Dec 18 2025
Call for Papers and Panels for the 28th Annual Conference of the Association for Heterodox Economics (AHE)

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Call for Papers and Panels for the 28th Annual Conference of the Association for Heterodox Economics (AHE)

1-3 July 2026 at the University of Coimbra, Portugal

Deadline for paper and panel submissions: 20 February 2026

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We invite submissions of papers and panels for the 28th Conference of the Association for Heterodox Economics, taking place on 1-3 July 2026 at the University of Coimbra in Coimbra, Portugal. This is an event organised in collaboration with the Faculty of Economics at the University of Coimbra (FEUC), the Centre for Business and Economics Research (CeBER), the Centre for Social Studies (CES), and the Portuguese Association of Political Economy (EcPol).

AHE seeks to support scholarship, reflection, and debate on innovative and diverse heterodox and radical understandings of the global political economy. We welcome submissions that challenge conventional economic paradigms, offer alternative frameworks for understanding and navigating these complex crises, and actively work towards radical social change. Our plenary sessions this year will cover inequality, financialisation, housing and long-run transformations. Confirmed speakers include Arjun Jayadev, Ozlem Onaran, Ana Santos and Francisco Louçã. 

We have a series of streams running this year that you can submit your papers and/or panels to. You can see a full overview of the streams below. Please read the stream descriptions carefully before submitting.

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Paper submission

Submit abstracts for individual papers (max 300 words) by 20 February 2026 by filling in this form. We particularly encourage applications from underrepresented groups in the economics discipline including, but not limited to women, people of colour, scholars from the Global South. Limited travel support is available for selected early career scholars from the Global North and South. Early career scholars include PhD students as well as those who received their PhD no more than 2 years prior to the date of the conference and are not currently in a full-time, tenured position. When submitting your abstract, please indicate if you would like to be considered for the bursaries. Submit your paper here. Please note that we can only consider one submission per presenter, i.e. only your first submission will be considered. 

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Panel submission 

To make a submission for a panel please fill in this form. Please note that a panel typically consists of 3-4 presentations on a similar theme, but we are also open to panel submissions in non-standard formats (e.g. roundtable or workshop). Submit your panel here.

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Fred Lee Prize

If you are an early career researcher and interested in having your paper considered for the Fred Lee Early Career Prize, please indicate this on the paper submission form. You will be asked to send your full paper by 13 May 2026 with the subject line “Early career prize submission” at heteconevents@gmail.com. Eligible scholars for the prize include PhD students as well as those who received their PhD no more than 2 years prior to the date of the conference and are not currently in a full-time, tenured position.

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Overview of Streams

Borders, Labour, and the State

Coordinators: Pedro Antunes, Miguel Duarte; Marina Barbosa; Ana C. Haddad; Bianca Barp

This stream examines the rise of anti-immigration rhetoric in contemporary mainstream political discourse, and its effects on political agendas, public policies, and labour. In a decade marked by debates over multiculturalism and national identity—often propelled by the far right—against a backdrop of rising inequality and an affordability crisis, understanding the connections between borders, labour, and the state is fundamental. The migrant is a historically contingent category, shaped and imposed in part by the state: a category that mobilises difference, often ethnicity, to determine who has the right to have rights. This contributes to labour-market segmentation and helps ensure a supply of vulnerable workers for the most precarious sectors. The category of “migrant” also enables the state to remove, through deportation, non-conforming members of the working class. It has been central to the construction of the nation-state, national identity, and borders. As Robin D. G. Kelley notes, migrants are “the very heart of a global labor force whose movements are linked to war, capital flows, policies imposed by states and international financial/economic bodies, racist and patriarchal security regimes, and the struggles of working people on every side of every border”. In Harsha Walia’s words, “exclusionary projections of who belongs and who has the right to life upholds ruling-class and right-wing nationalism, thus breaking internationalist solidarity and entrenching global apartheid”.

With this in mind, the stream recognises that the rise of anti-immigration rhetoric carries wide-ranging political, social, and economic consequences, and welcomes heterodox perspectives on these issues. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • Political economy of borders, migration politics, and state violence
  • Nationalism, national identity, and the rise of the far right
  • Labour-market segmentation and globalisation
  • Neo-colonialism and development theories
  • Social reproduction and migration
  • Resistance, solidarity, and alternative frameworks

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Concretely Utopian Public Services: Practice to theory, theory to practice

Coordinators: Emanuele Lobina, Nuno Martins, Julia Bacchieri Indiani and Conor Gray

This stream explores the emancipatory potential of concretely utopian public services (CUPS) across sectors. Margaret Archer’s concrete utopias are ideas of universal emancipatory development that guide actual practice in quest for the good life, including ideas of socio-ecological and economic justice and deep sustainable development. The pursuit of CUPS is particularly urgent in the era of zombie neoliberalism, where policies like privatisation and financialisation are being reproduced in the Global North and South despite their repeated failure to prioritise community needs.

We invite papers that engage with the challenges and opportunities of building alternatives to the neoliberal governance of public services (or otherwise contribute to understanding the developmental potential of such alternatives). These alternatives may include but are not limited to the following:

  • Institutional preservation of Tony Lawson’s “eudaimonic bubbles”;
  • Mobilising for Quality Public Services;
  • Democratising governance;
  • In-house restructuring of public enterprises;
  • Public-public partnerships and labour-management partnerships for capacity development;
  • Reverse privatisation/de-privatisation and remunicipalisation;
  • Public ownership for decarbonisation;
  • Pragmatic cost recovery; and,
  • De-financialisation.

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Core–Periphery Revisited: Long Cycles and the Political Economy of Global Transformation

Coordinators: Ernesto Nieto-Carrillo, María Gabriela Palacio, and Natália Bracarense

This stream examines the interaction between long cycles of accumulation, discontinuous technical change, and global value extraction within core–periphery hierarchies. It brings together three major intellectual traditions: (1) long-wave (Marxist and evolutionary) perspectives; (2) Latin American structuralist and decolonial contributions (Furtado, Lewis, Prebisch, Dussel, Dos Santos, Shiva, Valencia, Quijano); and (3) the systemic and hegemonic approaches of Polanyi, Arrighi, Amin, Fraser, Wallerstein and Gunder Frank. It reconnects analyses of technological paradigms, structural change and unequal exchange with reflections on long-wave transitions, rentier and logistics regimes, and the emerging geopolitics of energy, data, identity, and debt that redefine centres and peripheries of accumulation.

We welcome theoretical and empirical contributions—quantitative, qualitative, ethnographic or historical—that examine long-term transformations of capitalism from an evolutionary and global perspective. Particular attention is given to peripheral and semi-peripheral dynamics, including informal labour, hidden markets, debt, (trans)national mobility and displacement, emancipation struggles, and the political–ideological waves and crises of hegemony accompanying each cycle. By bridging Northern and Southern traditions of heterodox thought, the stream encourages theoretical innovation and empirical inquiry into the long cycles of global capitalism, viewing the South(s)—in their plurality—not only as an object of study but also as a vantage point for rethinking accumulation and transformation. Indicative topics:

  • Long cycles, technological paradigms and global value extraction
  • Political–ideological waves, institutional transformations and crises of hegemony
  • Core–periphery dynamics and asymmetric development in long-run capitalist transformations
  • Financialisation and rentier dynamics in capital–labour relations throughout the long wave
  • Informal labour, hidden markets and migratory adjustment in systemic cycles of accumulation
  • Long-run dynamics of social reproduction and gendered stratification
  • Emancipatory struggles to redefine labour, culture and value across historical phases of capitalism
  • Semi-peripheral industrialisation and deindustrialisation across long-cycle transitions
  • Plural Souths and internal peripheries
  • Energy transitions and socioecological constraints in structural restructurings of global production
  • Expulsion, debt and moral economies of survival in global systemic crises
  • South-centred and decolonial epistemologies of structural transformation

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Dimensions of Sustainability

Coordinators: Andrew Mearman, Briti Kar and Sarika Chaudhary

The ways in which the current economic system is designed – and discussed – feeds into the process of capitalist accumulation, deepening already existing inequalities rather than challenging the status quo. There remains an urgent need to change radically both the power dynamics of that system and how it is treated. Thus, the stream wishes to explore heterodox treatments of climate change and sustainability, be they theoretical, empirical, policy- or other stakeholder-oriented, or educational. One particular concern for heterodox economists is that climate change, though recognised as a problem, is analysed within existing power dynamics. Instead, there is a need for decolonising both the study and the practice of climate change and sustainability. The stream therefore welcomes contributions on any aspect of the above, using a diversity of methods of enquiry, data, schools of thought or perspectives, and a diverse variety of session styles. In particular we welcome submissions on the following sub-themes: 

  • Theoretical and conceptual discussions of sustainability, or aspects of it, including critiques of current models of sustainability and evaluations of policy and other relevant frameworks
  • Theoretical and empirical studies of sustainability topics, particularly those aimed at
  • analysing the class dimensions to climate change across the globe.
  • Theoretical and empirical studies focusing on the global north – south divide in
  • contributing to and bearing the effects of climate crisis.
  • Socio-economic analyses of climate change, within Global North and South. This
  • would explore the class angle within the countries, their consumption, and the existing
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  • Discussion of teaching sustainability either in economics or related disciplines
  • Consideration of links between sustainability and pluralism, however defined

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Feminist Economics 

Coordinators: Ines Heck and Lina Coelho

We invite submissions to the Feminist Economics Stream at the 27th Annual Conference of the Association of Heterodox Economics. This stream explores feminist economic perspectives on the multiple and intensifying global crises reshaping economies and societies, including climate breakdown, genocidal violence, surging economic inequality, the erosion of democratic institutions and rise of authoritarian populism. These crises demand urgent rethinking of traditional economic frameworks, and feminist economics provides critical tools for imagining and creating more equitable and sustainable futures. We welcome contributions on topics including but not limited to the following:

  • Feminist analyses of global crises and the gendered dimensions of climate breakdown, conflict, and genocide
  • Care work and social reproduction
  • Political ecology and environmental justice from a feminist standpoint
  • Intersectional analyses of the labour market and rising informality and precarity
  • Gender dimensions of trade, finance and global production networks
  • Gender and macroeconomics
  • Gender analyses of tax and fiscal policy
  • Feminist activism and policy pathways for transformative change

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Financialisation, Growth Models and Labour Regimes

Coordinators: Ana Costa, José Reis, Alexandre Abreu, Pedro Lima, Maria Cristina Barbieri Góes, and Marcelo Santos

This stream examines the interplay between financialisation, growth models and labour regimes in contemporary capitalism. Drawing on Minskian and post-Keynesian macroeconomics, the regulation school and growth-models literature, critical analyses of financialisation and structural accounts of inequality, it brings together analyses of accumulation regimes, labour relations and changing financial structures, emphasising their co-evolution in structuring demand, wealth creation (or destruction) and the organisation of work. We invite theoretical, empirical and mixed-methods contributions that link macro growth models (wage-led, profit-led, export-led, finance-led, innovation-led) to concrete institutional configurations of industrial relations, welfare states, corporate governance and state–finance relations. A central concern is the co-evolution between finance-centred accumulation, labour regimes and inequality, and its implications for alternative policy and development paths. Indicative topics:

  • Wage-led, profit-led, finance-led, export-led and innovation-led growth models, and their implications for employment, wages, and productivity.
  • Financialisation of non-financial corporations: shareholder value, payouts, leverage, intangibles and corporate governance.
  • Household indebtedness, housing and consumption: debt-led growth, asset-based welfare, stratification in access to credit, and financial vulnerability.
  • Sovereign debt, fiscal rules, austerity, central banking and the politics of macroeconomic “credibility”.
  • Precarious and platform work, informalisation, wage restraint and changing bargaining institutions.
  • Comparative analyses of growth models and labour regimes in different institutional settings.
  • Distributional consequences of financialisation and rentierisation: top incomes, wealth, capital gains, rentier incomes, and shifting wage–profit–rent relations.
  • Rent-seeking, technological change and digital business models: platforms, data, intellectual property, knowledge and intellectual monopoly capitalism.
  • Financial crises, instability and stagnation: competing heterodox explanations and their implications for labour markets and policy.
  • Entrepreneurial state and mission-oriented finance: development banks, green and just transitions and industrial policy in growth models.
  • Methodological and modelling innovations in studying growth models, finance, and labour regimes (e.g., stock–flow consistent models, input–output, microdata-based analyses, case studies).
  • Human capital and education under financialisation: the political economy of skills, vocational systems, and financing of education/training.
  • Digitalisation, artificial intelligence and task recomposition: the implications for job quality, wage inequality, productivity and inequality across growth models.

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Heterodox Health Economics

Coordinator: Imko Meyenburg

There is also growing interest in person-centred care (PCC) across healthcare systems across the world, which emphasises patient needs, preferences, and lived experiences. Despite its increasing adoption, guidance on implementing PCC within workforce and service delivery planning is limited, specifically examining PCC’s impact on patient safety. This is due to multiple barriers, including slow cultural change, rigid funding structures, high staff turnover, organisational constraints, heavy workloads, resistance to change, insufficient training, and inadequate supervision. This stream welcomes heterodox economists with an interest in contributing to person-centred care (PCC) healthcare policies. It encourages a plurality of theoretical perspectives, such as feminist theories or the capability approaches, to move beyond traditional and orthodox health economics methods. The aim is to explore how PCC can be delivered at various levels, from policy development to service provision.

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Histories in Heterodox Economics

Coordinators: Cecilia Lanata-Briones, Danielle Guizzo; João Pedro Amaral Cabouco Rodrigues

This stream warmly welcomes submissions on any aspect of the history of heterodox economics and its intersections with economic history and historical inquiry more broadly, notably (but not limited to):

  • The history of heterodox ideas, debates, concepts and wider economic thought;
  • The history of the marginalisation, dissemination, or institutional positioning of heterodox economics;
  • Intellectual histories of individual heterodox economists, traditions, or communities;
  • The history of the professionalisation and organisational development of heterodox economists;
  • The relationship between heterodox economics and policy, viewed through historical, archival, or genealogical approaches;
  • Heterodox economics or economists in public discourse and the media from a historical perspective;
  • The history of heterodox economics education, curricula, and teaching practices;
  • Historical analyses of the scientific production, circulation, and contestation of heterodox knowledge;
  • Economic history research that draws on heterodox/non-traditional approaches, concepts, or questions;
  • Work that uses historical methods, including archival work, longue durée analysis, oral history, genealogy, or mixed historical methodologies to investigate topics relevant to heterodox economics or economic life more broadly;
  • Studies that connect the evolution of economic institutions, practices, and cultures with heterodox perspectives.

We welcome a diversity of methods of inquiry, data sources, and schools of thought, including work engaging with interdisciplinary historical methods.

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Philosophy and Methods in Economics

Coordinators: Renato Rosa, Felipe Rodrigues, and Nuno Ornelas Martins

This stream welcomes submissions that explore any dimension of the intersection between economics and philosophy. Relevant topics include (but are not limited to):

  • Philosophical aspects or interpretations of economics;
  • Ethical issues in economics
  • Social ontology
  • The fragmentation of the economics discipline;
  • Criticisms to the mainstream and/or neoclassical economics, from the grounds of both theoretical works and policymaking practice;
  • Economic methodology, including decolonising methodologies in economics;
  • Bibliometric or network analysis studies in economics and related fields;

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Quantitative Political Economy

Co-ordinators: Tomás Rotta, José Coronado, Patrick Mokre, Josephine Baker, Cem Oyvat

This stream brings together papers that apply quantitative and computational methods within the field of Political Economy. It welcomes a broad range of theoretical traditions, including (but not limited to) Marxian, Keynesian, Kaleckian, Sraffian, feminist, critical race, and ecological approaches. We encourage submissions on topics such as development, ecology, inequality, exploitation, unequal exchange, colonialism, decolonisation, imperialism, socialism, economic planning, innovation, and technical change. Submissions should feature a substantive quantitative or computational component such as mathematical modelling, simulations, econometrics, Bayesian statistics, entropy and information metrics, input-output analysis, machine learning, or network analysis, and be theoretically grounded in Political Economy. We anticipate hosting four panels (four papers each) but warmly welcome additional submissions.

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Regional Development and Economic Geography

Coordinators: José Miguel Rebolho, Simone Tulumello, Helen Belisário, and João Pedro Ferreira

This stream focuses on the critical and heterodox political economy of regional development, regional applications, and economic geography. In an era defined by overlapping crises – from ecological breakdown and financial instability to rising inequality – the spatial dimensions of economic processes are more crucial than ever. Global dynamics do not unfold uniformly; they manifest in specific places, creating and reinforcing regional disparities, core-periphery dependencies, and uneven development both within and between nations. This stream moves beyond mainstream equilibrium approaches to critically examine the processes, policies, and power relations that shape regional trajectories, local labor markets, and the possibilities for alternative development strategies. We seek to bring together theoretical, applied, and policy-oriented research that explores the spatial dimensions in economic analysis.

We warmly welcome submissions from heterodox perspectives. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • Regional inequality, spatial justice, and core-periphery dependencies.
  • Regional industrial strategies, clusters and diversification.
  • Governance of regional and global value chains.
  • Alternative regional development strategies and challenges (e.g., community wealth building, foundational economy).
  • The financialization of space, housing, and regional infrastructure.
  • Regional labor markets, spatial divisions of labor, and migration.
  • Sustainability and the uneven regional impacts of climate change and green policies.
  • Methodological innovations in heterodox regional analysis and economic geography.

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Social Studies in Economics

Coordinators: Danielle Guizzo, Renato Rosa and Felipe Rodrigues

This stream warmly welcomes submissions that examine economics through a sociological lens, broadly understood. We seek work that explores the social organisation, cultures, practices, and knowledge-making processes of economics, particularly within heterodox and critical traditions. While policy can be a site of inquiry, we encourage approaches that treat policy as a social and political construction rather than solely as an applied domain. The stream aims to create a space for scholars who analyse economics as a social, cultural, and political practice, and who contribute to expanding the methodological and conceptual repertoire of heterodox economics. We welcome papers on (but not limited to) the following themes:

  • Sociology of the economics profession: analyses of academic communities, disciplinary boundaries, intellectual networks, institutional structures, and the social organisation of heterodox economics.
  • Theoretical perspectives: engagements with political philosophy, critical social theory, science and technology studies, economic sociology, or anthropology of expertise as they illuminate economic reasoning and practice.
  • Policy as a sociological object: studies of how economic ideas shape, circulate within, or are contested in policymaking arenas; comparative analyses of how heterodox and mainstream frameworks construct policy problems and solutions.
  • Policy experimentation and the politics of methods: critical examinations of policy pilots, behavioural interventions, evaluation practices, and experiments as sociotechnical devices, focusing on their epistemic, organisational, or political dimensions rather than their instrumental outcomes.

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Heterodox Perspectives on Economic Development

Coordinators: Olivia Bullio Mattos, Simone Silva de Deos, Ana Rosa Ribeiro Mendonça, Fernanda Ultremare

The multiple crises we currently face – climate change, rising inequalities, pandemic impacts, and geopolitical conflicts – have exposed the limitations of orthodox, market-based development strategies that heterodox economists have long criticized. With the need for deep, structural changes in 21st-century economies to deliver the key transitions societies need, political economy approaches, including but not limited to Post-Keynesian, Institutionalist, Marxist, Feminist, and Ecological, offer a valuable framework for an alternative. This stream invites papers that critically explore theoretical contributions and concrete policy choices for economic development. We encourage submissions in the following topics:

  • Financing strategies for the climate crisis and just transition.
  • Money, finance, and development.
  • Development and industrial policy.
  • Development, globalization, and trade.
  • Development and the labor market.
  • Comparative development and historical perspectives.

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Dec 17 2024
AHE 2025 Conference: Call for Papers

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Call for Papers 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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Deadline for papers and panels: February 21st, 2025

Click here to submit your paper
Click here to submit your panel

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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: 

  1. 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? 
  2. 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? 
  3. 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? 
  4. 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? 
  5. 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.

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Feminist Economics 

Stream coordinators: Sheba Tejani, Ines Heck, Irina Herb, and Holly Isard

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.

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Please submit your paper here or your panel here.

The conference will be in-person only. 

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Jul 31 2024
Call for Papers: AHE Panel at the Portuguese Association of Political Economy Conference, Jan 30-Feb 1, 2025, in Coimbra

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Call for Papers:

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:

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Click here to read the full call for papers in PDF

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You can visit the EcPol conference webpage for further details.

Submissions can be made until the 30th of September 2024. 

If you do submit a paper for the AHE panel, please include ‘For AHE panel‘ above the title of your paper.

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Jan 25 2024
Call for Papers – AHE 2024 Conference

Call for Papers

26th Annual Conference of the Association for Heterodox Economics

10-12 July 2024 in Bristol, UK

In collaboration with Bristol Research in Economics and

The College of Business and Law at the University of the West of England in Bristol

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We invite submissions for the 26th Conference of the Association for Heterodox Economics, taking place on July 10-12, 2024 at the University of the West of England (Frenchay Campus), in Bristol (UK) and online. This is an event organised in collaboration with Bristol Research in Economics at UWE College of Business and Law.  

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