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Conference Program, Proceedings and Abstracts - 2004

 

 

 

 

 


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PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

April 21 - 24, 2004

Salt Lake City, Utah

In conjunction with the Western Social Science Association (WSSA) 46th Annual Conference

Economics (Association For Institutional Thought) Section

Geoffrey Schneider, Chair

Bucknell University


Panel 1: Inequality in Theory and Reality 1

Thursday, April 22, 2004

8:00-9:30

Moderator: William M. Dugger, University of Tulsa

Discussant: William M. Dugger, University of Tulsa

Papers:

Global Inequality Today

William A. Darity, Jr., University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

 

The Poor Who Should Not Be Poor and the Rich Who Should Not Be Rich: Wagging the Tails of the Distribution

James Peach and Richard Adkisson, New Mexico State University

 

Racial U-Turn in US Residential Homeownership in the 1990s: Empirical Evidence

Gary Dymski, University of California Sacramento, and Carolyn Aldana, California State University San Bernadino

 


Panel 2: Heterodox Perspectives on Trade and Development

Thursday, April 22, 2004

9:45-11:15

Moderator: John Hall, Portland State University

Discussant: John Hall, Portland State University, John Marangos, Colorado State University

Papers:

From Cancun to Hong Kong: Some Mid-way Thoughts on the Doha Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations

Peter Sai-wing Ho, University of Denver

 

In Search of Lost Dissenus: Was Pop Liberalism Right?

Matias Vernengo, University of Utah

 

Can the 'capitalist' sector and the 'subsistence' sector expand simultaneously? Winston Griffith, Bucknell University

 

Land Use: Fiscal System Interaction in Metropolitan Regions

Glen Atkinson, University of Nevada Reno

 


Panel 3: Heterodox Analysis of Finance and Macroeconomics

Thursday, April 22, 2004

9:45-11:15

Moderator: Korkut Ertuk, University of Utah

Discussants: Korkut Ertuk, University of Utah, Yavuz Yasar, Unversity of Denver, Gokcer Ozgur, University of Utah, and Ozgur Orhangazi, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Papers:

Asset Price Bubbles, Liquidity Preference and the Business Cycle

Korkut Ertuk, University of Utah

 

Unveiling Money: A Synthesis of Marx and Keynes

Yavuz Yasar, Unversity of Denver and Mark Lautzenheiser, Earlhem College

 

Changes in Investors’ Sentiments and the Real Economy

Gokcer Ozgur, University of Utah

 

Firms’ Investment Decisions Under Conditions of ‘Financialization’

Ozgur Orhangazi, University of Massachusetts Amherst

 


AFIT Board Meeting and Lunch

Thursday, April 22, 2004

11:30-12:45

 


Panel 4: Heterodox Methodology: Issues, Approaches and Ethics

Thursday, April 22, 2004

1:00-2:30

Moderator: Mayo Toruno, California State University San Bernardino

Discussant: Rick Tilman, Mayo Toruno, California State University San Bernardino

Papers:

Capitalism and Friedman: The Individualist Versus the Social Point of View

Howard J. Sherman, University of California Los Angeles, and John F. Henry, California State University Sacramento

 

I Do Solemnly Swear…  On the Need for Professional Economic Ethics

George DeMartino, University of Denver

 

Ranking Heterodox Economic Journals and Departments: Suggested Methodologies

Frederic S. Lee, University of Missouri Kansas City

 

Undermining Underdetermination and Unburdening Theory Ladenness

James Webb, University of Missouri Kansas City

 


Panel 5: Inequality in Theory and Reality 2

Thursday, April 22, 2004

2:45-4:15

Moderator: Gary Dymski, University of California Sacramento

Discussants: Gary Dymski, University of California Sacramento, Carolyn Aldana, California State University San Bernadino

Papers:

Is There an Institutionalist Theory of Distribution?

Christopher Brown, Arkansas State University

 

Legitimating Inequality: Fooling Most of the People All the Time

Jon Wisman, American University and James Smith, Smithsonian Institution

 

Revealed (or Imposed) Social Preferences for Equality and Growth

David Kiefer and Shahrukh Rafi Khan, University of Utah

 

Minimum Wage Legislation and the Theory of Reasonable Value

Colleen Johnson, Eastern Oregon University

 


Panel 6: Financial Crises in Developing Countries

Thursday, April 22, 2004

2:45-4:15

Moderator:  Ken Jameson, University of Utah

Discussants: Ken Jameson, University of Utah, Korkut Erturk, University of Utah, Ferda Donmez, University of Utah, Secil Pacaci, Univeristy of Utah

Papers:

Beyond Dollarization in Ecuador: A Post-Keynesian Institutionalist Analysis

Ken Jameson, University of Utah

 

On the Changing Nature of Currency Crises

Korkut Erturk, University of Utah

 

Turkish Financial Crises Under Liberalization

Ferda Donmez, University of Utah

 

The 2000/2001 Turkish Financial Crisis: Were the IMF Policies to Blame?

Secil Pacaci, Univeristy of Utah

 


Panel 7: Veblen Redux

Thursday, April 22, 2004

4:30-6:00

Moderator:  E. K. Hunt, University of Utah

Discussants: William Waller, Hobart and William Smith College

Papers:

Was Veblen a Marxist?

Howard Sherman, University of California Los Angeles

 

Some Interesting Aspects of Veblen

William M. Dugger, University of Tulsa

 

The Theory of Democracy Implied in Veblen

Mayo Toruno, California State University San Bernardino

 

Veblen’s Views on American Exceptionalism: An Interpretation

Rick Tilman, University of Nevada Las Vegas, Emeritus

 


Association For Institutional Thought Reception, Business Meeting, and Banquet

Thursday, April 22, 2004

6:30-10:00

Presidential Address: Engineers of the Price System

Mathew Forstater, University of Missouri Kansas City

 


Panel 8: Institutionalist Perspectives on a One-System World

Friday, April 23, 2004

8:00-9:30

Moderator: Winston Griffith, Bucknell University

Discussants: Winston Griffith, Bucknell University, Peter Sai-wing Ho, University of Denver

Papers:

Germany Without a Competing System

John Hall, Portland State University, and Wolfram Elsner, University of Bremen

 

Developing Countries in a One-System World

Geoffrey Schneider, Bucknell University

 

Alternative Models of Transition and Institutional Development

John Marangos, Colorado State University

 

An Institutionalist Model for a Globalized Economy

Gladys Foster, University of Colorado

 


Panel 9: Roundtable on Working in the 21st Century

Friday, April 23, 2004

9:45-11:15

Moderator: Dell Champlin, Eastern Illinois University

Discussant: The Panelists

Panel Participants:

 

The Standard Worker

Ann Jennings, DePauw University

 

Contingent Workers

Barbara Wiens-Tuers, University of Pennsylvania Altoona

 

Technology and the Future Workforce

Janet Knoedler, Bucknell University

 

Work Time and Overtime in a Collective Bargaining Environment

Robert LaJeunesse, State University of New York New Paltz

 

Universities and the Workplace of the Future

Anne Mayhew, University of Tennessee

 

Research Issues Related to the Growing Latino Population in the US

Carolyn Aldana, California State University San Bernardino

 

Immigration Policy and the Public Interest

Dell Champlin, Eastern Illinois University

 


Panel 10: Neoliberalism in the US

Friday, April 23, 2004

9:45-11:15

Moderator: Al Campbell, University of Utah

Discussants: The Panelists

Papers:

The Birth of Neoliberalism as Policy and Institutional Change

Al Campbell, University of Utah

 

The Political Economy of US Multilateral Trade Agreements

Sakshi Huzaria, University of Utah

 

The Profit Rate in the Non-Financial Corporate Sector in the US Economy: Further Inquiry into the Role of Financial Capital in the Neoliberal Era

Erdogan Bakir, University of Utah

 


Panel 11: Issues in the Heterodox Analysis of Development, Industrialization and Trade

Friday, April 23, 2004

1:00-2:30

Moderator:  Al Campbell, University of Utah

Discussants: The Panelists

Papers:

Economic Anthropology and Institutionalist Economics

Justin Elardo, Columbus State Community College, and Al Campbell, University of Utah

 

Deindustrialization and (Under)Development

Alper Birdal, University of Utah

 

The Impact of the Feminization of the Labor Force on the Profit Rates of Private Industries in the US Economy

Emil Memis and Erdogan Bakir, University of Utah

 

Globalization and the Nation-State

Mehmet Ali Civelek, University of Utah

 


Panel 12: Institutional Analysis of Macroeconomic Policy Issues

Friday, April 23, 2004

1:00-2:30

Moderator: Anne Mayhew, University of Tennessee

Discussant: Anne Mayhew, University of Tennessee

Papers:

A Short Course on Macroeconomics, or Whatever Happened to Monetarism?

Christopher Niggle, University of Redlands

 

How to Bring Back the Bull: Blue Skies or Bigger Fools?

Eric Hake, Eastern Illinois University

 

An Institutional Business Cycle Explanation of the Current Downturn

Timothy Wunder, Valparaiso University

 

Fiscal Imbalances and Fiscal Gaps: A Critique

Scott Fullwiler and Ryan Sawyer, Wartburg College

 


Panel 13: Macroeconomic Development: Russia and Turkey

Friday, April 23, 2004

2:45-4:15

Moderator: John Marangos, Colorado State University

Discussants: John Marangos, Colorado State University

Papers:

The General Rate of Profit in a Newly Market Economy: Conceptual Issues and Estimates

Alexei Izyumov and Sofia Alterman, University of Louisville

 

The Role of Arms Spending in the Collapse of the Soviet Union

George Hallam, University of Greenwich

 

The Macroeconomic Effects of an IMF-Program: A Structuralist Model for Turkey

Ebru Voyvoda, University of Utah

 

An Outline for the Study of Relations between the State and Banking Sectors in Turkey

Benan Eres, University of Utah

 


Panel 14: Institutional Dimensions of Labor Market Analysis

Friday, April 23, 2004

2:45-4:15

Moderator: Dell Champlin, Eastern Illinois University

Discussant: George DeMartino, University of Denver

Papers:

The Impact of Casino Riverboats on the Economy of Northwest Indiana

Samuel Pavel, Purdue University North Central

 

Center City/Suburban Unemployment Rate Differentials: An Analysis of Empirical Data and Metropolitan Institutions

Matt Wilson, University of Denver

 

A Critical Analysis of Welfare Reform in Washington State: Towards Integration of Demographics and Firm Values in Policy Formulation

Dan Axelsen, Whitworth College, and Daniel Underwood, Peninsula College

 

Toward Catastrophe?  The Demographic Challenge to Current Employment Policy

Clare Hushbeck, AARP

 


Panel 15: Institutionalist Analysis, Past and Present

Friday, April 23, 2004

4:30-6:00

Moderator: Janet Knoedler, Bucknell University

Discussant: James Peach, New Mexico State University, and Glen Atkinson, University of Nevada Reno

Papers:

Reason and Unreason: Modern Industrial Society in the Balance

John Adams, University of Virginia, and Anne Mayhew, University of Tennessee

 

Are We There Yet?  Individuals, Institutions and Economics in the Theory of Business Enterprise

William Waller, Hobart and William Smith College

 

Democracy and the Media: Revisiting the Dewey-Lippman Debate in 2004

Dell P. Champlin, Eastern Illinois University, and Janet T. Knoedler, Bucknell University

 


Panel 16: Roundtable on John B. Davis’s Theory of the Individual in Economics

Date: Saturday

8:00-9:30

Moderator: J. R. Stanfield, Colorado State University

Discussant: John B. Davis, Marquette University

Roundtable Panelists:

William Waller, Hobart and William Smith College

Jon Wisman, American University

Dell Champlin, Eastern Illinois University

J. R. Stanfield, Colorado State University

 


Panel 17: New Ideas in Heterodox Economics Education

Date: Saturday

9:45-11:15

Moderator: Eric Hake, Eastern Illinois University

Discussant: Eric Hake, Eastern Illinois University

Papers:

Tidal Innovations in Principles of Economics

Daniel Underwood, Peninsula College

 

A Classroom Simulation of Economic Development

Thomas Kemp, University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire

 

Liberatory Education and Institutionalist Economics

Nancy Rose, California State University San Bernadino

 


Panel 18: Health, Education, and Childcare

Date: Saturday

9:45-11:15

Moderator: Clare Hushbeck, AARP

Discussants: Clare Hushbeck, AARP, Eric Elliott, Pennsylvania State Educators’ Association

Papers:

Utilization of Preventive Care Under Different Market Structures: The Case of Mammography and Pap-smear in the US (health)

Yavuz Yasar, University of Denver

 

The US Healthcare Industry under Neoliberalism

Debora Wrathall, University of Utah

 

Bankbook, Mapbook, or Textbook?  The Impact of Aging and Migration on Public School Funding

Dan Mercer, Johns Hopkins University

 

The Lack of Affordable, Quality Childcare as Limiting Human Rights

Paula Cole and Valerie Kepner, Colorado State University

 


Panel 19: Economic Thought and Ecology

Date: Saturday

1:00-2:30

Moderator: Dan Underwood, Peninsula College

Discussant: Dan Underwood, Peninsula College

Papers:

An Ecological Economist’s Critique of Bjorn Lomborg’s The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World

Ranganath Murthy, Bucknell University

 

Energy Accounting

George Wright and Ron Miller, Technocracy Inc.

 

Formological Economics and the Collapse of the American Economy

Michael Green, SUNY-Oneonta and Socionomics Institute

 

Heterodox Economics: The Perspective of the American Historian of Economic Thought

Mary Wrenn, Colorado State University

 


Panel 20: Institutionalist and Marxist Theory and Methodology

Date: Saturday

1:00-2:30

Moderator: George DeMartino, University of Denver

Discussant: George DeMartino, University of Denver, Frederic S. Lee, University of Missouri Kansas City

Papers:

Explanation of the Integration of General Systems Principles and Institutional Theory Through Applied Analysis

F. Gregory Hayden, University of Nebraska Lincoln

 

A “New” Emperor, But Still No Clothes?  A Critique of the Post-Walrasian Project

John Finch and Robert McMaster, University of Aberdeen

 

Causality in Marx’s Capital

Hans Ehrbar, University of Utah

 

Controlling Things: Seeing Power in Practice and Theory

Eric Elliott, Pennsylvania State Educators’ Association

 


Panel 21: The Economics of Allen Sievers

Date: Saturday

2:45-4:15

Moderator: Terry Neale, University of Tennessee

Discussant: Terry Neale, University of Tennessee

Roundtable Panelists:

Bruce Brunton, James Madison University

Dell Champlin, Eastern Illinois University

Daniel Underwood, Peninsula College

John Watkins, Westminster College

 

 

 

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