Preliminary Announcement of the ASSA Program

MARILYN POWER, Sarah Lawrence College--Feminist and Ecological Economics: Applying a Social Provisioning Approach to an Analysis of the Effects of Natural DisastersJANE WHEELOCK, Univers

Preliminary Announcement of the ASSA Program

Chicago, IL, January 5-7, 2007 AFEE—Swissotel

ASE

Plenary Lecture

Presiding: JOHN P TIEMSTRA, Calvin College

JOHN M GOWDY, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Behavioral Economics and

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, Richard Stockton College of New Jersey

ELISSA BRAUNSTEIN, Colorado State University 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, Sarah Lawrence College Feminist and Ecological Economics:

Applying a Social Provisioning Approach to an Analysis of the Effects of Natural DisastersJANE WHEELOCK, University of Newcastle Social Reproduction and Sustainability: The Role of Art

Discussants: JOHN DAVIS, University of Amsterdam and Marquette University

ELLEN MUTARI, Richard Stockton College 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, Grinnell College

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 York University—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, and JULIET ELU,

Spelman College Does Affirmative Action in Policing Increase Crime?

GREGORY PRICE, Jackson State University Crime and Obesity

PATRICK MASON, Florida State University Race and Sentencing in the United States GREGORY PRICE, Jackson State University 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, Spelman College

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 TurkishTextile 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

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—TheFinancial Requirements of Achieving Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment in LowIncome Countries

RAMYA M VIJAYA, Richard Stockton College—Trade, Jobs, and Gender Trends

SUCHARITA SINHA, University of California-Riverside—The Conundrum ofDevelopment: Increasing Literacy and Female Disadvantage in Urban India

FARIDA C KHAN, University of Wisconsin-Parkside—Localizing Gender DevelopmentIndices: 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, Wartburg College, and GEOFFREY ALLEN, TD Ameritrade Canthe 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, Western Washington University

ARISTIDIS BITIZENIS, University of Macedonia, Greece and JOHN MARANGOS,

Colorado State University Globalization and Integration-Assisted Transition in Central and Eastern European

Discussant: WILLIAM BARNES, University of Portland

Jan 5, 10:15 am

ASE

Remembering Robert L Heilbroner, Social Economist

Presiding: INGRID RIMA, Temple University

ROBERT W DIMAND and ROBERT H KOEHN, Brock University 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's University 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 Rotterdam University

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 InstituteCLARK 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, Middlebury College

ANNE BOSCHINI, Stockholm University, and ANNA SJÖGREN, Research Institute of Industrial Economics Is Team Formation Gender Neutral? Evidence from CoauthorshipCAROLE 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, Tufts University Economics for Humans: Conscience, Care and

Commerce?

MALIHA SAFRI, University of Massachusetts-Amherst The Global Household:

Remittances, Household Production and Migration

Discussants: ULLA GRAPARD, Colgate University

JUNE LAPIDUS, Roosevelt University

Jan 5, 10:15 am

INEM

Plural Agency and Plural Subjects within Economics

Presiding: MARK D WHITE, College of Staten Island, City University of New York

JOHN B DAVIS, Marquette University 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, City University 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, James Madison University

GILBERT L SKILLMAN, Wesleyan University—Worker Bargaining Power and the

Business Cycle: Wage Dynamics in an Economy with Matching and Sequential BargainingROBERTO VENEZIANI, Queens Mary University, London—Microfoundations and

Discussants: AMITAVA KRISHNA DUTT, University of Notre Dame

BARKLEY ROSSER, James Madison University

Jan 5, 10:15 am

URPE

Brazil under Lula: Where Is It Headed? (P1)

Presiding: AL CAMPBELL, University of Utah

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, Wartburg College

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 California Sacramento The Global Transformation of Core-Banking Markets: A Polanyi/Commons View

Center-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, Monmouth University

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, Birkbeck College, 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, Westminster College 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 Mexico State University

Jan 5, 2:30 pm

ASE

Persons, Social Capital, and Sustainability

Presiding: EDWARD O'BOYLE, Louisiana Tech University

ALBINO BARRERA, Providence College 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, Empire State College A Quiet Revolution: Teachings and Actions on How to Humanize Economics

JOHN F TOMER, Manhattan College Intangible Capital and Economic Growth: A

Comprehensive and Unifying View

Discussants: DAVID GEORGE, LaSalle University

EDWARD O'BOYLE, Louisiana Tech University

Jan 5, 2:30 pm

HES

Adam Smith as Theologian (B1)

Presiding: JERRY EVENSKY, Syracuse University

PAUL OSLINGTON, University of New South Wales and Princeton Seminary The Natural Theological Context of Early Political Economy

BRENDAN LONG, Parliament House Canberra and Australian Catholic University Adam Smith as Theologian

DEIRDRE MCCLOSKEY, University of Illinois-Chicago and Erasmus University 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

Microfoundations in Heterodox Macroeconomics?

Discussants: PETER DORMAN, Evergreen College

GILBERT L SKILLMAN, Wesleyan University

YAVUZ YASAR, University of Denver—Gendered Epidemic and De-Gendered

Development: HIV/AIDS, Economic Development, and Sexuality in Cambodia

ESTHER REDMOUNT and MEGAN MCCALLISTER, Colorado College—AIDS and the Education of Girls in Swaziland with Particular Attention to Orphanages

MONICA DAS, Delhi University, India, and YAKUB QURAISHI, Secretary, Government ofIndia—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, Yale University

CECILIA CONRAD, Pomona College

Saturday, January 6, 2007Jan 6, 7:45 am

Presidential Breakfast

Presiding: JOHN P TIEMSTRA, Calvin College

DEBORAH M FIGART, Richard Stockton College of New Jersey—Social Responsibility and Living Standards

Jan 6, 8:00 am

AFEE

Coping under Changing Economic Circumstances (D6)

Presiding: GEOFFREY SCHNEIDER, Bucknell University

ROBERT H SCOTT III, Monmouth University 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, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, and ROBERT MCMASTER, University of

Aberdeen, UK Bankruptcy and (of?) Chicago School of Law and Economics – Toward an Institutional Economic Analysis of Law

JAMES PEACH, New Mexico State University 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, George Washington University—Illuminating Competing Visions of the Model-Empirics Nexus: Solow versus Lipsey et al JULIE A NELSON, Tufts University—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, American University

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, Evergreen College—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, Portland State University

PHILLIP J GRANBERRY and ENRICO MARCELLI, University of Massachusetts-Boston

—Mexican Immigrant Wages: Are Men’s and Women’s Social Capital Different?

ULLA GRAPARD, Colgate University—Immigration and the Danish Welfare State: Where are Women’s Voices?

Discussants: MARY KING, Portland State University

FARIDA C KHAN, University of Wisconsin-Parkside

MARIA FLORO, American University

Jan 6, 10:15 am

AFEE

Institutional Perspectives on Macroeconomic Policies (E1)

Presiding: CHARLES WHALEN, Perspectives on Work

FADHEL KABOUB, Drew University Institutional Adjustment Planning for Full

Employment

ZDRAVKA TODOROVA, Wright State University Institutional Analysis of Deficits and Theorizing

about Households and the State

DAVID ZALEWSKI, Providence College Alan Greenspan’s Legacy: Is There Anything for Institutionalists to Like?

ERIC TYMOIGNE, California State University-Fresno Asset Prices, Financial Fragility, andCentral 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 Maine Woods Land Use Policy Debate

THAMIR M SALIH, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania—Old Concepts, New

Perspectives on

Oil: An Application to Iraq’s Development