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Program
for the April 11-13, 2002 in Albuquerque, New Mexico
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Panel 1: Veblen, Commons, and Keynes: A Basis of Discussion for Post-Keynesians
and Institutionalists
Thursday
8:00 - 9:30
Fiesta 2
Moderator: Glen Atkinson,
University of Nevada-Reno
Discussants: Chris Niggle,
University of Redlands and Jairo Parada, University of Missouri-Kansas City
"Stabilizing Banker Capitalism," Glen
Atkinson, University of Nevada, Reno
"Consumption Concepts:
Maximization, Habitual Inertia, Agency?" James I. Sturgeon, Bill
Williams, and Jairo Parada, University of Missouri, Kansas City
"Keynes and Commons on Money," Eric Tymoigne, University of
Missouri, Kansas City
"The Social Origins of Money," John Henry, California State University,
Sacramento
Panel 2: Critiques of the
President's Commission to Reform Social Security
Thursday
9:45 - 11:15
Fiesta 2
Moderator: Marc Tool, California State University, Sacramento
Discussant: Barbara Smith, GAO and Marc Tool
"The Commission's Findings: Is the Analysis
Based on Sound Accounting Principles?" Stephanie Bell, University of
Missouri, Kansas City
"Social Security: Truth or
Convenient Fictions?" L. Randall
Wray, University of Missouri, Kansas City
"Globalization, Neoliberalism, and the Attack on Social Security,"
Chris Niggle, University of Redlands
AFIT Board Meeting and Lunch
Thursday
11:30 - 12:45
McGrath's Restaurant
Panel 3: Policy Issues for Young
and Old
Thursday
1:00 - 2:30
Fiesta 2
Moderator: Gladys Foster,
Discussant: Dell Champlin, Eastern Illinois University and Gladys Foster
"The Circumstances and Needs of Grandparents
Raising Grandchildren, and Policy Options for their Support," Clare
Hushbeck, AARP
"Child Support Awards: Are
Nonresident Dads Dead-Beat or Beat-Up?
Kate Stirling, University of Puget Sound
"Economic Security in Old Age? Retirement Income and Today's Workers,"
Janice Peterson and Barbara Smith, General Accounting Office
Panel 4: Incentives, Rewards,
Rights and Responsibilities
Thursday
2:45 - 4:15
Fiesta 2
Moderator: Janice Peterson, General Accounting Office
Discussants: Janet Knoedler, Bucknell
University and Janice Peterson
"Toward an Economic Model of Enlightened
Entrepreneurship: Reconciling Corporate
Social Responsibility and Profit Maximization," Daniel Ostas, University
of Oklahoma
"Intellectual Rights as Motivators:
Is There a Better Way?" Richard V. Adkisson, New Mexico State
University
"Voters with Disabilities: The Current Status and Legal Foundations
of Access to Polling Places and Alternative Voting Methods," Alicia Puente
Cackley, Julie DeVault, Gretta Goodwin, Michele Grgich, and Carol Petersen,
General Accounting Office
Panel 5: Review of Phil O'Hara's Marx, Veblen, and Contemporary
Institutional Political Economy:
Principles and Unstable Dynamics of Capitalism (Edward Elgar, 2000)
Thursday
4:30 - 6:00
Fiesta 2
Moderator: J. Ron Stanfield,
Colorado State University
E. K. Hunt, University of Utah
Howard Sherman, University of California, Los Angeles and Riverside
William Waller, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Doug Brown, Northern Arizona University
Association for Institutional Thought
Reception, Business Meeting, and Banquet
Thursday
6:30 - 10:00
Sadie's Restaurant
Presidential Address: Doug Brown, University of Arizona
"Beyond Boganism"
Panel 6: De-throning Economic Growth
Friday
8:00 - 9:30
Fiesta 2
Moderator: Rick Tilman, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Discussants: Rick Tilman and Anne
Mayhew, University of Tennessee
"'Keep America Rolling' toward what?:
Consumerism as antidote to Terrorism." James Swaney, Wright State
University
"Economic Growth and Job Insecurity:
Two Sides of the Same Coin?" Paulette Olson, Wright State
University
"Visions and Scenarios:
Heilbroner's Worldly Philosophy, Lowe's Political Economics, and the
Methodology of Ecological Economics," Mathew Forstater, University of
Missouri, Kansas City
"Can we Re-embed the Economy?" Dell Champlin, Eastern Illinois
University and Janet Knoedler, Bucknell University
Panel 7: Veblen as Reporter?
Friday
9:45 - 11:15
Fiesta 2
Moderator: Dell Champlin, Eastern
Illinois University
Discussants: Rick Tilman,
University of Nevada, Las Vegas (Emeritus) and Dell Champlin
"An Introduction to Veblenian
Revisionism," Anne Mayhew,
University of Tennessee
"How Veblen Reported on the Engineers: A Case of Borrowing," Janet Knoedler, Bucknell University
and Anne Mayhew, University of Tennessee
"Veblen's Evolving Theory," Tony Maynard, Franklin and Marshall
College
"Veblen's Observations on the Emergence of American Corporate Accounting,"
Eric Hake, Eastern Illinois University
Panel 8: Three Looks at David
Hamilton
Friday
1:00 - 2:30
Fiesta 2
Moderator: William M. Dugger, The
University of Tulsa
Discussant: Glen Atkinson,
University of Nevada, Reno
"A Radical's Institutionalist: David Hamilton," William M. Dugger, The University of Tulsa
"It's Culture All the Way Down:
The Cultural Economics of David Hamilton," William Waller, Hobart
and William Smith Colleges
"A Critical Marxist Looks at David Hamilton's Evolutionary Economics,"
Howard J. Sherman, University of California, Los Angeles and Riverside
Panel 9: Two Looks at David
Hamilton and David Hamilton Looks Back
Friday
2:45 - 4:15
Fiesta 2
Moderator: William M. Dugger, The
University of Tulsa
Discussant: Glen Atkinson,
University of Nevada, Reno
"Evolution and Stasis: The Institutional Economics of David
Hamilton," Edythe Miller, University of Denver
"Change, Progress and Matter-of-Fact Knowledge: The Hamilton Antidote to the New
Vitalism," Thomas R. DeGregori, University of Houston
"David Hamilton Looks Back: A Brief Explanation of Why His Critics (and
even his friends?) are All Wrong?" David Hamilton, University of New
Mexico
Panel 10: Roundtable Discussion
: What's New in Economic Education?
Friday
4:30 - 6:00
Fiesta 2
Moderator: Dan Underwood, Peninsula
College
Eric Hake, Eastern Illinois University
Chris Niggle, University of Redlands
James Pinto, Northern Arizona University
Geoffrey Schneider, Bucknell University
Kate Stirling, University of Puget Sound
Panel 11: Key Resources Past and Present
Saturday
8:00 - 9:30
Fiesta 2
Moderator: Jerry Gray, Willamette
University
Discussants: Richard Chapman,
Westminster College and Jerry Gray
"Continuity in Government Land Policy
(1785-1862)," Lisi Krall, SUNY, Cortland
"Why did the Industrial Revolution Begin in
England? The Role of Coal and Path
Dependency," Wade A. Hudson,
Colorado State University
"Impacts of Supply Chain Management on
Competition," William Hildred and Jim Pinto, Northern Arizona University
"For the Collective Good? Free Market Claims
for Hazardous Waste," Stephanie Welcomer and Mark Haggerty, University
of Maine
Panel 12: International
Connections: the Americas
Saturday
8:00 - 9:30
Sendero 2
Moderator: Geoff Schneider,
Bucknell University
Discussant: John Hall, Portland State University and Geoff Schneider
"The Case for Lifting the Embargo on Trade with
Cuba," Steve Shuklian, Marshall University
"Foreign Direct Investment and the
Caribbean," Winston Griffith,
Bucknell University
"Who Benefits from International Free Trade
Between Developed and Less Developed Countries," Matlhodi M. Serero,
Colorado State University
"Confronting Seasonality: A Socioeconomic Analysis
Of Rural Poverty and
Livelihood Strategies In A Dry Land Village" Tara Natarajan, St. Michael's
College
Panel 13: International
Connections: the U.S. and Europe
Saturday
9:45 - 11:15
Fiesta 2
Moderator: Erik Hake, Eastern
Illinois University Discussants:
Winston Griffith, Bucknell University and Erik Hake
"Foreign Investment and Finance under Currency
Board in Bulgaria," Zdravka K. Todorova, University of Missouri, Kansas
City
"Why Did 'Shock Therapy' Not Work?" Agim Kukeli, Colorado State University
"Tango of Two Titans:
Competition, Cooperation, Convergence," John Hall, Portland State University
Panel 14: Cities, Communities, and
Vested Interests
Saturday
9:45 - 11:15
Sendero 2
Moderator: Ron Phillips, Colorado
State University
Discussants: Mathew Forstater, Univ. of Missouri, Kansas City and Carolyn
Aldana, California State University, San Bernardino
"A Market for Institutions: Community Associations and their Acceptance
in Housing," William H. Rogers, Colorado State University
"Illuminating Neglected Inner City
Opportunities," Ben Widner and Stephan Weiler, Colorado State University
"Production and Consumption under Vested Interests,"
Fadhel Kaboub, University of Missouri, Kansas City
Panel 15: Historical Perspectives
Saturday
1:00 - 2:30
Fiesta 2
Moderator: Mayo Toruņo, Univ. of
California, San Bernardino
Discussant: Steve Shuklian,
Marshall University and Mayo Toruņo
"Social and Economic Inequalities:
Consequences for Qualify of Life in the
U.S.," Carolyn Aldana, California State University, San Bernardino and
Maria
Claret Mapalad, Alfred University
"Have U.S. Labor's Successes Led to its
Woes?" Jon D. Wisman and Aaron Pacitti,
American University
"The Emergence of Heterodox Economics in the
United States in the 1960s," Frederic S. Lee, University of Missouri,
Kansas City
"Implications of Veblen's Economic Sociology,"
Timothy A. Wunder, Colorado State University
Panel 16: Economic Policy Choices
Saturday
2:45 - 4:15
Fiesta 2
Moderator: Stephanie Bell, Univ. of Missouri, Kansas City
Discussants: Randall Wray,
University of Missouri, Kansas City and Stephanie Bell
"Noting the 'Imponderability' of NAIRU,"
Jerry Gray, Willamette University and Richard Chapman, Westminster College
"Timeliness and the Fed's Daily
Tactics," Scott Fullwiler, Wartburg College
"Material Interests, Social Valuation and
Public Choice," Mayo Toruņo,
California State University, San Bernardino