ASSOCIATION FOR SOCIAL ECONOMICS
 

CALL FOR PAPERS
 

Annual Allied Social Sciences Association Meetings

New Orleans, LA

January 4-6, 2008


THEME: Inequality, Democracy, and the Economy


>From the 1940s to the mid-1970s the distribution of income in the United
States and many other countries showed little change.  It was even said
that tracking change in the distribution of income in the United States
'was like watching the grass grow.'  Since the late 1970s income
disparities have widened continually and wealth has become more and more
concentrated.  The United States exceeds all other developed countries
in this regard.  The United States also actively promotes global
neoliberal economic policies throughout the world designed to remake the
world economy on the American model.


*	What are the origins and sources of this historic change, what
drives it today, and what can we expect of this process of change in the
future?


*	Is democracy a casualty of rising inequality in income and
wealth?  How is democracy impacted in a world of concentrated economic
power?


*	Is consumer culture the outcome of increasing inequality, the
means to sustaining it, and the solution to the 'problem' of democracy?


*	How is rising economic inequality related to health care states
and the health of nations?


*	Who has been abandoned in this historic change?  Who are today's
vulnerable populations?  


*	What is the changing status and meaning of the individual?  Why
has social identity become important?  What is the meaning of pluralism?


*	How are these issues being contested in economics?  What is the
relation of the recent new movements in economics to increasing
inequality?


Members and nonmembers of the Association for Social Economics are
invited to submit proposals and complete sessions on these themes topics
for the New Orleans ASE program.  The program will begin Thursday
evening January 3 with an opening plenary lecture followed by an ICAPE
reception.  Please send an abstract by email of 300 words or less by May
1, 2007 to:  

John Davis 
University of Amsterdam and Marquette University
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John Davis