HETERODOX MACROECONOMICS: KEYNES, MARX AND …



REBELLIOUS MACROECONOMICS: MARX, KEYNES AND CROTTY

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

OCTOBER 19-20, 2007

Political Economic Research Institute (PERI)

University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Friday, October 19

9:15 – 10:00 AM Registration and Continental Breakfast

10:00 -10:30 AM Welcome and Introductions

10:30AM -12:30 PM Session I: Heterodox Macroeconomics and the Keynes-Marx Synthesis

Jonathan P. Goldstein. Bowdoin College.

“An Introduction to a Unified Heterodox Macroeconomic Theory.”

Malcolm Sawyer. University of Leeds

“The Central Core of Heterodox Economics.”

Martin Wolfson. University of Norte Dame

“Methodology and Radical Political Economics.”

Gary Dymski. University of California Center Sacramento

“Does Heterodox Macroeconomics Need a Crisis Theory? From Profit-Squeeze to the Global Liquidity Meltdown.”

12:30-2:00 PM Lunch, Gordon Hall Atrium

2:00-5:00 PM Session II: Accumulation, Crisis and Instability

(with coffee break mid-afternoon)

Fred Moseley. Mt. Holyoke College

“Marx, Minsky, and Crotty on Crises in Capitalism.”

Steve Fazarri. Washington University, St. Louis

“The Modern Business as an Active Agent: Reflections on James Crotty’s Theory

of the Firm.”

Michele Naples. College of New Jersey

“Labor Demand Under Strategic Competition and the Cyclical Profit Squeeze.”

Ozgur Orhangazi. Roosevelt University

“Financialization and Macroeconomic Fragility.”

Saturday, October 20

7:30 – 8:30 AM Continental Breakfast, Gordon Hall Atrium

8:30 -10:00AM Session III: The Macrodynamics of the Neoliberal Regime I

Ray Boddy. San Diego State University

“Cyclical Labor Shares Under Keynesian and Neoliberal Regimes.”

David Kotz. University of Massachusetts at Amherst

“Economic Crises and Institutional Structures: A Comparison of Regulated and Neoliberal Capitalism in the U.S.”

10:00 -10:30AM Coffee Break

10:30 -12:15 PM Session IV: The Macrodynamics of the Neoliberal Regime II

Makoto Itoh. Kokugakuin University and University of Tokyo

“Unequal Exchange Reconsidered in our Age of Globalization.”

Michael Hillard and Richard McIntyre. University of Southern Maine and

University of Rhode Island

“Historically Contingent, Institutionally Specific: Labor Movements, Class

Struggles and Capitalisms.”

William Gibson. University of Massachusetts at Amherst:

“A Multi-Agent Systems Approach to Microeconomic Foundations of Macro.”

12:15 – 2:00 PM Lunch, Gordon Hall Atrium

2:00 – 4:15 PM Session V: Heterodox Macroeconomic Policy

Robert Pollin. University of Massachusetts at Amherst and PERI

“Targeting Development Finance for Employment Expansion in Sub-Saharan

Africa: A Synthesis of Microfinance and the East-Asian Model.”

Gerald Epstein. University of Massachusetts at Amherst and PERI

“Marx, Keynes and Crotty: The Case for Capital Controls Revisited.”

Soo-Haeng Kim. Seoul National University

“Keynes’s Bourgeois Socialism.”

Ilene Grabel. Denver University

“Neo-Liberal Finance and Third World (Mal)Development.”

4:15 PM – 4:30 PM. Concluding Remarks

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6:00 PM Celebratory Drinks and Dinner, Lord Jeffery Inn

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