Hi Jerry.

I am organising in December a conference on Rosa Luxemburg. If you find it worthwhile, you may communicate the programme as it is now to the list. Of course, people willing to come and listen are welcome. Since there were some people who had to renounce participation, the conference has even some room for more papers to be presented. So, if by chance there are some people having ready good work on Luxemburg (unfortunately, no possibility to pay the travel), they can send me a proposal in the usual format. After the preliminary programme below, under the heading "missing papers", people may find the topics which were originally on the programme, and now are not because speakers had to decline the invitation, topics on which I am particularly interested in contributions.

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Like a candle burning at both ends.
Rosa Luxemburg and the Critique of Political Economy
Department of Economics
Faculty of Economics
University of Bergamo
Bergamo, 16-18 December 2004
Bergamo, Italy



Thursday December 16
 
RICCARDO BELLOFIORE (University of Bergamo, Italy)
Rosa Luxemburg on Capitalist Dynamics, Distribution, and Effective Demand Crises

PAUL ZAREMBKA (University of Buffalo, USA)
The Production of Value in Light of Rosa Luxemburg's Legacy
FIRST ROUND-TABLE
Rosa Luxemburg: the woman, the revolutionary

EDOARDA MASI
(Istituto Orientale, Napoli, Italy)
MARIA GRAZIA MERIGGI (Università di Bergamo, Italy)
SECOND ROUND-TABLE
Workers struggles, Social Movements, the Party and the Critique of Capitalism: Which Actuality for Rosa Luxemburg at the Beginning of the XXI century?

GIANNI RINALDINI
(General Secretary of FIOM-CGIL, Italy)
FAUSTO BERTINOTTI (Secretary of Rifondazione Comunista, Italy)
LUCIO MAGRI (Editor of La rivista del manifesto, Italy)


Friday December 17

TADEUSZ KOWALIK (Institute of Economics of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland)
Rosa Luxemburg and Michal Kalecki: two similar concepts of capitalism

JOSEPH HALEVI (University of Sydney, Australia)
Rosa Luxemburg and Paul M. Sweezy on militarism and globalisation

ANDREW B. TRIGG (Open University, Milton Keynes, UK)
Where does the money come from? Rosa Luxemburg and the Marxian Reproduction Schema

JAN TOPOROWSKI (University of Cambridge, UK)
Rosa Luxemburg and finance

HE PING (Department of Philosophy, Wuhan University, The People's Republic of China)
Rosa Luxemburg¹s The Accumulation of Capital: East and West

ROBERTO VENEZIANI:
Rosa Luxemburg on Imperialism: Some Issues of Substance and Method

PAUL MATTICK jr (Adelphi University, New York, USA)
Economics, Politics and Crisis Theory: Luxemburg, Bukharin and Grossmann on the Limits of Capital

ANDREA PANACCIONE (Fondazione Brodolini, Roma, Italy)
Luxemburg on Trade Unions and the Party. The Polemics with Kautsky and Lenin: An Assessment


Saturday December18

MICHAEL KRAETKE (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Rosa Luxemburg's Theory of Wages

RICCARDO BELLOFIORE (University of Bergamo, Italy) - GIOVANNA VERTOVA (University of Bergamo, Italy) -:
A Forgotten Thread: Rosa Luxemburg on Small Firms and Innovation

MEGHNAD DESAI (LSE, London, UK) - ROBERTO VENEZIANI (LSE, London, UK)
Rosa Luxemburg¹s Critique of Marx¹s Schemes of Reproduction: A Re-evaluation and a Possible Generalisation


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"Missing" papers


Accumulation and effective demand: Rosa Luxemburg and Joan Robinson
Globalisation and Developing Country Markets:  Relevance of Luxemburg to current debates
Rosa Luxemburg's Influence on the Latin American Theories of Development, Dependence, and Imperialism: Reassessing the Debate with a New Perspective
What is Economics? Rosa Luxemburg on the End of Political Economy

Dialectics of Communal Forms: Recently Discovered Writings by Rosa Luxemburg on Pre-Capitalist Societies

The Accumulation of Capital for the 21st Century: Rosa Luxemburg and the New Frontiers of Political Economy


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Riccardo Bellofiore
Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche
"Hyman P. Minsky"
Università di Bergamo
Via dei Caniana 2
I-24127 Bergamo, Italy
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