---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: IDEAs Workshop On Reclaiming Development in the Age of Financial Globalization,Bilkent University, Ankara. 31 August - 3 September, 2005. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, May 26, 2005 12:46 pm To: "Anivar Aravind" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IDEAs Workshop On Reclaiming Development in the Age of Financial Globalization, Bilkent University, Ankara. 31 August - 3 September, 2005. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Organized by: International Development Economics Associates (IDEAs) http://www.networkideas.org Bilkent University Department of Economics http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~economics Program The workshop on Reclaiming Development in the Age of Financial Globalization is an intensive program covering theoretical and policy issues in the current international context. The aim of the workshop is to present critiques of existing theories as well to offer alternative analyses of current economic trends. It will be organized around three broad themes: (1) The economics of financial globalization and its implications for development macroeconomics; (2) the macroeconomics of stabilization and adjustment. (3) structures and mechanisms of the global economy and the economics of collective imperialism. The total working time of the workshop is 24 hours over four working days. The sessions will be in lecture format followed by open discussion. In addition, participants are also expected to attend the International Conference on Development Economics of the Turkish Social Sciences Association, to be held in the Middle East Technical University, Ankara, September 5-7, 2005. This will involve a total stay of 7 days. All courses are to be offered at the Bilkent University premises and will be taught in English. Participants will be hosted at the Bilkent University campus dormitories. Participants will be chosen from young economists who have completed or are close to completing their Ph.D. dissertations. In addition, individuals with a strong economics background involved in advocacy work with civil society organizations or engaged in policy making activities are welcome to apply. IDEAs will provide full funding for travel and accommodation to applicants from low-income developing countries and researchers from these countries are especially encouraged to apply. Applications should be accompanied with a recent version of the curriculum vitae and one letter of recommendation and should be sent to Professor Erinc Yeldan, Department of Economics, Bilkent University, 06580, Ankara TURKEY. Tel 90-312-2664807; Fax 90-312-2665140; E -mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or Professor Jayati Ghosh, IDEAs, c/o, Economic Research Foundation, 124 A/1 Katwaria Sarai, New Delhi 110016, INDIA; Tel +91- 11-26611235, +91 -11- 26850050; Fax +9111-26611764 E -mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] The deadline for applications is: 30 June 2005. Course Program: Wednesday, 31 August: Morning: Determinants of Neoliberal Financial Globalization. The two waves of globalization; the rise of finance and the demise of Fordist industrialization; the withering away of the concept of development. (Erinc Yeldan, Bilkent University, Ankara) Afternoon: Financial Liberalization, Currency Crises and Developing Countries Balance of Payments crises and developing countries; new generation crises under globalization and financial interdependence; issues of stabilization under hegemonic conditionality of international financial capital. (Yilmaz Aky�z - To Be Confirmed) Thursday, 1 September: Morning: The economics of financial flows at the global scale; the position of the developing countries in the new international division of labor; the dominance of finance and the sources of financial fragility; the rise of the rentier class (Gerald Epstein, University of Massachusetts, Amherst) Afternoon: The politics of development in the age of globalisation'. Development, post development and its social and political consequences; the politics/anti politics of populist regimes, and the crisis of development in global perspective. Pasuk Phongpaichit: Friday, 2 September Morning: The Dominance of Finance: Implications for the Global Economy: The hegemony of finance; the economics of the new imperialism; deflation and unemployment; sovereignty and the role of the nation state. (Prabhat Patnaik, Jawaharlal Nehru University) Afternoon: Changing Structures of National and International Finance and their implications. Shifts in international financial systems; monetary and fiscal policy interactions; the onset of contractionary economics; the expanded Washington consensus; austerity with central bank independence, inflation targeting. (C. P. Chandrasekhar, Jawaharlal Nehru University) Saturday, 3 September Morning: Interactions between international trade and finance and the effects on inequality: Recent changes in world trade patterns and their implications; capital flows and trade flows; uneven development and emerging patterns of inequality and poverty. (Jayati Ghosh, Jawaharlal Nehru University) Afternoon: An analytical framework to understand the current imbalances in the US and the implied financial burden for the world. (Alex Izurieta, Cambridge University) Personnel Program Director and Contact: Erinc Yeldan, Bilkent University. Instructors: Yilmaz Aky�z, Professor (To Be Confirmed) Gerald Epstein, Professor University of Massachusetts, Amherst. C.P. Chandrasekhar, Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. Jayati Ghosh, Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. Alex Izurieta, Cambridge University. Prabhat Patnaik, Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. Pasuk Phongpaichit, Professor, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. Erinc Yeldan, Professor, Bilkent University, Ankara. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IDEAs or the International Development Economics Associates is committed to building a pluralistic network of committed researchers, teachers and other economists interested in advancing progressive heterodox approaches to critically analysing and addressing the problems of economic development processes. Website: www.networkideas.org Your contributions and comments are welcome. Please email us at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --
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is: 30 June 2005. Personnel Gerald Epstein, Professor University of Massachusetts, Amherst. C.P. Chandrasekhar, Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. Jayati Ghosh, Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. Alex Izurieta, Cambridge University. Prabhat Patnaik, Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. Pasuk Phongpaichit, Professor, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. Erinc Yeldan, Professor, Bilkent University, Ankara. IDEAs or the International Development Economics Associates is committed to building a pluralistic network of committed researchers, teachers and other economists interested in advancing progressive heterodox approaches to critically analysing and addressing the problems of economic development processes.
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