15th SOCIETY OF HETERODOX ECONOMISTS CONFERENCE 2016 UNIVERSITY OF NSW Monday 5th December 8.00 Registration Foyer Central Lecture Block (Building E19) 8.45 Welcome to the land Central Lecture Block 4 Central Lecture Block 5 Neoliberalism Panel by Institute Valentina Curcetti: Neoliberalism: facing Policy and Heterodox Economics 9.00-10.00 the elephant in the room Alan Morris: Instrumental rationality, an inevitable consequence of neoliberalism: The removal of public housing tenants from Millers Point and the Sirius Building by the New South Wales government 10.00-10.30 Morning Tea Interrogating the “Gig” Economy: Ethics and Methodology Causes, Consequences, and Policies Louise Fitzgerald: Learning to Think Critically in Centre for Future Work at the Business and Economics Contexts 10.30-12.30 Australia Institute Raja Junankar: On Measuring Uncertainty: Chair: Dr. Frances Flanagan Snakes and Ladders Jim Stanford: “Historical and Theoretical Michael Schneider: Distribution and Status: A Perspectives on the ‘Gig’ Economy” Review of The Political Economy of Status Wayne Lewchuk: “Precarious Susan Schroeder: Vision, Value and Pluralism: Employment: It Is About More Than Re-visiting the Requisites for a Paradigm Shift Low Wages” Andrew Stewart:“Regulating Work in the ‘Gig’ Economy: What are the Options?” Kate Minter: “Extending Minimum Standards to Digital Platforms: The Case of Airtasker.” 12.30-1.30 Lunch 1.30-2.30 Joseph Halevi "The Contemporary Relevance of Fred Lee's Heterodox Political Economy" Fred Lee Memorial Lecture in Heterodox Economics CLB 4 2.30-3.00 Afternoon Tea Panel: What's wrong with the media's economic reporting 3.00-5.00 Chair: Richard Denniss (TAI) John Quiggin (University of Queensland), Stephen Long (Economics Correspondent, ABC) Peter Martin (Economics Editor, The Age), (Economics Editor, SMH) 5.00 pm Book Launch of The Distribution of Wealth - Growing Inequality?, by Michael Schneider, Mike Pottenger and John King CLB FOYER 6.30 Predrinks sponsored by 7.00 Conference Dinner Lebanon and Beyond, 3/187 Alison Rd, Randwick, Sydney NSW 2031

Tuesday 6th December Central Lecture Block 4 Central Lecture Block 5 AFEE Student presentations The Departure from Scientific Premise to

Jarrod Avila: Beyond NIMBYism: Behavioural Assumption: the Genesis of 9.00-11.00 Understanding Affluent Community Neoclassical Economics Opposition to Rail Development in Sydney Joffre Balce: The Henry George Difference: John Di Ciaccio: Does Fair Trade change the Economics Does Not Have to Be Dismal power dynamics of the trades it affects? and Complex But Hopeful and Simple Martin Duck:The Australian Resources Boom: Richard Giles: Henry George and the Genesis Consolidating Neoliberal Hegemony of Neoclassical Economics Steven Liaros: The Pursuit of Liberty: Corrado Di Guilmi: The agent-based Building Sustainable Cities with Circular approach to Post-Keynesian modelling Economies Gavin Kitching: ‘Economic Magnitudes and Emma Penzo: A Neo-Galbraithian analysis for Human Action' or ‘Does Economics Need the 21st century corporation People’? 11.00-11.30 Morning Tea 11.30-12.30 IAFFE Session Policy Studies Therese Jefferson and Siobhan Austen: Rossella Ibrahim: Austerity policy changes in Conditions for micro level co-production: the IMF: two cases of international Insights from a study of aged care political economy of adjustment Anne Junor: Gender pay equity: Sofia Parker: Possible long-term effects of Undervaluation criteria, the quantification Brexit on the financial services sector of problem and skill the UK economy 12.30-1.30 Lunch Book Launch: Raja Junankar - Economics of the Labour Market; Economics of Immigration; Development Economics Foyer CLB What are they Thinking? The Continuing Demand and Public Debt

1.30-3.45 Relevance of Pusey's Work on Economic Alex Thomas The role of demand in Ricardo Rationalism and its Consequences Matthew Smith The Demand-Led Theory of Michael Johnson: Michael Pusey: Public Growth: Insights into the Modern History Intellectual and Activist of Economic Development Michael Pusey Arturo Hermann The Chronic Insufficiency Damien Cahill: Economic Rationalism and of the Demand of Full Employment and Neoliberalism the Future of Capitalism Jocelyn Pixley: Economic Rationalism and the Tony Aspromourgos: Keynes, Public Debt Dependence on Monetary Policy and the Complex of Interest Rates Ben Spiers Butcher: The Economic Shann Turnbull: Financial stability policy Rationalism and Social Democracy options Shaun Wilson: Tax policy and the limits of low-tax social democracy Frank Stilwell: Economic Rationalism: Then and Now 3.45-4.15 Afternoon Tea Democracy, freedom and sustainability Symposium on Tax Reform 4.15-5.30 Mark Harcourt:The Endowment Effect, Right J.E. King: The case for a capital levy to Manage, and Economic Democracy John Nevile: The allocation of direct and Troy Henderson: Real Freedom For All indirect taxes between federal and state Revisited – Normative Justifications of jurisdictions Basic Income David Richardson: Tax Reform James Juniper and Martin Watts: Environmental Sustainability: Modelling Challenges and Policy Debates