-------Forwarded from IEPS-L by Ross B. Emmett ------- Please look over the notice below and post it on other networks as you wish. We in URPE hope to make this special issue a lasting tribute to David. Bob Pollin CALL FOR PAPERS: RRPE SPECIAL ISSUE IN HONOR OF DAVID M. GORDON The death of David Gordon last March was a great loss to radical political economy. Both as a creative researcher and a dedicated teacher, David was a major contributor to building the U.S. tradition in radical political economy for the past 25 years. David was also a founding member and long-time activist in The Union for Radical Political Economics (URPE). We envision the special issue of URPE's journal the Review of Radical Political Economics (RRPE) as a means of honoring David in the way he would have most appreciated: through extending, critically analyzing, and rigorously debating the major themes of his research work. David was both highly prolific and wide-ranging in his research interests. We would welcome contributions that would address any of the broad themes on which David focused: 1. Work organization, labor process, and macroeconomic performance. The interrelationship between these issues is at the heart of David's posthumously published work, "Fat and Mean: The Corporate Squeeze of Working Americans and the Myth of Managerial Downsizing", the book which David considered to be his legacy. These themes also play a central role in much of David's previous work, starting with his initial contributions on the theory of labor market segmentation. We would therefore especially encourage submissions in this area, and we expect that a high proportion of the papers in our special issue will be concerned with these themes. 2. SSA-type macroeconomic models. David was one of the originators of the "Social Structure of Accumulation" approach to analyzing U.S. macroeconomic performance over the post World War II period (and indeed himself coined the term). In developing this work, David explored the relationship between profitability, investment, saving, distribution, and conflict. While many of David's contributions in this area were technical econometric modelling exercises, we would welcome a variety of approaches in addressing these themes. 3. Long Waves of Capitalist Development. One of the ways that David extended his SSA approach was to analyze the long-term trends of capitalist development. David's focus here was primarily on the United States. But the relevant questions logicall extend to considerations of European development, and possibly further. 4. Urban Economics. David wrote some important early papers on urban conditions in the U.S. He also published a widely-used reader, Problems in Political Economy: An Urban Perspective which still is being used by people teaching in the field. We would welcome contributions that revisit some of the issues raised in David's early work in this area. 5. Econometrics and Political Economy. David was a pioneer in his use of econometric methods to explore issues from a radical political economy perspective. His efforts have led others to use econometric techniques to test hypotheses developed by radical economic theory. Therefore, both empirical studies that expand on David's approach and methodological papers that consider the use of econometrics in radical political economy would be appropriate for the special issue. 6. Progressive Economic Policy for the United States. David was intensively involved in economic policy questions, both in his writings and in his work as an activist. Among other experiences, David was actively involved in labor education efforts as well as the 1988 Jesse Jackson Presidential campaign. Submissions in this area should address the specific policy approaches David developed in his published work, though they need not be confined exclusively to these. The editorial collective welcomes all contributions, and will give no special consideration to any individuals or groups in making publication decisions. At the same time, we wish to especially encourage contributions from the numerous students whose dissertations David supervised at the New School, as well as from other New School students and colleagues who worked closely with him. Contributors should send submissions and queries to: Hazel Dayton Gunn, Managing Editor, RRPE, Department of City and Regional Planning, 106 W. Sibley Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853. Articles are due June 30, 1997, and must follow the Instructions to Contributors on the back cover of the RRPE (also available from the Managing Editor). As early as possible, we strongly encourage authors to inform us in writing of their intention to submit, as this will help to coordinate timely publication of the special issue. All submissions will be subject to the journal's usual peer review procedure. All submissions are subject to RRPE's usual review procedures and the June 30, 1997 deadline for submissions. ******************************************* Robert Pollin Department of Economics U. of California-Riverside Riverside, CA 92521-0427, USA (909) 787-5037 ext. 1579 (office); (909) 788-8106 (home) (909) 787-5685 (fax); [log in to unmask] (e-mail) Eric Nilsson Department of Economics California State University San Bernardino, CA 92407 [log in to unmask]