URPE @ Easterns

Sheraton Boston Hotel
Boston, MA. March 1 – March 2, 2024

URPE Women and Non-Binary People Caucus meeting will take place on Friday March 1 at 12:30pm in Fairfax A

URPE Membership Meeting Friday will take place on March 1st at 5pm in Fairfax A

Friday, March 1, 8:00 am to 9:20. Fairfax A

URPE Panel 1. Concepts, Models, and Implications

Sponsored by: Union for Radical Political Economics

• Where Does “Bargaining Power” Come From? A Search Through Economics. Kyle Mohr, Bard College; Sanchit Shrivastava, Skidmore College
• Economic Policies and Climate Change in a Financialized World: The Case of Colombia. Ivan Velasquez, Bucknell University
• The Phillips Curve: A Trojan Horse in the War on Labor. Jacob Powell, Bucknell University

Friday, March 1, 9:30 am to 10:50. Fairfax A

URPE Panel 2. Anti-Capitalist Pedagogies and Teaching Radical Economics I

Sponsored by: Union for Radical Political Economics

• Solidarity… Forever?: Teaching Labor, Race, and Policing at a Predominantly White and Emerging Hispanic Serving Institution with Games. Rob Haggar, Colorado State University
• Popular Education is Essential for Advancing Radical Economics. Francisco Perez, University of Utah
• Teaching the Social and Solidarity Economy in Introductory Economics Classes With Free Money Day. Jacqueline Strenio, Norwich University; Kahwa Douoguih, Norwich University
• Bringing Radical Assessment into Radical Political Economy: Experiences from an Ungrading Experiment. Smita Ramnarain, University of Rhode Island

Friday, March 1, 11 am to 12:20 pm. Fairfax A

URPE Panel 3. Anti-Capitalist Pedagogies and Teaching Radical Economics II

Sponsored by: Union for Radical Political Economics

• Teaching the Labour Theory of Value: Physical and mental health in the workplace. Julia Chukwuma, The Open University, UK; Kevin Deane, The Open University
• Teaching technological unemployment through role play: “Rage Against the Machine: Technology, Rebellion and the Industrial Revolution.” Richard McIntyre, University of Rhode Island
• Teaching Radical Political Economy via Positive, Paradigmatic, Problem-Based Pluralism. Geoff Scheider, Bucknell University
• “There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact”: Piercing the Smokescreen of Mainstream Microeconomics in the Classroom. Gary Mongiovi, St John`s University

Friday, March 1, 2:00 pm to 3:20. Fairfax A

URPE Panel 4. The Political Economy of the Universities

Sponsored by: Union for Radical Political Economics

• College Students Capabilities Approach. Laurence O`Connell, CUNY / New School
• The Nature and Location of Undergraduate Heterodox Economics Course Offerings in U.S. Colleges. Hamid Azari-Rad, State University of New York at New Paltz
• Exploring Near-Linearities in Price-Rate of Profit Trajectories and the Concept of Effective Rank in Input-Output Matrices. Lefteris Tsoulfidis, University of Macedonia

Friday, March 1, 3:30 pm to 4:50. Fairfax A

URPE Panel 5. The Political Economy of Growth and Development and Income Distribution

Sponsored by: Union for Radical Political Economics

• The Role of Autonomous Demand in The Growth and Income Distribution Debate: An Empirical Estimation for Selected South American Countries. Joana David Avritzer, Connecticut College
• Embracing Consumption. Mark Stelzner, Connecticut College
• Building a Theory and Strategy of Economic Development from Keynes’ Shifting Equilibrium. Devin Rafferty, St. Peter’s University
• Economic Stimulus Measures in the Pandemic and Income Inequality. Gokcer Ozgur, Gettysburg College

Saturday, March 2, 8:00 am to 9:20. Fairfax A

URPE Panel 6. The Global South and the Political Economy of Domination and Dependency I

Sponsored by: Union for Radical Political Economics

• The other resource: over determined data imperialism. Marcus Jonathan Breen, Boston College
• Growth Regimes in Central and Peripheral Countries: An Econometric Analysis with Dynamic Panel Models, 1980-2018. Emiliano Lopez, IdIHCS-CONICET/UNLP
• US Hegemony and International Accounts before and after 2008: Regulation, accumulation, and institutions. Patrick Alexandre Hallan, University of Utah.
• Procyclicality in the IMF Debt Sustainability Framework: Debt, Consumption, and Deindustrialization. Tai Young-Taft, Levy Economics Institute

Saturday, March 2, 9:30 am to 10:50. Fairfax A

URPE Panel 7. Trade, Employment, and Labour Shares in Global Value Chains

Sponsored by: Union for Radical Political Economics

• A Real Competition Approach to Trade and Development in Global Value Chains. Jesus Lara Jauregui, University of Massachusetts Amherst
• Declining Labour Shares Through Global Value Chains: An Exploration of Value Capture in Production Networks. Bhavya Sinha, Colorado State University
• Trade, Offshoring, and Manufacturing Employment Volatility in Mexico. Adam Walke, Denison University; Stephan Weiler, Colorado State University

Saturday, March 2, 11:00 am to 12:20 pm. Fairfax A

URPE Panel 8. The Global South and the Political Economy of Domination and Dependency II

Sponsored by: Union for Radical Political Economics

• The stricken economy of Puerto Rico: What comes after Climate Disasters, Fiscal Control Boards, and Forced Migration? Ricardo R Fuentes-Ramirez, University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez
• The political economy of dependency in Palestine: An agent-based simulation. Ibrahim Shikaki, Trinity College
• Moorish Anthropocenes, European Structures. Mohamed Berrada, The New School
• From a Spoke to a Hub with Spokes: A Case of South Korea. Woocheol Lee, Gyeongsang National University, Korea

Saturday, March 2, 12:30 pm to 1:50. Fairfax A

URPE Panel 9. Heterodox Approaches to Latin American macroeconomic issues

Sponsored by: Union for Radical Political Economics

• Commodity boom and structural change: evidence from Brazil. Vinicius Curti Cícero, Colorado State University
• The Brazilian Manufacturing Rate of Surplus Value Between 2000 and 2017. Bruno Miller Theodosio, University of Utah
• The Political Economy of Austerity in Brazil: A historical account of recent fiscal regime shifts and their implications for the fiscal budget. Henrique de Abreu Grazziotin, University of Massachusetts – Amherst
• Real effective exchange rate shocks and job quality by gender in Latin America. Debora Machado Nunes, Colorado State University

Saturday, March 2, 2:00 pm to 3:20. Fairfax A

URPE Panel 10. The Political Economy of Gender

Sponsored by: Union for Radical Political Economics

• Gender-based Discrimination in Personal Care Services: Experimental Evidence. Duc Hien Nguyen, University of Massachusetts, Amherst {9}
• An exploration of macroeconomic measures of global value chains and gendered employment outcomes. Milena Xochil Dehn, Colorado State University
• Transgender Political Economy. Rob Haggar, Colorado State University

Saturday, March 2, 3:30 pm to 4:50. Fairfax A

URPE Panel 11. Intraclass Difference and Shifting Conceptions of Class

Sponsored by: Union for Radical Political Economics

• Financialization, fictitious capital, and US capitalist class exceptionalism. Richard McIntyre, University of Rhode Island
• Black Versus White Value of the Labor Power in the US: 1930s – 2020s. Michael Hillard, University of Southern Maine
• Who is Human? The Human-Nature Binary and the Land-Labor-Capital Triad. Zoe Sherman, Merrimack College

Fairfax B

Friday, March 1, 8:00 am to 9:20. Fairfax B

URPE Panel 12. Unpacking Economic Complexities: Student Debt, Colonial Legacies, and Evolutionary Economic Theory

Sponsored by: Union for Radical Political Economics

• On the Punitive Nature of Student “Loan” Debt. Michael Schmidt and Sean Eagan, University of Missouri Kansas City
• Is France-Africa Relations a new form of Colonization. Seibou Ilanda, University of Missouri Kansas City
• MMT: How to Pay for Economic Development. Barkin Cihanli, University of Missouri Kansas City
• Institutionalist Thought, MMT, and Max Weber’s Evolutionary Economic Theory. Samuel Stockman, University of Missouri Kansas City

Friday, March 1, 9:30 am to 10:50. Fairfax B

URPE Panel 13. Rate of Profit and Capitalism

Sponsored by: Union for Radical Political Economics

• Recent Developments in Business Cycles in the US. Erdogan Bakir. Bucknell University
• Empirical Evidence of the Falling Rate of Profit Hypothesis Based on the Data from China and US economies. Ayixunbati Nuerlantai, University of Utah
• An Unequal Equalization: A peek into the first age of globalization and rates of profit. Kabeer Bora, University of Utah

Friday, March 1, 11:00 am to 12:20 pm. Fairfax B

URPE Panel 14. Radical Political Economy of the Environment

Sponsored by: Union for Radical Political Economics

• The New Science for The People: Climate Literacy in The Age of the Anthropocene/ Capitalocene. Ann Elizabeth Davis, Marist College
• The Human Necessity of Ecosocialist Growth. David Schwartzman, Howard University
• Contrasting Environmental Economics and Ecological Economics in Terms of Method, Theory, and Practice. Paul Cooney, URI

Friday, March 1, 2:00 pm to 3:20. Fairfax B

URPE Panel 15. Financial Institutions and their impact on Global Political Economy

Sponsored by: Union for Radical Political Economics

• Busting the Bankers’ Club: Finance for the Rest of Us. Gerald Epstein, U. of Massachusetts, Amherst
• Marx, Minsky and the Money View: Demystifying the financial system. Ramaa Vasudevan, Colorado State University
• Money as a “Social Power”: Rationality and Irrationality of Financial Markets. Ann E. Davis, Marist College

Saturday, March 2, 8:00 am to 9:20. Fairfax B

URPE Panel 16. Labor and Its Intersections

Sponsored by: Union for Radical Political Economics

• Interlocking, Control, and Gig Economy: The Artisan Courier Model in Turkey. Ali Alper Almidar, St. Francis College
• Immigration Aversion Under Labor Bargaining. Alfredo Rosete, Central Connecticut State University; Nicholas Reksten, University of Redlands
• How the Generosity of Wage Replacement Benefits in Different State Paid Family Leave Policies Impact the Labor Market Choices of New Mothers. Samantha Schenck, Central Connecticut State University; Zachary Mottram, Central Connecticut State University

Saturday, March 2, 9:30 am to 10:50. Fairfax B

URPE Panel 17. The Political Economy of Labor

Sponsored by: Union for Radical Political Economics

• Fast Labor-saving Technological Change and Employment. Baris Guven, Gettysburg College
• Rationed by ‘Human Capital’: The New Aspect of the U.S. Dual Labor Market. Kenneth Jeong, University of Massachusetts Amherst
• Recovery for All? Intersectional Disparities in the US Labor Market During the Pandemic. Ozge Ozay, Fitchburg State University

Saturday, March 2, 11:00 am to 12:20 pm. Fairfax B

URPE Panel 18. The Working Class and the Political Economy of Work

Sponsored by: Union for Radical Political Economics

• Austerity and Food Insecurity in Europe, 2004-2021. Harry Konstantinidis, University of Massachusetts Boston
• Not Just Food but the Workers Behind: What does district spending for food service workers do for student performance? Papungkorn Kitcharoenkarnkul, University of Utah
• Investigating Overwork, Work-Life Conflicts and Work-Time Reduction for US Teachers. Katherine A. Moos, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Saturday, March 2, 12:30 pm to 1:50. Fairfax B

URPE Panel 19. Non-wage attacks on the working class

Sponsored by: Union for Radical Political Economics

• Race, Space, and Place: A Spatial Analysis of Capability Deprivations & Community Punishment. Sheena Yoon, University of Utah
• Food Assistance: Helping A Community Pantry Understand Their Market. Kurt Bryan von Seekamm, Salem State University

Saturday, March 2, 2:00 pm to 3:30. Fairfax B

URPE Panel 20. Marx and Marxist Political Economy

Sponsored by: Union for Radical Political Economics

• “Form-Giving Fire,” or “Surplus-Producing?” Marx and his Labors. Faruk Eray Düzenli, St. Mary`s College of Maryland
• Revisiting Marx’s Social Ontology. Keoka Grayson, Hobart and William Smith Colleges {4}
• Marx, Happiness, and the Cold War Impact on the American Experiment. Aileen Dohety, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
• Necessary and Surplus Labor: Capitalism and Socialism. Paddy Quick, Union for Radical Political Economics

Saturday, March 2, 3:30 pm to 4:50. Fairfax B

URPE Panel 21. Moving Beyond Capitalism

Sponsored by: Union for Radical Political Economics

• Crises Theories. Al Campbell, University of Utah
• Managing Critical Mineral Scarcity with State Planning: The Case of the US During WWII. Evan Wasner, University of Massachusetts Amherst

• Modeling an Urban Cooperative as an Alternative to PCP in the Global South. Arnulfo Alberto Emiliano, University of Massachusetts Amherst
• Breaking the Cash Nexus: The Key to Subverting the Hegemony in US Healthcare. Robert Kemp, KempHE