13th Annual Post-Keynesian Economics Society PhD Student Conference
2022-05-13 | Greenwich University
The Post-Keynesian Economics Society (PKES), in collaboration with the Institute for Political Economy, Governance, Finance and Accountability (PEGFA) at the University of Greenwich, is organising its 13th annual PhD student conference on 13 May 2022, 10:00-18:00. This year’s conference will be held in person, at the University of Greenwich, London.
Call for Papers
We invite applications from students who are in a later stage of their PhD and who work on topics relevant to Post-Keynesian and heterodox economics.
Please submit your working paper and a cover letter of up to 300 words describing your research interest and how your dissertation topic relates to heterodox economics. Please send your application materials to pkes.phd.conference@gmail.com.
The deadline for submissions to present at the conference is 01 April 2022.
For further information regarding the conference see: www.postkeynesian.net/events/phd-conference

ECONOMICS AT THE EDGE: UNDERSTANDING AND REBUILDING THE WORLD AFTER COVID
2022-04-27 - 2022-04-29
ECONOMICS AT THE EDGE: UNDERSTANDING AND REBUILDING THE WORLD AFTER COVID
The Fifth Nordic Post-Keynesian Conference
AALBORG UNIVERSITY, 27TH – 29TH APRIL 2022
Conference Theme
The list of challenges facing our economies seems to be growing all the time. While many countries had not fully recovered from the “Great Recession”, the COVID-19 pandemic has hit our societies hard, against the backdrop of rising inequality and the climate challenge.
While the magnitude of the health and economic shock of COVID-19 has been amplified by the underfunding of systems over the past decades, it is concerning that voices are beginning to call for a return to austerity policies, when we should instead be investing in the ecological transition and other social cohesion and resilience policies. Despite its media and academic dominance, mainstream economics does not offer adequate tools to address real problems or formulate coherent policy proposals. To develop theories and policies that are relevant to the real world, we need to use theories other than the mainstream view. As such, post-Keynesian theory is a prime candidate to offer an alternative.
The avenues of research to be developed are both qualitative and quantitative, including issues of conceptualization, methodology, modelling, as well as empirically calibrated economic policy formulation. In particular, there is an urgent need to pursue research in the Stock-Flow Consistent (SFC) tradition and to promote the benefits of pluralism, cross-cutting and problem-based learning in economics education. Finally, particular emphasis should be placed on the inclusion of ecological and societal issues in formulations of economic theory and policy.
Keynote speakers: Özlem Onaran, Anna Carabelli, Louis-Philippe Rochon, Etienne Espagne, Peter Skott
Further information:
https://www.business.aau.dk/research/mamtep/pkconference

5th International ASTRIL Conference
2022-01-20 08:00 - 2022-01-21 17:00 (Europe/Paris)
The 5th International ASTRIL Conference (see the attachment). ASTRIL promotes and encourages the study of the trends in the labour market adopting and interdisciplinary perspective, with a particular focus on Italy and the European context. The main topic of the conference is the policy response to the Covid emergency, but the scientific committee will also evaluate papers on labour market issues, macroeconomics, welfare systems and inequality. The conference has the sponsorship by a variety of institutions and associations, namely AIEL, EAEPE, INAPP and the J. Monnet Center of Excellence LAWESRE.
The conference (January 20-21, 2022) is organized in a blended mode (localized and virtual), and hosted by Roma Tre University, Department of Economics.
For more information see:
https://economia.uniroma3.it
or contact astril@uniroma3.it.

In Search of a Green Macro-Financial Regime: Central Banks and Finance
2021-12-08 17:30 - 18:30 UTC
Dr. Benjamin Braun and Professor Daniela Gabor discuss the path to a Green Macro-financial regime.
In Search of a Green Macro-Financial Regime: Central Banks and Finance
Speakers: Professor Daniela Gabor & Dr Benjamin Braun
An online event
Rescheduled for 8 December.
Register here:
https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/in-search-of-a-green-macro-financial-regime-central-banks-and-finance-tickets-199458936047

Capitalism and Crisis: the Real Problem of the Great Depression, Professor Mary O’Sullivan
2021-12-01 17:00 - 18:00 UTC
Professor Mary O’Sullivan, University of Geneva, will deliver two
lectures at SOAS, the second being:
Capitalism and Crisis: the Real Problem of the Great Depression
5.00pm 1 December 2021, Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre and live stream
via Zoom
https://www.soas.ac.uk/penrose-lectures/

Profit, Power and Patents in Late 18th Century Capitalism, Professor Mary O’Sullivan
2021-11-30 17:00 - 18:00 UTC
Professor Mary O’Sullivan, University of Geneva, will deliver two
lectures at SOAS, the first:
Profit, Power and Patents in Late 18th Century Capitalism
5.00pm 30 November 2021, Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre and live stream via Zoom
https://www.soas.ac.uk/penrose-lectures/

Unstandard Deviation: Harnessing Positive Deviance to Reduce Inequality, Dr Kai Ruggeri
2021-11-28 17:00 - 18:00 UTC
The Cambridge Society for Economic Pluralism is hosting an exciting in person event:
‘Unstandard Deviation: Harnessing Positive Deviance to Reduce Inequality’
Speaker: Dr Kai Ruggeri
Speaking in Keynes Hall at King’s College Cambridge

'The Nature of Wealth in Britain - the case for a wealth tax' organised by Jon Trickett MP
2021-11-25 19:00 - 20:00 UTC
Event details of a zoom discussion on ‘The Nature of Wealth in Britain – the case for a wealth tax’ organized by Jon Trickett MP with Prof Prem Sikka, Joe Guinan and Ozlem Onaran as panelists. If you would like to attend please register in advance on eventbrite:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-nature-of-wealth-in-britain-the-case-for-a-wealth-tax-tickets-211071589807

14th Annual Wheelwright Lecture 25 November 2021 - Kim Stanley Robinson
2021-11-25 14:00 - 15:30 (Australia/Sydney)
Hosted by the Department of Political Economy at the University of Sydney, together with the Journal of Australian Political Economy (JAPE) and the Political Economy Student Society (ECOPSoc). Speaker: Kim Stanley Robinson
When: 25 November 2021, 2-3:30pm (Sydney time/AEDT)
Where: Online via Zoom. The link will be sent prior to the event to those registered.
All welcome.
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/dodging-a-mass-extinction-event-climate-change-and-necessity-tickets-185446002987
Dodging a Mass Extinction Event: Climate Change and Necessity
The 2020s will be a pivotal decade in history, as human civilization faces the necessity of getting into a more balanced relationship with the biosphere that is our one and only home. The transformations required will be social, technological, and economic. Some discussion of how these might come about will be sketched out in various science fictional scenarios, including a best-case result you can still believe in. About the speaker The public intellectual Kim Stanley Robinson is an acclaimed award-winning radical science fiction author of more than 20 books, and many essays and short stories. His works, through the lens of an inherently political genre, present the possibility of an alternate future to the ecological devastation created by capitalism. A speaker at the UN’s COP-26 Climate Change Conference in Glasgow (1-12 November 2021), his works include this essay recently published in The Financial Times A climate plan for a world in flames (https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2021/08/kim-stanley-robinson-a-climate-plan-for-a-world-in-flames.html ) his book The Ministry for the Future (https://www.australianbookreview.com.au/abr-online/current-issue/883-fiction/6892-j-r-burgmann-reviews-the-ministry-for-the-future-by-kim-stanley-robinson ) and an insightful talk Rethinking our Relationship with the Biosphere (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=489I0gZlepM). About the Wheelwright Lecture The annual E.L. ‘Ted’ Wheelwright Memorial Lecture (https://www.ppesydney.net/wheelwright-lecture/ ) is held to commemorate the pioneering role that Ted Wheelwright played in developing studies in Political Economy in Australia.
Established in 2008, previous Wheelwright speakers include: Susan Ferguson, Jayati Ghosh and Adam Tooze (2020), Susanne Soederberg (2019), Alfredo Saad-Filho (2018), Katherine Gibson (2017), David Ruccio (2016), Erik Olin Wright (2015), Leo Panitch (2014), Susan George (2013), Diane Elson (2012), Sheila Dow (2011), Fred Block (2010), Jim Stanford (2009), and Walden Bello (2008).

Central banking and Private Finance, infrastructural power, development, and climate reform
2021-11-17 17:30 UTC
Cambridge Society for Economic Pluralism are delighted to host @DanielaGabor and @BJMbraun.
They will be talking on the entanglement of private finance, central banking, and public policy w.r.t infrastructural power, development, and climate reform.
Details and registration here: https://central-banking-and-private-finance.eventbrite.com.au

"What's Wrong with Economics?" CSEP hosts Lord Robert Skidelsky
2021-11-15 17:30 - 18:30 UTC
15th NOVEMBER, 5.30PM @ OLD DIVINITY SCHOOL, ST JOHN’S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE
The Cambridge Society for Economic Pluralism is greatly honoured to host Lord Professor Robert Skidelsky, – reputed author, economic historian, biographer of Keynes, and life-peer of the House of Lords – to speak on his latest book ‘What’s Wrong with Economics? A Primer for the Perplexed.’
This insightful book looks at how mainstream economics’ quest for scientific certainty has led to a narrowing of vision and a convergence on an orthodoxy that is unhealthy for the field, not to mention the societies which base policy decisions on the advice of flawed economic models. Skidelsky’s clearly written and compelling critique takes aim at the way that economics is taught in today’s universities, where a focus on modelling leaves students ill-equipped to grapple with what is important and true about human life. He argues for a return to the ideal set out by John Maynard Keynes that the economist must be a “mathematician, historian, statesman, [and] philosopher” in equal measure.
In his talk, Lord Skidelsky will cover:
– The role of the state in economic growth and development
– The limitations of equilibrium theorising in economic discourse
– The use of behavioural economics in modelling social interactions more realistically
– The role of ideology and power in shaping economic theory
– The ethical dimensions of economics and market economies
– The future of the economy and economics
Following the talk, there’ll be ample time to pose questions to Lord Skidelsky on any dimensions of his talk or book, so come prepared!
The event is free and being a CSEP member is not required. However, spaces are highly limited so sign-up ASAP to avoid disappointment.
Register at Event Brite:
https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/lord-robert-skidelsky-whats-wrong-with-economics-tickets-192558275987?aff=ebdsoporgprofile

Keynes on Uncertainty and Tragic Happiness.
2021-11-09 11:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York)
Webinar Title: Keynes on Uncertainty and Tragic Happiness.
Speaker: Featuring a talk by Anna Carabelli on her new book.
Comments by: Robert Dimand and Sheila Dow
Date: November 9, 2021
Time: 11h00 New York Time
Join here:
https://laurentian.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAkdOqvqj4sG93FPnb-zVAHBmBCLh1e6dJh

Cambridge Journal of Economics 2021 Conference
2021-09-08 - 2021-09-09 | Newnham College, Cambridge, United Kingdom
The Cambridge Journal of Economics 2021 conference will be held at Newnham College, Cambridge. The conference will provide a forum for the presentation of work that advances heterodox economics. The conference will be held on 8 and 9 September 2021.
The call for papers is now closed. The conference is looking to cover a broad range of topics including the following themes:

Industrial Organisation, Strategy & Development
Philosophy & Methodology
Social Ontology
Methods for Investigating Phenomena generated in Open Social Systems
International / Comparative Political Economy
Economic Growth and Development
Inequality / Poverty
Economic History
History of Economic Thought
Gender, Employment & Job Quality
Feminist Economics
Monetary Theory & Institutions
Financialisation and de-financialisation
The Futures of Capitalism and of Globalization
Keynes for Today
Post-Keynesian Macroeconomics
Ecological Economics and Sustainable Development
The Place of Digital Information Technologies in the Economy
The Future of Economics Teaching

For further details please see

Annual EAEPE Conference
2021-09-01 08:00 - 2021-09-02 17:00 UTC
The Annual EAEPE Conference will be held online more info here. We are happy to announce Stephanie Kelton (tbc) and Joseph Stiglitz as keynote speakers. The 7th Annual EAEPE Pre-Conference for young scholars will be held from 1-2 September. Online Abstract Submission and Special Session Submission for the conference are open. Download the 2nd CfP here.

The Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society annual conference
2021-07-09 08:00 - 2021-07-10 17:00 UTC
The Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society 8th annual conference is scheduled to take place on 9 July 2021, the event will be held online. All details of the conference will be posted at: www.cpes.org.uk/events/cjres2021.

23rd Annual Conference of the Association for Heterodox Economics
2021-07-02
23rd Annual Conference of the AHE: Structural Inequalities Uncovered – the Contributions of Heterodox Economics in Tackling Racial and Gender Inequality
Confirmed keynotes include: Gargi Bhattacharyya, Elissa Braunstein, S. Charusheela, Lyn Ossome, Elias Sampaio and Sunanda Sen.
To be held in July 2021
Read more about the conference here.
PLUS

2021 AHE Webinar Series: Heterodox Economics Goes Global
The first webinar is a Launching Roundtable about “The state and relevance of heterodoxy today” on February 24th (flyer attached), featuring Lynne Chester, (University of Sydney, Australia), Alicia Giron (UNAM, Mexico) and Andrew Mearman (University of Leeds, UK). Sign up here. The program for the rest of the year is here (and attached).

2nd Winter Institute for the History of Economic Thought Forum
2021-01-22 08:00 - 2021-01-23 17:00 UTC
The Winter Institute offers a forum in which both early-career and distinguished scholars can meet, network, and present work in progress to an audience of engaged peers. Our primary goal is to provide a workshop setting where early-career scholars and more experienced members of the field can engage with each other’s work. We are especially committed to encouraging scholars new to the field. Of the 10 presentation spots available this year, 6 will be reserved for graduate students and scholars within 2 years of completion of their PhD.
For more information please visit our website: https://csel.asu.edu/winter-institute.

'Returning Realism to Economics' The Association for Evolutionary Economics Annual Meeting
2021-01-03 - 2021-01-05
Association for Evolutionary Economics (AFEE)
Annual Meeting, AFEE at ASSA, Chicago, IL, USA
January 3-5, 2021
Returning Realism to Economics

The Corona Crisis: Macroeconomic Implications and Policies for Sustainable Recovery
2020-10-28 - 2020-10-30
The Forum for Macroeconomics and Macroeconomic Policies (FMM) organizes an annual conference that seeks to promote an exchange between competing theoretical paradigms and covers present debates on macroeconomic theories and issues. This year’s conference will be replaced by an online event The Corona Crisis: Macroeconomic Implications and Policies for Sustainable Recovery on the dates of 28 till 30 October 2020 with online presentations and discussions by experts in the field. A total of nine moderated panel discussions will be held, covering topics ranging from the role of China in the global economy, across issues of economic growth and sustainability, to the debate about Modern Monetary Theory. Among others Frances Coppola, Steven Fazzari, Bettina Kohlrausch, José Antonio Ocampo, Dani Rodrik, Margit Schratzenstaller-Altzinger and Joseph Stiglitz will be speakers at the online conference. There will be no call for papers, but you can listen to the speakers and engage in debate in the online panels. For the full program, more information and for free registration please refer to the conference web page.
Link: https://www.imk-boeckler.de/de/aktuelle-veranstaltungen-15386-24th-fmm-online-conference-the-corona-crisis-21870.htm

Spatial Policy for the Post-Crisis Era Conference - cancelled
2020-07-09 08:00 - 2020-07-10 17:00 UTC | McGrath Centre, St Catharine’s College, Cambridge, United Kingdom
The seventh conference hosted by the Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society will take place on 9-10 July 2020, at St Catharine’s College, Cambridge. The conference topic is ‘Spatial Policy for the Post-Crisis Era’.
The Call for Papers is open, for this and other conference details please see the conference webpage:
www.cpes.org.uk/events/cjres2020

St Catharine’s Political Economy Seminar - "The Economics of Getting to Net Zero " Richard Lewney
2020-03-11 18:00 - 19:30 UTC | Ramsden Room, St Catharine’s College, St Catharine's College, Cambridge, cb21rl, United Kingdom
Date: Wednesday, 11 March 2020
Time: 18:00 -19:30
Speaker: Richard Lewney
Talk Title: “The Economics of Getting to Net Zero ”
Location: Ramsden Room, St Catharine’s College
The next St Catharine’s Political Economy Seminar in the series on the Economics of Austerity, will be held on 11 March 2020. Richard Lewney will give a talk on “The Economics of Getting to Net Zero “. The seminar will be held in the Ramsden Room at St Catharine’s College from 6.00-7.30 pm. All are welcome. The seminar series is supported by the Cambridge Journal of Economics and the Economics and Policy Group at the Cambridge Judge Business School.
Speaker:
Richard Lewney is Chair of Cambridge Econometrics. Over the past four years Richard Lewney has directed two major research projects for DG Energy to improve the methods of modelling the macroeconomic impacts of low-carbon policies. These have included a better treatment of the roles played by finance and innovation, of regional and income distribution impacts, and also of the relevance of other megatrends to the low-carbon transition. Over 2017-19 Richard Lewney has directed projects for the European Climate Foundation examining: (i) the technological costs and economic impacts of alternative pathways to a net-zero GHG emissions European economy by 2050 and (ii) the economic impacts of decarbonising road freight and car transport. Richard Lewney has previously directed a modelling analysis of the economic impact of environmental degradation to inform an assessment of the role that environmental risk factors could play in sovereign credit risk assessments (and for the UNEP Finance Initiative).
Talk Overview:
The past year has seen some striking examples of extreme climatic events of the kind that scientists expect to grow in frequency and severity as global temperatures increase. It has also seen a strengthening of political activism in the climate strike movement and a flurry of activity among financial institutions seeking to understand their exposure to physical and transition risks. Neoclassical economics recognises environmental degradation as a classic example of an externality and frames its response in terms of correcting that market failure, but the limitations of its marginal cost-benefit approach have been exposed in the climate change debate. This seminar explores the role that the key insights of Post-Keynesian and Schumpeterian economics (such as path dependence, radical uncertainty, heterogeneous actors, the role of money and finance, stock-flow consistency and endogenous technical change) are playing in forming an analysis of environmental policy that is better adapted to the challenge of tackling global warming. The seminar will discuss what a net zero energy system and economy might look like in 2050, the policies needed to get there, how to assess the economic impacts and what the key obstacles are that need to be overcome.
Please contact the seminar organisers Philip Arestis (pa267@cam.ac.uk) and Michael Kitson (mk24@cam.ac.uk) in the event of a query

Cambridge Realist Workshop - Jana Bacevic - Valuation, Epistemic Positioning, and Inequalities
2020-03-09 19:30 - 21:30 UTC
Speaker: Jana Bacevic
Talk Title: ‘Ontology and the History of Economic Thought’
Drinks available from 7:30 pm, talk starts at 8pm.
Held in the Cynthia Beerbower Room at Newnham College

St Catharine’s Political Economy Seminar - "The role of government policy to incentivise technology innovation to meet the climate change challenge" Professor Laura Diaz Anadon
2020-03-04 18:00 - 19:30 UTC | Ramsden Room, St Catharine’s College, St Catharine's College, Cambridge, cb21rl, United Kingdom
Date: Wednesday, 4 March 2020
Time: 18:00 -19:30
Speaker: Laura Diaz Anadon
Talk Title: “The role of government policy to incentivise technology innovation to meet the climate change challenge”
Location: Ramsden Room, St Catharine’s College
The next St Catharine’s Political Economy Seminar in the series on the Economics of Austerity, will be held on 4 March 2020. Professor Laura Diaz Anadon will give a talk on “The role of government policy to incentivise technology innovation to meet the climate change challenge”. The seminar will be held in the Ramsden Room at St Catharine’s College from 6.00-7.30 pm. All are welcome. The seminar series is supported by the Cambridge Journal of Economics and the Economics and Policy Group at the Cambridge Judge Business School.
Speaker:
Laura Diaz Anadon is Professor of Climate Change Policy at the University of Cambridge. She joined the Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance (C-EENRG) at the Department of Land Economy in September 2017 after a year in the Department in Politics and International Studies and three years as an Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Professor Anadon is a lead author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
(IPCC) Working Group on Climate Mitigation. She was selected as a member of the Innovation Caucus to advise INNOVATE UK, and has engaged with policymakers throughout the world. She has also contributed to UN, IEA, EU, World Bank and OECD reports. The recipient of many awards and scholarships, including the Fundacion Banco Sabadell Award for the Best Spanish Economics researcher under 40 in 2018. Professor Anadon sits on various editorial boards, including the Nature Energy.
Talk Overview:
Professor Diaz Anadon’s research cuts across traditional disciplines, aiming to help governments to make effective technology choices, develop impactful policies and build institutions which tackle climate change. Her team researches energy and environment-oriented technological innovation, identifying and quantifying the diverse benefits that derive from policies designed to promote it; mapping the complex factors that contribute to it; and creating tools for policymakers and analysts to manage the systemic uncertainties that accompany it. Professor Diaz Anadon will discuss her research on public innovation institutions in the climate and energy space, which has included in-depth studies in the United States, China and India. She will discuss the extent to which, empirically, different types of R&D funding mechanisms, partnerships with cleantech startups, and deployment subsidies for renewable energy have led to better low carbon energy technologies, new capabilities, and new firm growth opportunities. She will discuss how can we build and resource effective, empowered institutions able to tackle climate change more rapidly in a changing world in terms of industrial competitiveness, with a particular role on the role of China.
Please contact the seminar organisers Philip Arestis (pa267@cam.ac.uk) and Michael Kitson (mk24@cam.ac.uk) in the event of a query

Cambridge Realist Workshop – Stephen Pratten - Money, Social Positioning and Trust
2020-02-24 19:30 - 21:30 UTC | Newnham College, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Speaker: Stephen Pratten
Talk Title: ‘Money, Social Positioning and Trust’
Drinks available from 7:30 pm, talk starts at 8pm.
Held in the Cynthia Beerbower Room at Newnham College

St Catharine’s Political Economy Seminar - "The institutional capture of IPCC economics by neoclassical ideology" Terry Barker
2020-02-12 18:00 - 19:30 UTC | Ramsden Room, St Catharine’s College, St Catharine's College, Cambridge, cb21rl, United Kingdom
Date: Wednesday, 12 February 2020
Time: 18:00 -19:30
Speaker: Terry Barker
Talk Title: “The institutional capture of IPCC economics by neoclassical ideology”
Location: Ramsden Room, St Catharine’s College
The next St Catharine’s Political Economy Seminar in the series on the Economics of Austerity, will be held on 12 February 2020 Terry Barker will give a talk on “The institutional capture of IPCC economics by neoclassical ideology”. The seminar will be held in the Ramsden Room at St Catharine’s College from 6.00-7.30 pm. All are welcome. The seminar series is supported by the Cambridge Journal of Economics and the Economics and Policy Group at the Cambridge Judge Business School.
Speaker:
Terry Barker was a Coordinating Lead Author in the IPCC reports AR3 and AR4, 1996-2006, writing the chapters for sectoral mitigation. He was also a member of the team preparing the Synthesis Report for AR3, covering climate science, adaptation and mitigation. He led the writing group of scientists answering the question: “What are the most robust findings and key uncertainties … regarding model projections of …
costs and benefits of mitigation and adaptation options?” He is the Founder and Director of the Cambridge Centre for Climate Change Mitigation Research (4CMR) in Land Economy. He is now a Senior Departmental Fellow in Cambridge and holds an Honorary Chair in The School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia. He is also Founder and Director of Cambridge Econometrics Ltd. He has written extensively on Post Keynesian economics and climate change mitigation policies for the UK, the EU, and at the global scale.
Talk Overview
The Assessment Reports (AR) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) bring together scientists from across disciplines to assess the literature on climate change, adaptation and mitigation.
Most of the reports are reviews of the literature, which Terry Barker will not discuss, but the IPCC authors also instigate substantial interdisciplinary exercises with climate and energy-economy models to make and report projections involving the policies and their economic costs required to achieve climate stabilisation. Terry Barker asserts that the economics behind the projections in AR5, Mitigation of Climate Change, 2014, appear scientific but are the outcome of ideological assumptions about the economy, typically based only on one year’s data.
The economic models used all involve General Equilibrium. Many are based on the premise that the global economy is in long-term optimal equilibrium, such that any deviation from that equilibrium, e.g. in the form of regulations and/or carbon taxes, will _ipso facto_ lead to economic costs. Terry Barker will assess this and other aspects of this approach and the implications for the costs of radical cuts in emissions.
Please contact the seminar organisers Philip Arestis (pa267@cam.ac.uk) and Michael Kitson (mk24@cam.ac.uk) in the event of a query

Cambridge Realist Workshop – Simon Deakin - The Ontology of the Corporation
2020-02-10 19:30 - 21:30 UTC | Newnham College, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Speaker: Simon Deakin
Talk Title: ‘The Ontology of the Corporation’
Drinks available from 7:30 pm, talk starts at 8pm.
Held in the Cynthia Beerbower Room at Newnham College

St Catharine’s Political Economy Seminar – A Planner’s Perspective – The Use of Spatial Analysis for Policy Making in Border Regions’ Franziska Sielker
2020-01-29 18:00 - 19:30 UTC | Ramsden Room, St Catharine’s College, St Catharine's College, Cambridge, cb21rl, United Kingdom
Date: Wednesday, 29 January 2020
Time: 18:00 -19:30
Speaker: Franziska Sielker
Talk Title: ‘A Planner’s Perspective – The Use of Spatial Analysis for Policy Making in Border Regions’
Location: Ramsden Room, St Catharine’s College
The next St Catharine’s Political Economy Seminar in the series on the Economics of Austerity, will be held on 29 January 2020 –Franziska Sielker will give a talk on “A Planner’s Perspective – The Use of Spatial Analysis for Policy Making in Border Regions”. The seminar will be held in the Ramsden Room at St Catharine’s College from 6.00-7.30 pm. All are welcome. The seminar series is supported by the Cambridge Journal of Economics and the Economics and Policy Group at the Cambridge Judge Business School.
Speaker:
Franziska Sielker is a Lecturer, Planning and Housing, at the University of Cambridge in the Department of Land Economy. Before taking up the Lectureship, Dr Sielker has been Lead Researcher on a project of ‘Future Cities in the Making- Overcoming Barriers to Information Modelling’, funded by the Centre for Digital Built Britain and a British Academy Newton International Postdoc Fellow for a project on power relationships in European spatial policies. Frannziska Sielker has been Interim Professor and Acting Chair of the Chair of ‘International Planning Studies’ in the academic year 2018/2019 at the TU Dortmund University, Germany. Her PhD was at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Human Geography. Her research interests cover European cohesion policies and spatial governance, cross-border regions, influences of foreign direct investments, such as the Belt and Road Initiative, on national planning processes and digitalisation in planning. Dr Sielker has published in terms of her research interests.
Talk Overview
How do spatial planners make use of economic data? What are the differences in understanding spatial analysis? The Land Economy course is a genuine interdisciplinary course, in which links between economic research and planning are crucial. Against this background, my aim is threefold. First, I introduce the differences in how planners and economists’ approach, understand and use the same concepts and terms.
Second, I outline how planners make use of economic indicators as one aspect within ‘spatial analysis’ to build narratives feeding into policy making. Third, I illustrate regional development perspectives in the example of border regions, understood as national, regional and local borders. Traditionally, cross-border integration is associated with an increasing economic integration. Yet, often borders act ‘as a resource’
(Sohn Christophe, 2014). The talk illustrates how economic disparities and economic similarities can both play important roles in fostering cross-border spatial integration. In this talk, I build on a development study of the Bavarian-Czech border, as well as on the results of various research projects conducted between 2013 and 2019.
Please contact the seminar organisers Philip Arestis (pa267@cam.ac.uk) and Michael Kitson (mk24@cam.ac.uk) in the event of a query

Cambridge Realist Workshop - Tony Lawson - The Nature of Social Reality
2020-01-27 19:30 - 21:30 UTC | Newnham College, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Speaker: Tony Lawson
Title: The Nature of Social Reality
Drinks available from 7:30 pm, talk starts at 8pm.
Held in the Cynthia Beerbower Room at Newnham College

Cambridge Realist Workshop - Paul Lewis - Ontology and the History of Economic Thought
2019-12-02 19:30 - 22:00 UTC | Newnham College, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Speaker: Paul Lewis
Talk Title: ‘Ontology and the History of Economic Thought’
Drinks available from 7:30 pm, talk starts at 8pm.
Held in the Cynthia Beerbower Room at Newnham College

St Catharine’s Political Economy Seminar – ‘Policies to promote low-carbon technological development’ by Hector Pollitt
2019-11-27 18:00 - 19:30 UTC | Ramsden Room, St Catharine’s College, St Catharine's College, Cambridge, cb21rl, United Kingdom
Date: Wednesday, 27 November 2019
Time: 18:00 -19:30
Speaker: Hector Pollitt
Talk Title: “Policies to promote low-carbon technological development”
Location: Ramsden Room, St Catharine’s College
Speaker:
Hector Pollitt is the head of modelling at Cambridge Econometrics. He is a post-Keynesian economist with specific expertise in macro-sectoral economic modelling. He is currently researching linkages between post-Keynesian economics and complexity theory. At Cambridge Econometrics, Hector Pollitt oversees the application of the E3ME macro-econometric model, which treats the economy as a dynamic system that both shapes and is influenced by technological development. Using the E3ME model, he has carried out high-level policy analysis for public authorities at UK, EU and global levels. He has worked with the European Commission for over ten years and provided inputs to the recent assessment of the EU’s long-term decarbonisation strategy. His other recent work has shown how the development of low-carbon technologies could lead to long-run economic benefits. For example, his modelling for the 2018 New Climate Economy report suggested that limiting global temperature change to 2°C could create $26trn of additional wealth by 2030.
Talk Overview
The challenge to decarbonise the global economy is primarily one of technology development and diffusion. Policies that are popular with economists, such as carbon taxes, will not be effective at reducing emissions levels if consumers do not see affordable alternatives to fossil fuels. Furthermore, without new technology options, these policies are likely to cause social unrest. The solar revolution has given us conclusive proof that policy can influence both the direction and speed of technological development. This finding has important implications for policy makers and suggests that a much broader portfolio of measures is needed than basic carbon pricing measures.
However, successful innovation policy requires an understanding of the innovation chain, right through from basic laboratory research to final commercialisation of products. Accelerating this process requires interventions at each point in the innovation chain. This seminar discusses the role of innovation policy in combating climate change. It will discuss the role of research in the private and public sectors, and the interaction of incentives to innovate with other climate policies.
Please contact the seminar organisers Philip Arestis (pa267@cam.ac.uk) and Michael Kitson (mk24@cam.ac.uk) in the event of a query.
