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7:40-10:00 AM E.S.T.: Polycrisis, financialization, inequality and AI

• Anna Kurysheva and Andrei Vernikov, Southern Federal University: Original Institutional Economics vs. financialization discourse
• Paul Kenneth Mwirigi Kinyua, Environment and Land Court Judiciary-Kenya: South Africa’s post-apartheid settlement reconsidered: has neoliberalism contributed to deepening inequality?
• Dariusz Drążkowski, Szymon Jęśko-Białek, Oliwier Szmigiel, Karolina Szewczyk, and Konrad Wiśniewski, Adam Mickiewicz University: The Relationship Between Poverty, Perceived Financial Freedom Restrictions, Economic Decision-Making, and Well-Being: Insights From Reactance Theory
• Christian Freund, Hochschule Magdeburg-Stendal: An Agent-Based Model of Confidence-Driven Tipping Points in Social Inequality
• Ioana Negru, University Lucian Blaga and Abu Naser, London Metropolitan University: Ethical dilemma of Artificial Intelligence
• Stefanos Ioannou, Oxford Brookes Business School: Small business lending in small islands

 

10:20 – 11:50 AM E.S.T. Environment, Energy and Economics

• Mu-Jeong Kho, University College London: How can in the Crisis the Basic Income Act as a Trigger of Self-Organisation for a New Energy Community and Resilience?
• Jon Mulberg, The Open University (UK): Environmental Crisis—The Need for an (Old) New Economics
• Ivan D. Velasquez, Bucknell University: Economic Policies and Climate Change in a Financialized World: The Case of Colombia
• Eric Glock, UMKC: Harvesting the 3-Century Plant: Harmony between autonomous and Marxian exchange value in the Neoclassical long-run

 

13:00-14:40 (1-2:40 PM) E.S.T., Finance, Credit and Competition

• Hyun Woong Park, Denison University: The Profitability of Bank Capital and Household Debt
• Lackson Mudenda, Colby College: Understanding net foreign asset and net domestic credit in Africa
• Francisco Jesus Aldape, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley: R. F. Kahn and the Origins of Imperfect Competition
• Kabeer Bora, University of Missouri Kansas City: An Unequal Equalization: An Investigation into Why the First Age of Globalization Took Place Through Understanding the Rates of Profit.

 

15:00-17:30 (3:00-5:30 PM) E.S.T., Behavior, Culture and Social Provisioning

• Tim Wunder, University of Texas at Arlington: Autism: a case study in real individuality
• Danish Khan, Franklin & Marshall College: Political Economy of Ultra-Processed Food: Reconceptualizing Metabolic Diseases as a socially produced outcome of Neoliberal Capitalism
• Ethol Exime, State University of Londrina: Constructing the Concept of Cultural Famine in the Haitian Perspective
• Brendon L. Bennett, Bard College, and Kellin Chandler Stanfield, Hobart and William Smith Colleges: Social Bonds and Provisioning Regime Security in the Early Institutionalist Economics of Abundance
• Ian Madden, John Jay College: Education Over Employment: Focusing on the Future of the Minimum Wage
• Lizethe Méndez-Heras, Diego Linthon-Delgado and Washington Quintero-Montaño, Universidad de Guayaquil, Ecuador: Microeconomic Determinants of Employment and Unemployment in Ecuador after the COVID-19 pandemic breakout