8th PKES Summer School - Introduction to Post-Keynesian Economics and Political Economy
2019-06-26 - 2019-06-28 | Greenwich University
8th PKES Summer School – Introduction to Post-Keynesian Economics and Political Economy
University of Greenwich
Room None, Park Row, SE10 9LS, London.
26 Jun 2019 9:30 a.m. –28 Jun 2019 4:30 p.m.
This three-day summer school at the University of Greenwich introduces Post-Keynesian Economics as an alternative to mainstream neoclassical economic theory and neoliberal economic policy. Key assumptions in Post Keynesian Economics are that individuals face fundamental uncertainty about the future; there is a central role for ‘animal spirits’ in the determination of investment decisions; inflation is the result of unresolved distributional conflicts; money is an endogenous creation of the private banking system; unemployment is determined by effective demand on the goods markets; financial markets are prone to periodic boom-bust cycles.
Post Keynesian theory is part of a broader Political Economy approach which highlights the social conflict and power relations between classes such as labour, capital and finance and social groups stratified along the lines of gender and ethnicity. Economic analysis should thus be rooted in a historic and institutional setting.
The summer school is aimed at students of economics and social sciences. As the aim of Post Keynesian Economics and Political Economy ultimately is to provide the foundation for progressive economic policies, it may be of interest for a broader audience.
Program
Wednesday, 26 June, 9.30am – 6.30 pm

Welcome and opening
Post Keynesian Economics, Introduction & Overview
(Engelbert Stockhammer, King’s College London)
Effective Demand vs Says Law in Marx, Keynes and Kalecki
(Tomas Rotta, University of Greenwich)
Economic Policy in Europe
(Özlem Onaran, University of Greenwich)
Panel Discussion: Post Keynesian Economic Policy
(Engelbert Stockhammer, Tomas Rotta, Özlem Onaran)

Thursday, 27 June, 9.30am – 6.00pm

Development in Post Keynesian and Marxist theories
(Christina Wolf, Kingston University)
Money in the Economy: A Post-Keynesian Perspective
(Jo Michell, University of the West of England)
Distributional and Ecological Challenges to our Economic System
(Rafael Wildauer, University of Greenwich)
Student Working Groups

Friday, 28 June, 10.30am – 4.30pm

Post-Keynesian and Political Economy Approaches to Economic Policy: Can Global Capitalism be Tamed?
(Gary Dymski, Leeds University)
Student working groups in preparation of the Concluding Panel
Concluding panel: The State of Political Economy and Progressive Economic Policy. Open questions from the workshop
(Engelbert Stockhammer and Gary Dymski)

In order to book tickets please use the online store.
There is a reduced fee if you become a member of PKES (See the the membership section here. Any current university student is eligible for membership at £10 per annum).
NOTE: there are only 20 tickets including accommodation available which will be sold on a first-come first-served basis.
Ticket categories:

Workshop only (no accommodation): £25 (PKES members) / £45 (non-PKES members)
Workshop + accommodation for 3 nights (Wed-Thu, 25/06-27/06). Early Bird registration until 26 May: £60 (PKES members) / £80 (non-PKES members)
Workshop + accommodation for 3 nights (Wed-Thu, 25/06-27/06). After 26 May: £95 (PKES members) / £110 (non-PKES members)

Organising committee
This event is co-organized by the Post-Keynesian Economics Society (PKES), the Institute of Political Economy, Governance, Finance and Accountability(PEGFA) and Rethinking Economics Greenwich. Vital financial support has been received from the Cambridge Political Economy Society Trust.
The organising committee consists of Christina Wolf, Kingston University; Engelbert Stockhammer, King’s College London; Rafael Wildauer, Alexander Guschanski, Ines Heck and Thomas Rabensteiner, all University of Greenwich and Jo Michell, University of the West of England.

Rethinking the Political Economy of Place Conference
2019-07-11 - 2019-07-12 | McGrath Centre, St Catharine’s College, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Rethinking the Political Economy of Place: Challenges of Productivity, Inclusion and Power Conference
This is the sixth Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society Conference and it will be held on 11-12 July 2019 at St Catharine’s College, Cambridge.
The shifting landscape of concerns and concepts in economic politics in places around the world, calls for a rethinking of the political economy of place. Two of the key challenges – currently faced by cities, regions, nations and supranational institutions around the world – are improving productivity and fostering inclusion. This conference is looking to shed new light on these challenges, in particular when these two challenges are taken in conjunction. We furthermore aim to set these challenges in a broader context. Relating these challenges to the implicit and explicit power structures and processes, prevailing at various scales within contemporary capitalism.
The conference welcomes contributions and has a Call for Papers open.

EAEPE Conference 2019
2019-09-12 08:00 - 2019-09-15 17:00 UTC
The 31st Annual EAEPE Conference 2019
30 years after the fall of the Berlin wall – What happened to Europe/Where does Europe stand today? What is new in economics?
Warsaw, Poland
12-15 September 2019
Keynote Speakers
Geoffrey M. Hodgson, Loughborough University London
Smita Srinivas, The Open University UK & University College London
For further details see:
https://eaepe.org/?page=events&side=annual_conference&sub=eaepe_2019_cfp
Young Scholars Pre-conference
11 – 12 September 2019, in Warsaw, Poland
The pre-conference will be organised in a series of workshops aiming at generating interactive discussions and, therefore, the participants are expected to actively contribute to the discussions. The workshops will last from three to six hours. Participants will be able to attend 2-3 workshops from a list.
Further details for them young scholars pre-conference event are:
https://eaepe.org/?page=events&side=annual_conference&sub=eaepe2019_preconference

St Catharine’s Political Economy Seminar – ‘A Democratic Measure of National Income' by Martin Weale
2019-10-16 18:00 - 20:30 UTC | Ramsden Room, St Catharine’s College, St Catharine's College, Cambridge, cb21rl, United Kingdom
Date: Wednesday, 16 October 2019
Time: 18:00 -19:30
Speaker: Martin Weale
Talk Title: ‘’A Democratic Measure of National Income’’
Location: Ramsden Room, St Catharine’s College
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.
Speaker:
Martin Weale is Professor at King’s College, London. He joined King’s College in 2016 after completing two three-year terms as a member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England. He had previously been the Director of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research from 1995 to 2010. In 2011 Queen Mary, University of London appointed him a part-time Professor of Economics – a position he held until 2016.
Until 1995 he was a lecturer in Economics at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Clare College (B.A. 1977, Sc.D. 2006). He was a member of the Statistics Commission from 2000 to 2008 and of the Board for Actuarial Standards from 2006 to 2011. Weale was appointed CBE for his services to Economics in 1999 and was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries in 2001. City University awarded him an honorary doctorate in 2007.
Talk Overview:
National income per capita is widely used as the basis for comparing living standards in different countries. But conventional measures of national income growth are plutocratic. The growth in the incomes of people with initially high income had more influence on the aggregate than does the growth of the incomes of people with initially low income. This paper argues the case for constructing a democratic measure of national income growth, the growth rate of the geometric mean of income per household – one which gives equal weight to the growth experience of each household, whether its initial income is high or low.
To do this means allocating the whole of national income to households, and a method of doing this is suggested. While the Living Conditions and Food Survey is the primary source, issues of under-reporting have to be addressed. This is done by means of stochastic imputation on the basis of covariates. In order to produce a democratic measure of real income growth, it is necessary to compute a democratic deflator – based on the average of each household’s expenditure shares rather than shares in total consumption. Deflation of the geometric mean of each household’s income by this deflator makes it possible to calculate a democratic measure of real income growth. As a result of declining household income inequality since the economic crisis this measure of real income has grown slightly faster than the plutocratic measure since 2006.
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 - Really Rethinking Economics
2019-10-21 20:00 - 22:00 UTC | Newnham College, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Speaker: Tony Lawson
Talk Title: ‘Really Rethinking Economics’
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 Evolution of Sectarianism: A Political Economy Approach’ by Sebastian Ille
2019-10-30 18:00 - 19:30 UTC
Date: Wednesday, 30 October 2019
Time: 18:00 -19:30
Speaker: Sebastian Ille
Talk Title: ” The Evolution of Sectarianism: A Political Economy Approach”
Location: Rushmore Room, St Catharine’s College
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.
Speaker:
Sebastian Ille is a Senior Lecturer in Economics at the New College of the Humanities and Editor-in-Chief of International Social Science Journal. His areas of expertise and interest focus on the impact of different types of rationality and interaction patterns on the dynamics defining institutions under decentralized decision-making. He also studies the elements of conflict, especially the factors leading to revolutions and new social contracts. His fields of research include Institutional Economics, Behavioural Economics, Development Economics, Identity Economics, Evolutionary Game Theory, Complex Systems and Agent-Based Modelling. He has published on various topics, including theoretical papers on stochastic stability and meta-rationality, and interdisciplinary research on identity economics, rational atrocities and ISIS, as well as forced private tutoring in Egypt. He is currently working on topics related to the Arab Spring in Egypt and on a textbook for social scientists on various mathematical approaches to modelling social systems and social change.
Talk Overview
The tendency of humans to cooperate for reasons other than self-interest has long intrigued social scientists, leading to a substantial literature in recent years. However, its complement – sectarianism – has not received much attention in the economics literature despite its significant economic impact, its growing importance in recent years and its socio-economic fundamentals. Based on an evolutionary approach, the talk illustrates under which conditions sectarianism and sectarian conflict constitute an evolving property of a social system. The underlying model shows in which manner actions, preferences, economic institutions and sectarian identities co-evolve and suggests an extended constructivist perspective while contesting classical primordial or instrumentalist perspectives. Contrary to common perception, I argue that sectarianism and sectarian conflict are not necessarily driven by a conflict over religious ideologies, but by socio-economic and political grievances. Additionally, the history of interaction and external exertion of influence are key to explaining the tendency for bigotry and hostility.
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 Medema - The Utility of Fictional Models for coming to grips with Reality
2019-11-04 19:30 - 22:00 UTC | Newnham College, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Speaker: Stephen Medema
Talk Title: ‘The Utility of Fictional Models for coming to grips with Reality’
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 End of History: The Political Economy of Post-Liberal Capitalism’ by Aleksandr Buzgalin
2019-11-13 18:00 - 19:30 UTC | Ramsden Room, St Catharine’s College, St Catharine's College, Cambridge, cb21rl, United Kingdom
Date: Wednesday, 13 November 2019
Time: 18:00 -19:30
Speaker: Aleksandr Buzgalin
Talk Title: ‘The End of History: The Political Economy of Post-Liberal Capitalism’
Location: Ramsden Room, St Catharine’s College
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.
Speaker:
Aleksandr Buzgalin is professor at the department of Political Economy and director of the Center for Modern Marxist Studies at Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia, and Editor in Chief of Questions of Political Economy (Russian bilingual academic journal). He is also vice president of the World Association for Political Economy (WAPE). Buzgalin is the author of more then 400 publications, including 23 books, translated into a number of languages. His areas of research focus on methodological and fundamental aspects of political economy, in particular contradictions of the late capitalism, caused by the new technological transformations and new qualities of market, money and capital in the era of creative revolution. Results of his research were published in Cambridge Journal of Economics, Science & Society and other journals. He is also the author of books and articles in the sphere of development studies, comparative analysis of economic systems and nature of Russian economy.
Talk Overview
Thirty years ago, Francis Fukuyama in his article ‘The End of History?’ formulated a thesis about the final victory of the neoliberal model of capitalism. But history does not stop. Two hundred years after the birth of Marx, The Economist wrote that the millenial generation chooses socialism, and the experts who prepared the report to the US president described socialism as the main threat. Alexander Buzgalin shows that the cause of these fears is the crisis of the existing system of economic relations and institutions of late capitalism. He systematizes the evidences of this crisis and shows, that dominant political and economic elite is looking for a way out of the impasse on the paths of ‘neoliberal conservatism’ that integrates further de-socialization and deregulation in the economy with conservative-authoritarian trends in politics and ideology. At the end of the contribution, Alexander Buzgalin reveals a number of ways of socialization, humanization and ecologization of capitalism, objectively conditioned by the progress of technologies and practices of civil society actors, which differ from the existing social democratic projects that have proved to be of little effectiveness
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 - Dave Elder-Vass - The Nature of Value and price
2019-11-18 19:30 - 22:00 UTC | Newnham College, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Speaker: Dave Elder-Vass
Talk Title: ‘The Nature of Value and price’
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.

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

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

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 – 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 - "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 – 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 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 - 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 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

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

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

'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

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.

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).

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.

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.

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

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

"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

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
