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SUMMARY:The Insecurity Cycle Workshop
DESCRIPTION:CBR/PPSRI Workshop: The Insecurity Cycle\nHow far can ‘free’ markets serve the interests of society?  Can labour and financial markets be brought into balance with each other?  What drives the conventional wisdom that appears to set the parameters to public policy\, and which might help to explain why it has been so difficult to bring about lasting institutional change following the global financial crisis?  These are among the issues addressed by Sue Konzelmann\, Simon Deakin\, Marc Fovargue-Davies and Frank Wilkinson in their book\, Labour\, Finance and Inequality: The Insecurity Cycle in British Public Policy\, published in April 2018.  The Centre for Business Research (‘CBR’) and the Public Policy Strategic Research Initiative (PPSRI) will be holding a workshop on 8 November to discuss themes emerging from the book. \nDate\nThursday 8 November 2018 \nLocation\nThe Ramsden Room\, St. Catharine’s College\, Cambridge\nhttps://www.caths.cam.ac.uk/about-us/visiting-college/maps \nSchedule\nLunch will be served from 1:00 p.m. The Workshop will begin at 2:00 p.m. and conclude no later than 5:00 p.m. \nSpeakers\nSimon Deakin\, CBR\, University of Cambridge\nRuth Dukes\, University of Glasgow\nMarc Fovargue-Davies\, CBR\, University of Cambridge\nJohn Kelly\, Birkbeck\, University of London\nSue Konzelmann\, Birkbeck\, University of London\, and the Progressive Economic Forum\nVicky Pryce\, Centre for Economics and Business Research\, London\nColin Talbot\, CBR\, University of Cambridge\nJohn Weeks\, SOAS\, University of London\, and the Progressive Economic Forum \nRegistration\nIf you wish to attend please send an email to Rachel Wagstaff (r.wagstaff@cbr.cam.ac.uk) \nPublication details\nhttps://www.routledge.com/Labour-Finance-and-Inequality-The-Insecurity-Cycle-in-British-Public/Konzelmann-Deakin-Fovargue-Davies-Wilkinson/p/book/9781138919723
URL:https://politicaleconomyhub.net/event/the-insecurity-cycle-workshop/
LOCATION:Ramsden Room\, St Catharine’s College\, St Catharine's College\, Cambridge\, cb21rl\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181107T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181107T193000
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SUMMARY:St Catharine’s Political Economy Seminar – ‘De-unionization and the growing Inequality’ by Ahmad Seyf
DESCRIPTION:Date: Wednesday 7 November 2018\nTime: 18:00 -19:30\nSpeaker: Ahmad Seyf\nTalk Title: ‘De-unionization and the growing Inequality’\nLocation: Ramsden Room\, St Catharine’s College \nAll are welcome. The seminar series is supported by the Cambridge Journal of Economics and the Economics and Policy Group at the Judge Business School. \nSpeaker:\nAhmad Seyf is currently a member of the Cambridge Centre of Economic and Public Policy (CCEPP)\, and has retired from the Department of Management and Human Resources at Regent’s University. Prior to Regent’s University\, he taught at the Department of Economics at the University of Staffordshire. His main research interests are international business economics\, globalisation and the economic and social history of the Middle East. Recent publications include\, ‘Population and Agricultural Development in Iran\, 1800-1906’ in Middle Eastern Studies\, 2009\, and ‘Iran and the Great Famine\, 1870-1872’ in Middle Eastern Studies\, 2010.\nHis books include Iran’s Contemporary Political Economy (2012)\, the Economy of Iran under Ahmadinejad (2012)\, Crisis in Despotism in Iran (2014)\, Capitalism and Democracy (2016) and The Great Recession\, Iranian view ((2017\, Anti-Neoliberalism (2018). His recent publications in English are\, The Emerging Economies and the Great Recession (2016)\, and The Need for Relevant Policies to Tackle Inequality (2017). \nTalk Overview:\nThis contribution examines the growing inequality and offers a brief historical examination as to its roots in the last four decades.\nAn important point to make is that this growing divide is not ‘an act of God or nature’ but has been initiated by policy decisions and laws made in the last four decades\, e.g. reducing the power and influence of trade unions\, enhancing the impact of the banks\, keeping wages down\, insisting on a rich-man-friendly tax reforms\, which\, in turn\, were passed by legislators who were elected. It follows that if there is sufficient political will\, things can change again through government or legislative action by those we care to elect to form the government.\nReversing some of the decisions on taxes and making them more progressive could help\, but more fundamental reforms; especially on labour market institutions are needed. We need to tackle rising inequality in market income by strengthening trade unions which is of paramount importance as the recent history of inequality reveals. To enhance the impact\, this measure must be supplemented by relevant fiscal policies to make our taxes more progressive and our social expenditures better targeted. This will be the focus of this contribution. \n\n\nPlease contact the seminar organisers Philip Arestis (pa267@cam.ac.uk) and Michael Kitson (m.kitson@jbs.cam.ac.uk) in the event of a query. \n\n\n 
URL:https://politicaleconomyhub.net/event/st-catharines-political-economy-seminar-de-unionization-and-the-growing-inequality-by-ahmed-seyf/
LOCATION:Ramsden Room\, St Catharine’s College\, St Catharine's College\, Cambridge\, cb21rl\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181031T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181031T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T205615
CREATED:20181026T093036Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181026T093426Z
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SUMMARY:'Growth and Crisis under Finance-dominated Capitalism: A Stock-flow consistent approach' - Professor Amit Bhaduri
DESCRIPTION:Professor Amit Bhaduri (Delhi) on Wednesday 31 October at 17.00 \n‘Growth and Crisis under Finance-dominated Capitalism: A Stock-flow consistent approach’ \nDiscussant: Professor Jerzy Osiatynski (Polish Monetary Policy Committee) \nAlumni Lecture Theatre (Paul Webley Wing\, Senate House North Block)\nSOAS\, University of London\nThornhaugh Street\nLondon WC1H 0XG \nnearest underground station: Russell Square. \nResearch on Money and Finance – RMF\nwww.researchonmoneyandfinance.org \nTo post to this group\, send email to repemf@googlegroups.com\nFor more options\, visit this group at\nhttp://groups.google.com/group/repemf?hl=en
URL:https://politicaleconomyhub.net/event/growth-and-crisis-under-finance-dominated-capitalism-a-stock-flow-consistent-approach-amit-bhaduri/
CATEGORIES:Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181029T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181029T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T205615
CREATED:20180917T092223Z
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SUMMARY:Cambridge Realist Workshop – Eckhard Rosenbaum - Institutions and mental models – Some reflections on the interplay of social reality and its representation
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Eckhard Rosenbaum \nTalk Title: ‘Institutions and mental models – Some reflections on the interplay of social reality and its representation?’ \nDrinks available from 7:30 pm\, talk starts at 8pm.
URL:https://politicaleconomyhub.net/event/cambridge-realist-workshop-eckhard-rosenbaum-institutions-and-mental-models-some-reflections-on-the-interplay-of-social-reality-and-its-representation/
LOCATION:Newnham College\, Cambridge\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:CRW
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181017T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181017T193000
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SUMMARY:St Catharine’s Political Economy Seminar – ‘Scientific Macroeconomics and the Quantity Theory of Credit’ by Richard Werner
DESCRIPTION:Date: Wednesday 17 October 2018\nTime: 18:00 -19:30\nSpeaker: Richard Werner\nTalk Title: ‘Scientific Macroeconomics and the Quantity Theory of Credit’\nLocation: Ramsden Room\, St Catharine’s College \nAll are welcome. The seminar series is supported by the Cambridge Journal of Economics and the Economics and Policy Group at the Judge Business School. \nSpeaker:\nRichard Werner is Professor and Chair in International Banking at the University of Southampton (since 2005)\, and is founding director of the Centre for Banking\, Finance and Sustainable Development. He is a Member of Linacre College\, Oxford\, Convenor of the Association for Research on Banking and the Economy (ARBE)\, and member of the ECB Shadow Council. He is also the founding chair of Local First\, a community interest company establishing not-for-profit community banks in the UK\, starting with the Hampshire Community Bank. Richard previously was a Professor of monetary\, macro and development economics at Goethe-University Frankfurt and assistant professor at Sophia University\, Tokyo. In 1992\, as European Commission Fellow at Oxford\, Richard integrated the banking system in a macroeconomic model able to distinguish between the impact of bank credit on asset markets and economic growth (the ‘Quantity Theory of Disaggregated Credit’)\, and warned of the coming banking crisis and deep recession in Japan. In 1995 he advanced a post-banking crisis monetary policy to stimulate the economy\, which he called ‘Quantitative Easing’ (followed in 1998 by ‘Enhanced Debt Management’). In 2003 he warned of the credit-driven asset bubbles and crises in the eurozone. Richard has published in journals and in books. \nTalk Overview:\nAlison in Wonderland was not an equilibrium economist: she only believed six impossible things before breakfast (equilibrium economists need to believe at least eight impossible things). Scientific research methodology is reviewed and it is proposed to also deploy it in economics. Doing this\, key features of how actual economies work can be established. It is seen that all markets must be expected to be rationed (i.e. in disequilibrium). Scientific methodology also helps in identifying the link between the financial system and the real economy\, including sustainable development\, the role of interest rates\, money and the existence and functioning of banks. It is seen how to predict and prevent boom-bust cycles\, banking crises and subsequent recessions\, as well as how to react appropriately once they happen\, without burdening the tax payer. The role of central banks is also discussed\, as well as their reaction to the empirical refutation of their longstanding preferred narrative. \nPlease contact the seminar organisers\nPhilip Arestis (pa267@cam.ac.uk) and Michael Kitson (mk24@cam.ac.uk) in the event of a query \n  \n 
URL:https://politicaleconomyhub.net/event/st-catharines-political-economy-seminar-scientific-macroeconomics-and-the-quantity-theory-of-credit-by-richard-werner/
LOCATION:Ramsden Room\, St Catharine’s College\, St Catharine's College\, Cambridge\, cb21rl\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:StCatzS
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181015T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181015T210000
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SUMMARY:Cambridge Realist Workshop – Tony Lawson - How should economics be changed (if at all)?
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Tony Lawson \nTalk Title: ‘How should economics be changed (if at all)?’ \nDrinks available from 7:30 pm\, talk starts at 8pm.
URL:https://politicaleconomyhub.net/event/cambridge-realist-workshop-tony-lawson-how-should-economics-be-changed-if-at-all/
LOCATION:Newnham College\, Cambridge\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:CRW
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181011T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181011T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T205615
CREATED:20181002T120938Z
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SUMMARY:Economics for Campaigners event on 'What is finance for?'
DESCRIPTION:“Economics for Campaigners”\nFree public event\nOrganized by Greenwich Political Economy Research Centre (GPERC)\, Institute of Political Economy\, Governance\, Finance and Accountability (PEGFA) & University of Greenwich (UoG) \nFree public lecture for citizens and campaigners on “What is finance for?” on the 11th of October 2018\, room Queen Anne Court QA075\, 19:00\, University of Greenwich. \nJeff Powell\, Senior Lecturer in Economics\, UoG\n· How has the role of the financial sector changed over time\, and why has it changed?\n· How big should the financial sector be?\n· How do we understand or even measure the costs and benefits of finance?\n· What is financialisation? Are we financialised? (and could we be de-financialising?)\n· What to do about all this? Does regulation work? What about ‘alternative finance’? \nThere will be an interactive discussion exploring difficult questions; we will debunk myths\, challenge common misconceptions\, and discuss alternatives to mainstream policies. The aim is to support citizens and campaigners to become confident in contributing to policy debates in their communities and organisations about the most urgent social and economic questions of our time. We assume no prior background knowledge and aim to introduce key concepts building on your experience as citizens or campaigners. \nAll events are scheduled for 19:00-21:00 to make it feasible to attend after work. Events are two hours per month including an introduction and lots of time for debate in a participatory format including group discussions and/or questions and answers.
URL:https://politicaleconomyhub.net/event/what-is-finance-for/
LOCATION:University of Greenwich\, Park Row\, London\, SE10 9LS\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181011T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181011T190000
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SUMMARY:SOAS Money and Development Seminars: Trevor Evans 'The Economic Expansion in the US since 2009' - 11 Oct
DESCRIPTION:Trevor Evans (Berlin) will give the next Money and Development Seminar on ‘The Economic Expansion in the US since 2009’ \nThursday 11 October at 17.00 \nIn room SG35 (Paul Webley Wing\, Senate House North Block)\nSOAS\, University of London\nThornhaugh Street\nLondon WC1H 0XG \nnearest underground station: Russell Square
URL:https://politicaleconomyhub.net/event/soas-money-and-development-seminars-trevor-evans-the-economic-expansion-in-the-us-since-2009-11-oct/
CATEGORIES:Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181010T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181010T193000
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SUMMARY:St Catharine’s Political Economy Seminar – “Fiscal Space: What have we learnt since the crises?" by Jagjit Chadha
DESCRIPTION:Date: Wednesday 10 October 2018\nTime: 18:00 -19:30\nSpeaker: Jagjit Chadha\nTalk Title:“Fiscal Space: What have we learnt since the crises?”\nLocation: Ramsden Room\, St Catharine’s College \nAll are welcome. The seminar series is supported by the Cambridge Journal of Economics and the Economics and Policy Group at the Judge Business School. \nSpeaker\nJagjit Chadha is Director of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research. He is on a full time absence of leave as Professor of Economics at the University of Kent and was a part-time Professor of economics at Cambridge. He was previously Professor of Economics at the University of St Andrews and Fellow at Clare College\, Cambridge. He has worked at the Bank of England as an Official working on Monetary Policy and as Chief Quantitative Economist at BNP Paribas. He has acted as Specialist Adviser to the House of Commons Treasury Committee and academic adviser to both the Bank of England and HM Treasury. He sits on the Research Committee of the Economics and Social Research Council and on the REF2020 panel. His main research interests are developing the links between finance and macroeconomics in general equilibrium models and he has published widely in economics journals. He has just completed a British Academy Grant to study fiscal data in the 19th century. \nTalk Overview\nJagjit Chadha will talk on the traditional approach to fiscal policy\, which involves respecting the simple notion of debt sustainability. This over-riding concern has led to considerable weight being placed on cutting public expenditure following a ballooning in public debt after the great financial crisis. We have also formulated a sequence of fiscal rules and around the world observe that Councils have been developed to support the credibility of fiscal policy under uncertainty. But have we done the right thing? Jagjit will consider a number of possible extensions to the standard response of seeking to reduce debt and limiting taxation. First\, we shall examine how episodes of high public debt are successfully reversed? Secondly\, we shall consider what links between monetary and fiscal policy that are overlooked\, in particular by drawing on the experience of QE. Thirdly\, how are the prescriptions for monetary and fiscal policy affected by market incompleteness? And finally what role does the debt management of maturity and debt instruments play setting fiscal policy? Jagjit will illustrate with examples from the past and from the recent crisis in the Euro Area and suggest that our current settlement of tight monetary-fiscal policy may be responsible for the economic trap of low growth. \n\n\nPlease contact the seminar organisers Philip Arestis (pa267@cam.ac.uk) and Michael Kitson (m.kitson@jbs.cam.ac.uk) in the event of a query. \n\n\n 
URL:https://politicaleconomyhub.net/event/st-catharines-political-economy-seminar-fiscal-space-what-have-we-learnt-since-the-crises-by-jagjit-chadha/
LOCATION:Ramsden Room\, St Catharine’s College\, St Catharine's College\, Cambridge\, cb21rl\, United Kingdom
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181010T183000
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SUMMARY:Ann Pettifor "Can a British government regain control over the financial system - a great public good? Or are we doomed to more financial crises?"
DESCRIPTION:Seminar by Ann Pettifor on “Can a British government regain control over the financial system – a great public good? Or are we doomed to more financial crises?” on 10 October 2018\, at the University of Greenwich\, King William Court\, room KW303\, at 17:00-18:15. \nThe talk is part of the Big Picture Series of the University of Greenwich\, and it is co-organised by the Greenwich Political Economy Research Centre/ Institute of Political Economy.
URL:https://politicaleconomyhub.net/event/ann-pettifor-can-a-british-government-regain-control-over-the-financial-system-a-great-public-good-or-are-we-doomed-to-more-financial-crises/
LOCATION:University of Greenwich\, Park Row\, London\, SE10 9LS\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181009T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181009T200000
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SUMMARY:PEF Event: Will Hutton 'Change Britain\, Stop Brexit' - 9 Oct
DESCRIPTION:‘Change Britain\, Stop Brexit’ by Will Hutton.\nCo-hosted by Progressive Economy Forum (PEF) and SOAS\nThe lecture will take place on the 9th October at 7pm in SOAS’s Brunei Lecture Theatre.\nTo register your attendance please go to the EventBrite page.\nAny questions please contact: mdavies@progressiveeconomyforum.com or go to the PEF website \nThe EU referendum result exposed deep economic and social divisions in our society\, and this was decisive in persuading millions to vote against the status quo. Leave voters were right; this status quo is insupportable\, and too many of our fellow citizens are leading lives haunted by lack of income and opportunity. But the answer was never to blame the EU and immigration\, the unholy if politically adept message of Leavers. Rather\, our problems have been firmly minted at home by a succession of policy failures that go back decades. \nBuilding on the themes of his most recent book Saving Britain: How We Can Prosper in a New European Future (with Andrew Adonis)\, in this lecture Will Hutton sets out an agenda to repurpose British companies and the financial system\, to address inequality at root by re-enfranchising workers\, to remake a shattered social contract and to rebuild the British polity around the principles of decentralisation\, commitment to the creation of public value and genuine accountability. Only thus can Britain full-heartedly take its place as a full member of the EU – and seize the opportunities afforded by new technologies and globalisation.
URL:https://politicaleconomyhub.net/event/pef-event-will-hutton-change-britain-stop-brexit-9-oct/
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180905T080000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180908T170000
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SUMMARY:European Association of Evolutionary Political Economy (EAEPE) 30th Annual Conference
DESCRIPTION:European Association of Evolutionary Political Economy (EAEPE) is having its annual conference in Nice during 6-8 September.\nThe 30th EAEPE Annual Conference will take place in Nice on 6-8 September 2018. The theme is to consider existing evolutionary theories and new developments in the field and the potential for putting theory in practice to cope with the complexity of the real world. \nThere is also a pre-conference for young scholars will be taking place during 5-6 September. Organized by a team of PhD students and currently in its 4th edition\, pre-conference has an interactive format and aims at bringing motivated young scholars and established senior academics together. Content-wise\, pre-conference consists of a series of workshops\, a dedicated time slot for students to introduce their research projects and a dinner. It serves as a perfect venue to interact and network as well as to attend theme-specific workshops: this year pre-conference speakers are Erik Reinert\, Özlem Onaran\, Agnes Labrousse\, and Alessandro Caiani. Apply here by May 31. Participation is free of charge for those who are registered for the main conference but participants need to submit a motivation letter. Students who are not taking part of the main conference are also welcome to apply but will need to pay a registration fee of 90 EUR. Meanwhile\, a limited amount of travel stipends and tuition fee waivers is available. For further inquiries please contact pre-conference team via  eaepe.preconference@gmail.com \n 
URL:https://politicaleconomyhub.net/event/european-association-of-evolutionary-political-economy-eaepe-30th-annual-conference/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180724T080000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180728T170000
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SUMMARY:Global Conference on Economic Geography 2018
DESCRIPTION:Cologne\, 24-28 July\, 2018 \nSession: Global finance\, development\, and the new peripheries \nOrganizers: Leigh Johnson (University of Oregon); Stefan Ouma (Goethe University-Frankfurt); Patrick Bigger (Lancaster University) \nThis session examines the significance of financial relations and transactions in spaces of the global South that have typically been figured as “marginal” to\, if not altogether excluded from\, the operations of global finance. As finance relentlessly seeks to identify further spatial fixes and revenue streams\, this session will probe the particularities of integration. What assemblages and legacies – (post)colonial and otherwise – characterize these spaces? What are the regional coordinates of integration\, and the concrete social\, political and material landscapes it produces? \nThe optic of “peripheries” – with its roots in dependency theory – highlights the relations of power\, subordination and exploitation produced through finance’s expansion and experimentation at its frontiers. As certain places are linked to global flows of capital\, they can become peripheralized in new ways. Yet as some “financial innovation” originates in the South and travels to the global North (e.g. mobile money and microfinance) and the South more generally becomes a source of capital (e.g. sovereign wealth or pension funds)\, existing understandings of peripheralisation must be reexamined. How can the dependent and extraverted notions of development suggested by the term “periphery” be reworked to make a place for heterogeneous forms of economic self-fashioning? How might other concepts such as extraction\, dispossession\, value grabbing\, disarticulations and expulsion help render intelligible the new peripheral operations of finance and the place-making projects that emerge from them? \nWe especially invite papers making conceptual advances using empirical cases on topics including but not limited to: financial inclusion and adverse incorporation; new sites of experimentation and product development; the financialisation of development; multiple frontiers of peripheral financialisation (e.g. land\, agriculture\, nature\, housing\, manufacturing\, IT…); macroeconomic policies\, links between micro and macro scale finance; relationships between global and “indigenous” financial practices\, institutions\, and discourses; rethinking the core(s) of global finance. \nAbstract Submission:\nIf this is of interest\, please submit your abstract by filling out the embedded form and selecting this session as your first choice at: https://www.gceg2018.com/nc/call-for-sessions-and-papers/submit-an-abstract.html by 15 February\, 2018.\nWe aim to finalize the session(s) by 1 March\, a bit ahead of the conference abstract deadline.\nAny questions about the session may be directed to Patrick Bigger at p.bigger@lancaster.ac.uk.
URL:https://politicaleconomyhub.net/event/global-conference-on-economic-geography-2018/
CATEGORIES:Conference
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180714
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SUMMARY:Back on the Agenda? Industrial Policy revisited Conference
DESCRIPTION:  \nThe 2018 Cambridge Journal of Regions\, Economy and Society Conference will be on the topic of ‘Industrial Policy’ and will be held on 12-13 July 2018 at St Catharine’s College\, Cambridge. \nAfter years of disrepute in several countries\, Industrial Policy (IP) is back in vogue of late at regional\, national and international levels\, driven by concerns over competitiveness\, globalisation\, de-industrialisation\, unemployment and\, in the European case\, by comparatively slow growth. Modern industrial policy is a broad concept and has moved beyond entailing specific industrial policies (that aim to improve the competitiveness of particular firms and sectors); rather\, it is increasingly viewed as the architecture through which the state enables businesses and people to acquire new capabilities to enhance growth and socio-economic development within geographical places.\nThe conference themes include: \n\nRethinking sectoral and regional-level industrial policies\nChanges in manufacturing processes\nSmart Specialisation strategies\nEnhancing growth and socio-economic development\nRegional/International policies\n\nCALL FOR PAPERS\nThe Special Issue Editors welcome papers for consideration from academics and researchers seeking to build upon recent research on industrial policy and smart specialisation.\nAuthors interested in publishing in the Special Issue should submit:\nAbstract: Around 400 words\nEmail: Francis Knights fk240@cam.ac.uk\nAbstract Deadline: 6 January 2018 \n 
URL:https://politicaleconomyhub.net/event/back-on-the-agenda-industrial-policy-revisited-conference/
LOCATION:Senior Combination Room (SCR)\, St Catharine’s College\, Cambridge\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Conference
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SUMMARY:20th Anniversary Conference of the Association for Heterodox Economics
DESCRIPTION:5-7th July 2018\, De Montfort University\, Leicester\, UK \nThe 20th Anniversary Conference of the AHE (Association of Heterodox Economics) is being held at De Montfort University\, Leicester\, UK. The AHE has established a reputation as a major forum for the discussion and development of interdisciplinary and pluralistic alternatives to mainstream economics. It is committed to strengthening the community of heterodox economists\, and to the development of heterodox economic theories. Recognition of failures within mainstream economics and popular discontent about economic problems are widespread. We particularly encourage submissions for streams and papers on the history of economics; finance\, banking and financialisation; austerity\, inequality and diversity; sustainable economics and climate change; methodology; teaching and learning; heterodox microeconomics; and other standpoints which critically examine the mainstream\, such as critical management studies. \nAcademic Committee \nProposals for streams\, papers and bursaries will be reviewed by an academic committee comprising Lynne Chester (University of Sydney)\, Thoralf Dassler (University of Westminster)\, Ioana Negru (SOAS\, University of London)\, and Bruce Philp (Birmingham City Business School). We aim to notify successful participants and bursary winners within two weeks of the closing date. The decision of the academic committee will be final. \nPlease complete this form with your proposal(s): https://goo.gl/forms/gHeHpOUAGtkj6TvY2 \nThe conference language is English. Normal sessions will be 90 minutes long and will usually consist of two or three papers with at least one discussant. You do not need to submit a paper to register. Participants should be prepared to serve as discussants and/or session chairs. \nDeadlines \n\nProposals for complete sessions by 1st February 2018:\nAbstracts for single papers (not more than 250 words) by 1st March 2018.\nDraft papers for refereeing by 1st May 2018.\nNormal registration by 1st May 2018.\nLate registration by 1st June 2018.\nFinal submission of papers\, for inclusion in the online programme\, by 8th June 2018.\n\nFor further details\, please go to: http://hetecon.net/?page=ahe_conferences&side=20th_call_for_papers \n 
URL:https://politicaleconomyhub.net/event/20th-anniversary-conference-of-the-association-for-heterodox-economics/
LOCATION:De Montfort University\, Leicester\, The Gateway\,\, Leicester\, LE1 9BH\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Conference
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180705
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SUMMARY:Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute Conference 2018
DESCRIPTION:Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute Conference 2018 \nCall for Proposals \nPolitical Economy Ten Years After the Crisis \nHalifax Hall\, University of Sheffield\n2-4 July 2018 \nThe SPERI Conference is becoming increasingly recognised as a key forum for debating major contemporary issues in political economy in new and challenging ways. It takes place in Halifax Hall in a leafy part of Sheffield and always attracts a range of leading scholars\, doctoral students and practitioners with an interest in political economy. \nOur 2018 conference will take place just a few weeks before the tenth anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers\, an event which exemplified the early stages of the financial crisis. We invite you to submit proposals for a panel of 3-4 papers\, or an individual paper\, related to the following conference themes: \n\nThe unfolding impact of the crisis: the upheaval created by the 2008 crisis and subsequent recession\, including Brexit and shifting global economic power; the long-term social and political consequences of the crisis; the capitalist economy’s legitimacy crisis.\nResponses to crisis dynamics: moves towards ‘inclusive growth’ and the rediscovery of ‘industrial strategy’; the rise of populism on the left and the right; prospects for the renewal of global governance.\nThe political economy of the longue durée: the role of historical approaches in understanding contemporary capitalist development; the 2008 crisis as a historical ‘juncture’\, comparable but distinct to previous crises; the ability of political economists to foresee future change\, including a deepening of the present crisis.\nThe generational implications of crisis: differential impacts and understandings of crisis across people at different life-stages; the ‘normalisation’ of crisis imperatives in young people’s political imaginaries; apparent conflict between different age cohorts.\nInstitutional upheaval and continuity: the changing role of the state in relation to the capitalist economy; how institutions ‘absorb’ crisis dynamics; the emergence of a new post-crisis institutional framework for ‘managed capitalism’.\n\nMore generally\, we would be interested in panel and paper proposals which address any of SPERI’s main research areas. \nThe opening plenary session of the conference will be addressed by Professor Adam Tooze\, Professor of History at Columbia University and author of The Deluge: The Great War and the Remaking of the Global Order\, 1916-1931. Professor Tooze will be speaking about his ongoing work on the history of the financial crisis. Other speakers already committed to address plenary sessions include: Helen Thompson (University of Cambridge)\, Richard Roberts (King’s College London)\, Michael Moran (University of Manchester)\, Ann Pettifor (PRIME Economics) and Torsten Bell (Resolution Foundation). More plenary speakers will be announced in due course. \nMore information about the conference can be found on the SPERI conference website. \nPlease submit your panel or paper proposal(s) to the conference administrator by emailing speri@sheffield.ac.uk by no later than Monday 18th December. \nPlease also feel free to discuss your ideas in advance with any of the conference convenors:\nColin Hay\, Craig Berry and Adam Leaver
URL:https://politicaleconomyhub.net/event/sheffield-political-economy-research-institute-conference-2018/
CATEGORIES:Conference
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180628
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180630
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CREATED:20171129T132424Z
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SUMMARY:15th International Conference Developments in Economic Theory and Policy
DESCRIPTION:The Department of Applied Economics V of the University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU and the Cambridge Centre for Economic and Public Policy\, Department of Land Economy\, of the University of Cambridge\, are organizing the 15th International Conference Developments in Economic Theory and Policy. The Conference will be held in Bilbao (Spain)\, the days 28th and 29th of June 2018. \nFor more information\, you can contact with Jesus Ferreiro (jesus.ferreiro@ehu.eus)
URL:https://politicaleconomyhub.net/event/15th-international-conference-developments-in-economic-theory-and-policy/
CATEGORIES:Conference
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180531T080000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180531T180000
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SUMMARY:Post-Keynesian Economics Study Group Annual Workshop
DESCRIPTION:The 28th PKES annual workshop will take place at Goldsmiths\, University of London (Room 306 Professor Stuart Hall Building New Cross\, London\, SE14 6NW) at 10.00 – 18.00 on Thursday 31 May. The programme is available at: http://www.postkeynesian.net/events/10042018-28th-pkes-annual-workshop/ \nSpeakers include Danielle Guizzo\, Marc Lavoie\, Malcom Sawyer Gregor Semieniuk\, Dimitris Sotiropoulos\, Hanna Szymborska\, Isabella Weber\, Rafael Wildauer and Ariel Wirkierman. \nIf you are interested in participating\, please register by sending an email to: G.Galanis@gold.ac.uk. \nTea and Coffee will be provided and we would be delighted if you could join us for dinner afterwards (at own expense). \nThe organising Committee\nGiorgos Galanis\, Maria Nikolaidi\, Engelbert Stockhammer and Isabella Weber
URL:https://politicaleconomyhub.net/event/post-keynesian-study-group-annual-workshop/
LOCATION:Goldsmiths\, University of London\, London\, SE14 6NW\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180530T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180530T193000
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SUMMARY:St Catharine’s Political Economy Seminar – 'Modelling the Impacts of Brexit on Low-Income Households' by Sophie Heald\, Richard Lewney &Laurie Heykoop  
DESCRIPTION:Date: Wednesday 30 May 2018\nTime: 18:00 -19:30\nSpeaker: Sophie Heald\, Richard Lewney and Laurie Heykoop\nTalk Title: ‘Modelling the Impacts of Brexit on Low-Income Households’\nLocation: Ramsden Room\, St Catharine’s College \nAll are welcome. The seminar series is supported by the Cambridge Journal of Economics and the Economics and Policy Group at the Judge Business School. \nSpeakers\nSophie Heald is a project manager and economist in the macroeconomic modelling team at Cambridge Econometrics. She specialises in the application of large-scale econometric models for scenario analysis and has several years’ experience modelling policy scenarios using E3ME\, an econometric model of the global economy. In recent months Sophie has contributed to the European Commission’s impact assessment on the macroeconomic effects of measures to improve work-life balance and\, for the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE)\, she managed a project to assess the wider macroeconomic effects of measures to improve gender equality. Sophie led on the economic modelling and contributed to the scenario design for this study into the impacts of Brexit on low-income households. \nRichard Lewney is Chairman of Cambridge Econometrics where he has worked since 1988. He specialises in the application of economic modelling to policy analysis\, policy evaluation and forecasting\, and he directed the study on which this seminar draws. He recently completed a two-year project for DG Energy to improve the treatment of innovation and finance in the macroeconomic modelling of decarbonisation policies. He led the macroeconomic modelling for DG Employment’s study on the feasibility of a pan-European unemployment benefit system. He is currently directing a project to extend and upgrade the economic modelling capability of Malta’s Ministry for Finance. He was the lead economist for the Northern Powerhouse Independent Economic Review. He is a Trustee of the Cambridge Trust for New Thinking in Economics which owns Cambridge Econometrics. \nLaurie Heykoop is an economist at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. His current areas of research include analysis of potential impacts of Brexit on low-income households\, and monitoring the impact of inflation on the living standards of low-income households. Having graduated BA Economics and Politics at Manchester University in 2012\, prior to his current post Laurie spent over three years as a government economist.\nHis work included producing official gas price projections\, advising on options to reform agri-environment schemes\, and producing models to enhance targeting of fuel poverty programmes. His other research interests include the economics of land\, housing\, and inequality. \nTalk Overview\nSeveral organisations across government\, academia\, and think tanks have modelled the potential economic impacts of post-Brexit trading arrangements. These have primarily focussed on economy-wide impacts.  The research presented in this seminar focuses on analysis of impacts on low-income households. The research models a range of potential post-Brexit trading arrangements\, producing estimates for impacts on prices\, wages\, and employment and then assesses the particular implications for low-income households. \n\n\nPlease contact the seminar organisers Philip Arestis (pa267@cam.ac.uk) and Michael Kitson (m.kitson@jbs.cam.ac.uk) in the event of a query. \n\n\n 
URL:https://politicaleconomyhub.net/event/st-catharines-political-economy-seminar-modelling-the-impacts-of-brexit-on-low-income-households-by-sophie-heald-richard-lewney-laurie-heykoop/
LOCATION:Ramsden Room\, St Catharine’s College\, St Catharine's College\, Cambridge\, cb21rl\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:St Catharine's Political Economy Seminar - 'Why there will Never be a Complete Consensus in Macroeconomics: A Tale of Group Thinking and Paradigms’ by John McCombie
DESCRIPTION:Date: Wednesday\, 25 April 2018\nTime: 18:00 -19:30\nSpeaker: John McCombie \nTalk Title: ‘Why there will Never be a Complete Consensus in Macroeconomics: A Tale of Group Thinking and Paradigms’\nLocation: Ramsden Room\, St Catharine’s College \nThe next St Catharine’s Political Economy Seminar in the series on the Economics of Austerity\, will be held on 25 April\, 2018 – John McCombie will give a talk on “Why there will Never be a Complete Consensus in Macroeconomics: A Tale of Group Thinking and Paradigms”.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 Judge Business School. \nSpeaker:\nJohn McCombie is Emeritus Professor in Regional and Applied Economics\, and Senior Emeritus Fellow of the Department of Land Economy. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and a Fellow of the Regional Studies Association. John is Director of the Cambridge Centre for Economic and Public Policy; Emeritus Fellow in Economics\, Downing College; Director of Studies in Land Economy\, Christ’s College\, Downing College and Girton College. He was formerly a lecturer in Economics at the University of Hull and at the University of Melbourne. His interests are regional economics\, post Keynesian macroeconomics\, the causes of variations in national and regional growth rates\, income inequality\, trade and economic geography and the methodological implications for macroeconomics of the Great Financial Crisis. He is a consultant to the Asian Development Bank and the World Bank and was a Special Advisor to a House of Lords Subcommittee inquiring into the EU regional funds. He was a founding co-editor of Spatial Economic Analysis and a former editor of Regional Studies. He has recently published (with Jesus Felipe) a book entitled The Aggregate Production Function and Technical Change; ‘Not Even Wrong’. This presents a fundamental criticism of one of the central concepts of neoclassical macroeconomics. He is currently researching into the economic and philosophical issues (including Rawls’ ‘Justice as Fairness’ and the concept of ‘Just Deserts’) concerning the optimal degree of income inequality.. \nTalk Overview:\nAfter the acrimonious debates between the New Classical and Keynesian economists in the 1980s and 1990s\, a complacent New Macroeconomic Consensus was achieved and by 2006\, according to its adherents\, all the major theoretical problems were deemed solved. The sub-prime crisis exposed fundamental flaws in this approach and for a time there was a return to the putatively discredited Keynesian Economics of fifty years ago. Using this as one example\, this seminar looks at the broader question as to why competing schools of thought can\, and have persisted\, almost indefinitely in macroeconomics. This is notwithstanding the emergence of a dominant\, or mainstream\, approach. This contribution draws on Kuhn’s notion of the paradigm and the sociology of knowledge to understand why previous debates re-emerge and why some economists question whether there has been any meaningful progress in macroeconomics over the last thirty years. It also considers the strange case of the aggregate production function\, which is at the heart of both applied and theoretical neoclassical macroeconomics. This is in spite of the fact that it is logically impossible to derive the production function from micro-foundations (the aggregation problem) and why it is always possible to obtain a near perfect statistical fit to the putative production function\, although the estimates tell us nothing about the underlying economy. This raises some further important methodological issues for macroeconomics. \nPlease contact the seminar organisers Philip Arestis (pa267@cam.ac.uk) and Michael Kitson (mk24@cam.ac.uk) in the event of a query.
URL:https://politicaleconomyhub.net/event/826/
LOCATION:Ramsden Room\, St Catharine’s College\, St Catharine's College\, Cambridge\, cb21rl\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:The Cambridge Trust for New Thinking in Economics (CTNTE) Conference
DESCRIPTION:The Cambridge Trust for New Thinking in Economics (CTNTE) annual conference has a title of ‘ Inequality: trends\, causes\, consequences\, relevant policies’\nThe conference will be held on Thursday 22 March\, 2018 at St Catharine’s College\, Cambridge\, UK\nThe CTNTE 2018 conference will bring together a carefully selected set of eight papers by renown academics across Europe on inequalities in economic systems. Inequality has been considered a problem by many academics and policy makers for a long time now and recently there has been some evidence of increasing inequalities in the society. Our speakers will focus on the causes and consequences of inequality along with the importance of tackling inequality and recommend potential policies to reduce it\, for example\, tax reforms. The talks will cover different aspects of inequality – from income to gender – and explore links between inequality and economic growth or financialisaton and financial crisis. \nDetailed information regarding the conference programme\, speakers and papers is available online at http://www.neweconomicthinking.org/prog_March2018.htm. \nThe standard conference fee is £139\, but a special rate of £54 is available for academics and not-for-profit organisations. We also offer a number of FREE places for postgraduate students\, which are granted on first come\, first served basis. \nThe places are limited\, so please register quickly by filling in a registration form at http://www.neweconomicthinking.org/register_2018.htm
URL:https://politicaleconomyhub.net/event/the-cambridge-trust-for-new-thinking-in-economics-ctnte-conference/
LOCATION:Senior Combination Room (SCR)\, St Catharine’s College\, Cambridge\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Conference
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180314T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180314T193000
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SUMMARY:St Catharine’s Political Economy Seminar – ‘‘Bank Credit Rating Changes\, Capital Structure Adjustments and Lending’’\, Claudia Girardone
DESCRIPTION:Date: Wednesday\, 14 March 2018\nTime: 18:00 -19:30\nSpeaker: Claudia Girardone\nTalk Title:‘Bank Credit Rating Changes\, Capital Structure Adjustments and Lending’\nLocation: Ramsden Room\, St Catharine’s College \nThe next St Catharine’s Political Economy Seminar in the series on the Economics of Austerity\, will be held on 14 March\, 2018 – Claudia Girardone will give a talk on “Bank Credit Rating Changes\, Capital Structure Adjustments and Lending”. 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 Judge Business School. \nSpeaker:\nClaudia Girardone is Professor of Banking and Finance at Essex Business School of the University of Essex. She is also Director of the Essex Finance Centre (EFiC) and the School’s Director of Research. Professor Girardone has published over 50 articles on various aspects of banking and finance in books and peer-reviewed international journals. She is a co-author of the textbook Introduction to Banking (FT Pearson Education\, 2015). She is currently on the editorial board of several journals including the Journal of Financial Economic Policy and The European Journal of Finance. Her current research areas are on banking sector performance and stability\, bank corporate governance\, the industrial structure of banking and access to finance. \nTalk Overview:\nThis contribution examines the causal effect of bank credit rating changes on bank capital structure decisions. Banks adjust their capital structure following a credit rating downgrade. Adjustments involve: leverage\, rating sensitive liabilities and lending. Rating upgrades do not affect capital structure activities suggesting that banks target minimum rating levels. In our study\, we also exploit the asymmetric impact of downgrades of banks based in Greece\, Ireland\, Italy\, Spain and Portugal during the EU sovereign debt crisis. This asymmetric effect leads to greater capital adjustments\, reductions in long-term funding and lending of banks from those countries relative to other banks. Our results are consistent with the expectation of discrete cost (benefits) associated with rating changes. \nPlease contact the seminar organisers Philip Arestis (pa267@cam.ac.uk) and Michael Kitson (mk24@cam.ac.uk) in the event of a query.
URL:https://politicaleconomyhub.net/event/812/
LOCATION:Ramsden Room\, St Catharine’s College\, St Catharine's College\, Cambridge\, cb21rl\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180307T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180307T193000
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SUMMARY:St Catharine’s Political Economy Seminar – ‘Technological Unemployment: Myth or Reality’\, Robert Skidelsky
DESCRIPTION:Date: Wednesday\, 7 March 2018\nTime: 18:00 -19:30\nSpeaker: Robert Skidelsky\nTalk Title:‘Technological Unemployment: Myth or Reality’\nLocation: Ramsden Room\, St Catharine’s College \nThe next St Catharine’s Political Economy Seminar in the series on the Economics of Austerity\, will be held on 07 March\, 2018 – Robert Skidelsky will give a talk on “Technological Unemployment: Myth or Reality”. 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 Judge Business School. \nSpeaker:\nRobert Skidelsky is Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at Warwick University. His three-volume biography of John Maynard Keynes (1983\,1992\, 2000) won five prizes and his book on the financial crisis –Keynes: The Return of the Master – was published in September 2010. He was made a member of the House of Lords in 1991 (he sits on the cross-benches) and elected a fellow of the British Academy in 1994. How Much is Enough? The Love of Money and the Case for the Good Life\, co-written with his son Edward\, was published in July 2012. He is also the author of Britain in the 20th Century: A Success? (Vintage\, 2014) and editor of The Essential Keynes (Penguin Classics\, 2015). His most recent publications are as co-editor of Who Runs the Economy? (Palgrave\, 2016) and Austerity Vs Stimulus (Palgrave\, 2017). \nTalk Overview:\nThis contribution’s starting point is Keynes’s little essay of 1930\, Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren: ‘technological unemployment…means unemployment due to our discovery of means of economising the use of labour outrunning the pace at which we can find new uses for labour’. Two questions arise: will the future be different from the past\, when we were always able to absorb labour displaced by machines? There is no agreed view. There are many estimates of the jobs ‘at risk’ from automation by 2030\, ranging from 30% to 50%. There is no agreement on whether\, or how soon\, the jobs displaced will be replaced\, i.e. whether there will be a net job loss. The majority view is that there will be transitional job losses\, but no permanent ones. Most of the discussion treats automation as not just desirable\, but irreversible: part of the scientific momentum\, which defines modern civilisation. This needs challenging\, since it appears to leave the human future to machines. Second\, it is generally agreed that\, as in the past\, automation will enable a reduction in hours worked. However\, the argument that this will be consistent with maintaining or increasing median income needs to be challenged. Evidence is that median incomes have been stagnant and even falling\, as most productivity gains go to the rich. Extra leisure will surely be unwanted if it means lower real incomes. The response to automation cannot be left to the market. It requires a social decision concerning the speed and type of automation\, and a social response to the problems it creates. \nPlease contact the seminar organisers Philip Arestis (pa267@cam.ac.uk) and Michael Kitson (mk24@cam.ac.uk) in the event of a query.
URL:https://politicaleconomyhub.net/event/st-catharines-political-economy-seminar-global-imbalances-and-greeces-exit-from-the-crisis-dimitrios-tsomocos/
LOCATION:Ramsden Room\, St Catharine’s College\, St Catharine's College\, Cambridge\, cb21rl\, United Kingdom
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180225T210000
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SUMMARY:Cambridge Realist Workshop – Paul Lewis - Ontology and the History of Economic Thought
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Paul Lewis \nTalk Title: ‘Ontology and the History of Economic Thought?’ \nDrinks available from 7:30 pm\, talk starts at 8pm.
URL:https://politicaleconomyhub.net/event/cambridge-realist-workshop-paul-lewis-ontology-and-the-history-of-economic-thought/
LOCATION:Latimer Room\, Clare College\, Clare College\, Cambridge\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:CRW
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180212T073000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180212T210000
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CREATED:20180122T103426Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180123T125053Z
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SUMMARY:Cambridge Realist Workshop – Łukasz Hardt –  'Classical economists as advocates of economics without laws'
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Łukasz Hardt \nTalk Title: ‘Classical economists as advocates of economics without laws’ \nDrinks available from 7:30 pm\, talk starts at 8pm. \nCambridge Realist Workshop (Lent Term) – Łukasz Hardt – Classical economists as advocates of economics without laws \n 
URL:https://politicaleconomyhub.net/event/cambridge-realist-workshop-lukasz-hardt-classical-economists-as-advocates-of-economics-without-laws/
LOCATION:Latimer Room\, Clare College\, Clare College\, Cambridge\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:CRW
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180207T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180207T193000
DTSTAMP:20260403T205615
CREATED:20180122T101638Z
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SUMMARY:St Catharine’s Political Economy Seminar – ‘Global Imbalances and Greece's Exit from the Crisis’\, Dimitrios Tsomocos
DESCRIPTION:Date: Wednesday\, 7 February 2018\nTime: 18:00 -19:30\nSpeaker: Dimitrios Tsomocos\nTalk Title: ‘Global Imbalances and Greece’s Exit from the Crisis’\nLocation: Ramsden Room\, St Catharine’s College \nThe next St Catharine’s Political Economy Seminar in the series on the Economics of Austerity\, will be held on 07 February\, 2018 – Dimitrios Tsomocos will give a talk on “Global Imbalances and Greece’s Exit from the Crisis”. 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 Judge Business School. \nSpeakers:\nGraham Gudgin is currently Honorary Research Associate at the Centre For Business Research (CBR) in the Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge. He is also Chief Economic Advisor at Policy Exchange\, London\, visiting Professor at the University of Ulster and Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Ulster University Economic Policy Centre. He was senior Economic Advisor at Oxford Economics from 2007 to 2015 and was director of the Northern Ireland Economic Research Centre from 1985 to 1998 when he became Special Adviser to the First Minister in the Northern Ireland Assembly until 2002. Prior to this he was economics fellow at Selwyn College\, Cambridge and a member of the Cambridge Economic Policy Group under Wynne Godley. He is the author of a large number of books\, reports and journal articles on regional economic growth in the UK\, the growth of small firms and electoral systems. He is currently working with Ken Coutts on a macro-economic model and forecasts for the UK economy and on the economic impact of Brexit.\nKen Coutts is Honorary Research Associate at the Centre For Business Research (CBR) in the Judge Business School \, Emeritus Assistant Director of Studies in the Faculty of Economics\, and Life Fellow in Economics\, Selwyn College\, at the University of Cambridge. A member of the Cambridge Economic Policy Group in his younger career\, led by the late Wynne Godley\, his main interests are in macroeconomics\, monetary and fiscal policy\, trade\, capital flows and balance of payments. He has published widely in these areas. He has also written extensively on the pricing behaviour of manufacturing industries in the UK and Australia. He is currently working with Graham Gudgin a macro-economic model and forecasts for the UK economy and on the economic impact of Brexit. \nTalk Overview:\nThe global capital imbalances constituted a primary factor for the Eurozone debt crisis and amplified the divergence between the core countries and the periphery. For the case of Greece there exist three ‘alternative’ mainstream explanations of the crisis and the subsequent recession: The Greek (political and institutional inefficiency)\, the European (institutional incompetence and extended corruption) and the I.M.F. (debt overhang\, necessity of “hard” budget constraints\, public investments and expansionary monetary policy). The two academic strands that dominate the debate are the one of the importance of debt overhung and rational expectations and the one of heterogeneous general equilibrium models. We argue that the exit from the crisis warrants:\n1. Debt restructuring and nationalisation of N.P.L.s\n2. Reduction of public sector profligacy and institutional efficiency\n3. Public investments and investments for internationally traded goods\n4. Tax relief (corporate and property taxation); 5. Re-stabilisation of market expectations and creditworthiness. \nPlease contact the seminar organisers Philip Arestis (pa267@cam.ac.uk) and Michael Kitson (mk24@cam.ac.uk) in the event of a query.
URL:https://politicaleconomyhub.net/event/806/
LOCATION:Ramsden Room\, St Catharine’s College\, St Catharine's College\, Cambridge\, cb21rl\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:SOAS Money and Development Seminar: Payments Clearing in the Occupied Palestinian Territories'
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday 7 February at 17.00 \nPriscilla Toffano (IMF and London School of Economics) ‘Payments Clearing in the Occupied Palestinian Territories’. \nin the Alumni Lecture Theatre\nSenate House Paul Webley Wing\nSOAS University of London\nThornhaugh Street\,\nLondon WC1H 0XG \nnearest underground station: Russell Square
URL:https://politicaleconomyhub.net/event/soas-money-and-development-seminar-payments-clearing-in-the-occupied-palestinian-territories/
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SUMMARY:St Catharine’s Political Economy Seminar – ‘How Did the Economics Profession Get it Wrong on Brexit?’\, Graham Gudgin & Ken Coutts
DESCRIPTION:Date: Wednesday\, 31 January 2018\nTime: 18:00 -19:30\nSpeakers: Graham Gudgin and Ken Coutts\nTalk Title: ‘How Did the Economics Profession Get it Wrong on Brexit?’\nLocation: Ramsden Room\, St Catharine’s College \nThe next St Catharine’s Political Economy Seminar in the series on the Economics of Austerity\, will be held on 31 January\, 2018 – Graham Gudgin and Ken Coutts will give a talk on “How Did the Economics Profession Get it Wrong on Brexit?”.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 Judge Business School. \nSpeakers:\nGraham Gudgin is currently Honorary Research Associate at the Centre For Business Research (CBR) in the Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge. He is also Chief Economic Advisor at Policy Exchange\, London\, visiting Professor at the University of Ulster and Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Ulster University Economic Policy Centre. He was senior Economic Advisor at Oxford Economics from 2007 to 2015 and was director of the Northern Ireland Economic Research Centre from 1985 to 1998 when he became Special Adviser to the First Minister in the Northern Ireland Assembly until 2002. Prior to this he was economics fellow at Selwyn College\, Cambridge and a member of the Cambridge Economic Policy Group under Wynne Godley. He is the author of a large number of books\, reports and journal articles on regional economic growth in the UK\, the growth of small firms and electoral systems. He is currently working with Ken Coutts on a macro-economic model and forecasts for the UK economy and on the economic impact of Brexit.\nKen Coutts is Honorary Research Associate at the Centre For Business Research (CBR) in the Judge Business School \, Emeritus Assistant Director of Studies in the Faculty of Economics\, and Life Fellow in Economics\, Selwyn College\, at the University of Cambridge. A member of the Cambridge Economic Policy Group in his younger career\, led by the late Wynne Godley\, his main interests are in macroeconomics\, monetary and fiscal policy\, trade\, capital flows and balance of payments. He has published widely in these areas. He has also written extensively on the pricing behaviour of manufacturing industries in the UK and Australia. He is currently working with Graham Gudgin a macro-economic model and forecasts for the UK economy and on the economic impact of Brexit. \nTalk Overview:\nThis contribution examines in detail the predictions of professional economic forecasters on the economic impact of Brexit. It shows how these were flawed\, and speculates on why they are no longer quoted. It begins with the frequently repeated claim\, that membership of the EEC/EU has been good for economic growth in the UK. This is followed by a brief reprise of our critique of the gravity model work of HMT and OECD. The approach of the Centre for Economic Performance at the LSE\, uses a different approach\, but again\, in our view\, is flawed. All of this work predicts that the volume of UK trade with the EU will fall substantially after Brexit\, with no offsetting gains in trade with non-EU countries. Around half of the predicted declines in GDP\, come from a calculation that trade losses will have a major negative knock-on impact on productivity. Our update of their evidence suggests that for advanced economies no such link exists between trade and productivity.\nThis is not an argument in favour of Brexit. It is instead to question the ability of the economics profession to provide high quality policy analysis on issues of national importance. \nPlease contact the seminar organisers Philip Arestis (pa267@cam.ac.uk) and Michael Kitson (mk24@cam.ac.uk) in the event of a query.
URL:https://politicaleconomyhub.net/event/st-catharines-political-economy-seminar-how-did-the-economics-profession-get-it-wrong-on-brexit-graham-gudgin-ken-coutts/
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SUMMARY:SOAS Money and Development Seminar: 2 papers on The International Role of the Euro 
DESCRIPTION:SOAS Money and Development Seminars \nThursday 18 January at 17.00  \nThe International Role of the Euro papers by \nJohn Grahl (Middlesex) ‘Financial Policies: Dollar Hegemony and the Subordination of European Finance’ \nand \nCostas Lapavitsas (SOAS) ‘Estimating the cost of currency redenomination in the EMU’. \nin the Brunei Gallery Room B102 \nSOAS University of London \nThornhaugh Street\, \nLondon WC1H 0XG \n\nnearest underground station: Russell Square\n\n 
URL:https://politicaleconomyhub.net/event/781/
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SUMMARY:"The Economic Impact and Causes of Income Inequality- the shifting views of the international financial institutions" by John Evans
DESCRIPTION:Lecture by John Evans (Secretary General\, TUAC) on “The Economic Impact and Causes of Income Inequality- the shifting views of the international financial institutions“\, on the 6th of December\, at 17:00-19:00 at 2017 at the University of Greenwich\, King William Court\, room KW303. \nTo find out more about our events\, please visit our events page.
URL:https://politicaleconomyhub.net/event/the-economic-impact-and-causes-of-income-inequality-the-shifting-views-of-the-international-financial-institutions-by-john-evans/
LOCATION:Greenwich University
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