POLITICALINTERNAT ECONOMY:IONAL INTERNATIONAL INITIAT TRIVEENDS FOR AND N PROMOTATIONAL DIFFIENGRENC POLES ISEGIT I| 7-9CAL 2016 E CONOMYLISBON, PORTUGAL Seventh Annual Conference in Political Economy POLITICAL ECONOMY: INTERNATIONAL TRENDS AND NATIONAL DIFFERENCES INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE ECONOMIA E GESTÃO (ISEG) (School of Economics & Management) University of Lisbon September 7 – 9, 2016 Lisbon, Portugal - 1 - POLITICAL ECONOMY: INTERNATIONAL TRENDS AND NATIONAL DIFFERENCES ISEG | 7-9 2016 LISBON, PORTUGAL 1:30 – 2:30 PM. LUNCH ROOMS 2:30 – 4:30 PM. SESSION 3 AND LOCATIONS 4:30 – 5:00 PM. COFFEE BREAK 5:00 – 6:30 PM. PLENARY. Current Currents in Room 306 3d floor Political Economy. Auditorium CGD Auditorium CGD 2nd floor DIANE ELSON. The Political Economy of ‘Economic Inequality’ and ‘Gender Inequality’ Auditorium 2 2nd floor Auditorium 3 2nd floor MalcOLM Sawyer. The Contributions of Political Economy to the Understanding of Financialisa- Novo Banco 4th floor tion Amphitheater 14th floor 6:30 – 8:00 PM. COUNCIL MEETING. Edifer6:30 Amphitheater 3 4th floor – 7:30 PM. Poverty Working Group meeting. Amphitheater 4 4th floor Auditorium 3 Delta 3d floor Edifer 2nd floor Rm 308 3d floor WEDNESDAY 7 New Building (Francesinhas 1) 09:00 – 11:00 AM Amphitheatre 21 Second floor SESSION 1 Amphitheatre 22 Second floor Amphitheatre 24 Second floor AUDITORIUM CGD Neolib I. Neoliberalism and economic policy TUESDAY 6 - Stagnation and institutional structures. DAVID KOTZ IIPPE pre-conference Training Workshop Economic openness, domestic institutional qual- ity & income inequality. FARAH KHAN location (Tuesday only): Instituto Superior de -The social legacy of Quantitative Easing: an Economia e Gestão (ISEG) (School of Econom- Australian perspective. PETER WILLANS ics & Management), Auditorium 2 -South-south integration as neoliberal passive 9:30 - 9:50 AM. Registration. (people attending revolution: the case of Morocco. FÁTIMA FERNÁNDEZ this can also register for the Conference at the beginning of this Workshop) AUDITORIUM 3 10:00 AM - 5:30 PM. IIPPE Training Workshop. Neolib X. Industrial Policy Value and Price. under Neoliberalism 1 Coordinated by SIMON MOHUN The problems of intra-regional imbalances in South East Asia. NAPHON PHUMMA Industrial restructuring and organisations of WEDNESDAY 7 labour in India. SatOSHI MiyamURA Conference Location: Instituto Superior de Different patterns of selective policies? Automo- Economia e Gestão (ISEG) (School of Econom- tive in Southeast Asia and China. CHIARA POLLIO ics & Management) -Public Development Banks – dispensable relics of the past? ANNE HENOW Conference HQ: Room 306 (for late registration, and any information or other conference needs) NOVO BANCO 7:45 - 10:00 AM. CONFERENCE REGISTRA- TION, in Lobby. After 10:00 in Room 306 for the Finance I. Financialisation And Well-Being I rest of the conference. -Embedded neoliberalism in Portugal: finance and the welfare state. NUNO TELES 8:30 – 8:50 AM. CONFERENCE WELCOME. -The material and culture of financialisation. BEN FINE Auditorium CGD. -Material cultures of water financialisation in Eng- 9:00 – 11:00 AM. SESSION 1 land and Wales. Kate Bayliss 11:00 – 11:30 AM. COFFEE BREAK -The making of a global commodity: restructuring 11:30 AM – 1:30 PM. SESSION 2 of the dairy industry. SUSAN NEWMAN - 2 - POLITICAL ECONOMY: INTERNATIONAL TRENDS AND NATIONAL DIFFERENCES ISEG | 7-9 2016 LISBON, PORTUGAL AMPHITHEATER 1 -A class perspective on migrant’s rights. CHAR- Finance X. Speculation, Monetary Policy and LOTTE GatH International Currencies -Endogenous money and monetary policy: a AMPHITHEATRE 22 structuralist critique to QE. OLIVIA BULLIO BDS I. Developmentalism and Latin America -Currency internationalisation in China, Brazil -Developmentalism at the periphery. LUIZ F. DE JAN GRUMILLER and South Africa. PAULA -Does the Palestinian Monetary Authority oper- -The rise and fall of the New Developmental DINA ZABANEH ate under the loanable fund theory? State in Brazil. JUDIT RICZ -Latin America in the wake of the world crisis: AMPHITHEATER 4 the limits of neo-developmentalism in political crises. ABELARDO MARINA-FLORES Agrarian Change I. Theoretical Interventions -Putting the ‘Political’ back into ‘Agrarian Political Economy’. SUBIR SINHA AMPHITHEATRE 21 -What is political about agrarian political econo- Environment I my? LEANDRO VERGARA-CAMUS -Linking environment and conflict: the collapse. -Chain (re)structuring and everyday politics in a Mauricio Alvarez Philippine banana town. ROBIN THIERS -Coherence, realism and relevance, and systems -Food regime theory and food sovereignty: Marx thinking in ecological economics. DENNIS BADEEN or Polanyi? MARK TILZEY AUDITORIUM 2 DELTA Activist Session I. Moving Beyond Capitalism (MBC) I. Worker struggles for self-determination in the Varieties of refusal: direct action, horizontalism, UK arms industry. Film: anti-austerity The Plan (110 min). STEVE SPRUNG -The (continued) problem of organisational form: mapping the party in Negri and Badiou. OLIVER HARRISON WEDNESDAY 7 -Capitalism in Uruguay: history and perspectives. JUAN BARRIOS 11:30 AM – 1:30 PM -Community tourism as a solidarity economy SESSION 2 practice. The experiences from Chile. SANDRA FERNANDEZ AUDITORIUM CGD Neolib II. Neoliberalism and Finance 1 EDIFER -The end of finance-led capitalism in the US? Social Capital I. TREVOR EVANS -Dealing with debt – looking beyond neoliberal- -A map of embeddedness: social capital accu- ism. Katarina SEHM PatOMAKI mulation, opportunities & constraints. ELEONORA -Harnessing private finance to attain public poli- LOllO cy goals in times of austerity. JULIAN MÜLLER -Social capital, perceptions and economic per- -Cultures of debt resistance. JOHNNA MOntgOMERIE formance. JOSÉ HERNÁNDEZ -Bridging divided ethnic groups through busi- ness cooperation. ANA KOPREN AUDITORIUM 3 -Biosphere reserves as spaces for inclusive terri- Neolib XI. Industrial Policy under Neoliberalism 2 torial governance. SILVIA SaccHETTI & COLIN CAMPBELL -The political economy of selective industrial poli- cies. MARCO DI TOMMASO RM 308 -Industrial policy in the transformation of post-so- Program Committee I. Refugees cialist economies. BESNIK PULA -Alternatives to neoliberal reception of refugees -Manufacturing development and industrial policy. in southern Europe. GiacOMO BAZZANI The Korean way. Mattia TASSINARI - 3 - POLITICAL ECONOMY: INTERNATIONAL TRENDS AND NATIONAL DIFFERENCES ISEG | 7-9 2016 LISBON, PORTUGAL -Transforming Turkey into Europe’s China: new in- DELTA dustrial and employment strategies. Melda YAMAN MBC II. Varieties of refusal: direct action, hori- zontalism, anti-austerity NOVO BANCO -Challenging the age of austerity: disruptive agency after the global economic crisis. DAVID Finance II. Financialisation And Well-Being II BAILEY -An exploration of the varied conduits through -Transformations and perspectives of capitalism which financialisation impacts on well-being. ANA in Italy. ANTONIO Campa SANTOS -Finding an alternative to global capitalism: the -Financialisation and well-being: the effect of the Sunflower Movement in Taipei, and the Umbrella global financial crisis in 5 EU countries. CLÁUDIA Movement in Hong Kong. YAO HUNG (TED) HUANG LOPES -Crisis and collective struggle: lessons from the -Assessing the impact of austerity and financial Greek indignants. MARIA BAKOLA crisis on well-being. ANDREW BROWN -How has the crisis affected well-being? Work conditions and financial situation. Helena Lopes EDIFER AMPHITHEATER 1 Social Capital II. Finance XI. Financialisation of the Globe and -Revisiting social capital in EU rural development Regulation as a Challenging Alternative policy in Southern Europe. ASIMINA CHristOFOROU & -Recent developments of global crisis and stag- ELENA PISANI nation. Arturo Guillén -Local and rural development: territorial cultures -The impossibility of depoliticised macropruden- and networking in Portugal. LUIS MORENO tial regulation: the Swedish case. CLAES Belfrage -Social capital and innovation in the Évora local -Having it both ways: financialisation and regula- platform experience. Patricia REGO tion in the financial sector. ELLEN QUIGLEY -Social capital and the economy of the rural poor. Jaco Vermaak AMPHITHEATER 3 Marxist PE 2. Rethinking Production, RM 308 Accumulation, and Growth Program Committee II. European Union -Late Marx and the conception of ‘Accumulation -The Political Economy of the EU: an imperialist of Capital.’ PAUL Zarembka project in crisis. StaVROS MAVROUDEAS -A new quality of industrial production: political -The Depression in the Euro South: Comparing economy analysis. SERGEY BODRUNOV Greece and Portugal. NIKOS STRAVELAKIS -The dual nature of commodities and economic -The Effect of Labour Share Divergence in the growth. HEESANG JEON Eurozone. RicardO MOLERO-SIMARRO -TiSA/TTIP: transnational capital, global com- -Power asymmetries behind Eurozone dynamics: mons, and virtualised accumulation. YUliya YURCH- the role of Germany. MARIA GAVRIS ENKO -The Eurozone: a core-tailored suit or a comforta- ble straitjacket for all? Valentina CURCETTI AMPHITHEATER 4 Agrarian Change II. Work, AMPHITHEATRE 22 Food and Cooperation BDS II: Developmentalism in Asia and Africa -Patterns of food consumption and crop com- -The political economy of SME development in mercialization in Uzbekistan. LORENA LOMBARDOZZI Vietnam. CHristine NGO -Employment generation and food security in -Development pessimism in the age of neo-liberal- India. POULOMI DASGUpta ism: experiences from Ethiopia. JOANNE TOMKINSON -The