[URPE] REMINDER - deadline for submissions to the AHE/FAPE/IIPPE conference, Paris, July 6-8 2012

[Alan Freeman]

REMINDER    REMINDER    REMINDER    REMINDER    REMINDER

Deadline for submitting papers is 31 January 2012

Dear Colleague,

 

This is to remind you that the deadline is imminent for you to submit an
abstract for the July 6-12 conference jointly organized by the AHE, FAPE
(French Association for Political Economy) and IIPPE (International
Initiative for Promoting Political Economy). This historic event promises to
be one of the largest heterodox economics conferences in recent memory. Not
to be missed!

 

If you’ve already submitted your abstract, no action is needed. Otherwise
visit the following site and click on the link for ‘individual submissions’
(or if submitting a panel, the link for panel submissions):

 

http://www.assoeconomiepolitique.org/political-economy-outlook-for-capitalis
m/proposition/

 

As a reminder, we are also re-circulating the call for papers below.

Call for Papers

 

Political Economy and the Outlook for Capitalism

Joint Conference - Paris, 5-8 July 2012

 Association for Heterodox Economics (AHE)

http://hetecon.net/division.php?page=call_for_papers 

http://www.hetecon.net/ 

 
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http://www.assoeconomiepolitique.org/political-economy-outlook-for-capitalis
m/proposition/ 

French Association of Political Economy/ Association Française D’economie
Politique (FAPE)

International Initiative for Promoting Political Economy (IIPPE)

 

The collapse of Lehman Brothers on 16 September 2008 has opened a new stage
of economic history, ushering in the world’s worst recession since WWII. The
trajectory of global capitalism has been diverse but, after three years of
deep crisis, protracted economic problems persist and are even intensifying,
notwithstanding accelerated growth in a number of large developing
countries.

In the global North, policies implemented in the aftermath of the crisis of
financialised capitalism have neither ended the neoliberal agenda nor curbed
the demands of a resurgent financial sector. Instead, after a diluted
Keynesian moment centered on “quantitative easing”, the governments of the
richest countries have launched a new set of neoliberal reforms
characterized by harsh austerity measures. From 2009 onwards, this new
neoliberal wave has spread progressively from peripheral European countries
to the UK, the Eurozone, and now the USA. Along with surging unemployment
rates, this economic onslaught, on those who are in no way perceived as
accountable for the crisis and slump, promises a period of major social
disruption in welfare provision and institutions, pressures on wages and
working conditions and, in response across a growing number of countries,
multitudes of spontaneous and, occasionally, mass actions as macroeconomic
prospects deteriorate.

In the global South, the forces putatively driving catch-up remain limited
and highly uneven, with the issue of global imbalances often placed at the
forefront in deference to the US’s compromised if continuing hegemonic role.
In contrast, not least in the face of the ongoing ecological disruption, the
idea of a new frontier for social and economic development and thought is
being promoted by a large spectrum of actors, ranging from proponents of
no-growth or slow growth through to governments, international institutions
and corporations who envisage a revival of capitalism thanks to and in
pursuit of the green economy. These initiatives are indicative of an
intellectual and material crisis but offer little by way of solution for
which, as observed, a savage renewal of neoliberalism serves as the default
option.

The scientific issues raised by the corresponding range of problems are
formidable, but the blindness and reductionism of mainstream economics
prevents them from being tackled within the discipline which has scarcely
been disturbed by the acute exposure of its inadequacies by the crisis.

Taking pluralism as the means for bringing together the community of
critical economists, this joint conference, called by two major
international and one of the largest national networks of political economy
and social scientists, will breathe fresh air into an otherwise moribund
intellectual atmosphere. It is a major event that will bring together
scholars from all strands of political economy and heterodox economics in
order to discuss their future and the recent developments in the global
economy and in economic science following the global economic crisis.

 Submissions of individual abstract or panel proposals along the following
non-exclusive themes are welcomed.

Theoretical Perspectives

· Critical Realism in Economics
· Feminist economics
· Green economics
· Institutional economics
· Marxist political economy
· Post-Keynesian economics
· Social Economics

 Crisis

· Global economic crisis
· Austerity in the global north
· The crisis of the Eurozone
· Economic crisis and the developing world
·Chinaand the world economy
· Economics and the Arab world

 Themes

· Neoliberalism
· Financialisation
· Ecology: global capitalism and climate change
· The global shift of capitalism / Global economy towards a multipolar world
· International Financial Institutions
· Labour markets
· Poverty

 Methodology

· Economics and interdisciplinarity: crossing the disciplinary boundaries
· Economic methodology
· Economics and philosophy
· The ethics of economics
· History of economic thought
· Mainstream economics: not fit for purpose
· Pluralism and economic education

 Deadline for abstracts: 31st January 2012 (Authors will be notified about
our decision by the 15th of March 2012)

Deadline for registration (with reduced fee): 14th May 2012

Deadline for full refereed papers: 14th May 2012

Deadline for non-refereed full papers: 1st June 2012

 Online submission:
 
<http://www.assoeconomiepolitique.org/political-economy-outlook-for-capitali
sm/>
http://www.assoeconomiepolitique.org/political-economy-outlook-for-capitalis
m/

 

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