Summer Workshop Program 

 

JUNE 18, Sunday, 5 - 9pm, REGISTRATION AND WELCOMING BBQ

Location: Oak Residence Hall, 5051 Oak Street, Kansas City, MO 64112

 

JUNE 19-24: All sessions will be held in Royall Hall 104, unless noted otherwise. Breakfasts

are served from 7-9am and lunches from 12-1:45pm. All meals are served in Pierson Auditorium.

 

JUNE 19, Monday: INSTITUTIONALIST & POST KEYNESIAN ECONOMICS

9 – 10 am

Jan Kregel: “History of Post Keynesian Economics and its Core Tenets”

 

10 – 10:15 am Coffee

 

10:15 – 11:15 am

Frederic Lee: “A History of Heterodox Economics”

 

11:15 – 12:15 pm

John Henry: “Links between Keynes and Veblen”

 

12:15 – 1:45 pm Lunch

 

1:45 – 2:45 pm

Jerry Courvisanos: “Kalecki’s Economics: Linking Keynesian to Institutional Traditions”

 

2:45 – 3:45 pm

Robert Brazelton: “Keynes and Institutionalist Thought”

 

3:45 – 4:00 pm Coffee

 

4 – 5 pm

John Marangos: “A Post Keynesian Approach to the Transition Process”

 

5 – 6 pm Special Session

“The Job Market: the Search, the CV, the Cover Letter, the Interview”

Panelists: Erik Olsen, Eric Tymoigne, Fadhel Kaboub, Zdravka Todorova

 

JUNE 20, Tuesday: METHODOLOGY

9 – 10 am

Michael Green: “Social Ontologies”

 

10 – 10:15 am Coffee

 

10:15 – 11:15 am

Morteza Ardebili: “Critical Realism”

 

11:15 – 12:15 pm

Eliseo Fernandez and James Webb: “Pragmatism”

 

12:15 – 1:45 pm Lunch

 

1:45 – 2:45 pm

Linwood Tauheed: “A Proposed Methodological Synthesis of Post Keynesian and Institutional Economics”

 

2:45 – 3:00 pm Coffee

 

3 – 4:00 pm

Barbara Bonnekessen: “Feminist Methodology”

 

4:00 – 5:00 pm Special Session

“What to expect during your first year on the job”

Panelists: Fadhel Kaboub, Zdravka Todorova, Joelle LeClaire, Bobby Scott, Linwood Tauheed

 

JUNE 21, Wednesday: THEORY

9 – 10 am

Erik Olsen: “What do Post Keynesian, Institutionalist and Feminist Economists need to know about Marx?”

 

10 – 10:15 am Coffee

 

10:15 – 11:15 am

Jan Kregel: “Financing for Development”

 

11:15 – 12:15 pm

L. Randall Wray: “Keynes’s approach to money after 70 years”

 

12:15 – 1:45 pm Lunch

 

1:45 – 2:45 pm

Location: Haag Hall 301

Christopher Niggle: “Institutionalist-Post Keynesian Macroeconomics or Evolutionary Keynesianism”

 

2:45 – 3:00 pm Coffee

 

3 – 4 pm

Frederic Lee: “Sraffa, Capital Controversies and Post Keynesian Economics”

 

4 – 5 pm

Jerry Courvisanos: “Environmental Economics: Critical View and Innovation”

 

5 – 6 pm Graduate Student Presentations

Session A, Location: Royall Hall 205

Zdravka Todorova: “Introducing Gender Analysis in Post Keynesian Theory”

Fadhel Kaboub: “A Roadmap for Full Employment and Price Stability in Developing Countries”

Session B, Location: Royall Hall 211

Joelle LeClaire: “Dealing with Deficit Reduction”

Eric Tymoigne: “Conventions and the Financial Side of Investment Decision: A Formal Model in the Minskian Tradition”

 

JUNE 22, Thursday: POLICY

9 – 10 am

L. Randall Wray: “Minsky’s Approach to National and International Instability”

 

10 – 10:15 am Coffee

 

10:15 – 11:15 am

Scott Fullwiler: “Monetary Operations: An Institutionalist View”

 

11:15 – 12:15 pm

Pavlina R. Tcherneva: “The Employer of Last Resort, Argentina’s Plan Jefes, and Gender”

 

12:15 – 1:45 pm Lunch

 

1:45 – 2:45 pm

James Sturgeon: “The Veblenian Dichotomy and Instrumental Valuation”

 

2:45 – 3:00 pm Coffee

 

3 – 4:30 pm

Michael K. Radzicki: “The Beer Game”: an interactive game which incorporates all students and faculty and teaches about system dynamics and why systems oscillate (i.e., the business cycle)

 

4:30 – 5:30 pm Graduate Student Presentations

Session A, Location: Royall Hall 213

Wadim Striełkowski: “The role of institutions: an empirical research on factors that influence the success of micro-enterprises”    

Laurissa Malwina Muhlich: “Taking a Fresh Look at Regional Monetary Integration - Prospects for Macroeconomic Stability in Developing Countries and Emerging Markets”  

Session B, Location: Royall Hall 214

Polillo  Simone: “The Center-Local Dimensions of the Cash Nexus: States, Finance and Industry in Territorial Perspective”

Frederico Santos P. F. Valente and Bruno Martarello de Conti: “Exchange rate policy: Brazilian recent experience”

 

JUNE 23, Friday: GENDER, CLASS, AND RACE

9 – 10 am

Jesus Muñoz: “Financial Crises and Migration”

 

10 – 10:15 am Coffee

 

10:15 – 11:15 am

S. Charusheela and Colin Danby: “Critiques of Modernism: Race, Gender, Citizenship”

 

11:15 – 12:15 pm

S. Charusheela and Colin Danby: “Alternatives to Modernist Analysis”

 

12:15 – 1:45 pm Lunch

 

1:45 – 2:45 pm

Tanya Y. Price: “The impact of race, class and gender on everyday life”

 

2:45 – 3:00 pm Coffee

 

3 – 4 pm

Donald Matthews: “Black Political Economy”

 

4 – 5 pm

Break-out sessions / general discussion

 

7:30 pm, Summer Workshop Dinner

Location: Frondizi’s Restaurant 4558 Main Street

Keynote Speaker

Mathew Forstater: “The Importance of Interdisciplinary Work”

 

JUNE 24, Saturday morning: EMPIRICAL TOOLS AND PRACTICAL ADVICE
Location: Haag Hall 301

9 am – 10 am Special Session

“On Getting Published”

Panelists: Frederic Lee and Fadhel Kaboub

 

10 am – 12 noon

Michael K. Radzicki: “Fish Banks”: an interactive game which teaches sustainable development from a System Dynamics perspective