Association for Evolutionary Economics,
ASSA meetings, January 3-5, 2004
San Diego, CA
Session Title: Path
Dependency and the lock-in of Sub-Optimal Technologies (O3)
Presiding: John
Hall, Portland State
University
James I. Sturgeon, University
of Missouri-Kansas City—Mudholes, Querty and Culture.
Myles P. Gartland, University
of Missouri-Kansas City—Sources
of Behavioral Lock-in.
Martin Slack, Saint Mary
College—Make Mine Lite.
William Barnes, University
of Portland—Qwerty
Managers and High Performance Work Systems.
Discussants:
Richard. V. Adkisson,
New Mexico State University
Date: January 3, 2004 Time:
8:00-10:00 am
Session Title:
Innovations in Principles of Economics (A2)
Presiding: Marc R. Tool, California
State University,
Sacramento
Daniel Underwood, Peninsula College—Principles
of Macroeconomics: A Multiparadigmatic
Approach.
Daniel W. Axelsen, Washington
State University—Traditional
Tools and Heterodox Principles: The
Use of Game Theoretic Approaches to Explore Veblen’s Ideas.
Erik Hake, Eastern Illinois
University—Pavlov’s Students:
Provoking the Vocal Response.
Steve
Cohn, Knox College—Common
Ground in Critiquing Standard Principles Texts:
Sample Chapter Critiques.
Discussants: David
Colander, Middlebury College
Date: January 3, 2004 Time:
10:15-12:15 pm
Session Title: Critical Themes in Assessing the Neoliberal
Agenda for Economic Development. (O0)
Presiding: Geoffrey Schneider, Bucknell University.
James M. Cypher, California
State University,
Fresno—Pinochet meets Polanyi? The Curious Case of the Chilean Embrace of ‘Free’
Market Economics.
P. Sai-wing Ho, University
of Denver—Backwash versus Equalizing
Effects in Classical Economics.
Tara Natarajan-Marsh, St. Michael’s College, Vermont—Liberalizing
Agriculture: Contemporary Agriculture
Policy in the Context of Structural Adjustment in India.
Geoffrey Schneider, Bucknell University—A
Blueprint for African Development.
Discussants: Glen
Atkinson, University of Nevada-Reno
Date: January, 3 2004 Time:
10:15-12:15 pm
Session Title:
Thorstein Veblen’s
The Theory of Business Enterprise—100 years later.
(D2)
Presiding:
Philip O’Hara, Curtin University
William T. Ganley, Buffalo State College, The
Theory of Business Enterprise and Veblen’s Neglected Theory of Corporation
Finance.
Charles Leathers, University of Alabama,
and J. Patrick Raines, University
of Richmond, Veblen’s Finance Theory
and the Contemporary U. S. Economy.
Steven Sawyer, New School
University, The Influence of Thorstein
Veblen’s The Theory of Business Enterprise on the Economic Theories
of Edward Chamberlin.
Ann Davis, Marist College,
Veblen and the Critique of the Corporate Form.
Eric Hake, Eastern Illinois University,
The Appearance of Impairment:
Veblen and Goodwill Financed Mergers.
Discussants:
Christopher Niggle, University
of Redlands
Date: January 3, 2004 Time:
2:30-4:30 pm
Association: Joint
Session—Association for Evolutionary Economics and The
Association for Social Economy.
Session Title:
Concepts and Applications of Heterodox Economics (B5)
Presiding:
Matthew Forstater, University of Missouri-Kansas City
Mary Wren, Colorado
State University,
What is Heterodox Economics.
Stephen Dunn, Department of Health, London,
Toward a General Theory of the Firm.
James Ronald Stanfield, Colorado
State University,
and Michael C. Carroll, Bowling Green
State University,
Governance and the Legitimacy of Corporate Power.
Pamela Jackson, Colorado
State University,
The Role of the Press in a Democracy.
Phillip O’Hara, Curtin
University, Cultural Contradictions
of Global Capitalism.
Discussants: Matthew Forstater,
University of Missouri-Kansas City
Date: January 4, 2004 Time:
10:15-12:15 pm
Session Title: Issues
in Institutional Economic Theory (B5)
Presiding: Robert
Prasch, Middlebury
College
John Groenewegen, Erasmus
University, Who controls the Firm?; Comparisons of the Original and New Institutional Economics.
Harold Wolozin, University
of Massachusetts, Boston,
How Key Conditions of the Human Mind Influence Economic Institutions and Decision-Making.
William Waller, Hobart
and William Smith
Colleges, Institutions as Boundaries
and Valuational Metrics.
David Dequech, University
of Campinas,
Conventions as Collective Cognitive Devices.
Beatriz de Castro Fialho, Universidade
Federal do Rio de Janeiro,
Schumpeter’s Theory of Economic Development: A view from the shoulders of
Thorstein Veblen.
Discussants: Terrel Gallaway, Southwest
Missouri State University
Date: January 3, 2004 Time:
2:30-4:30 pm
Session Title: Environmental Issues (Q0)
Presiding: Reynold Nesiba, Augustana College
F. Gregory Hayden, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, The
Relationship between Pollution from Hog Production and Corporate Oligopsonists
in Hog Slaughter: A Network Analysis.
Paul
J. Thomassin, McGill University, and L. Martin Cloutier,
Université du Québec à Montréal, The Evolution of Environmental Legislation:
A Strategic Transaction Approach.
Rachel Hilliard, National University
of Ireland, Galway,
Conflicting Views: Neoclassical, Porterian and Evolutionary Approaches to the Analysis of the
Environmental Regulation of Industrial Activity.
Martin Bruce
King, Illinois Stewardship
Alliance, Environmentalism, Globalization,
and the Relevance of Karl Polanyi.
Thomas DeGregori, University
of Houston, Ecofeminist
Myth and Third World Reality.
Discussants:
Daniel Underwood, Peninsula College
Date: January 4, 2004 Time:
8:00-10:00 am
Session Title: Issues
in Public Policy I (H0, J0)
Presiding: John
Groenewegen, Erasmus
University
Robert B Hackey, Providence
College and David Zalewski, Providence
College, Health or Wealth Security?
Public Policy in the New Millennium.
Janice Peterson, U.S General Accounting Office, Encouraging
Work among Older People: Lessons from
Sweden.
Dell P. Champlin, Eastern Illinois
University, and Janet T. Knoedler,
Bucknell University,
J.M. Clark and Non-Euclidean Labor Economics.
Jing Chen, University
of British Columbia, Restricted
Migration, Free Trade and Inequality.
Julie H. Gallaway, University
of Missouri-Rolla and Alexandra Bernasek, Colorado
State University,
Literacy and Women’s Empowerment in Indonesia: Implications for Policy.
Discussants: Jack
Reardon, University of Wisconsin,
Stout
Date: January 4,
2004 Time: 10:15-12:15 pm
Session Title: Issues
in Public Policy II (I0, J7, O3)
Presiding: F.
Gregory Hayden, University of Nebraska,
Lincoln
Terrel Gallaway,
Southwest Missouri
State University, and Douglas Kinnear, Colorado
State University, E-Commerce and Veblen’s
Theory of Business Enterprise.
Thomas Kemp, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, The
Stem Cell Debate: A Veblenian
Perspective.
Reynold F. Nesiba, Augustana College,
Richard Williams, University of
Notre Dame, and David Sorenson,
Augustana
College, Racial, Economic, and
Institutional Differences in Home Mortgage Loans.
Robert McMaster, University
of Aberdeen, The Information Society
and Health Care: A Skeptical Examination
of Change in the UK’s
National Health Service.
Jack Reardon, University of Wisconsin-Stout, An Institutionalist Critique of US Energy Policy.
Discussants:
Stephen Dunn, Department of Health, London
Date: January 4, 04 Time:
2:30-4:30 pm
Session Title:
Institutional Analysis—Beyond Boundaries (B15)
Presiding: James
I. Sturgeon, University of Missouri, Kansas
City
Terutomo
Ozawa, Colorado State University--Veblen’s
Theories of “Latecomer Advantage” and “Interstitial Coordination”:
Relevancy for East Asia’s Catch-Up Growth
James Webb, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Star Wars-and
Other Wars
Colleen F. Johnson and Jeffrey L. Johnson, Eastern Oregon
University, Justice and the Exportation
of Democracy and Capitalism.
Richard V. Adkisson, New
Mexico State University,
Ceremonialism, Property Rights, and Innovative Activity.
Discussants:
Dell Champlin, Eastern Illinois
University
Date: January 4,
2004 Time: 2:30-4:30 pm
Session Title: Minsky on Economic Policy I (E5)
Presiding:
Philip Arestis, Levy Institute
Dimitri Papadimitiou, Levy Institute, Induced Investment and Business
Cycles
Greg Hannsgen, Levy Institute,
Minsky’s Acceleration Channel and the Role of Money.
Doreen Isenberg, Drew
University, US Financial Stability
in a Globalizing Economy?
Thomas Palley, Open Society Institute,
The Economics of Deflation.
Robert Prasch, Middlebury
College, Competitive Financial
Markets and the Divorce of Risk from Reward.
Discussants:
none
Date: January 5,
2004 Time: 8:00-10:00 am
Session Title: Minsky on Economic Policy II (E6)
Presiding: Philip Arestis, Levy
Institute
Philip Arestis, Levy Institute
and Malcolm Sawyer, University of
Leeds, Reinstating Fiscal Policy.
Steven Fazzari, Washington
University in St.
Louis, Public Deficits, Private Debt, and Macro Performance:
A Minskyan Perspective on Fiscal Policy.
Claudio Dos Santos, Levy Institute, Policy Implications
of Minskyan-type Analyses: A Stock-flow Consistent Approach.
L Randall Wray, University of Missouri-Kansas City and Stephanie
Bell, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Minskyan Policies to Promote Stability and Growth.
Robert W. Dimand, Brock
University, Veblenian
Roots of Minsky’ and Tobin’s Theories of Financial
Instability.
Discussants: none
Date: January 5, 2004 Time:
10:15-12:15 pm