Breakfast, 7-8 AM
Session 1, 8:00-9:30 AM
1A Studies Involving Professional Ethics, Scientific Integrity, and Best Practices in Economics (AIRLEAP)
o Areerat Kichkha (Chair) & Richard Anderson, Lindenwood University: Replication - Whose Ethical Concern Is It?
o Steven Payson, AIRLEAP: What Will Make Economics Professors Succeed or Fail in the Future? The Discipline at a Crossroads
o W. Charlie Sawyer, Texas Christian University: Flipping the Files: Matching in the Economics Job Market
1B Stratification Economics and the Political Economy of Identity
o John Davis (Chair), Marquette University: Stratification Economics and the Economics of Exclusion
o Dania Francis, University of Massachusetts Amherst: The Effects of Job Losses on Black and Hispanic Youth
o Kyle Moore, New School for Social Research: Real Competition and Stratification Economics: A Mutual Critique of Neoclassical Competition
1C Presentations from the Routledge Handbook of Heterodox Economics
o Tae-Hee Jo (Chair), SUNY Buffalo State, Lynne Chester University of Sydney, and Carlo D'Ippoliti, Sapienza University of Rome: The State of Art and Challenges for Heterodox Economics
o Marcella Corsi Sapienza, University of Rome, and Giuilio Guarini, Tuscia University: Inequality and poverty
o Scott Carter, University of Tulsa: Heterodox Theories of Distribution
1D Radical Approaches to Economic Policy Analysis in Advanced Capitalism (URPE)
o Jamee Moudud (Chair), Sarah Lawrence College: Looking into the Black Box: Policy as a Contested Process
o Robin Chang, York University: A Marxian Explanation for the Fast Rate of Growth in Healthcare Expenditures in Advanced Capitalism
o Katherine Moos, University of Massachusetts-Amherst: Neoliberal Redistributive Policy: The U.S. Net Social Wage in the 21st Century
1E Undergraduate economics curriculum reform: A Roundtable (URPE)
o Nathan Sivers Boyce (Chair), Willamette University
o Elizabeth Ramey, Hobart & William Smith Colleges
o Raechelle Mascarenhas, Willamette University
o Antonio Callari, Franklin & Marshall College
o Benjamin Balak, Rollins College
1F Issues of Democracy, Governance and Justice
o Mary Wrenn (Chair), University of the West of England, and William Waller, Hobart and William Smith Colleges: Neoliberalism and Actions against Interests by White Working Class Women in the US
o Sedef Topal, University of Szeged: Evolution from Democracy to Manipulocracy in the Crisis of State Sovereignty
o Masato Miyazaki, Saitama University: Do local allocation tax grants boost the issuance of road bonds? Evidence from Japan’s local governments
o Aqdas Afzal, National University of Sciences & Technology, Islamabad: The Work of John Rawls as a Blue Print for Social and Economic Justice
1G The Social Economics of Applied Microeconomic Analysis
o John Tomer (Chair), Manhattan College: Why Consumers Are Not Sovereign; The Socio-Economic Causes of Market Failure
o Nasreen Nawaz, Michigan State University: Efficiency on the Dynamic Adjustment Path
o Jason Hecht, Ramapo College: High-Tech R&D, Productivity, and Labor-Displacing Technical Change: A Solow Model of Productivity With A Ricardo-Marx Result
o Scott Alan Carson University of Texas, Permian Basin: Net Nutrition and the Transition from 19th Century Bound to Free-labor: Assessing Dietary Change with Differences in Decompositions
Session 2, 9:45-11:15 AM
2A Studies on Employment and Migration (AIRLEAP)
o Amelie F. Constant (Chair) and Douglas S. Massey, Princeton University: Mobility trends and Patterns of Latinix by U.S. Census Region
o Yaya Sissoko, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, and Brian W. Sloboda, University of Phoenix: A Dynamic Multi-Sector Export Base Model to Determine Long-Run Regional Employment Growth in Pennsylvania’s Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs)
o Steven Payson, AIRLEAP: The Downsizing of Economics Professors: How It Will Happen and Why It Will Succeed
2B Social Institutions of Finance (URPE)
o Ariane Hillig (Chair), The Open University: Impact of Financialization on the Everyday Life of UK Households
o Giulia Zacchia, Sapienza University of Rome, Fabrizio Botti, University of Perugia and Marcella Corsi, Sapienza University of Rome: Microfinance in Europe at the time of crisis: Striking a balance between financial and social performance
o Serap Saritas and Oran Dokuz, Eylul University: Financialisation, Islamic Finance and Pension Funds in Turkey
o Manisha Pradhananga, Knox College, and Leila Davis, Middlebury College: Financialization of Agro-Food Firms
2C Energy in the Global Economy
o Jim Case (Chair): Biophysical Economics
o Carey King, University of Texas Austin: Systems Thinking Linking Energy and the Economy: Size, Growth, and Structure
o Victor Yakovenko, University of Maryland College Park
o Jim Case: Petroleum Price History
2D Gender, enterprise and growth
o Janice Peterson (Chair), CSU Fresno
o Emel Memiş, Ankara University, and Ozge İzdes, İstanbul University: The Impact of Elderly Care on Women’s Labour Force Participation and Employment
o Anupama Uppal, Punjabi University: The Nature and Determinants of Gender Discrimination in Entrepreneurship in the Unorganized Manufacturing Sector of India
o Madhavi Venkatesan, Northeastern University: Effective policy starts with micro data: Female wage disparity and equity
o Sanika Ramanayake and Taniya Ghosh, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research: The Role of Gender-gap and Exports on Economic Growth
2E Development and Economic Theory
o Steve Cohn (Chair), Knox College: Paradigm Competition in China
o Patrick Bond, University of the Witwatersrand: South Africa’s primary capitalist contradictions: Drawing on political-economic theory to explain economic crisis, beyond neo-patrimonialism
o Amanda Page-Hoongrajok, Shouvik Chakraborty and Bob Pollin, University of Massachusetts-Amherst: Austerity Versus Green Growth for Puerto Rico
o Sudeep Regmi, Bucknell University: Notes on the Foundations of a Postcolonial Geopolitical Economy
2F Pluralistic Games, Experiments and Curricula
o Julia M. Puaschunder (Chair), Harvard University: Trust and Reciprocity Drive Social Common Goods Contribution Norms
o Pierre Lacour, NYU: Does Ethical Behavior Pass the Test of Time? Explorations in Repeated Trust Games
o Rafed A. Al-Huq, Bucknell University: Classroom Experiments for Pluralistic Economics
o Sam de Muijnck, Joris Tieleman, and Maarten Kavelaars, Erasmus University Rotterdam: Thinking Like an Economist? A Quantitative Analysis of Bachelor Curricula in the Netherlands (SKYPE Presentation)
2G Money and Finance
o Robert Kirsch (Chair), Arizona State University: Modern Money Marxism? Or: A Left Critique of State-Centered Money
o Michael Derrer, Lucerne University: The Pros and Cons of the "Sovereign Money" proposal in Switzerland
o Mona Ali, SUNY New Paltz: Finance, Power, and the British Balance of Payments
Session 3: Lunch Plenary, 11:15 AM – 1:00 PM
3 Plenary: Pluralism and Economics 10 Years after the Crisis and 200 years after Marx's birth
o Anwar Shaikh, New School for Social Research
o William Waller, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
o Julie Nelson, University of Massachusetts Boston
o Geoffrey Schneider (Chair and Moderator), Bucknell University
Session 4: 1:15-3:00 PM
4A Economic and Interdisciplinary Analyses of Inflammatory Policy Issues (AIRLEAP)
o Steven Payson (Chair), AIRLEAP
o Julia M. Puaschunder, Harvard University: Climate in the 21st Century
o Rolando A. Santos, Lakeland Community College, and Brian Sloboda, University of Phoenix: Implication of a Border Tax to the Value of the Dollar, Yuan and the Mexican Pesos
o Beau Whitney, New Frontier: Cannabis Banking and Taxation: An Examination of the Ethics and Efficacy of Public Policy on Public Safety
o Pierre D. Glynn, Collin B. Lawrence and Carl D. Shapiro, U.S. Geological Survey: Adaptive and Traceable Science and Policy Governance for Better Economic Decisions
4B New heterodox perspectives on financialization and primitive accumulation (URPE)
o Scott Fullwiler, University of Missouri – Kansas City: Chair and Discussant
o Ignacio Ramirez Cisneros, University of Missouri – Kansas City: Minsky’s international economics and its implications for the Eurozone crisis
o Andres Cantillo, Missouri State University: The structure of production and portfolio decisions of investment
o Daniel Ferman-Leon, Cornell University: Financialization: Perspectives from Anthropology and Heterodox Economics
o Alejandro Garay-Huaman (Chair), University of Missouri – Kansas City: Decentering Primitive Accumulation and Imperialism: Towards a Non-essentialist Approach
o Scott Carter, University of Tulsa: Discussant
o Rafed A. Al-Huq, Bucknell University: Discussant
o Natalia De Lima Bracarense, North Central College: Discussant
4C Methodological Issues (URPE)
o Tim Koechlin (Chair), Vassar College, and Jonathan Diskin, Earlham College: A Radical (Re)Framing of “Choice”
o Ceren Soylu, University of Massachusetts-Amherst: Heterogeneity and/of Collective Action: Who, What, and How?
o Larry Udell, West Chester University: Rawls for Radicals
o Frank Thompson, University of Michigan: A Model of Rawls' Theory of Intergenerational Justice`
o David Fields and Sanchit Shrivastava, University of Utah: The Normative Foundations of Political Economy: Introducing Economics as a Social Science
4D Foundations for an alternative curriculum in economics
o Anwar Shaikh, New School for Social Research: Constructing the Foundations for an Alternative Curriculum in Economics
4E Pluralistic Approaches to Teaching
o Randy Albelda (Chair), University of Massachusetts Boston
o Jack Reardon, Hamline University: Pluralism and Effective Teaching: A Survey of the Literature
o Geert Dhondt, Mathieu Dufour and Ian Seda, John Jay College: Keeping Class in the Conversation in the Age of the 1%
o Sucharita Sinha, Mukherjee College of Saint Benedict/Saint John’s University: Embracing pluralism for making Economics relevant- Introductory courses could pave the Way
o John Marangos, University of Macedonia: Teaching Introductory Macroeconomics During the Greek Financial Crisis
o Jason Hecht, Ramapo College: Incorporating Pluralist Explanations of the Financial Crisis into Finance and Economics Courses
4F Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Economics
o Richard V. Adkisson (Chair) and James Peach, New Mexico State University: Is There a Role for Basic Econometric Analysis in the Pluralist Approach to Economics?
o Roger A. McCain, Drexel University: Economics is Thick
o Greg Hannsgen, Levy Economics Institute, and Tai Young-Taft, Bard College at Simon’s Rock: Gender in a Nonlinear Post-Keynesian Fiscal-Policy Model
o Terrance J. Quinn, Middle Tennessee State University: Anatomy of economic activity: there are two main flows
o John McDermott, SUNY: A Private Economy in Which Investment is Mostly Public: Re-Examining Some
o Economics Fundamentals
4G Preparing for ASSA and Campus Interviews: A Roundtable and Workshop
o Geoffrey Schneider (Chair), Bucknell University
o Additional panelists TBA.
Session 5: 3:15-5:00 PM
5A Constructing the Principles of Radical Political Economy: A Roundtable
o Geoffrey Schneider (Chair), Bucknell University
o Ann Davis, Marist College
o Paddy Quick, St. Francis College
o Additional panelists TBA
5B Heterodox Approaches To Macroeconomics (URPE)
o Adem Elveren (Chair) and Rachel Dunning, Fitchburg State University: Falling Profit Rates and Military Expenditures: An Empirical Investigation
o Olivia Mattos, St. Francis College, Fernanda Ultremare, Felipe da Roz, and Guilherme Melo, UNICAMP, Brazil: Ultra low and Negative Interest Rates in our times: what Keynes would have thought?
o Gokcer Ozgur, University of Utah: How Saving Data is Estimated
o Hasan Comert, Middle East Technical University, and Fatih Akcelik, Central Bank of Turkey: Does Inflation Vary across Income Groups? Evidence from an Emerging Market
o David Fields, University of Utah, and Nathaniel Cline , University of Redlands: The Case for Regional Policies under Monetary Sovereignty: A Heterodox Approach to Domestic Fiscal Crises
5C Issues in Economic Policy and Theory
o Quentin Wodon (Chair), World Bank: The Role of Laws, Policies, and Interventions for Ending Child Marriage and Keeping Girls in School
o Adam Chalmers, King's College London, Marcella Corsi and Giulia Porino, Sapienza University of Rome: Diversity is an asset. How reducing gender-imbalances in financial sector top positions could promote the public interest in finance
o Kalpana Khanal and Jacob C. Correira, Nichols College: The Political Economy of “Food Security” in the age of neoliberal globalization
o Ruchira Sen, University of Missouri - Kansas City: Economies of Kinship and Command in the Empire of Capital since 1989
o Riko Rosete, Warren Wilson College and Hendrik Van den Berg, University of Massachusetts-Amherst: Extending the Harrod-Domar Model: Warranted Growth with Immigration, Natural Environmental Constraints, and Technological Change
5D Corruption and Crime
o Richard V. Adkisson and Leila Shadabi, New Mexico State University: An Institutional Examination of Consistent Corruption
o Rafed A. Al-Huq Bucknell University: Illuminating Corruption: A View from Satellite Night-Time Lights Data
o Scott Alan Carson, University of Texas, Permian Basin: Crime in the American West: Institutional Evolution to Address Social Change
o Geert Dhondt, John Jay College: ‘Stress of Circumstance:’ Towards a Marxist Political Economy of Criminal Justice
5E Economic Thought and Pluralism
o Gerald Friedman and Carly McCann, University of Massachusetts-Amherst: Women with degrees and the gendering of progressive Economics
o Roberto Simiqueli, Universidade Estadual de Campinas: Conservatism and Institutions: revisiting the exchange between J. A. Hobson and Thorstein Veblen
o Ramon Garcia Fernandez Universidade Federal do ABC Carlos Eduardo Suprinyak Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais: Manufacturing Pluralism in Brazilian Economics: The role of ANPEC as institutional mediator and stabilizer
o Edward Teather-Posadas, Colorado State University: Taking the Parallax View: Karatani, Žižek, and the Plurality of Economic Thought
o Viktorija Mano, University of Roehampton: Using Complexity Theory in conjunction with critical realism in economics
5F Labor, Employment, Poverty and Inequality
o Josefina Y. Li, University of Missouri - Kansas City: Bioregional Job Guarantee
o Brian Matlock, University of Missouri - Kansas City: Talking about the poor: a critical discourse analysis of nonprofit website messaging about poverty
o Alexandra Arntsen, Birmingham City University: It’s the end of the world and we know it: an intersectional analysis of worktime and environmental preferences
o John Komlos, University of Munich: The Hollowing Out of the Middle Class
5G Publishing in Heterodox Journals: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (A Roundtable)
o Jack Reardon, Hamline University, Editor, International Journal of Pluralism and Economics Education
o Lynne Chester, University of Sydney, Co-Editor, Review of Political Economy
o Chris Brown, Arkansas State University, Editor, Journal of Economic Issues
o Matias Vernengo, Bucknell University, Co-Editor, Review of Keynesian Economics
Conference ends at 5:00 PM