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International Working Group on Value Theory  
     CALL FOR PAPERS 
Year 2000 Value Theory Mini-Conference 
Crystal City Hyatt Regency, March 24th- March 26th 2000 
 
 
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We invite you to the seventh "New Directions in Value/Price Theory" 
mini-conference, organized by the International Working Group on Value 
Theory (IWGVT), to be held as part of the Eastern Economic Association 
(EEA) conference. Papers relating to the IWGVT's areas of interest are 
welcome and proposals for complete panels will be considered.  
 
The full call, and instructions for submission, are on our website at 
 
                    www.greenwich.ac.uk/~fa03/iwgvt.  
 
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for information or informal discussion. 
 
Abstracts of individual papers or proposals for complete sessions are 
welcome from May 1st onwards. Proposals for complete sessions should be 
made by August 1st 1999. 
 
The deadline for papers and accompanying material is November 1, 1999. 
Papers must be complete when submitted but may consists of drafts or work 
in progress. Although this may seem stringent, our experience in 1999 was 
that it greatly facilitated dialogue by making the papers available to 
participants in advance of the conference, and also provided an 
opportunity for discussants to prepare considered responses. Authors are 
welcome to submit papers in their mother tongue. Completed papers need not 
be long papers, and, again, we strongly encourage papers which revisit 
contributions made at past mini-conferences, other conferences, or 
previously published work. 
 
The IWGVT actively pursues collaboration and engagement with other 
currents of economic thought, and welcomes proposals for joint sessions at 
the upcoming EEA. 
 
What is the IWGVT? 
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The IWGVT aims to promote pluralistic debate on concepts of value, 
seeking particularly-but not exclusively-to deepen the discussion of value 
concepts appropriate to dynamic analysis, and to end the unacceptable 
exclusion of the value theory of Karl Marx from existing debates.  
 
The principal justification which economics offers for excluding its 
foremost critic is the proposition that, whatever the merits of his 
contribution on individual issues, his concept of value is invalid because 
it leads to internal inconsistencies. A growing body of independent 
research shows that this argument is no longer sustainable. We conclude 
that the discussion on value should re-open without the presupposition of 
any established standard, tradition or source of authority regarding 
either value or Marx.  
 
The IWGVT defends no particular theory of value beyond arguing that the 
concept itself is indispensable. It does believe it is possible to assess 
the merits of contesting theories in debate. It seeks to create an 
atmosphere for this debate-which does not at present exist-such that all 
value theories, and all readings of value theorists, may discuss on an 
equal footing, referring in their support neither to the evidence of 
authority nor the conviction of doctrine but to reasoned and logical 
discussion based on textual evidence for readings and factual evidence for 
theories.  
 
Six successive mini-conferences have provided a widespread, gratifying 
and international response to our initial appeal. The number of panels and 
panelists has grown steadily, as has participation from those outside the 
United States.  
 
The IWGVT is beginning to be recognized as a forum for all those 
interested in the discussion of value, irrespective of theoretical 
orientation. 
 
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