Other Activities
Recent conference presentations and other talks
2012
Conferences
“Discussion of paper on ‘Morally arbitrary economic advantage’ by Frank Thompson”, ASSA meetings, Chicago, URPE session, January 6, invited.
“Discussion of paper on ‘Morality and the market’ by Ann Davis”, ASSA meetings, Chicago, Association for Social Economics session, January 7, invited.
“Growth and Instability: Analytical Issues and Heterodox Macroeconomic Models”, paper presented at the ASSA meetings, Chicago, URPE session, January 8, invited.
“Opening remarks” at the 4th annual Human Development Student Conference, on The faces behind the numbers, Ford Family Program, Kellogg Institute for International Studies, University of Notre Dame, February 10, 2012, invited.
“South-South issues from a North-South perspective” paper presented at the Eastern Economic Association meetings, March 9, 2012, Boston, invited.
“Discussion of paper on ‘The new banks in town: Chinese finance in Latin America’ by Kevin Gallagher, at the Eastern Economic Association meetings, March 9, 2012, Boston, invited.
“Endogenous technological change in classical-Marxian models of growth and distribution”, Symposium in honor of Duncan Foley, New School of Social Research, April 20-21. 2012, New York, invited.
“Human capitalists in a classical-Marxian model of growth and distribution”, Sixth Annual Analytical Political Economy Workshop, May , 2012, Queen Mary, University of London, invited.
“Long term labor, labor market dualism, growth and distribution”, with Dany Lang, the International Colloquium on Inequality and its Persistence, University of Graz, Austria, invited.
Seminars and other presentations
“Development and happiness”, Rotary Club of Kolkata, Rotary Sadan, India, January 10, invited
2011
Conferences
“Discussion of papers on Heterodox Trade Theory”, ASSA meetings, Denver, URPE session, January 8.
“Macroeconomic theory after the crisis”, ASSA meetings, Denver, at American Economic Association (AEA)/Union of Radical Political Economics (URPE) joint session, January 9 (invited).
Moderator at a session on “International Players: the Role of the Outsider” at the Human Development Student conference, Unleashing the Human Potential, Ford Family Program, Kellogg Institute of International Studies, February 12 (invited).
“Growth with distribution dynamics involving labor and industrial concentration effects” at a session on Growth, distribution and capacity utilization, Eastern Economic Association conference, New York, New York, February 25 (invited).
“Government spending, public investment and economic growth”, at a session on Fiscal policy and the public debt, Eastern Economic Association conference, New York, New York, February 26 (invited).
“Alternative models of growth and distribution with a simple formulation of technological change”, Fifth Analytical Political Economy Workshop, Queen Mary, University of London, May 14 (invited).
“Growth and Distributional Dynamics with Labour Market and Industrial Concentration Effects”, at the International Colloquium on Economic Growth, Structural Change and Institutions, National University of Ireland, Galway, May 26 (invited).
Participant at a Round Table discussion on Economics and Econophysics, at the International Colloquium on Economic Growth, Structural Change and Institutions, National University of Ireland, Galway, May 26 (invited).
“Discussion of paper by Eckhard Hein on Financialization, re-distribution, and the financial and economic crisis: a Kaleckian perspective” at CEPN, University of Paris 13 conference on “Getting out of the crisis: the role of Income Distribution”, Paris, June 9 (invited).
“Power, uncertainty and income distribution: Toward a theory of crisis”, at CEPN, University of Paris 13 conference on “Getting out of the crisis: the role of Income Distribution”, Paris, June 10 (invited).
Participant of a panel discussion on “Income distribution and European economic policies”, at CEPN, University of Paris 13 conference on “Getting out of the crisis: the role of Income Distribution”, Paris, June 10 (invited).
“Some implications of uncertainty for economics”, Conferencia internacional del 70 annversario de la “Investigacio Economica”, UNAM, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, September 9 (invited).
“On the dynamics of growth and distribution along structuralist lines”, at Structuralism, development and international institutions, A conference in honor of Lance Taylor, New School for Social Research, October 14, 2011, New York (invited). Also co-organized the conference, which was a part of the celebration of Lance Taylor’s work on the occasion of his retirement from the New School of Social Research in 2012.
“Power, uncertainty and income distribution: Toward a theory of crisis”, at the 15th annual conference of the Research Network on Macroeconomics and Macroeconomic Policies (FMM), on “From crisis to growth? The challenges of imbalances, debt and limited resources”, Berlin, 28-29 October, presented at the closing plenary session, October 29 (invited).
“Pluralism in economics: What and Why”, at the International Confederation of Associations for Pluralism in Economics (ICAPE) conference, at University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, November 11. Organized a session on pluralism.
“South-South trade from a North-South perspective”, at Workshop on “The Rise of the South and the New Opportunities and Challenges for Development” at the South Centre, organized by the South Centre and United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Geneva, Switzerland, November 21 (invited)
Participant, Round table discussion on South-South Cooperation at Workshop on “The Rise of the South and the New Opportunities and Challenges for Development” at the South Centre, organized by the South Centre and United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Geneva, Switzerland, November 22 (invited).
Seminars and other presentations
“Alternative models of growth, distribution and endogenous technological change”, University of Paris 13, June 24 (invited).
“Consumption and Happiness: Microeconomic versus Macroeconomic Approaches”, Vienna University of Economics and Business, July 12 (invited).
“The economic and political realities of the diseases of poverty”, short talk as part of a panel presentation on “Diseases of poverty”, a program of the Neglected Tropical Diseases Awareness Week 2011, October 4 (invited).
“Long term labor, labor market dualism, growth and distribution”, Department of Economics Economic Theory seminar, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 14 November (invited).
“Employment flexibility, labor market dualism, growth and distribution”, Department of Economics, New School for Social Research, New York, December 9 (invited).
Recent Interview
Ethics, political economy and crisis (in Spanish) in the Ecuadorian economics magazine, GESTIÓN
Journal editorial activities
Metroeconomica (published by Blackwell). Co-editor and Member, Editorial Board, 1997-present
International Journal of Development Issues (University of Sydney, Australia). Member, Editorial Advisory Board, 2001-present.
International Review of Applied Economics (published by the Taylor and Francis Group). Member, Editorial Advisory Board, 1995-present
Referee for journals, book publishers and research funding institutions
Journals
Americal Journal of Political Science
Asian Affairs
Asian Development Review
Australian Economic Papers
Bulletin of Economic Research
Cambridge Journal of Economics
Development and Change
Eastern Economic Journal
Economic and Political Weekly
Economic Journal
European Journal of Political Economy
European Journal of the History of Economic Thought
Feminist Economics
International Economic Review
International Journal of Business and Economics (Taiwan)
International Journal of Gandhi Studies
International Review of Applied Economics
Intervention: European Journal of Economics and Economic Policies
Journal of Comparative Economics
Journal of Development Economics
Journal of Development Studies
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
Journal of Economic Surveys
Journal of Institutional Economics
Journal of International Economic Integration
Journal of Macroeconomics
Journal of Money, Credit and Banking
Journal of Post Keynesian Economics
Journal of Environmental Management
Manchester School of Economic and Social Studies
Metroeconomica
Nova Economia (Brazil)
Oxford Economic Papers
Policy Modeling
Professional Geographer
Review of Development Economics
Review of Political Economy
Review of Radical Political Economics
Review of Social Economy
Science
Scottish Journal of Political Economy
Small Business Economics Journal
Social Concept
Southern Economic Journal
Structural Change and Economic Dynamics
World Development
Zeitschrift fur Nationalokonomie: Journal of Economics
Book Publishers
Book manuscripts reviewed for:
Cambridge University Press
Edward Elgar
Harvard University Press
Kluwer Academic Publishers
MIT Press
Oxford University Press
Palgrave Macmillan
Routledge
Rutgers University Press
University of Michigan Press
Other
Guggenheim Foundation (US)
MacArthur Foundation (US)
National Bank of Austria
National Science Foundation (US)
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada