ECONOMICS (ASSOCIATION FOR INSTITUTIONAL THOUGHT)
preliminary schedule 1/25/07 Calgary, Canada
Panel 1 Public Policy
Thursday
8:00 – 9:30
Imperial Ballroom 8
Moderator: William Barnes, University of Portland
Discussant: Eric Hake, Eastern Illinois University
“Lessons Learned from Fighting TABOR (Taxpayer Bill of Rights)”
Clare Hushbeck, AARP
“Updating the Commons Tax”
J. Dennis Chasse, State University of New York, College at Brockport (ret)
“Fiscal Policy in Colombia: Procyclical or Countercyclical?”
Jairo J. Parada, Universidad del Norte and William R. Baca, Universidad del Norte
Panel 2 Economic Anthropology
Thursday
9:45 – 11:15
Imperial Ballroom 8
Moderator: Thomas Kemp, University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire
Discussant: Geoff Schneider, Bucknell University
“Situated Bounded Rationality: Linking Institutional Analysis to Cognitive,
Processual, and Phenomenological Approaches in Anthropology”
Brian Donahoe, Siberian Studies Centre, Max Planck Institute
for Social Anthropology
“Economic Anthropology and the Evolution of Institutionalist Thought since the Great Debate.”
Justin A. Elardo, Ohio State University
“Primitive Trade Relations: A Proposed Solution”
Éric Tymoigne, California State University, Fresno
John F. Henry, University of Missouri, Kansas City
“Economic Anthropology and the New Comparative Economics”
Eric Hake, Eastern Illinois University
Panel 3 Theory of Business Enterprise
Thursday
1:00 – 2:30
Imperial Ballroom 8
Moderator: Eric R. Hake, Eastern Illinois University
Discussant: Chris Niggle, University of the Redlands
“Toward an Institutional Theory of the Firm: Commons, Coase, and Chandler”
Ted Oleson, University of Nevada, Reno, Department of Economics
“The Economics of Fraud”
Robert E. Prasch, Middlebury College
“Rules and Institutions as Opportunity Cost Patterns”
Paul Fudulu, University of Bucharest, Faculty of Political Studies
Panel 4 Capitalism and Power
Thursday
2:45 – 4:15
Imperial Ballroom 8
Moderator: Justin A. Elardo, Ohio State University
Discussant: Dell Champlin, Western Washington University
“Critical Analysis of Capitalism: Marx, Veblen, Galbraith”
Mary V. Wrenn, Weber State University, Ron Stanfield,
Colorado State University and Bowling Green State University and Mike Carroll,
Bowling Green State University
“A Post Keynesian Approach to Crime”
Steven Pressman, Monmouth University
"Inequality, Power and Distributive Justice"
Eric A. Schutz, Rollins College
Panel 5 Financing College Athletics: A Roundtable
Thursday
4:30 – 6:00
Imperial Ballroom 8
Moderator: Jim Peach, New Mexico State University
Panelists:
Janet Knoedler, Bucknell University
James Webb, University of Missouri Kansas City
James Libbin, New Mexico State University
Robert Prasch, Middlebury College
Association for Institutional Thought Reception, Banquet, and Business Meeting
Thursday
6:30 p.m.
TBA
Reservations Required
Presidential Address: John Henry, University of Missouri, Kansas City
“Would Groucho Join AFIT?”
Panel 6 Government and Development
Friday
8:00 – 9:30
Imperial Ballroom 8
Moderator: J. Dennis Chase, SUNY College at Brockport
Discussant: Winston H. Griffith, Bucknell University
“The Institution of Public Investment: The Rise of American Municipal Enterprise During the Nineteenth Century”
Matthew C. Wilson, The University of Denver
“Accounting for Energy in a Renewable Age”
Jack Reardon, University of Wisconsin, Stout and Glen Atkinson, University of Nevada, Reno
“Contrasting Myrdal’s ‘soft state’ with the Neoclassical notion of ‘government failure’”
P. Sai-wing Ho, University of Denver
Panel 7 The Middle Class Dream
Friday
9:45 – 11:15
Imperial Ballroom 8
Moderator: Reynold Nesiba, Augustana College
Discussant: Charles Whalen, Perspectives on Work (Ted Oleson UNR)
“The Media on the ‘Race to the Bottom’: Why they won’t ask the right questions about who is killing the middle class”
Dell P. Champlin, Western Washington University
Janet T. Knoedler, Bucknell University
“Why Do Consumers Borrow? An Application of the Institutional Theory of Habit Selection.”
Christopher Brown, Arkansas State University
“Savings, Class Identity, and Conspicuous Consumption”
Jon D. Wisman, American University and Talip Kilic, American University
“Keeping it Simple, Voluntarily: Alternative Consumption in Portland, Oregon”
William Barnes, University of Portland
Panel 8 Comparative Economics
Friday
1:00 – 2:30
Imperial Ballroom 8
Moderator: Chris Niggle, University of Redlands
Discussant: John Marangos, Colorado State University
“An Interdisciplinary Study for a Broader Economic Analysis”
W. Robert Brazelton, University Of Missouri-Kansas City
“Institutions and Relatively High Rates of Persistent Unemployment in Eastern Germany”
John Hall, Portland State University, USA
Udo Ludwig, Leipzig University
“Trade, People and Places: An Institutionalist, Social Economic and Geographic Approach to Comparative Institutional Advantage”
Geoffrey Schneider, Bucknell University and Paul Susman, Bucknell University
Panel 9 Issues in Education Friday
2:45 – 4:15
Imperial Ballroom 8
Moderator: Chris Brown, Arkansas State University
Discussant: Jack Reardon, University of Wisconsin - Stout
“The “Discouraged-Business-Major Hypothesis”: Empirical Evidence”
John Marangos, Colorado State University
"Developing a Learning Community in Math and Economics"
Janice Peterson, California State University - Fresno
“The Business School in the Corporation of Higher Learning in the USA”
Robert Kemp, Bluffton University
“Visual-Verbal Connections as an Aid to Classroom Learning”
Katie Kuhr and Marvin Bulgatz, Montana State University – Billings
Panel 10 The State of the State in Heterodox Economics
Friday
4:30 – 6:00
Imperial Ballroom 8
Moderator and Discussant: Sam Pavel, Purdue University, North Central
“A Marxist View of the State and Government”
John F Henry, University of Missouri, Kansas City
“Toward ‘Wisely Managed’ Capitalism: Keynes, Post-Keynesianism and the Creative State”
Charles J. Whalen, Perspectives on Work
“Piercean and Deweyan Perspectives on Policy”
C. S. Poirot Jr., Shawnee State University
“An Institutional Perspective on Government”
Timothy Wunder, Valparaiso University
Panel 11 Ceremony, Custom, and Reality
Saturday
8:00 – 9:30
Imperial Ballroom 8
Moderator: Matt C. Wilson, University of Denver
Discussant: Chip Poirot, Shawnee State University
“The Marginalist-Antimarginalist Controversy and Peirce's Semiotics”
James L. Webb, University of Missouri, Kansas City
“The Embryonic Stem Cell Research Debate: Minority View and Ceremonial Encapsulation”
Quentin Duroy, Denison University
“Individual Discretion, Custom, Law, Technology, and Institutional Change”
Thomas Kemp, University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire
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