International Development
Economics Associates will mark a decade of existence in 2011. This has
been a period of rapid change in the global economy. The need for analytically
sound and empirically grounded but creative heterodox economic thinking
that IDEAs was set up to encourage and propagate has become steadily more
apparent with the multiple crises in global and national economies. This
is also a time when people across the world are searching with greater
urgency for progressive economic alternatives to the current paradigms.
To celebrate the survival and expansion of IDEAs, and to look to the future,
IDEAs will organise a conference over 24-26 January, 2012 in Muttukadu,
Chennai, India.
The proposed conference intends to examine a range of issues, including
the following:
- Is a sustained recovery possible within the current global economic
architecture?
- Is the financial genie out of the box? Or is a capitalist trajectory
in which finance capital is regulated and reined in still a possibility?
- What are the forms and implications of the changing organisation
of global production (in both goods and services)?
- Where do ''emerging markets'' feature within these global production
shifts? How far has this transition gone, and what are the prospects
for the future?
- How has agricultural production been restructured and redistributed
across the globe? What dilemmas do these pose for development and how
will they be resolved?
- Assuming that the competition for resources is unlikely to moderate
in the near future, what implications does it have for the processes
of accumulation and for socio-economic conditions?
- Given the fears generated by economic and social circumstances and the needs created by demographic shifts, how would patterns of international migration change and evolve?
The programme of the conference follows below:
Day 1 : Tuesday, 24 January,
2012
Session I: Global Crisis: How deep and for
how long? (9:00 am- 11:00 am)
Moderator: Pronab Sen (Perspective Planning
Division, Planning Commission, New Delhi)
Panelists: Jan Kregel (Levy Economics Institute
of Bard College, New York)
Alex Izurieta (UN-DESA and University of
Cambridge, New York)
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Edward Fullbrook (World Economics Association,
Bristol)
Rohit (South Asian University, New Delhi)
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Session II: Can the Euro Hold? (11:15
am - 1:15 pm)
Moderator: Venkatesh
Athreya (M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, Chennai)
Panelists: Michael A Landesmann (Vienna Institute
of International Economic Studies, Vienna)
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Mario Tonveronachi (University of Siena,
Siena)
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Rainer Kattel (Tallinn University of Technology,
Estonia)
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Session III: The Future of Finance (2:15 pm
- 4:15 pm)
Moderator: Sushil Khanna (Indian Institute
of Management, Calcutta)
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Panelists: Sunanda Sen (Jamia Millia Islamia,
New Delhi)
Todd Tucker (Public Citizen's Global Trade
Watch, Washington D.C.)
C.P. Chandrasekhar (Jawaharlal Nehru University,
New Delhi)
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Session IV: Long-run Roots of the Crisis (4:30
pm - 6:30 pm)
Moderator: Amiya Bagchi (Institute of Development
Studies, Kolkata)
Panelists: Prabhat Patnaik (Jawaharlal Nehru
University, New Delhi)
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Erik S. Reinert (The Other Canon Foundation,
Norway & Talinn University of Technology, Estonia)
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Nobuharu Yokokawa (Musashi University, Tokyo)
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Day 2 : Wednesday, 25 January,
2012
Session I: The Agrarian and Food Crises (9:00
am - 11:00 am)
Moderator: Himanshu (Jawaharlal Nehru University,
New Delhi)
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Panelists: Timothy Wise (Global Development
and Environmental Institute (GDAE), Tufts University, Medford, Masachusetts)
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Utsa Patnaik (Jawaharlal Nehru University,
New Delhi)
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Vikas Rawal (Jawaharlal Nehru University,
New Delhi)
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Madhura Swaminathan (Indian Statistical Institute,
Kolkata)
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Session II: Competition for Resources (11:15
am - 1:15 pm)
Moderator: Amitabh Kundu (Jawaharlal Nehru
University, New Delhi)
Panelists: Praveen Jha (Jawaharlal
Nehru University, New Delhi)
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Smita Gupta (Institute for Human Development,
New Delhi)
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Parthapratim Pal (Indian Institute of Management,
Calcutta)
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Erik S. Reinert (The Other Canon Foundation,
Norway & Talinn University of Technology, Estonia)
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Session III: Is Decoupled Growth Possible
(2:15 pm - 4:15 pm)
Moderator: Sheila Bhalla (Institute for Human
Development, New Delhi)
Panelists: Abhijit Sen (Jawaharlal Nehru
University and Planning Commisssion, New Delhi)
Hendri Saparini (Econit Advisory Group, Jakarta)
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Juan Carlos Moreno Brid (Economic Commission
for Latin America (ECLAC), Mexico)
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Surajit Majumdar (Dr. B.R. Ambedkar University,
Delhi)
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Session IV: Changing Global Production Structures
(4:30 pm – 6:30 pm)
Moderator: Jayati Ghosh (Jawaharlal Nehru
University, New Delhi)
Panelists: Sumangala Damodaran (Dr. B.R.
Ambedkar University, Delhi)
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Vamsicharan Vakulabharanam (University of
Hyderabad,, Hyderabad)
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Ravi Srivastava (Jawaharlal Nehru University,
New Delhi)
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Day 3 : Thursday, 26 January, 2012
Session I: Challenges to Neoliberalism 1 (9:00
am - 11:00 am)
Moderator: K.N. Harilal (Centre for Development
Studies, Trivandrum)
Panelists: Chang Kyung-Sup (Seoul National
University, Seoul)
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Chirashree Dasgupta (Dr. B.R. Ambedkar University,
Delhi)
Saumyajit Bhattacharya (Kirorimal College,
Delhi Universityt, Delhi)
Rashed Al Mahmud Titumir (Unnayan Onneshan:
A centre for research and action on development, Dhaka)
Session II: Challenges to Neoliberalism 2 (11:30
am - 1:30 pm)
Moderator: Mridul Eapen (Centre for Development
Studies, Trivandrum)
Panelists: Alicia Puyana (FLACSO, Mexico)
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Prasenjit Bose (Research Unit, Communist
Party of India (Marxist), New Delhi)
Erinç Yeldan (Bilkent University,
Turkey)
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Mritiunjoy Mohanty (Indian Institute of Management,
Calcutta)
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