Events and activities organised by and under IIPPE are diverse, ranging from research workshops to formal conferences. For the most part these are organised within or between individual Working Groups, although events such as the annual Historical Materialism conferences and international research workshops are occasions during which IIPPE scholars and researchers come together to share ideas, foster research and stimulate debate.
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Theories Of Social Capital: Researchers Behaving Badly
IIPPE/Pluto Book Series, Released January 2010
Tracing the evolution of social capital since his highly acclaimed contribution of 2001 (Social Capital Versus Social Theory), Ben Fine consolidates his position as the world’s leading critic of the concept. Fine forcibly demonstrates how social capital has expanded across the social sciences only by degrading the different disciplines and topics that it touches: a McDonaldisation of social theory. The rise and fall of social capital at the World Bank is critically explained as is social capital’s growing presence in disciplines, such as management studies, and its relative absence in others, such as social history. Writing with a sharp critical edge, Fine not only deconstructs the roller-coaster presence of social capital across the social sciences but also draws out lessons on how (and how not) to do research.
The Developmental State in Korea - Critiques and Alternatives
2:00PM - 5:00PM, 24 November 2009
Room G50, Ground Floor, Main Building, SOAS
This seminar aims to contribute to on-going debates on the form of the capitalist state and its role in socio-economic development by engaging with theories and practices of the South Korean developmental state. Speakers in this seminar try to understand the social and economic development of South Korea in relation to the contradictory evolution of the capitalist state and economic crisis in South Korea.
ESRC Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change - Call for Papers
Finance in question/finance in crisis
University of Manchester, 12-14 April 2010
The conference aims to re-examine received ways of understanding finance and to consider what changes to financial arrangement may follow from present strains.
Call for Paper (SGIR 7th Pan-European Conference on IR)
Stockholm, Sweden, 2010
SGIR Section: Another Europe is Possible?
SGIR Section: Critical IPE
SGIR Section: Eastern Europe
SGIR Section: The Return of the State
Historical Materialism Conference: Call For Papers
York University, Toronto
May 13-16, 2010
Papers presented in the third IIPPE International Research Workshop are available.
International Conference
One Year on from the Panic of 2008
Whither Financialised Capitalism?
7 November 2009 09.00-18.00 SOAS, London
Organised by Research on Money and Finance
RMF Roundtable
Financialisation and Developing Countries
5 November 2009 17.00-19.00 SOAS, London
Organised by Research on Money and Finance
Call for Contributions to a new column on ‘Labour and the Crisis’ from the Global Labour University
http://www.global-labour-university.org/5.html
EAEPE honours IIPPE
We are pleased to announce that Dimitris Milonakis and Ben Fine have been awarded the Gunnar Myrdal Prize for 2009 for From Political Economy to Economics: Method, the Social and the Historical in the Evolution of Economic Theory, Routledge, 2009. The award is made by the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy. This is a powerful signal of how successful Marxist political economy can be in engaging with heterodoxy, one of IIPPE's core aims. As chance would have it, the book was promoted in the first issue of the IIPPE newsletter, where it was made available at a discount to readers, as it still is, here. The same applies to its companion, From Economics Imperialism to Freakonomics: The Shifting Boundaries Between Economics and Other Social Sciences, Routledge, 2009, available here.
Asian Trade Unions in Transition
One-Day Seminar hosted by Department of Development Studies, SOAS
Asian Trade Unions in Transition
Responding to Labour or Facilitating Capital?
Research from China, Vietnam, India and South Korea
9:30 AM – 5:00 PM, 28 September, 2009, Room: 116, 1st Floor Main Building, SOAS
Public Lecture at the LSE: Prabhat Patnaik on "The Dollar and World Economy" - 6 pm 14 July 2009
IIPPE Newsletter Issue 2 (May 2009) published.
Presentations from the Inaugural Day Conference of the ‘Political Economy of Work’ Working Group (University of Leeds, 5th May 2009) is now available here.
Call for Abstracts: IPPE 3rd International Research Workshop in Political Economy
Ankara, September 14th and 15th, 2009
IIPPE invites applications to its 3rd Annual Research Workshop in Ankara, Turkey on the 14-15th September 2009. The event is organised with the support of TSSA (Turkish Social Sciences Association) under the theme of “The Crisis, Interdisciplinarity and Alternatives”. See more. (April 2009)
Publications page has been added. (April 2009)
CSWG Panel at the Development Studies Association Annual Conference 2009
Call for abstracts
2nd to 4th September 2009, University of Ulster
We are now accepting abstracts for the themed conference panel “Economic Crisis and Commodity Dependent Countries” (See More).
Cancellation of IIPPE Financialisation Workshop 14th of March 2009
We regret to inform you that, despite an enormous interest in the Financialisation Working Group, the IIPPE Workshop on the financial crisis and developing and emerging countries has been canceled because we did not receive a sufficient number of abstracts to proceed at this stage, mainly because potential participants felt they needed more time to prepare. Given the support, though, we are determined to continue with the Working Group and would welcome notice of continuing work from potential participants. (February 2009)
IIPPE Workshop Financial Crisis and Developing and Emerging Countries, Call for Abstracts Cancelled!
The IIPPE financialisation working group is organising a workshop on the effects of the financial crisis (credit crunch) on developing and emerging countries. The aim is to go beyond generic studies on “the developing countries”, and acquire a country and context specific insight into the channels through which heterogeneous developing and emerging countries have and will be affected by the evolving financial crisis in the developed world. Read More (February 2009)