URPE@Easterns 2023 Program
URPE @ Easterns
Sheraton Times Square
New York, NY. February 24 – 26, 2023
Friday, February 24, 8:00 am to 9:20 am. Riverside Ballroom
URPE Panel 1. New Policy Proposals and Economic Insights from Feminist and Political Economy
Sponsored by: Union for Radical Political Economy
Session Organizer: Katherine A. Moos, University of Massachusetts Amherst kmoos@umass.edu
Chair: Katherine A. Moos, University of Massachusetts Amherst kmoos@umass.edu
- Industrial Policy for Innovation: Governmental Carrots and Sticks in Reforming Corporate Governance. Lenore Palladino, University of Massachusetts Amherst
- Patterns of Feminization and Structural Change: Firm Level Evidence. Mary Borrowman, International Center for Research on Women
- Work-Time Reduction for US Teachers: A School Reform Proposal to Meet Intersectional Feminist Goals. Katherine A. Moos, University of Massachusetts Amherst kmoos@umass.edu
Friday, February 24, 8:00 am to 9:20 am. Riverside Suite
URPE Panel 15. The Political Economy of Working Class Inequalities: Property, Resources, Wages
Sponsored by: Union for Radical Political Economy
Session Organizer: Kendall Stephenson, Colorado State University kendall.stephenson@colostate.edu
Chair: Kendall Stephenson, Colorado State University kendall.stephenson@colostate.edu
- “Group-Based” Wage Gaps and Housing Costs: Ground Rent, Racialization, and High Rent Commodities in San Francisco. FTC Manning, San Francisco Community Land Trust fmanning@sfclt.org
- Tragedy of A Water Commons: A Case Study of the Southwest United States. Kurt Patrick Semm, The New School ksemm@ineteconomics.org
- Perpetuating Colorado’s Racial Hierarchy via Special District Governments: A Law and Political Economy Approach. Kendall Stephenson, Colorado State University kendall.stephenson@colostate.edu
Friday, February 24, 9:30 am to 10:50 am. Riverside Ballroom
URPE & ASE Panel 2. Gender Inequality
Sponsored by: Association for Social Economics (ASE) and Union for Radical Political Economy
Session Organizer: Tanadej Vechsuruck, University of Rhode Island tanadejv@gmail.com
Chair: Tanadej Vechsuruck, University of Rhode Island tanadejv@gmail.com
- White male pay premiums: decomposing advantage across time. Kate Bahn, Washington Center for Equitable Growth
- Studying together, working apart: Gender gaps in employment preferences among university graduates in India. Pradeep Kumar Choudhury, Jawaharlal Nehru University
- Women (and Men) in “Lousy Jobs”: A Comparative Case Study on Gender Inequality, Wage Structures and Institutions in the US and Germany. Birte Strunk, New School for Social Research strub451@newschool.edu
Friday, February 24, 9:30 am to 10:50 am. Riverside Suite
URPE Panel 16. The Global Economy
Sponsored by: Union for Radical Political Economy
Session Organizer: Al Campbell, University of Utah
Chair: Conrad M. Herold, Hofstra University Conrad.Herold@hofstra.edu
- Global inflation and imperialism: The socioeconomic implications of global inflation. Jongchul Kim, Sogang University, Seoul, Korea jongchul323@gmail.com
- Structural and knowledge power of austerity in the world economic order: Examining financial dependency in the global political economy and rethinking delinking through decoloniality. Bhumika Muchhala, The New School bhumika.muchhala@gmail.com
- On the Politics of Unequal Exchange in International Trade: The Cautionary Tale of Mihaïl Manoïlescu. Conrad M. Herold, Hofstra University. Conrad.Herold@hofstra.edu
Friday, February 24, 11:00 am to 12:20 pm. Riverside Ballroom
URPE Panel 3. Pluralistic Teaching and Critical Thinking
Sponsored by: Union for Radical Political Economy
Session Organizer: Geoffrey Schneider, Bucknell University Geoff.Schneider@bucknell.edu
Chair: Erdogan Bakir eb035@bucknell.edu
- Engaging Principles Students via Problem-based, Positive, Paradigmatic Pluralism. Geoffrey Schneider, Bucknell University Geoff.Schneider@bucknell.edu
- Problematizing the Assumed: Strategy for Encouraging Critical Thought. Keoka Grayson, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
- Reflexivity: A Method for Teaching Heterodox Thought. Jacob Powell, Bucknell University j.powell@bucknell.edu
Discussants: Stephan Lefebvre, Bucknell University; Amanda Page-Hoongrajok, Saint Peter`s University apageh@gmail.com
Friday, February 24, 11:00 am to 12:20 pm. Riverside Suite
URPE Panel 17. The Pandemic
Sponsored by: Union for Radical Political Economy
Session Organizer: Al Campbell, University of Utah
Chair: Chiara Piovani, University of Denver chiara.piovani@du.edu
- Pandemic or Syndemic?: An Economic Determinants of Health Approach to Covid. Robert Chernomas, University of Manitoba Robert.Chernomas@umanitoba.ca
- Output and Employment in the US during the COVID-19 Crisis. Joshua Greenstein, Hobart and William Smith Colleges greenstein@hws.edu
- Nothing Will Fundamentally Change: Interpreting the Political Economy of the IMF’s Pandemic Response and Using Modern Money Theory to Alter Geopolitics. Devin Thomas Rafferty, St. Peter’s University devin.t.rafferty@gmail.com
- Wage inequality and the Covid-19 pandemic in the United States: An Assessment of Policy Interventions. Chiara Piovani, University of Denver chiara.piovani@du.edu
Friday, February 24, 12:30 to 1:50 pm. Riverside Ballroom
URPE Panel 4. Pluralistic Teaching and Critical Thinking
Sponsored by: Union for Radical Political Economy
Session Organizer: Geoffrey Schneider, Bucknell University Geoff.Schneider@bucknell.edu
Chair: Geoffrey Schneider, Bucknell University Geoff.Schneider@bucknell.edu
- Feminist Pedagogy in Economics: Evidence from Qualitative Interviews. Stephan Lefebvre, Bucknell University
- The Benefits of Learning by Asking: Teaching Economics with Podcasts Amanda Page-Hoongrajok, Saint Peter`s University apageh@gmail.com
Discussants: Keoka Grayson, Hobart and William Smith Colleges; Jacob Powell, Bucknell University j.powell@bucknell.edu
Friday, February 24, 12:30 to 1:50 pm. Riverside Suite
URPE Panel 18. Growth, Structural Change, and Long Waves
Sponsored by: Union for Radical Political Economy
Session Organizer: Al Campbell, University of Utah
Chair: Al Campbell, University of Utah al@economics.utah.edu
– When is the long run? Historical time and adjustment periods in demand-led growth models. Ettore Gallo, University of Bari ettoregallo@newschool.edu
– Pasinetti on Economic Growth and Structural Change: A Critical Assessment. Gary Mongiovi, St John`s University mongiovg@stjohns.edu; Davide Gualerzi, St John’s University davide.gualerzi@unipd.it
Friday, February 24, 2:00 pm to 3:20 pm. Riverside Ballroom
URPE Panel 5. Political Economy of the Chinese Financial System
Sponsored by: Union for Radical Political Economy
Session Organizer: Olivia Bullio Mattos, St. Francis College obulliomattos@sfc.edu
Chair: Joana Avritzer, Connecticut College javritzer@conncoll.edu
- The Chinese highways: building up payment infrastructures for RMB internationalization. Marina Zucker Marques, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
- The e-CNY and its possible Impacts on Monetary Policy, Credit and the International Role of the Renminbi. Olivia Bullio Mattos, St. Francis College; Ana Rosa Ribeiro de Mendonça, State University of Campinas; Fernanda Ultremare, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte
- Chinese Financial System: credit growth, new dynamics and reregulation. Ana Rosa Ribeiro de Mendonça, State University of Campinas; Simone Deos, State University of Campinas
Friday, February 24, 2:00 pm to 3:20 pm. Riverside Suite
URPE Panel 19. Keynesian Theory and Practice
Sponsored by: Union for Radical Political Economy
Session Organizer: Nina Quinn Eichacker, University of Rhode Island nina_eichacker@uri.edu
Chair: Nina Quinn Eichacker, University of Rhode Island nina_eichacker@uri.edu
- Macroeconomics as Historical Accounting. J. W. Mason, CUNY profjwmason@gmail.com
- Crowding Out: Either Flawed or a Myth. Gabriel Patrick Mathy, American University
- Confronting the Nihilistic Reading of the Lucas Critique. Alex Williams, Employ America
- Increasing Risk, Climate Transition, and Kaleckian Financial Insights. Nina Quinn Eichacker, University of Rhode Island nina_eichacker@uri.edu
Friday, February 24, 3:30 pm to 4:50 pm. Riverside Ballroom
URPE Panel 6. Job Guarantee
Sponsored by: Union for Radical Political Economy
Session Organizer: Al Campbell, University of Utah
Chair: Al Campbell, University of Utah al@econics.utah.edu
- Job Guarantee: A regional approach. Michael Murray, Bemidji State University mmurray@bemidjistate.edu
- How Modern Money Theory’s Job Guarantee Could Address the International Monetary System’s Structural Flaws. Devin Thomas Rafferty, St. Peter’s University devin.t.rafferty@gmail.com
Friday, February 24, 3:30 pm to 4:50 pm. Riverside Suite
URPE Panel 20. Labor
Sponsored by: Union for Radical Political Economy
Session Organizer: Al Campbell, University of Utah
Chair: Jacob Powell, Bucknell University j.powell@bucknell.edu
- Labour Market Segmentation and Surplus Extraction: The Indian Case. Satyaki Dasgupta, Colorado State University satyaki.dasgupta7@gmail.com
- Inequality of Opportunity, Income Inequality and Institutional Environment..Joonil Kim, Mokwon University kjoonil@mokwon.ac.kr
- Revisiting Theories of Wage Determination in the Neoliberal Era. Jacob Powell, Bucknell University j.powell@bucknell.edu
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Saturday, February 25, 8:00 am to 9:20 am. Riverside Ballroom
URPE Panel 7. Topics in International Finance and Monetary Policy
Sponsored by: Union for Radical Political Economy
Session Organizer: Francisco Perez, University of Utah f.j.perez@utah.edu
Chair: Francisco Perez, University of Utah f.j.perez@utah.edu
- A Credit Flow Macro Model with Nonlinear Phillips Curve: Scenarios for the Pandemic Recovery under Monetary Tightening. Jose Pedro Bastos Neves, New School for Social Research bastj193@newschool.edu
- The Cryptocurrency Ecosystem and Its Impact on Portfolio Allocation. Hamin Khawaja, New School for Social Research khawh820@newschool.edu; Emanuelle Citera, St. Lawrence University ecitera@stlawu.edu
- Is Monetary Policy in WAEMU Ineffective?”, Francisco Perez, University of Utah f.j.perez@utah.edu
Saturday, February 25, 8:00 am to 9:20 am. Riverside Suite
URPE Panel 21. Communities, Crises, and Change
Sponsored by: Union for Radical Political Economy
Session Organizer: Alfredo Rosete, Central Connecticut State University arosete@ccsu.edu
Chair: Alfredo Rosete, Central Connecticut State University arosete@ccsu.edu
- Care Work and Institutions: A unified approach. Laura Nussbaum-Barbarena, Roosevelt University; Alfredo Rosete, Central Connecticut State University arosete@ccsu.edu
- State-Level Variations in Quit Rates in the US Labor Market. Samantha Schenck, Central Connecticut State University; Carolyne Soper, Central Connecticut State University; Khawaja Mamun, Sacred Heart University
- Why did state and local governments cut spending during the recovery from the Great Recession? Amanda Page-Hoongrajok, Saint Peter`s University apageh@gmail.com
Saturday, February 25, 9:30 am to 10:50 am. Riverside Ballroom
URPE Panel 8. Financialized Capitalism and Cryptoregulation
Sponsored by: Union for Radical Political Economy
Session Organizer: Francisco Perez, University of Utah f.j.perez@utah.edu
Chair: Hanin Khawaja, New School for Social Research khawh820@newschool.edu
- Notes on Hegemonic Decline and Systemic Instability in the World-System Analysis Tradition. Patrick Hallan, University of Utah patrick.hallan@utah.edu
- Endogenous money, financial instability and crypto-regulation. Faruk Ulgen, University of Grenoble faruk.ulgen@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr
- New Modalities of Currency Substitution in the Age of Cryptoization. Hanin Khawaja, New School for Social Research khawh820@newschool.edu
Saturday, February 25, 9:30 am to 10:50 am. Riverside Suite
URPE Panel 22. Communities, Crises, and Change
Sponsored by: Union for Radical Political Economy
Session Organizer: Alfredo Rosete, Central Connecticut State University arosete@ccsu.edu
Chair: Alfredo Rosete, Central Connecticut State University arosete@ccsu.edu
- Households, Time Use, and Risk in the Era of Ecological Crisis. Nicolas Reksten, University of Redlands
- SMEs Innovation in Zambia During the Covid-19 Pandemic. Carlos Liard-Muriente, Central Connecticut State University
- Leveraging Local Electoral Accountability to Improve Social Safety Nets in Rural India. Jenna Allard, Inclusion Economics, Yale University jennifer.allard@yale.edu
Saturday, February 25, 11:00 am to 12:20 pm. Riverside Ballroom
URPE Panel 9. Money and International Financial System
Sponsored by: Union for Radical Political Economy
Session Organizer: Ramaa Vasudevan, Colorado State University ramaa.vasudevan@colostate.edu
Chair: Elissa Braunstein, Colorado State University elissa.braunstein@colostate.edu)
- Genealogy of Finance: Long Term History and Alternatives. Ann Elizabeth Davis, Marist College ann.davis@marist.edu
- The monetary hierarchy of the global dollar, financialization and the periphery. Ramaa Vasudevan, Colorado State University ramaa.vasudevan@colostate.edu
- The war in Ukraine and the American financial order? Ilene Grabel, University of Denver ilene.grabel@du.edu
Saturday, February 25, 11:00 am to 12:20 pm. Riverside Suite
URPE Panel 23. Real Economic Analysis – Micro
Sponsored by: Union for Radical Political Economy
Session Organizer: Güney Işıkara, New York University guneyisikara@nyu.edu
Chair: E. Ahmet Tonak, Hampshire College eatonak@gmail.com
- Real Economic Analysis of Consumer Behavior and Behavior of Firms. Anwar Shaikh, New School for Social Research
- Teaching Heterodox Microeconomics Using the Real Economics Framework. Ying Chen, New School for Social Research
- Unions and Wage Inequality under Real Capitalist Competition. Howard Botwinick, SUNY Cortland
- Wage Inequality under Real Competition. A stochastic differential equation model of the shape of the wage curve. Patrick Mokre, Austrian Federal Chamber of Labor
Saturday, February 25, 12:30 to 1:50 pm. Riverside Ballroom
URPE 10. Global Inflation, Monetary Policy and Austerity
Sponsored by: Union for Radical Political Economy
Session Organizer: Ramaa Vasudevan, Colorado State University ramaa.vasudevan@colostate.edu
Chair: Ilene Grabel, University of Denver Ilene.Grabel@du.edu
- Inflation in times of overlapping emergencies: Systemically significant prices from an input-output perspective Isabella Weber, University of Massachusetts – Amherst; Luiza Nassif Pires, Levy Institute of Bard College; Jesús Lara Jauregui Jauregui, University of Massachusetts – Amherst; Lucas Teixeira, State University of Campinas
- Free Trade Agreements and Contractionary Monetary Policy Bias of Inflation Targeting Central Banks in Developing Countries Devika Dutt, Kings College, London
- The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism Clara Mattei, New School for Social Research
Saturday, February 25, 12:30 to 1:50 pm. Riverside Suite
URPE Panel 24. Real Economic Analysis – Macro
Sponsored by: Union for Radical Political Economy
Session Organizer: Güney Işıkara, New York University guneyisikara@nyu.edu
Chair: E. Ahmet Tonak, Hampshire College eatonak@gmail.com
- Profitability, Effective Demand and Real Macroeconomics. AnwarShaikh, New School for Social Research
- Persistent Global Trade Imbalances and Unequal Diversification: A Smithian Theory of Long-Run Trade. Isabella Weber, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
- Are long waves 50 years? Reexamining and updating economic and financial long wave periodicities in Kondratieff and Schumpeter. Jason Hecht, Ramapo College
Saturday, February 25, 2:00 pm to 3:20 pm. Riverside Ballroom
URPE Panel 11. The Rate of Profit and Labor Shares
Sponsored by: Union for Radical Political Economy
Session Organizer: Francisco Perez, University of Utah f.j.perez@utah.edu
Chair: Bhavya Sinha, Colorado State University bhavya.sinha@colostate.edu
- Explaining Near Linearities in Price of Production Profit Curves. Lefteris Tsoulfidis Lnt@uom.edu.gr
- The Effect of Colonialism on the Declining Rate of Profit: A Quantitative Investigation, Bora Kabeer, University of Utah kabeer.bora@utah.edu
- Capture of Value Through Global Value Chains: An Exploration of Labour Shares, Bhavya Sinha, Colorado State University bhavya.sinha@colostate.edu
Saturday, February 25, 2:00 pm to 3:20 pm. Riverside Suite
URPE Panel 25. The Global Rise of Populism and Authoritarianism
Sponsored by: Union for Radical Political Economy
Session Organizer: Ann Elizabeth Davis, Marist College ann.davis@marist.edu
Chair: Edward Nell, New School for Social Research ejnell2@gmail.com
- Democratic Demise and the Role of Power-Seeking. Guinevere Nell, Independent scholar Guinevere.nell@gmail.com
- Global Conjuncture: The Return of “The (Male) Body”. Ann Elizabeth Davis, Marist College ann.davis@marist.edu
- Democracy and Capitalism: the Contradictory Relationship. Edward Nell, The New School Ejnell2@gmail.com
Saturday, February 25, 3:30 pm to 4:50 pm. Riverside Ballroom
URPE Panel 12. Finance and Money
Sponsored by: Union for Radical Political Economy
Session Organizer: Al Campbell, University of Utah
Chair: Al Campbell al@economics.utah.edu
- The Panic of 1907 and the Birth of the Fed. Hyuna Kim, University of Missouri-Kansas City hyunakim@mail.umkc.edu
- Endogenous money, liquidity preference, and the transformation of the US financial system: evidence from a firm-level panel analysis. Yeohyub Yoon, University of Denver yeohyub.yoon@du.edu
- Financialization, Profit Rates, and Capital Stocks. Daniel Ossa, University of Utah daniel.ossa@utah.edu
Saturday, February 25, 3:30 pm to 4:50 pm. Riverside Suite
URPE Panel 26. Capitalism and “Flash Issues”: Reparations, Abortion, Drugs, and Hate Crimes
Sponsored by: Union for Radical Political Economy
Session Organizer: Al Campbell, University of Utah
Chair: Michele Naples, The College of New Jersey naples@tcnj.edu
- Movements, mapping and ‘mbuntu’: Understanding the importance and implications of reparations-organising for the international system. Priya Lukka, Leeds University ptplu@leeds.ac.uk
- The Political Economy of Employer Subsidies of Abortion Costs in a Post-Roe World. Annie McGrew, University of Massachusetts Amherst amcgrew@umass.edu
- Hate Crime and Human Capital. Luke Anthony Petach, Belmont University luke.petach@belmont.edu; Dustin Rumbaugh, Belmont University dustin.rumbaugh@belmont.edu
- The Cost Savings from Decriminalizing Drugs: New Jersey. Michele Naples, The College of New Jersey naples@tcnj.edu
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Sunday, February 26, 10:00 am to 11:20 am. Riverside Ballroom
URPE Panel 13. Inflation Dynamics in Developing Countries
Sponsored by: Union for Radical Political Economy
Session Organizer: Ibrahim Shikaki, Trinity College ibrahim.shikaki@trincoll.edu
Chair: Hasan Comert, Trinity College hcomert@trincoll.edu
- The Political Economy of Imported Inflation in the Palestinian Economy. Ibrahim Shikaki, Trinity College
- The Macroeconomics and Political Economy of Low inflation in Bolivia. Raul Zelada-Aprili, Trinity College
- Inflation, Monetary Policy and the natural growth and interest rates relationship: the case of Mexico, 2001 – 2020. Juan Alberto Vázquez Muñoz, BUAP, Mexico
Sunday, February 26, 10:00 am to 11:20 am. Riverside Suite
URPE Panel 27. Papers from URPE Reader on the Political Economy of the Environment
Sponsored by: Union for Radical Political Economy
Session Organizer: Paul Cooney pcooney@ccny.cuny.edu
Chair: Al Campbell al@economics.utah.edu
- A Comparison between Environmental Economics and Ecological Economics in terms of Method, Theory and Practice. Paul Cooney pcooney@ccny.cuny.edu
- Land struggles as environmental resistance Sirisha Naidu: snaidu@umkc.edu
- Trends in Ecological Marxism: an attempt at classification. William Sacher: bretagne.artiste@gmail.com
Sunday, February 26, 11:30 am to 12:50 pm. Riverside Ballroom
URPE Panel 14. The Inflationary Puzzle
Sponsored by: Union for Radical Political Economy
Session Organizer: Ibrahim Shikaki, Trinity College ibrahim.shikaki@trincoll.edu
Chair: Matias Vernengo, Bucknell University mv012@bucknell.edu
- The Inflationary Puzzle Matias Vernengo, Bucknell University mv012@bucknell.edu
- Structural Inflation Dynamics in Developing Countries and Policy Implications Hasan Comert, Trinity College hcomert@gmail.com
- Rethinking Supply Constraints J.W. Mason, CUNY profjwmason@gmail.com
Discussant: Raul Zelada-Aprili, Trinity College rzeladaa@trincoll.edu
Sunday, February 26, 11:30 am to 12:50 pm. Riverside Suite
URPE Panel 28. Envisioning Socialism
Sponsored by: Union for Radical Political Economy
Session Organizer: Al Campbell, University of Utah
Chair: David Laibman dlaibman@scienceandsociety.com
- The Potentials and Limits of Computing Technologies for Socialist Planning. Güney Işıkara, City University of New York guneyisikara@nyu.edu
- Socialist Planning with Markets. Al Campbell, University of Utah al@economics.utah.edu
- Household Activity/Production in a Socialist Society. Paddy Quick paddyquick8@gmail.com