The discussion will focus on why qualitative methods matter for feminist economics. Panelists will reflect on the advantages and challenges of qualitative approaches and how qualitative research can enrich feminist economic analysis by centering lived experiences, power relations, and institutional contexts that are often obscured by quantitative approaches alone.
The International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE) is a global community of academics, activists, policy theorists, and practitioners who share a common purpose: advancing gender-aware and inclusive economic research and policy analysis. Our aim is to foster gender equality and improve the well-being of all, particularly those facing the greatest socio-economic exclusion. The association’s award-winning journal, Feminist Economics, opens new areas of economic inquiry, fosters critical exchanges and enlarges and enriches economic discourse.
IAFFE is a membership-based organization that was founded following the 1990 meetings of the American Economics Association in Washington, D.C. Since then, it has grown to include 800 members from over 90 countries. IAFFE’s influential network of scholars, activists, and advocates has defined and shaped feminist economics since the association’s founding and has had a tangible impact on scholarship and policy.
Thursday 21 May 2026 at 5-6pm (UK time), online on MS Teams
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Heterodox economics differs from orthodox or mainstream economics. It draws on a multiplicity of ideas, disciplines, methods and voices to present a more radical alternative to the dominant paradigm of neoclassical economics, which is viewed as overly narrow and unable to explain how economies actually work.
This panel, part of the economics seminar series at The Open University, will launch and discuss Andrew Trigg’s new paperback book, Heterodox Economics. Andrew traces the heterodox tradition from its origins in the anti-capitalism ideas of the first half of the nineteenth century, through to Keynes and the present day. He shows the plurality of ideas which inform its history – including decolonialization, feminism and environmental thought – and the methodological challenge they present to mainstream economics. The book also considers the prospects for heterodox economics and whether it will continue to remain outside the citadel.
Andrew Trigg is Professor of Economics at the Open University and a founding member of the Association for Heterodox Economics (AHE).
Susan Newman is Professor of Economics at The Open University since 2020, with previous senior academic roles at the University of the West of England and the Institute of Social Studies, Rotterdam. Her background includes industrial policy research in South Africa and a PhD in Economics from SOAS University of London after first completing an MSci in Physics at University of Bristol.
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Andrew Trigg is Professor of Economics at The Open University in the UK, and recently Visiting Professor at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy. Andrew has co-authored and edited a string of Open University textbooks that promote economic pluralism. His core research agenda is to develop an open analytic approach to different strands of political economy: with his Routledge monograph, Marxian Reproduction Schema: Money and Aggregate Demand in a Capitalist Economy (2006), and Four Layers of Capitalism: Theory and Critique of Classical Political Economy (forthcoming with Cambridge University Press). He has been a founding member and first official co-ordinator of the Association for Heterodox Economics, which this year celebrates its 28th anniversary.
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Sonal Raghuvanshi is a Senior Economist at Rethinking Economics International and has been part of the steering team of the New Political Economy Initiative at Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. Her research focuses on the political economy of development policy, especially as it relates to international financial institutions, macroeconomic policies in developing economies, and questions of structural transformation.
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Danielle Guizzo is Associate Professor at the School of Economics and a researcher at the Centre for Higher Education Transformations (CHET) at the University of Bristol, UK. She was the 2024 recipient of the Clarence E. Ayres Scholar prize, awarded by the Association for Evolutionary Economics (AFEE). Danielle’s research expertise lies at the intersection between the history of economics, economic sociology, and political economy, working on themes related to higher education, social policy, economic expertise, and pluralism. She holds a PhD in Economics & Public Policy from the Federal University of Paraná, Brazil (2016), and previously held positions at the University of the West of England (2016-2020), and the State University of Santa Catarina (2012-2015). Danielle is currently the elected President of the Association for Evolutionary Economics (AFEE), and an editorial board member of Journal of Economic Issues and Review of Political Economy.
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Stephen T. Ziliak is Professor of Economics and Faculty Member of the Social Justice Studies Program at Roosevelt University in Chicago; Faculty Affiliate in the Graduate College of Colorado State University; and occasional consultant for the Angiogenesis Foundation (Cambridge, MA). Economist, historian, statistician, and PhD-trained rhetorician, Professor Ziliak is probably best known for his critically acclaimed book (with D.N. McCloskey), The Cult of Statistical Significance (2008), a foundational text for the reform of testing and estimation in economics, medicine, and other sciences. Ziliak has been an outspoken advocate of heterodox economics for nearly 30 years, delivering keynotes at AHE, ICAPE, and ASE conferences, amongst many others, and contributing to several books on the future of heterodox economics. Since 2023 he has served as Consulting Editor for Ethics and Quantitative Methods at the Journal of Business Ethics.
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Jo Michell is Professor of Economics at UWE Bristol. He studied Economics at SOAS before joining UWE. His research interests include macroeconomics, finance and development. He is Chair of the Post-Keynesian Economics Society, Council member of the Progressive Economy Forum and a Fellow of the Forum for Macroeconomics and Macroeconomic Policy of the Hans-Böckler Foundation.
Dependency Theory: Contemporary Relevance and Challenges in the Current Global Crisis
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International Seminar, Hybrid
11–13 May 2026
From 9am (4pm) to 4pm (11pm) – Mexico City time (Portugal/UK Time)
A bi-continental meeting: Europe–Latin America and the Caribbean
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Institutional Organisers
National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) – México
Faculty of Economics of University of Coimbra (FEUC); Centre for Social Studies (CES); University Institute of Lisbon (ISCTE); Lisbon School of Economics and Management (ISEG) – Portugal
Association for Heterodox Economics (AHE) – United Kingdom
Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO)
University of Buenos Aires (UBA) – Argentina
Latin American Studies (LAS) of the Leiden University – Netherlands
European Association of Development Research and Training Institute (EADI)
Young Scholar Initiative of the Institute for New Economic Thinking (YSI-INET)
In a context shaped by the reconfiguration of the world order, the intensification of geopolitical disputes, the structural financialisation of the economy, the ecological crisis, and the deepening of social inequalities, Dependency Theory has once again become an indispensable perspective for understanding the dynamics of contemporary capitalism. Far from constituting a closed chapter in Latin American thought, the dependency approach offers decisive analytical tools for interpreting the current global crisis and its implications for Latin America and the Caribbean.
This international seminar, bi-continental in scope and held in a hybrid format, brings together leading scholars with the aim of debating the contemporary relevance, renewal, and future trajectory of Dependency Theory in the twenty-first century.
Within this framework, the programme will also include the presentation of Decolonizing Economics: An Introduction (Devika Dutt, Carolina Alves, Surbhi Kesar, and Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven). The book examines the Eurocentric foundations that have shaped the economics discipline and constrained its capacity to engage with phenomena such as structural racism, uneven development, the climate crisis, and labour relations. It proposes “decolonising” economics by challenging the norms of neutrality and objectivity from which the discipline often claims to speak, and by opening space for approaches that take structural power, exploitation, and colonial legacies seriously. This session will include discussion by leading thinkers from the Latin American tradition of Dependency Theory and is conceived as a direct dialogue with the seminar’s thematic strands—particularly in rethinking the political economy of global capitalism from non-Eurocentric frameworks.
Strand 1. The historical development and contemporary relevance of Dependency Theory
This strand addresses the historical development and contemporary relevance of Dependency Theory, examining its main analytical categories, internal debates, and explanatory power in the face of recent transformations in global capitalism.
Strand 2. (Neo-)imperialisms, geopolitical tensions, and international economic relations from a dependency perspective
This strand analyses (neo-)imperialisms, geopolitical tensions, and international economic relations from a dependency perspective, interrogating global power configurations, inter-power rivalry, and the place of the periphery within the emerging world architecture.
Strand 3. New theoretical and methodological horizons: Dependency Theory as a framework for the contemporary world structure
This strand explores new theoretical and methodological horizons to consolidate Dependency Theory as an analytical framework for today’s world structure, engaging with debates on financialisation, extractivism, global value chains, the ecological crisis, and transformations of work.
More than a commemorative exercise, this seminar advances a strategic discussion: to think dependency today is to think about the conditions of possibility for sovereignty, development, and emancipation in a contested world.
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Latin American Speakers
Adrián Sotelo, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)
Ana Grondona, University of Buenos Aires (UBA)
Claudio Katz, University of Buenos Aires (UBA)
Diego Giller, National University of General Sarmiento (UNGS)
Emir Sader, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)
José G. Gandarilla, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)
Juan Manuel Contreras, Autonomous University of Mexico City (UACM)
Marcelo Dias Carcanholo, Fluminense Federal University (UFF)
Mariano Treacy, National University of General Sarmiento (UNGS)
Mónica Bruckmann, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)
Nildo Ouriques, Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC)*
Raúl Delgado Wise, Autonomous University of Zacatecas (UAZ)
René Ramírez, Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO) and National University of the Arts (UNA)
Roberto Escorcia Romo, Metropolitan Autonomous University (UAM)
Sebastián Sztulwark, National University of General Sarmiento (UNGS)
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European Speakers
Andrew Fischer, International Institute of Social Studies (ISS)
Carla Coburger, University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE)
Devika Dutt, King’s College London (KCL)
Fabio Maldonado, King’s College London (KCL)
Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven, King’s College London (KCL)
Jonas Van Vossole, Centre for Social Studies (CES)
Luís Mah, University Institute of Lisbon (ISCTE)
María Gabriela Palacio, Leiden University (LU)
Patrick Mokre, Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU Vienna)
Rogelio Madrueño, University of Bonn
Rui Costa Santos, University of Granada (UGR)
* To be (re)confirmed.
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Organising Committee
Ernesto Nieto-Carrillo (FEUC-AHE), René Ramírez (CLACSO-UNA), Adrián Escamilla Trejo (UNAM), María Gabriela Palacio (LU), Ana Santos (CES), Roberto Ruiz Blum (FEUC), Gabriela Riera (ISCTE).
Registration for the AHE conference is now open on our website until the 10th June 2026. Presenters should register by this date to be included in the final conference programme.
Please read carefully the payment instructions on the website (3-step process) and our cancellation policy before proceeding with the purchase. The full registration price is £180, and your ticket includes the annual AHE membership fee, the conference dinner and catering throughout the event.
If you are based in the Global South, the AHE will email you a discount coupon worth £40. If you are a student or part-time academic, the AHE will email you a discount coupon worth £40. If both discount categories apply to you, e.g. a student based in the Global South, you will receive by email two discounts coupons which you can use jointly to obtain a total discount worth £80. The AHE is unable to partially refund scholars who fail to use discount coupons they are entitled to. All discount coupons must be applied prior to purchase.
Early career researchers who requested travel support in their submissions will be contacted separately by the Organising Committee about the decisions. Please refrain from contacting us via email.
The conference will take place from 1–3 July 2026 at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra (FEUC), in the Celas/Olivais area of Coimbra, Portugal. FEUC is served by local bus lines 4, 37 and 103, and can also be reached easily by taxi or ride-hailing services. Google Maps link: https://maps.app.goo.gl/3sdLGhUjeEwD5CPv6
Please consult the Travel Information section down below for how to get to Coimbra, visa requirements, and a list of discounted accommodation options. Coimbra is a popular tourist destination in July, and therefore we strongly encourage you to book your accommodation early.
If you require an acceptance letter on AHE letterhead for visa purposes, please fill in this form to generate an automated letter.
The conference organisation will not be responsible for providing accommodation or cover your costs of travel and stay.
Once registrations close, we will contact participants with the final programme schedule.
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Travel Information
Click here to download the travel information guide in PDF format.
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Conference and Venue
The conference will take place at FEUC, University of Coimbra, in the Celas/Olivais area of Coimbra.
Faculty of Economics, University of Coimbra (FEUC): Av. Dr. Dias da Silva, 165, Celas, 3004-512 Coimbra, Portugal
Local public transport to FEUC: SMTUC bus lines 4, 37, and 103
If your institution uses eduroam, it is worth configuring it before departure. FEUC’s teaching block, library, and several public areas are covered by the eduroam wireless network.
Coimbra is centrally located, around 200 km from Lisbon and 120 km from Porto. Official tourism guidance highlights fast road connections, an efficient rail network, and proximity to the two main international airports.
Train: Alfa Pendular and Intercidades services connect Coimbra-B with Lisbon (about 1h45) and Porto (about 1h15). Coimbra-B is the long-distance station.
Bus: Rede Expressos and FlixBus operate regular services from Lisbon, Porto, and other cities. The Coimbra bus station is next to the city centre.
Airports: the nearest major airports are Lisbon Humberto Delgado (LIS) and Porto Francisco Sá Carneiro (OPO).
Private transfer: Coimbra Airport Shuttle offers shared and private transfers between Coimbra and Lisbon/Porto airports.
Coimbra-B is the station for long-distance trains. CP notes that it interfaces with SMTUC buses at Coimbra-B, and the coach station is also close to the city centre.
If you are carrying luggage, a taxi from Coimbra-B or the coach station to FEUC is usually the simplest option.
FEUC is served by SMTUC lines 4, 37, and 103.
If you stay in Celas or Solum, the venue is usually a short taxi, bus, or walk away.
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Moving Around Coimbra
Coimbra Tourism presents Coimbra as a “15-minute city”, and the local bus network covers the city well for conference travel.
SMTUC buses offer broad coverage across Coimbra and neighbouring parishes.
For occasional travel, SMTUC sells pre-loaded tickets on the Viagem conVIDA card.
Intermodal 1-day, 3-day, and 7-day tickets are also available.
If you are coming from outside the Schengen Area, you may require a visa:
Schengen Visa (Short Stay): Valid for stays up to 90 days within a 180-day period for purposes such as tourism, business, or attending conferences.
Requirements: Typically include a valid passport (at least 3 months beyond stay), visa support letter, proof of accommodation, return flight ticket, travel insurance, and proof of sufficient funds.
Visa Support Letters will be issued to participants upon request.
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Health and Emergencies
The reference guide’s health section is worth keeping. Portugal’s public system can handle emergencies, but the right preparation depends on your coverage.
If you are eligible for an EHIC (European Health Insurance Card) or equivalent public reciprocal-healthcare card (Provisional Replacement Certificate), bring it.
The EHIC covers medically necessary state-provided healthcare during a temporary stay under the same conditions and at the same cost as locals; it does not replace travel insurance or cover private care.
If you are not covered by an EHIC-style arrangement, arrange travel medical insurance before departure.
For a serious emergency, call 112.
For urgent but non-life-threatening health advice and triage, call SNS 24 on 808 24 24 24.
As in the reference guide, the main accommodation choice is whether to stay close to the venue or in the historic centre.
Near FEUC: Celas and Solum are the most convenient areas. Celas centres on Avenida Dias da Silva and the hospital area; Solum is known for services and easy accessibility.
Historic-centre option: Baixa / central Coimbra gives you quicker access to monuments, restaurants, and transport, with a slightly longer commute to FEUC.
Book early: early July is summer travel season and availability can tighten.
Below is a list of hotels we have agreed to offer discounts to participants at the AHE 2026 conference.
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[1] Penedo da Saudade Suites & Hostel:
Offers a 10% discount to all participants who use the code “AHE2026” when booking through the official platform. For reservations and more information about the accommodation unit: https://www.penedodasaudade.pt/.
Offers a 5% discount to all participants who explicitly refer to the Association for Heterodox Economics Conference 2026 when booking via email at info@hotelmondego.com or by phone at +351 239 496 239. For reservations and more information about the accommodation unit: https://hotelmondego.com/
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[4] Hotel Botânico de Coimbra
Offers a 10% discount to all participants who explicitly refer to the Association for Heterodox Economics Conference 2026 when booking via email at geral@hotelbotanicocoimbra.pt. For reservations and more information about the accommodation unit: https://hotelbotanicocoimbra.pt/
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[5] Hotel Astoria
Offers a 10% discount to all participants who use the code “AHE26FEUC” when booking through the official platform. For reservations and more information about the accommodation unit: www.almeidahotels.pt
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[6] The Zero Hotels
Offers a fixed nightly rate of €50 to all participants who use the code “AHE2026” when booking through the official platform. Rate excludes breakfast and tourist tax. Tourist tax of €1 per person per night. Breakfast available for €9 per person per night. For reservations and more information about the accommodation unit: https://coimbra.thezerohotels.com/
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[7] Hotel Ibis Coimbra Centro
Offers a 10% discount to all participants who explicitly refer to the Association for Heterodox Economics Conference 2026 when booking via email at h1672@accor.com. For reservations and more information about the accommodation unit: https://all.accor.com/hotel/1672/index.pt.shtml
We are pleased to announce a call for applications to the AHE-YSI Pre-Conference Workshop. This event is co-organised with the Economic Development Working Group of the Young Scholars Initiative (YSI).
The workshop will take place at the University of Coimbra, Portugal, on 30th June 2026, on the day before the annual AHE Conference (1-3 July 2026).
This mentorship workshop is designed for early-career scholars with a strong interest in heterodox economic methodology, particularly those who have already begun to engage seriously with the methodological sections of their research and are seeking focused, one-to-one guidance. The event is carefully structured to foster deep, constructive engagement: participation will be limited to 10 selected scholars and 4 senior mentors, ensuring substantial face-to-face time, detailed feedback, and sustained discussion of each participant’s methodological challenges and publishing plans.
The workshop will take place at the University of Coimbra on the day preceding the 28th Association for Heterodox Economics Conference, allowing participants to build on the mentorship experience as they transition into the broader conference discussions.
This event continues the annual collaboration between YSI and AHE, with the aim of providing a supportive, intellectually rigorous space for developing methodological clarity, confidence in publishing, and scholarly community.
Given the workshop’s focus on mentorship and feedback, participants will be asked to submit a working paper or extended draft ahead of the workshop by mid-May. Drafts should include enough developed material for mentors (to be announced) to engage meaningfully with your ideas, methods, and future plans (publication, etc.).
Selected participants will receive fee waivers for the main conference, as well as a partial travel stipend and accommodation throughout both events. YSI funded participants are expected to attend the main conference.
Marx’s Theory of Value at the Frontiers does a deep dive into the fundamentals of value theory to investigate the political economics of today. Güney Işıkara and Patrick Mokre go to its frontiers, where value theory is modified, to explain the explosive crises looming in imperialist conflict and ecological breakdown. They join AHE’s webinar to introduce what Marxist economics has to say about value transfers and ground rent, and what their new empirical approach adds to our understanding of the geopolitical shifts in the last decades.
Decolonizing Economics explores the deeply Eurocentric foundations that shape how economists study the world today. These have rendered the discipline ill-equipped to tackle critical questions, such as structural racism, uneven development, the climate crisis, labour relations, and how structural power shapes economic outcomes. Decolonizing economics entails challenging the norms of neutrality and objectivity that economists claim to speak from, while fostering alternative ways of understanding the economy that take seriously structural power relations and contemporary processes of economic development. Readers will come to understand the political stakes of decolonization and the wide range of scholarship that already exists that can help us grasp economics from non-Eurocentric perspectives. Through such scholarship, we can gain an enriched understanding of capitalism and its relationship to exploitation, colonialism, and racialisation.
Hybrid Postgraduate Workshop on Advanced Research Methods
15-17th April 2026 at the University of Leeds, UK
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Call for participants
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Summary of the workshop
We are inviting applications to attend our annual hybrid training workshop on research methods, taking place on 15-17th April 2026 both in-person in Leeds (UK) and online. The workshop is open to any current PhD candidates studying economics topics, from anywhere in the world.
To allow in-person interaction but also retain a broad representation of students, the workshop will be held in a hybrid format, with some participants in-person and some online. It will be held over three short days, running from 10:30-15:30 UTC.
We strongly encourage applications from women and ethnically-minoritised groups. Students who have previously attended are not eligible to apply.
The workshop is free to attend plus we can offer limited travel support to those attending in-person. Learning in our interactive sessions will be supported by pre-reading and dedicated video recordings by leading scholars.
To apply, candidates should complete all sections of the form hereas fully as they can. Applications will be evaluated in terms of the strength of the case they make for wanting to attend the workshop, and the applicant’s need to attend and its potential benefit. Applications tend to fall down if they say too little or are too vague. The final deadline for applications is 18th February 2026. Successful candidates will be informed within 10 working days of that date.
Further details are available down below. Please encourage your PhD students to apply and please share this invitation.
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Full description of the workshop
Applications are open for places at the annual Association for Heterodox Economics (AHE) postgraduate workshop on advanced research methods in economics. The workshop will be conducted in English. The workshop is open to anyone studying a PhD on any economics topics, from anywhere in the world. We strongly encourage applications from women and ethnically-minoritised groups.
The workshop is free to attend plus we can offer limited travel support to those attending in-person.
Learning in our interactive sessions will be supported by pre-reading and dedicated video recordings by leading scholars.
Workshop topics include:
Reorienting economics to match method with social material
Quantitative analysis applicable to open economic systems
Qualitative methods in economic research
Ethical and responsible research
Social network theory in Economics
Mixing quantitative and qualitative data and mixed-methods research
Career planning, including publishing work which uses non-standard methodologies
Please do not apply if you are not currently registered on a PhD programme. Students who have previously attended are not eligible to apply.
To allow in-person interaction but also retain a broad representation of students, the workshop will be held for the first time in a hybrid format, with some participants in-person and some online. It will be held over three short days, running from 10:30-15:30 UTC. Please bear in mind these timings: if you cannot realistically attend the whole workshop, please do not apply as you may be reducing the opportunities for others who can.
To apply, please complete the form here. Please complete all sections of the form as fully as you can. Applications will be evaluated in terms of the strength of the case you make for wanting to attend the workshop, and your need to attend (and its potential benefit).
The final deadline for applications is 18th February 2026. If your application is successful, you will be informed within 10 working days of that date.
Call for Papers and Panels for the 28th Annual Conference of the Association for Heterodox Economics (AHE)
1-3 July 2026 at the University of Coimbra, Portugal
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Submissions for the 2026 AHE Conference closed on 28th February
We have received approximately 330 submissions in total. We thank everyone for their interest in the AHE annual conference. Paper and panel abstracts are now with stream coordinators. Decisions will be sent out by email by the end of March.
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Call for papers and panels
We invite submissions of papers and panelsfor the 28th Conference of the Association for Heterodox Economics, taking place on 1-3 July 2026 at the University of Coimbra in Coimbra, Portugal. This is an event organised in collaboration with the Faculty of Economics at the University of Coimbra (FEUC), the Centre for Business and Economics Research (CeBER), the Centre for Social Studies (CES), and the Portuguese Association of Political Economy (EcPol).
AHE seeks to support scholarship, reflection, and debate on innovative and diverse heterodox and radical understandings of the global political economy. We welcome submissions that challenge conventional economic paradigms, offer alternative frameworks for understanding and navigating these complex crises, and actively work towards radical social change. Our plenary sessions this year will cover inequality, financialisation, housing and long-run transformations. Confirmed speakers include Arjun Jayadev, Ozlem Onaran, Ana Santos, Francisco Louçã, Isabella Weber and Anna Minton.
We have a series of streams running this year that you can submit your papers and/or panels to. You can see a full overview of the streams below. Please read the stream descriptions carefully before submitting.
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Paper submission
Submit abstracts for individual papers (max 300 words) by 28 February 2026 by filling in this form. We particularly encourage applications from underrepresented groups in the economics discipline including, but not limited to women, people of colour, scholars from the Global South. Limited travel support is available for selected early career scholars from the Global North and South. Early career scholars include PhD students as well as those who received their PhD no more than 2 years prior to the date of the conference and are not currently in a full-time, tenured position. When submitting your abstract, please indicate if you would like to be considered for the bursaries. Submit your paper here. Please note that we can only consider one submission per presenter, i.e. only your first submission will be considered.
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Panel submission
To make a submission for a panel please fill in this form. Please note that a panel typically consists of 3-4 presentations on a similar theme, but we are also open to panel submissions in non-standard formats (e.g. roundtable or workshop). Submit your panel here.
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Fred Lee Prize
If you are an early career researcher and interested in having your paper considered for the Fred Lee Early Career Prize, please indicate this on the paper submission form. You will be asked to send your full paper by 13 May 2026 with the subject line “Early career prize submission” at heteconevents@gmail.com. Eligible scholars for the prize include PhD students as well as those who received their PhD no more than 2 years prior to the date of the conference and are not currently in a full-time, tenured position.
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YSI Pre-Conference Workshop
The AHE-YSI Pre-Conference Workshop is co-organised with the Economic Development Working Group of the Young Scholars Initiative (YSI). The workshop will take place at the University of Coimbra, Portugal, on 30th June 2026, on the day before the annual AHE Conference (1-3 July 2026). This mentorship workshop is designed for early-career scholars with a strong interest in heterodox economic methodology, particularly those who have already begun to engage seriously with the methodological sections of their research and are seeking focused, one-to-one guidance. The event is carefully structured to foster deep, constructive engagement: participation will be limited to 10 selected scholars and 4 senior mentors, ensuring substantial face-to-face time, detailed feedback, and sustained discussion of each participant’s methodological challenges and publishing plans. Click here to apply for the pre-conference workshop.
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Overview of Streams
Borders, Labour, and the State
Coordinators: Pedro Antunes, Miguel Duarte; Marina Barbosa; Ana C. Haddad; Bianca Barp
This stream examines the rise of anti-immigration rhetoric in contemporary mainstream political discourse, and its effects on political agendas, public policies, and labour. In a decade marked by debates over multiculturalism and national identity—often propelled by the far right—against a backdrop of rising inequality and an affordability crisis, understanding the connections between borders, labour, and the state is fundamental. The migrant is a historically contingent category, shaped and imposed in part by the state: a category that mobilises difference, often ethnicity, to determine who has the right to have rights. This contributes to labour-market segmentation and helps ensure a supply of vulnerable workers for the most precarious sectors. The category of “migrant” also enables the state to remove, through deportation, non-conforming members of the working class. It has been central to the construction of the nation-state, national identity, and borders. As Robin D. G. Kelley notes, migrants are “the very heart of a global labor force whose movements are linked to war, capital flows, policies imposed by states and international financial/economic bodies, racist and patriarchal security regimes, and the struggles of working people on every side of every border”. In Harsha Walia’s words, “exclusionary projections of who belongs and who has the right to life upholds ruling-class and right-wing nationalism, thus breaking internationalist solidarity and entrenching global apartheid”.
With this in mind, the stream recognises that the rise of anti-immigration rhetoric carries wide-ranging political, social, and economic consequences, and welcomes heterodox perspectives on these issues. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Political economy of borders, migration politics, and state violence
Nationalism, national identity, and the rise of the far right
Labour-market segmentation and globalisation
Neo-colonialism and development theories
Social reproduction and migration
Resistance, solidarity, and alternative frameworks
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Concretely Utopian Public Services: Practice to theory, theory to practice
Coordinators: Emanuele Lobina, Nuno Martins, Julia Bacchieri Indiani and Conor Gray
This stream explores the emancipatory potential of concretely utopian public services (CUPS) across sectors. Margaret Archer’s concrete utopias are ideas of universal emancipatory development that guide actual practice in quest for the good life, including ideas of socio-ecological and economic justice and deep sustainable development. The pursuit of CUPS is particularly urgent in the era of zombie neoliberalism, where policies like privatisation and financialisation are being reproduced in the Global North and South despite their repeated failure to prioritise community needs.
We invite papers that engage with the challenges and opportunities of building alternatives to the neoliberal governance of public services (or otherwise contribute to understanding the developmental potential of such alternatives). These alternatives may include but are not limited to the following:
Institutional preservation of Tony Lawson’s “eudaimonic bubbles”;
Mobilising for Quality Public Services;
Democratising governance;
In-house restructuring of public enterprises;
Public-public partnerships and labour-management partnerships for capacity development;
Reverse privatisation/de-privatisation and remunicipalisation;
Public ownership for decarbonisation;
Pragmatic cost recovery; and,
De-financialisation.
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Core–Periphery Revisited: Long Cycles and the Political Economy of Global Transformation
Coordinators: Ernesto Nieto-Carrillo, María Gabriela Palacio, and Natália Bracarense
This stream examines the interaction between long cycles of accumulation, discontinuous technical change, and global value extraction within core–periphery hierarchies. It brings together three major intellectual traditions: (1) long-wave (Marxist and evolutionary) perspectives; (2) Latin American structuralist and decolonial contributions (Furtado, Lewis, Prebisch, Dussel, Dos Santos, Shiva, Valencia, Quijano); and (3) the systemic and hegemonic approaches of Polanyi, Arrighi, Amin, Fraser, Wallerstein and Gunder Frank. It reconnects analyses of technological paradigms, structural change and unequal exchange with reflections on long-wave transitions, rentier and logistics regimes, and the emerging geopolitics of energy, data, identity, and debt that redefine centres and peripheries of accumulation.
We welcome theoretical and empirical contributions—quantitative, qualitative, ethnographic or historical—that examine long-term transformations of capitalism from an evolutionary and global perspective. Particular attention is given to peripheral and semi-peripheral dynamics, including informal labour, hidden markets, debt, (trans)national mobility and displacement, emancipation struggles, and the political–ideological waves and crises of hegemony accompanying each cycle. By bridging Northern and Southern traditions of heterodox thought, the stream encourages theoretical innovation and empirical inquiry into the long cycles of global capitalism, viewing the South(s)—in their plurality—not only as an object of study but also as a vantage point for rethinking accumulation and transformation. Indicative topics:
Long cycles, technological paradigms and global value extraction
Political–ideological waves, institutional transformations and crises of hegemony
Core–periphery dynamics and asymmetric development in long-run capitalist transformations
Financialisation and rentier dynamics in capital–labour relations throughout the long wave
Informal labour, hidden markets and migratory adjustment in systemic cycles of accumulation
Long-run dynamics of social reproduction and gendered stratification
Emancipatory struggles to redefine labour, culture and value across historical phases of capitalism
Semi-peripheral industrialisation and deindustrialisation across long-cycle transitions
Plural Souths and internal peripheries
Energy transitions and socioecological constraints in structural restructurings of global production
Expulsion, debt and moral economies of survival in global systemic crises
South-centred and decolonial epistemologies of structural transformation
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Dimensions of Sustainability
Coordinators: Andrew Mearman, Briti Kar and Sarika Chaudhary
The ways in which the current economic system is designed – and discussed – feeds into the process of capitalist accumulation, deepening already existing inequalities rather than challenging the status quo. There remains an urgent need to change radically both the power dynamics of that system and how it is treated. Thus, the stream wishes to explore heterodox treatments of climate change and sustainability, be they theoretical, empirical, policy- or other stakeholder-oriented, or educational. One particular concern for heterodox economists is that climate change, though recognised as a problem, is analysed within existing power dynamics. Instead, there is a need for decolonising both the study and the practice of climate change and sustainability. The stream therefore welcomes contributions on any aspect of the above, using a diversity of methods of enquiry, data, schools of thought or perspectives, and a diverse variety of session styles. In particular we welcome submissions on the following sub-themes:
Theoretical and conceptual discussions of sustainability, or aspects of it, including critiques of current models of sustainability and evaluations of policy and other relevant frameworks
Theoretical and empirical studies of sustainability topics, particularly those aimed at
analysing the class dimensions to climate change across the globe.
Theoretical and empirical studies focusing on the global north – south divide in
contributing to and bearing the effects of climate crisis.
Socio-economic analyses of climate change, within Global North and South. This
would explore the class angle within the countries, their consumption, and the existing
restrictions.
Discussion of teaching sustainability either in economics or related disciplines
Consideration of links between sustainability and pluralism, however defined
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Feminist Economics
Coordinators: Ines Heck and Lina Coelho
We invite submissions to the Feminist Economics Stream at the 27th Annual Conference of the Association of Heterodox Economics. This stream explores feminist economic perspectives on the multiple and intensifying global crises reshaping economies and societies, including climate breakdown, genocidal violence, surging economic inequality, the erosion of democratic institutions and rise of authoritarian populism. These crises demand urgent rethinking of traditional economic frameworks, and feminist economics provides critical tools for imagining and creating more equitable and sustainable futures. We welcome contributions on topics including but not limited to the following:
Feminist analyses of global crises and the gendered dimensions of climate breakdown, conflict, and genocide
Care work and social reproduction
Political ecology and environmental justice from a feminist standpoint
Intersectional analyses of the labour market and rising informality and precarity
Gender dimensions of trade, finance and global production networks
Gender and macroeconomics
Gender analyses of tax and fiscal policy
Feminist activism and policy pathways for transformative change
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Financialisation, Growth Models and Labour Regimes
Coordinators: Ana Costa, José Reis, Alexandre Abreu, Pedro Lima, Maria Cristina Barbieri Góes, and Marcelo Santos
This stream examines the interplay between financialisation, growth models and labour regimes in contemporary capitalism. Drawing on Minskian and post-Keynesian macroeconomics, the regulation school and growth-models literature, critical analyses of financialisation and structural accounts of inequality, it brings together analyses of accumulation regimes, labour relations and changing financial structures, emphasising their co-evolution in structuring demand, wealth creation (or destruction) and the organisation of work. We invite theoretical, empirical and mixed-methods contributions that link macro growth models (wage-led, profit-led, export-led, finance-led, innovation-led) to concrete institutional configurations of industrial relations, welfare states, corporate governance and state–finance relations. A central concern is the co-evolution between finance-centred accumulation, labour regimes and inequality, and its implications for alternative policy and development paths. Indicative topics:
Wage-led, profit-led, finance-led, export-led and innovation-led growth models, and their implications for employment, wages, and productivity.
Financialisation of non-financial corporations: shareholder value, payouts, leverage, intangibles and corporate governance.
Household indebtedness, housing and consumption: debt-led growth, asset-based welfare, stratification in access to credit, and financial vulnerability.
Sovereign debt, fiscal rules, austerity, central banking and the politics of macroeconomic “credibility”.
Precarious and platform work, informalisation, wage restraint and changing bargaining institutions.
Comparative analyses of growth models and labour regimes in different institutional settings.
Distributional consequences of financialisation and rentierisation: top incomes, wealth, capital gains, rentier incomes, and shifting wage–profit–rent relations.
Rent-seeking, technological change and digital business models: platforms, data, intellectual property, knowledge and intellectual monopoly capitalism.
Financial crises, instability and stagnation: competing heterodox explanations and their implications for labour markets and policy.
Entrepreneurial state and mission-oriented finance: development banks, green and just transitions and industrial policy in growth models.
Methodological and modelling innovations in studying growth models, finance, and labour regimes (e.g., stock–flow consistent models, input–output, microdata-based analyses, case studies).
Human capital and education under financialisation: the political economy of skills, vocational systems, and financing of education/training.
Digitalisation, artificial intelligence and task recomposition: the implications for job quality, wage inequality, productivity and inequality across growth models.
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Heterodox Health Economics
Coordinator: Imko Meyenburg
There is also growing interest in person-centred care (PCC) across healthcare systems across the world, which emphasises patient needs, preferences, and lived experiences. Despite its increasing adoption, guidance on implementing PCC within workforce and service delivery planning is limited, specifically examining PCC’s impact on patient safety. This is due to multiple barriers, including slow cultural change, rigid funding structures, high staff turnover, organisational constraints, heavy workloads, resistance to change, insufficient training, and inadequate supervision. This stream welcomes heterodox economists with an interest in contributing to person-centred care (PCC) healthcare policies. It encourages a plurality of theoretical perspectives, such as feminist theories or the capability approaches, to move beyond traditional and orthodox health economics methods. The aim is to explore how PCC can be delivered at various levels, from policy development to service provision.
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Histories in Heterodox Economics
Coordinators: Cecilia Lanata-Briones, Danielle Guizzo; João Pedro Amaral Cabouco Rodrigues
This stream warmly welcomes submissions on any aspect of the history of heterodox economics and its intersections with economic history and historical inquiry more broadly, notably (but not limited to):
The history of heterodox ideas, debates, concepts and wider economic thought;
The history of the marginalisation, dissemination, or institutional positioning of heterodox economics;
Intellectual histories of individual heterodox economists, traditions, or communities;
The history of the professionalisation and organisational development of heterodox economists;
The relationship between heterodox economics and policy, viewed through historical, archival, or genealogical approaches;
Heterodox economics or economists in public discourse and the media from a historical perspective;
The history of heterodox economics education, curricula, and teaching practices;
Historical analyses of the scientific production, circulation, and contestation of heterodox knowledge;
Economic history research that draws on heterodox/non-traditional approaches, concepts, or questions;
Work that uses historical methods, including archival work, longue durée analysis, oral history, genealogy, or mixed historical methodologies to investigate topics relevant to heterodox economics or economic life more broadly;
Studies that connect the evolution of economic institutions, practices, and cultures with heterodox perspectives.
We welcome a diversity of methods of inquiry, data sources, and schools of thought, including work engaging with interdisciplinary historical methods.
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Philosophy and Methods in Economics
Coordinators: Renato Rosa, Felipe Rodrigues, and Nuno Ornelas Martins
This stream welcomes submissions that explore any dimension of the intersection between economics and philosophy. Relevant topics include (but are not limited to):
Philosophical aspects or interpretations of economics;
Ethical issues in economics
Social ontology
The fragmentation of the economics discipline;
Criticisms to the mainstream and/or neoclassical economics, from the grounds of both theoretical works and policymaking practice;
Economic methodology, including decolonising methodologies in economics;
Bibliometric or network analysis studies in economics and related fields;
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Quantitative Political Economy
Co-ordinators: Tomás Rotta, José Coronado, Patrick Mokre, Josephine Baker, Cem Oyvat
This stream brings together papers that apply quantitative and computational methods within the field of Political Economy. It welcomes a broad range of theoretical traditions, including (but not limited to) Marxian, Keynesian, Kaleckian, Sraffian, feminist, critical race, and ecological approaches. We encourage submissions on topics such as development, ecology, inequality, exploitation, unequal exchange, colonialism, decolonisation, imperialism, socialism, economic planning, innovation, and technical change. Submissions should feature a substantive quantitative or computational component such as mathematical modelling, simulations, econometrics, Bayesian statistics, entropy and information metrics, input-output analysis, machine learning, or network analysis, and be theoretically grounded in Political Economy. We anticipate hosting four panels (four papers each) but warmly welcome additional submissions.
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Regional Development and Economic Geography
Coordinators: José Miguel Rebolho, Simone Tulumello, Helen Belisário, and João Pedro Ferreira
This stream focuses on the critical and heterodox political economy of regional development, regional applications, and economic geography. In an era defined by overlapping crises – from ecological breakdown and financial instability to rising inequality – the spatial dimensions of economic processes are more crucial than ever. Global dynamics do not unfold uniformly; they manifest in specific places, creating and reinforcing regional disparities, core-periphery dependencies, and uneven development both within and between nations. This stream moves beyond mainstream equilibrium approaches to critically examine the processes, policies, and power relations that shape regional trajectories, local labor markets, and the possibilities for alternative development strategies. We seek to bring together theoretical, applied, and policy-oriented research that explores the spatial dimensions in economic analysis.
We warmly welcome submissions from heterodox perspectives. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Regional inequality, spatial justice, and core-periphery dependencies.
Regional industrial strategies, clusters and diversification.
Governance of regional and global value chains.
Alternative regional development strategies and challenges (e.g., community wealth building, foundational economy).
The financialization of space, housing, and regional infrastructure.
Regional labor markets, spatial divisions of labor, and migration.
Sustainability and the uneven regional impacts of climate change and green policies.
Methodological innovations in heterodox regional analysis and economic geography.
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Social Studies in Economics
Coordinators: Danielle Guizzo, Renato Rosa and Felipe Rodrigues
This stream warmly welcomes submissions that examine economics through a sociological lens, broadly understood. We seek work that explores the social organisation, cultures, practices, and knowledge-making processes of economics, particularly within heterodox and critical traditions. While policy can be a site of inquiry, we encourage approaches that treat policy as a social and political construction rather than solely as an applied domain. The stream aims to create a space for scholars who analyse economics as a social, cultural, and political practice, and who contribute to expanding the methodological and conceptual repertoire of heterodox economics. We welcome papers on (but not limited to) the following themes:
Sociology of the economics profession: analyses of academic communities, disciplinary boundaries, intellectual networks, institutional structures, and the social organisation of heterodox economics.
Theoretical perspectives: engagements with political philosophy, critical social theory, science and technology studies, economic sociology, or anthropology of expertise as they illuminate economic reasoning and practice.
Policy as a sociological object: studies of how economic ideas shape, circulate within, or are contested in policymaking arenas; comparative analyses of how heterodox and mainstream frameworks construct policy problems and solutions.
Policy experimentation and the politics of methods: critical examinations of policy pilots, behavioural interventions, evaluation practices, and experiments as sociotechnical devices, focusing on their epistemic, organisational, or political dimensions rather than their instrumental outcomes.
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Heterodox Perspectives on Economic Development
Coordinators: Olivia Bullio Mattos, Simone Silva de Deos, Ana Rosa Ribeiro Mendonça, Fernanda Ultremare
The multiple crises we currently face – climate change, rising inequalities, pandemic impacts, and geopolitical conflicts – have exposed the limitations of orthodox, market-based development strategies that heterodox economists have long criticized. With the need for deep, structural changes in 21st-century economies to deliver the key transitions societies need, political economy approaches, including but not limited to Post-Keynesian, Institutionalist, Marxist, Feminist, and Ecological, offer a valuable framework for an alternative. This stream invites papers that critically explore theoretical contributions and concrete policy choices for economic development. We encourage submissions in the following topics:
Financing strategies for the climate crisis and just transition.
Money, finance, and development.
Development and industrial policy.
Development, globalization, and trade.
Development and the labor market.
Comparative development and historical perspectives.
We invite economists, policymakers, practitioners, and members of the wider public to join us for an interactive discussion of this timely and fundamental critique of mainstream economics.
This global book webinar series is part of an initiative organised in association with the UN Economist Network, a community of over 500 economists working across UN agencies, regional commissions, and country offices. Its purpose is to increase the visibility and cross-pollination of work by scholars and practitioners advancing fundamental reform of the pedagogy and practice of economic growth and development.
The series seeks to strengthen a network of networks, linking leading thinkers from research, policy, and practice around the world, including younger and mid-career professionals, who are developing new approaches to economic theory and policy with the potential to accelerate progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the human-centred objectives of social inclusion, environmental sustainability, and human dignity and resilience. We look forward to welcoming you to this important discussion.
Decolonization has long been debated across the social sciences, but the economics discipline has so far avoided such critical engagement. This book provides a much-needed intervention. Dutt, Alves, Kesar, and Kvangraven uncover the deeply Eurocentric foundations that shape how economists study the world today. These have rendered the discipline ill-equipped to tackle critical questions, such as structural racism, uneven development, the climate crisis, labour relations, and how structural power shapes economic outcomes. Decolonizing economics entails challenging the norms of neutrality and objectivity that economists claim to speak from, while fostering alternative ways of understanding the economy that take seriously structural power relations and contemporary processes of economic development.
Through this work, readers come to understand the political stakes of decolonization and the wide range of scholarship that can help us grasp economics from non-Eurocentric perspectives. By engaging with these perspectives, the book invites an enriched understanding of capitalism and its relationship to exploitation, colonialism, and racialisation.
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The Webinar
You can find further details about the webinar here.
Call for Streams for the 28th Annual Conference of the Association for Heterodox Economics (AHE)
1-3 July 2026
University of Coimbra, Portugal
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We invite submissions of streamsfor the 28th Conference of the Association for Heterodox Economics, taking place from 1st to 3rd July 2026 at the University of Coimbra in Portugal. This is an event organised in collaboration with the Faculty of Economics at the University of Coimbra.
The AHE conference seeks to support scholarship, activism, reflection, and debate on innovative and diverse heterodox and radical understandings of the global political economy. In the midst of multiple crises, including environmental breakdown, genocide, mental health crises, rise of authoritarianism, and crises of social reproduction, heterodox and radical approaches to economics and political economy are crucial for grappling with the challenges we face. We welcome submissions that challenge conventional economic paradigms, offer alternative frameworks for understanding and navigating these complex crises, and actively work towards radical social change.
What is a stream?
A stream is a session or series of sessions held at the conference organised on a specific theme. The stream coordinator(s) will propose a theme for their stream and be responsible for selecting which papers and panels should be included in their stream from the regular call for papers (which may include roundtable and panel proposals too), organising the papers into sessions, and ensuring that there is a chair for each session. The AHE Academic Officers will be responsible for final decisions on paper selections, sending out acceptance letters, visa letters, and finalising the programme schedule. Do please note that stream coordinators are expected to attend the conference and engage with the session(s) of their streams. AHE does not cover travel expenses or conference fees. Should there be multiple similar stream proposals, we reserve the right to merge streams.
The streams will typically involve one or more sessions that are based around 3-4 papers, optionally with a discussant(s). As stream coordinator(s), you may encourage your presenters to submit full papers in advance and/or agree on a post-conference publication plan, but this is optional. In the interest of encouraging discussions across theoretical traditions or schools of thought, we especially encourage streams organised by theme or topic rather than by discipline/theoretical tradition. However, streams organised by theoretical tradition will also be considered. We expect stream coordinators to especially encourage women, people of colour, early career scholars, and scholars based in the Global South when they advertise their stream for potential submitters. The AHE Conference Organising Committee may advise the stream coordinators on issues of equality, diversity and inclusivity.
The call for streams is a call for themes to which others will submit abstracts during the Call for Papers, rather than a call for the submission of closed panels. However, we do encourage coordinators to give examples of papers they foresee will be included in their stream, if possible. Possible stream topics could include (but are certainly not limited to): Climate change, labour, money, finance, innovation, gender, race, economic development, economic and social policy, imperialism, economic history, history of economic thought, economics education, philosophy and methodology in economics. We encourage each stream proposal to list a minimum of two stream coordinators.
Timings
The Call for Streams is open until 21 November 2025. Decisions about stream proposals will be made by the AHE Conference Organising Committee and communicated to all proposing stream organisers by 1December in time for the opening of the call for papers in mid-December. The Call for Papers deadline will be 14 February 2026. It will also be possible to submit individual panels and roundtables to the CfP to be considered for stream coordinators. Once the CfP has closed, stream organisers will be contacted with the submissions to their stream. Thereafter, they will have three weeks to evaluate the submissions and communicate their recommendations to the AHE Conference Organising Committee. This schedule will allow us to send out acceptances to presenters by earlyApril 2025.
Marx’s Theory of Value at the Frontiers: Classical Political Economics, Imperialism and Ecological Breakdown
by Güney Işıkara and Patrick Mokre
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Join us on Wednesday 12th November 2025 (5:00-6:30pm) at Goldsmiths, University of London, for the launch of “Marx’s Theory of Value at the Frontiers: Classical Political Economics, Imperialism and Ecological Breakdown”, the new book by Güney Işıkara and Patrick Mokre.
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Summary: The book examines the unequal exchange of labour in the global economy. Drawing on the works of Marx, Sraffa, Pasinetti, and Shaikh, the authors develop a novel empirical approach to measuring unequal exchange on a global scale. The book makes a major contribution to debates on dependency theory, uneven development, and core-periphery relations.
It demonstrates that the classical political economists’ approach to value and prices, which finds its most advanced formulation in Marx, sheds light on the source of profits, exploitation, whether equivalents are exchanged in trade, dynamics of asymmetric and uneven accumulation, and the relationship of production to non-human natures at large. Understanding these phenomena is key to understanding the economic regularities underlying the key issues facing the world in the twenty-first century: imperialism and ecological breakdown. It argues powerfully that deviations between market prices, production prices, and labor values are central to understanding international value transfers due to differential capital compositions and rates of exploitation, as well as the central role of rent and accumulation in capitalism-induced ecological crisis.
The book is structured to provide an understandable introduction to the classical approach to value and prices, and its modern expression in empirical applications making it of great interest to readers in Economics, Political Economy, Politics and Sociology.
Patrick Mokreworks at the Austrian Federal Chamber of Labour in Vienna. He received his PhD in Economics from the New School for Social Research in 2022. Patrick’s research gravitates around the political economy of labor, inequality, and capitalism. Within the AHE, Patrick is one of the coordinators of the Quantitative Political Economy stream.
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Event schedule (90 minutes): [1] Welcome and opening remarks – Ragu Venkatachalam (5 mins) [2] Introducing the speakers – Tomas Rotta (5 mins) [3] Book presentation – Patrick Mokre (40 mins) [4] Comments – Ingrid Kvangraven, King’s College London (15 mins) [5] Q&A (25 mins) [6] Drinks at a local pub from 6:30pm
The speakers will aim to make it engaging for both economists and non-economists.
Stanford University Press (SUP) and Public Knowledge Project (SUP+PKP) announce the launch of the first journal in their open access program, Reviews of Economic Literature, which is accepting submissions now.
Reviews of Economic Literature (REL) is a peer reviewed journal that publishes articles on developments across the field of economics for economists and other interested readers. It is a Diamond Open Access journal (without fees for authors or readers) owned by an editorial nonprofit and published by Stanford University Press.
Subject areas include economics, econometrics, economic history, financial economics, business economics, and accounting.
The editors invite and encourage economists to consider preparing syntheses of recent research, bibliometric reviews, meta-analyses, and other forms of coverage for all aspects of the economic literature for submission to REL. Prospective authors are invited to register and submit work at https://rel.journals.sup.org/index.php/rel/about/submissions
Four distinguished professors of economics lead the Reviews of Economic Literature editorial team:
Iris Claus, University of Waikato
Pascal Courty, University of Victoria
Les Oxley, University of Waikato and Curtin University
Roberto Veneziani, Queen Mary University of London, and member of the AHE management committee
The editorial team, having gained invaluable journal experience working with scholar-authors and reviewers for a large publisher, decided to found a new journal that is based on the highest principles of editorial integrity and published from within the academic community.
“We envision Reviews of Economic Literature as part of a movement to restore scholarly publishing to the priorities and values of the academic community,” the editors say. “Open access as implemented by commercial publishers has, we believe, led to unintended consequences that serve neither researchers, academic institutions, policy makers, nor society in general. REL is a nonprofit, academic led, open access publication, free for authors and readers, with content immediately available upon publication.”
With 133 years of success publishing scholarly books, Stanford University Press has entered journal publishing to advance the academic community’s access to high quality research without author or reader fees. SUP is working with the Public Knowledge Project, a Stanford and Simon Fraser University developer of widely used open-source publishing platforms, and is drawing on the support of university libraries and funders, including the Gates Foundation, which are deeply invested in open access publishing models.
Alan Harvey, director of SUP, notes that additional journals will soon be announced and is pleased that REL is the first in what promises to be an exciting new scholar-focused journals program from the Press.
“I’m thrilled that PKP is able to work closely with Stanford University Press, as well as with this editorial team” says John Willinsky, PKP founder and Stanford’s Khosla Family Professor Emeritus, “in another of the Project’s efforts to increase public and scholarly access to, in the case of Reviews of Economic Literature, critical overviews and analyses of developments in economic literature.”
Stanford University Press publishes 140 books a year across the humanities, social sciences, law, and business. These books inform scholarly debate, generate global and cross-cultural discussion, and bring timely, peer-reviewed scholarship to the wider reading public. At the leading edge of both print and digital dissemination of innovative research, with about 4,000 books currently in print, SUP is a publisher of ideas that matter, books that endure.
The Public Knowledge Project is a Core Facility of Simon Fraser University that has, since 1998, been developing open-source (free) publishing platforms, providing publishing services to journals and publishers, and conducting scholarly communication research, all to improve access to research and scholarship. PKP’s work is financed by its services, memberships, and grants, with its open-source software benefiting from the larger community’s contributions.
To learn more about participation in SUP’s new journals series, reach out to John Willinsky, willinsk@stanford.edu
by Devika Dutt, Carolina Alves, Surbhi Kesar, Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven
Decolonization has long been debated across the social sciences, but the economics discipline has so far avoided such critical engagement. This book provides a much-needed intervention. Dutt, Alves, Kesar, and Kvangraven uncover the deeply Eurocentric foundations that shape how economists study the world today. These have rendered the discipline ill-equipped to tackle critical questions, such as structural racism, uneven development, the climate crisis, labour relations, and how structural power shapes economic outcomes. Decolonizing economics entails challenging the norms of neutrality and objectivity that economists claim to speak from, while fostering alternative ways of understanding the economy that take seriously structural power relations and contemporary processes of economic development. Readers will come to understand the political stakes of decolonization and the wide range of scholarship that already exists that can help us grasp economics from non-Eurocentric perspectives. Through such scholarship, we can gain an enriched understanding of capitalism and its relationship to exploitation, colonialism, and racialization.
Devika Dutt is Lecturer in Development Economics at King’s College London, and member of the AHE management committee. Carolina Alves is Associate Professor in Economics at the Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP) at University College London, and a Fellow in Economics at Girton College, University of Cambridge. Surbhi Kesar is Senior Lecturer in Economics at SOAS, University of London, and former member of the AHE management committee. Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven is Senior Lecturer in International Development at King’s College London, and member of the AHE management committee.
Join us for the launch of Decolonizing Economics: An Introduction, a timely and thought-provoking new book that challenges dominant economic paradigms and explores alternative frameworks.
This special event will feature a discussion with the authors, who will share insights into the book’s central themes, the motivations behind their work, and the importance of a decolonization agenda for reimagining economics. The conversation will be followed by a Q&A session, offering attendees the opportunity to engage directly with the authors.
The evening will conclude with a wine reception, providing a chance to connect with fellow attendees and continue the conversation in a relaxed and convivial setting.
All are welcome. Admission is free, but space is limited—please RSVP to secure your place. Door open at 18:30, discussion will begin at 19:00.
Important note about the venue: The building presents several significant accessibility challenges for individuals with mobility impairments. There are no step-free or wheelchair-accessible toilet facilities available within the building. The only ground floor toilet, which is gender-neutral, is accessed via three steps. Additionally, the women’s toilet is located on a mid-level floor and is only accessible by a flight of stairs. These conditions fall short of current best practices for accessibility and may significantly hinder access for individuals with disabilities.
Blanca L. Navarro (University of Granada, Spain) and Josephine D. Baker (New School for Social Research, United States) received the 2025 Fred Lee Early Career Prize, which awards papers submitted by early career scholars for the AHE annual conference.
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INSTITUTIONAL TRANSFORMATIONS AND THE NEW ACCUMULATION REGIME (1993–2023): THE SPANISH CASE
Blanca L. Navarro
Navarro applies Regulation Theory to Spain’s institutional and economic trajectory from 1982 to 2023. Her research highlights that Spain’s development model has been shaped by the dominant neoclassical ideology of EU institutions, producing economic policy continuity across political parties. Even prior to the 2007/08 crisis, institutional reforms established a new regime characterised by the financial sector’s dominance, weakened fiscal capacity, privatised strategic sectors, stagnating productivity, declining labour conditions, and wealth inequality. Despite successive crises (GFC, Eurozone debt crisis, Covid-19, cost-of-living crisis), the basic institutional and neoliberal structure has persisted, resulting in structurally high unemployment and exclusion. Navarro thus argues that tackling current macroeconomic and social challenges requires acknowledging the limits of mainstream economic thinking and overcoming Europe’s intellectual rigidity.
Blanca Lozano Navarro is a PhD student in Economics at the University of Granada, affiliated with the Research Group on Economic History, Institutions, and Development. Her dissertation draws on institutional and heterodox approaches—particularly Regulation Theory—to examine the evolution of the European Union’s mode of development. Her research focuses on political-economic transformations, with special attention to capital–labour relations, fiscal systems, market dynamics, the role of the state, and international integration. Committed to an interdisciplinary and critical perspective, she seeks to expose how neoliberal institutional arrangements undermine democratic sovereignty and economic justice, while advocating for a renewed welfare project grounded in solidarity and equality.
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THE ECONOMICS OF INTANGIBLE CONCENTRATION: POWER LAWS, INTANGIBLE ASSETS, AND INTELLECTUAL MONOPOLY
Josephine D. Baker
Baker investigates theories of knowledge monopolisation and market competition by analysing intangible-related firm attributes across Germany, Great Britain, France, Italy, and Spain (2018–2022). She explores whether intangible assets tend to concentrate disproportionately among a small number of firms. Despite the short period of observation, she finds no significant increase in the concentration of intangible assets or intangible-to-tangible ratios. However, her results support the idea that intangible assets follow different market dynamics and display stable patterns across countries, years, and firm sizes, suggesting a persistent underlying mechanism favouring intangible intensity and potential monopoly-like tendencies.
Josephine Baker is a PhD student in Economics at the New School for Social Research in New York city, USA. Josephine specialises in the economics of knowledge and information, quantitative political economy, and data visualisation. Josephine is one of the coordinators of the Quantitative Political Economy stream in the AHE.
The Association for Heterodox Economics (AHE) is delighted to announce that Andrew Mearman (University of Leeds) has been awarded Honorary Life Membership in recognition of his transformative, sustained contributions to the Association and to heterodox economics more broadly. Dr Mearman was co-ordinator of AHE’s Management Committee for 3 years (2004-2007), leading the Association’s move towards pluralism and sustainability.
Andrew’s dedication and leadership have had a profound and enduring impact on the health and vibrancy of AHE. Central to this has been his role in convening the PhD Workshop on Heterodox Research Methods for Early Career Researchers, which has become a cornerstone of our community. The workshop not only nurtures new generations of scholars but also reinforces a supportive and collaborative spirit that is vital to the continued strength of the Association.
We are thrilled to honour Andrew with this lifetime recognition. The title of Honorary Life Member reflects the deep appreciation and gratitude of the AHE for his transformative contributions.
The 27th Conference of the Association for Heterodox Economics will take place on June 18-20, 2025 at King’s College London (Waterloo Campus), in London (UK). This is an event organised in collaboration with the Department of International Development at King’s College London.
The AHE conference seeks to support scholarship, reflection, and debate on innovative and diverse heterodox and radical understandings of the global political economy. In the midst of multiple crises, including environmental breakdown, genocide, mental health crises, rise of authoritarianism, and crises of social reproduction, heterodox and radical approaches to economics and political economy are crucial for grappling with the challenges we face. We welcome participants that challenge conventional economic paradigms, offer alternative frameworks for understanding and navigating these complex crises, and actively work towards radical social change.
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Sponsors
The 2025 AHE conference has received support from:
Registration for presenters has closed on 16th May. Tickets for non-presenting participants (starting from £60 per day) can be purchased in person at the registration desk during the conference. The 2025 AHE conference will be in-person only.
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Programme
The latest version of the conference programme and complete list of presenters in each stream is available here.
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Speakers
Rafeef Ziadah, Senior Lecturer in Politics and Public Policy (Emerging Economies) in the Department of International Development at King’s College London. Rafeef’s research centers on the production of interdisciplinary scholarship that falls into three thematic areas: infrastructures and logistics, gender and feminism, race and racialisation. Her recent research is broadly concerned with the political economy of maritime infrastructures and logistics, with a particular focus on the Middle East and East Africa.
Adam Hanieh, Professor of Political Economy and Global Development at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies (IAIS), University of Exeter, and Joint Chair in Middle East Studies at the Institute of International and Area Studies (IIAS) at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. Adam’s current research focuses on oil and capitalism, energy transitions, and the political economy of the Middle East.
Robert Knox, Senior Lecturer in the School of Law and Social Justice at the University of Liverpool. Robert’s research interests broadly encompass the relationship between law and the political-economic structures of capitalism. He has specific expertise on public international law, particularly on its relationship to race and empire; public law, with a focus on its relationship to neoliberalism, and legal theory, especially critical and Marxist approaches to the law.
Lucy van de Wiel, Lecturer and Postgraduate Research Director in Global Health and Social Medicine at King’s College London. She has founded and is chair of the Reproduction Research Cluster at King’s. Her research focuses on the introduction of new reproductive technologies such as egg freezing, IVF, and embryo selection. She explores how these technologies give insight into broader developments within the sector, including the datafication of reproduction and the financialisation of fertility. She also researches telemedical abortion in the post-Roe landscape.
Rebecca Carson, theorist working in Marxism and philosophy and the author of ‘Immanent Externalities: The Reproduction of Life in Capital’. Rebecca is a Tutor at the Royal College of Art. She completed a PhD in Philosophy at the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP), Kingston School of Art and publishes regularly on Social Reproduction Theory.
Alex Colas, Professor of International Relations in the School of Social Sciences at Birkbeck College, University of London. Alex has published on subjects ranging from piracy, food politics, Spanish responses to terrorism, imperialism, internationalism and global governance. Alex directs the MSc in International Security and Global Governance and the MSc in Food, Politics and Society. He teaches courses on Global Politics, Governance and Security; Food, Politics and Society, and How the West Was Made: Transformations in Global Politics.
Ramaa Vasudevan, Professor of Economics at Colorado State University, USA. Ramaa’s main research interests are in international finance , open economy macroeconomics, the political economy of development and finance, and Marxian and Classical Political Economy. Her Ph.D. in economics from New School University, New York, focused on the political economy of international trade and finance, while her M.Phil at the Centre for Development Studies, Trivandrum, India, was a study about the evolution of labor markets in colonial India.
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Dinner
The conference dinner will be on Thursday 19th June at the Mamuska restaurant in Southbank Waterloo. The address is 9 Addington St, London SE1 7RY. We will start gathering at 18:30 and food will be served at around 19:15.
Signs for the AHE conference registration desk will be on the Franklin-Wilkins Building entrance.
The conference will begin on Wednesday 18th June 2025. The registration desk will open at 9:30am (Franklin-Wilkins Building, ground floor), followed by the Opening Ceremony at 10:15am in the Auditorium.
All sessions will take place in the Franklin-Wilkins Building, across rooms on the ground and first floors. The rooms are G54, G56, G75, G72, G80, 50A, 50B, G7, and the FWB Auditorium.
For 2-hour sessions with four presentations, we recommend allocating 20 minutes per presentation, followed by Q&A. Please ensure your slides are ready to upload before your session begins. You can bring a USB stick or plug in your own laptop using the HDMI cable in the room.
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How to get to Waterloo Campus:
By underground
Waterloo (Bakerloo, Jubilee, Northern and Waterloo & City lines): 4 minute walk, Charing Cross (Bakerloo and Northern lines): 9 minute walk, Embankment (District, Circle and Bakerloo lines): 13 minute walk, Temple (District and Circle lines): 20 minute walk.
Buses stopping outside the university: 381, RV1. Buses stopping near the university: 1, 4, 26, 59, 68, 76, X68, 77, 139, 168, 171, 172, 188, 211, 243 (24 hour), 341 (24 hour), 507 and 521.
A shuttle bus service is available for staff and students (carrying their college ID) wishing to travel between the Guy’s and St Thomas’ hospital sites, the latter also being within walking distance of Waterloo and the Strand. The pick-up and drop-off points are:
at St Thomas’, the lower-ground car park opposite the Florence Nightingale Museum
at Guy’s Campus, on Great Maze Pond on the lay-by to the Bloomfield Clinic.
By car
There is no car parking available on this campus. There is an APCOA car park on Cornwall Road. Stamford Street is a red route.
By bike
Lambeth Council cycle racks are available in front of the Franklin-Wilkins and James Clerk Maxwell Buildings. Bicycle parking is available in the bike shed at the back of the Franklin-Wilkins Building on a long term bookable basis. Please contact the ETDE helpdesk for details.
Parking
No public parking. Motorcycle bays are available in Cornwall Road.
Bicycle stands are outside the front entrances of Franklin-Wilkins and James Clerk Maxwell buildings.
There is growing concern about the increasing emphasis on journal rankings in academia. This is of special consequence in economics: given theoretical and methodological cleavages, heterodox outlets tend to be marginalised in traditional ranking systems.
Despite this, journal rankings are used and may indeed be useful. In a recent paper, we explored how to build a ranking that appropriately reflects the reputation of heterodox economics journals amongst heterodox economists (Coronado and Veneziani, 2025).
We are not the first ones to build rankings for heterodox economics journals. Fred Lee and others (e.g., Lee et al., 2010; Cronin, 2020) developed heterodox economics journal rankings based on subjective peer evaluations combined with bibliometric indicators. These composite “quality” indices had the objective of measuring research quality in the heterodox economics community.
In contrast, we measure reputation and intellectual influence within the heterodox economics community by focusing exclusively on bibliometric indicators. Thus, we capture the views of the heterodox economics community through their citation choices.
To build our ranking we require, first, a tool to rank journals based on bibliometric data. We adopt the Palacios-Huerta and Volij (2004) (PV) index — a theoretically-founded measure of intellectual influence within citation networks. Unlike simple citation counts or impact factors, the PV index accounts for both the quantity and the prestige of citations received, capturing the recursive structure of intellectual influence.
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From a Broad Set of Journals to the Core
Second, we need to identify the set of journals to rank. This is easier said than done, lacking a clear, widely shared notion of heterodox or even heterodox-adjacent outlets. We begin by focusing on a comprehensive list of journals: we start from the set of outlets used in the influential study by Lee et al. (2010) and add a range of additional journals identified in more recent contributions (e.g., Gräbner et al., 2018; Kapeller and Springholz, 2016). After excluding outlets with missing citation data, our database covers 119 journals and over half a million citations between 2000 and 2023.
While we do derive a ranking of this large set of journals based on the PV index (Table 1 in the paper), a closer look at the structure of the citation network raises some doubts on all rankings that focus on broad, comprehensive definitions of heterodox economics. For, the network structure is extremely sparse: journals form internally cohesive groups, but these groups barely cite each other. Indeed, the network effectively splits into two almost disconnected subnetworks. It is unclear that these journals bear a sufficiently close family resemblance to rank them together.
To overcome this problem, we follow an inductive approach: we use community detection techniques to let the citation data reveal which journals are actively part of the heterodox intellectual conversation, and we identify a tightly connected group of 14 journals, which we term the Heterodox Economics Core.
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The Restricted Ranking: Results and Interpretation
The first table below (Table 3 in the paper) presents the ranking of the Heterodox Economics Core, using the PV index based on citations from the past five years.
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Several things are worth noting: The Review of Keynesian Economics, founded only in 2012, ranks first, indicating its remarkable rise in influence within the heterodox community. Established journals such as the Cambridge Journal of Economics, Metroeconomica and the Journal of Post Keynesian Economics remain highly ranked. Journals like the Review of Radical Political Economics and Journal of Economic Issues rank lower than might be expected based on informal reputations.
Perhaps surprisingly, some outlets often associated with heterodox economics — such as Feminist Economics and Review of Social Economy — do not belong to the Heterodox Economics Core. Our community detection analysis shows that they belong to a separate cluster — which we call Social Economics and Inequality — with relatively weak citation links to the Heterodox Economics Core. Nevertheless, given their relevance in the community, we build an extended ranking that includes these outlets, and the other journals in their cluster, in addition to the core 14 journals.
The expanded ranking is shown in the table below (Table A1 in the paper) and it is immediately evident that the addition of these journals does not make a major difference.
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Beyond the static ranking, Figure 2 in the paper traces the evolution of journal influence (for journals in the Heterodox Economics Core) from 2008 to 2023. It shows that significant shifts have occurred: RoKE has steadily gained ground, while the influence of Cambridge Journal of Economics, Metroeconomica, Review of Political Economy, and Journal of Post Keynesian Economics has somewhat declined over time.
These results are quite striking. Due to the strong network externalities in citation communities, one would expect that over time established journals cement their position as central nodes in the network, reinforcing their influence through cumulative advantage. Yet, the data reveal a more dynamic landscape within heterodox economics, where newer journals can rise rapidly, and established outlets can lose ground — suggesting that intellectual leadership in the field remains actively contested rather than ossified.
Every year, International Women’s Day (IWD), celebrated on the 8th March, serves as a reminder of the ongoing struggles for gender equality, social justice, and economic empowerment.
The day is a reminder of a system that continues to oppress women, particularly those at the intersections of race, class, and gender. Capitalism thrives on exploitation, extracting labour and resources from marginalised communities while excluding them from wealth and power. Women, especially those in the Global South and working-class sectors, bear the brunt of this system.
Heterodox economics, pluralist in its approach, questions the current capitalist system and its underlying monist theory that cements the status quo of exclusion, extraction and exploitation, erasing space, gender, race, history and unequal power from economic discussions.
Alternatively, heterodox economics offers workable solutions to a failing system necessitating its replacement. The heterodox scholarship can show us how IWD is much more than flowers, hashtags, or “women’s issues only”: it provides a robust and critical lens to understand the deeper structural forces of social provisioning that shape women’s lives globally.
The core of heterodox economics contains analyses that draw from, or are concerned with:
Feminist Political Economy and Social Reproduction
Structural, Regional, and Distributional Inequalities
Inflation and Households
Exploitation and Unequal Exchange
Colonialism and Global Economic Structures
Labour Markets
Neglected Economic Thinkers and Approaches
Critique of Capitalism
Curious to find out more? Here’s how AHE Management Committee members investigate some of these issues in their single and co-authored works:
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Feminist Political Economy and Social Reproduction
Sessions for Young Scholars at the AHE 2025 Conference
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AHE and the Young Scholars Initative (YSI) of the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET) are collaborating to host two (funded) sessions for young scholar at the upcoming AHE conference. If you are a young scholar and you would like the opportunity to present and/or get feedback on your paper, please do apply to the AHE call for papers with the instructions in the specific YSI call you want to be considered for.
Structural inequalities shape economic, social, and environmental outcomes at multiple levels, from the micro-dynamics of households and firms to macroeconomic patterns of wealth distribution, growth, and sustainability. This workshop invites scholars from diverse theoretical traditions and empirical approaches to explore how inequalities emerge, persist, and interact across scales — moving from micro to macro and back again.
We welcome contributions from heterodox perspectives, including but not limited to complexity economics, political economy, institutional economics, feminist and postcolonial approaches, ecological economics, and critical development studies. Topics may range from climate justice and financial instability to labor market segmentation, rural poverty, and technological change.
The workshop will feature discussions led by mentors with expertise in complexity economics and structural inequalities, including applications to climate change and rural poverty. Participants will have the opportunity to present ideas, receive feedback, and engage in collaborative dialogue.
We encourage applications from researchers at all career stages and across disciplines. If your work examines inequality in any form — whether through theoretical, empirical, or methodological lenses — this workshop provides a space to connect, reflect, and advance your research within the broader heterodox community.
Please apply via the “Click here to submit your paper” and enter your details as requested. In order to submit to the YSI sessions, please include “YSI 1” before your institutional affiliation in box 3. For “stream” please choose “general” so the conference organisers know that you are applying to the YSI session on structural inequalities.
If you qualify and already submitted a proposal related to this theme, you will be considered.
Publishing in academic journals is a crucial step in a scholar’s career, yet the process can be challenging, especially for early-career researchers. This workshop is designed to support young scholars working within the broad field of heterodox economics by providing in-depth editorial and reviewer feedback on their papers.
Participants will receive detailed comments from five mentors who serve as editors and reviewers for academic journals in heterodox economics. These mentors will read submitted papers in advance and provide constructive feedback during the workshop, helping authors strengthen their arguments, refine their contributions, and navigate the publication process more effectively.
We invite submissions from a wide range of heterodox perspectives, including but not limited to post-Keynesian, Marxist, institutionalist, feminist, ecological, complexity, and development economics. Papers may engage with theoretical, empirical, or methodological questions relevant to heterodox economic thought.
Application & Submission Details:
Eligibility: This workshop is particularly aimed at early-career scholars (PhD candidates, postdocs, and junior faculty) seeking guidance on preparing their work for publication.
Submission Requirements:
Extended abstract (max 1000 words) outlining the paper’s research question, theoretical framework, methodology, key findings, and contribution to heterodox economics.
Full paper commitment: Selected participants must submit a full draft by June 1st, 2025 for review.
How to Apply: Please apply via the “Click here to submit your paper” and enter your details as requested. In order to submit to the YSI sessions, please include “YSI 2” before your institutional affiliation in box 3. For “stream” please choose “general” so the conference organisers know that you are applying to the YSI editorial session.
This workshop provides a unique opportunity for focused, high-quality feedback from experienced journal editors and reviewers. We look forward to supporting the next generation of heterodox economists on their path to publication.
Click on the button below to subscribe to the mailing list of the Association for Heterodox Economics (AHE). By joining the mailing list, you will be able to participate in our discussions and receive announcements about conferences, workshops, webinars, book launches, job opportunities, PhD scholarships, and publications.
Hybrid Postgraduate Workshop on Advanced Research Methods
1st-3rd April, 2025 at the University of Leeds, UK
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Call for participants
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Summary of the workshop
We are inviting applications to attend our annual (hybrid) training workshop on research methods, taking place on 1-3 April, 2025 in-person in Leeds, UK and online. The workshop is open to anyone currently registered a Ph.D. on any economic topic, from anywhere in the world. We strongly encourage applications from women and ethnically-minoritized groups. Students who have previously attended are not eligible to apply. The workshop is free to attend plus we can offer limited travel support to those attending in-person. Learning in our interactive sessions will be supported by pre-reading and dedicated video recordings by leading scholars. To apply, candidates should complete all sections of the form here as fully as they can. Applications will be evaluated in terms of the strength of the case they make for wanting to attend the workshop, and the applicant’s need to attend (and its potential benefit). Applications tend to fall down if they say too little or are too vague. The final deadline for applications is 18 February, 2025. Successful candidates will be informed within 10 working days of that date. Please direct any queries to Dr. Andrew Mearman, University of Leeds: a.j.mearman@leeds.ac.uk
Further details are available down below. Please encourage your PhD students to apply and please share this invitation.
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Full description of the workshop
Applications are open for places at the annual Association for Heterodox Economics postgraduate workshop on advanced research methods in economics. The workshop will be conducted in English. The workshop is open to anyone* studying a Ph.D. on any economic topic, from anywhere in the world. We strongly encourage applications from women and ethnically-minoritized groups.
The workshop is free to attend plus we can offer limited travel support to those attending in-person.
Learning in our interactive sessions will be supported by pre-reading and dedicated video recordings by leading scholars.
Workshop topics include:
Reorienting economics to match method with social material
Quantitative analysis applicable to open economic systems
Qualitative methods
Ethical and responsible research
Social network theory in Economics
Mixing quantitative and qualitative data and mixed-methods research
Career planning, including publishing work which uses non-standard methodologies
Session leaders (alphabetical by family name):
Dr. Ariane Agunsoye
Goldsmiths, University of London
Professor Andrew Brown
University of Leeds
Professor Bruce Cronin
University of Greenwich
Professor Paul Downward
University of Loughborough
Professor Annina Kaltenbrunner
University of Leeds
Professor Don Webber
University of Sheffield
Dr. Daniel Wheatley
University of Birmingham
Please do not apply if you are not currently registered on a PhD programme. *Students who have previously attended are not eligible to apply.
To allow in-person interaction but also retain a broad representation of students, the workshop will be held for the first time in a hybrid format, with some participants in-person and some online. It will be held over three short days, running from 10:30-15:30 UTC. Please bear in mind these timings: if you cannot realistically attend the whole workshop, please do not apply as you may be reducing the opportunities for others who can.
To apply, please complete the form here. Please complete all sections of the form as fully as you can. Applications will be evaluated in terms of the strength of the case you make for wanting to attend the workshop, and your need to attend (and its potential benefit).
The final deadline for applications is 18 February, 2025. If your application is successful, you will be informed within 10 working days of that date.
Please direct any queries to Dr. Andrew Mearman, University of Leeds: a.j.mearman@leeds.ac.uk
We invite submissions of papers and panels for the 27th Conference of the Association for Heterodox Economics, taking place on June 18-20, 2025 at King’s College, London (Waterloo Campus), in London (UK). This is an event organised in collaboration with the Department of International Development at King’s College London.
The AHE conference seeks to support scholarship, reflection, and debate on innovative and diverse heterodox and radical understandings of the global political economy. In the midst of multiple crises, including environmental breakdown, genocide, mental health crises, rise of authoritarianism, and crises of social reproduction, heterodox and radical approaches to economics and political economy are crucial for grappling with the challenges we face. We welcome submissions that challenge conventional economic paradigms, offer alternative frameworks for understanding and navigating these complex crises, and actively work towards radical social change.
We have a series of streams running this year that you can submit your papers and/or panels to. You can see a full overview of the streams below. Please read the stream description carefully before submitting.
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Paper submission
Submit abstracts for individual papers (max 300 words) by February 21st, 2025 and be a part of the dialogue shaping the future of heterodox economics. We particularly encourage applications from underrepresented groups in the economics discipline including, but not limited to women, people of colour, scholars from the Global South. Limited travel support is available for selected early career scholars from the Global North and South. Early career scholars include PhD students as well as those who received their PhD no more than 2 years prior to the date of the conference and are not currently in a full-time, tenured position. When submitting your abstract, please indicate if you would like to be considered for the bursaries. Submit your paper here.
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Panel submission
A panel typically consists of 3-4 presentations on a similar theme, but we are also open to panel submissions in non-standard formats (e.g. round table or workshop). Submit your panel here.
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Fred Lee Prize
If you are an early career researcher and interested in having your paper considered for the Fred Lee Early Career Prize, please indicate this on the paper submission form. You will be asked to send your full paper by May 1st, 2025 with the subject line “Early career prize submission” at heteconevents@gmail.com. Eligible scholars for the prize include PhD students as well as those who received their PhD no more than 2 years prior to the date of the conference and are not currently in a full-time, tenured position.
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Young Scholars Initative (YSI)
AHE and the Young Scholars Initative (YSI) of the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET) are collaborating to host two (funded) sessions for young scholar at the upcoming AHE conference. If you are a young scholar and you would like the opportunity to present and/or get feedback on your paper, please click here to read the instructions.
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Speakers
Rafeef Ziadah, Senior Lecturer in Politics and Public Policy (Emerging Economies) in the Department of International Development at King’s College London. Rafeef’s research centers on the production of interdisciplinary scholarship that falls into three thematic areas: infrastructures and logistics, gender and feminism, race and racialisation. Her recent research is broadly concerned with the political economy of maritime infrastructures and logistics, with a particular focus on the Middle East and East Africa.
Adam Hanieh, Professor of Political Economy and Global Development at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies (IAIS), University of Exeter, and Joint Chair in Middle East Studies at the Institute of International and Area Studies (IIAS) at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. Adam’s current research focuses on oil and capitalism, energy transitions, and the political economy of the Middle East.
Robert Knox, Senior Lecturer in the School of Law and Social Justice at the University of Liverpool. Robert’s research interests broadly encompass the relationship between law and the political-economic structures of capitalism. He has specific expertise on public international law, particularly on its relationship to race and empire; public law, with a focus on its relationship to neoliberalism, and legal theory, especially critical and Marxist approaches to the law.
Lucy van de Wiel, Lecturer and Postgraduate Research Director in Global Health and Social Medicine at King’s College London. She has founded and is chair of the Reproduction Research Cluster at King’s. Her research focuses on the introduction of new reproductive technologies such as egg freezing, IVF, and embryo selection. She explores how these technologies give insight into broader developments within the sector, including the datafication of reproduction and the financialisation of fertility. She also researches telemedical abortion in the post-Roe landscape.
Rebecca Carson, theorist working in Marxism and philosophy and the author of ‘Immanent Externalities: The Reproduction of Life in Capital’. Rebecca is a Tutor at the Royal College of Art. She completed a PhD in Philosophy at the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP), Kingston School of Art and publishes regularly on Social Reproduction Theory.
Alex Colas, Professor of International Relations in the School of Social Sciences at Birkbeck College, University of London. Alex has published on subjects ranging from piracy, food politics, Spanish responses to terrorism, imperialism, internationalism and global governance. Alex directs the MSc in International Security and Global Governance and the MSc in Food, Politics and Society. He teaches courses on Global Politics, Governance and Security; Food, Politics and Society, and How the West Was Made: Transformations in Global Politics.
Ramaa Vasudevan, Professor of Economics at Colorado State University, USA. Ramaa’s main research interests are in international finance , open economy macroeconomics, the political economy of development and finance, and Marxian and Classical Political Economy. Her Ph.D. in economics from New School University, New York, focused on the political economy of international trade and finance, while her M.Phil at the Centre for Development Studies, Trivandrum, India, was a study about the evolution of labor markets in colonial India.
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Overview of Streams
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From Factory Floors to Economic Prosperity: Role of Manufacturing in the Development of Global South
Stream coordinators: Amr Khafagy and Bhabani Nayak
Industrialisation remains the primary driver of development and growth, with the manufacturing sector contributing to two-thirds of the observed growth episodes over the past fifty years (UNIDO, 2024). Manufacturing-led growth is generally more sustainable and yields more equitable outcomes compared to other sectors. However, the size of the manufacturing sector has been declining in nearly all countries. While deindustrialisation may be an expected outcome for high-income economies after achieving advanced levels of industrialization, premature deindustrialisation has constrained the growth potential of underdeveloped economies and deepened core-periphery dependencies. Moreover, with the rapid degradation of the environment, the Global South faces increasing pressure to balance the goals of degrowth with the necessities of industrialisation which is crucial for development and economic sovereignty. This stream seeks to attract both theoretical and policy-oriented submissions that address the challenges of industrial development in underdeveloped economies. We welcome contributions that critically examine the following topics, though the panel is open to other relevant themes as well:
Industrial Policy and National Strategies: Analysis of national strategies that have succeeded or failed in promoting the growth of manufacturing capacities.
Degrowth and Industrialisation: Exploring the balance between the legitimate industrial ambitions of underdeveloped economies and environmental concerns, including the impact of ecologically unequal exchange on resource depletion and the deindustrialization of peripheral economies.
Premature Deindustrialisation: Investigating the causes, consequences, and potential solutions to premature deindustrialisation in the Global South.
Centre-Periphery Relationships: Examining how political and economic dependencies shape industrial capacities in peripheral economies.
Extractive Industries, Metabolic Rift and Nature: Evaluating the role of extractive industries (e.g., mining) in perpetuating economic dependence.
Technological Dependence and Development: Assessing the impact of reliance on foreign technology on domestic industries and exploring strategies to achieve greater technological autonomy.
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Global Production/Finance and Labour
Stream coordinators: Ewa Karwowski and Samuel Moore
This is a multidisciplinary stream centering around critical political economy and focusing on the dynamics and interactions of global production, labour, money and finance in a globalised and unequal world economy characterized by hierarchies and recurring social and economic crises. We are particularly interested in the dynamics of contemporary capitalism, specifically the processes of financialisation, global production networks and value chains and labour relations and regimes in distinct countries, across regions and periods, (spatial) processes of capital accumulation and overlapping inequalities, and their implications for development.
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History of Heterodox Economics
Stream coordinators: Danielle Guizzo and Marco Vianna Franco
This stream warmly welcomes submissions on any aspect of the history of heterodox economics, notably (but not limited to):
the history of heterodox ideas, debates, concepts and wider economic thought;
the history of the marginalisation or dissemination of heterodox economics;
intellectual histories of individual heterodox economists or communities;
the history of the professionalisation of heterodox economists;
the relationship between heterodox economics and policy seen through a historical perspective;
heterodox economics or economists in the media seen through a historical perspective • the history of heterodox economics education and teaching;
any historical aspect related to the scientific production of heterodox knowledge or dissemination
We welcome a diversity of methods of inquiry, data, and schools of thought or perspectives.
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Imperialism and Dependency in the 21st Century
Stream coordinator: Fabio de Oliveira Maldonado
More than two decades into the 21st century, there is a renewed interest in the relationships between imperialism and dependency. This interest has not only gained fresh momentum in universities and institutions in underdeveloped countries but has also been reintroduced into research agendas at universities and institutions in developed countries. This stream aims to bring together research dedicated to understanding the contemporary manifestations of imperialism and dependency across their economic, social, political, and environmental dimensions. Issues such as financialization, the role of transnational corporations, the hyper-concentration and centralisation of the Economy 4.0, environmental exploitation, and the perpetuation or deepening of global inequalities are examined in their relation to the dynamics of imperialism and dependency. In this context, the stream seeks to foster theoretical reflections that engage both with classical readings and with recent perspectives on imperialism and dependency, including their derivative categories and analytical developments. This stream proposes to explore the following questions:
How can imperialism be defined in the 21st century?
How can dependency be defined in the 21st century?
How should the role of intermediate economies in the 21st century be characterised? Are they sub-imperialist, multipolar alternatives, or expressions of intensified inter-imperialist rivalries?
What are the dynamics of financial capital in the relationship between imperialism and dependency?
In what ways does the Economy 4.0 deepen the subordinate position of dependent countries in the international division of labour?
What is the impact of imperialist dynamics on global ecological collapse?
How do contemporary forms of imperialism and dependency interact with issues of race, gender, and class, both in imperialist and dependent countries?
Thus, this stream aims to contribute to the deepening of debates on imperialism and dependency, with both practical and theoretical implications for the critique of political economy and its role in understanding and overcoming the challenges currently facing humanity.
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International Financial Subordination
Stream coordinators: Isaac Abotebuno Akolgo, Bruno Bonizzi, Carla Coburger, Aissata Diallo, Annina Kaltenbrunner, Kai Koddenbrock and Jeff Powell
The global monetary and financial system is a hierarchical system characterised by the relations of power, dependency, and domination. Ultimately, these manifest themselves as value transfers and constraints on agency of those actors operating in subordinate spaces. Since the establishment of the “international financial subordination” research agenda, an emerging literature has sought to uncover specific manifestations of subordination. Contributions are highly interdisciplinary, drawing on economic geographers and sociologists’ focus on the spatially and socially variegated financial practices, scholars of critical macro-finance’s work on institutional and policy configurations as well as existing scholarship on dependency theory and structuralism. Nevertheless, more work is needed to investigate specific financial relations, practices and mechanisms which constitute the concrete reality of financial subordination. Furthermore, the evolving international context, with a resurgence of forms of “state capitalism”, the fragility of multilateral institutions and the restructuring of global production into “resilient” value chains, is reshaping existing forms of financial subordination. This stream invites contributions from a range of perspectives and methodological approaches. We particularly welcome contributions that explore the following issues:
Manifestations and Drivers of Financial Subordination: What are the specific manifestations of financial subordination? How do macro-variables combine with micro mechanisms to generate subordination?
The Historical and Contemporary Evolution of International Financial Subordination: What is the historical development of this process? How is it changing in the evolving international context since the COVID pandemic?
Value, Class and Distribution: What are the underlying class dynamics that produce and reproduce the global financial dynamics we observe? How is value captured and distributed in the context of financial subordination?
Finance and Production: How is financial subordination in developing economies linked to their real integration into international production networks? In what way does monetary and financial subordination favour corporations centred in core capitalist economies?
Struggles to overcome international financial subordination: How have governments and movements in the Global South tried to overcome the constraints imposed on them through international financial subordination by structurally transforming their economies, delinking from the world market or by building regional complementarities?
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New Technologies in Context: Socioeconomic Impacts and Dynamics of Technical Change
Stream coordinators: Juan Grigera and Elena Papagiannaki
In this dedicated stream we explore the disruptive role of emerging technologies, including Artificial Intelligence, automation, and digital platforms, in reshaping economies, societies, and labour markets. We welcome theoretical and empirical contributions addressing themes such as:
The future of work and employment relations in the age of automation and artificial intelligence.
The impact of new technologies on the international division of labour and global value chains.
Blockchain technologies and their implications for economic governance and transactions.
Digital labour platforms and their regulatory and socioeconomic challenges.
Broader implications of technical change for inequality, sustainability, and economic justice.
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Political Economy and Ecological Crisis: ‘Green’ Contradictions and Radical Alternatives
Stream coordinators: Lorena Lombardozzi, Angus McNelly, and Marco Vianna Franco
With 2024 on track to be the warmest year on record, confronting the contradictions inherent in the ecological crisis is more urgent than ever. Recent climate negotiations at the United Nations Conference of Parties (COP), hosted by oil-producing Azerbaijan, which witnessed walk outs from developing countries, were heated and demonstrated the disputed and contradictory nature of tackling climate change. Exactly what the ecological crisis is; which components and associated feedback loops are more pressing (e.g. carbon emissions, biodiversity collapse, etc.); who decides what is (or not) to be done; and who the winners and losers will be are all hotly contested issues. Moreover, empirical evidence on the socio-economic impacts of the so-called green transition across different contexts remains scant. Bearing these elements in mind, this stream warmly welcomes contributions that address theoretical, critical, and practical aspects of how economies might be (re)conceptualised to avert or cope with the impending ecological crisis, especially from radical, heterodox, or interdisciplinary perspectives. We welcome a range of methodological approaches, including historical, critical, conceptual and applied. We also welcome empirical works including but not limited to: The role of the state and green industrial policy; global energy markets; the political economy of hydrocarbons; green energy systems; financialisation and the de-risking state; green grabbing, green colonialism and/or green extractivism – the role of multilateral institutions in Green Transition; Ecofeminist, indigenous, and abolitionist movements ‘from below’; the distributional effects of green transition; and labour in the green transition.
We encourage women, first-gen academics, people of colour, early-career scholars, and scholars based in the Global South to submit their work.
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Political Economy of Palestine
Stream coordinator: Luis Cortés and Gabriel Rivas
The ongoing genocidal violence in Gaza and the West Bank is part of a long-standing historical process of Palestinian expulsion and dispossession. This stream aims to critically examine various economic perspectives on the current crisis and its deeper historical roots. Depending on the range of topics and papers submitted, the stream could consist of a single panel or multiple panels. A panel will explore diverse concepts of settler-colonialism. These analyses may focus solely on Israel and Palestine or adopt a comparative approach, examining other settler-colonial societies, and the potential papers can discuss the economic characterization of these arrangements, the form in which they are profitable (or not), the property and financial relations implicit in them, amongst other topics. The discussion can also extend to the Nakba particularly, discussing its specificity or the form in which it is part of a more general process (such as primitive accumulation, for example). One potential panel will delve into the more recent economic structures of the Oslo Accords. The Palestinian Authority, its relationship with Israel. In this case, it will be encouraged to delve into the national difference, the way in which it is enforced institutionally, either through case studies (at a sectoral level, or in particular industries) or through other approaches, in order to intervene in the political debates on a one-state versus two-state solution. Another panel would investigate the economic processes involved in the ongoing genocide, or in connected political processes from an economic approach. Topics might include the weapons trade, the role of humanitarian aid, ecocide, the erosion of international humanitarian law by Western countries, and the role and effectiveness of international boycott campaigns targeting Israel. By foregrounding economic perspectives, this stream seeks to enrich the economic approaches on the subject, which has largely been dominated by more cultural and political narratives.
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Quantitative Political Economy
Stream coordinators: Tomas Rotta, José Coronado, Patrick Mokre, and Josephine Baker
This stream brings together papers that employ quantitative and computational methods within the field of Political Economy. It embraces a wide range of theoretical traditions, including (but not limited to) Marxian, Keynesian, Kaleckian, Sraffian, feminist, critical race theory, and radical ecology.
We encourage submissions on topics such as (but not limited to) development economics, ecological economics, inequality, exploitation, unequal exchange, colonialism, decolonialisation, imperialism, socialism, economic planning, innovation, and technical change.
We expect submissions to feature a substantial quantitative or computational component, such as mathematical modelling, simulations, econometrics, Bayesian statistics, entropy and info-metrics (information theory), input-output analysis, machine learning, network analysis, or artificial neural networks.
Submissions must be theoretically grounded in Political Economy.
We anticipate hosting at least two panels, each comprising four papers, but we warmly welcome additional submissions.
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Social Studies in Economics: Sociology, Methodology, and Policy
Stream coordinators: Danielle Guizzo and Nastassia Harbuzova
This stream warmly welcomes submissions dealing with aspects of social studies in heterodox and critical economics from a sociological, methodological or policy-based perspective (including policy conceptions or conceptualisations, applications, and the politics of these processes).
We welcome papers dealing with the following topics (but not limited to):
Philosophical aspects or interpretations of economics;
Economic methodology, including decolonising methodologies in economics;
The fragmentation of the economics discipline;
Criticisms to the mainstream and/or neoclassical economics, from the grounds of both theoretical works and policymaking practice;
Bibliometric or network analysis studies in economics and related fields;
The sociology of the economics discipline, academic communities, or heterodox economics; Political philosophies and critical social theory in economics;
Discussions related to policy conceptions, applications or shortcomings from heterodox and mainstream approaches;
Critical and comparative studies on policy experimentation and its potential to challenge mainstream approaches, tools and (policymaking) practices (with alternative solutions), including but not limited to: the analysis of the ongoing policy experiments, the role of politics in policy experimentation, and the challenges of evaluation and scaling-up of experimental policy solutions.
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The Changing Global Political Economy of Finance
Stream coordinators: Mona Ali, Nina Eichacker, Ann Davis, and Ramya Vijaya
This stream will invite papers addressing the systemic inequalities embedded in the global financial architecture and the forces of instability that are increasingly threatening its viability in its current form. Interconnected crises of sovereign debt burdens, climate finance along with new dynamics of resistance to globalization, increasing frequency of wars, and the rise of political parties of right-wing populism are challenging the existing political economy of global finance. The ongoing waves of debt distress from the COVID 19 crisis and the differential fiscal space available to countries in the global north versus the global south to manage crises have spurred debate about systemic global inequalities. From calls to reform the highly concentrated sovereign credit ratings industry to the new UN tax convention for international tax cooperation, there has been some momentum towards recognizing the need for an overhaul. At the same time countries, particularly in the global south continue to be confronted by the deeply entrenched austerity practices and conditionalities imposed through for example the IMF debt sustainability framework, and the current credit ratings methodologies that have yet to calibrate for climate financing and other longer term social infrastructure and fiscal space needs. Meanwhile the norms of free trade, which had been ascendant since 1945 are being increasingly challenged, with tariffs, protectionism, industrial policy, AI applications, and new forms of money like crypto and CBDCs. The primary sponsor of the global trading system and its key currency, the US, may also have less predictable policies with the incoming Trump administration, including corporate taxes, trade agreements, and climate change subsidies. The threats of instability will be an ongoing challenge to financial institutions and investment decisions. Such global economic instability may feed back into politics, undermining the resilience of indebted nation states and already fractured electorates.
This stream explores feminist economic perspectives on the multiple and intensifying global crises reshaping economies and societies, including climate breakdown, genocidal violence, surging economic inequality, the erosion of democratic institutions and rise of authoritarian populism. These crises demand urgent rethinking of traditional economic frameworks, and feminist political economy provides critical tools for imagining and creating more equitable and sustainable futures. We welcome contributions on topics including but not limited to the following:
• Conception, Pregnancy and Birth under Capitalism • Feminist analyses of global crises including the gendered dimensions of climate breakdown, conflict and genocide • Political ecology and environmental justice from feminist perspectives • Care work and social reproduction • Intersectional analyses of the labour market, informality and precarity • Gender dimensions of trade, finance and global production networks • Gender and macroeconomics • Gender analyses of tax and fiscal policy • Feminist activism and policy pathways for transformative change
Contributions may draw from diverse disciplines, methodologies, and geographic contexts, fostering a rich dialogue on transformative feminist praxis. We especially welcome contributions on conception, pregnancy and birth under capitalism which will be reviewed by Irina Herb and Holly Isard.
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General Stream on Heterodox Economics
If you believe your submission does not fit on any of the above streams, you can submit to AHE’s general stream on heterodox economics.
Call for Streams for the 27th Annual Conference of the Association of Heterodox Economics (AHE)
18-20 June 2025
at King’s College London (Waterloo Campus)
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We invite submissions of streams for the 27th Conference of the Association for Heterodox Economics, taking place on June 18-20, 2025 at King’s College, London (Waterloo Campus), in London (UK). This is an event organised in collaboration with the Department of International Development at King’s College London.
The AHE conference seeks to support scholarship, activism, reflection, and debate on innovative and diverse heterodox and radical understandings of the global political economy. In the midst of multiple crises, including environmental breakdown, genocide, mental health crises, rise of authoritarianism, and crises of social reproduction, heterodox and radical approaches to economics and political economy are crucial for grappling with the challenges we face. We welcome submissions that challenge conventional economic paradigms, offer alternative frameworks for understanding and navigating these complex crises, and actively work towards radical social change.
What is a stream?
A stream is a session or series of sessions held at the conference organised on a specific theme. The stream coordinator will propose a theme for their stream and be responsible for selecting which papers and panels should be included in their stream from the regular call for papers (which may include roundtable and panel proposals too), organising the papers into sessions, and ensuring that there is a chair for each session. The AHE Academic Officers will be responsible for final decisions on paper selections, sending out acceptance letters, visa letters, and finalising the programme schedule.
The streams will typically involve one or more sessions that are based around 3-4 papers, optionally with a discussant(s). As stream coordinator, you may encourage your presenters to submit full papers in advance and/or agree on a post-conference publication plan, but this is optional. In the interest of encouraging discussions across theoretical traditions or schools of thought, we especially encourage streams organised by theme or topic rather than by discipline/theoretical tradition. However, streams organised by theoretical tradition will also be considered. We expect stream coordinators to especially encourage women, people of colour, early career scholars, and scholars based in the Global South when they advertise their stream for potential submitters. The AHE Conference Organising Committee may advise the stream coordinators on issues of equality, diversity and inclusivity.
To reiterate, the call for streams is not a call for a set of closed panels. Rather, it is a call for themes to which others will submit abstracts during the Call for Papers. However, we do encourage coordinators to give examples of papers they foresee will be included in their stream, if possible. Possible stream topics could include (but are certainly not limited to): Climate change, labour, money, finance, innovation, gender, race, economic development, economic and social policy, imperialism, economic history, history of economic thought, economics education, philosophy and methodology in economics. We encourage each stream proposal to list a minimum of two stream coordinators.
Timings
The Call for Streams is open until 29 Nov 2024. Decisions about stream proposals will be made by the AHE Conference Organising Committee and communicated to all proposing stream organisers by 9December in time for the opening of the call for papers in mid-December. The Call for Papers deadline will be 14 February 2025. It will also be possible to submit individual panels and roundtables to the CfP to be considered for stream coordinators. Once the CfP has closed, stream organisers will be contacted with the submissions to their stream. Thereafter, they will have three weeks to evaluate the submissions and communicate their recommendations to the AHE Conference Organising Committee. This schedule will allow us to send out acceptances to presenters by earlyApril 2025.
AHE Panel at the Portuguese Association of Political Economy Conference
Jan 30-Feb 1, 2025, in Coimbra, Portugal
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The Portuguese Association of Political Economy (EcPol) will hold its 8th Annual Meeting at the School of Economics, University of Coimbra (Portugal), on January 30th – February 1st 2025. The conference theme is ‘Political Economy for a Just Life: Theoretical and Practical Challenges’.
The Association for Heterodox Economics (AHE) is organising a panel at the EcPol conference.
If you would like to submit a paper to be presented at the AHE @ EcPol panel, please click on the link below to read the full call for papers in PDF format:
In collaboration with Bristol Research in Economics, the College of Business and Law at the University of the West of England in Bristol, and the Cambridge Political Economy Society
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Keynote 1: Ecological and Environmental Justice in Heterodox Economics
D’Maris Coffman (University College London)
Maria Nikolaidi (University of Greenwich)
Bengi Akbulut (University of Concordia, Canada)
Chair: Roberto Veneziani (Queen Mary University; AHE)
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Keynote 2: The Political Economy of Conflicts and Migration
Rafeef Ziadah (Department of International Development, King’s College London)
Artjoms Ivlevs (UWE Bristol)
Chair: Andrew Mearman (AHE, University of Leeds)
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Keynote 3: Heterodox Economics in Policy
Gary Dymski (University of Leeds)
Lekha Chakraborty (National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, India)
Natalia Bracarense (OECD and Sciences Po, Toulouse)
A Webinar on Development in India under the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)
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While it is criticized for eroding democracy and secular norms, India’s Hindu nationalist government is often portrayed as a roaring economic success. With an estimated growth rate of 7.6% in 2023-24, a booming stock market, massive public investment in infrastructure, and a rising middle class, a widely prevalent narrative suggests that India is becoming an economic powerhouse. At the same time, India’s educated youth unemployment is at a record high of 66%, rural wages are stagnant, precarity is rising, and the level of inequality has surpassed that in the colonial period.
What is India’s true economic record over the past decade? To what extent are the claims of prosperity justified and how widely are these gains shared? How reliable are the data that are being used to make these claims? Our roundtable of eminent experts will address these questions and examine the political economy underpinnings and consequences of India’s Hindu nationalist regime.
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13th May 2024 at 9:00am EST / 2:00pm BST / 6:30pm IST / 7:30pm CET
Nitin Kumar Bharti is a postdoctoral scholar in the Economics department of the New York University-Abu Dhabi. He is also Coordinator for South and South East Asia at World Inequality Lab at Paris School of Economics. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Namur and the Paris School of Economics in 2022. Before that, he earned his bachelor’s degree from IIT-Kharagpur and has two years of experience working in the corporate sector. He is an applied micro-economist, and his research interests lie in understanding the development of educational systems and their linkage with economic growth and inequality. He is also interested in studying the long-term evolution of economic inequalities in the South Asia region
Jean Drèze, development economist, is currently Visiting Professor at Ranchi University and Honorary Professor at the Delhi School of Economics. He has made wide-ranging contributions to development economics and public policy, with special reference to India. His recent books include An Uncertain Glory: India and Its Contradictions (with Amartya Sen) and Sense and Solidarity: Jholawala Economics for Everyone. Jean Drèze is also active in various campaigns for economic and social rights.
Professor Jayati Ghosh taught economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi for nearly 35 years, and since January 2021 she has been a Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She has authored and/or edited 20 books and more than 200 scholarly articles. Recent publications include When Governments Fail: Covid-19 and the Economy, Informal Women Workers in the Global South, and Demonetisation Decoded. Jayati has advised governments and consulted for international organizations, including the International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD).
Dipa Sinha is Assistant Professor, Economics at Ambedkar University. She works on issues related to food rights and nutrition, public health, gender and social policy. She has worked for over five years with the Office of Commissioners to the Supreme Court (on the Right to Food) She has been part of a number of national and international research studies on food rights, health financing, gender and social development. She has done her MA in Economics from JNU, MSc in Development Studies from School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London and Ph.d from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
26th Annual Conference of the Association for Heterodox Economics
10-12 July 2024 in Bristol, UK
In collaboration with Bristol Research in Economics, the College of Business and Law at the University of the West of England in Bristol, and the Cambridge Political Economy Society
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Registrations for presenters have closed on 21 June 2024, but you can still register as an attendee:
Registrations are now open for the 26th Conference of the Association for Heterodox Economics, taking place on 10-12 July 2024 at the University of the West of England (Frenchay Campus) in Bristol (UK) and online. Registrations for presenters are open until 21 June 2024. Registrations for attendees will remain open until the start of the conference. Registration fees include the conference dinner on 11 July.
We are proud to see more than 170 individual submissions and 11 panel proposals, coming to a total of 214 scholars expressing interest in presenting at the AHE conference. The numbers demonstrate a renewed interest in the UK’s heterodox community.
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What to expect
The conference is a hybrid event with both in-person and online attendees and speakers. Please make sure to book the correct ticket on our website.
The conference will run for three days and sessions will typically start at 9am with the final sessions closing by 6pm.
Partner associations include: Cambridge Political Economy Society (CPES), INET Young Scholars Initiative (YSI), History of Economics Society (HES), Cambridge Social Ontology Group (CSOG), and the Post Keynesian Economics Society (PKES).
Each day we will have a keynote plenary where no parallel sessions will run. Themes of the keynote addresses will range from ecological and environmental justice to the political economy of conflict and migration, to heterodoxy and policy.
On Thursday 11th July the conference dinner will take place at 7pm at Bocabar restaurant in Bristol. The address is: Fermentation, 1 Hawkins Ln, Bristol BS1 6JQ [click here to view Bocabar on Google Maps]. This Bocabar branch is located in Finzels Reach, close to Castle Park.
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Confirmed speakers:
D’Maris Coffman (University College London)
Maria Nikolaidi (University of Greenwich)
Bengi Akbulut (University of Concordia, Canada)
Rafeef Ziadah (Department of International Development, King’s College London)
Bruna Boscaini (Indoamerican Refugee and Migrant Organization – IRMO)
Artjoms Ivlevs (UWE Bristol)
Gary Dymski (University of Leeds)
Lekha Chakraborty (National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, India)
Natalia Bracarense (OECD and Sciences Po, Toulouse)
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Fred Lee prize
Send your full paper by June 1st, 2024 with the subject line “Early career prize submission” at heteconevents@gmail.com. Eligible scholars for the prize include PhD students as well as those who received their PhD no more than 2 years prior to the date of the conference and are not currently in a full-time, tenured position.
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Conference location
The conference will take place at the Bristol Business School (X block), University of the West of England (Frenchay Campus) in Bristol (UK) and online. For online participants a Zoom link will be shared closer to the date of the conference. The address for in-person attendees is: UWE Bristol Coldharbour Lane, Frenchay, Bristol, BS16 1QY.
Click here for the Google Maps link to the conference venue.
Click here for a high-resolution map of the university campus.
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Getting to Bristol
Via plane
Bristol airport is the closest airport to Bristol. The Airport Flyer bus service connects Bristol Temple Meads and Bristol Airport, with the journey taking approximately 25 minutes. It takes another 30-40 minutes from Bristol Temple Meads to reach the UWE Business School.
London Heathrow airport for transatlantic and longer flights. It takes about 2.5 hours from Heathrow to UWE Business School using public transport (train and bus), with busses generally being the more affordable option.
From London Heathrow airport to Bristol by train: Take the Elizabeth line or Heathrow Express to Paddington. From there, take the train towards Cardiff or Swansea. Get off at Bristol Parkway. You can take a bus (e.g. 19 or metrobus m4 or m3 towards the city centre) from here to the Business School (Frenchay Campus).
From London Heathrow airport to Bristol by bus: Long distance coaches and coaches from London airports: Megabus and National Express provide a very cost-effective service direct to Frenchay Campus from many UK cities and some overseas destinations including London (city, e.g. Victoria, and airports), Cardiff, Birmingham, Exeter, Manchester and Leeds.
Via train
Direct trains go to Bristol Temple Meads from Manchester, Leeds, Sheffield, Birmingham and London (Paddington).
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Getting to UWE Bristol Business School once in Bristol
Via train
Bristol Temple Meads is the main train station and is located close to Bristol city centre.
The nearest train stations from UWE Bristol are: Bristol Parkway (approx. 20-25 minutes walking), or Filton Abbey Wood (approx. 10 minutes walking). From Bristol Parkway it is also possible to take a bus (19, m3, m4 towards the city centre) to the campus.
It will take about 40 minutes to reach the UWE Business School from Bristol Temple Meads (train ride of approx. 15 minutes, plus walking). Tickets can be bought at the station or online.
Via bus
From Bristol Temple Meads, buses operate 24 hours a day and at peak times, leave up to every 8 minutes.
Buses 72 and 74 will take you from the train station (Temple Meads) to the Business School campus.
From Bristol Parkway, it is also possible to take a bus (19, m3, m4 towards the city centre) to the campus.
From the city centre, Metrobus services m1, m3 and m4 are the best way to get to UWE, with buses up to every 10 minutes (Monday – Friday daytime). Bus routes, ticket prices and where to buy the tickets can be found HERE.
The First Bus app includes a journey planner and offers live bus times so you can check when your bus is due in real time.
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Accommodation
Accommodation on campus is now available for booking:
