Pluralism and Global South perspectives in economics – YSI@AHE conf. 2020

Programs to the events connected to this call

We have four scheduled events connected to this call, two during the Association for Heterodox Economics Conference (one paper session and one plenary with keynotes – you can find the full program of AHE Conference here) and two separate Webinars. We present them bellow chronologically.

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1) July 8th – 2 PM (British Time) – YSI Webinar: Heterodox Economics and HET
Leandro Velasco (Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Argentina) – The disembarkation of the Chicago Boys in Latin America The case of the economics degree at the National University of Cuyo.
Valentina Erasmo (University of Study G. d'Annunzio, Italy) – Commitment, Empathy and their common Reflexivity for a social molecular space: opportunities and limits of this alternative to social atomism since Amartya Sen’s
Angshuman Sarma (Jawaharlal Nehru University, India) – Food Sovereignty and COVID 19 crisis: a Regional Response
For more information on this Webinar, click here.

2) July 10th – 3:30 PM (British Time) – Paper session – YSI @ Association for Heterodox Economics Conference: Pluralism and Global South Perspectives in Economics
Maísa Goulart (University of Campinas, Brazil): More Pluralism: considerations about the Post-Autistic Economics Movement relevance
Barkin Cihanli (Levy Economics Institute, Bard College, USA): The Holistic Approach: Institutions, Investment and Finance and the Unemployment in the Financial Instability Hypothesis
Leandro Bona (National University of La Plata and CONICET, Argentina) – De-coloniality and pluralism for Introductory Economics. An experience from Argentina

3) July 29th – 2 PM (British Time) – YSI Webinar: Heterodox Approaches to Finance
Francisco Perez (University of Massachusetts, USA) – Liberating African Money: Joseph Tschundjang Pouémi's Contributions To Monetary Theory
Riccardo Zolea (Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Italy) – The relationship between profit rate and interest rate: the role of bank profitability
Up Sira Nukulkit (SUNY Purchase College, USA) – Inequality and the Capital Controversy: A Cambridge-Cambridge View of Technological Progress in Piketty and Marx
For more information on this Webinar, click here

4)July 31th – 1:30 PM (British Time) Plenary – YSI @ Association for Heterodox Economics Conference: Heterodox Economics – Perspectives from the Global South
Prabhat Patnaik (Jawaharlal Nehru University): Globalization, Inequality, and Economic Crisis
Lucia Pradella (King's College, London): Bordering the Surplus Population across the Mediterranean: Imperialism and Unfree Labour in Libya and the Italian Countryside

Yahya Madra (Drew University): Whither development after neoliberalism: Corporate nationalism vs. democratic economy

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**Deadline extension for parallel online workshop

Dear YSI Community,

Given the last changes in the "Association for Heterodox Economics" Conference we will have a limited amount of papers during the conference. For this reason, we decided to start another discussion workshop on the topic, offering a deadline extension for interest young scholars (YS).

The workshop will be held online and will take place on July, 9th

The link for abstract submissions is the same as it was before, and interested YS should fill this form (https://fs8.formsite.com/CNZLjX/dknxgtqgik/index.html?157332160057) with a extended abstract proposal until May 20th.

For those selected, full papers are expected by June, 10th. YS that have already submitted a proposal for the previous call are already under consideration for this online workshop.

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The current historical juncture has exposed the need for alternate ways of thinking about several economic issues. In this regard, the community of heterodox scholars have been playing a key role in offering alternative frameworks of analysis for engaging with these issues. On the one hand, there is an increasing need to engage with these alternate frameworks in order to develop a more holistic understanding of various economic issues and how they interact with other aspects of the society. On the other hand, the dominant heterodox traditions also often fall short of engaging with the heterodox strands and insights from a Global South-centric perspective. These strands that use the lens of the Global South offer important insights that either inform and enrich the existing heterodox frameworks or, at times, depart significantly from these to provide an alternate understanding of various economic phenomena, particularly in the field of economic development.

In this context, we invite Young Scholars interested in the History of Economic Thought, mainly with focus on heterodox economics and pluralism, and in the issues of Economic Development from Global South-centric heterodox perspectives to submit their papers on these themes for our YSI workshop. The workshop is being organised during the Association for Heterodox Economics Conference, which will take place at Milton Keynes, England, July 2-4, 2020.
We aim to organize a workshop that will include five sessions within the Conference, which will focus, although not be limited to, these sub-topics:

a) The contributions of pluralist, eclectic, mixed and transdisciplinary economists, institutes, doctrines and schools of thought in the past.
b) The history of academic, political and theoretical struggles among and between economic theories.
c) The history of economic teaching and learning and the conflicts regarding pluralism in economics curricula.
d) A Global South lens to understand the issues of economic growth, development and structural transformation.
e) Global south perspectives regarding precarity, informality and exclusion.
f) Decolonization, Global South perspectives and dominant heterodoxy: to what extent does heterodox economics escape from decolonizing critiques.

Interested Young Scholars may submit a 1000 to 2000 word long extended abstract by March 31st 2020. Apply here!
Each selected young scholar will be required to submit full papers, which they will be presenting at the workshop, before June 10th 2020. Each young scholar will discuss the paper of a fellow young scholar and senior scholars participating at the Association for Heterodox Economics Conference will be invited as discussants.

YSI will provide partial funding for travel expenses and accommodation for the selected participants. The Association for Heterodox Economics (AHE) Conference will be covering the conference registration fee for the YSI participants. However, if a YSI participant presents their paper at the AHE (outside of the YSI workshops), they will need to independently register at the Conference's website (www.hetecon.net).
The activities will be coordinated by Ian C S Almeida, Nicolás Dvoskin and and Surbhi Kesar, members of the History of Economic Thought Working Group and Economic Development Working Group of the Young Scholars Initiative. If you have any questions, please contact us het@youngscholarsinitiative.org or development@youngscholarsinitiative.org.