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Heterodox Economics Newsletter Issue 257 — January 06, 2020 — Web1 — Pdf2 — Heterodox Economics Directory3 Heterodox Economics Newsletter Issue 257 | January 06, 2020 | web1 | pdf2 | Heterodox Economics Directory3 Yesterday, this year's ASSA meeting4 in San Diego has ended. The ASSA meeting is probably the greatest gathering of economists throughout the year and it is noteworthy insofar as the ASSA is one of the very few places, where exchange between heterodox and mainstream economists could be facilitated. I say 'could be', because actually this is only rarely the case: mainstream researchers typically do not participate in heterodox sessions, while heterodox economists, who do occasionally visit mainstream sessions, often remain invisible there as the standard mainstream session does not allow for much discussion. This separation has been further amplified by an evaluation system used by the AEA, which assigns future slots for sessions based on past attendance. This scheme creates an additional (and in my view unhelpful) incentive to stick in one's 'in- group' and abstain from interparadigmatic engagement (see also here5 for a specific criticism of this practice). By the way, the same incentive - stick with your in-group to maximize visibility for your own field or approach - emerges in the context of citation- based evaluation routines (see here6 for an elaboration). However, the ASSA is nonetheless a great to place to stay in touch with major debates in the profession and to find some potential insights and inspiration. Even if I cannot attend personally (as in this year; otherwise you would have gotten a more extended report:-), I always screen the contributions in the heterodox sessions, which can be quickly assessed here7 (Hint: You have to search of different heterdox associations first to not get lost - a compilation of these associations can be found here8 ). In case you are interested in participating: the calls for the ASSA meeting typically close between April and May of the year before the event and are regularly announced in this Newsletter! All the best for the upcoming year, Jakob 1http://www.heterodoxnews.com/n/htn257.html 2http://www.heterodoxnews.com/n/htn257.pdf 3http://heterodoxnews.com/hed 4https://www.aeaweb.org/conference/2020-general-information 5http://www.heterodoxnews.com/n/htn257.html#art-17592186086742 6https://jakob-kapeller.org/images/pubs/2012-DobKap-Lessons-RoPE.pdf 7https://www.aeaweb.org/conference/2020/preliminary 8http://heterodoxnews.com/hed/institutions.html 1 Contents Call for Papers3 EASST+4S Conference (Prague, August 2020)..................3 18th International Conference of the Charles Gide Association on 'Co-operation' (Lausanne, Sept. 2020).............................7 1st International Conference on the Contemporary Issues in Finance, Trade and Macroeconomy (Istanbul, Apr. 2020)..................8 32nd Annual Conference of the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy (EAEPE) (Bilbao, Sept. 2020)...................9 4th International Marxist Feminist Conference (Bilbao, Oct. 2020)....... 11 8th Erfurt Graduate Seminar for HET and Constitutional Economics (Erfurt, Feb. 2020).................................... 13 8th UECE Conference on Economic and Financial Adjustments (Lisbon, July 2020)....................................... 13 Call for Book Chapter Proposals: "Democracy and Development"....... 14 Fair Trade International Symposium (Chiapas, June 2020)............ 15 Historical Materialism: The Rise of New Authoritarianisms and the Agenda for Resistance (Ankara, April 2020)...................... 17 Multinational Companies in Turbulent Times: Strategies, Norms, and Experi- mentation across Borders (Seoul, April 2020)................ 20 Post-Keynesian Conference (Lille, Dec. 2020)................... 21 Review of Evolutionary Political Economy (REPE): Special Issue on \Networks dynamics, economic transition, and policy design"............. 23 Studies in Emergent Order and Organization (SIEO): Special Issue on "Carl Menger and Classical Liberalism"....................... 25 Workshop on "Understanding Economic Theory and Development in a Sraffian Framework" (Hyderabad, Oct. 2020)..................... 26 Call for Participants 27 Event Invitation: "Recession ready: Green planning to beat tomorrow's down- turn" (London, January 2020)......................... 28 Job Postings 28 Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands (1/2)................ 28 Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands (2/2)................ 31 Queen's University Belfast, North Ireland..................... 33 University of Westminster, UK (1/2)........................ 35 University of Westminster, UK (2/2)........................ 36 Unversity of Luxembourg / Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER), Luxembourg............................. 37 Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria.............. 39 2 Awards 41 Call for Nominations: Craufurd Goodwin Best Article in the History of Eco- nomics Prize.................................. 41 Call for Nominations: Kurt-Rothschild Award for Economic Journalism and Research..................................... 42 Journals 43 Capital & Class 43 (4)................................ 43 Competition and Change 24 (1)........................... 45 Economic Thought: History, Philosophy and Methodology 8 (2)........ 45 Economy and Society 48 (4)............................. 46 Feminist Economics 26 (1).............................. 48 International Critical Thought 9 (4)........................ 50 Journal of Historical Materialism 27 (4)...................... 52 Science and Society 84 (1).............................. 53 Books and Book Series 54 Marxism: Karl Marx's Fifteen Key Concepts for Cultural & Communication Studies...................................... 54 Money Power and Financial Capital in Emerging Markets............ 54 Heterodox Economics in the Media 55 "Economics for People" with Ha-Joon Chang................... 55 For Your Information 55 Letter to Peter L. Rousseau (AEA) regarding the allocation of session at the ASSA meeting................................. 55 Call for Papers EASST+4S Conference (Prague, August 2020) 18-21 August 2020 | Prague, Czech Republic EASST+4S "Locating and Timing Matters: Significance and Agency of STS in Emerging Worlds" How has the world changed since 2016 when EASST and 4S met in Barcelona? Since then, efforts to frame \alternative" approaches and futures appear to have been co-opted by powerful actors. Big Data has been fiercely replacing former identities with digital identities for humans, animals and artefacts. Geopolitical and epistemic centres have further multiplied. The global temperature of the planet continues to increase, as do 3 global emissions of CO2. Wildlife biodiversity is decreasing, while the first CRISPR- Cas engineered babies with altered germlines were born. Modern nation-states have become more unstable even as we see the tentative emergence of new collectives and solidarities. The #metoo campaign has sparked a new wave of articulations of and conflict over gender power asymmetries contributing energy to other ongoing efforts against asymmetric differentiations and exclusions in and beyond academic contexts. These are just some of the major shifts that create feelings of urgency, unease and confusion. Calls to \act now" proliferate. And yet, while technoscience and its products ever more tangibly shape our planet and lives, politicians, publics, and even academics feel helpless. We invite STS scholars to examine such spiralling changes that generate these feelings of urgency and powerlessness in ways that make our research relevant to wider academic and non-academic publics. For the meeting in Prague, we especially welcome inquiries into longer term continuities and discontinuities and material legacies of modernity|both desired and undesirable|that have been built into our sociotechnical infrastructures and ways of living. We want to pay special attention to the ways in which geopolitical, economic and epistemic globalization is localized and distributed over Planet Earth. What are the means and ends of STS in different places? What does it take to intervene and be relevant here and there? Whom do we want to speak and act with? Who wants to speak and act with us? We encourage STS researchers to ask reflexive questions with regard to our own existing and potential practical contributions to these ongoing developments. How do we, can we and should we (re)organize our own professional practices to the differences we desire? How may we collaborate across regions, genders, races, religions or disciplines without reproducing inequalities? How shall we publish, (co)author and cite in inclusive ways? How do we rethink and remake ways of recognizing and crediting the work of others in an era of pervasive audit and (self)tracking? How do we liaise, meet up and travel responsibly in a time of climate disruption and overproduction of waste? How can we engage with policymaking and society at large amidst the dynamics of \alternative facts"? Submission Process There are three ways how to take part in EASST/4S Prague 2020: Presenting individual paper, organizing Closed Panel, organizing and/or engaging in Making & Doing. Please consult the focus and themes9 of the conference program as well as the participation guidelines before submitting. 1.) Presenting Individual Paper Individual paper submissions should be in the form of abstracts of up to 250 words. 9https://www.easst4s2020prague.org/focus-and-themes/ 4 They should include the paper's main arguments, methods, and contributions to STS. When you submit your
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