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1A Heterodox Theory & Policy: Inflation & Administered Prices, Housing Costs & Cryptocurrency (AFEE session 1),

• Thomas Lambert, University of Louisville: The Economic Surplus Concept and Heterodox Economics: Some New Applications
• Sam Levey,Illinois Coll.: Seller’s Prerogative? Containing Inflation in an Administered Price World by Having Buyers Set Prices
• Ben Chalbia Radhouan, University of Sousse: Covid-19 Pandemic and cryptocurrency volatility: An empirical analysis
• Mahdi Khesali & Stefan Voigt, University of Hamburg, and Nadia von Jacobi, University of Trento: Historic Moral Foundations Cast a Long Shadow: Insights From a Novel Folktale Dataset

1B Topics in the Economics of Inequality (NEA Session 1)

Nzinga Broussard, NEA President-Elect: Session Organizer

Belinda Roman, St. Mary’s University: Session Chair

• Jorge Zumaeta, Florida International University: Economic Attitudes and Financial Decisions among Welfare Recipients: Rationality, Prudence, Risk Aversion, and Coordination
• Stephan Lefebvre, Bucknell University: Doing Latinx Studies as an Economist: Methodologies and Disciplinary Borders
• Colin Cannonier, Belmont University: The Impact of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) on Corruption
• Pradeep Choudhury, Harvard University: Analyzing caste and class dynamics of school choice in India
• Discussants: The panelists.

1C Pluralist Approaches to Money, Financial Markets and Government Financing

• Bakou Mertens, Ghent University, Belgium: Shareholder primacy in practice: sticky payouts, ratchet behaviour and the consequences for investments
• Benjamin Fiering, Levy Institute Bard Coll.: From The “Credit Crunch” of 1966, to  the March Massacre of Silicon Valley Bank
• Alla Semenova, St. Mary’s College of Maryland: Modern Money Theory in the Age of Climate Change
• Adam Kerenyi and Gabor Gulacsi, Institute of World Economy: European Union and the Hungarian U-turn

2A Monetary Policy, Debt and the Cost-of-Living Crisis (AFEE session 2) 

Chair: Erdogan Bakir, Bucknell University

• Lilian Muchimba, Bank of Zambia, Mimoza Shabani, University of East London, Alexis Stenfors, University of Portsmouth, and Jan Toporowski, SOAS University of London: Decomposing the Rate of Inflation: Price-Setting and Monetary Policy
• Takashi Satoh, Ritsumeikan University: A New Formulation of Interest-Bearing Capital and Debt: A Marxian Perspective on the Circuit of Capital
• Tanweer Akram, Citibank, and Khawaja Mamun, Sacred Heart University: Interest Rate Dynamics: An Examination of Mainstream and Keynesian Empirical Studies
• Izaura Solipa, University of Massachusetts Amherst, and Mariana Mortágua, DINAMIA-CET, ISCTE-IUL: Reviving Financial Markets – A Critical Assessment of the Single Resolution Mechanism

2B Wealth Inequality (NEA session 2)

Haydar Kurban, Howard University: Chair and Organizer; Discussants: The Panelists.

• Bethel Cole-Smith, Howard University: The impact of down-payment assistance on participant outcomes: Examining DC’s Home Purchase Assistance Program (HPAP) and Employer-Assisted Housing Program (EAHP)
• Alesia Ferguson, North Carolina A&T: The Health and Safety of Low-Income Homes in the Greensboro Area
• Luisa Blanco Raynal, Pepperdine University: Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Retirement Outreach among Low-to-Middle Income Workers
• Francisca Antman, University of Colorado Boulder: The Long-Run Impacts of Mentoring Underrepresented Minority Groups in Economics

2C Pedagogy and Pluralism

• Geoff Schneider, Bucknell University: Overcoming Economic Misinformation Via Pluralist Teaching 
• Amy S Cramer, The VOTE Center, Pima Community College: Sparking solutions to extreme income inequality with VOTE
• Alexander Binder, Pittsburg State Univ.: Lessons Learned Teaching Heterodox Economics at a Regional Public University
• Anastasia Wilson, Hobart and William Smith Colleges: Leveraging “the Incident”: Student Unrest and Pluralist Economics at a Small Liberal Arts College

• Host: Geoff Schneider, Bucknell University, ICAPE Executive Director. 
• Roundtable participants: Alexandra Bernasek, Colorado State University, Lynne Chester, University of Sydney, Danielle Guizzo (University of Bristol), and Alicia Girón (UNAM)

 

4A Evolutionary Changes during Economic & Social Transitions: Climate change, Greening, & Finance (AFEE session 3), 

• Alicia Girón (Chair), UNAM: Will Institutional Investors help for a Just Transition World?
• Lyubov Klapkiv, Maria Curie-Sklodowska & Faruk ÜLGEN, University Grenoble Alpes: The challenge of climate-related double materiality on the financial market
• Faruk Ulgen, University Grenoble Alpes: Greening Finance? What institutional options for a sustainable transition?

4B  Pluralist Approaches to Gender, Labor and AI

• Mieke Meurs, American University, Cristina Viecelli, Federal University of Santa Catarina-Brazil, and Daniela Dias Kuhn, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul: Feminist Economics in Latin America—why it’s crucial now
• John Marangos & Eleni Savvidou, University of Macedonia: Basic Income Guarantee and Gender in the Post-Pandemic Era
• Swayamsiddha Sarangi, U. of Utah: Determinants behind distribution of income: A Subsectoral study of US Manufacturing
• Polona Domadenik Muren, Univ. of Ljubljana: AI on the Workplace: The Role of Workers’ Participation in Decision Making
• Hana Končan  and Polona Domadenik Muren, University of Ljubljana: AI Technology Adoption and its Consequences in OECD Countries: A Microeconometric Approach

4C  Issues in Heterodox Macroeconomics: 

• Hao Cheng and Yawen Sun, Nanchang University: Factors Affecting the Circulation of CBDC as A New Technique: Evidence from China
• Nitin Nair, Levy & University of Leeds: The Chapter Seventeen Approach to Effective Demand: A Financial Theory of Consumer Credit
• Eric Glock, University of Missouri-Kansas City: Is substitutability and substitute-price stability a reality?
• Rafed Al-Huq, Tulane University: Is there a limit? Exploring the upper bound of nations’ GDP using logistic models
• Michael Murray, Bemidji State: The Role of Institutions and Time in a Multi-sector Model of Economic Growth: Insights into the Significance of Vertically Integrated Analysis

 

5A Labor, households and Microlending

• Leona Pallansch, St. Mary’s University: Critical Assessment of Microlending:  The Cases of Acción and Lyft Fund
• Bulent Temel, University of Texas San Antonio: Homo contextus as a competing model of economic rationality: Empirical evidence from Amish childrearing
• Steve Nivin, St. Mary’s University: Big Data Analytics, Patents and Urban Employment Patterns
• Belinda Román (Chair): The San Antonio Texas Labor Market Outcomes through a Complexity Lens
• Franziska Ellen Dorn, University of Duisburg-Essen, and Nancy Folbre, University of Massachusetts Amherst: Unpaid Work and Household Living Standards in the U.S.
• José Chaman Alvarez, St. Mary’s University: Geospatial Insights: Zip-Code Level Analysis of Industry Output and Knowledge Dynamics in San Antonio, Texas

5B Pluralism and Economic Theory

• Paolo Ramazzotti, Universita di Macerata: Agreeing on disagreement? Systemic openness, theoretical variety & pluralism
• Jacob  Powell, Bucknell University: The State: Toward a Unified Theory
• Kabeer Bora, University of Utah: An Age of Equalization: A peek into the first age of globalization and rates of profit

 

ICAPE 2024 Online Conference Program

Friday, January 12, 2024, via Zoom

All times are Eastern Standard Time (E.S.T., New York)

Modern Economic Pluralism: Exploring the synergies and distinctive contributions of contemporary heterodox approaches

 

• Roni Sikdar, International Institute for Population Sciences: Understanding the Role of Wealth Quintile in Women’s Contraceptive Decisions in India: Evidence from NFHS-5, 2019-2021
• Isha Gupta, University of Delhi & Jawaharlal Nehru University: Land Allocation, Distribution and Structural Change in a Developing Economy: A Kaldorian Approach
• Olivia Ezeobi, Stellenbosch University: In Her Own Words: An interpretative phenomenological analysis of Malawian migrant women’s lived experience of transnational motherhood
• Holly Ritchie, Erasmus University: Gender and precarious institutional change in uncertain refugee settings: the role and limits of groups in institutional entrepreneurship and pathways of change
• Joshua Blaine Havermahl, Stellenbosch University: Autoethnography in health economics: Mental health of men aged 18-24 in South Africa

• John Komlos, University of Munich: Neoliberal Economic Policy and the Rise of Right-Wing Populism: Western Civilization at the Crossroads
• Francisco Jesus Aldape, St. John’s University: The Un(orthodox) Monetary Policies of Alberto J. Pani in the 1920s and early 1930s in Mexico
• Adam Kerenyi, Institute of World Economics: Soft budget constraint syndrome from the war finance angle
• Khondlo Mtshali, University of KwaZulu-Natal: Dialectical critique of indices: The case of h-index
• Pascal McDougall, University of Ottawa: How Law Shapes Class Power Under Perfect Competition

• Fatih Kırşanlı, Yozgat Bozok University: Old and New Institutional Economics and the Necessity of Building a Bridge
• David Zalewski, Providence College: Reimagining the “Social” in Social Costs: A Proposed Synthesis of the Ideas of K. William Kapp and Karl Polanyi
• Mayara Silva Sousa Pires and Ana Cláudia Polato Fava, Universidade Federal do ABC: Charlotte P. Gilman and the Forgotten and Missing Women Voices in Economics
• José Paulo Miketen Maltaca, Universidade Federal do Paraná: Dualism in post-Keynesian Institutionalism: the Kaleckian Path

• Ying Zhen, Wesleyan College: New Book with Routledge and Stories Behind it: “Artists and Markets in Music: The Political Economy of Music During the Covid Era and Beyond”
• Mayare Caroline de Oliveira Silva and Monica Yukie Kuwahara, Universidade Federal do ABC: Sustainable Development: An analysis from the plural character of the ecological economy
• Christine Farias, Manhattan Community College and Gerard Farias, Fairleigh Dickinson University: Schumacher: Back to the Future
• Gregorio Vidal & Wesley Marshall, UAM – Iztapalapa: Technology, money and work: the ecological nexus

For additional information, contact Geoff.Schneider@Bucknell.edu.