On the merits of repeating oneself – A conference in defense of Bruno Frey

"It is only by varied repetition that new ideas can be impressed upon reluctant minds."
This often repeated admonition by the Nobel-prize winning economist James M. Buchanan is obviously unknown to the journalist of the German daily "Handelsblatt" Olaf Storbeck, who has initiated a vendetta against the well-respected economist Bruno S. Frey accusing him of self-plagiarism. Many people agree that such a delinquency does not even exist. For this reason, a meeting will be convened at the University of Erfurt to discuss the issue, the merits and demerits of repeating oneself.
Essays read and defended at this meeting will be published in the journal "Homo Oeconomicus" in a conference issue.
The meeting will take place at the University of Erfurt on December 9.

Sixth Annual Conference on the History of Recent Economics

11-12 May 2012,
FEP-UP, University of Porto, Portugal

In its sixth consecutive year, the HISRECO conference offers a venue for review and development of this work. We are inviting submissions of papers that deal with the post-WWII era. The deadline for the submission of paper proposals is 31st October 2011. If you are interested in participating, please submit a proposal containing roughly 500 words and indicating clearly the original contribution of the paper (if you have a draft of the paper, we would be happy to see that as well).
Notice of acceptance or rejection will be sent by 1st December 2011 and completed papers will be due on 15th March 2012 so that we can provide feedback and then give discussants time to prepare comments.

Proposals should be sent electronically to pedrotx@fep.up.pt.
The organizing committee consists of Roger Backhouse (University of Birmingham), Philippe Fontaine (École normale supérieure de Cachan and Institut universitaire de France), Yann Giraud (Université de Cergy-Pontoise), Tiago Mata (Duke University) and Pedro Teixeira (University of Porto).
or further information about the conference please contact Pedro Teixeira, pedrotx@fep.up.pt

LE PROSPETTIVE FINANZIARIE ED IL FUTURO DELLA POLITICA DI COESIONE EUROPEA

Villa Umbra, loc. Pila, Perugia
28 OTTOBRE 2011

CO-FINANZIATO DAL FONDO SOCIALE EUROPEO (FSE) NELL’AMBITO DEL PROGRAMMA OPERATIVO REGIONALE (POR) UMBRIA,
FSE “OBIETTIVO COMPETITIVITÀ REGIONALE E OCCUPAZIONE” 2007 – 2013

09:20 Apertura dei lavori
Alberto Naticchioni, Amministratore Unico Seu Servizio Europa e della Scuola Umbra di Amministrazione Pubblica
Saluti
Marco Vinicio Guasticchi, Presidente della Provincia di Perugia e dell’UPI Umbria
Calogero Alessi, Presidente Sviluppumbria S.p.A
Coordinamento dei lavori, Mino Lo Russo, giornalista
INTRODUZIONE
Vittorio Calaprice, Rappresentanza in Italia della Commissione europea - Settore Comunicazione, informazione e reti
La nuova Agenda europea per la riforma della Politica di Coesione

RELAZIONI
Jader Canè, DG Occupazione, affari sociali e inclusione, Capo Unità Aggiunto, Economia sociale di mercato negli Stati membri I: FSE Italia, Danimarca, Svezia, Commissione europea
Strategia e ruolo del Fondo Sociale europeo per lo sviluppo e l’occupazione in Italia: come disegnare la prossima programmazione?

Rossella Rusca, Dirigente Ufficio V dell'unione europea, Direzione generale per le politiche dei fondi strutturali comunitari, Ministero per lo Sviluppo Economico
Il ruolo e la Strategia dell’Italia nel quadro della definizione della riforma della politica di coesione

Aurelio Bruzzo, Ordinario di Politica economica, Dipartimento di Economia, Istituzioni e Territorio, Direttore del Centro di documentazione e Studi sulle Comunità europee dell’Università di Ferrara
La riforma della Politica di Coesione: strategie, obiettivi e “governance”

Catiuscia Marini, Presidente della Regione Umbria, Membro della Commissione per la politica di coesione e territorio (COTER), Comitato delle Regioni
Le prospettive della politica di coesione 2014 - 2020: la valutazione ed il parere dell’Umbria quale Regione d’Europa

Interventi programmati:
Mario Bravi, Segretario regionale CGIL
Ulderico Sbarra, Segretario regionale CISL
Aurelio Forcignanò: Segretario - Confindustria Umbria
Fabio Filpo, Avvocato, in rappresentanza degli ex allievi del SEU
Wladimiro Boccali, Sindaco di Perugia e Presidente Anci Umbria

13.30 Relazione di chiusura dell’on. Gianni Pittella, Primo Vice Presidente del Parlamento Europeo


per info e iscrizioni:

Segreteria:
Davide Ficola tel. 075/5159741 - d.ficola@seu.it
Riccardo Trona, tel. 075/5159749 r.trona@seu.it
Fax 075.5159785

Asia-Pacific Economic and Business History Conference - Call for Papers

APEBH 2012: Canberra(Australia), 16-18 February 2012

Organised by the Economic History Society of Australia and New Zealand

16-18 February 2012, Australian National University, Canberra (Australia)

Theme:Economic Integration: Historical Perspectives from Europe and the Asia-Pacific region

Call for Papers


Papers and proposals for sessions are invited for the APEBH 2012 conference. The main conference theme is ‘Economic Integration: Historical Perspectives from Europe and Asia-Pacific’ but the organisers are open to proposals for contributions on other topics in economic, social, and business history, as well as to proposals for sessions on particular themes. Researchers across a broad range of disciplines are warmly welcomed. Early career researchers are encouraged to participate. The conference organisers are particularly interested in attracting papers that examine developments in countries and regions in the Asia-Pacific region and papers that provide an international comparative perspective.

Economic integration is generally considered to be an aspect of the current process of globalisation. The European Union (EU) is often held up as a possible model for fostering the process of regional economic integration inAsia. However, the integration process inEuropesince the 1950s has been a formal process by which member states handed some authorities to the supranational EU. Throughout history, processes of economic integration occurred through both informal and formal processes. They occurred across regions within countries as transport facilities improved. They occurred across the borders of neighbouring countries as bilateral trade barriers were reduced, and in regions of the world due to multilateral initiatives. Formal agreements were not necessarily a prerequisite for economic integration. Private enterprises often took international business initiatives, despite the continued existence of barriers to international trade and investment. Formal processes of lowering such barriers followed. Where tariffs had been lowered, deepening integration by reducing non-tariff trade barriers remained an ongoing process. This happened in countries that became federations (e.g.USA,Germany,Australia,Malaysia), and countries that concluded bilateral (e.g. Australia-New Zealand), plurilateral (e.g. AFTA) and multilateral trade agreements.

Hence, there are historical experiences abound. What lessons can be drawn from comparative historical perspectives on processes of economic integration? How were such processes taken from one level to the next, how were issues of differential regulation dealt with, how did private enterprises seize new business opportunities and influence the process of integration, and what consequences did cross-border integration have for markets and societies? Lastly, integration has rarely been a linear process, but one of leaps and bounds. What can we learn from cases when integration processes rebounded? Are they fragile processes that need continuous energising to avoid being taken for granted?

Our theme could be approached from a number of perspectives, including those of the cliometrician, the economic historian, the economic theorist, the business historian, the applied economist, as well as the social historian. There is scope for new interpretations, new findings, as well as syntheses of existing work.

ALL ABSTRACTS, PROPOSALS FOR SESSIONS, AND PAPERS FOR REFEREEING OR POSTING ON THE CONFERENCE WEBSITE SHOULD BE EMAILED TO ALL THREE MEMBERS OF THE PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:

Dr John Singleton, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield (UK), J.Singleton@shu.ac.uk

A/Professor Jim McAloon, Victoria University, Wellington(New Zealand), jim.mcaloon@vuw.ac.nz

Dr Keir Reeves, MonashUniversity, Melbourne(Australia), Keir.Reeves@monash.edu

Paper abstracts of one page may be submitted at any time up to the closing date of 30 November 2011. A decision on proposals will be made within a month of submission. Session proposals of one page may be submitted up to the same date, outlining the main objectives of the session and potential participants. You are not obliged to submit your full paper for refereeing. Complete versions of accepted papers should be sent to us by 4 February 2012 for posting on the conference website.

Some universities require staff attending conferences to have their papers refereed. If this is the case in your institution, please submit the full paper by the 30 November 2011 due date for the double blind refereeing process.

A conference paper prize will be awarded. A selection of papers (subject to the normal reviewing process and standards) may be published in Australian Economic History Review: An Asia-Pacific Journal of Economic, Business and Social History (see: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1467-8446).

Further details about the conference and the Call for Papers can be found at this web page: http://apebhconference.wordpress.com

The web page of the Economic History Society of Australia andNew Zealandis: http://economichistorysociety.wordpress.com

14 th International Conference of the Charles Gide Association for the Study of Economic Thought

Organized by GREDEG, CNRS and the University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis and with the support of ISEM.
Nice, June 7-9 2012
« History of macroeconomics: from the years of « High Theory » (1926-1939) to modern approaches »

Call for proposals
(Submission deadline 15 th of January 2012)
In the context of the current economic crisis, macroeconomists have great incentives to investigate the founding contributions of macroeconomics as an autonomous field of research.
The aim of this conference is to question the nature of those investigations and to analyze how macroeconomics has evolved.
Proposals for communications on the conference theme might fall within one or several of the following topics:

1. Modelling Expectations
2. Financial instability, deflation and debt policy
3. Business cycles theories, cyclical growth analyses
4. The finance-growth nexus
5. Theories of economic growth
6. Accelerator – multiplier models (debates, microeconomic foundations…)
7. Corridor of stability and macroeconomic policies
8. Disequilibrium theories
9. Monetary theories and policies
10. Keynes and Keynesianism
11. Economic theories and policies

Plenary addresses will be given by Kevin Hoover (Duke University), Pascal Bridel (Lausanne University) and Rodolphe Dos Santos Ferreira (Strasbourg University).

The 14th Charles Gide conference also encourages submissions of papers or open sessions in all other fields of History of Economic Thought.
A thematic issue will be published at the Cahiers d’Economie Politique: a specific call for papers will be diffused soon and posted on the websites of the Charles Gide Association for the Study of Economic Thought and of Cahiers d’économie politique.

Proposals for communications, in the form of abstracts of approx. 500 words, specifying whether or not the paper falls under the theme of the conference, should be sent before January 15, 2012, at Gide2011@gredeg.cnrs.fr.
The decisions of the scientific committee will be made by February 20, 2012 and final papers will have to be sent before May 21, 2012.
For further information, please visit
http://www.gredeg.cnrs.fr/Colloques/GIDE/ or write to the organizing committee at Gide2011@gredeg.cnrs.fr.

CFP-ESHET 16th Annual Conference in St Petersburg

The 16th Annual Conference of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought (ESHET) will be held at St. Petersburg State University of Economics and Finance (Russia), May 17-19, 2012.
(Conference web site: http://eshet2012.ru).
The Conference will be organized by the Department of Economics of St. Petersburg State University and the Leontief Centre.

ESHET 2012 welcomes papers and proposed sessions in all areas of the history of economic thought. To submit a proposal please send an abstract of about 400 words for a paper and/or a proposal of about 600 words for a session (together with the abstracts of the session papers) no later than the 15th December 2011.

The Conference will host a special theme:
Institutions and Values in Economic Thought

The standard view of economists that economics is a value-free science independent from political and social institutions has changed significantly. Even positive economics is value-laden in choosing its subject-matter, methods, concepts and scientific criteria.
"Institutions matter" in economics, and there are many ways of studying institutions in different schools of economic thought. Though mainstream economics has neglected institutions, there remain important questions for historians of economics: What is the place of institutions in the different economic schools (Mercantilism, Classical political economy, the Cambridge school, Marxism, Austrian, Post-Keynesian and Evolutionary economics, and others)? Why were institutions neglected for so long in modern economic theory? What are the accomplishments of institutional thinking in economics? Can bridges be built between Old and New Institutional economics? What are
the cultural and national traditions of economic thought regarding institutions?

Topics for discussion could include:
. Institutions in economic thought
. Old and New institutional economics
. National traditions and evolution of economic thought regarding institutions
. Various economic schools on the role of institutions in the economy
. Is economics a value-free or value-laden science?
. Role of institutions in shaping economic thought
. Institutions and economic performance
. Institutions and values in Transitional/Emerging/Developing markets

Keynote Speakers
. Geoffrey Hodgson, Research Professor in Business Studies at the University of Hertfordshire, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Institutional Economics
. Viktor Polterovich, Professor at the New Economic School

A selection of papers from all areas of the conference will be published in the Special Issue of the European Journal of the History of Economic Thought.

Scientific Committee:
Irina Eliseeva, St. Petersburg State University
John Davis, Marquette University
Harald Hagemann, University of Stuttgart
Danila Raskov, St. Petersburg State University
Amos Witztum, London Metropolitan University and London School of Economics

Organising Committee:
Irina Eliseeva, Danila Raskov
Irina Karelina, Leontief Centre
Harald Hagemann, Amos Witztum
Andrey P. Zaostrovtsev, Leontief Centre

Important Dates

December 15, 2011 Deadline for abstract submission
January 30, 2012 Notification of accepted/rejected abstracts
March 7, 2012 Last Date for Early Registration
April 2, 2012 Deadline for visa application at local Consulates/Embassies of Russia
April, 23 Deadline for registration for the Conference
April 16, 2012 Deadline for sending full papers
May 18, 2012 Conference Dinner & Boat Trip
May 17-19, 2012 ESHET 2011 Conference Companies Act 2006 : http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/companyinfo

8th BETA-Workshop in Historical Economics

Call for Papers - 8th BETA-Workshop in Historical Economics: 11-12 May 2012.

The 2012 annual BETA-Workshop in Historical Economics will be hosted by the University of Strasbourg from 11 to 12 May and organised in association with the Bureau d'Economie Théorique et Appliquée (BETA, http://www.beta-umr7522.fr), the Association Française de Cliométrie (AFC, http://www.cliometrie.org) and Cliometrica (Springer Verlag, http://www.springer.com/journal/11698).

Keynote speaker for the 8th Edition is Oded GALOR, Herbert H. Goldberger Professor of Economics, Brown University and Visiting Professor, MIT (http://www.econ.brown.edu/fac/Oded_Galor/).

The organization welcomes proposals in all aspects of "Population Cliometrics and
Unified Growth Theory" covering a wide range of periods and countries.

For each proposed paper, please send by e-mail, as soon as possible and before January 1st 2012, a short abstract of 1000-1500 characters.

Speakers who submit a proposal to the Workshop should be able to obtain independent financial support for their travel and conference attendance. However, a very limited support fund exists to assist younger colleagues who are unable to obtain funding from their own institution or from another source. Meals are offered to the
participants during the Workshop at no cost

Please do not hesitate to circulate this call for papers as widely as possible.

Contact for paper proposals and practical matters: Claude DIEBOLT, cdiebolt@unistra.fr

75 years of General Theory

December 2-3, 2011
University of Paris 1 – Panthéon Sorbonne
Maison des Sciences Économiques,
106, boulevard de l’Hôpital, 75013 Paris, FRANCE


The year 2011 marks the 75th anniversary of the publication of Keynes's The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money.
The conference aims at analyzing the influence of Keynes's book on current theories and policies. It will discuss the ways Keynes's ideas fueled the reflection of all economists, whether Keynesians or not, theorists or policy makers, and discuss how The General Theory was used, instrumented or hijacked both by economic theories and by economic policies.

For more information and registration, see the conference website:
http://ces.univ-paris1.fr/75GT.htm

The Istanbul-Conference-Special Issue of EJHET

The preparations of the Special Issue of the European Journal of the History of Economic Thought devoted to the ESHET Conference in Istanbul are now underway. The association invites participants of the conference to submit their papers for consideration for the special issue of EJHET. The Special Issue has no theme and all papers presented at the conference will be considered.
Please note that the competition will be fierce as the number of papers in the special issue is very limited indeed.

Please also note the following:

1. Papers presented at the conference are not automatically considered for the Special Issue. The editors will only consider those papers which have been especially submitted for the Special Issue. We will not consider papers which have not been presented at the conference.
2. Submitted papers will undergo a process of review by anonymous referees in line with the regular procedures of EJHET.
2. Full papers (including a short abstract and a list of up to five key-words) should be submitted no later than 31st October 2011 to a.witztum@londonmet.ac.uk
3. Those who are not native English speakers are asked to have their papers checked by a native English speaker before submission. It is in the best interest of every author to deliver his or her paper written in a readily intelligible and accessible manner.

Companies Act 2006 : http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/companyinfo

CALL FOR PAPERS – INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE « ECONOMIC PHILOSOPHY »

Sciences Po Lille – 21-22 June 2012, France
Sciences Po Lille and the Papers in Political Economy,with support of CLERSE (UMR 8019), Lille 1, l’Association Charles Gide

"What is economic philosophy? It is a well known phrase. In France, in Europe and
worldwide, journals, research centers and academic syllabi refer to it. But what does it mean?
Does it have an object, a methodology and references which would really distinguish it from economic theories? Is it just another name to refer to what we once called doctrine? Is it more or something else than what we today call economic epistemology? And what place does economic philosophy occupy alongside other fields of philosophy? These questions, and similar ones, seem to have enough relevance for the Papers in Economic History to organize a conference on these with the aim of publishing a special issue.
A first estimate shows that three possible meanings can be distinguished - as so many
orientations for proposals. At first, there would be an economic philosophy in the way there is an underlying philosophy in any positive science in the shape of an envelope which supports or hinders it. The study of this economic philosophy - as philosophy of the economy - would then consist in bringing to light the decisive notions from which economic analysis draws its resources or from which, on the contrary, it has to operate an epistemological break-away.
There would then be an economic philosophy in the sense that the economic notions of
optimum, collective well-being and social choice result in questions relative to the freedom of the agents and to the justice of their mutual relations. Economics would thus appear as a body in two complementary parts – a positive side or examination of the empirical conditions ensuring the maximum efficiency of the actions relative to the production of wealth in a given society; a normative side or description of the ideal conditions under which these results ensure the moral satisfaction of the members of this society. Economic philosophy would constitute this normative part. It would thus be another name for welfare economics, theory of social choice or economic theory of justice.
Finally, there would be an economic philosophy in the sense that the essential notions constitutive of the field of economy and economics are the objects of an analysis pushed to its final limits. Economists are acquainted with this level of inquiry on fundamental concepts of their domain under the title of pure theory. Pure theory does not raise the positive question of how an economic device works best compared to others. Nor does it normatively question the ideal conditions under which the economy can be just. Pure theory rises to the superior level of the so-called real or abstract definitions which, in their turn, command the deployment of economics as a coherent and relevant whole.
But are we saying enough? Shouldn’t we go further than the simple review of the
possible meanings of a phrase? Shouldn’t we also understand that an economic philosophy may come under the banner of a great philosophical tradition to unify economic theoretical propositions - as political or moral philosophies are wont to? It would then be necessary to speak about Aristotelian, Hegelian or Marxist economic philosophy, an economic philosophy inspired by J.S. Mill, the Vienna Circle or Wittgenstein or influenced by Hayek or evolutionism - further incentives for proposals."

PROPOSALS
An abstract (no more than 500 words) of the proposed contribution should be submitted by e-mail to philoeco@sciencespo-lille.eu in English or French, with a brief curriculum vita, postal and email addresses.
DEADLINES
15 October 2011: submission deadline
03 December 2011: meeting of the program committee
17 December 2011: notification to applicants
14 May 2012: full paper submission deadline
For more information, please contact: philoeco@sciencespo-lille.eu
EVENT
A selection of papers will be published in a special issue of the Cahiers d’Economie
Politique-Papers in Political Economy Organizers’ intent is to publish other papers in a separated publication
MANAGING COMMITTEE
Arnaud Berthoud, Lille1, CLERSE - Jiména Hurtado, Universidad de Los Andes,
PHARE - Patrick Mardellat, Sciences Po Lille, CLERSE - Delphine Pouchain,
Sciences Po Lille, CLERSE - Shirine Sabéran, Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, PHARE -
Richard Sobel, Lille1, CLERSE

http://www.cahiersdecopo.fr/fr/data/uploads/callpapersecophilo2012.pdf

2012 Warren Samuels Prize

The Association for Social Economics (ASE), one of the founding member organizations of the Allied Social Science Associations, together with the Review of Social Economy, invite submissions for the 2012 Warren Samuels Prize
Established a number of years ago, this prize is awarded to a paper, presented at the January ASSA meetings, that best exemplifies scholarly work that:

· Is of high quality,
· Is important to the project of social economics,
· Has broad appeal across disciplines.

Papers will not normally exceed 7,500 words (inclusive of references, notes), and should follow the style guidelines for the Review of Social Economy.
The winner of the prize will be announced during the ASE presidential breakfast, to which the winner is invited. The winning paper may, subject to peer review, be published in a subsequent issue of the Review of Social Economy. The winner of the Warren Samuels Prize receives a $500 stipend.

The selection committee consists of:

A Past-President of ASE;
A Co-editor of the Review of Social Economy (Chair);
A member of the Editorial Board, Review of Social Economy.

This prize is awarded to a paper, being presented at the January, 2012, ASSA meetings in Chicago, Ill., in sessions not restricted to sessions in the ASE programme. Please send your paper electronically, as a word or pdf attachment, to Wilfred Dolfsma, Corresponding Editor, Review of Social Economy, before December 5th, 2011 to w.a.dolfsma@rug.nl.

4th Workshop "History of economics as culture"

The H2S (History of Social Science) group, Economix (CNRS UMR 7235) and THEMA (CNRS UMR 8184) are organizing the fourth annual workshop on the “History of ‘economics as culture’ (Histoire culturelle des savoirs économiques)” to be held Friday, March 9th, 2012 at the University of Cergy-Pontoise (near Paris, France). Since its first installment in 2009, this workshop is bringing together scholars from different disciplines such as economics, history, art and literary theory, science and technology studies – this list is not exclusive – to discuss, from an historical vantage point, the place of economics in our culture.

Below are some suggestions of topics that exemplify what will be at issue:
- Discussions of the interactions between art, literature and economics; for example how artists, writers have articulated more or less elaborate representations of what was the economy and/or political economy and/or some part of these.
- Studies of the interactions between cultural or artistic objects such as magazines, books, maps, photographs, paintings, graphs and economic thinking. Also, we encourage scholars to consider economic texts as cultural items, reflecting upon the consequences their form had on their reception.
- The depiction of economics as part of cultures (political, commercial, scientific, etc.) of past (including very recent past) societies; in particular, discussions of economic representations (or culture) of specific social groups such as merchants, workers, businessmen, etc.
The workshop will comprise of 5 or 6 papers containing genuine and unpublished research.
If you have an interest in these topics, please send a proposal of no more than 1000 words or a draft paper of what you want to present before December 15, 2011 at the following address: historyofeconomicsasculture@gmail.com
If you are interested in the subject but are unable to send a proposal, feel free to contact the organizers at the same address for further discussion/information.
Also, last year program is available here:
http://thema.u-cergy.fr/presentation/news-21/article/cfp-histoire-culturelle-des?lang=fr

2012 CONFERENCE NEWS FROM DOWNUNDER

The 25th History of Economic Thought Society od Australia(HETSA) Conference will take place in Melbourne from July 5-7th it will be hosted by HETSA and the University of Ballarat. It will take place in the historic setting of the Royal Society of Victoria Building.

Just before the conference the Joseph Shumpeter society are having a conference at the University of Queensland, Brisbane. It will be held from July 2 till July 5.
At the End of the HETSA conference the 41 Australian Conference of Economists will take place in Melbourne from the 8th july till the 12 JUly.

Like the HETSA conference it is taking place in Melbourne CBD and is being hosted by Victoria University. There is, alas, no joint registration fee arrangement. All three conferences are run by three different field societies.

Obviously you might be able to chalk up a couple of conferences one after another and see a bit of downunder.
Organizing Secretary invite early offers of papers for the HETSA conference and please contact Alex Millmow a.millmow@BALLARAT.EDU.AU for accommodation options at this early stage.


http://www.hetsa.org.au/

2013 AEA Meetings

The current Journal of Economic Perspectives contains the announcement of program plans for the 2013 AEA Meetings. Part of that announcement reads:

"Members wishing to give papers or organize complete sessions for the program for the AEA meetings in San Diego, January 4-6, 2013, are invited to submit proposals electronically (NO hardcopies!) to Professor Claudia Goldin via the American Economic Association web site at http://www.aeaweb.org/Annual_Meeting/submissions.php
The submission portal for the 2013 annual AEA meeting opens on March 1, 2012. While papers covering a wide array of topics in economics will be included on the 2013 program, Professor Goldin is especially interested in receiving proposals that interpret current economic issues in light of the past."


The CFP thus presents a rare opportunity for not only economic historians but also historians of economics to participate in the AEA meetings quite apart from the usual HES Sessions at the encompassing ASSA meeting.

Call for Papers: European Asian Economics, Finance, Econometrics and Accounting Science Association

The European Asian in Economics, Finance, Econometrics and Accounting Science Association (http://aeefa.unipi.gr) warmly invites you to join the 3rd Conference in Economics, Finance and Econometrics planned to be held in Howard Civil Service International House, Taipei in September 5-8, 2012.

All topics in the areas of Economics, Finance, Accounting and Econometrics are welcome. Moreover, papers that are dealing with the global financial crisis are mostly welcome.

Contact:
Nicholas Apergis
University of Piraeus
napergis@unipi.gr

more info: http://aeefa.unipi.gr/

JSHET Conference 2012 - Call for papers

JSHET Conference 2012
Call for Papers

The 76th Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for the History of Economic Thought (JSHET)will be held on May 26-27, 2012 at Fukushima University, Fukushima, Japan.
The organising committee invites proposals for individual papers (in English or in Japanese) on all aspects of the history of economic thought.

Submissions should be mailed to:

ikeda@econ.keio.ac.jp

Each author should send his/her abstract of about 600 words in English or 2000 letters in Japanese for a paper, as an attached document (PDF or WORD format) to an electronic mail, containing the title of the paper, his/her name, affiliation, postal and electronic addresses and the fax number.
The deadline for submission is September 20, 2011.

A complete list of accepted contributions and a provisional programme will be available at the beginning of December 2011. The outlines (within 6 pages of format A4) of the paper should be submitted by February 27, 2012. They will be printed and mailed to all participants one month before the conference.

The fee for non-members of JSHET to present a paper at the conference is 6,000 yen.

Further information of JSHET and the conference may be found on the web site:

http://jshet.net/

For additional information, please send your queries to the above email address.

UK history of economic thought conference

The 43rd annual UK history of economic thought conference will be held
in Balliol College Oxford on 7-9 September. Accommodation and meals
will be available in the College.

There will be a discounted registration fee for those registering by 31
July.

Further details and registration forms are available from James Forder james.forder@balliol.ox.ac.uk

17th Workshop on Alternative Economic Policy in Europe

17th Workshop on Alternative Economic Policy in Europe

European integration at the crossroads: Deepening or disintegration?
16-18 September 2011 | the C3-Center for International Development in Vienna/Austria

This year’s EuroMemo Group conference will be held in Vienna from 16-18 September 2011. The conference will open on the afternoon of Friday, 16 September with the customary plenary on the State of the Union. Key speakers are:
-The Political State of the Union, Birgit Mahnkopf (Berlin School of Economics and Law)
-The Economic State of the Union, Ozlem Onaran (Middlesex University, London)

EuroMemo Group invite you to attend the conference and to submit proposals for papers for one of the four workshops shown below. These should address the key themes of EU policy in each area.

Workshop 1: Austerity policies – Coordinator: Marica Frangakis
Austerity policies are being imposed in a number of EU member states, most notably in the euro area periphery and in Central and Eastern Europe. This workshop aims to examine developments in specific countries, giving special emphasis to the degradation of social protection systems and of labour market institutions, and the implications for youth unemployment and the organization of old-age security.

Workshop 2: The future of the eurozone – Coordinator: Trevor Evans
Developments of the past year raise the danger of a disintegration of the eurozone. As some members states struggle to deal with rising levels of public and private debt, the EU has promoted new governance measures that look set to exacerbate the situation. Contributions are invited that address macroeconomic imbalances, debt and the banking crisis, monetary policy and the role of the ECB, the European Stability Mechanism, and the Pact for the Euro.

Workshop 3: The EU and the world – Coordinator: Werner Raza
Developments in neighbouring Mediterranean countries highlight just one of the international challenges faced by the EU. This workshop seeks papers that address the issues of migration, trade policy, EU development policies, as well as, more generally, the role of the EU in global governance, in particular the G20.

Workshop 4: Energy, climate change and sustainability, after Fukushima – Coord.: Frieder O. Wolf
The crisis in Japan dramatically focused public attention on the pressing urgency for a fundamental change in energy policy. Papers are invited that will address the challenge of developing policies that promote social, economic and environmental sustainability.

Proposals for papers together with a short abstract (maximum 250 words) should be submitted by 30 June. If accepted, completed papers should be submitted by 1 September.

If you would like to participate in the workshop, copy the registration form into an email and reply by the 30 June 2011 to euromemo@uni-bremen.de:

- that you would like to participate and
- whether you wish to offer a paper for one of the workshops.

The provisional programme is attached. Please note that there will be a conference fee collected at the venue (20 Euro / 10 Euro for students).

The C3-Center for International Development is located in the centre of Vienna, close to the “Altes AKH”-campus of the University of Vienna. Information sheets with details about travel arrangements and hotel bookings are attached. A contingent of rooms has been reserved at three hotels in Vienna. Please use the attached form to make your own bookings. Please be aware that early booking is strongly recommended to secure a room at one of the hotels.

10th Conference of the Australian Society of Heterodox Economists - Call for papers

10th Conference of the Australian Society of Heterodox Economists - Call for papers

The relevance, contribution and future of Heterodox Economics
5-6 December 2011 | the Coogee Crowne Plaza Hotel, Sydney | website

Over the last 10 years, the annual SHE Conference has provided a vital forum for the discussion of alternatives to mainstream economics. The Conference provides a broad pluralistic and interdisciplinary forum to discuss issues of importance to heterodox economists.

For 2011 the SHE Conference theme is The relevance, contribution and future of Heterodox Economics

Topics of interest to this overarching theme include: the failure of neoclassical economics to predict, explain or find solutions to the global financial and economic crises; the current climate and energy crisis, nationally and internationally; the relationship of economists to policymaking and decision-makers; the teaching of heterodox economics; and, research evaluation and the impact of ERA ratings and rankings.

Registration details will be announced later and be available at: http://www.asb.unsw.edu.au/research/societyofheterodoxeconomists/SHEconference/Pages/default.aspx

Submission details:
Submissions are invited for single papers, complete sessions and symposia (comprising more than one session) relevant to the over-arching conference theme, or which discuss issues of importance from perspectives which differ from, or critically examine, mainstream economics.

Single papers:
All papers should include a 250 word abstract that clearly states the issue being addressed, its main points and argument. It should be stated, at the time of submission, if you require your paper to be refereed and if you wish your paper to be considered for a symposium.

The deadline for refereed papers is Monday 10 October 2011.
The deadline for non-refereed papers is Monday 31 October 2011.

Complete sessions:
Session proposals should be sent to p.kriesler@unsw.edu.au and include the following information:
• A short title
• A description of the session which should be no more than one page
• The names of the proposed participants in the session
• An abstract for each paper to be included in the session
• The name and email address of the session organiser
The deadline for complete sessions is Friday 15 July 2011.

Symposia:
SHE encourage proposals for symposia which address a single topic or issue. The SHE Conference Committee will work with symposia organisers, when constructing the conference program, to ensure a coherent list of sessions for each symposium, and schedule these so that participants can follow a symposium across more than one session. Symposium proposals should be submitted to p.kriesler@unsw.edu.au and include the following information:
A short title (no more than 5 words)
A short description of the type of paper that would be suitable for inclusion in the symposium
The name and email address of the symposium organiser
The deadline for symposium proposals is Friday 15 July 2011.

Deadlines:
The SHE Conference Committee will consider all proposals for papers, sessions and symposia, and will notify you of the acceptance or rejection of your proposal.
Complete session proposals are due by Friday 15 July 2011 and will be notified by Monday 25 July 2011.
Symposium proposals are due by Friday 15 July 2011 and will be notified by Monday 25 July 2011.
The deadline for refereed papers is Monday 10 October 2011.
The deadline for non-refereed papers is Monday 31 October 2011.

NEW TRENDS IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCES II

NEW TRENDS IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCES II

UNED. Dpto. de Logica, Historia y Filosofia de la ciencia
Madrid, September 28-29 2011

Confirmed invited speakers:

Marcel Boumans (Universiteit van Amsterdam)
Gregor Betz (Freie Universität, Berlin)
Laurence Kaufmann (Université de Lausanne)
Eleonora Montuschi (London School of Economics and Università
Ca’Foscari, Venice)
Julian Reiss (Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam)

Contributed papers on any topic in the philosophy of the social sciences are welcome. Please, send an abstract of about 1000 words, before June 25th to Jesús Zamora-Bonilla,jpzb@fsof.uned.es

http://www.uned.es/dpto_log/pssworkshop2011.html