Also, I wonder to what extent there really is a 'crisis'. And to what extent this crisis, if it exists, began in january 09, or nov 08, or in 07... Some may not see the crisis as being so delimited (death row). And maybe its a personality crisis (new york dolls). We have maxed out credit, a failing auto industry for some reason, and then there is the view (New York times recently) GDP R.I.P. (Park all the cars, and see if global warming chills.)
If it was me, i'd do a panel on something like whether differential game theory and similars (theory of forcing and transfinite logics) have any application to the current situation (or crisis, for those who prefer) which is readily apparent both as a form of logical Occam's razor (clarity beyond say, biopower), and practical application. (I tend to think behavioral economics, which while as presently practiced is often analogous to general equilibrium theory/neoclassical economics and hence applied to the wrong problems (eg irrelevant trolley problems) may actually be the most relevant issue. Or theories of fairness and choice aggregation (Brams, Saari)). I may not feel the same now, but I used to look at RRPE and it actually seemed like it was stuck in a falling rate of profit. I did note one person did have a presentation on complexity theory in economics, which at the time seemed to me to be pretty much the most conveniant paradigm with
which to rephrase economics without really contradicting it. (Just as people have pointed out, while some (such as Sokal in his Transgressing the Boundarties, argue that chaos theory undermined belief in a deterministic newtonian clockwork universe, the fact is nobody was able to find the chaotic solutions to newton's laws before computers, so the universe already and always was chaotic, and nobody noticed, knew, or could really prove this (though poincare bassically noticed it.)) anyway. urpe alway reminds me of slurpee.
--- On Fri, 8/14/09, Julio Huato <juliohuato at gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Julio Huato <juliohuato at gmail.com>
> Subject: [lbo-talk] Call for Papers and Participants: URPE Conference on 10/24/09 in Brooklyn, NY
> To: "Marxist Debate" <marxist-debate at googlegroups.com>, pen-l at lists.csuchico.edu, "Lbo Talk Lbo Talk" <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org>
> Date: Friday, August 14, 2009, 11:33 AM
> Call for Papers and Participants -
> URPE Conference in Brooklyn, October 24, 2009
>
> The Union for Radical Political Economics (URPE) is
> sponsoring a
> one-day conference on the topic of "Economic Crisis:
> Radical Analysis
> and Radical Responses." The conference will take place at
> St. Francis
> College, Brooklyn. The day will be structured into
> two segments. The
> morning will focus on the economic and political roots of
> the current
> crisis in the capitalist system, while the afternoon will
> concentrate
> on the ways in which activists are responding to the
> crisis. (There
> is, of course, no firm line dividing the two.) Each segment
> will begin
> with a keynote speaker. Dr. David Harvey
> (Distinguished Professor,
> CUNY) will be the speaker in the morning, and Hon. Charles
> Barron (New
> York City Council) will introduce the afternoon
> segment. Following
> this, those attending the conference will be invited to
> participate in
> one of a set of workshops (workshops will be an hour and a
> half in
> length.)
>
> The conference will include lunch and an end-of-day
> cocktail party to
> allow for and encourage informal discussions.
>
> We are looking for people to act as workshop leaders.
> One possible
> format for a workshop would be the presentation of a formal
> paper, and
> graduate students in particular are invited to share their
> work with
> others. Alternatively, people could take on the
> responsibility of
> introducing and then structuring a discussion on one
> particular aspect
> of the crisis. Each segment of the conference would
> conclude with
> brief reports from each workshop to the conference as a
> whole.
> Proceedings of the conference will be posted on the URPE
> website.
>
> Proposals or questions regarding the conference should be
> sent to the
> conference organizers, Paddy Quick and Julio Huato:
> paddyquick at aol.com
> and jhuato at gmail.com.
>
> Please share this announcement with others.
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