Business Cycles in the Modern World System: Past, Present and Future

 

In case anybody is in the area around New York, the Program of the PEWS conference below.

Thursday, April 26, 2018 -- 4:30 - 5:20 p.m.

Reception in the DiMenna-Nyselius Library Room 107 C

5:20 p.m.

Formal Opening of the Conference Library Multimedia Room

Welcome: Eric Mielants (Sociology)

Katsiaryna Salavei Bardos (Finance)

Introduction of Keynote Speakers

Dean Greenwald (CAS)

Immanuel Wallerstein (Sociology, Yale University)

“Cycles Within Structures versus Structural Crises”

Matías Vernengo (Economics, Bucknell University)

“From Financial Instability to Secular Stagnation”

Friday, April 27, 2018

9 – 10:30 a.m. DiMenna-Nyselius Library Multimedia Room

Panel 1: Theoretical Models and Business Cycles

Moderator: Michael Puleo (Fairfield University)

Daniel H. Neilson (Bard College at Simon's Rock)

“Minsky, Polanyi, and World System Analysis”

Daniel Gugan (Corvinus University of Budapest)

“An embedded-systems approach to the socio-economic cycles of the world system”

Roberto J. Ortiz (Binghamton University)

“The Nature and Limits of Endless Accumulation”

10:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.

Panel 2: Business Cycles confronting Social and Political Trends I

Moderator: Kathy Nantz (Fairfield University)

Tarun Banerjee (University of Pittsburgh)

“The Great Recession and Corporate Responses to Social Movements in the US”

Chungse Jung (Binghamton University)

“Long-Term Capitalist Dynamics and Protest Waves in the Global Periphery: A Critical Reappraisal of Business Cycles”

 For more information go here.

International Workshop on Demand-led Growth, Conflict Inflation, and Macro Policy

At my alma mater the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), to be co-sponsored by the Review of Keynesian Economics (ROKE). Call for papers to come soon in this channel. Stay tuned.

Policy Challenges for the New US President

Economists for Peace and Security will conduct its 9th annual policy symposium at the Hyatt Regency Capitol Hill in Washington DC on November 14, 2016 to discuss the economic dimensions of the most pressing global security issues and those facing the domestic economy. Following one of the most unusual presidential and congressional elections in US history, three panels of senior specialists will present ideas for improving prospects for peace, and growth with fairness for all Americans.

Program:

8:30am
Registration & Breakfast 

9:00am
Global Security: Russia, China, Europe and Latin America
Chair - Richard Kaufman, Bethesda Research Institute
Michael Lind, New America Foundation
Mark Weisbrot, Center for Economic and Policy Research
Matías Vernengo, Bucknell University
Carl Conetta, Project on Defense Alternatives 

10:00am
Keynote: James K. Galbraith, Economists for Peace & Security 

10:30am
Jobs, Wages, Health & Social Security: What Next?
Chair - Sherle Schwenninger, New America
Josh Bivens, Economic Policy Institute
Nancy Altman, Social Security Works
Pavlina Tcherneva, Levy Economics Institute 

11:30am
An Agenda for Growth, Clean Energy and Climate Stabilization
Chair - TBA
Stephanie Kelton, University of Missouri - Kansas City
David Colt, Efficient Resource Management​
Eban Goodstein, Bard Center for Environmental Policy

To register please click here.
For further information please contact Ellie Warren.