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Link to AFIT Programs, Proceedings and Abstracts- 2001, 2002 & 2003
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
In conjunction with the Western Social Science Association (WSSA) 46th Annual Conference
Economics (Association For Institutional Thought) Section
Geoffrey Schneider, Chair
Panel 1: Inequality in Theory and Reality 1
Moderator: William M. Dugger,
Discussant: William M. Dugger,
Papers:
Global Inequality Today
William A. Darity,
Jr.,
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,
Racial U-Turn in US Residential Homeownership in the 1990s: Empirical Evidence
Gary Dymski,
Panel 2: Heterodox Perspectives on Trade and Development
Moderator: John Hall,
Discussant: John Hall,
Papers:
From
Peter Sai-wing Ho,
In Search of Lost Dissenus: Was Pop Liberalism Right?
Matias Vernengo,
Can the 'capitalist'
sector and the 'subsistence' sector expand simultaneously? Winston Griffith,
Land Use: Fiscal System Interaction in Metropolitan Regions
Glen Atkinson,
Panel 3: Heterodox Analysis of Finance and Macroeconomics
Moderator: Korkut Ertuk,
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,
Unveiling Money: A Synthesis of Marx and Keynes
Yavuz Yasar, Unversity
of
Changes in Investors’ Sentiments and the Real Economy
Gokcer Ozgur,
Firms’ Investment Decisions Under Conditions of ‘Financialization’
Ozgur Orhangazi,
AFIT Board Meeting and Lunch
Panel 4: Heterodox Methodology: Issues, Approaches and Ethics
Moderator: Mayo Toruno,
Discussant: Rick Tilman, Mayo Toruno,
Papers:
Capitalism and Friedman: The Individualist Versus the Social Point of View
Howard J. Sherman,
I Do Solemnly Swear… On the Need for Professional Economic Ethics
George DeMartino,
Ranking Heterodox Economic Journals and Departments: Suggested Methodologies
Frederic S. Lee,
Undermining Underdetermination and Unburdening Theory Ladenness
James Webb,
Panel 5: Inequality in Theory and Reality 2
Moderator: Gary Dymski,
Discussants: Gary Dymski,
Papers:
Is There an Institutionalist Theory of Distribution?
Christopher Brown,
Legitimating Inequality: Fooling Most of the People All the Time
Jon Wisman,
Revealed (or Imposed) Social Preferences for Equality and Growth
David Kiefer and Shahrukh
Rafi Khan,
Minimum Wage Legislation and the Theory of Reasonable Value
Colleen Johnson, Eastern
Panel 6: Financial Crises in Developing Countries
Moderator: Ken
Jameson,
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
Ken Jameson,
On the Changing Nature of Currency Crises
Korkut Erturk,
Turkish Financial Crises Under Liberalization
Ferda Donmez,
The 2000/2001 Turkish Financial Crisis: Were the IMF Policies to Blame?
Secil Pacaci, Univeristy
of
Panel 7: Veblen Redux
Moderator: E.
K. Hunt,
Discussants: William Waller,
Papers:
Was Veblen a Marxist?
Howard Sherman,
Some Interesting Aspects of Veblen
William M. Dugger,
The Theory of Democracy Implied in Veblen
Mayo Toruno,
Veblen’s Views on American Exceptionalism: An Interpretation
Rick Tilman,
Association For Institutional Thought Reception, Business Meeting, and Banquet
Presidential Address: Engineers of the Price System
Mathew Forstater,
Panel 8: Institutionalist Perspectives on a One-System World
Moderator: Winston Griffith,
Discussants: Winston Griffith,
Papers:
John Hall,
Developing Countries in a One-System World
Geoffrey Schneider,
Alternative Models of Transition and Institutional Development
John Marangos,
An Institutionalist Model for a Globalized Economy
Gladys Foster,
Panel 9: Roundtable on Working in the 21st Century
Moderator: Dell Champlin, Eastern
Discussant: The Panelists
Panel Participants:
The Standard Worker
Ann Jennings,
Contingent Workers
Barbara Wiens-Tuers,
Technology and the Future Workforce
Janet Knoedler,
Work Time and Overtime in a Collective Bargaining Environment
Robert LaJeunesse,
Universities and the Workplace of the Future
Anne Mayhew,
Research Issues Related
to the Growing Latino Population in the
Carolyn Aldana,
Immigration Policy and the Public Interest
Dell Champlin, Eastern
Panel 10: Neoliberalism in the
Moderator: Al Campbell,
Discussants: The Panelists
Papers:
The Birth of Neoliberalism as Policy and Institutional Change
Al Campbell,
The Political Economy of US Multilateral Trade Agreements
Sakshi Huzaria,
The Profit Rate in
the Non-Financial Corporate Sector in the
Erdogan Bakir,
Panel 11: Issues in the Heterodox Analysis of Development, Industrialization and Trade
Moderator: Al
Campbell,
Discussants: The Panelists
Papers:
Economic Anthropology and Institutionalist Economics
Justin Elardo,
Deindustrialization and (Under)Development
Alper Birdal,
The Impact of the
Feminization of the Labor Force on the Profit Rates of Private Industries
in the
Emil Memis and Erdogan
Bakir,
Globalization and the Nation-State
Mehmet Ali Civelek,
Panel 12: Institutional Analysis of Macroeconomic Policy Issues
Moderator: Anne Mayhew,
Discussant: Anne Mayhew,
Papers:
A Short Course on Macroeconomics, or Whatever Happened to Monetarism?
Christopher Niggle,
How to Bring Back the Bull: Blue Skies or Bigger Fools?
Eric Hake, Eastern
An Institutional Business Cycle Explanation of the Current Downturn
Timothy Wunder,
Fiscal Imbalances and Fiscal Gaps: A Critique
Scott Fullwiler and
Ryan Sawyer,
Panel 13: Macroeconomic Development:
Moderator: John Marangos,
Discussants: John Marangos,
Papers:
The General Rate of Profit in a Newly Market Economy: Conceptual Issues and Estimates
Alexei Izyumov and
Sofia Alterman,
The Role of Arms Spending
in the Collapse of the
George Hallam,
The Macroeconomic
Effects of an IMF-Program: A Structuralist Model for
Ebru Voyvoda,
An Outline for the
Study of Relations between the State and Banking Sectors in
Benan Eres,
Panel 14: Institutional Dimensions of Labor Market Analysis
Moderator: Dell Champlin, Eastern
Discussant: George DeMartino,
Papers:
The Impact of Casino
Riverboats on the Economy of
Samuel Pavel,
Center City/Suburban Unemployment Rate Differentials: An Analysis of Empirical Data and Metropolitan Institutions
Matt Wilson,
A Critical Analysis
of Welfare Reform in
Dan Axelsen,
Toward Catastrophe? The Demographic Challenge to Current Employment Policy
Clare Hushbeck, AARP
Panel 15: Institutionalist Analysis, Past and Present
Moderator: Janet Knoedler,
Discussant: James Peach,
Papers:
Reason and Unreason: Modern Industrial Society in the Balance
John Adams,
Are We There Yet? Individuals, Institutions and Economics in the
Theory of Business
William Waller,
Democracy and the Media: Revisiting the Dewey-Lippman Debate in 2004
Dell P. Champlin,
Eastern
Panel 16: Roundtable on John B. Davis’s Theory of the Individual in Economics
Date: Saturday
Moderator: J. R. Stanfield,
Discussant: John B. Davis,
Roundtable Panelists:
William Waller,
Jon Wisman,
Dell Champlin, Eastern
J. R. Stanfield,
Panel 17: New Ideas in Heterodox Economics Education
Date: Saturday
Moderator: Eric Hake, Eastern
Discussant: Eric Hake, Eastern
Papers:
Tidal Innovations in Principles of Economics
Daniel Underwood,
A Classroom Simulation of Economic Development
Thomas Kemp,
Liberatory Education and Institutionalist Economics
Nancy Rose,
Panel 18: Health, Education, and Childcare
Date: Saturday
Moderator: Clare Hushbeck, AARP
Discussants: Clare Hushbeck, AARP, Eric Elliott,
Papers:
Utilization of Preventive
Care Under Different Market Structures: The Case of Mammography and Pap-smear
in the
Yavuz Yasar,
The
Debora Wrathall,
Bankbook, Mapbook, or Textbook? The Impact of Aging and Migration on Public School Funding
Dan Mercer,
The Lack of Affordable, Quality Childcare as Limiting Human Rights
Paula Cole and Valerie
Kepner,
Panel 19: Economic Thought and Ecology
Date: Saturday
Moderator: Dan Underwood,
Discussant: Dan Underwood,
Papers:
An Ecological Economist’s
Critique of Bjorn Lomborg’s The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the
Ranganath Murthy,
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,
Panel 20: Institutionalist and Marxist Theory and Methodology
Date: Saturday
Moderator: George DeMartino,
Discussant: George DeMartino,
Papers:
Explanation of the Integration of General Systems Principles and Institutional Theory Through Applied Analysis
F. Gregory Hayden,
A “New” Emperor, But Still No Clothes? A Critique of the Post-Walrasian Project
John Finch and Robert
McMaster,
Causality in Marx’s Capital
Hans Ehrbar,
Controlling Things: Seeing Power in Practice and Theory
Eric Elliott,
Panel 21: The Economics of Allen Sievers
Date: Saturday
Moderator: Terry Neale,
Discussant: Terry Neale,
Roundtable Panelists:
Bruce Brunton,
Dell Champlin, Eastern
Daniel Underwood,
John Watkins,
