CO-ORGANIZERS: ANDREW KLIMAN AND ALAN FREEMAN
FIFTH ANNUAL MINI-CONFERENCE
AT THE EASTERN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE
FEBRUARY 27-MARCH 1, 1998
CROWNE PLAZA MANHATTAN HOTEL, NEW YORK CITY
MINI-CONFERENCE PROGRAM
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FRIDAY, FEB. 27, 9 am
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SESSION A: New Developments in Temporalist Value Theory
Paolo Giussani, Independent Economist.
"Response to Dumenil/Levy's 'Productivity Paradox'"
Andrew Kliman, Pace University.
"Simultaneous Valuation and the Exploitation Theory of Profit are
Incompatible"
Eduardo Maldonado-Filho, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul.
"Competition and the Equalization of Industry Profit Rates: The Evidence for
the Brazilian Economy, 1973-85"
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SESSION B: Value Dynamics 1: Accumulation, Circuits, and Cycles
Piruz Alemi, Independent Economist, and Duncan Foley, Barnard College of
Columbia University.
"The Circuit of Capital, U.S. Manufacturing, and Nonfinancial Corporate
Business Sectors, 1947-1993"
Ghassan Dibeh, LAU-Byblos.
"The Kalecki-Frisch Debate and Rise of Modern Business Cycle Theory"
Alan Freeman, University of Greenwich.
"Endogenous Profit Rate Cycles: Why I Think Marx Was Right"
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FRIDAY, FEB. 27, 11 am
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PLENARY #1: Post-Keynesian and Non-equilibrium Marxist Perspectives on Value
Theory
Alan Freeman, University of Greenwich.
"What Happens in Recessions? A Value-theoretic Approach to Liquidity
Preference"
Roy Rotheim, Skidmore College.
"Involuntary Unemployment in a Monetary Theory of Value"
L. Randall Wray, Jerome Levy Economics Institute and University of Denver.
"Keynes's Two Theories of Value"
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FRIDAY, FEB. 27, 2 pm
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SESSION A: Abstract, Concrete, and Domestic Labor
Ann Davis, Marist College.
"The Contradiction of the Abstract and the Concrete in Marx's *Capital*, with
Particular
Application to Women"
Thomas Masterson, University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
"Household Labour, the Value of Labour Power and Capitalism"
Engelbert R. Stockhammer, University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
"Exploitation in a Dual-System Economy: An Application of the Labor Theory of
Value to Capitalist and Domestic Exploitation"
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SESSION B: Value Dynamics 2: Capitalist Macrodynamics
Robert Burns, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
"Rethinking the Law of the Tendency for the Rate of Profit to Fall"
Andrew Kliman, Pace University.
"Capitalist Macrodynamics Without Capitalist Value?"
David Laibman, Brooklyn College, CUNY.
"Technical Change, Structural Change, and the Profit Rate"
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FRIDAY, FEB. 27, 4 pm
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PLENARY #2: Labor and Value
Antonio Callari, Franklin and Marshall College.
"Labor and Community: Ontology and Politics"
Ted McGlone, St. Joseph's College.
"Is Value Determined by Labor-Time or by Use-Value?"
Bertell Ollman, New York University.
"Marx's Labor (Alienated) Theory of Value: What Does It Add to Stress this
Alienation?"
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SATURDAY, FEB. 28, 9 am
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SESSION A: Money and Value
Piruz Alemi, Independent Economist, and Salim Khan, New School for Social
Research. "Forms of Money and Laws of Monetary Circulation: On the Origin of
Controversies in Modern Credit Theory"
Antonio Callari, Franklin and Marshall College.
"One Marxist View of Money and Interest"
Claus Magno Germer, Universidade Federal do Parana.
"Credit Money and the Functions of Money in Capitalism"
Abelardo Marina-Flores, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana-Azcapotzalco, and
Mario Robles-Baez, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana—Xochimilco.
"A Critique of Benetti and Cartelier's Critical Examination of Marx's Theory
of Money"
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SESSION B: The Nature of Capitalism
David Andrews, Cazenovia College. "Commodity Fetishism as a Form of Life"
Paresh Chattopadhyay, Universite de Quebec a Montreal.
"Capitalism as Socialism: Defense of Socialism in the Socialist Calculation
Debate Revisited. A Marxian Point of View"
Clark Everling, Empire State College.
"Connecting the Links in the Value Chain"
Gloria L. Zuniga, State University of New York at Buffalo.
"The Theory of Subjective Value Reconsidered"
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SESSION C: Quantitative Value Analysis 1
Edward Chilcote, New School for Social Research.
"Vertical Integration and Classical Economic Theory"
Rafat Fazeli, University of Redlands.
"The Economic Impact of the Welfare State and the Social Wage: The British
Experience"
Thanasis Maniatis, Centre of Planning and Economic Research, and Lefteris
Tsoulfidis, University of Macedonia.
"The Deviation Of Labor Values From Production Prices And Market Prices:
Theory And Evidence From Greece"
Alejandro Valle Baeza, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico.
"A Comparison of Price-Value Correspondences between Mexico and U.S.
Manufacturing Industries"
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SATURDAY, FEB. 28, 11 am
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PLENARY #3: The Internal (In)Consistency of Marx's Value Theory
Andrew Kliman, Pace University.
"The Significance of the 'Internal Inconsistency' Allegations"
Gary Mongiovi, St. John's University.
"Non-Equilibium Marxism: A Sraffian Perspective"
Barkley Rosser, James Madison University.
"Statics and Dynamics in Value Theory"
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SATURDAY, FEB. 28, 2 pm
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SESSION A: Capital and Interest
Francisco Paolo Cipolla, Universidade Federal do Parana.
"Interest Rate Changes in Marx's Theory of the Industrial Cycle"
Alejandro Ramos Martinez, Independent Economist.
"New Evidence on Marx's Concepts of Cost-price, Value, and Production Price"
Richard J. Torz, St. Joseph's College.
"A Real Production Critique of Capital Asset Pricing"
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SESSION B: Value, Price and Competition
Dave Kristjanson, University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
"Marxian Price Dynamics: A Short-run Approach"
Etelberto Ortiz Cruz, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana—Xochimilco.
"The Theory of Competition as a Step for the Construction of the Theory of
Value"
Lenin Rojas Olivas, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana.
"Value is the Mean of Price"
Daniel Villalobos Cespedes, Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica.
"The Political Economy of Prices and Production"
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SATURDAY, FEB. 28, 4 pm
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SESSION A: Crisis and Profitability in Mexico
Paul Cooney, Queens College Center for the Biology of Natural Systems.
"The Impact of the Mexican Crisis of 94-95 on the Maquiladora Industry"