responsible for conveying administrative information to session members, including the time and location of the session, and the deadlines for distributing papers. Sessions will be organized based on the cohesiveness of papers around a central theme. We regret that high quality individual papers may be turned down due to the inability to place them in a session with papers with similar themes.

• Proposals for individual papers should include the following information:
• Paper title
• Abstract (limited to 250 words)
• Two JEL bibliographic codes for the paper
• Author’s name, institutional affiliation, and email address (for all authors if co-authored paper).

______________________________________________________________________

Proposals submitted after the April 25th deadline will not be considered. You should receive word from URPE about the decision on your session or paper in late June.  The date and time of sessions are assigned by the AEA at the end of August.

Papers and panels that cannot be included on the URPE at ASSA program can automatically be considered for the ICAPE (International Confederation of Associations for Pluralism in Economics) conference that usually immediately follows the ASSA conference.  The ICAPE 2026 Conference will take place January 5-6, 2026, immediately following the ASSA conference, at LaSalle University in Philadelphia. The ICAPE conference will also include a virtual component that will take place on Friday, January 9, 2026. Please indicate with your submission whether you would like to be considered for inclusion into the ICAPE program if not accepted by URPE. ICAPE sessions are organized by Dr. Geoff Schneider, Bucknell University.

Applications for individual papers should be made to URPE@ASSA Individual Paper Proposals, or for complete session submissions to URPE@ASSA Complete Session Proposals.

If you have questions or problems with the online submission, please email the URPE National Office.  For questions about the meetings, please contact the URPE@ASSAs 2026 coordinators, Smita Ramnarain or Anastasia Wilson.

Each year the RRPE publishes a selection from the papers presented in a Proceedings Issue. If your paper is selected to be on the URPE@ASSAs 2026 program, you will receive an invitation to submit your conference paper for consideration in the 2026 RRPE Proceedings issue (which will be the December 2026 issue). Please follow the submission instructions described in the invitation you receive.

Please see the American Economic Association website for general logistical information about the conference, and our past programs page for more information on sessions at the conference.

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December 2024

Dear URPE members and supporters,

We are writing with good news!  URPE sessions at the ASSA in San Francisco have been moved to The Marker in San Francisco, which is a union-supported hotel. In partnership with IAFFE, ASE, and HES we have reserved a block of meeting rooms to hold sessions. The AEA/ASSA program has been updated with the sessions. If you are going to be in SF, please attend as many URPE sessions as possible and encourage other URPE presenters and members to as well. Attendance is critical to our future presence at this conference.

The annual David Gordon Lecture will now be held online in January 2025 – details are forthcoming.

In addition, the Review of Radical Political Economics intends to go ahead with its 2025 URPE@ASSA proceedings issue. If you received an invitation to submit your conference paper for consideration in the 2025 RRPE Proceedings issue (which will be the December 2025 issue), then please do consider submitting it regardless of whether or not you now will attend and present your paper at the offsite URPE@ASSA sessions. Just a reminder to please follow the submission instructions described in the invitation you received.

Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions regarding the URPE sessions at the ASSA.

In solidarity,

The Steering Committee of the Union for Radical Political Economics

URPE at ASSA Sessions 2025

*Asterisk indicates joint session with IAFFE

CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON CARE WORK (Saturday, 4th, 2:30 pm)

Decomposing Care Work

*Anastasia Wilson, Hobart and William Smith Colleges B50, B51

Caring Prisons in the United States

Hannah Archambault, Cal State Fresno B50, B51

Championing Unfreedoms for Development: Caste and the Politics of Vegetarianism in India

Abhilasha Srivastavaa, Cal State Fresno B50, B51

U.S. Childcare in an SSA Perspective

Samantha Sterba University of Redlands B50, B51

Militarization, Gendered Labor Market, and the Care Economy

Saniya Jilani Colorado State University J16, J21, B54

POLITICAL ECONOMY OF THE ENVIRONMENT (Friday, 3rd, 10:15 am)

The Political Economy of the Firm: Understanding Corporate Sustainability Decisions 

*Nicholas Reksten University of Redlands Q52; P12; B52 (Ranjula Bali Swain, Stockholm School of Economics)

Comparing the Ecological Thinking of Marx and Veblen 

Hendrik Van den Berg University of Massachusetts Amherst B3, N5, Q5

A Planning Approach to Green Industrial Policy Gabriel Mathy American University C67, H23

Financial, Democratic and Institutional Challenges of the Ecological Transition. What matters most? 

David Cayla University of Angers B52, P16, Q54, Q56

Marxist Utopian Dreaming: A Reconsideration of Socialism, Utopian and Scientific 

John Willoughby American University B14, B24

FINANCE AND DEPENDENCY IN LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN (Sunday, Jan 5th, 10:15 am)

The Rise and Fall of Caribbean Dependency Theory 

*Francisco Perez University of Utah B24, B27

Super-Exploitation of the Labor Force in the Periphery within a Global Pool of Workers: Are Periphery-Specific Phenomena Persistent in the Financial Capital Era? 

Debora Nunes Colorado State University B24, B51

From Semi-Periphery to Core: When Brazilian Money Goes Offshore 

Samuel Weeks Thomas Jefferson University B51, F38

Financialization in peripheral countries: insights from the Marxist Dependency Theory Francisco Luiz de Andrade Neto Federal University of Bahia B24, F02

REAL WORLD ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY (Saturday, Jan 4th, 2:30 pm)

The Green New Deal: States and Cities Have Led the Way 

*Robin Hahnel American University Q54, Q42, Q48

Fossil Fuel Industry Phase-Out and Just Transition 

Robert Pollin University of Massachusetts Amherst J88, Q54

International Climate Negotiations: The Role of Finance in Securing a “Just Transition” 

Tom Athanasiou EcoEquity F53, Q01, Q35

The Prospects for Reducing Plastic Pollution 

Emily Diaz-Loar University of Massachusetts Amherst Q35, Q53

POLITICAL ECONOMY PERSPECTIVES ON CRYPTO- AND DIGITAL CURRENCIES (Sunday, Jan 5th, 8 am)

Mapping elite ties in the U.S.: Are Crypto ‘Bros’ different than ‘plain Vanilla’ Finance? Izaura Solipa UMass Amherst G20, G30, Y8

Exploring Bitcoin Wallet Distribution 

Jacopo Temperini Sapienza University of Rome D31; G1; O3 Susanna Levantesi, Sapienza University of Rome, Giulia Rotundo, Sapienza University of Rome

Cryptocurrencies and gender gaps in financial inclusion

*Giulia Zacchia Sapienza University of Rome G53; D14; C81 Jacopo Temperini, Sapienza University of Rome,

Exploring the Trajectories towards CBDCs in the US and Europe: A Tale of Two Strategies Jacopo

Maria Magurno University of Milan E42; G0; E58; O3 Lucio Gobbi, Università degli Studi di Trento, Jacopo Temperini, Sapienza University of Rome

POVERTY, INEQUALITY, AND DISTRIBUTION (Friday, Jan 3rd, 12:30 pm)

Revisiting Class Dynamics: Mobility, Inequality, and Social Polarization in the US *Doğuhan Sündal California State University San Bernardino D31; D63

Regional Differences of the Inequality of Opportunity and Income Mobility in Korea Joonil Kim Department of Finance & Economics, Mokwon University, South Korea J62, D31

Potential Impact of Employment on Time and Income Poverty in the US 

Thomas Masterson Levy Economics Institute of Bard College D13, D31, E24, I30

Platform Capital, Workers, and Profit: Digital Labor Platforms 

Ali Alper Alemdar St. Francis College P12, L21, J50

GLOBAL FINANCE AND FINANCIAL INSTABILITY (Saturday, Jan 4th, 8 am)

Institutional and structural evolution of the U.S. financial system 1945-2023: the long-wave financial cycle and the role of thwarting mechanisms 

Shaun Brog University of Denver B52 G01 Yeohyub Yoon, University of Denver

Sovereign Debt and Financial Instability: How is Sovereign Debt Accumulation linked to Global Finance? 

Paula-Leone Samuda Colorado State University F02, F34, B50

Is the ECB well-equipped to deal with upcoming financial instability and crises? *Emanuele Citera St. Lawrence University E52, E58, E61 Lino Sau, University of Turin, Italy, Domenica Tropeano, University of Macerata, Italy

The end of the Keynesian Consensus and US Wage Growth: An Empirical Study Michele Naples The College of New Jersey E02, E11, E12, E24

POLITICAL ECONOMY OF INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT: CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON AID, TRADE, AND DEBT (Saturday, Jan 4, 8 am)

Imperialism in the Age of the Energy Transition 

Debamanyu Das University of Massachusetts Amherst F54, O13

Outsourcing and the Globalization of Exploitation: An Analysis of Declining Labor Shares in Global Value Chains 

*Bhavya Sinha Colorado State University F66, E25, F14, F16

Pasinetti, debt sustainability and (green) structural change at the time of global finance: An emerging and developing countries’ perspective 

Giuliano Yajima Levy Institute of Bard College F65, O23, O14 Alberto Botta, University of Greenwich (UK). Danilo Spinola, Birmingham City University, UNU-Merit, and University of Johannesburg. Gabriel Porcile, UN-ECLAC.

Sisyphean Efforts: A Political Economy Analysis of Aid to Israel/Palestine 

Jennifer Olmsted Drew University F35, H56, N45

Evaluating the Nature and Developmental Prospects of the Middle-Income Trap 

*Devin Rafferty Saint Peter’s University O11, O23, O24

FEMINIST EXPLORATIONS OF LABOR MARKET OUTCOMES (Saturday, Jan 4, 10:15 am)

Macroeconomic impact of Trade and Capital market Integration on Women’s Labor Market Outcomes in South Asia 

Sanchari Choudhury Colorado State University F11, F13, F15, F16, F62, J16, J24, N65, N75

Trade and Gender Employment Patterns: Did the COVID-19 pandemic lead to structural changes? 

Chiara Piovani University of Denver F66; J21 Nursel Aydiner-Avsar, Akdeniz University, Turkiye, M. Burak Onemli, Izmir Katip Celebi University, Turkiye

Monetary policy and gendered employment outcomes in developing countries 

Milena Dehn Colorado State University B54, E31, E58

Women’s labour force participation in developing countries: The impact of gendered landownership rights 

*Yasemin Dildar California State University San Bernardino J21, J61, Q15, Z13

Urban Displacement and the Crises of Social Reproduction Arpita Biswas University of Manitoba B54, R11

FEMINIST POLITICAL ECONOMY (Sunday, Jan 5th, 10:15 am)

Reframing the Domestic Labor Debate: Marx’s ‘Costs of Consumption’ and the Reproduction of Labor Power 

Chenxi Gao Hitotsubashi University B51, B54, J16

Exploring Regional Disparities in Childcare Availability Across the US 

Yazgi Genc Ithaca College J13, J16

The Impact of Austerity on Gender Inequality in Time Allocation in the United States Anamika 

Sen Bates College H31, J16

Livelihood and Health Effects of Illegal Mining on Women in Cocoa Growing Communities in North-Western Ghana 

Millicent Otopabe Ashesi University B54; I15; 013; Q56

Call for Papers – URPE at ASSA 2025

January 3 – 5, 2025 (Friday – Sunday)

San Francisco, CA – Hilton San Francisco Union Square

Every January URPE sponsors a series of panels at the Allied Social Science Associations meeting to provide a venue for the presentation and discussion of current research in heterodox economics.  In addition, each year the RRPE publishes a selection from the papers presented in a Proceedings Issue.  All presenters at URPE sessions must be URPE members in good standing.

Click here to update your account or join URPE.

Click here to submit an individual paper submission.

Click here to submit a complete session proposal.

URPE invites proposals for complete sessions and individual papers for the URPE at the ASSA’s program.  We welcome submissions on topics of interest to radical political economists from a wide variety of theoretical perspectives.

The deadline for proposed sessions and papers is May 24^th, 2024.

Guidelines for Complete Sessions

Proposals for complete sessions should include the following information:

• Session title
• A brief abstract of each paper (limited to 250 words)
• Two JEL bibliographic codes for the proposed panel
• The names, institutional affiliations, and email addresses of all session participants

Proposals for sessions should contain four papers.  Session organizers are responsible for conveying administrative information to session members, including confirmation that the session has been accepted, the time and location of the session, and the deadlines for distributing papers.

The total number of URPE sessions is limited by the ASSA, and we regret that high-quality session proposals may have to be turned down.  Chairs and discussants should preferably be chosen amongst the panelists.  External discussants and chairs, as well as co-authors, will be not listed on the ASSA program.  However, they will be listed on an URPE program on the URPE website.  The ASSA allocation of sessions is based upon the number of people attending sessions, and the ASSA does not consider chairs, discussants, co-authors, and panelists as attendees.  Thus, we welcome the participation of those who would like to serve as external discussants or chairs, but will not include their names in our submission to the ASSA.

Guidelines for Individual Papers

• Proposals for individual papers should include the following information:
• Paper title
• Abstract (limited to 250 words)
• Two JEL bibliographic codes for the paper
• Author’s name, institutional affiliation, and email address

Individual papers that are accepted will be assigned to sessions, and each session will have an assigned chair.  Session chairs are responsible for conveying administrative information to session members, including the time and location of the session, and the deadlines for distributing papers.  We regret that high quality individual papers may be turned down due to the inability to place them in a session with papers with similar themes.

Proposals submitted after the May 24^th deadline will not be considered.  You should receive word from URPE about the decision on your session or paper in late June.  The date and time of sessions are assigned by the AEA at the end of August.

Papers and panels that cannot be included on the URPE at ASSA program will automatically be considered for the ICAPE (International Confederation of Associations for Pluralism in Economics) conference that immediately follows the ASSA conference.  The ICAPE conference will take place January 5 – 6, 2025, at a location that will be announced this summer.  The ICAPE conference will also include a virtual component that will take place following the ASSA conference on January 10, 2025.

Please note that all session participants must be a current member of URPE at the time of submission of the session or paper proposal.  Anyone not current with their dues will be notified, after which proposals will be deleted if membership is not made current.  Membership information is available by clicking here.

Applications for individual papers should be made to URPE@ASSA Individual Paper Proposals, or for complete session submissions to URPE@ASSA Complete Session Proposals.

If you have questions or problems with the online submission, please email the URPE National Office.  For questions about the meetings, please contact the URPE at ASSA coordinators, Smita Ramnarain and Jared Ragusett.  See the American Economic Association website for general logistical information about the conference, and our past programs page for more information on sessions at the conference.

2024 URPE AT THE ASSA’s

SAN ANTONIO, TX

FRIDAY, JANUARY 5^TH – SUNDAY, JANUARY 7^TH, 2024

FRIDAY, JANUARY 5^TH, 2024

1. Advances in the Application of Information Theory to Political Economy

Paper Session

Friday, Jan. 5, 2024   8:00 AM – 10:00 AM (CST)

Marriott Riverwalk, Alamo Ballroom Salon A

Hosted By: UNION FOR RADICAL POLITICAL ECONOMICS

Chair: Emanuele Citera, St. Lawrence University

The Informational Index of Inequality

Paulo Dos Santos, New School for Social Research

The Neutrality of Money Reconsidered: A Statistical Equilibrium Model of the Labor Market

Ellis Scharfenacker, University of Utah

Duncan Foley, New School for Social Research

Investment-Saving Equilibrium in Reliable Markets

Doguhan Sundal, California State University-San Bernardino

Is the Cryptocurrency Market Efficient? Insights from an Information Theoretical Framework

Emanuele Citera, St. Lawrence University

Discussant

Duncan Foley, New School for Social Research

JEL Classifications

C4 – Econometric and Statistical Methods: Special Topics

P1 – Capitalist Economies

2. Global Capitalism and Economic Growth

Paper Session

Friday, Jan. 5, 2024   8:00 AM – 10:00 AM (CST)

Marriott Riverwalk, Alamo Ballroom Salon B

Hosted By: UNION FOR RADICAL POLITICAL ECONOMICS

Economic Cycles, Investment and Profits in Colombia, 1967-2019

Carlos Alberto Duque Garcia, Autonomous Metropolitan University

Growth Regimes in Central and Peripheral Countries: An Econometric Analysis with Dynamic Panel Models, 1980-2018

Emiliano Lopez, LESET-IdIHCS-UNLP/CONICET

Deborah Noguera, LESET-IdIHCS-UNLP/CONICET

Nikolaos Rodousakis, Centre of Planning and Economic Research

Seven Unsustainable Sectoral Processes; U.S. Trade and Industry in the Last Two Decades

Giuliano Toshiro Yajima, Levy Institute of Bard College

George Soklis, Panteion University

From Raw to Unrefined: Reimagining African Development

Mohamed Berrada, New School for Social Research

JEL Classifications

E3 – Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles

B5 – Current Heterodox Approaches

3. Climate, Energy, and Ecology

Paper Session

Friday, Jan. 5, 2024   10:15 AM – 12:15 PM (CST)

Marriott Riverwalk, Alamo Ballroom Salon A

Hosted By: UNION FOR RADICAL POLITICAL ECONOMICS

Chair: Robin Hahnel, American University

Energy Transition, Role of the State, and the Idea of Power: Lessons from China

Debamanyu Das, University of Massachusetts-Amherst

Business Lobbying and Disposition over Climate Legislation

Enes Isik, University of Massachusetts-Amherst

Addressing Societal Challenges through Alternative Financial Regulation: The Case of Climate Change

Faruk Ülgen, Grenoble Alpes University

Lyubov Klapkiv, Marie Curie-Skłodowska University

Climate Change and Economic System Change

Robin Hahnel, American University

JEL Classifications

Q5 – Environmental Economics

B5 – Current Heterodox Approaches

4. Post-Keynesian Finance

Paper Session

Friday, Jan. 5, 2024   10:15 AM – 12:15 PM (CST)

Marriott Riverwalk, Alamo Ballroom Salon B

Hosted By: UNION FOR RADICAL POLITICAL ECONOMICS

Chair: Daniel Ossa, University of Denver

The Financial Foundations of Production and Uncertainty

Andres F. Cantillo, Kansas City Kansas Community College

Financial Profitability in Developed Economies

Daniel Ossa, University of Denver

Financial Fragility as an Essential Feature of Capitalist Economy

Hyun Woong Park, Denison University

Rethinking Herd Behavior in Financial Markets with Keynes

Hyuna Kim, University of Missouri-Kansas City

JEL Classifications

G0 – General

B5 – Current Heterodox Approaches

5. Capitalist Crises, Austerity, and Neo-Fascism

Paper Session

Friday, Jan. 5, 2024   12:30 PM – 2:15 PM (CST)

Marriott Riverwalk, Alamo Ballroom Salon A

Hosted By: UNION FOR RADICAL POLITICAL ECONOMICS

Chair: Thomas Lambert, University of Louisville

Unraveling the Roots of Fiscal Crises in Contemporary Capitalist Nations and Strategies for Overcoming Them: A Case Study of China

Bin Li, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

Macroprudential Polices and Economic Growth

Izaura Solipa, University of Massachusetts-Amherst

Is Neo-Fascism Inevitable?

Thomas Lambert, University of Louisville

JEL Classifications

P1 – Capitalist Economies

B5 – Current Heterodox Approaches

6. 26th Annual David Gordon Memorial Lecture

Panel Session

Friday, Jan. 5, 2024   2:30 PM – 4:30 PM (CST)

Marriott Riverwalk, Alamo Ballroom Salon C

Hosted By: UNION FOR RADICAL POLITICAL ECONOMICS

Moderator: Sirisha Naidu, University of Missouri-Kansas City

Panelist

David McNally, University of Houston

Topic: Marx on Colonization: The End of Capital and the Beginning of a Journey

Kirstin Munro, New School for Social Research

Discussant for the David Gordon Memorial Lecture

JEL Classifications

F5 – International Relations, National Security, and International Political Economy

B5 – Current Heterodox Approaches

URPE Reception

Event

Friday, Jan. 5, 2024   4:30 PM – 6:30 PM (CST)

Marriott Riverwalk, River Terrace Room

Hosted By: UNION FOR RADICAL POLITICAL ECONOMICS

URPE members and friends are warmly invited to join us at our annual reception.

SATURDAY, JANUARY 6^TH, 2024

7. Gendered Labor Relations in the Workplace

Paper Session

Saturday, Jan. 6, 2024   8:00 AM – 10:00 AM (CST)

Marriott Riverwalk, Alamo Ballroom Salon A

Hosted By: UNION FOR RADICAL POLITICAL ECONOMICS & INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR FEMINIST ECONOMICS

Chair: Shaianne Osterreich, Ithaca College.

Global Accumulation & Gendered Class Exploitation: Theory and Evidence from the Garment Industry during the Covid Pandemic

Shahram Azhar, Bucknell University

Aabida Ali, Asia Floor Wage Alliance

Industrial Policy, Gender and Manufacturing in Indonesia

Shaianne Osterreich, Ithaca College

Spatializing Social Reproduction: Everyday Lives of Migrant Women Factory Workers in Tamil Nadu, India

Sirisha Naidu, University of Missouri-Kansas City

Madhumita Dutta, The Ohio State University

JEL Classifications

J1 – Demographic Economics

B5 – Current Heterodox Approaches

8. Topics on Industrial Policy

Paper Session

Saturday, Jan. 6, 2024   8:00 AM – 10:00 AM (CST)

Marriott Riverwalk, Alamo Ballroom Salon B

Hosted By: UNION FOR RADICAL POLITICAL ECONOMICS

Chair: Ignacio González, American University

Long-term Effects of Industrial Policy on the Manufacturing Sector in Mexico

Laura Heras Recuero, American University

Planning Our Way Out of The Climate Crisis: Keynes and the Revival of Industrial Policy

Anders Fremstad, Colorado State University

Mark Paul, Rutgers University

A Public Equity Stake as a Corporate Guardrail in Industrial Policy

Lenore Palladino, University of Massachusetts-Amherst

JEL Classifications

L5 – Regulation and Industrial Policy

O2 – Development Planning and Policy

9. Heterodox Perspectives on Money and Monetary Policy

Paper Session

Saturday, Jan. 6, 2024   10:15 AM – 12:15 PM (CST)

Marriott Riverwalk, Alamo Ballroom Salon A

Hosted By: UNION FOR RADICAL POLITICAL ECONOMICS

Chair: Grishma Neupane, University of Denver

Currency Cycles and Productive Specialization

Carlo D’Ippoliti, Sapienza University of Rome

Economic Structure and Fluctuation of Money Supply: Based on Marx’s Idea of the “Setting Free of Money Capital”

Junshang Liang, Nankai University

Putting Money in Context: The Crucial Transformations in the Central Banking from the Great Financial Crisis to COVID-19

Tansel Güçlü, Munzur University

Endogenous Money and the Structure of Interest Rates

Grishma Neupane, University of Denver

Yeohyub Yoon, University of Denver

JEL Classifications

E5 – Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit

B5 – Current Heterodox Approaches

10. Radical Perspectives on Labor, Work, and Workers

Paper Session

Saturday, Jan. 6, 2024   10:15 AM – 12:15 PM (CST)

Marriott Riverwalk, Alamo Ballroom Salon B

Hosted By: UNION FOR RADICAL POLITICAL ECONOMICS

Chair: Leila Davis, University of Massachusetts-Boston

Disability, the Pauper Class and the Reserve Army of Labor

Ari Parra, Complutense University of Madrid

A Labor-Process Perspective on the U.S. Social Structure of Accumulation

Don Goldstein, Allegheny College

Financialization, Rates of Return, and the U.S. Working Class

Leila Davis, University of Massachusetts-Boston

Harry Konstantinidis, University of Massachusetts-Boston

Artificial Intelligence, Worker Wellbeing and Labor’s Bargaining Power

Owen Davis, New School for Social Research

JEL Classifications

J0 – General

B5 – Current Heterodox Approaches

11. Finance and Transformation: What’s Wrong and What Can Be Done?

Paper Session

Saturday, Jan. 6, 2024   2:30 PM – 4:30 PM (CST)

Marriott Riverwalk, Alamo Ballroom Salon A

Hosted By: UNION FOR RADICAL POLITICAL ECONOMICS

Chair: James K. Galbraith, University of Texas-Austin

Increasing Risk, Finance, and Ways to Avoid Future Crises

Nina Eichacker, University of Rhode Island

Busting the Bankers’ Club: Finance for the Rest of Us

Gerald Epstein, University of Massachusetts-Amherst

Financialization’s New Normal and Keynes on the Stock Exchange

Korkut Ertürk, University of Utah

Fraud and Misrepresentation in Privately Securitized Auto Loans

Thomas Herndon, CUNY-John Jay College

Discussant

Esteban Perez, United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean

JEL Classifications

E4 – Money and Interest Rates

G0 – General

SUNDAY, JANUARY 7^TH, 2024

12. Heterodox Perspectives on the History of Thought

Paper Session

Sunday, Jan. 7, 2024   8:00 AM – 10:00 AM (CST)

Marriott Riverwalk, Alamo Ballroom Salon A

Hosted By: UNION FOR RADICAL POLITICAL ECONOMICS

Chair: Ivan D. Velasquez, Bucknell University

The Elements of Veblen’s q Theory and Minsky’s “Two-Price Theory of Investment” to Understand the Capital Market Route

Ivan D. Velasquez, Bucknell University

A Reconsideration of 19th Century, non-Marxist Models of Socialism: The Cases of John Stuart Mill and Leon Walras

John Willoughby, American University

The Rate of Profit on Capital – An Update

Michael Roberts, Union for Radical Political Economics

JEL Classifications

B0 – General

B5 – Current Heterodox Approaches

13. Inequality and Discrimination

Paper Session

Sunday, Jan. 7, 2024   8:00 AM – 10:00 AM (CST)

Marriott Riverwalk, Alamo Ballroom Salon B

Hosted By: UNION FOR RADICAL POLITICAL ECONOMICS

Chair: L. Lo Sontag, New School for Social Research

Ratchet Behaviour and Sticky Payouts: The Praxis of Shareholder Primacy and the Consequences for Investments

Bakou Mertens, Ghent University

Housing Discrimination

Laurence O’Connell, CUNY

How a Perverted Interpretation of the Tenth Amendment Institutionalizes Inequality in the U.S. and Abroad

1. Lo Sontag, New School for Social Research

What do Landlords Do? Residential Rents and Landed Property

Osman Keshawarz, Trinity College

JEL Classifications

H4 – Publicly Provided Goods

B5 – Current Heterodox Approaches

14. Feminist Political Economy Frameworks

Paper Session

Sunday, Jan. 7, 2024   10:15 AM – 12:15 PM (CST)

Marriott Riverwalk, Alamo Ballroom Salon A

Hosted By: UNION FOR RADICAL POLITICAL ECONOMICS & INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR FEMINIST ECONOMICS

Chair: Duc Hien Nguyen, University of Massachusetts-Amherst

Gender-Based Discrimination in Personal Care Services: Experimental Evidence

Duc Hien Nguyen, University of Massachusetts-Amherst

Building Reproductive Justice as a Research Program in Economics

Debora Nunes, Colorado State University

Emancipating Women in Jordan via an Integral Framework for a Regeneration Ecofeminist Economy: The Case of Economic and Societal Renewal

Mayyada Abu Jaber, JoWomenomics

Gendering Displacement: Women’s Workforce Participation in the Aftermath of Forced Eviction

Arpita Biswas, University of Massachusetts-Amherst

JEL Classifications

J1 – Demographic Economics

B5 – Current Heterodox Approaches

15. Rate of Profits and the Functional Distribution of Income

Paper Session

Sunday, Jan. 7, 2024   10:15 AM – 12:15 PM (CST)

Marriott Riverwalk, Alamo Ballroom Salon B

Hosted By: UNION FOR RADICAL POLITICAL ECONOMICS

Chair: Swayamsiddha Sarangi, University of Utah

The Drain Gain: An Investigation into How Colonial Drain Helped Keep British Economy Buoyant

Kabeer Bora, University of Utah

Zombie Firms and Capitalist Competition: A New Perspective on the Distribution of Profit Rates

Bruno Miller Theodosio, University of Utah

The U.S. Net International Investment Position from 1976 to 2022: A Quantitative-institutional Approach

Patrick Alexandre Hallan, University of Utah

Labor Share Decline across U.S. Manufacturing Subsectors: 1979-2019

Swayamsiddha Sarangi, University of Utah

JEL Classifications

E0 – General

B5 – Current Heterodox Approaches

16. Heterodox Perspectives on Economic Development

Paper Session

Sunday, Jan. 7, 2024   1:00 PM – 3:00 PM (CST)

Marriott Riverwalk, Alamo Ballroom Salon A

Hosted By: UNION FOR RADICAL POLITICAL ECONOMICS

Chair: Donia Dowidar, University Grenoble Alpes

Pursuit of Food Sovereignty in Egypt: A Look at Farmers-Led Financing Initiatives

Donia Dowidar, University Grenoble Alpes

Gaëlle Despierre Corporon, University Grenoble Alpes

Firm Structure, Market Structure, and Firm Dynamics: A Study of Some Micro-firms of West Bengal

Himadrija Chakraborty, Visva-Bharati University

Rahul Pal, Visva-Bharati University

For Every Knight in Shining Armor there is a Castle Waiting to be Cleaned: The Indian Case

Vishal Choudhury, FLAME University and University of Missouri-Kansas City

JEL Classifications

O1 – Economic Development

B5 – Current Heterodox Approaches