Events
Eurozone in Crisis: Reform or Exit?
Wednesday 02 June, 6-8pm, RMF and Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities Roundtable
Room B33, Birkbeck College, Mallet St. WC1
The event will explore themes from the widely read RMF report ‘Eurozone in Crisis: Beggar Thyself and Thy Neighbour’. It will also contribute to the debate on the social, political and economic aspects of the Eurozone crisis that was launched by the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities. Since the start of 2010 the Eurozone crisis has become progressively deeper, threatening the existence of the euro as well as the coherence of the European Union. The crisis poses questions of economic malfunctioning and austerity policies imposed on several European countries, but also of democracy and state relations within the European Union. The roundtable will consider these issues from a variety of radical perspectives.
Chair: Larry Elliott, Guardian Newspaper.
- Costas Lapavitsas, SOAS, ‘Reform or Exit from the Eurozone?”
- George Irvin, SOAS, ‘Costs and Benefits of Default’
- Costas Douzinas, Birkbeck, ‘The Politics of the Crisis’
- Stathis Kouvelakis, King’s College, ‘The Greek Crisis as a Crisis of the State”
- Alex Callinicos, King’s College, ‘The Eurozone and the Global Crisis’
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Mark Thomas’ sold-out show at the National Theatre on the causes of the current crisis
One Year on from the Panic of 2008: Whither Financialised Capitalism?
07 November 09, International Conference
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Financialised Capitalism and the International Crisis
- Gérard Duménil, National Centre for Scientific Research, Paris
- Gary Dymski, University of California Center Sacramento
- Costas Lapavitsas, SOAS, London
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Contemporary Finance, Regulation and the Real Economy
- Malcolm Sawyer, Leeds University Business School
- Jan Toporowski, SOAS, London
- Paulo L dos Santos, SOAS, London
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Varieties of Financialisation
- Engelbert Stockhammer, Vienna University of Economics and Business
- Trevor Evans, Berlin School of Economics
- Claude Serfati, University of Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines
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The Social Costs and Implications of Financialisation
- Karel Williams and Ismail Erturk, CRESC, Manchester
- Andrew Leyshon, University of Nottingham
- Robin Blackburn, University of Essex
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Financialisation and Developing Countries
05 November 2009, RMF Roundtable
- Labour and the Curious Case of Mexican Bank Resilience
Thomas Marois, SOAS - Global Integration of the Turkish Economy in the Era of Financialisation
Nuray Ergunes, Maltepe University, Turkey - Emerging Economy Central Banks and the Crisis of 2007-09
Juan Pablo Painceira, SOAS - Financialisation and Regulation: The Fate of Basle II
Sedat Aybar, Kadir Has University, Turkey
RMF Members Participate in Brazil Conferences
Between 9 and 12 June RMF members participated in the XIV National Conference of the Brazilian Society of Political Economy (SEP), hosted by the Pontifícia Universidade Católica of São Paulo. The SEP is among the most prominent associations of political economists in Latin America; its Conference is the most important heterodox research gathering in Brazil. This year the Conference was held in conjunction with IX Coloquio Latinoamericano de Economía Política and the V Coloquio de la Sociedad Latinoamericana de Economía Política y Pensamiento Crítico (SEPLA), giving the event a broad regional as well as topical scope.
Costas Lapavitsas, Paulo dos Santos and Juan Pablo Painceira addressed a plenary session of the Conference on “Financialisation and Crisis”, where they delivered papers drawing on RMF research. Discussion was lively and sharp, reflecting not only participants’ own views on financialisation and conerns about the crisis, but also interest in RMF work.
A second event held on 17 June at the Department of Economics at the Universidade Federal Fluminense, in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro. The event was co-hosted by the Núcleo Interdisciplinar de Estudos e Pesquisas Sobre Marx e o Marxismo (NIEP) and the Economics Postgraduate Faculty. Costas Lapavitsas and Paulo dos Santos offered presentations discussing theoretical questions that financialisation, contemporary banking, and the current crisis pose for Marxist political economy. Discussion was lively and drew from participants’ expertise in Marxist political economy, sociology and anthropology.
The entire trip to Brazil proved immensely productive. We were well received and discussions proved interesting, often sharp, and always fruitful. We look forward to ongoing research collaboration and academic exchanges with fellow critical political economists doing their work in Brazil.