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[NOTE: A number of papers in several of the following sessions may be of  
interest to some on this list. Does anyone know if this program is  
available on the web? -- RBE] 
 
ASSOCIATION FOR INSTITUTIONALIST THOUGHT 
WESTERN SOCIAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION 
39TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE, ALBUQUERQUE NM 
APRIL 23-26 
 
TENTATIVE PROGRAM 
 
6-8pm WSSA Welcoming Reception 
 
THURSDAY APR 24 
 
8-9 AM: WSSA section and association coordinators meeting 
 
8-9:30 AM: ROUNDTABLE: TEACHING POLITICAL ECONOMY FOR THE NEW AGE 
--D. Underwood: Bringing the Economy-Ecology Interface into 
Economics 
--J. Knoedler: Consumer Sovereignty and Corporate Repression of an 
Assiduous People 
--D. Champlin: The Operational Elements of Trust Networks and their 
Place in Economics 
--T. Amott: Economics and Human Difference: Beyond Homo Economicus 
--P. King: The Economics of Sustainability: Does Community Make a 
Difference 
 
9:45-11:15 AM: PLENARY SESSION I: WORK AS AN INSTITUTION 
--J.D. Wisman: Work and the Formation of Human Behavior 
--H. Wolozin: Work as an Economic and Noneconomic Institution in 
Today's Economy 
--J. Tomoser: Structural Poverty and the Veblenian Instinct of 
Workmanship 
--R. Chapman and J. Gray: Institutionalist Perspectives on the 
Current Job Market for College Grads 
Chair: G. DeMartino 
 
11:30-12:30: WSSA Plenary Session 
 
12:30-1:15: AFIT Board of Director's meeting 
 
1:15-2:45 PM: Concurrent Sessions: 
A) RESOURCES, DEVELOPMENT AND REGULATION: INSTITUTIONAL AND 
CULTURAL DIMENSIONS 
--J. Paavola: Commons, Veblen and the Evolution of Water Pollution 
Control Institutions in the US, 1850-1980 
--A. Steenstra: Race, Culture, and Economics: Opportunities and 
Limitations for American Indian Water Applications 
--D. Vinje: Rural Economic Development: An Assessment of Economic 
Linkages Between Native American Casinos and Neighboring Rural 
Counties 
--T. Gallaway: Light Pollution--Its Place in the Development of 
Economic Thought 
Chair: J. Swaney 
B) CRIME, PUNISHMENT, AND EDUCATION 
--J. Johnson and C. Johnson: Poverty, Equal Protection and the 
Death Penalty 
--R. Fowles and J. Watkins: Reducing Recidivism through Education: 
An Institutionalist Approach to Reducing Crime 
--M.R. Van Tassell and J.J. Hurst: Breaking Racial Lines: An 
Analysis of Affirmative Action and School Choice 
Chair: 
 
3-4:30 PM: A REVIEW OF RON STANFIELD'S JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH 
--B. Dugger, J. Adams, B. McClintock, B. Brown, and D. Brown, 
Reviewers 
--J.R. Stanfield, Author 
--R.J. Phillips, Chair 
 
4:45-5:45 PM: WSSA Business Meeting 
 
6-7 PM: AFIT RECEPTION (OPEN) 
 
7-? AFIT Business Meeting and DINNER 
--E. Miller, PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS 
 
FRIDAY APR 25 
 
7-8 AM: WSSA Continental Breakfast 
 
8-9:30 AM: Concurrent Sessions 
A) INTERNATIONAL TRADE, DEVELOPMENT, AND FOR-EX MARKETS: 
INSTITUTIONALIST AND POST KEYNESIAN PERSPECTIVES 
--J. Harvey: The Nature of Expectations and Decision Making in the 
Foreign Exchange Market 
--J. Deprez and H. Hieke: The Institutionalist Robustness of 
Thrilwall's Law: Some Post Keynesian Observations 
--Y. Elhan: Financial Liberalization and Development: The Case of 
Turkey 
--W.C. Schaniel and T. Perkins: Toward One Market? A Comparison and 
Evaluation of the Differences Between the COMEX and LME Copper 
Markets 
Chair: B. McClintock 
B) EFFICIENCY, SUSTAINABILITY, AND TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE 
--B. Hildred and D. Brown: Sufficiency vs. Efficiency in Theory of 
the Leisure Class: A Veblenian Contribution for a Sustainable 
Economy 
--O. Nankivell: Thoughts on the Anatomy of Technological, Economic, 
and Social Change 
--A. Krause: Reconciling Institutional and Keynesian Theories of 
Technological Change 
--J. Gilbert: Technological Change and Effects on the Labor Market 
Chair: P. Olsen 
 
9:45-11:15 AM: PLENARY SESSION II: INSTITUTIONAL KEYNESIANISM? 
--D. Hamilton: Keynesian Institutionalism or Institutional 
Keynesianism? 
--G. Atkinson and T. Oleson: An Institutionalist Perspective on the 
General Theory 
--J.P. Raines and C. Leathers: Institutional Characteristics of 
Speculative Equity: the Views of Veblen and Keynes 
P. Klein: Normative Macroeconomics: Conjoining Keynes and 
Institutionalism 
Chair: L.R. Wray 
 
11:30-1 PM: HISTORY OF THOUGHT: CLARK, VEBLEN, KEYNES, PRAGMATISM 
--L. Shute: J.M. Clark and Institutionalist Theory 
--L. Van Sickle: The Pathologizing of Thorstein Veblen: He Ain't No 
Lord Keynes But He Just Might be Redemptive 
--S. Edgell: Veblen on Technology and Technocracy: Faulty Theory 
and Flawed Socialism? 
--K. Quinn: What are the Implications of the Neo-pragmatist Revival 
for Institutional Economics? 
Chair: M. Tool 
 
1:15-2:45 PM: CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY AND ETHICS 
--P. Olsen and D. Champlin: Ending Corporate Welfare as We Know It 
--D. Champlin and J. Knoedler: In Markets we Trust: Corporate 
Restructuring and Government Complicity after the Golden Age 
--J. Swaney: Closing the Cycle of Cost: Instrumental Uses of Risk 
Assessment 
--C. Lawson: Economics, Institutions, and the Medical Ethics 
Consultant 
Chair: J. Munkirs 
 
3-4:30 PM: Concurrent Sessions 
A) HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT, IMMIGRATION AND INCOME DISTRIBUTION 
--J. Sturgeon: Intra-Organizational Forces Affecting Human Resource 
Development 
--B. Young and D. Bowles: Immigration in the 1990s: The Impact on 
Heterogeneous Labor Markets 
--J. Jumara and R. Wood: Competition as a Deterrent in the 
Development of Human Resources 
--G. Carter: Intra-Organizational Income Distribution & Human 
Resource Policy 
Chair: J. Peach 
B) FREE MARKETS, SHOCKS, AND TRANSITIONAL ECONOMIES 
--S. Shuklian: Economic Development and the Myth of Laissez Faire: 
Germany and France in the Nineteenth Century 
--J. Hall and E. Kigyossy-Schmidt: Re-Emergent Capitalism in 
Central Europe: An Institutionalist Perspective 
--R. LaJeunesse: An Alternative Approach to Transitional Economies 
Chair: M. Sawyer 
 
4:45-5:45 PM: WSSA Presidential Address 
 
6:30-8:30 PM: WSSA President's Reception 
 
SATURDAY APR 26 
 
8-9:30 AM: PROPERTY, MARKETS, AND ECONOMIC THEORY 
--K. Calandri: Cooperatives, Markets, and Economic Development 
--J. Henry: Neoclassical Theory, the Nature of a Monetary Economy, 
and Property Rights 
--A. Mayhew: A Truly Evolutionary Theory of Human Society: Animals, 
Nature, and Purpose 
--C. Brown: Re-engineering and the "New Rentier" 
Chair: B. Dugger 
 
9:45-11:15 AM: RESEARCH PARADIGMS AND METHODOLOGY: Instrumentalism, 
Keynesian, Institutionalist 
--J. Webb: Why Instrumentalists Should Not Be Instrumentalists 
--C.R. Waits: Economists and the Practice of Social Science 
--W.C. Neale: Keynes's General Theory at Columbia University, 1947- 
51: A Graduate Student's View [A Written Contribution to Oral 
History] 
--M. Toruno: Keynesians, Institutionalists, and Theories of the 
State 
Chair: P.D. Bush 
 
11:30-1 PM: FINANCIAL MARKETS: GLOBALIZATION AND POLICY 
IMPLICATIONS 
--P. Arestis and M. Sawyer: The Tobin Financial Transactions Tax: 
Its Potential and Feasibility 
--B. Wiens-Tuers: The Economics of Contingent or Non-Standard Labor 
--R. Pedace: Immigration, Migration, and US Labor Markets 
--G. Choksy: Monetary Networks, Keynesian Multiplier Effects, and 
Policy Implications 
Chair: G. Dymski 
 
1:15-2:45: POWER AND MARKET FORM: FIRMS, STAKEHOLDERS, AND UNIONS 
--S. Dunn: A Post Keynesian Contribution to the Theory of the Firm 
--E. Schutz: Market Imperfection and Social Power 
--M. Haggerty and S. Welcomer: Institutional Economics as a Basis 
for Stakeholder Theory 
--G. DeMartino: "Demonstration" Drives, "Predatory" Drives: an 
Enterprise Model of Union Organizing 
Chair: D. Brown 
 
3:00-4:30: Concurrent Sessions 
A) CIVIL SOCIETY AS AN ECONOMIC INSTITUTION 
--J. Molinas: The Impact of Inequality, Gender, External Assistance 
and Social Capital on Local Collective Action 
--T. Masterson: Culture of Reciprocity: Collective Action in the 
Great League of the Iroquois 
--J. Carpenter: Towards a Theory of Evolutionarily Stable Group 
Strategies 
--M. Torras: The Ecological Benefits of Collective Action: An 
Institutionalist Perspective 
Discussant: M. Ferreira 
Chair: J. Molinas 
B) PROBLEMS OF THE NEW ZEALAND ECONOMY (CROSS LISTED WITH NEW 
ZEALAND STUDIES SECTION) 
--B. McClintock: William Ball Sutch: A New Zealand Institutionalist 
--B. Schaniel: Technology and the New Zealand Maori 
Chair: 
 
4:45-6:15: PLENARY SESSION III: FAMILY VALUES AND SOCIAL 
PATHOLOGIES 
--R.L. Brinkman and J.E. Brinkman: Family Values and American 
Economic Decline 
--G. Dymski: Economic Polarization and US Policy Activism 
--C. Hushbeck: Buck-Passing and the Elderly Poor: Reforming Welfare 
as a Lose-Lose Proposition for Individuals and State/Local 
Governments 
--W. Waller and L. Robertson: The Political Economy of Consumption 
and Desire 
Chair: P. Klein 
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