The preliminary program for the AFIT portion of WSSA’s 47th Annual Conference
to be held in
Albuquerque, NM
April 13 to 16, 2005
At the Hyatt Hotel
Economics (Association for Institutional Thought)
Richard V. Adkisson, New Mexico State University
Panel 1 Theoretical Issues in Institutional Economics
Moderator: Harold Wolozin, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Discussant: Christopher Niggle, University of Redlands
“The Role of Agency in OIE and NIE Thought”
Mary Wrenn, Idaho State University
“Of Transactions and Transaction Costs: Uncertainty, Policy, and the Process of Law in the Thought of Commons and Williamson”
Thomas Kemp, University of Wisconsin, Eau Clair
“John B. Davis’s “Theory of the Individual” Applied: Two Case Studies; Thorstein Veblen and Joseph Schumpeter”
Timothy A. Wunder, Valparaiso University
“An Application of Institutionalist Value Theory to Politics”
Gladys Foster, University of Colorado
Panel 2 Inequality
Moderator: William M Dugger, The University of Tulsa
Discussants: Mayo Toruno, California State University, San Bernardino and Barbara Wiens-Tuers, Penn State, Altoona
“Inequality and Critical Marxism”
Howard Sherman, University of California, Los Angeles
“Inequality, Scarcity, and Abundance”
William M. Dugger, The University of Tulsa and James T. Peach, New Mexico State University
“Locked Out: How Mortgage Market Discrimination Creates and Perpetuates Wealth and Income Inequality”
Reynold Nesiba, Augustana College
Panel 3 Methods and Issues in Economic Development I
Moderator: Christopher Niggle, University of Redlands
Discussant: Richard Brinkman, Portland State University
“An Evolutionary Approach to Modeling Economic Development”
Daniel A. Underwood, Peninsula College and Dan Axelsen, ERS Group
“The Heartbreak of Hysteresis: The Case of Haiti”
Cecilia Winters, Manhattanville College
“Size and Development”
Winston H. Griffith, Bucknell University
“America’s Perpetual Trade Deficit: An Institutionalist Interpretation”
John Watkins, Westminster College
Panel 4 Methodological Issues in Institutional Economics I
Moderator: Jon D. Wisman, American University
Discussant: F. Gregory Hayden, University of Nebraska
“Methodological, Teleological and Formlogical Social Ontologies”
Michael K. Green, State University of New York, Oneonta
“The Effectiveness of Mathematics in Physics: Some Object Lessons for Economics”
Ranganath Murthy, Bucknell University
“Quantum Mechanics: A More Realistic Explanation of Market Forces”
Jack Reardon, University of Wisconsin, Stout
"Dewey's Inquiry and Empirical Economics"
James Webb, University of Missouri, Kansas City
Panel 5 The Institutional Economics of Terry Neale, Broadly Stated: A Roundtable
Moderator: Dell P. Champlin, Eastern Illinois University
Discussants: Panelists
“Terry Neale’s Contributions to the Economics of Karl Polani”
Eric Hake, Eastern Illinois University
“Terry Neale’s Contributions to Economic Anthropology”
William Schaniel, West Georgia College
“Terry Neale’s Contributions to Economic History, Part 1”
Sherryl Davis Kasper, Maryville College
“Terry Neale’s Contributions to Economic History, Part 2”
Janet T. Knoedler, Bucknell University
“Terry Neale’s Monies in Society”
Tony Maynard, Lebanon Valley College
“Terry Neale’s Contributions to Institutional Economics, Part 1”
Robert E. Prasch, Middlebury College
“Terry Neale’s Contributions to Institutional Economics, Part 2”
William Waller, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Panel 6 Methods and Issues in Economic Development II
Moderator: Frederic Lee, University of Missouri, Kansas City
Discussant: Winston Griffith, Bucknell University
“The 1964-74 Expansion in Argentina”
Luis F. Brunstein, Rowan University
“Components of Rising Inequality in Vietnam: The Changing Role of Education”
Jasper Hoek and Thu Thi Thi Hoang, New Mexico State University
“The Veblenian Theory of Institutional Change: A Case Study of the Colombian Colonial Institutions”
Jairo J. Parada, Universidad del Norte
“Transfer of Institutions: Actors and Constraints (Russian case in a global context)”
Anton Oelinik, Memorial University of Newfoundland
“An Institutional Approach to the Development of Farming Interest Groups in Australia”
John Marangos, Colorado State University
Panel 7 Issues in Public Policy
Moderator: Scott Fullwiler, Wartburg College
Discussant: Gladys Foster, University of Colorado
“Current Issues in Unemployment Insurance Reform”
Janice Peterson, GAO
“American Health Economics versus the Economic Evaluation of Health Care Delivery”
Robert Kemp, Ohio Northern University
“The Aging of America and Its Implications for State and Local Revenues: A Summary of Survey Findings”
Clare Hushbeck, AARP
“Colorado’s Constitutional Conundrum”
Matthew C. Wilson, University of Denver
Panel 8 Methodological Issues in Institutional Economics II
Moderator: Janet Knoedler, Bucknell University
Discussant: James Webb, University of Missouri, Kansas City
“Modeling of Normative Criteria in Complex Systems”
F. Gregory Hayden, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
“Universal versus Specific Categories of Network Capitalism: On the Dialectics of the Abstract and the Concrete”
Anton Oleinik, Memorial University of Newfoundland
“System Closure and Abstraction in Growth Theories: Critical Realist Perspective”
Yan Liang and Tae-Hee Jo, University of Missouri, Kansas City
“Common Ground for Institutional Economics and System Dynamics”
Glen Atkinson, University of Nevada, Reno
Panel 9 It’s Not Just About the Good Ol’ Boys Anymore:
Labor Issues of the 21st Century
Moderator: Nancy Rose, California State University, San Bernardino
Discussants: Panelists
“Labor Issues in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Households:
Nancy Rose, California State University, San Bernardino
"What's Up with Mandatory Overtime? The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly."
Barbara Wiens-Tuers, Penn State, Altoona
“People of Color, People of Power?”
Carolyn Aldana, California State University, San Bernardino
Panel 10 Institutional Visions of the Ethical Society
Friday
1:00-2:30
Moderator: Eric Hake, Eastern Illinois University
Discussants: Anne Mayhew, University of Tennessee and Eric Hake, Eastern Illinois University
“Faith-Based Economics: The Role of Government in the Moral Economy”
Dell P. Champlin, Eastern Illinois University and Janet T. Knoedler, Bucknell University
“Monsignor John Ryan on the Ethics and Economics of Minimum Wage Legislation”
Robert E. Prasch, Middlebury College
“What Ken Lay Did Not Learn from Adam Smith”
Sherryl Davis Kasper, Maryville College
“Markets, Democracy, and Morality”
Mayo Toruno, California State University, San Bernardino
Panel 11 Issues in Money and Banking
Friday
1:00-2:30
Moderator: Christopher Niggle, University of Redlands
Discussant: Scott Fullwiler, Wartburg College
“Economic and Legal Interpretations of Antitrust Laws: The Case of Bank Mergers and Acquisitions”
Vange Mariet Ocasio, Colorado State University
“Polanyi on Money – A Historical, Anthropological and Sociological Approach”
Yan Liang, Univeristy of Missouri, Kansas City
“Chartalism, Stage of Banking, and Liquidity Preference”
Eric Tymoigne, University of Missouri, Kansas City
“A Feasible Plan for Prosperity?”
Joelle LeClaire and Corinne Pastoret, University of Missouri, Kansas City
Panel 12 Teaching of Economics
Moderator: Randy McFerrin, New Mexico State University
Discussant: Jack Reardon, University of Wisconsin, Stout
“Game Theory, Quantitative Reasoning, and Critical Thinking in the Economics Curriculum”
Daniel A. Underwood, Peninsula College
“Evolutionary Game Theory as an Institutional Pedagogical Tool:
Dan Friesner, Gonzaga University and Dan Axelsen, ERS Group
“Teaching Graduate Neoclassical Microeconomics from a Heterodox Perspective”
Frederic S. Lee, University of Missouri, Kansas City
“Get Your Degree from Educational ATM: An Empirical Study on Online Education”
Yu-Feng L. Lee and Hien Nguyen, New Mexico State University
Panel 13: Health Care in the United States
Moderator: Janice Peterson, GAO
Discussant: Clare Hushbeck, AARP
“The Cost of the Failure to Deliver Public Health Care in the USA”
Robert Kemp, Ohio Northern University
“Market Structure and Utilization of Preventive Care: A Multilevel Analysis”
Yavuz Yasar, University of Denver
“Perverse Incentives, Perverse Outcomes: Some Observations on Healthcare in the U.S.”
Scott Fullwiler and Yuliana Musalimova, Wartburg College
Panel 14 Output and Environment
Moderator: Jack Reardon, University of Wisconsin, Stout
Discussant: Thomas Kemp, University of Wisconsin, Eau Clair
“Applying Institutional Economics to Environmental Sustainability: A Reflection on Theory and Tools”
William Barnes, University of Portland
“The Politics and Economics of Alternative Fuels”
Mark Gaber, St. Norbert College
“Ceremonial Encapsulation, Double Diversion, and the Clean Air Act of 1970”
Steven R. Bolduc, Minnesota State University, Moorhead
“Purpose and Measurement of National Income and Product”
Glen Atkinson, University of Nevada, Reno
Panel 15 Public Policy and the Poor
Moderator: Carolyn Aldana, California State University, San Bernardino
Discussant: Nancy Rose, California State University, San Bernardino
“A Theory of Reasonable (or Unreasonable) Value: Federal Inaction on Minimum Wage Legislation”
Colleen F. Johnson, Eastern Oregon University
“State Lotteries: Using State Power to Fleece the Less Privileged”
Jon D. Wisman, American University
“Welfare Reform and Migration Decisions”
Valerie Kepner, Colorado State University
“Variations in State Childcare Policies”
Paula M. Cole, Colorado State University
Panel 16 Methodological Issues in Institutional Economics III
Moderator: Steven R. Bolduc, University of Minnesota, Moorhead
Discussant: Timothy A. Wunder, Valparaiso, University
“Common Property Regimes: Some Empirical and Methodological Issues”
Sirisha Naidu, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
“Power, Class and Economic Inequality in Neoclassical Terms”
Eric A. Schutz, Rollins College
“Economic Efficiency an Institutional Change: Analyses and Implications for Public Policy”
Chi-ang Lin, National Chengchi University and Augustana College
Panel 17: Psychology and Culture in Evolutionary Economics
Moderator: Reynold Nesiba, Augustana College
Discussant: Thomas Kemp, University of Wisconsin, Eau Clair
“Cultural Lag in the Tradition of Veblenian Economics”
Richard L. Brinkman and June E. Brinkman, Portland State University
“The Underworld of Economic Behavior”
Harold Wolozin, University of Massachusetts, Boston
“Can Social Economics be an Evolutionary Science?”
Chip Poirot, Shawnee State University
“Quantifying Culture?”
Randy McFerrin and Richard V. Adkisson, New Mexico State University
Panel 18: The Peculiar Institutions of Sports; Race, Discrimination, and Base-Load Fans
Saturday
4:30-6:00
Moderator: James T. Peach, New Mexico State University
Discussants: James L. Webb, University of Missouri, Kansas City and David J. Berri, California State University, Bakersfield
“Race and the Evaluation of Signal Callers in the National Football League”
David J. Berri, California State University, Bakersfield and Rob Simmons, Lancaster University, UK
“Denial of Equal Protection Rights under Title IX in Intercollegiate Sports”
J. Douglas Compton, Cuddy, Kennedy, Albetta & Ives LLP, Santa Fe, NM and Nina H. Compton, New Mexico State University
“Base-Load Baseball Fans and Attendance: A Useful Measure of Die-Hard versus Casual Fans”
Doug Gegax and Larry Blank, New Mexico State University
“Testing for a Popularity Bias in National Football League Gambling”
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