Association for Evolutionary Economics (AFEE)
Annual Program
January 2-5, 2010, Atlanta, GA
All sessions will be held at the Hilton Atlanta
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Saturday, January 2, 2010
2:30 p.m. - ICAPE Meeting-Open House
Crystal D
6:00 p.m. - AFEE Board of Directors' Meeting
Crystal D
Sunday, January 3, 2010
8:00-10:00 a.m., Hilton Atlanta, Room 205
Institutional Approaches to Freedom
Presiding: John Henry, University of Missouri-Kansas City
James Ronald Stanfield, Colorado State University, Michael C. Carroll, Bowling Green State University - "Governance
and Freedom in a Complex Global Economy"
Ingrid Rima, Temple University - "From Managerial Capitalism to Information System Capitalism: The Necessity for
the Guidance of Political Economy"
Charles J. Whalen, Cornell University - "Full Employment with Liberty: Commons, Keynes, and the Post-Keynesian
Institutionalists"
Mathew Forstater, University of Missouri-Kansas City - "Spontaneous Conformity: North, South, East, and West"
Michael J. Murray, Central College - "From Economic Freedom to Economic and Social Poverty: Institutional
Approaches to the Business Enterprise, Structural Change, and the Role for Government"
8:00-10:00 a.m., Hilton Atlanta, Room 201
Markets: Social Provisioning and Public Services (H1)
Presiding: Phani Wunnava, Middlebury College
Andrew E. Michael, Intercollege Larnaca - "The Pursuit of Happiness in Free Markets"
Stephen P. Paschall, Lovett Bookman Harmon Marks LLP - "Security of Expectations and Freedom of Choice in the
Health Insurance Market"
Wayne Edwards, University of Alaska-Anchorage & Dartmouth College - "Does the Market System Address
Adequately Rural Service Delivery Rigidities?"
Enrico Schobel, University of Erfurt - "Self-Regulated Markets for Professional Legal Services: The Case of Tax
Intermediaries"
Robert Ashford, Syracuse University - "Replacing the Flawed Neoliberal Analysis of Capitalism and Freedom with an
Analysis that Promotes Sustainable Growth, Poverty Reduction, Equal Opportunity and Individual Freedom"
10:15-12:15 p.m., Hilton Atlanta, Room 201
How Markets Work: Forms, Functions, Strategies
Presiding: William Redmond, Indiana State University
Joshua Frank, Center for Responsible Lending - "Why Free Markets Can Sometimes Turn into 'Peacock Markets': The
Evolution of Credit Cards"
Lynne Chester, Curtin University of Technology - "Actually Existing Markets: The Case of Neoliberal Australia"
Jose Felipe de Almeida, Universidade Federal do Parana, Huascar Pessali, Universidade Federal do Parana, Nilson de
Paula, Universidade Federal do Parana -"Third-Party Certification in Food Market-Chains: What is Being Served?"
William Redmond, Indiana State University - "Rules and Roles of the Marketplace: Self-Organization in the Market"
Anton Oleinik, Memorial University of Newfoundland - "Market as a Weapon: Domination by Virtue of a Constellation
of Interests"
12:30-2:15 p.m. - Veblen-Commons Award Luncheon, Grand Salon B
Recipient: Glen Atkinson, Professor Emeritus, University of Nevada, Reno
2:30-4:30 p.m., Hilton Atlanta, Grand Salon C
Neoliberalism, Financial Markets and Freedom
Presiding: Robert Prasch, Middlebury College
James K. Galbraith, University of Texas - "The Great Crisis and the Dismal Science"
Marcellus Andrews, Barnard College - "Finance, Oligarchy and Economic Decline: Why Enslaving Finance Promotes
Real Freedom"
Discussants: Martha Starr, American University
4:45-6:00 p.m. – AFEE Membership Meeting, Grand Salon C
Monday, January 4, 2010
8:00-10:00 a.m., Hilton Atlanta, Room 205
Neoliberalism, Markets, and Freedom
Presiding: Mathew Forstater, University of Missouri-Kansas City
Mary Wrenn, Weber State University - "Neoliberalism and the Emergence of Identity Groups"
John Hall, Portland State University, Udo Ludwig, Leipzig University - "Neoliberalism, the Changing German Labor
Market, and Income Distribution"
John T. Harvey, Texas Christian University - "Neoliberalism, Currency Markets, and Economic Welfare"
L. Randall Wray, University of Missouri-Kansas City - "Neoconservatives and the Money Manager Crisis"
Phillip Anthony O'Hara, Curtin University - "After Neoliberalism: A Social Structure of Accumulation for Global,
Regional and/or National Governance?"
Discussants: John F. Henry, University of Missouri, Kansas City
10:15-12:15 p.m., Hilton Atlanta, Room 205
Developing Nations and Neoliberalism: Help or Hinderance?
Presiding: Winston Griffith, Bucknell University
Arturo Guillen, (Street Scholar) Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana Iztapalapa - "The Effects of the Global Economic
Crisis in Latin America"
Kellin Chandler Stanfield, DePauw University - "Mexican Economic Performance Under Neoliberal Policy: Instability,
Low Growth, and Rising Disparity"
Evelyn Wamboye, Pennsylvania State University-DuBois - "Globalization and Labor Market Participation: Women of
Sub-Saharan Africa"
Wolfram Elsner, University of Bremen, Henning Schwardt, University of Bremen - "Economic Reform and Social
Development in Argentina since the 1970s"
Winston H. Griffith, Bucknell University - "Neoliberal Economics and Caribbean Countries"
12:30-2:15 p.m. - Hilton Atlanta, Room 201
Joint AFEE/ASE Session
Alternative Perspectives of a "Good Society"
Presiding: John Marangos, University of Crete, Greece
Janet Knoedler and Geoffrey Schneider, Bucknell University - An Institutional Vision of a Good Economy
Mathew Forstater, University of Missouri Kansas City - The Post Keynesian Perspective of a Good Economy
Al Campbell, University of Utah - The Marxist Concept of a Good Society
Janice Peterson, California State University Fresno - A Good Society: Feminist Perspectives
John Marangos and Nikos Astroulakis, University of Crete, Greece - The Development Ethics Perspective of a Good
Society
Discussant: Ellen Mutari, Richard Stockton College of New Jersey
12:30-2:15 p.m., Hilton Atlanta, Room 205
The Failure of Deregulation: Industry Evidence and the Search for Solutions
Presiding: Glen Atkinson, University of Nevada-Reno
Harry M. Trebing, Michigan State University - "Is Re-regulation an Attainable Goal?"
Eric Hake, Eastern Washington University - "The Deregulation, Disintermediation, Consolidation, Financialization and
Systemic Collapse of the American Financial System"
Bob Loube, Rolka Loube Saltzer Associates - "Deregulation, Deconstruction and Duopoly: The Political Economy of
Market Failure in the Communications Industries"
Pamela Taylor Jackson, Colorado State University - "The Rise of Neoliberalism and the Fall of the Free Press: How a
Shift in Political Ideology Hurt the News"
William M. Dugger, University of Tulsa - "Progressive Alternatives to Re-Regulating the American Economy:
Community, Municipal, Worker and Consumer-Owned Enterprises in a National Planning Framework"
Discussants: Eric Hake, Eastern Washington University
2:30-4:30 p.m., Hilton Atlanta, Room 205
Financial Markets: Crashes and Consequences
Presiding: Martha Starr, American University
David A. Zalewski, Providence College - "Subprime Subsidiarity: A Reconsideration of the Role of the State in the
Financial Instability Hypothesis"
Helge Peukert, University of Erfurt - "The German Contribution to the Financial Crisis in a Critical Institutionalist
Perspective"
Austin H. Spencer, Western Carolina University - "Financial Markets: Factors to Consider in an Institutional Stress
Test"
Craig Medlen, Menlo College - "Free Cash, the Current Account and Bubble Creation"
Martha Starr, American University - "Debt-Financed Consumption Sprees: Regulation, Freedom and Institutions"
4:45-6:00 p.m. Presidential Address - Grand Salon E
Dell Champlin, Eastern Illinois University (retired)
"Institutionalist Views of Immigration: An Update"
6:00-8:30 p.m. AFEE No-Host Cocktail Party - Grand Salon A
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
8:00-10:15 a.m., Hilton Atlanta, Room 205
Economic Development in Theory and Practice
Presiding: Rula Qalyoubi-Kemp, University of Wisconsin-Stout
P. Sai-Wing Ho, University of Denver - "Is Special and Differential Treatment of Less-Developed Countries Conducive
to Development Promotion? A Critical Review and Evaluation of the Neoliberal View"
Alex DeRuyter, University of Birmingham, Ajit Singh, Cambridge University & University of Birmingham, Tonia
Warnecke, Rollins College, Ann Zammit, Independent Consultant - "Core vs. Non-Core Standards, Gender and
Developing Countries: A Review with Recommendations for Policy"
Armagan Gezici, Keene State College - "Distributional Consequences of Financial Integration"
Anna Klimina, University of Saskatchewan - "On the Risks of Introducing the Liberal Plan into a Traditionally
Autocratic Society: The Case of Russia"
Sushanta K. Mallick, Queen Mary, University of London - "A Macroeconomic Policy Approach to Poverty Reduction"
10:15-12:15 p.m., Hilton Atlanta, Room 205
Government and Market Relationships
Presiding: Erik Guzik, University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma
F. Gregory Hayden, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Carol D. Peterson, United States Government Accountability
Office, Edwin B. Booth, United States Government Accountability Office, Elliot Campbell, University of NebraskaLincoln - "The Relationship Between Defense Contracts and the Integrated Power Blocs Among Contractors to the
U.S. Department of Defense"
Daniel A. Underwood, Peninsula College, Dan Axelsen, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Dan Friesner, North Dakota State
University - "An Analysis of Employment and Wage Outcomes for Women Under TANF"
Daphne T. Greenwood, University of Colorado-Colorado Springs, Richard P. F. Holt, Southern Oregon University "Growth and Inequality: When 'Trickle Down' Becomes Negative"
Feridun Yilmaz, Uludag University, Tamer Cetin, Zonguldak Karaelmas University - "Transition to the Regulatory State
in Turkey: Lessons from Energy"
Frederic B. Jennings, Jr., Center for Ecological Economic and Ethical Education - "The Design of Free-Market
Economies in a Post-Neoclassical World"
1:00-3:00 p.m., Hilton Atlanta, Room 205
Markets: Ideas and Ideology
Presiding: Thomas Kemp, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
John P. Watkins, Westminster College - "Neoliberalism, Social Imbalance, and the Current Economic Crisis: A
Synthesis of Keynes, Galbraith, and Minsky"
Robert Dimand, Brock University, Robert H. Koehn, Brock University - "Guy Routh's Heterodox Critique of
Economic Methodology"
James L. Webb, University of Missouri-Kansas City - "Dewey and Capitalism and Freedom"
John F. Henry, University of Missouri-Kansas City - "The Historic Roots of the Neoliberal Program"
W. Robert Brazelton, University of Missouri-Kansas City - "Rationality and Neoliberalism: A Basic Assumption
Flawed?"