Political Economy

Der. Ali Murat Özdemir. Çalışmaya katkı sunan diğer yazarlar Ali Murat Özdemir, Ayşe Cebeci, Ebubekir Aykut, Emre Soran, Engin Sune, Muhammed Kürşad Özekin, Göksu Uğurlu. Girişten: <<Kansu Yıldırım’ın çalışması Tunus bağlamında mevcut gerilimlerin kuramsal parametrelerini incelemeye devam ediyor. “Arap Baharı” teriminin sınıfsal içeriği bütün kitap için geçerli bir kuramsal katkı olarak yazarın çalışmasının ilk alt-başlığını oluşturuyor. Siyasal arka-planı ele alan ikinci alt-başlık Tunus araştırmaları için önemli bir tarihsel döküm vermekte iken üçüncü alt-başlık Tunus’ta mevcut devletin neo-liberal talepleri karşılamak konusundaki yapısal sınırlarını (ve özgünlüklerini) tarihsel süreç içerisinde ele alıp somut olaylar bağlamında sergiliyor. Sayılanlar dışında çalışmanın iki hususta yaptığı vurguyu da burada belirtmek gerekir: Bunlardan ilki ilkel birikim süreçleri üzerindeki teorik titizlenme ikincisi ise kitap boyunca sıklıkla kullanılmakta olan düzenleme teriminin kuramsal içeriğinin tespitidir. Düzenleme Okulu’nun ilk dönem kuramcıları tarafından ortaya konulan haliyle düzenleme, kapitalist üretim ilişkilerinin yeniden üretimiyle sonuçlanan -yegâne kaynağı siyasal iktidar olmayan- öznesiz bir sürece karşılık gelmektedir. Düzenleme ilgili toplumsal formasyonun tarihsel özelliklerine bağlı olarak biçimlenir. Bu bağlamda, Kolektif Emperyalizm ancak geçmiş düzeneklerin sunduğu imkân ve sınırlılıklar bağlamında işleyen (Jessop’un terimiyle patika bağımlılık da denilebilir) süreçlere dayanarak kendi dönüştürücü taleplerini öne sürmektedir. Yazarın bitirdiği gibi bitirir isek: “[Politika yaparken] Kritik nokta, Tunus’taki doğrudan yabancı yatırımları tehlikeye atmadan farklı toplumsal sınıfların desteğini alacak politik iktidarı tesis edebilmektir. Bu nedenle hegemonik güç yarışındaki ülkeler için, sosyalist bir alternatif hariç, kapitalist çizgide yer almak ve Körfez tarafından ihraç edilen çelişkilerin alıcısı olmamak koşuluyla tüm otoriter, otokratik, despotik, diktatöryel seçenekler kabul edilebilirdir [yeter ki devlet biçiminde gerekli dönüşümlerin başlatıcısı olsunlar]. Kolektif emperyalist dizaynın şu an için ucu açıktır”.>>

Call for Conference Papers, Speakers and Participants
The Green Economics Institute

Celebration Invitation


10th  Anniversary,
10th Annual Green Economics Institute, Green Economics 3 Day Conference to be held at Christchurch College, Trinity College, and Earth Sciences and the Economics  Departments  at Oxford University

March 21st - 25th  2015

Rebalancing and Reforming  Finance, Banking, Economics and the Economy

To halt the rolling Tide of Climate Change, Halt the Mass Extinction of Species, Prevent Poverty and create an inclusive future looking economy for the benefit of  all the worlds people, nature, other species and the planet.
To challenge the narrow scope, core  and assumptions of mainstream economics and use holistic, inclusive and interdisciplinary explanations, instruments, and tools.
      To reform mainstream and neo classical economics to provide equal access for all, whilst providing academic rigour of the highest standards in terms of new thinking in philosophy, methodology and ontology for economics. (Tony Lawson Cambridge University Economics tutor and writer believes we are leading change by example in this respect.)
    To found an inclusive, and progressive economics discipline based equally on environmental and social justice and on diversity which comfortably includes data and learning from other disciplines. We have managed to do this in the first 10 years of the Institute.
      We  return to the fundamentals, basing economics on oikia, which means household or estate management. Indeed, the Earth is the household on which we all depend.
    The four pillars of Green Economics, in a framework of social and moral underpinning:  Policymaking, Campaigning, Business, Academic
Challenges we face ahead:  The world is undergoing social and environmental change and a global shift in power. Wealth is accumulating in fewer hands. Democracy is under threat. Globalisation has led to production being mainly in sweatshops in the East. The European Economy has been hollowed out.
The Green Economics Institute is an independent, international, networking body, working on the core philosophies of economics & ecological reality.
We are calling for papers, speakers, workshops and participants and please feel free to recommend other ideas. We are particularly keen to encourage new and non standard speakers as well as more experienced participants. Everyone is very welcome.

Call for Papers: Invitations to write
Publishing in our Academic Proceedings
Committee Approval















We are having a special academic committee for each of our publications. Please email us if you would like to be part of one of the committees or if you would like to write for the publication or to join its management or editorial committee 

International Journal of Green Economics
All participants are invited to submit papers for the special academic proceedings we produce which are lodged with the British Library. The best are also invited to be published in our books and some are invited to be submitted to our double blind peer reviewed academic journal as well as our new Open Source Academic Journal for the Launch at the Conference.

Publishing in our Brand new Open Source Journal
The launch of our new Open source journals will take place at the conference- and if you wish to publish in them please email now to let us know.

Publishing in our Members Magazine The Green Economist special commemorative issue 10th anniversary -please send in articles, photos pictures ideas for this

Publishing in our books
We are also offering to publish 2 new  collated contributed volume of speakers books as a direct result of the conference and the papers will need to be different to those in the academic journals.

Call for Reports
We are calling for Reports  on the state of the worlds economy, climate,equality and Biodiversity to be on our relaunched website which is now attracting 10,000 visitors a week ! And well over 3 million people have visited us. Most of them in this present year!These reports will be published by the Green Economics Institute on line and in print.


Citations
Many of our regular participants gain at least 3 citations from the conference- sometimes more with relevant papers which can go into several books. If you are unsure please just email to ask how it works. All paid up conference participants will receive a Proceedings document on arrival at the conference with lots of really useful and topical papers and ideas, usually 300 pages to use for their work or study.

Instructions
The papers must be in .doc or open source .odt- ( all our papers and all our books are produced using open source IT) and must include 5 lines of your biography at the front and your name and contact details and the title of the piece.




Please book with Hilary Driver our Conferences Director

For registration, reservations, papers, fees etc please email greeneconomicsinstitute@yahoo.com    www.greeneconomics.org.uk

The Revista de Ciencias Políticas y Relaciones Internacionales (Journal of Political Science and International Relations) is an academic journal published by the Universidad de Las Américas. We are receiving papers until January 1st, 2015, for consideration in the fourth volume of the journal.

The themes are open, but must be relevant to the study and practice of Political Science and/or International Relations. Articles are accepted in either Spanish or English. Inquire for more details about the publication and articles norms.

This paper will consider the political nature of the discourses of responsibility for tax avoidance and benefit-claiming. Section 1 will begin by establishing a theoretical framework for understanding the social-democratic capitalist state, building on Bonefeld’s (2012) analysis of ordoliberalism. This framework will posit that the social-democratic state requires the economy to function optimally in order to best fulfil its telos, or raison d’être. Following this, it will show that benefits recipients and tax avoiders are both groups that undermine the optimal coordination of the state economy (according to the framework constructed).  Section 2 will then consider the discourses regarding both of these sub-sections of society, concluding that the issues of tax avoidance and unemployment are both depoliticised, but in different ways. This section will suggest that these depoliticisations unjustly put more responsibility on benefits recipients. Finally, Section 3 will consider why the state chooses to do this.

Foreign aid in this era has become central on the agenda of policy makers. During the UN 2010 Millennium Goals Summit for instance, evaluation and accountability of aid was accentuated to extend assistance for developing countries to help tone down entrenched poverty. The transfer of funds from one country to another as a form of assistance, however is brimming with disagreements as different groups have diverse views on foreign aid issues. Protagonists of foreign aid maintain that, aid stimulates and precipitates growth and institutional reforms in various developing countries. Antagonist analysts, on the other hand, assert that, aid debilitates institutions of most developing countries, exacerbates corruption, escalates bureaucracy and widens the gap between the haves and the have-nots among other inimical quandary. In this paper, foreign aid has been defined as the transfer of money, goods and services from one country to another. It further expands that, foreign aid gained prominence during and following World War II when aid was primarily used to help rebuild the economies of Western Europe. Subsequently, Sub-Saharan Africa has absorbed almost one trillion in nominal aid dollars over the last fifty years but the growth record is not admirable (Mayo, 2009 and Easterly, 2006). According to the UN Policy Brief No.1 in October 2010, “Africa received a greater share at 36% of total global aid than any part of the world. Over the past four decades, aid to Africa has quadrupled from around US$11 billion to US$ 44 billion with net increase of almost US $10 billion during the period 2005 -2008 alone” (UN, 2010).
Another corollary is that, the record of aid to Africa from 1960 and 1997 has been a horrendous failure as more than $500 billion in foreign aid which is equivalent to four Mashall Plans pumped to Africa has created dependence instead of development. Some countries like Malaysia, Taiwan, Israel and Egypt also relied heavily on foreign aid for development. One may then ask: is foreign aid still relevant today? This paper, through underscoring aid’s contributions

In the otherwise rich debate on the eastward expansion of the Eurozone, fragmented approaches prevail, leaving several conceptual avenues of this process underexplored. The case of Poland – initially a fervent enthusiast of the euro adoption and a somewhat assertive endorser today – offers in this context an opportunity to add to the debate and deepen our understanding of the logic behind eastward expansion of the Eurozone. In what follows, Poland’s prospective Eurozone entry is examined from the broader angle of the historically determined conceptual and policy-making context of systemic transition. To this end, a conceptual nexus between Eurozone expansion and transition is established and examined through the historical institutionalist perspective. It is argued that rather
than being solely a function of Poland’s EU membership, both the decision to adopt the euro and the attainment of real and nominal convergence are predominantly a function of the, as yet unfinished, transition process. Interestingly, as this paper suggests, the inconsistency inherent in the execution of the Maastricht convergence criteria not only creates disincentives that effectively delay Poland’s Eurozone entry but also triggers reform-drift and backsliding, thus casting a shadow on the prospect of the completion of the Polish transition and its sustainability.

Essays on a Theory of Afrikan Socio-political Economic Liberation with an Exposition on the first Black War of National Liberation: Kushite KMT/Kemet & the Expulsion of the Kushite Kanaanite Hyksos c. 2681-2706 KC [c. 1560-1535 BCE]!

Government is a basic institution of organized socio-political economic society and as such has a moral impact on all members of the society irrespective of their social standing or ethnic origin. As government is perhaps the ultimate result of group compromise and negotiation it is the one social institution growing out of the social interaction that must be amenable to changes in the social body composition; failure to do so equitably will lead inevitably to social dissolution. It is the express intentionality of this paper to delineate the ancient idea that under an oppressive, arbitrary government the citizens of the nation who are so bedeviled have the moral obligation to replace that government with a more egalitarian system of socially based rule.

The 2012 election campaign popularized the notion that
people who benefit from federal spending vote for Democrats, while people who pay the preponderance of taxes vote Republican.  A survey conducted during the election included questions to test this hypothesis and to assess the accuracy of voters’ perceptions of federal spending.  Voters’ perceptions of their benefit from federal spending are determined by family income, age, employment status, and number of children, as well as by party identification and race. Voters aged 65 and older who believe they are net beneficiaries of federal spending are more likely to be Democrats and vote for Barack Obama than seniors
who believe they are net contributors to the federal government.
However, the 77.5 percent of voters under age 65 who believe they are net beneficiaries of federal spending are as likely to vote for Romney as for Obama and as likely to be Republicans as Democrats.  Voters who live in states that receive more in federal funds than they pay in federal taxes are less likely to vote for Obama or to be Democrats.  For most of the electorate, dependence on federal spending is unrelated to vote choice.