CJRES 2024 Conference
2024-07-11 - 2024-07-12 | McGrath Centre, St Catharine’s College, Cambridge, United Kingdom
The annual Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society conference was held on 11-12 July 2024, at St Catharine’s College, Cambridge, UK.
The 2024 CJRES Annual Conference was based on two major themes: The Entrepreneurial State and Mission-Oriented Innovation Policy and Rethinking Path Dependence and Lock-Ins.
Keynote speakers were:
Maryann Feldman, Watts Professor of Public Policy and Management at the Watts College of Public Service and Community Solutions, Arizona State University
‘Assessing the Influence of Mission Agencies on Regional Development’
Frank Geels is Professor of System Innovation and Sustainability, University of Manchester
‘Escaping lock-ins in accelerating low-carbon transitions: Lessons from electricity and auto-mobility systems’
For further details about the conference including the programme and some of the presentations, see :https://cpes.org.uk/events/cjres2024

PEGFA Research Seminars 2023-24: Rafael Wildauer & Navjot Sangwan + Luca Tasciotti
2023-12-05 17:00 - 18:30 (Europe/London)
5th Dec 2023 1pm – 2:30pm

The Institute of Political Economy, Governance, Finance and Accountability invites you to its Research Seminar Series 2023-24.
Our final seminar of 2023 will feature PEGFA experts Rafael Wildauer, Dr Navjot Sangwan and Dr Luca Tasciotti.
QA010 1.00-2.30pm
Rafael Wildauer will be discussing “Wealth taxes as green transition tools: How effective are they?”
Dr Navjot Sangwan and Dr Luca Tasciotti will be presenting “Rental Discrimination in London: A Correspondence Study of Online Apartment Listings”.
Click here for further details: PEGFA Research Seminars 2023-24: Rafael Wildauer & Navjot Sangwan + Luca Tasciotti | Events | University of Greenwich

PEGFA Research Seminars 2023-24: Rob Jump & Vicky Lee
2023-11-23 17:00 - 18:30
The Institute of Political Economy, Governance, Finance and Accountability invites you to its Research Seminar Series 2023-24.
Our fourth seminar will feature PEGFA experts Dr Rob Jump and Dr Vicky Lee.
QA010 5.00-6.30pm
Dr Jump’s presentation will be focused on “Revisiting the role of profits in the collapse of Britain’s post-war consensus”.
Dr Lee will be discussing “The fire sale enigma: revealing long-term benefits of divestiture amid financial turmoil”.
For further details see: PEGFA Research Seminars 2023-24: Rob Jump & Vicky Lee | Events | University of Greenwich

Institute of Political Economy, Governance, Finance and Accountability - Dr Cem Oyvat & Dr Faith Adobamen
2023-11-07 17:00 - 18:30
7th Nov 2023 1pm – 2:30pm
The Institute of Political Economy, Governance, Finance and Accountability invites you to its Research Seminar Series 2023-24.
The third seminar in the series will feature PEGFA experts Dr Cem Oyvat and Dr Faith Adobamen.
QA020 TBC 5.00-6.30pm
Dr Cem Oyvat will be presenting “Minimum wage, aggregate demand and employment: a demand-led model”.
Further details see: https://www.gre.ac.uk/events/current-events/faculty-of-business/pegfa-research-seminars-2023-24-oyvat-and-adobamen

2023 Annual Conference of the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy (EAEPE)
2023-09-13 - 2023-09-15
The 2023 Annual Conference of the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy (EAEPE) will be held in Leeds (UK) 13-15 September 2023.
Please find the call for abstracts, conference theme, and any logistical details here:
https://eaepe.org/?page=events&side=annual_conference&sub=eaepe_2023_cfp

Global Crises, Mega Trends and Regional Development
2023-07-12 08:00 - 2023-07-13 17:00 | McGrath Centre, St Catharine’s College, Cambridge, United Kingdom
The tenth Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society conference is titled ‘Global Crises, Mega Trends and Regional Development’ and will be held on 12-13 July 2023, at St Catharine’s College, Cambridge, UK.
The aim of this conference is to consider how the series of shocks, crises and megatrends that the world is facing may have major socio-economic impacts on cities and regions.

The 25th Annual Conference of the Association for Heterodox Economics
2023-06-28 08:00 - 2023-06-30 17:00
The 25th Annual Conference of the Association for Heterodox Economics will be held on 28-30th June, 2023.
The conference is organised in a hybrid format. The in-person venue for the 2023 conference is Anglia Ruskin University.

Summer School in Post-Keynesian Economics and Political Economy
2023-06-21 08:00 - 2023-06-23 17:00
Summer School in Post-Keynesian Economics and Political Economy
Starting in 2013, PKES has run an annual multi-day Introductory Summer School in Post Keynesian Economics and Political Economy. This is primarily aimed at final year undergraduates and masters students, but is open to applications from all who are interested. Some accomodation is usually available for attendees.

The employment effects of public investment in infrastructure, the care economy and the green economy: the case of emerging economies
2023-05-25 16:00 - 20:00
The employment effects of public investment in infrastructure, the care economy and the green economy: the case of emerging economies event will take place on 25 May 2023 at 16:00-20:00.
The event is organised by the Greenwich Business School (GBS), University of Greenwich (UoG), Institute of Political Economy, Governance, Finance and Accountability (PEGFA) in collaboration with the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) and the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung.
This conference will present the results of a new ITUC report conducted by Özlem Onaran and Cem Oyvat at the University of Greenwich on the employment effects of public investment in infrastructure, the care economy and the green economy in the emerging economies. The report shows that a repeated annual increase in public spending within these three sectors would yield major economic returns across eight countries and create substantial new employment for a green caring just transition in the emerging economies and beyond.
The speakers include Evelyn Astor (ITUC), Ronald Janssen (TUAC/OECD), Lene Olsen (ILO), Boitumelo Molete (COSATU), Geoff Tilly (TUC), Gonzalo Hernández Jiménez (Deputy Finance Minister, Colombia), İpek İlkkaracan (İTU), Özlem Onaran (UoG) and Cem Oyvat (UoG), with opening remarks by Pro-Vice Chancellor Prof. Leigh Doster, Greenwich Business School (GBS).
This is an on-site event but will also be accessible via Microsoft Teams. The event is free but please register here (indicating your mode of attendance).
The event will be held at University of Greenwich, Queen Anne Building Room QA080, Old Royal Naval College, Park Row, London, SE10 9LS, UK

Annual Post-Keynesian Economics Society PhD Student Conference
2023-05-12 10:00 - 18:00
The Post-Keynesian Economics Society (PKES) and the Young Scholar Initiative (YSI) Keynesian Economics Working Group in collaboration with the Institute for Political Economy, Governance, Finance and Accountability (PEGFA) at the University of Greenwich, is organising its 14th annual PhD student conference on the 12th of May 2023, 10:00-18:00 BST. The conference will be held in person at the University of Greenwich, London. The conference gives students the opportunity to present a chapter of their PhD dissertation and receive detailed and structured feedback from a senior researcher from PKES in a friendly environment.
12 May 2023, University of Greenwich, London

2023-05-11 - 2023-05-13
A workshop celebrating the contributions and work of Victoria Chick and Geoff Harcourt is taking place on the 11, 12 and 13 of May 2023 in Goldsmiths, University of London.

This event celebrates the many and diverse contributions that Victoria Chick (1936-2023) and Geoffrey Colin Harcourt (1931-2021) brought to the economics community over their lives. They were both central pillars of the Keynesian and later Post-Keynesian school of thought from its very beginning, and their contributions defined the scope and outlook that this approach to economics came to represent. This event intends to honor their work and many years of service to the community.

We start on the evening of the 11nth of May (6:00-7:30) with a book launch for the 50th anniversary edition of Harcourt’s Some Cambridge Controversies in the Theory of Capital. Avi Cohen will give a talk on putting together the 50th anniversary edition followed by a panel discussion. Details for the event can be found here.

The programme for the 2-day workshop on the 12th and 13th of May can be found online here. On Friday there are sessions on Money, Banking and Finance; History, Methodology and Pluralism and Capital, Growth and Macroeconomic Behavior, followed by a Memorial Lecture titled V. Chick and G.C. Harcourt: economics as a moral science by Sheila Dow. On Saturday there are two panels focusing on the work and contributions of Victoria Chick and Geoff Harcourt.
No registration for the event is needed.

International Political Economy Research Group annual workshop
2023-05-11 - 2023-05-12
BUILDING SOLIDARITY IN TIMES OF PERMACRISIS BISA IPEG annual workshop
11th -12th May 2023 King’s College London
With the support of the International Political Economy Research Group, Department of European and International Studies, King’s College London

Capitalism, imperialism, and patriarchy have always produced and have fed upon crises. Yet the multilayered and mutually amplifying crises we currently face are felt and suffered even more urgently, laying bare the interconnectedness between economic, geopolitical, environmental, and social dimensions. The threat and reality of ‘permacrisis’ reminds us of the need to build bridges across disciplinary and conceptual divides and in material terms. Because of its inherent cross-disciplinary vocation, International Political Economy is ideally placed to provide a space for these conversations and practices. The 2023 BISA IPEG annual workshop, will unpack the historical drivers of these crises, discuss their obvious and hidden connections, highlight their uneven impacts, and build new forms of solidarity to render what seems permanent, temporary. What are new conceptualisations that allow us to see the politics of the current disjuncture? How can we create the space to build alternatives? How can we resist the forces we know lead to crises? What is the role of IPE and academia in allowing us to change and transcend capitalist dynamics in its gendered, classed, and racialised forms? But how do IPE and HE in fact perpetuate what we seek to dismantle? What can IPE learn from other disciplines?

Cambridge Realist Workshop - Lynne Chester - Heterodox Economics: Legacy and Prospects
2023-02-27 20:00 - 22:00
Speaker: Lynne Chester (University of Sydney)
Title: Heterodox Economics: Legacy and Prospects
Attendance at this event is free, but requires registration.
Click here to register:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZItduCppjwsH9W3d6docUdahkjMJML…
Date:
Monday, 27 February, 2023 – 20:00 to 22:00
The events are jointly hosted by the Cambridge social ontology group and the Kings College (London) Social Ontology Research Unit.

The PEGFA Seminar Series: Speakers- Rafael Wildauer and Athina Piterou
2022-12-08 17:00 - 18:30
The following hybrid research seminar is organised by The Institute of Political Economy, Governance, Finance and Accountability (PEGFA) at the University of Greenwich.
Thursday 8 Dec, 5-6:30 PM (GMT) – Speakers: Rafael Wildauer and Athina Piterou
Location: Room TBA, Old Royal Naval College, Park Row, London SE10 9LS (and via Microsoft Teams with this link)
5-5:45 PM: Rafael Wildauer – Was Pareto right?
5:45-6:30 PM: Athina Piterou – Sociotechnical transitions, market devices and the sociology of markets: the emergence of retail formats
For more information see: https://www.gre.ac.uk/research/pegfa#events

HYPE webinar - "The current inflationary crisis in historical perspective"
2022-12-07 16:00 - 17:30
The next HYPE webinar is on the 7th of December 1600-1730 (GMT) titled “The current inflationary crisis in historical perspective” presented by Matías Vernengo.
Please email hype@open.ac.uk to reserve a place
The recordings of past events are available on the webpage

2022-11-30 20:00 - 21:00
Lectures on Global Political Economy series:
Jan Kregel, Tallinn Technological University
30 November Wednesday 20:00 (Istanbul time GMT+3)Title: “Beyond the Modern Monetary Theory”Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85794161040Youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGpLZYjEC-4

The PEGFA Seminar Series: Speakers- Thomas Rabensteiner and Lorenzo Cresti
2022-11-30 13:00 - 14:30
The following hybrid research seminar is organised by The Institute of Political Economy, Governance, Finance and Accountability (PEGFA) at the University of Greenwich.
Wednesday 30 Nov, 1-2:30 PM (GMT) – Speakers: Thomas Rabensteiner and Lorenzo Cresti
Location: Room QM369, Old Royal Naval College, Park Row, London SE10 9LS (and via Microsoft Teams with this link)
1-1:45 PM: Thomas Rabensteiner – The decline in routine jobs in Western Europe:
The 21st century, the Great Recession and labour market institutions
1:45-2:30 PM: Lorenzo Cresti – Weak sectors and weak ties? Labour dependence and asymmetric positioning in GVCs
For more information see: https://www.gre.ac.uk/research/pegfa#events

CSEP Seminar Series - Economic Theories and Africa's Economic History'
2022-11-29 16:00 - 17:30
Title: ‘Economic Theories and Africa’s Economic History’
Speaker: Gareth Austin
Date: 29 November, 4-5:30pm
For further details see:
www.cambridgepluralism.org

CSEP Seminar series - 'The Political Economy of Trade in the 21st Century'
2022-11-25 16:30 - 18:00
Title: ‘The Political Economy of Trade in the 21st Century’
Speaker: David Talbot
Date: 25 November
For further details see:
www.cambridgepluralism.org

Cambridge Realist Workshop - Nuno Martins
2022-11-21 20:00 - 21:00
Title of the talk: ‘Cambridge economics and the reconstruction of economic theory’
Speaker: Nuno Martins
To register for the event of November 21 click here
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMsdOChpjMqE9T4h5TGNq9XS7gEBwwAD7Ub

The events are jointly hosted by the Cambridge social ontology group and the Kings College (London) Social Ontology Research Unit.

The PEGFA Seminar Series: Speakers-Alberto Botta and Siyan Tan
2022-11-17 17:00 - 18:30
The following hybrid research seminar is organised by The Institute of Political Economy, Governance, Finance and Accountability (PEGFA) at the University of Greenwich.
Thursday 17 Nov, 5-6:30 PM (GMT) – Speakers: Alberto Botta and Siyan Tan
Location: Room QM369, Old Royal Naval College, Park Row, London SE10 9LS (and via Microsoft Teams with this link)
5-5:45 PM: Alberto Botta – Financial integration, productive development and fiscal space in developing countries
5:45-6:30 PM: Siyan Tan – Political Connections and Corporate Litigation: Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Experiment
For more information see: https://www.gre.ac.uk/research/pegfa#events

CSEP Seminar series - Austerity and the Economics That Enables It
2022-11-17 17:00 - 18:30
Title: Austerity and the Economics That Enables It
Date: November 17th
Time: 5pm – 6:30pm
Location: Keynes Lecture Theatre, King’s College
The Cambridge Society for Economic Pluralism (CSEP) is excited to announce its upcoming speaker event with Professor Mattei and Professors Aldred on the topic of: ‘Austerity and The Economics That Enables It.’ This combines the commentary on austerity’s origins and its fascist consequences in Prof. Mattei’s new book *The Capital Order: How economists invented austerity and paved the way to fascism*, and Prof. Aldred’s biting critique of prevailing economic theory in *Licence to be Bad*. Following both speakers’ discussions of their research and ideas, we will open the floor to a Q&A session, as well as an opportunity to meet the speakers’ after the event. There will also be some copies for sale of Prof. Mattei’s book, as she is currently on her UK tour.
Please follow the below link to sign up and read more on our speakers:
www.cambridgepluralism.org

Third International Conference in Heterodox Economics: the Crucial Role of Women within the Heterodox Economics Community
2022-11-16 - 2022-11-18
Third International Conference in Heterodox Economics: the Crucial Role of Women within the Heterodox Economics Community (UNAL, 16-18/11/2022)

The Latin American and the Gender & Economics Working Group of YSI, jointly with the Grupo de Socioeconomia, Instituciones y Desarollo (GSEID), is pleased to announce the Third International Conference in Heterodox Economics: the Crucial Role of Women within the Heterodox Economics Community, to be held at the National University of Colombia (UNAL) on November 16, 17 and 18, 2022.

This in-person event aims to be a space for the dissemination and interaction between young researchers, teachers, and heterodox academics from around the world and particularly from Colombia and Latin America.

Manuscript submission:

We encourage submission that broadly fall within the topics of the conference, such as:– Womens’ work and their importance in the socio-economic reproduction of the system;– Women economists’ “forgotten” work;– Macroeconomic of gender inequality;– Job Guarantee Programs and their impact on the community and women’s status;– The role of the arts and artists under a heterodox approach;– Economic policy and the environment;– Heterodox microeconomics;– Decolonizing the economic discipline;– Monetary policy and its impact on inequality;– Heterodox economics and modeling;– Heterodox theories of economic growth;– Studies about dependencies and the Global South;– Economic history and economic thought.
Selected Young Scholars from within and outside Colombia may be eligible for partial travel stipends.

Submission Details:– Submission of abstracts: September 20, 2022;– Submission of accepted papers (finalized or in the process): October 25, 2022;– The papers can be written in English or Spanish with a maximum extension of 8000-13000 words;– The abstracts and accepted papers should be sent to: gruposeid@unal.edu.coWhen submitting individual articles, the following information should be reported:– Abstract (max. 300 words);– Authors names, institutional affiliation, academic level and email;– Young Scholars interested in receiving support from YSI should also specify it in the email;– No more than two (2) papers are allowed per author.More information about the event see: https://ysi.ineteconomics.org/project/628d29042147200263c4271f/event/62c331ea89d3310e8a255ece

SOAS Money and Development Seminar - The Capital Order How economists invented austerity and paved the way to Fascism
2022-11-14 17:00 - 18:00
The next Money and Development Seminar will be on
Monday 14 November at 5 p.m.
will feature Clara Mattei (New School for Social Research) will present her book The Capital Order How economists invented austerity and paved the way to Fascism
with Suzanne Konzelmann (Birkbeck) and Lord Skidelsky (Warwick)
To be held in:
Room G3
SOAS University of London
Thornhaugh Street
London WC1H 0XG

Economics and Finance Education Conference
2022-11-11
We are pleased to announce our Inaugural Conference on Economics and Finance Education which will take place on Friday 11th of November at the School of Economics and Finance in a hybrid mode. We welcome both online attendants and in-person. The Education and Scholarship research group invites the submission of proposals for presentations and/or panel discussions from academics, researchers and PhD students on the different aspects of inclusion in teaching and learning. We have a budget to cover for some international travels and accommodation. We have confirmed two keynote speakers for the day: Denise Hawkes, Anglia Ruskin University and Alvin Birdi, University of Bristol.
For further details see: https://www.qmul.ac.uk/sef/events/conferences/items/first-international-conference-in-education-and-scholarship.html

The PEGFA Seminar Series: Speakers- Kefei You and Ben Tippet
2022-11-02 13:00 - 14:30
The following hybrid research seminar is organised by The Institute of Political Economy, Governance, Finance and Accountability (PEGFA) at the University of Greenwich.
Wednesday, 2 Nov, 1-2:30 PM (GMT) – Speakers: Kefei You and Ben Tippet
Location: Room SL011, Old Royal Naval College, Park Row, London SE10 9LS (and via Microsoft Teams with this link)
For more information see: https://www.gre.ac.uk/research/pegfa#events
1-1:45 PM: Kefei You – Financial Development and Technological Progress: Does the Financing Channel Matter? Evidence from Spatial Analysis for Chinese Provinces
We examine the relationship between financial development and productivity growth by investigating the impact of total social financing and, more importantly, the four financial channels underneath it (i.e., formal bank loans, corporate bond market, equity market and shadow banking) on technological progress in Chinese provinces during 2013-2020. We first separate structural change from total factor productivity (TFP) to obtain the net factor productivity (NFP) series. We then employ spatial models to account for spatial dependence in technological progress; the Spatial Durbin Model (SDM) is shown to best describe our data. We find that, first, both structural change and NFP have contributed positively to TFP in China. Thus, the latter captures the pure technological progress more accurately than TFP does. Second, while TSF overall does not seem to affect technological advancement in China, three of its four components do. Specifically, corporate bonds and formal bank loans promote technological progress across Chinese provinces, with the former producing stronger effects than the latter. Shadow banking also shows a positive impact but at a weaker magnitude than the above two. Conversely, equity financing does not foster technological progress in China. Finally, we observe positive spatial technological dependence, implying a cooperative relationship between Chinese provinces.
1:45-2:30 PM: Ben Tippet – House price cycles and speculative demand: understanding how the returns to capital gains and rent extraction drive the intensity of house price booms and busts
Why do some countries have stable house prices, while others have intense booms and busts? The existing literature in Comparative Political Economy (CPE) has argued that house price booms are caused primarily by domestic mortgage-credit encouraging institutions (and their interactions with a strong welfare state). Building on heterodox economic theories of house price cycles, this paper instead argues that intense house price booms and busts are driven by speculative demand, which in turn is shaped by institutions increasing the returns to housing via capital gains and rent extraction. Using turning point analysis, we demonstrate significant cross-country differences in the intensity of booms and busts across 26 OECD countries. We build a dataset of what we call “speculation encouraging institutions” and estimate their relationship to the intensity of house price cycles. We find that countries with speculation encouraging institutions are significantly more likely to have intense house price booms and busts. Once we control for speculative demand, mortgage-credit encouraging institutions no longer has a significant effect on house price cycles. This paper is a part of the Leverhulme grant “The Political Economy of growth models in an age of stagnation” Leverhulme, RPG-2021-045.

Left behind places and what can be done about them
2022-09-16
The ninth conference hosted by the Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society will take place on 16 September 2022, on the theme “Left Behind Places and What Can Be Done About Them”. This will be an online conference.
The conference is related to the forthcoming issues of the CJRES with the same title, “Left Behind Places and What Can Be Done About Them”.
For further details please go to: www.cpes.org.uk/events/cjres2022

The annual EAEPE Conference
2022-09-07 - 2022-09-09
The 34th Annual EAEPE Conference will take place in Naples on 7-9 September 2022. The call for papers is available here.
Abstracts can be submitted here (deadline: 1 April 2022). We particularly encourage submissions for Research Area [H] Effective Demand, Income Distribution and Finance. This research area has been developed in cooperation with the Post-Keynesian Economics Society (PKES). It aims to enhance collaboration among post-Keynesian economists in different countries and to foster debates between post-Keynesians and other heterodox economists.
For further information regarding the conference go HERE.

The EU and the political economy of global disorder. Struggles for survival, climate and energy Justice
2022-09-02 - 2022-09-04
In cooperation with Kings College London, the 28th Annual Conference of the EuroMemo Group will be held from 2 – 4 September 2022 in London. The title of the Conference is “The EU and the political economy of global disorder. Struggles for survival, climate and energy Justice”.
Against the background of multiple and deepening crises, and in particular the war in Ukraine, this year’s conference will address the profound implications of on-going geopolitical changes for the future of the EU, with special reference to the much-needed socio-ecological transformation.
Further information on conference topics, the preliminary programme and on registration can be found

24th Annual Conference of the Association for Heterodox Economics
2022-07-06 - 2022-07-08
Crises in capitalism or crises of capitalism: Current issues and transformative solutions
This conference is being organised in collaboration with and at SOAS in a hybrid format.
The in-person venue for the 2022 conference is SOAS University of London, on 6-8th July 2022.
Call for papers
Make a submission to the conference here. The deadline for submissions is February 15th, 2022.
