This years’ conference theme concerns challenges to mainstream theories from the point of view of Political Economy. The financial crisis of 2008 was an embarrassment for most mainstream economists who did not expect it and had no explanation for why it had occurred. Economics has gone astray. It is now the right time to reinvestigate the nature of capitalism, and to rebuild basic theories of capitalism based on diverse approaches of political economics including Marxian political economy, the Post Keynesian models, institutional and historical schools, the Regulation school, analytical Marxism and so on. This annual conference will provide an important forum for debate among diverse points of view in Political Economy.
We will have 2 plenary sessions (one in Japanese and one in English) and 27 parallel sessions (21 in Japanese and 6 in English) in total 100 papers. You can find the Japanese version of the program on the conference website.
http://www.econ.hit-u.ac.jp/~taikaijspe/saturdaymorning.html
We are delighted to announce the following confirmed speakers:
The 2014 JSPE-Routledge Book Prize winner, Professor Samuel Bowles (the Santa Fe Institute): The Book Prize promotes the study of heterodox economics throughout the world with the aim of challenging the dominant position of orthodox neoclassical and neo-liberal economics among economists and policy-makers.
Professor Amitava Dutt (University of Notre Dame)
Professor Simon Mohun (Queen Mary University of London)
Professor Peter Skott (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
JSPE invites participants for the conference.
Application: when submitting your application to Jspecice2014@jspe.gr.jp, please include: name and academic affiliation; E-mail and postal address.
Cost: Conference fee is 1000 yen. If you want have conference dinner and/or lunch box please let me know. Conference dinner costs 5000 yen. The lunch box costs 1000 yen per lunch box.
Registration: You can pay your conference fee at the registration desk of the conference.
Travel information: Hitotsubashi University is located in West Tokyo. http://www.hit-u.ac.jp/eng/
Direction: http://www.hit-u.ac.jp/eng/about/direction/index.html
You can find many hotels through internet (for example Expedia http://www.expedia.co.jp/) either in Tachikawa which is the nearest to the venue or in Shinjyuku which is the center of Tokyo.
The Japan Society of Political Economy (JSPE) http://www.jspe.gr.jp/en_cfp2015
Contact: Prof. Nobuharu Yokokawa (Chairman of the JSPE International Committee)
E-mail: Jspecice2014@jspe.gr.jp, yokokawa@cc.musashi.ac.jp
Postal Address: c/o Prof. Masao Ishikura, Faculty of Economics, Hitotsubashi
University, 2-1 Naka, Kunitachi, Tokyo 186-8601 Japan
Tel: +81(0)42-580-8000