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.
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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 24th, 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 24th 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 5TH – SUNDAY, JANUARY 7TH, 2024
FRIDAY, JANUARY 5TH, 2024
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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