33rd PKES Annual Workshop

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Key information

Date
Time
10:00 am to 7:00 pm
Venue
SOAS University of London
Room
Khalili Lecture Theatre (KLT)
Event type
Conference

About this event

SOAS is hosting the 33rd Annual Workshop of the Post-Keynesian Economics Society.

The workshop will cover a wide range of contemporary topics, including financialisation, housing, industrialisation, macroeconomic policies, commodity markets and the environmental crisis.

Programme

TimeEventParticipants
10:00am - 12:00pmPanel 1
  • Rex A. McKenzie, Kingston University: Ground rent dynamics in residential housing markets in England -theoretical foundations
  • Christina Wolf, University of Hertfordshire: Between ‘long-neoliberalism’ and state-capitalist cures: East German de- and re-industrialisation since 1990
  • Josh Ryan-Collins, UCL: Monetary-fiscal policy coordination: Lessons from Covid-19 for the climate and biodiversity emergencies (with Katie Kedward and Hugues Chenet)

Chair: Maria Nikolaidi, University of Greenwich

12:00pm – 1:00pmLunch break 
1:00pm – 3:30pmPanel 2
  • Jo Michell, University of the West of England: PKES Annual Report
  • Sophie van Huellen, University of Manchester: The political economy of pricing and price risk in Ghana’s cocoa marketing system
  • Ewa Karwowski, King’s College: Financialisation and taxation: undermining democratic cohesion in South Africa (with Matt Barlow)
  • Carolyn Sissoko, University of the West of England: Is financial innovation market-driven or bank-driven? The case of private equity in the 1980s

Chair: Christina Wolf, University of Hertfordshire

3:30pm – 4:00pmCoffee break 
4:00pm – 6:00pmPanel 3
  • Eric Kemp-Benedict, University of Leeds: Bridging Kalecki and Kaldor with classical-evolutionary technological change
  • Özlem Onaran, University of Greenwich: The employment effects of public spending in infrastructure, the care economy and the green economy: The case of emerging economies (with Cem Oyvat)
  • Elena Almeida, LSE: Macroeconomic implications of deforestation and land use change

Chair: Yannis Dafermos, SOAS University of London

7:00pmDinner 

Header image credit: Matthew Smith via Unsplash.

Organising committee

  • Yannis Dafermos (SOAS - University of London)
  • Maria Nikolaidi (University of Greenwich)
  • Christina Wolf (University of Hertfordshire)