======================= HES POSTING ================== [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 ============ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ============ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]