Thank you to all who participated, in-person and online!
Association for Evolutionary Economics
AFEE at ASSA - January 6, 7, 8, 2023
World at the Crossroads: Finding institutionalist pathways to
social, economic and ecological co-existence
All AFEE Sessions and Events held at
J.W. Marriott, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
AFEE Special Events:
Thursday Jan 5: 4pm-5pm, Iris Room
JEI Editorial Board Meeting, by invitation
Thursday Jan 5: 5:30pm-10pm, Rex Room
AFEE Annual Board Meeting; open to AFEE members
Friday Jan 6: 12:30pm-2:15pm, Iris Room
Veblen-Commons Award Luncheon-prior reservation required
Dr. Jon D. Wisman, American University,
“Thorstein Veblen, the Meaning of Work, and its Humanization”
Friday Jan 6: 5:30pm-7pm, Bacchus Room
AFEE Annual Membership Meeting
The AFEE membership meeting is an opportunity to recognize the
recipients of awards, discuss the business of AFEE and any outcomes of the AFEE board meeting, and share details about members activities and possible future projects.
- 2023 James H. Street Scholar Award, Huáscar Pessali
- 2023 Clarence Ayres Scholar Award, Kanchana Ruwanpura
- JEI Editor’s Prize for 2022, Clotilde Champeyrache
Saturday Jan 7: 5:15pm-6:30pm, Rex Room
AFEE Presidential Address
Mary Wrenn, University of the West of England,
"Overcoming Optimism and Moving Toward Hope"
Saturday Jan 7: 6:45pm-8:30pm, Maurepas Room
AFEE Cocktail Reception
AFEE at ASSA Sessions:
Session 1: Friday Jan 6, 8:00 am-10:00am, Bacchus Room
Institutional Economics: Intertwining Society, Economics, and Ecology
Chair: John Nicholarsen, University of Denver, USA
System Conflict: Polanyi’s Liberal Creed vs Putin’s Nationalist
Populism
Ann Davis, Marist College, USA
Economists Know Best? Paternalism, Agency, and the DMDU
Challange
George DeMartino, University of Denver, USA
Exploring the Role of Exit & Voice in Institutionalist Development
of the Varieties of Capitalism
Bruno Gandlgruber, Metropolitan Autonomous University, Mexico
Miguel Ángel Gómez Fonseca, Metropolitan Autonomous
University, Mexico
Changing Landscape of the Development Finance in the Case of Climate-Vulnerable Countries like Nepal
Kalpana Khanal, Policy Research Institute-Nepal, Nepal
The Baran Ratio, Investment, and British Economic Growth and Development
Thomas Lambert, University of Louisville, USA
Radical Conditioning: International Monetary and Institutional
Design Principals for Economic Development Trajectories,
Protections, and Preparations
John Nicholarsen, University of Denver, USA
Session 2: Friday Jan 6, 10:15-12:15pm, Bacchus Room
Sustainability and Change: Institutionalist Insights into Habits, Culture, and Policy
Chair: William Waller, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, USA
Social Provisioning vs. Predatory Habits: An Ancient Yet
Contemporary Battle
Felipe Almeida, Federal University of Paraná, Brazil
Meaningful Climate-Change Mitigation Policy Requires Accurate Measurement: Analysis, Critique, and Recommended Changes of Equations for Reporting Greenhouse-Gas Emissions to the EPA
F. Gregory Hayden, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
Tasnim Mahin, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
Session 2 cont:
The Instrumentality of Culture
Jacob Powell, Bucknell University, USA
Nature, Exploitation and Institutions: On the Political Ecology of Thorstein Veblen and Karl Polyani
Manuel Ramon Souza Luz, Federal University of ABC, Brazil
Ramon Garcia Fernandez, Federal University of ABC, Brazil
Economic Resilience: What Can We Learn from Heterdox
Economists of the Past?
Irene van Staveren, Erasmus University-Rotterdam,
The Netherlands
What is Heterdox Economics? Does It Have a Future? A
Comment on Hodgson’s Views
Matias Vernengo, Bucknell University, USA
Veblen-Commons Award Luncheon: Friday Jan 6 12.30pm-2:15pm, Room Iris
Prior RSVP Required
Dr. Jon D. Wisman, American University
“Thorstein Veblen, the Meaning of Work, and its Humanization”
Session 3: Friday Jan 6, 2:30-4:30pm, St. Claude Room
The Reinvention of Money and Monetary Policy? Digital Currency and MMT
Chair: Mary Wrenn, University of the West of England, UK
Can Blockchain Help the Financial Inclusion of Refugees? The Finnish Case
Sébastien Galanti, University of Orleans, France
Cigdem Yilmaz Ozsoy, University of Istanbul, Turkey
The Evolution of Innovation Agencies in Developing Countries: The Response to Crises in the Digital Economy
Sira Maliphol, SUNY-Korea, Korea
Stateless Money? Cryptocurrencies and Digital Banking in Brazil
Nicholas Trebat, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Social, Political, and Economic Dimensions of the Instituted
Process of Central Bank Digital Currency: The Case of the Digital Yuan
Ricardo Siu, University of Macau, Macau
Virtual Property and Governance Structures with Blockchain
Antoon Spithoven, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Session 3 cont:
A New Tool for Economic Policy: Central Bank Digital Currencies
Jacob Temperini, University of Rome-La Sapienza, Italy
Carlo D’Ippoliti, University of Rome-La Sapienza, Italy
Lucio Gobbi, University of Trento, Italy
AFEE Membership Meeting: Friday Jan 6, 5:30pm-7:00pm, Bacchus Room
Please join us for the annual Membership Meeting
Session 4: Saturday Jan 7, 8:00am-10:00am, Bacchus Room
Dependency and Structuralism in the Current Crisis
Chair: Cristina Reis, Federal University of ABC, Brazil
Degrowth and the Global South? How Institutionalism Can Complement a Timely Discourse on Ecologically Sustainable
Development in an Unequal World
Claudius Gräber-Radkowitsch, University of Flensburg,
Germany
Birte Strunk, New School for Social Research, USA
From US ‘Informal Empire’ to Great Power Rivalry?
Carlos Aguiar de Medeiros, Federal University of Rio
de Janeiro, Brazil
Analysis of Carbon Markets and Alternatives of Offsets in the Compliance and Voluntary Schemes
Clara Pardo, Del Rosario University, Columbia
Alexander Cotte, University of Santo Tomas, Columbia
Institutional Mishmash
Huáscar Pessali, 2023 James H. Street Scholar,
Federal University of Paraná, Brazil
Thirlwall’s Law: A Critique of its Use for Developing Economies
Devin Rafferty, Saint Peter’s University, USA
Transnational Corporations and Global Value Chains in COVID-19 Times: Renewed Dependency in Center-Periphery Relations
Christina Froes de Borja Reis, Federal University of ABC, Brazil Ingrid Kvangraven, King’s College London, UK
Session 5: Saturday Jan 7, 8-10:00am, Endymion Room
US Economy under the Hammer: The Revenge of
Neoliberalism-Fueled Hegemony
Chair: John Watkins, Westminster College, USA
Session 5 cont:
Capitalism and the Erosion of Human Health: What the
Pandemic Has Laid Bare in the US
Alexandra Bernasek, Colorado State University, USA
Teresa Perry, California State University-San Bernardino, USA
Ceremonial Macroeconomics: Plan and Market in Public
Discourse about the Economy
Barbara Hopkins, Wright State University, USA
Is There a Trade-Off Between Global Inflation and Great
Resignation in the USA?
Kosta Josifidis, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
Novica Supic, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
The Rise of Inflation: An Illustration of Corporate Power
John P. Watkins, Westminster College, USA
James E. Seidelman, Westminster College, USA
A Statistical Equilibrium Analysis of Firm-Specific Markup
in the US
Jan Weber, University of Utah, USA
Social Security Privatization: Zombies Never Die
Timothy Wunder, University of Texas-Arlington, USA
Session 6: Saturday Jan 7, 10:15-12:15, Bacchus Room
The Aftermath of Crises, Controversies & COVID-19
Chair: Alexis Stenfors, University of Portsmith, UK
The Dynamics of U.S. Swap Yields: A Keynsian Perspective
Tanweer Akram, Citibank, USA
Khawaja Mamun, Sacred Heart University, USA
Differences of Unconventional Monetary Policy between US
and Japan
Akira Matsumoto, Ritsumeikan University, Japan
Financial Market Manipulation: from Beauty Contests
to Sabotage
Lilian Muchimba, University of Portsmith, UK
Alex Stenfors, University of Portsmith, UK
The Evolution of Debt: An Institutionalist Perspective
Steven Pressman, New School for Social Research, USA
Robert Scott, Monmouth University, USA
Session 6 cont:
UK Corporate Balance Sheets during Periods of Recession
Mimoza Shabani, University of East London, UK
Ali Hassan, Independent Researcher
Alex Stenfors, University of Portsmouth,UK
Jan Toporowski, SOAS University of London, UK
Involuntary Debt in the Aftermath of COVID-19
Jan Toporowski, SOAS University of London, UK
Ali Hassan, Independent Researcher
Mimoza Shabani, University of East London, UK
Alex Stenfors, University of Portsmouth, UK
Session 7 AFEE-IAFFE : Saturday Jan 7, 12:30-2:15pm
St. Claude Room
Selected Topics in Gender, Macroeconomics, Technological Change, and Mobility
Chair: Alexandra Bernasek, Colorado State University, USA
Monetary Policy Distributional Inequality: Analysis of Income, Unemployment, and Consumption by Gender and Race
Aina Krupinski Puig, American University, USA
Economic Stagnation and the Infrastructure of Care
Cristina Jenq, Criterion Institute, USA
The Intra-Household Allocation of Administrative Burdens
Lucie Martin, University College Dublin, Ireland
Moving Along: Exploring Gender Differences in Access to Spatial Mobility in Early Adulthood
Ramya Vijaya, Stockton University, USA
Naureen Bhullar, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, India
Female Enrollment in Higher Education in India: Does Hostel Accommodation Play a Role?
Satyaki Dasgupta, Colorado State University, USA
Annesha Mukherjee, Centre for Development Studies-Kerala, India
Robots and Women in Manufacturing Employment
Izaskun Zuazu, Institute for Socio-Economics and University
of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Session 8: Saturday Jan 7, 2:30pm-4:30pm, Bacchus Room
Health, Human Development, and Harm: An Institutional Approach
Chair: Howard Stein, University of Michigan, USA
China’s Economic Transition: Domestic Conflict and Currency Internationalization
Natalia Bracarense, Sciences Po-Toulouse, France
Africa, between the Financialization Process and Its Commodities: Is There an Economic Development Path through the AFCFTA?
Alicia Girón, National Autonomous University of Mexica, Mexico
Andrea Reyes, National Autonomous University of Mexica, Mexico
Cuba’s Establishment of a Comparative Institutional
Advantage in Biotechnology and Health
Geoffrey Schneider, Bucknell University, USA
Erdogan Bakir, Bucknell University, USA
Global Finance, Health Care and the Covid-19 Pandemic in Africa
Howard Stein, University of Michigan, USA
Conflict: Its Fundamental and Ignored Role in Economics
and Economic Development
Lane Vanderslice, Academy for Educational Development and World Hunger Education Service, USA
Social Policy and Reproduction in Turkey since the 2000’s
Yavuz Yazar, University of Denver, USA
AFEE Presidential Address: Saturday Jan 7
5:15pm-6:30pm, Rex Room
Please join us for the annual address from our President, Mary Wrenn: “Overcoming Optimism and Moving Toward Hope”
AFEE Cocktail Reception: Saturday Jan 7
6:45pm-8:30pm, Maurepas Room
Please join us in celebrating a successful year.
Session 9: Sunday Jan 8, 8:00am-10:00am, Bacchus Room
Institutional Answers to the Uncertainties of Societal
Transition
Chair: Faruk Ülgen, University of Grenoble Alpes-France, France
Labor Relations in a Post-COVID Economy: The Great Resignation through the Lens of Institutional Adjustment
Avraham Baranes, Elmhurst University, USA
Lawrence Brown, Elmhurst University, USA
Rethinking Development Financing: A Framework for
Alternative IFIs
Gaëlle Despierre Corporon, University of Grenoble
Alpes-France, France
Climate Action, Institutional Investors and Just Transition
Alicia Girón, Economic Research Institute and Autonomous Technological Institute of Mexico
Antonina Ivanova, Autonomous University of Baja California Sur, Mexico
Greening Monetary Policy: CBDCs to the Rescue?
Susan Shroeder, University of Sydney Australia, and University of Cambridge, UK
An Institutional Framework for a Sustainable Economic Transition
Faruk Ülgen, University of Grenoble Alpes-France, France, Lyubov Klapkiv, Marie Curie-Skodowska University, Poland
Minsky Meets Kapp: A Post-Keynesian Institutionalist
Approach to Addressing Climate Change
Charles Whalen, University at Buffalo, USA
Session 10: Sunday Jan 8, 10:15am-12:15pm
Bacchus Room
Institutionalist Ideas for a Climate Policy Breakthrough
Chair: Lynne Chester, University of Sydney, Australia
North American Hydrogen Economy and Auto Industry
Tuna Baskoy, Politics and Public Administration, Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada
Methane Reduction in the Oil and Gas Industry: The Effects of Quad-O on Shareholder Wealth
Scott Carson, University of Texas, Permian Basin, USA
Session 10 cont:
Energy (In)Justice: How Can It Be Addressed?
Lynne Chester, University of Sydney, Australia
Circular Business Models and Institutions
Brian Chi-ang Lin, National Chengchi University, Taiwan
Prolegomena to an Evolutionary Theory of Development Banking for a Sustainable Future
Konstantinos Loizos, Centre of Planning and Economic
Research, Greece
Session 11: Sunday Jan 8, 1:00pm-3:00pm, Bacchus Room
Strident Nationalism, Democratic Decline, War: Quo Vadis, Global Geo-Political Economy?
Chair: Gary Aurthur Dymski, University of Leeds, UK
The Real Causes of Russian Aggression against Ukraine
Olena Baklanova, Interregional Acadamy of Personnel
Management and Odessa Institute, Ukraine
Gunnar Myrdal and Thomas Piketty on Inequality
John Battaile Hall, Portland State University, USA
Globalisation and Sovereignty in the 2020s: The Peak of Contradictions?
Svetlana Kirdina-Chandler, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
Choosing between Neoliberalism’s Surface Diversity and a Socially Just Progressive Economy: The Case of State Capitalism in Post-socialist Transition
Anna Klimina, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
World at Democratic Crossroads: Seeking Institutionalist Insights
Paolo Ramazzoti, University of Macerata, Italy
Polanyi in Sri Lanka: Corrupted Capitalism, Dis-Embeddness and Public Protests
Kanchana Ruwanpura, 2023 Clarence E. Ayres Scholar
University of Gothenburg, Sweden
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