Economics (Association for Institutional Thought)
John F. Henry, University of Missouri-Kansas City
2006 Program, Phoenix
Thursday, April 20, 2006
Association for Institutional Thought (AFIT) Board Meeting and breakfast, 7:00 (AFIT Board only)
Panel 1: Student Paper Contest Finalists
Thursday
8:00-9:30, Salon 4
Moderator: Rick Adkisson, New Mexico State University
Discussants: Eric Hake, Eastern Illinois University and Thomas Kemp, University of Wisconsin, Eau-Claire
“Fisher’s Theory of Interest: A Critique”
Éric Tymoigne, University of Missouri-Kansas City
“Technological Borrowing a la Veblen: A Revisiting of the Theory and Its Implications for Economic Development”
Yan Liang, University of Missouri-Kansas City
“The Role of the Profit Rate in the Business Cycle: Mitchell’s Theory”
Vladimir Hlasny, Michigan State University
“Incorporating Gender in Keynes Theory of Monetary Production”
Zdravka Todorova, University of Missouri-Kansas City
“Recession and Cultural Change in Japan”
Ross Knippenberg, Colorado State University
Panel 2: Institutionalism and Economic Systems in the 21st Century
Thursday
9:45-11:15, Salon 4
Moderator: John F. Henry, University of Missouri-Kansas City
Discussant: Chris Niggle, University of Redlands
“A New View of Comparative Economics”
Eric Hake, Eastern Illinois University
“Comparative Institutional Advantage and Economic Systems”
Geoffrey Schneider, Bucknell University
“Hans Singer, Comparative Development Policies, and Multilateral Negotiations under the Auspices of the WTO”
P. Sai-wing Ho, University of Denver
“Economic Convergence and Factor Price Equalization Across German Regions: Importance of Institutions”
John Hall, Portland State University and Udo Ludwig, University of Leipzig
“Culture & Comparative Economics”
William C. Schaniel, University of West Georgia
Panel 3: Issues in Education and Health Care
Thursday
1:00-2:30, Salon 5
Moderator: William Dugger, University of Tulsa
Discussant: David Zalewski, Providence College
“What Factors Determine the Decline in Student Enrollments in Economics in Australia”
John Marangos, Colorado State University
“The Institutional Arrangements of Medical Transactions”
Robert Kemp, Ohio Northern University
“The Culture Wars Come Home: Analyzing My Experiences on the Professor Watch List”
Nancy E. Rose, California State University, San Bernardino
“Medical Dominance and the Institutions of Health Care Delivery”
Robert Kemp, Ohio Northern University
Panel 4: Issues in Neoliberalism
Thursday
1:00-2:30, Salon 4
Moderator: Janice Peterson, Government Accountability Office
Discussant: John Hall, Portland State University
“The History of the Great Capitalist Restoration”
Mary V. Wrenn, Weber State University
“The Commodification of Babies, Sex, and Information: Limits on the Market’s Reach”
Colleen F. Johnson and Jeffery L. Johnson, Eastern Oregon University
Profit Rate in the Age of Neo-Liberalism: the Turkish Example”
Benan Eres, Ankara University
Panel 5: System Dynamics I
Thursday
2:45-4:15, Salon 4
Moderator: Glen Atkinson, University of Nevada, Reno
Discussant: Gregory Hayden, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
“Germany and Poland: the Common Labor Market Problem, Consideration of Demographic Issues”
Agnieszka Ziomek, University of Economics, Poland and Lars Weber, Brandenburg Technical University of Cottbus, Germany
“On the Importance of IF THEN ELSE: Timing and Financing and Funding Constraints in System Dynamics:
Éric Tymoigne, University of Missouri-Kansas City
“Dynamics of Functional Finance”
Mark Nichols, University of Nevada Reno; Michael Radzicki and Oleg Pavlov, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
“Rebuilding New Orleans: An Agent Based Model”
Mark Nichols, University of Nevada, Reno and Michael Radzicki, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Panel 6: Gender in Theories of Monetary Production
Thursday
2:45-4:15. Salon 5
Moderator: John F. Henry, University of Missouri-Kansas City
Discussant: John Watkins, Westminster College
“Incorporating Gender in Keynes’s Theory of Monetary Production”
Zdravka Todorova, University of Missouri-Kansas City
“Engendering the Monetary Circuit in the Post Keynesian Theory of Monetary Production”
Yan Liang, University of Missouri-Kansas City
“Indian Modes of Production and the Institutions of Money and Gender: An Evolutionary Approach:
Shakuntala Das, University of Missouri-Kansas City
Panel 7: The Wages of Wins: Taking Measure of the Many Myths in Modern
Sport, by David J. Berri, Martin B. Schmidt, and Stacey L. Brook: A Roundtable Discussion
Thursday
4:30-6:00, Salon 4
Moderator: Jim Peach, New Mexico State University
Discussant: David J. Berri, California State University, Bakersfield
Panelists:
James D. Libbin, New Mexico State University
James L. Webb, University of Missouri-Kansas City
Douglas Gegax, New Mexico State University
Janet Knoedler, Bucknell University
Thursday, 6:30, Salon 12
Association for Institutional Thought Reception, Banquet, and Business Meeting
Reservations Required
Presidential Address: Rick Adkisson, New Mexico State University: “Institutionalism
and Evangelical Christianity: Two Peas in a Pod?”
Friday, April 21, 2006
Panel 8: Issues in Development
Friday
8:00-9:30, Salon 4
Moderator: Barbara Wiens-Tuers, Pennsylvania State University, Altoona
Discussants: Wei Ge, Ranganath Murthy, Jane Knoedler, Bucknell University
“Institutional Economics and Transitional Economies”
Wei Ge, Bucknell University
“Offshoring and the Indian Economy”
Ranganath Murthy, Bucknell University
“The Evolution of Caribbean Agriculture”
Winston Griffith, Bucknell University
“Employer of Last Resort Policy with Institutional Adjustment Planning: A Plan for Tunisia”
Fadhel Kaboub, Denison University
Panel 9: Issues in Institutional Theory
Friday
8:00-9:30, Salon 5
Moderator: Robert Prasch, Middlebury College
Discussant: Anne Mayhew, University of Tennessee
“Institutional Economics: A Framework for Policy Analysis”
Janice Peterson, Government Accountability Office
“Social Capital and Cluster-based Economic Development
Michael C. Carroll, Bowling Green State University and Neil Reid, University of Toledo
“The Economist-Ethnographer”
Laura J. Taylor, Willamette University
“Veblenian Economics: Toward the Unity of Knowledge”
Richard Brinkman and June Brinkman, Portland State University
Panel 10: Institutional Theory: A Conversation between American and European Perspectives
Friday
9:45-11:15, Salon 4
Moderator: Geoffrey Schneider, Bucknell University
Discussant: Rick Adkisson, New Mexico State University
“A Pragmatic-Darwinian Stratification of Ontology: On the Need for a Concept of Levels of Possibility”
Matthew Wilson, University of Denver
“Different Meanings of the European ‘Substantive-Formal’ Distinction—a Reevaluation of its History, Meaning, and Potential based on its Origins in the Max Weber Tradition”
Sebastian Berger, University of Bremen
“Formalism, Pragmatism, and Constructive Heterodox Economics”
James Webb, University of Missouri-Kansas City
Panel 11: The Pope, Propaganda, and Emotions
Friday
9:45-11:15, Salon 5
Moderator: Thomas Kemp, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire
Discussant: Eric Hake, Eastern Illinois University
“The Media on the ‘Race to the Bottom’: Why they won’t ask who is killing the middle class”
Dell P. Champlin, Dixie State College of Utah and Janet T. Knoedler, Bucknell University
“Measuring the Emotional Component of the Economy”
Michael K. Green, SUNY-Oneonta
“Institutionalism and Catholic Social Thought: Some Unexplored Connections”
David A. Zalewski, Providence College
Panel 12: How Society Makes Itself, by Howard Sherman: A Roundtable Discussion
Friday
1:00-2:30, Salon 4
Moderator: Reynold Nesiba, Augustana College
Discussant: Howard Sherman, University of California, Los Angeles
Panelists:
William Dugger, University of Tulsa
Barbara Wiens-Tuers, Pennsylvania State University, Altoona
Nancy Rose, California State University, San Bernadino
Panel 13: The Promise of Public Work: Evaluating Argentina’s Recent Experience with Direct Job Creation
Friday
1:00-2:30, Salon 5
Moderator: Fadhel Kaboub, Denison University
Discussants: Panel participants and audience
Panel:
Pavlina R. Tcherneva, University of Missouri-Kansas City
Corinne Pastoret, University of Missouri-Kansas City
Daniel Kostzer, Ministry of Labor, Argentina
Panel 14: Theoretical Discourse
Friday
2:45-4:15, Salon 4
Moderator: Christopher Brown, Arkansas State University
Discussant: John Marangos, Colorado State University
“Why Marx Still Matters”
Jon Wisman, American University
“Testing Marxian Crisis Theory: Real or Financial?
Erdogan Bakir, University of Utah
“On the Application of Biological Metaphors to the Study of Economic Theory”
Paul Kubik, DePaul University
Panel 15: Pragmatism, Evolution, and Religion: Institutional Viewpoints
Friday
2:45-4:15, Salon 5
Moderator: John Adams, University of Virginia
Discussants: Panelists
“From Pragmatism to Technocracy to PROGRESS: Metaphysics and Decline”
Anne Mayhew, University of Tennessee
“Economic Science: Evolution or Intelligent Design”
Milton Lower, Austin, Texas
“Dementia Praecox, Part II: An Institutional Analysis of the Prosperity Gospel”
Alan Dyer, Northeastern Univeristy
“Selling Baby Jesus: Commercializing the Sacred in Modern Capitalism”
John Adams, University of Virginia
Panel 16: Keynes, Veblen, and Finance
Friday
4:30-6:00, Salon 4
Moderator: John F. Henry, University of Missouri-Kansas City
Discussant: Eric Tymoigne, University of Missouri-Kansas City
“Keynesian Fantasies and Veblenian Realities: Financial Sabotage, Euthanasia, and the Resurrection of the Rentier”
John Watkins, Westminster College
“Evolutionary Keynesianism: the Institutionalist Approach to Macroeconomics”
Christopher Niggle, University or Redlands
“Pecuniary Institutions: Their Role and Effects”
Glen Atkinson, University of Nevada, Reno
“Financial Engineering and Effective Demand: The Linkages”
Christopher Brown, Arkansas State University
Panel 17: Policy Concerns
Friday
4:30-6:00, Salon 5
Moderator: Richard Brinkman, Portland State University
Discussant: Reynold Nesiba, Augustana College
“Methodology to Apply Institutionalist Principles and Legal Criteria to Determine Efficiency: a Case Study Regarding Educational Finance”
F. Gregory Hayden, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
“Attempts to Shrink State and Local Government: the Proliferation of Taxpayers Bill of Rights (TABOR)”
Clare Hushbeck, AARP
“Methodological Pluralism at the Federal Reserve: Knowledge, Wesley Mitchell, and the Dialectic of Data and Ideas”
Martha A. Starr, American University
Saturday, April 22
Panel 18: Poverty and Policy
Saturday
8:00-9:30, Salon 4
Moderator: Samuel Pavel, Purdue University, North Central
Discussant: Steven Bolduc, Minnesota State University-Moorhead
“Class in a ‘Classless’ Society”
Anthony Underwood, Purdue University, North Central
“Social Security Reform in Turkey: A Critical Perspective”
Adem Y. Elveren, University of Utah
“On ‘Bad’ Decisions”
John F. Henry, University of Missouri-Kansas City
“Leon H. Keyserling: Economic Policy and its Relevance: Then and Now”
W. Robert Brazleton, University of Missouri-Kansas City
Panel 19: System Dynamics II
Saturday
8:00-9:30, Salon 5
Moderator: F. Gregory Hayden, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Discussant: Glen Atkinson, University of Nevada, Reno
“Competition in the European Union Market for Services—How to Keep the System Running”
Lars Weber and Min Liu, Brandenburg University of Technology, Cottbus, Germany
“An Agent Based Model of Keynes’s Beauty Contest”
Munaf Aamir, Diana Damyanova, Mark W. Nichols, Michael Radzicki, and Esra Unluaslan, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
“Dynastic Cycle: a Generic System Describing Resource Allocation in Political Economies, Markets, and Firms”
Khalid Saeed and Oleg Pavlov, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Panel 20: Ecological Concerns
Saturday
9:45-11:15, Salon 4
Moderator: Gladys Foster, Centennial, Colorado
Discussant:
“Ecological and Institutional Economics: Working Toward a Mutually Beneficial Relationship”
William F. Barnes, University of Portland
“Ecology, Economic Calculation, and Institutional Economics”
Clifford S. Poirot, Jr., Shawnee State University
“The Economics of Water Privatization”
Robert E. Prasch, Middlebury College
“The Ethics of Water Privatization”
Uma Narayan, Vassar College
Panel 21: Issues of Gender
Saturday
9:45-11:15, Salon 5
Moderator: Robert Kemp, Ohio Northern University
Discussant: Barbara Wiens-Tuers, Pennsylvania State University, Altoona
“Uses and Abuses of Sexuality in Social Interactions: the Russian Case
Anton Oleinik, Memorial University of Newfoundland
“Essay on the Feminist Economic Paradigm: Reiterating the Manifestations of Gender Inequalities”
Ozge Ozay and Emel Memis, University of Utah
“The Gender Effects of Structural Adjustment Process: Feminization of the Labor Force; the Case of Turkey”
Ozge Izdes, University of Utah
Panel 22: International Issues I
Saturday
1:00-2:30, Salon 4
Moderator: John Hall, Portland State University
Discussant: Samuel Pavel, Purdue University, North Central
“A Heterodox Assessment of Economic Policy in Colombia: Structures and Agency”
Jairo J. Parada, University of Missouri-Kansas City and Universidad del Norte-Barranquilla-Colombia
“Institutions, Evolution, and the Transition from Socialism to Capitalism: a Reappraisal”
Ryszard Zukowski, Universidad de las Américas, Pueblo, Mexico
“Balance of Payment Constrained Growth: the Case of China”
Yongbok Jeon, University of Utah
Panel 23: Theory of the Firm
Saturday
2:45-4:15, Salon 4
Moderator: Cliff Poirot, Shawnee State University
Discussant: Christopher Brown, Arkansas State University
“A Realist Theory of Business Enterprise”
Tae-Hee Jo, University of Missouri- Kansas City
“The Captain of Industry and the Entrepreneur: Bringing the Individual into the Product Life Cycle”
Timothy A. Wunder, Valparaiso University
“Concentration in the Banking Sector and Financial Stability: the Turkish Experience”
Alper Birdal, University of Utah
“Agrarian Transformation in a Liberalized Landscape: Agricultural Scientific Research, Corporate Interests, and Contemporary Policy in India.
Tara Natarajan, Saint Michael’s College and Sunder Ramaswamy, Middlebury College
Panel 24: International Issues II
Saturday
2:45-4:15, Salon 5
Moderator: John F. Henry, University of Missouri-Kansas City
Discussant: Jairo Parada, University of Missouri-Kansas City and Universidad del Norte-Barranquilla - Colombia
“International Trade in a Flat World: A Fable”
Gladys Foster, Centennial, Colorado
“Short Term Interest Rate as a Policy Tool under Alternative Exchange Rate Regimes: the Case of Turkey”
Ozden Birkan, University of Utah
“Dependency in the Maghreb”
Mehdi Ben Guirat, University of Missouri-Kansas City
“FDI, International Trade, and Institutional Reform in Bulgaria”
Aristidis Bitzenis and A. Andronikidis, University of Macedonia
John Marangos, Colorado State University
The 49th WSSA Conference will be held in Calgary, Alberta, April 11-14. See you there!
Back to Conference Proceedings