Political Economy Workshop

ECONOMICS 804: SPRING 2012
POLITICAL ECONOMY WORKSHOP
DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS, UMASS AMHERST

DATE	SPEAKER	TITLE	AFFILIATION

Mar 06	Ruslan Dzarasov	The Nature of Modern Russian Capitalism	Central Economics & Mathematics Institue of Russian Academy of Sciences

Mar 13	Suresh Naidu*	Suffrage, Schooling, and Sorting in the Post-Bellum U.S. South	Columbia University

Mar 27	Francisco Louca***	Dues Ex Machina: Testing the Fundamentals of the Canon on Financial Markets, a Multivariate Approach Background Readings 1 Background Readings 2	Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestao, Universidade Technica De Lisboa, Portugal

Apr 03	Alpa Shah****	The Agrarian Question in a Maoist Guerrilla Zone	Goldsmith, University of London

Apr 10	Mwangi wa Githinji**	Erasing class/(re)creating Ethnicity: Politics, Jobs, Accumulation and Identity in Kenya	UMass Amherst

Apr 23	Simon Mohun***	Profit Rates and Crisis in the US Economy: Long Run and Short Run Perspectives	Queen Mary, University of London

Apr 24	Peter Skott	Pluralism and the Integration of Macro and Micro	UMass Amherst

Apr 30	Vamsi Vakulabharanam***	Class Structures and Rising Inequality in China and India since the 1990s	Hyderabad Central University, India

May 01	HyeonHyo Ahn	Value Theory in Cognitive Capitalism and Basic Income	Daegu University, South Korea; Visiting Scholar, UMass