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IIPPE Training Workshop – Value and Price after Marx

Simon Mohun (Queen Mary University of London)

This episode is part 2 (of 2) of the morning session and part 2 (of 4) of the training workshop on ‘Value and Price after Marx’.

Simon Mohun will lead the workshop. In the morning session (10am to 1pm), the focus will be on a Marxist approach to the understanding of value and price. The afternoon session will provide a comprehensive survey of approaches to the ‘transformation problem’, for which a prerequisite is either (and preferably) the morning session or some prior knowledge of the issues involved. In both sessions the emphasis will be on interpretation and logic, rather than any underlying mathematics.

This Workshop will appeal to undergraduate and postgraduate students, junior academics and activists who have a particular interest in acquainting themselves with core elements of Marxian political economy.

Event Date:

27 March 2017

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IIPPE Financialisation Discussion Series

Ewa Karwowski (University of Hertfordshire)

The IIPPE Financialisation Working Group (IIPPE FWG) will discuss financialisation and related issues across various approaches to political economy. Please join us at SOAS for the monthly discussion series where we will engage with various topics. Each meeting will be opened by a member of IIPPE FWG with a brief introduction in light of few suggested readings and an open discussion will follow. The details of our second event in 2018 are listed below:

Suggested Readings:

Karwowski & Centurion-Vicencio (2018): Financialising the State - Recent Developments in Fiscal and Monetary Policy http://www.fingeo.net/financialising-the-state-recent-developments-in-fiscal-and-monetary-policy/

Trampusch, C. 2015. The Financialisation of Sovereign Debt: An Institutional Analysis of the Reforms in German Public Debt Management, German Politics, 24(2), 119-36

Pacewicz, J. 2012. Tax increment financing, economic development professionals and the financialization of urban politics, Socio-Economic Review, 11(3), 413-40

Organiser: IIPPE Financialisation Working Group (IIPPE FWG)

Event Date:

1 March 2018

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IIPPE Training Workshop – Value and Price after Marx

Simon Mohun (Queen Mary University of London)

This episode is part 1 (of 2) of the morning session and part 1 (of 4) of the training workshop on ‘Value and Price after Marx’.

Simon Mohun will lead the workshop. In the morning session (10am to 1pm), the focus will be on a Marxist approach to the understanding of value and price. The afternoon session will provide a comprehensive survey of approaches to the ‘transformation problem’, for which a prerequisite is either (and preferably) the morning session or some prior knowledge of the issues involved. In both sessions the emphasis will be on interpretation and logic, rather than any underlying mathematics.

This Workshop will appeal to undergraduate and postgraduate students, junior academics and activists who have a particular interest in acquainting themselves with core elements of Marxian political economy.

Event Date:

27 March 2017

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Prof Photis Lysandrou (City University of London), Prof Simon Mohun (Queen Mary University of London), Prof Jan Toporowski (SOAS).

IPPE financialisation working group invites you to a discussion on ‘Financialisation and the periodisation of capitalism’.

As the concept gains prominence within social sciences, debates arise about situating financialisation within the history of capitalism. Is financialisation a contingent product of the economic shifts of the 1970s and 1980s? Is it a long-run tendency of capitalism?

Join us for a discussion about these issues with Prof. Photis Lysandrou (City University of London), Prof. Simon Mohun (Queen Mary University of London), and Prof. Jan Toporowski (SOAS). The speakers will introduce their different viewpoints and discuss some theoretical implications concerning the incorporation of contextual aspects with respect to space and time, based on questions prepared by IIPPE financialisation working group. A general Q&A session will follow. The event is open to everyone, and is chaired by Dr Ulrich Volz, head of the department of Economics at SOAS.

Speaker(s): Prof. Photis Lysandrou (City University of London), Prof. Simon Mohun (Queen Mary University of London), Prof. Jan Toporowski (SOAS), Ulrich Volz (SOAS)

Organiser: IPPE Financialisation Working Group

Event Date:

25 April 2017

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IIPPE Training Workshop - Privatisation through Time and Space

Elisa Van Waeyenberge (SOAS) Jasmine Gideon (Birkbeck) Gabriela Alvarez (Birkbeck), Elaine Unterhalter (UCL) and Lynsey Robinson (Birkbeck),

IFIs, Neoliberalism and Knowledge Cluster (SOAS, University of London) and IIPPE Training Workshops present: Privatisation through Time and Space, an Interdisciplinary Workshop

Elisa Van Waeyenberge (SOAS) discusses privatization of social housing policy in development with an emphasis on the World Bank’s agenda with regards to social housing policy.

Jasmine Gideon (Birkbeck) and Gabriela Alvarez (not sure if Birkbeck) discusses the different phases of Neoliberalism in Chile and in particular the conservative resistance to reproductive rights policies in Chile and their link to privatization

Elaine Unterhalter (UCL) discusses the expansion of private involvement in mass education systems using the themes of gender, race and class inequalities and their bearings on education.

Lynsey Robinson (EQUIPPPS) discusses the Education Commission Report and the funding of education.

Participants will discuss how privatisation, broadly conceived as the promotion of private interests in the organisation of social and physical infrastructure, has changed during the ‘neoliberal period’. Central to these developments is how forms of financialisation made possible by privatisation and changing roles of the state have encouraged new forms of private sector involvement in provisioning, with important implications for social and economic reproduction. These developments may also be seen as a form of variegated policy transfer from the OECD to non-OECD countries, aided and abetted by international institutions, as well as a result of policy experimentation through state/finance nexuses.

Speaker(s): Gabriela Alvarez (Birkbeck), Jasmine Gideon (Birkbeck), Elaine Unterhalter (UCL) and Lynsey Robinson (Birkbeck), Elisa Van Waeyenberge (SOAS)

Event Date:

28 June 2017

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IIPPE Training Workshop - Privatisation through Time and Space

Ben Fine (SOAS University of London)

IFIs, Neoliberalism and Knowledge Cluster (SOAS, University of London) and IIPPE Training Workshops present:

Privatisation through Time and Space, an Interdisciplinary Workshop

Professor Ben Fine takes a long view on today’s privatization programmes examining the changing nature of state intervention in the economy. Privatization is discussed alongside the first, second and third phases of neoliberalism, whose scholarship, ideology and policy-in-practice form a particular world vision which shift over time, place, and issue.

Participants will discuss how privatisation, broadly conceived as the promotion of private interests in the organisation of social and physical infrastructure, has changed during the ‘neoliberal period’. Central to these developments is how forms of financialisation made possible by privatisation and changing roles of the state have encouraged new forms of private sector involvement in provisioning, with important implications for social and economic reproduction. These developments may also be seen as a form of variegated policy transfer from the OECD to non-OECD countries, aided and abetted by international institutions, as well as a result of policy experimentation through state/finance nexuses.

Speaker(s): Ben Fine (SOAS)

Event Date:

28 June 2017

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IIPPE Training Workshop - Anglo-Saxon Capitalism since the Financial Crisis

Simon Mohun (Queen Mary University of London)

Part 2 (of 2)

In this first of two sessions at the IIPPE Training Workshop on “Anglo-Saxon Capitalism since the Financial Crisis”, Trevor Evans discussed economic and financial developments in the United States. The International Initiative for Promoting Political Economy (IIPPE) held the Training Workshop on “Anglo-Saxon Capitalism since the Financial Crisis” at SOAS, London on 8 November 2017.

Speaker Biography:

After school in Leeds, Simon Mohun read Politics, Philosophy and Economics as an undergraduate at Balliol College, Oxford (1967-70). Following his BA, he remained at Balliol for the BPhil in Economics (1970-72). After a fixed term one year Lectureship in Economics at the University of Southampton (1972-3), he was appointed as Lecturer in Economics at Queen Mary in September 1973, where (apart from periods of leave) he remained. He gained his PhD from London University in 1990, and was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 1991. He spent the second half of the 1990s as Head of the Department of Economics. After a subsequent period of leave, in 2002 he transferred to the newly created Centre for Business Management, now the School of Business and Management at Queen Mary, where he was promoted to a chair in Political Economy in 2005. He retired from Queen Mary at the end of March 2011 to concentrate on his research, and was appointed Emeritus Professor of Political Economy.

Speaker(s): Simon Mohun (Queen Mary University of London)

Event Date: 8 November 2017

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IIPPE Training Workshop - Anglo-Saxon Capitalism since the Financial Crisis

Trevor Evans (Berlin School of Economics and Law)

Part 1 (of 2)

In this first of two sessions at the IIPPE Training Workshop on “Anglo-Saxon Capitalism since the Financial Crisis”, Trevor Evans discusses economic and financial developments in the United States. The International Initiative for Promoting Political Economy (IIPPE) held the Training Workshop on “Anglo-Saxon Capitalism since the Financial Crisis” at SOAS, London on November 8th, 2017.

Speaker Biography:

Trevor Evans is Professor for Monetary Theory, Monetary Policy and International Currency Relations at the Department of Business and Economics at the Berlin School of Economics and Law. He has a PhD in economics from the University of London. He worked for many years at the Regional Centre for Economic and Social Research (CRIES) in Managua, Nicaragua, and has been a professor of economics at the Berlin School of Economics since 2006. He is a member of the coordinating committee of the European Economists for an Alternative Economic Policy in Europe.

Speaker(s): Trevor Evans (Berlin School of Economics and Law), Simon Mohun (Queen Mary University of London)

Event Date: 8 November 2017

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