Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Facultad de Economía
3er. Seminario de Microeconomía Heterodoxa
Call for Papers
The community of teachers and researchers from national and international universities are invited to participate in this seminar by sending individual papers or panels formed with specific issues related to heterodox microeconomics perspective.
Basis
The global economic and financial crisis has led to strong questioning of the underlying and supporting economic policy and macroeconomic theory; however in this international discussion it is also important to critically analyze microeconomic theory: it supports the macroeconomics and economic policy implemented in different countries. From both a theoretical and applied point of view, the overall theme of reflection in this conference is the area of Microeconomics.
In the colleges and universities in Mexico and the world, teachers and researchers are committed to reflecting and processing our teaching experience and microeconomics research, expressed in a continuous review of the content and methods of teaching. For this reason we wish to invite academics, researcher and policy experts to contribute essays and papers focused on teaching Microeconomics and Pluralism.
The plurality gives rise to a knowledge that transcends the monopoly of a partial vision of the world and its functioning; it offers alternatives for students, so the specialist in economy can think and choose among different ways of understanding economic processes, and select the most appropriate. The plurality in the content and teaching of microeconomics among other qualities, allows developing research capabilities and knowledge of the students we are educating in our universities. In this 4th SMH, we are looking to debate the monopoly of neoclassical microeconomics.
I. Themes
The 4th SMH is address to all the traditional areas of theoretical, applied, and policy research covered by heterodox approaches to microeconomics.
This year we especially encourage papers or panel proposals in the:
Pluralism and microeconomic education
Submissions of individual abstracts or panel proposals along other themes are welcomed:
- Microeconomics and interdisciplinarity
- Microeconomic methodology
- Microeconomics and philosophy
- The ethics of microeconomics
- Foundation of monopoly of the teaching of neoclassical microeconomics
- History of orthodox and heterodox microeconomic thought
- Microeconomics and evolutionary theory
- Regulationism and microeconomics
- Post-Keynesian analysis and microeconomics
- Sraffa Production theory and microeconomics
- Microeconomics and institutionalism
- Mainstream microeconomics
- The microeconomics relation between Post Keynesian, Marxian, Institutionalist, and Sraffian economics
- Controversies in microeconomics:
- Cost controversy,
- Full cost pricing controversy,
- Administered prices/inflexible prices controversy
- Firm and microeconomics
- Firm, innovation and microeconomics
- Microeconomics of innovation
- The role of the profit markup in investment and effective demand at the level of the firm and industry
- Labor process and market control of competition (cartels, price leadership, etc.)
- Microeconomics and economic cycles
- Microeconomics of banking operation
- The Heterodox microeconomics and financial crisis
- The financing of firm and their weight in the production cost
- Keynes, Post Keynesians and the employment at the level of the business enterprise and industry.
- The heterodox approach to the determination of the price, price theory and wage rate.
- Industry, unemployment, and structural change as elements of the theory of effective demand.
II. A theme proposal should provide:
- An appeal for submissions to a consistent set of panels of no more than 500 words;
- A short title for the theme (no more than 10 words);
- The name of panel organizers or organizer, together with contact details;
- A brief description of the peer review process which the theme organizers will apply.
Deadline for abstracts: September 30th, 2012
Authors will be notified by a letter of acceptance (or not) to the seminar 48 hours after receiving the proposal, so it is encouraged to send your abstract as soon as possible.
III. The papers must have the following characteristics:
- A maximum of 30 double-spaced pages.
- A maximum one-page summary in English and Spanish.
Dead line for papers: October 22th, 2012.
Online submission:
The Faculty of Economics will fund the event, but registration is $10 Dollars.
And the cost of dinner is 30 dollars to be paid at the time of registration.