2024 URPE AT THE ASSA’s

SAN ANTONIO, TX

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

 

FRIDAY, JANUARY 5TH, 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

 

 

  1. 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

 

 

  1. 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

 

 

  1. 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

 

 

  1. 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

 

 

  1. 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 6TH, 2024

 

  1. 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

 

 

  1. 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

 

 

  1. 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

 

 

  1. 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

 

 

  1. 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 7TH, 2024

 

  1. 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

 

 

  1. 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

 

 

  1. 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

 

 

  1. 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

 

 

  1. 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

 

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