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One Belt – One Road [OBOR] – One World
One Belt – One Road – One World –
Digitisation of Life as Chinese Lifestyle?
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New publications by Peter Herrmann, currently guest researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy/Max-Planck-Institut für Sozialrecht und Sozialpolitik [section social law], Munich, Germany, are now on the way or already at the printer, waiting for final publication:
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European Economists for an Alternative Economic Policy in Europe |
| Call for Papers and Participation
24th Annual Conference on Alternative Economic Policy in Europe 10 years into the crisis – What prospects for a popular political economy in Europe? extended SUBMISSION-Date: 31.5.2018 |
| Dear colleagues
This year’s EuroMemo Group conference will be jointly hosted with the University of Helsinki and will take place on 27-29 September 2018 (Thursday-Saturday) at the University of Helsinki. Against the background of an increasingly alarming influence of right-wing nationalist and populist forces, the conference wants to facilitate discussion on progressive ideas, concepts and policies, on how to reconstruct a political integration project in Europe that is responsive to the economic and social needs of all groups and people affected by the severe economic crisis of the last ten years, and in particular of workers, the unemployed, the precariat, migrants and other vulnerable groups, also in a gender perspective. The programme will be as follows: Thursday, September 27th 201 15.00 – 19.00 Opening plenary on the state of the Union 20.00 Conference Dinner Friday, September 28th 2018 10.00 – 13.30 Workshops on key themes of EU policy 14.30 – 16.00 Plenary on policy proposals from workshops 16.15 – 18.00 Special plenary on the conference topic ’10 years into the crisis – What prospects for a popular political economy in Europe?’ Saturday, September 29th 2018 09.00 – 12.00 Planning meeting: EuroMemorandum 2019 and other activities There will be a public event prior to the conference on September 27th 2018: 13.00 – 14.30 ‘The future of the EMU’ (organised by the University of Helsinki) |
| We would like to invite you to attend the conference and to submit proposals for contributions to the workshops.
All papers that present an original perspective on the conference theme ’10 years into the crisis – What prospects for a popular political economy in Europe?’ are welcome. In particular, we encourage submissions that relate to recent European developments and are specific to one of the following topics – Macroeconomic and financial policies – Politics of structural reforms: critique and alternatives – Economic and political divergences in the EU – Social policies in Europe – Migration policies and demographic change – Nordic welfare model: crisis, erosion, prospects – Crisis of the global political economy & world politics: the role of the EU (protectionism, trade wars) – Conceptual frameworks and aspects of popular political economy as well as policy proposals for instance with respect to productive transformation, industrial policy, the solidarity economy etc. – Socio-ecological transformation and a good life for all – New democratic challenges to the status quo: what can we learn from the left-alliance government in Portugal, the labour party under Jeremy Corbyn, the Podemos project in Spain and other similar cases? Proposals for papers together with a short abstract (maximum 250 words) should be submitted by 15 May 2018to info@euromemo.eu. If possible, please indicate the topic which the proposal is intended for. If accepted, completed papers should be submitted by 06 September 2018. We strongly encourage participants to submit short papers (10-12 pages) and to explicitly address policy implications. If you would like to submit an abstract and/ or participate in the conference, please copy the registration form below into an email and reply to info@euromemo.eu. Please note that there is no deadline for registering for participation only. All submitted abstracts will be reviewed by the Steering Committee of the EuroMemo Group. Accepted papers will be published on the conference website and there is also the possibility to publish papers presented at the conference within the EuroMemo Group Discussion Paper Series. |
| Please note that there will be a conference fee collected at the venue to cover the cost of the conference (30 Euro regular fee / 10 Euro for students / 80 Euro for participants with institutional support).
An information sheet with practical information including details about hotel bookings and transport is attached. Early booking is strongly recommended. |
| We look forward to seeing you in Helsinki!
Best wishes, Marija Bartl, Joachim Becker, Marcella Corsi, Wlodzimierz Dymarski, Trevor Evans, Marica Frangakis, John Grahl, Peter Herrmann, Aimilia Koukouma, Jeremy Leaman, Jacques Mazier, Agustín Menéndez, Mahmood Messkoub, Ronen O’Brien, Werner Raza, Catherine Sifakis, Achim Truger, Frieder Otto Wolf |
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| Registration form for the 24th Workshop on Alternative Economic Policy in Europe
(please reply to info@euromemo.eu)
Yes, I intend to participate in the 24th Workshop on Alternative Economic Policy in Europe (27-29 September 2018 in Helsinki) Last Name: Institution: City: e-mail: Yes, I wish to contribute a paper Title of the Paper: Abstract (max. 250 words): |
Tragicomedy of Capitalism Today
Value Theory –, asking if there is still any value in it?/Is it still worthwhile to talk about it?
Abstract
The theory of value is probably the most contested feature of Marx’ political economy. The reasons for this are the following two
ELMAR ALTVATER DIED
It talks about him as an
Inspiring critique of the capitalist economy
This he truly was – as such he encourages me to dedicate the presentation to him: as quest to me and to the students to take up this challenge of critical thinking.
Living in China means as well getting used to a highly advanced level of internet-penetration in large parts of daily life. Often this is perceived as contradicting prevailing traditional ‘life styles’ and attitudes. At first glance this has not much to do with the future of social policy, or does it? – Social policy faces the difficult task of bringing an institutional system and ‘life worlds’ together. With globalisation and digitisation there is an additional challenge: the reference to the nation state and standard forms of labour are increasingly loosing or changing their role, or at least changing it. Is there any common ground for small island nations like Ireland and unimaginable countries like China?
One Belt – One Road [OBOR] – One World – From Economy of Comparative Advantage to Socio-Politics of Cooperative Progressing.
One Belt – One Road – One World – Digitisation of Life as Chinese Lifestyle
Two more Isar-Kanal Lectures, given by Peter Herrmann, currently visiting Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy [section social law] are now available. The second lecture looks under the title
Digitisation – Morals, Politics and Responsibility
Digitisation, highlighting that Responsibility has to be seen in a new light, namely and again the light of real publicness.
The reference to Popper and falsificatioism in simple terms
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There is no point in waiting for black swans, it is necessary to bread them!
The third of this short series of Isar-Kanal Lectures, titled
Digitisation – Meta-Methodological Reflections
highlights that much of the supposedly new issues are very much old questions around socialisation, pushing towards a new stage and thus looking at
Thus, all moral boils down to the question of the mode of production.
A bit more than fifty years ago a panel discussion took place in Berlin, published in the book: Herbert Marcuse: Das Ende der Utopie. Vorträge und Diskussionen in Berlin 1967. The discussion took place in the immediate aftermath of the murder of Benno Ohnesorg. It had been one of a series of events, organised by the SDS (Sozialistischer Deutscher Studentenbund).
Interestingly we read in the TOC ‘Morals and Politics in the transition society’, going the to the relevant section the title reads ‘Morals and Politics in the affluent society’. The major topic is best looked at in terms of public spaces, freedom and responsibility. The presentation looks at digitisation, GAFA and BAT in the light of regulating private quasi-monopolist ownership versus regaining publicness.
From the MPI-pressrelease: 09.03. – 23.03.
beigewum.de (16.03.2018)
Can the EU still be saved? The implications of a multi-speed Europe. Presentation of the EuroMemorandum 2018
Nennung von Gastwissenschaftler Prof. Peter Herrmann und dem MPISOC
Link (Englisch)
Dr. Julia Hagn
Max-Planck-Institut für Sozialrecht und Sozialpolitik
Amalienstr.33
80799 München
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