Call for papers

The goal of the Second Seminary of Heterodox Microeconomics at Mexico is to be a space of microeconomics analysis from a heterodox perspective. This seminary desire contributes to the investigation’s development, discussion and communication, between the researches community of who are working on the field of heterodox microeconomics: the monopoly, oligopoly, industry, firm, consumer, etc., and the microeconomic foundations.

The Second Seminary of Heterodox Microeconomics will be held at the Faculty of Economics, at UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MEXICO UNAM from 10th to 13th of October 2007. The deadline to accept papers is September 1 2007.

We are inviting to participate in this effort professors, researches, and intellectuals through essays, articles, and research concluded or in process in the field of the microeconomics.

The central subject of the Second Seminary of Heterodox Microeconomía is:

THE MONOPOLY, THEORY AND PRACTICE

The Seminary’s committee encourage to present paper dealing with theory and practice about monopoly, oligopoly, megacorporations, multinational firms. The paper can be developing issues theoretical or applied, in for example; Agro industry, mining, industry, services, banking system, telephony, etc.

The seminary will consider papers on the following fields of knowledge:

Inflation and growth
Definitions and general concepts of the microeconomics
Supply Theory and praxis
Demand Theory and praxis
Contributions to education and learning of the microeconomics from the perspective of the heterodox microeconomics.

Some other subject of relevance in the field of the microeconomics could be put under consideration of the committee.

In this Second Seminary, we emphasize that we are looking forward to create a space of discussion and analysis. This is the reason why the presentation of each subject will consist on a maximum of 30 minutes of presentation and 20 minutes of discussion, with the aim that the speaker will be beneficiates from observations of specialists on the subject.

The documents to submit can be:

theoretical or empirical, in process or finished
they must consist on maximum of 30 pages, double-spaced,
including an abstract of not more than 500 words by email. It will be in Spanish and English.

The participants are to submit their application by e-mail as soon as possible.

The documents presented in the seminary will be evaluated in order to publish them if it is possible in an anthology of works on heterodox microeconomics.

Last update: February 22nd, 2007