AHE online conference 2020

Meeting Room (Welcome; Messages; Cafe/ Chat room)

This is where messages about the forum are posted, and also a space to meet and talk to other Heterodox Economists from around the world.

Group 1: Methodology; Critique; Alternatives

Papers: 1. The importance of realistic assumptions in economic modeling 2. Dynamics versus Statics: On the Nature of Heterodox and Orthodox Economics 3. Autonomous components and capital accumulation in Richard Cantillon’s Essai? An inquiry through the lens of modern growth theory 4. During and after the pandemic – how to re-forge the economy and society

Group 2: Labor; Employment; Planning

Papers: 1. What explains ELR policy decline v. persistence? 2. Shifts in Traditional Work Practices amongst Himalayan Tribes in a State of Conflict 3. Understanding Poverty, Informality And Labour Markets In Tanzania’s Artisanal And Small-Scale Gold Mining (Asgm) Sector : A Case Study Of Geita Region 4. Viable and Progressive Technical Changes: an Empirical Study Using the World Input-Output Database

Group 3: Networks; Systems

Papers: 1. Network dynamics, with applications to sustainability in the face of pandemics: when will a large, complex system be stable?2. Networks as a Tool in Heterodox Economics: A Fresh Look at the Developing World 3. Industry 4.0: Is Siemens’s in the path to become a data-driven intellectual monopoly?

Group 4: Marxian approaches; Imperialism

Papers: 1. Marxist Inflation Theory: A Numerical Model2. Estimating Economic Surplus in the Periphery, an application to Argentina 3. Imperialism as a core theory to understand political economy in the XXI century 4. Growth or De-growth of What and How: What Can Marx Tell Us?

Group 5: Social Policy; Pensions; Education

Papers: 1. Higher education in Brazil: interrupted inclusion?2. Social policy agencies in Latin America. Theoretical discussions and political constraints (1950- 1980) 3. The Sustainability of the Spanish State Pension System

Group 6: Development; Inequality

Papers: 1. Income distribution and economic activity: A multiscale Granger causality exploration2. Falling Wage Shares and Slowing Investments: The Case of Indian Manufacturing 3. Keeping the window of opportunity open with off-grid solar systems? Narratives on contestation in the acceleration of the Indian energy transition 4. Electoral Quotas, Redistribution and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from India

Group 7: Finance; Regulation

Papers: 1.Time For Informed Change: Post Covid-19 Economics2. Does the effects of new prudential regulation in the WAMU countries allow for the development of the financial sector and an improvement in economic growth? 3. Global Speculative (Short-Term) Credits and Brazil in the Twenty Century 4. A Discussion of Central Bank Operations and Interest Rate Policy

Group 8: Ethics; Institutional approaches; Post- Keynsian

Papers: 1. Why Machine Learning and the ‘New AI’ won’t be Replacing your Friendly Post-Keynesian Macroeconomist Anytime Soon2. Horizonal Economics: Demolition Or Extension? 3. Understanding profits under Structural Change 4. A Keynesian explanation of depressions.

Late Additions

1. Pathways of transition and the characteristics of competing technologies: A taxonomy and a policy experiment 2. On the method of economics and social sciences 3. Coronavirus and money for economic recovery (video)