Preliminary Announcement of the ASSA Program
Chicago, IL, January 5-7, 2007
AFEE—Swissotel
ASE—Swissotel
HES—Hyatt Regency
IAFFE—Hyatt Regency
URPE—Hyatt Regency
Thursday, January 4, 2007
Jan. 4, 6:30 pm
ASE
Plenary Lecture
Presiding: JOHN P. TIEMSTRA, CalvinCollege
JOHN M. GOWDY, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute--Behavioral Economics and Sustainability
Friday, January 5, 2007
Jan. 5, 8:00 am
AFEE/ASE
Continuity and Change: Policy Implications from Social and Institutional Economics (O1)
Presiding:CHRISTOPHER NIGGLE, University of Redlands
MAYO TORUNO, California State University-San Bernardino--The State and the Abundant Society
PHILLIP O’HARA, Curtin University, Australia--The Global Spread of AIDS and HIV: Causes, Consequences, and Governance
LAURA J. TAYLOR, WillametteUniversity--Informal Institutions and the Transition in Rural Russia
MICHAEL CARROLL, Bowling Green State University, MARY WRENN, Weber State University, JAMES RONALD STANFIELD, Colorado State University--Toward Community-Based Community Development
HAMID HOSSEINI, King’s College--Why both Formal and Informal Institutions Matter in
Economic Development: Explaining the Change of Lewisian Dualism to a (New?) Formal-
Informal Dichotomy
Discussant: CHRISTOPHER NIGGLE, University of Redlands
Jan. 5, 8:00 am
ASE/IAFFE
Bringing Households and Social Reproduction in Strategies for Sustainability
Presiding: ELLEN MUTARI, RichardStocktonCollege of New Jersey
ELISSA BRAUNSTEIN, ColoradoStateUniversity--Women's Nonmarket Work, Gender Inequality, and Economic Growth in East Asia and Latin America
S. CHARUSHEELA, University of Hawaii-Manoa, and COLIN DANBY, University of Washington, Bothell--When is "The Household"?
MARILYN POWER, SarahLawrenceCollege--Feminist and Ecological Economics: Applying a Social Provisioning Approach to an Analysis of the Effects of Natural Disasters
JANE WHEELOCK, University of Newcastle--Social Reproduction and Sustainability: The Role of Art
Discussants: JOHN DAVIS, University of Amsterdam and MarquetteUniversity
ELLEN MUTARI, RichardStocktonCollege of New Jersey
Jan. 5, 8:00 am
HES
The Nature and Significance of Economic Science: Robbins’ Essay, 75 Years On (B2)
Presiding: BRADLEY W. BATEMAN, GrinnellCollege
SUSAN HOWSON, University of Toronto--The Making of Robbins’ Essay
ROGER E. BACKHOUSE, University of Birmingham, and STEVEN G. MEDEMA, University of Colorado-Denver--Defining Economics: Robbins’ Essay in Theory and Practice
GARY S. BECKER, University of Chicago--Robbins’ Essay and the Scope of Economics
WILLIAM BAUMOL, New YorkUniversity—The Essay: Static Versus Intertemporal Welfare Issues
Jan. 5, 8:00 am
NEA
Crime, Criminal Justice, and African Americans (D0)
Presiding: JOHN A. KARIKARI, U.S. Government Accountability Office
KWABENA GYIMAH-BREMPONG, University of South Florida,andJULIET ELU, SpelmanCollege--Does Affirmative Action in Policing Increase Crime?
GREGORY PRICE, JacksonStateUniversity--Crime and Obesity
PATRICK MASON, FloridaStateUniversity--Race and Sentencing in the United States
GREGORY PRICE, JacksonStateUniversity--Broken Windows in the ‘Hood: Crime and Housing Characteristics
Discussants: JOHN A. KARIKARI, U.S. Government Accountability Office
ELIZABETH ASIEDU, University of Kansas
SUSAN FEINER, University of Southern Maine
JULIET ELU, SpelmanCollege
Jan. 5, 8:00 am
URPE
Current Trends in Turkish Economy (P5)
Presiding:BENAN ERES, Ankara University, Turkey
OZGE OZAY, University of Utah—Price-Wage Determination Mechanisms in the Turkish Textile Sector: 1980-2005
EMEL MEMIS, University of Utah—A Sectoral Analysis of Wages and Profitability Trends Under the Export- Led Regime in the Turkish Manufacturing Industry
OZGE IZDES, University of Utah—Evolution of Labor Market in the Structural Adjustment Era- Case of Turkey
OZDEN BIRKAN, University of Utah—Alternative Measures of Currency Substitution in Turkey
Discussants: BENAN ERES, Ankara University, Turkey
Jan. 5, 8:00 am
URPE/IAFFE
Gender and Development: Assessing Investments, Empowerment Strategies, and
Measuring Women’s Progress(O1)
Presiding: GUNSELI BERIK, University of Utah
CAREN GROWN, DIANE ELSON, Levy Economics Institute at Bard College, CHANDRIKA BAHADUR, and JESSIE HANDBURY, UN Millennium Project—The Financial Requirements of Achieving Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment in Low Income Countries
RAMYA M. VIJAYA, RichardStocktonCollege—Trade, Jobs, and Gender Trends
SUCHARITA SINHA, University of California-Riverside—The Conundrum of Development: Increasing Literacy and Female Disadvantage in Urban India
FARIDA C. KHAN, University of Wisconsin-Parkside—Localizing Gender Development Indices: The South Asian Particular
Discussants: GUNSELI BERIK, University of Utah
JERRY EPSTEIN, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
STEPHANIE SEGUINO, University of Vermont
Jan. 5, 10:15 am
AFEE
Social Fabric Matrix for Policy Analysis (B4)
Presiding: GREGORY HAYDEN, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
STEVEN BOLDUC, Minnesota State University-Moorhead--The Need for and Challenge of
Balancing Public Participation and Scientific Expertise in Ecological Policy Debates: A Social
Fabric Matrix Approach
SCOTT T. FULLWILER, WartburgCollege, and GEOFFREY ALLEN, TD Ameritrade--Can the Fed Target Inflation? An Institutionalist Approach
TRISTAN MARKWELL, University of Nebraska-Lincoln--Microsoft Excel and the Social Fabric Matrix: Corporate Networks and Beyond
TARA NATARAJAN, St. Michael’s College--The Industrialization of Indian Agriculture: Deploying a Development Agenda
JERRY L. HOFFMAN, Nebraska Coalition for Educational Equity and Adequacy--Using the Social Fabric Matrix to Seek Adequacy in Education
Discussant: GREGORY HAYDEN, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Jan. 5, 10:15 am
AFEE
Institutionalism and Comparative Economic Systems (P5)
Presiding: DELL CHAMPLIN, WesternWashingtonUniversity
ARISTIDIS BITIZENIS, University of Macedonia, Greece and JOHN MARANGOS, Colorado State University--Globalization and Integration-Assisted Transition in Central and Eastern European
Economies
CHRISTOS KALANTARIDIS, University of Teesside, UK--Institutional Change in Post-Socialist Regimes: Public Policy and Beyond
GEOFFREY SCHNEIDER, BucknellUniversity--Sweden’s Economic Recovery and the Theory of Comparative Institutional Advantage
ERIC HAKE, Eastern IllinoisUniversity--The Microfoundations of Comparative Economics
RULA QALYOUBI KEMP, University of Wisconsin-Stout, and THOMAS A. KEMP, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire--Reciprocity in Jordan’s Economy
Discussant: WILLIAM BARNES, University of Portland
Jan. 5, 10:15 am
ASE
Remembering Robert L. Heilbroner, Social Economist
Presiding: INGRID RIMA, TempleUniversity
ROBERT W. DIMAND and ROBERT H. KOEHN, BrockUniversity--Heilbroner and Bernstein on Fiscal Policy and the Twin Deficits
WILLIAM MILBERG, New School for Social Research--The "New Economy" in The Making of Economic Society
CHARLES M. A. CLARK, St. John'sUniversity--On Values and Value Theory
MATHEW FORSTATER, University of Missouri, Kansas City--Vision Scenario, Analysis: Instrumental Interpretations for Public Policy
Discussant: DEIRDRE MCCLOSKEY, University of Illinois, Chicago and RotterdamUniversity
Jan. 5, 10:15 am
EPS
Out How: The Economics of Ending Wars (Roundtable Discussion)
Presiding: JAMES K. GALBRAITH, University of Texas, Austin and Economists for Peace and Security
THOMAS SCHELLING, University of Maryland
MICHAEL INTRILIGATOR, University of California-Los Angeles and Milken Institute
CLARK ABT, Abt Associates
COL. DOUGLAS MACGREGOR, Center for Defense Information, Straus Military Reform Project
Jan. 5, 10;15 am
IAFFE
Economics and Gender: Theory and Practice (B5)
Presiding: ANN MARI MAY, MiddleburyCollege
ANNE BOSCHINI, Stockholm University, and ANNA SJÖGREN, Research Institute of Industrial Economics--Is Team Formation Gender Neutral? Evidence from Coauthorship
CAROLE GREEN, University of South Florida, ROBIN BARTLETT, Denison University, and MARIANNE FERBER, University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign--Policy Orientation and the Decision to Major in Economics
JULIE NELSON, TuftsUniversity--Economics for Humans: Conscience, Care and Commerce?
MALIHA SAFRI, University of Massachusetts-Amherst--The Global Household: Remittances, Household Production and Migration
Discussants: ULLA GRAPARD, ColgateUniversity
JUNE LAPIDUS, RooseveltUniversity
Jan. 5, 10:15 am
INEM
Plural Agency and Plural Subjects within Economics
Presiding: MARK D. WHITE, College of Staten Island, CityUniversity of New York
JOHN B. DAVIS, MarquetteUniversity and University of Amsterdam—Conceptions of Plural Selves in Recent Behavioral and Experimental Economics
DON ROSS, University of Alabama-Birmingham and University of Cape Town—Institutionally Fostered Economic Agents versus Team Agents
HANS-BERNHARD SCHMID, University of St. Gallen—Plural Subjecthood, Rationality, and Methodological Individualism
MARK D. WHITE, College of Staten Island, CityUniversity of New York—Kantian Autonomy, Plural Agency, and Conceptions of the Economic Individual
Jan. 5, 10:15 am
URPE
Microfoundations of Radical Economics(B2)
Presiding: BARKLEY ROSSER, JamesMadisonUniversity
GILBERT L. SKILLMAN, WesleyanUniversity—Worker Bargaining Power and the Business Cycle: Wage Dynamics in an Economy with Matching and Sequential Bargaining
ROBERTO VENEZIANI, QueensMaryUniversity, London—Microfoundations and Analytical Marxism
JONATHAN GOLDSTEIN, BowdoinCollege—Marxian Microfoundations: Contribution or Detour?
PETER SKOTT, University of Massachusetts-Amherst—Power-Biased Technical Change and the Rise in Earnings Inequality
Discussants: AMITAVA KRISHNA DUTT, University of Notre Dame
BARKLEY ROSSER, JamesMadisonUniversity
Jan. 5, 10:15 am
URPE
Brazil under Lula: Where Is It Headed?(P1)
Presiding: AL CAMPBELL, University of Utah
LEDA PAULANI, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil—Brazil as a Platform of International Financial Valorisation: The Role of Lula’s Government
PAULO NAKATANI, University of Espirito Santo, Brazil—A Critical Assessment of the Economic Policies of the Lula’s Government
ROSA MARIA MARQUES, Pontifica Universidade Catolica de Sao Paulo, Brazil—Lula’s Government and Social Policies
RÉMY HERRERA, MAURICIO SABADINI, and FRANCISCO CINTRA, University of Paris Pántheon-Sorbonne, France—The Failures of Reformism: Lula’s Brazil (2003-2006), after Mitterand’s France (1981-1984)
Discussants: AL CAMPBELL, University of Utah
RÉMY HERRERA, University of Paris, France
Jan. 5, 2:30 pm
AFEE
Efficiency, Social Efficiency and Financial Exclusion in Institutionalist Theory (E1)
Presiding: SCOTT FULLWILER, WartburgCollege
TOKUTARO SHIBATA, University of Tokyo--On the Concept of Efficiency in Institutional Economics
RYUICHIRO TERAKAWA, University of Tokyo--An Aspect of the Philosophical Foundations of
Commons’ Institutional Economics
GARY DYMSKI, University of California-Riverside and University of CaliforniaCenter-
Sacramento--The Global Transformation of Core-Banking Markets: A Polanyi/Commons View
KAZUO MARAKOSHI, University of California-Riverside--Justice in Finance: A Methodological
Examination of Financial Exclusion and Social Efficiency
PHILIP ARESTIS, University of Cambridge, UK and ASENA CANER, TOBB-Economics and
Technology University, Turkey--The Channels through which Financial Liberalization
Influences Poverty
Discussant: YNGVE RAMSTAD, University of Rhode Island
Jan. 5, 2:30 pm
AFEE
Local Institutions in the Globalizing Economy (R5)
Presiding: ROBERT SCOTT III, MonmouthUniversity
OLIVIER BRETTE and YVES CHAPPOZ, Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3, France--The French
Competitiveness Clusters: Toward a New Public Policy for Innovation and Research?
SUE KONZELMANN, BirkbeckCollege, University of London--The Global Reproduction of National Capitalisms: The Cases of Wal-Mart and IKEA
JULIE H. GALLAWAY, University of Missouri, Rolla--Point-of-Use Water Filtration: An Institutional Approach to Economic Development Public Policy
JOHN WATKINS, WestminsterCollege--Economic Institutions under Disaster Situations: The Case
of Hurricane Katrina
MATTHEW C. WILSON, University of Denver--The Institution of State and Local Public Budgeting
Rules: A Veblenian Critique of Tax and Expenditure Limitations
Discussant: RICHARD V. ADKISSON, New MexicoStateUniversity
Jan. 5, 2:30 pm
ASE
Persons, Social Capital, and Sustainability
Presiding: EDWARD O'BOYLE, LouisianaTechUniversity
ALBINO BARRERA, ProvidenceCollege--Economic and Social Sustainability in the Information Age: Need Satisfaction and Relative Equality as Necessary Conditions
MARK D. WHITE, College of Staten Island/CUNY--Kantian Autonomy: Reconciling Individualism with Social Sustainability
MICHAEL R. STONE and ANNE P. COBB, EmpireState College--A Quiet Revolution: Teachings and Actions on How to Humanize Economics
JOHN F. TOMER, ManhattanCollege--Intangible Capital and Economic Growth: A Comprehensive and Unifying View
Discussants: DAVID GEORGE, LaSalleUniversity
EDWARD O'BOYLE, LouisianaTechUniversity
Jan. 5, 2:30 pm
HES
Adam Smith as Theologian (B1)
Presiding: JERRY EVENSKY, SyracuseUniversity
PAUL OSLINGTON, University of New South Wales and Princeton Seminary--The Natural Theological Context of Early Political Economy
BRENDAN LONG, Parliament House Canberra and AustralianCatholicUniversity--Adam Smith as Theologian
DEIRDRE MCCLOSKEY, University of Illinois-Chicago and ErasmusUniversity of Rotterdam--Adam Smith and a Theological Defense of Capitalism
JEFFREY YOUNG, St. Lawrence University--Ethics and Theology in Adam Smith
Jan. 5, 2:30 pm
URPE
Microfoundations of Heterodox Macroeconomics (B5)
Presiding: CHARLES WHALEN, Perspectives on Work
INGRID RIMA, TempleUniversity—Reconstructing the Microeconomic Foundations for Understanding Labor Market
MICHELE NAPLES, The College of New Jersey—The Microfoundations of Keynes’ Theory of Passive Supply and Labor Demand
TAE-HEE JO, University of Missouri-Kansas City—Microfoundations of Effective Demand
AMITAVA KRISHNA DUTT, University of Notre Dame—Is There a Place for Microfoundations in Heterodox Macroeconomics?
Discussants: PETER DORMAN, EvergreenCollege
GILBERT L. SKILLMAN, WesleyanUniversity
Jan. 5, 2:30 pm
URPE/IAFFE
Gender and HIV/AIDS: Sexuality, Health, Education and Economic
Development (I1)
Presiding: LAURIE NISONOFF, HampshireCollege
YAVUZ YASAR, University of Denver—Gendered Epidemic and De-Gendered Development: HIV/AIDS, Economic Development, and Sexuality in Cambodia
ESTHER REDMOUNT and MEGAN MCCALLISTER, ColoradoCollege—AIDS and the Education of Girls in Swaziland with Particular Attention to Orphanages
MONICA DAS, Delhi University, India, and YAKUB QURAISHI, Secretary, Government of India—Sexuality and Scourge of the Syndrome- An Indian Contact
CONSOLATA KABONESA, Makere University, Uganda—Health Sector Reforms, Gender Relations and HIV/AIDS in Hoima District
Discussants: CHERYL DOSS, YaleUniversity
CECILIA CONRAD, PomonaCollege
Saturday, January 6, 2007
Jan. 6, 7:45 am
ASE
Presidential Breakfast
Presiding: JOHN P. TIEMSTRA, CalvinCollege
DEBORAH M. FIGART, RichardStocktonCollege of New Jersey—Social Responsibility and Living Standards
Jan. 6, 8:00 am
AFEE
Coping under Changing Economic Circumstances (D6)
Presiding: GEOFFREY SCHNEIDER, BucknellUniversity
ROBERT H. SCOTT III, MonmouthUniversity--Credit Card Use and Abuse: A Veblenian Analysis
CHRISTIAN WELLER, Center for American Progress--Need or Want: Explaining the Rise in
Consumer Credit in the U.S.
WILFRED DOLFSMA, ErasmusUniversity, Rotterdam, and ROBERT MCMASTER, University of
Aberdeen, UK--Bankruptcy and (of?) ChicagoSchool of Law and Economics – Toward an
Institutional Economic Analysis of Law
JAMES PEACH, New MexicoStateUniversity--Institutional Perspectives on Immigration Policy
HOWARD STEIN, University of Michigan--Employment and Accumulation? The ‘Poverty’ of
Poverty Reduction Strategies in Africa
Discussant: MAYO TORUNO, California State University-San Bernardino
Jan. 6, 8:00 am
INEM
Theory and Evidence in Economics
Presiding: MATTHIAS KLAES, University of Keele, United Kingdom
OLIVER E. WILLIAMSON, University of California-Berkeley—Pragmatic Methodology
ROBERT S. GOLDFARB and JONATHAN RATNER, GeorgeWashingtonUniversity—Illuminating Competing Visions of the Model-Empirics Nexus: Solow versus Lipsey et al
JULIE A. NELSON, TuftsUniversity—Ethics, Evidence and International Debt
ART DIAMOND, University of Nebraska-Omaha—What Counts as Good Evidence That Creative Destruction is the Essential Fact about Capitalism?
Discussants: D. WADE HANDS, University of Puget Sound
MATTHIAS KLAES, University of Keele, United Kingdom
Jan. 6, 8:00 am
URPE
Topics in Heterodox Macroeconomics (B5)
Presiding: MARTHA STARR, AmericanUniversity
FREDERIC S. LEE, University of Missouri-Kansas City—Heterodox Microeconomics and the Foundations of Heterodox Macroeconomics
WILLIAM T. GANLEY, Buffalo State College—The Micro Foundations of Veblen’s Theory of the Business Cycle
PETER DORMAN, EvergreenCollege—The Trade Account and Macro Aggregates
WILLIAM MILBERG, New School for Social Research—The Pricing-Investment Link Under Globalized Production: A Post Keynesian Perspective on U.S. Economic Hegemony
Discussants: TAE-HEE JO, University of Missouri-Kansas City
MICHELE NAPLES, The College of New Jersey
Jan. 6, 8:00 am
URPE/IAFFE
Borderlines: Gender and Migration(J6)
Presiding: MARY KING, PortlandStateUniversity
LOURDES BENERÍA, CornellUniversity—Paid/Unpaid Work and the Globalization of Reproduction
ALICIA GIRÓN GONZÁLEZ and MA. LUISA GONZÁLEZ MARÍN, UNAM, Mexico—Women, Migration, and Economic Policy
PHILLIP J. GRANBERRY and ENRICO MARCELLI, University of Massachusetts-Boston—Mexican Immigrant Wages: Are Men’s and Women’s Social Capital Different?
ULLA GRAPARD, ColgateUniversity—Immigration and the Danish Welfare State: Where are Women’s Voices?
Discussants: MARY KING, PortlandStateUniversity
FARIDA C. KHAN, University of Wisconsin-Parkside
MARIA FLORO, AmericanUniversity
Jan. 6, 10:15 am
AFEE
Institutional Perspectives on Macroeconomic Policies (E1)
Presiding: CHARLES WHALEN, Perspectives on Work
FADHEL KABOUB, DrewUniversity--Institutional Adjustment Planning for Full Employment
ZDRAVKA TODOROVA, WrightStateUniversity--Institutional Analysis of Deficits and Theorizing
about Households and the State
DAVID ZALEWSKI, ProvidenceCollege--Alan Greenspan’s Legacy: Is There Anything for
Institutionalists to Like?
ERIC TYMOIGNE, California State University-Fresno--Asset Prices, Financial Fragility, and
Central Banking
YAN LIANG, University of Missouri-Kansas City--Sending Jobs to China: An Efficiency or
Equality Concern?
Discussant: JAMES K. GALBRAITH, University of Texas-Austin
Jan. 6, 10:15 am
AFEE
Environmental Theory, Problems and Policies (Q2)
Presiding: STEVEN BOLDUC, Minnesota State University-Moorhead
MARK HAGGERTY and STEPHANIE A. WELCOMER, University of Maine--Tied to the Past - Bound to the Future: Ceremonial Encapsulation in a MaineWoodsLand Use Policy Debate
THAMIR M. SALIH, KutztownUniversity of Pennsylvania—Old Concepts, New Perspectives on
Oil: An Application to Iraq’s Development
DENIS BARTHELEMY, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, MARTINO NIEDDU, Universite de Reims, FRANCK-DOMINIQUE VIVIEN, Universite de Reims--Non-Trade Concerns in Agricultural and Environmental Economics: How Can Commons and Polanyi Help Us?
RACHEL HILLIARD, DON GOLDSTEIN, and VALERIE PARKER, NUI, Galway, Ireland--Environmental Technology, Dynamic Environmental Capabilities and Competiveness
SEBASTIAN BERGER, University of Sorbonne, Paris, and MATHEW FORSTATER, University of Missouri-Kansas City--The Significance of Kapp’s Social Cost Theory and Lowe’s Instrumental Analysis for Environmental Policy
Discussant: TERREL GALLAWAY, MissouriStateUniversity
Jan. 6, 10:15 am
ASE
Globalization, Governance, and Oil
Presiding: JOHN P. TIEMSTRA, CalvinCollege
SEDA EKMEN, Middle East Technical University, Turkey, and EMRE OZCELIK, Anadolu University, Turkey--Global Governance Model as the Enemy of Socio-Economic Sustainability
FRED CURTIS, DrewUniversity--Relocalization in Response to Global Warming and Peak Oil
ALAN HUTTON, GlasgowCaledonianUniversity--Environmental Sustainability, Fuel Poverty and National Security of Supply