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:
10 Women in Heterodox Economics that You Should Know About
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The theme for the 2024 International Women’s Day is “inspire inclusion”. Are you curious to find out more about women economists who advocated for inclusion and made history in heterodoxy?
Here are 10 women in heterodox economics you should know about!
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Victoria Chick (1936 – 2023)
Victoria Chick was one of the most important contributors to post-Keynesian economics, with works spanning from methodology, monetary economics, financialisation and industrial policy. After graduating from Berkeley, she moved to London in 1960 to pursue a PhD at the London School of Economics. She took up a post at UCL in 1963 where she remained all her working life. She became a professor in 1993. Vicky retired in 2001 though worked on research until her death in 2023. She was the co-founder of the Post-Keynesian Economics Study Group (PKES) and a world-leading expert on Keynes. Her interpretation of Keynes’ TheGeneral Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money after her dissatisfaction with mainstream attempts to hijack Keynes’ ideas led to her influential work, Macroeconomics After Keynes: A Reconsideration of The General Theory (1983).
More recent publications include Should Equilibrium Be Abandoned by Heterodox Economists? (2022) and Open and Closed Systems (2023).
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Maria da Conceição Tavares (1930 -)
Maria da Conceição Tavares is a Portuguese naturalized Brazilian economist. She is a full professor at the State University of Campinas (Unicamp), and professor emeritus of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). After completing an economics degree in 1960 at UFRJ, she published her first article in 1963, titled Rise and fall of the import-substitution process in Brazil, in which she discussed import-substituting industrialisation as a historical model of development. Together with Celso Furtado, Tavares became a leading scholar in the Latin American structuralist-developmentalist approach. Some of her works include From Import Substitution to Financial Capitalism (1973), and Capital Accumulation and Industrialization in Brazil (1986). After holding positions at Fundação Getúlio Vargas (1965-67) and the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (1968), she became a professor of UFRJ and Unicamp in the 1970s until the 1990s. Alongside her academic career, Conceição Tavares is a political activist, advisor, and a member of Brazil’s Chamber of Deputies between 1995 and 1999.
Recent publications about her work include Fernandez’s (2021) interview with Tavares, and Bielschowsky’s (2010) article about her leading contributions to Latin-American structuralist thought.
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Krishna Bharadwaj (1935-1992)
Originating from Karwar, on the Malabar Coast of India, Krishna R. Bharadwaj studied at the University of Bombay, obtaining her PhD in 1960. Initially a development theorist, Bharadwaj became acquainted with the Cambridge School during a sojourn in MIT (USA), where she happened to first meet Joan Robinson. Bharadwaj wrote a highly influential review Piero Sraffa’s Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities in 1963. She went to Cambridge as a visiting fellow in 1967, coming under the influence of Piero Sraffa and going on to become one of his closest disciples. Bharadwaj returned to India in 1971, joining the faculty at the Nehru University in Delhi. She would continue to be a prominent Neo-Ricardian theorist and expositor of the school (and Sraffa’s ideas in particular) for the next two decades. Some of her work focused on applying Sraffian theory to development problems, such as Classical Political Economy and the Rise to Dominance of Supply and Demand Theories (1978).
Recent articles discussing her ideas are Bertram Schefold’s (1998) article about her reconstruction of economic theory through history, and Maria Cristina Marcuzzo (2021)’s analysis of Bharadwaj’s interpretation of expectations.
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Sadie Alexander (1898-1989)
Sadie T.M. Alexander was a pioneering Black professional and civil rights activist of the early to mid-20th century. In 1921, Alexander was the second African American woman to receive a PhD, and the first one to receive one in economics in the United States, with a dissertation titled The Standard of Living Among One Hundred Negro Migrant Families in Philadelphia. After struggling to secure a job despite her formal education (Banks, 2005), she turns to Law. In 1927, she was first Black woman to receive a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and went on to become the first Black woman to practice law in the state. Alexander developed arguments to overcome black oppression by calling for policies that would lead to economic justice, including in her contributions to economics through speeches and writings. She analysed discrimination in the labour market, including unemployment, job precarity, and low wage levels amongst the Black population, also focusing on the role of Black women and their contribution to Black American living standards and national output. Her contributions inspired the stratification economics tradition and the Black Radical approach in Political Economy.
Recent works about Alexander include Nina Banks’s book (2021) and article (2022) about her economic contributions, as well as Malveaux’s (1991) analysis on the missed opportunity in economics for not paying attention to Alexander’s works.
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Susan Himmelweit (1948 – )
‘Sue’ Felicity Himmelweit is a feminist economist interested in gender issues in economic and social policy. Susan researches in areas such as inequalities within households, the economics of caring as well as the gender implications of economic policy. Susan is an emeritus professor of economics for the Open University, and was the 2009 president of the International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE). She is a founding chair and active member of the Women’s Budget Group; member of the editorial board of Feminist Economics; and member of the editorial board of the Journal of Women, Politics & Policy.
Recent publications include a chapter in A Research Agenda for Financial Resources within the Household (2024), a chapter in In Taxation and Social Policy (2023) and a co-authored paper in Feminist Economics in 2021.
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Julia Steinberger (1974 – )
Julia Steinberger is Professor of Ecological Economics at the University of Lausanne and an author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 6th Assessment Report. She received her PhD in physics in 2004 from MIT and was promoted to professor in 2020. Her research considers the relationships between the use of resources (energy, materials and emission of greenhouse gases) and performance of societies (wellbeing and economic output) and is geared towards alternative development pathways to guide the necessary transition to a low carbon society. She has pioneered links between ecological and heterodox economics, both through PhD supervisions and her adoption of the systems of provision approach.
Her research project, for which she received the Leverhulme Research Leadership Award, ‘Living Well Within Limits’ investigates how universal human well-being might be achieved within planetary boundaries.
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Sheila Dow (1949- )
Sheila Dow is a post-Keynesian economist who has extensively written about the philosophy of economics, the history of economic thought, and has raised methodological awareness in the fields of macroeconomics, money and banking. She earned her PhD in Economics from the University of Glasgow in 1981. During her PhD she became a Lecturer at the University of Stirling where she was promoted to reader in 1988 and full professor in 1996. Since 2012 she is an adjunct professor at the University of Victoria. Among others, she has held positions with the Bank of England and the Government of Manitoba. Sheila has also held positions as the co-editor of Economic Thought and was the associate editor for the Journal of Economic Methodology. She is part of the academic council of the Institute for New Economic Thinking and she is a member of SSRN Economics advisory board.
Sheila has over 250 research outputs. Recent books include Foundations for New Economic Thinking (Palgrave Macmillan 2012), and co-edited volumes of The General Theory and Keynes for the 21st Century (Edward Elgar, 2018) and Money, Method and Post-Keynesian Economics for the 21st Century (Edward Elgar, 2018). Sheila Dow has often collaborated with Victoria Chick. The two published a pioneering article (2005) discussing the notion of “open systems” for economic methodology.
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Marilyn Waring (1952 – )
Marilyn Waring (CNZM) is a New Zealand feminist, former politician, author, academic, and activist for female human rights and environmental issues. She is best known for her 1988 book If Women Counted, and she obtained a PhD in political economy in 1989. She is known as one of the founders of feminist economics. Since 2006, Waring has been a Professor of Public Policy at the Institute of Public Policy at AUT in Auckland (NZ), focusing on governance and public policy, political economy, gender analysis, and human rights. She has outspokenly criticised the concept of GDP, the economic measure that became a foundation of the United Nations System of National Accounts (UNSNA) following World War II. She criticises a system which “counts oil spills and wars as contributors to economic growth, while child-rearing and housekeeping are deemed valueless”.
Recent publications about her work include an edited volume by Bjornholt and McKay (2014), and Saunders and Dalziel (2017) article about her critique of national account systems.
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Suzanne de Brunhoff (1929–2015)
Suzanne de Brunhoff was a Marxist activist and economist who wrote widely on monetary policy, international monetary relations, financial liberalisation and Marx’s views on the significance of money within capitalist society. She studied sociology at the Sorbonne and received a PhD in Sociology as well as Economics. From 1960 onward Suzanne became a researcher at Centre national de la recherche scientifique in Paris where she became the Director later on. She taught at the University of Paris VII, the New School and the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). International recognition came with Marx on Money (1976) where Suzanne as, a “radical thinker”, analyses how money, debt and credit fit into the logic of capital.
The State, Capital and Economic Policy (1978) is her second book that was translated into English. More recent publications on her work show how Suzanne has developed the most innovative contributions to Marxist theory of money since classical Marxism (Baronian, 2021).
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Hazel Kyrk (1886-1957)
Born in Ashley (Ohio), Hazel Kyrk was a pioneer in the study of consumption decisions and of the allocation of time in households. She graduated from the University of Chicago in 1910 with a PhB in economics and a Phi Beta Kappa key. After a year as an instructor in economics at Wellesley College, Kyrk returned to the University of Chicago to study for a PhD in economics, writing her dissertation with the economic demographer James A. Field. Her dissertation, accepted in 1920, was published as A Theory of Consumption (1923) winning the prestigious Hart, Schaffner and Marx Prize for economic research. In that book and in The Economic Problems of the Family (1929), Kyrk discussed how social psychology shapes consumer choice and how the economic role of the housewife was moving beyond household production to being a “director of consumption”. She reinterpreted Thorstein Veblen’s (1899) account of consumption to reveal its operational value for a normative agenda directed toward “wise” and “rational” consumption.
Recent articles discussing Kyrk’s works are Philippy et al.’s (2023) article on her intellectual roots, as well as Todorova’s (2023) analysis of Kyrk’s links with original institutional economics.
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Here is AHE’s management committee coordinator Danielle Guizzo promoting women in Economics in two short videos for the University of Bristol in the UK:
Since the beginning of the military dictatorship in March 1976, pro-market visions were imposed by violating human rights in the darkest period of Argentina’s history and occupied political thought for more than four decades, even in democracy. Although these ideas had a brief pause in the period 2003-2015, they are still in force and now more than ever under the new administration of Mr. Milei. Mr. Milei has imposed a huge depreciation of the national currency, reducing the purchasing power of workers, and an adjustment of public spending by dismissing more than 50,000 public employees under the slogan of efficiency. Inflation has reached 200% per year and poverty has reached 60% under his administration, which has been in place for less than 5 months. As a heterodox community, we wish to better understand the social and economic consequences of the Milei government and discuss the possible alternatives Argentina now faces.
Ramiro Álvarez is a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Political Economy and Development Studies at the National University of Moreno (Argentina). He is a specialist in the Political Economy of Argentina. After his Master in Economic Development at the National University of San Martín (Argentina) he did his PhD at the University of Siena (Italy). Ramiro teaches basic and advanced economics at different Argentinean universities. He has been a guest professor at the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo due to his studies in Political Economy and he published many papers analysing the political “pendulum” in Argentina, and its impacts on income distribution and growth.
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Matías Vernengo is Full Professor at Bucknell University. He was formerly Senior Research Manager at the Central Bank of Argentina (BCRA), Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Utah, and Assistant Professor at Kalamazoo College and the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). He has been an external consultant to several United Nations organizations including the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), the International Labor Organization (ILO), the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). He has eight edited books, two books and more than one hundred and twenty articles published in scientific peer reviewed journals or book chapters. He specializes in macroeconomic issues for developing countries, in particular Latin America, international political economy and the history of economic ideas. He is also the emeritus founding co-editor of the Review of Keynesian Economics (ROKE), and co-editor in chief of the New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics.
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María Carolina Moisés is a distinguished Argentine politician and political scientist with a rich career dedicated to public service and political advocacy. Beginning her political journey with foundational education from the University of Belgrano, where she earned a degree in Political Science, she has been a pivotal figure in Argentine politics. Her early academic achievements were complemented by international exposure through a program at the University of Berkley, Boston, which broadened her perspective on governance and public policy. Carolina’s political career is marked by her tenure as a National Senator for Jujuy since December 10, 2023, showcasing her continued relevance and leadership in Argentine politics. Prior to this role, she served as a National Deputy for Jujuy from December 18, 2017, to December 10, 2023, and previously from December 10, 2005, to December 9, 2009, where she was known for her passionate advocacy and significant legislative contributions, including her involvement in the landmark Audiovisual Media Law. As a speaker, María Carolina Moisés brings a wealth of experience, a profound understanding of political dynamics, and a visionary approach to addressing contemporary challenges. Her career is a testament to her unwavering dedication to public service, making her an inspiring figure in Argentine politics and beyond.
