Thursday, June 5

8:30 - 8:45 Opening Remarks

9:00 - 10:30 Concurrent Sessions 1

Integrative Analytical Frameworks
Chairperson: Terry McDonough (National University of Ireland, Galway)

Fredric Lee (University of Missouri at Kansas City), “Structural and Organizational Foundations for Heterodox Microeconomic Theory”
 

Andrew Trigg (Open University, UK), “A Framework for Integrating Economic Theory: Quantity and Price Systems in Marx, Keynes, Kalecki, and Sraffa”

 

Social Economics
Chairperson: Morris Altman (University of Saskatchewan, Canada)

Michaela Haase (Free University of Berlin, Germany), “Rational and Social Action: Contributions of Economic and Sociological Institutional Theories”

Rick Wicks (Göteborg University, Sweden), “Two Realms or Three? Markets, Government, and Communities”

Ranney Ramsey (Principal Real Estate Investors), “Focusing on Real Problems: A Proposal for Advancing New Forms of Thought in Real Estate Economics”

 

Virtues of Pluralism
Chairperson: Sheila Dow (University of Stirling, UK)

Morteza Ardebili (University of Missouri at Kansas City), “Is There a Future for Heterodox Economics? An Argument for Pluralism and Integration”

Ramón García Fernández (Federal University of Paraná State, Brazil), “The Brazilian Society of Political Economy (SEP): The Creation of a Pluralist Association of Economists during the Flood of the Mainstream”

Rob Garnett (Texas Christian University), “Paradigms and Pluralism in Heterodox Economics”

 

10:30 - 11:00 Tea/Coffee Break

 

11:00 - 12:30 Concurrent Sessions 2

Graduate Student Perspectives on Heterodox Economics (I)
Chairperson: Al Campbell (University of Utah)
 

Erik Olsen (University of Massachusetts at Amherst)

Diego Sanchez (New School University)
Goker Ozgur (University of Utah)

 

Towards a More Policy-Relevant Economics
Chairperson: Esther-Mirjam Sent (University of Notre Dame and Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences)

Stephen Ziliak (Roosevelt University), “Interpretative Economics from A to W: Heterodox Economics and the Resurrection of Economic Significance”
 

Allan Schmid (Michigan State University), “Different Heterodox Economic Theories: Different Empirical Results?”

James Webb (University of Missouri at Kansas City), “Two Cheers (Out of Three) for Pluralism”

 

Post Keynesianism and After
Chairperson: Mathew Forstater (University of Missouri at Kansas City)

Ingrid Rima (Temple University), “Labor Markets in Monetary Production Economies: A Heterodox Perspective of Household and Employer Behavior”

Morris Altman (University of Saskatchewan, Canada), “Involuntary Unemployment,  Macroeconomic Policy, and a Behavioral Model of the Firm”

Giuseppe Fontana (University of Leeds, UK), “The Future of Post Keynesian Economics”
 

Open-System Methodologies
Chairperson: Wolfram Elsner (University of Bremen, Germany)

Andrew Mearman (Wagner College), “Open-Systems Methodology and the Future of Heterodox Economics”
 

Jing Chen (University of Northern British Columbia), “A Thermodynamic Foundation for Ecological, Evolutionary, and Institutionalist Economics”

 

Financial Capitalism and Economic Policy
Chairperson: Anne Mayhew (University of Tennessee)
 

José Rubens Damas Garlipp (Institute of Economics, Brazil), “Marx, Keynes, and Polanyi on Wealth in Contemporary Capitalism”
 

William Krehm (author of Towards a Non-Autistic Economy: A Place at the Tablefor Society, 2002), “A Place for Society at the Economists’ Table”

 

12:30 - 1:30 Lunch

 

1:30 - 3:00 Concurrent Sessions 3

Graduate Student Perspectives on Heterodox Economics (II)
Chairperson: Al Campbell (University of Utah)
 

Kristen Sheeran (St. Mary’s College of Maryland, formerly of American University)
Edward Nik-Khah (University of Notre Dame)
Fadhel Kaboub (University of Missouri at Kansas City)

 

Post Keynesian Institutionalism
Chairperson: Marc Lavoie (University of Ottowa, Canada)

Michael Radzicki (Worcester Polytechnic Institute), “Institutional Economics, Post Keynesian Economics, and System Dynamics: Three Legs of a Heterodox Stool”

John Harvey (Texas Christian University), “International Capital and Mexican Development: A Systems Dynamics Model”

Ken Jameson (University of Utah), “How Does a Post-Keynesian Institutionalist View Ecuador’s Dollarization?”

 

Knowledge and Welfare: Hayek, Sen, and Schumacher
Chairperson: Steven Horwitz (St. Lawrence University)

Chi-ang Lin (National Chengchi University, Taiwan), “How Shall We Pay for Knowledge?”
 

Ted Burczak (Denison University), “Hayekian Knowledge Problems and Amartya Sen’s Theory of Social Justice”
 

Kazuya Ishii (Stanford University), “An Economics for Development and Peace, With Particular Focus on the Thoughts of Ernst F. Schumacher”

 

Markets, Planning, and Coordination
Chairperson: Rick Wicks (Göteborg University, Sweden)
 

Wolfram Elsner (University of Bremen, Germany), “Increasing Complexity in the ‘New’ Economy and Coordination Requirements Beyond the Market: Network Governance and Interactive Policy as a Hybrid Coordination Arrangement”
 

Irina Peaucelle (CNRS/CEPREMAP, Paris), “Planning: Failure or Recovery?”

 

Social Dimensions of Consumer Behavior
Chairperson: Steve Cohn (Knox College)

Karl Petrick (Leeds Metropolitan University, UK), “Management of Specific Demand and its Implications for Underconsumption Theory”

Zdravka Todorova (University of Missouri at Kansas City), “Consumers in the Context of Debtor-Creditor Relations”
 

3:00 - 3:30 Tea/Coffee Break

 

3:30 - 5:30 Plenary Session 1: Rethinking (Post-)Capitalism

Mathew Forstater (University of Missouri at Kansas City), “Heterodox Visions of Capitalism and Post-Capitalism”
 

Steven Horwitz (St. Lawrence University), “Catallaxy, Competition, and 21st Century Capitalism: An Agenda for Economics”
 

David Ruccio (University of Notre Dame), “Socialism, Community, and Democracy: A Postmodern Marxian Vision of (Post-)Capitalism”
 

Commentator: Anne Mayhew (University of Tennessee)
 

Friday, June 6

 

9:00 - 10:30 Concurrent Sessions 4

New Visions and Strategies for the Heterodox Economics Movement
Chairperson: John Davis (University of Amsterdam and Marquette University)
 

David Ruccio (University of Notre Dame), “Economic Representations and the Future of Heterodox Economics”
 

Judith Mehta (Open University and University of East Anglia, UK), “To be or not to be? The Ontic and the Ontological in Economic Enquiry”
 

Peter Dorman (Evergreen State College), “Economic Studies: A Rationale and Strategy”

 

Teaching Heterodox Economics
Chairperson: Neva Goodwin (Tufts University)
 

Terry McDonough (National University of Ireland, Galway), “Teaching Heterodox Economics in the Orthodox Micro Course: A Sneaky Approach”
 

Eric Schutz (Rollins College), “On Trying to Fashion a Political Economy Course Out of Intermediate Microeconomics”
 

Scott Gassler (Vesalius College, Brussels), “A Suggested Curriculum for a Heterodox Doctoral Program: Integrating Separate Strands of Thought”

 

Virtues and Limits of Social Sustainability
Chairperson: Ramón García Fernández (Federal University of Paraná State, Brazil)

Mary King (Portland State University), “Economic and Social Sustainability: A Feminist Economic Perspective”
 

Ann Mari May (University of Nebraska at Lincoln), “Social Sustainability or Eco-Cultural Restoration of the Great Plains: Containing or Confronting the Commodification of Nature”

 

Marx’s Open System of Value
Chairperson: Rob Garnett (Texas Christian University)
 

Michael Marder (York University, Toronto), “Toward an Economic Theory of Trace: New Directions in Marxist-Poststructuralist Political Economy”

Alan Freeman (University of Greenwich, UK), “Simultaneous vs. Temporal Approaches to Value: Dogmatism vs. Pluralism in Economic Theory”

Andrew Kliman (Pace University), “Anti-Pluralism within Radical Economics: The Case of the ‘Transformation Problem’”
 

10:30 - 11:00 Tea/Coffee Break

 

11:00 - 12:30 Concurrent Sessions 5

Academic vs. Popular Economics
Chairperson: Judith Mehta (Open University and University of East Anglia, UK)
 

Stephen Cullenberg (University of California at Riverside), “Representing the Global Economy: Economic Theory and the Anti-Globalization Movement”

Martha Starr (American University), “Reading The Economist on Globalization: Knowledge, Identity, and Power”
 

John Ewbank (retired patent attorney, Southampton, PA), “Amateur Economics”

 

International Political Economy: Theory and Policy
Chairperson: Ilene Grabel (University of Denver)

Thomas Palley (Open Society Institute, Washington, DC), “Reshaping International Political Economy in the Wake of the Washington Consensus”
 

Elisabeth Springler (Vienna University, Austria), “A New Architecture for International Financial Markets is Needed: A Chance for Heterodox Economics?”

Kristen Sheeran (St. Mary’s College of Maryland), “A New Heterodox Critique of the Kyoto Protocol: Equity and Efficiency Revisited”

 

Humanistic Alternatives to Neoclassical Economics
Chairperson: Rob Garnett (Texas Christian University)
 

John Tomer (Manhattan College), “True Rationality: A Conception of Normative Rationality That Heterodox Economists Can Accept”
 

Frank Rotering (Burnaby, British Columbia), “Grasping the Nettle: Developing an Economics for Humanity”

 

Macroeconomics in the Traditions of Marx, Keynes, and Kalecki
Chairperson: Ken Jameson (University of Utah)
 
Marc Lavoie (University of Ottowa, Canada), “Post-Keynesian and Marxian Economics: Testing Their Views of the Investment Function”
 

Fadhel Kaboub (University of Missouri at Kansas City), “Post Keynesian Theory of Investment: A Synthesis of Keynes and Kalecki”

Erik Olsen (University of Massachusetts at Amherst), “A Note on Marx and Keynes: The Comparability of Aggregates”

 

Economics as a Holistic and Reflexive Social Science
Chairperson: Ted Burczak (Denison University)

Guido Preparata (University of Washington, Tacoma) “The Mystic’s Path to Heterodoxy: The Social Economics of Rudolf Steiner”

Daniel Gay (University of Stirling, UK), “Beyond Modernism and Postmodernism: Reflexivity and Economics”

Carl Marklund (London School of Economics), “Polanyi’s Concept of (Dis)embeddedness Reevaluated in Relation to Reflexive Modernity”

 

12:30 - 1:30 Lunch

 

1:30 - 3:00 Concurrent Sessions 6

Heterodox Economics in the Academy
Chairperson: David Ruccio (University of Notre Dame)

Richard McIntyre (University of Rhode Island)

Judith Mehta (Open University and University of East Anglia, UK)

David Ruccio (University of Notre Dame)


Heterodox Perspectives on Growth and Development
Chairperson: Robert Boyer (CEPREMAP-ENS/CNRS, Paris)

Korkut Erturk (University of Utah), “Reconstructing Heterodox Growth Theory”
 

Al Campbell (University of Utah), “Post-WWII Profit Rate Dynamics in the United States, Japan, and Germany: A Classical Perspective”

Massimo Ricottilli (University of Bologna, Italy), “Industrialization and Technical Progress as Emergent Structures: A Sraffian and Neo-Austrian Approach”

 

After Marx, What’s Left?
Chairperson: Phillip O’Hara (Curtin University, Australia)
 

Robin Hahnel (American University), “Explaining Exploitation: Transcending Marx, Veblen, and Keynes”

Adil Mouhammed (University of Illinois at Springfield), “The Outcomes of Veblen’s Critique of Marx’s Economics”

 

Agency, Knowledge, and Social Structure
Chairperson: Kevin Quinn (Bowling Green State University)
 

Hans Ehrbar (University of Utah), “Marxism Meets Critical Realism: Individual Behavior and Social Structure”

Michael Green (State University of New York at Oneonta), “Orthodoxic Inversion, Multi-State Stability, and Economic Pluralism”
 

Victor Pelaez (Federal University of Paraná State, Brazil), “Institutions, Technology, and Power”

 

3:00 - 3:30 Tea/Coffee Break

 

3:30 - 5:30 Plenary Session 2: Heterodox Perspectives on Economic Policy

Jan Kregel (United Nations Conference on Trade and Development), “Global Economic Policy Coordination: Have We Advanced from the Reagan Policies of Telling the Rest of the World, ‘You must adjust’?”

Ilene Grabel (University of Denver), “Development Policies in a Post-Neoliberal World”
 

James Galbraith (University of Texas), “Economic Policy in Time of War” 

Commentator: John Harvey (Texas Christian University)

 

7:00 - 9:00 Conference Dinner

 

Saturday, June 7

 

8:30 - 10:00 Concurrent Sessions 7

 

Heterodox Economics and the U.S. War against Iraq
Chairperson: Peter Dorman (Evergreen State College)
 

Wolfram Elsner (University of Bremen, Germany)
 

Korkut Erturk (University of Utah)

Alan Freeman (University of Greenwich, UK)

Robin Hahnel (American University)

Anne Mayhew (University of Tennessee)

 

Economic Modernism: Consequences and Alternatives
Chairperson: Mathew Forstater (University of Missouri at Kansas City)
 

Neil Browne and Kevin Quinn (Bowling Green State University), “The Concept of Power in Economics”
 

Antonio Callari (Franklin and Marshall College), “Economics and the Postcolonial Other”

Rajani Kanth (Duke University), “Against Eurocentrism: Possibilities for an Emancipatory Heterodox Political Economy”

 

Domestic and International Labor Issues
Chairperson: George DeMartino (University of Denver)
 

Yngve Ramstad and Richard McIntyre (University of Rhode Island), “Not Only Nike is Doing It: ‘Sweating’ and the Contemporary Labor Market”

Karin Astrid Siegmann (University of Bonn, Germany), “’Just Our Husbands’ Helpers’: Gender Roles, Gender-Specific Labor Markets, and Forces of Globalization in Indonesia”

Richard McIntyre (University of Rhode Island), “Class, Convention, and Labor Rights: Marxian and Institutional Perspectives on International Labor Problems”

 

Heterodox Models of Entrepreneurial Innovation and Competition
Chairperson: Fredric Lee (University of Missouri at Kansas City)
 
Angelo Fusari (Institute of Economic Studies, Rome), “A Dynamic Model of Economic Innovation-Adaptation: Neo-Austrian and Schumpeterian Themes”
 

Jerry Courvisanos (University of Ballarat, Australia), “A Nonlinear Dynamic Model of Innovation and Capital Accumulation: A Post-Keynesian, Neo-Austrian, and Evolutionary Approach”

 

10:00 - 10:30 Tea/Coffee Break
 

10:30 - 12:30 Plenary Session 3: Future Directions for Heterodox Economics

 

Sheila Dow (University of Stirling, UK), “The Future for Schools of Thought in Pluralist Economics”
 

Esther-Mirjam Sent (University of Notre Dame and Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences), “Pluralisms in Perspective”

George DeMartino (University of Denver), “A Hippocratic Oath for Economists? On the Need for Professional Economic Ethics”

John Davis (University of Amsterdam and Marquette University), “Heterodox Economics, The Fragmentation of the Mainstream, and the Socially Embedded Individual”

Commentator: Fredric Lee (University of Missouri at Kansas City)