Fourteen UMass Amherst students presented papers at the Eastern Economic Conference last month in Philadelphia. The Eastern Economic Association is a not-for-profit corporation whose object is to promote educational and scholarly exchange on economic affairs.
Presenters included:
Bengi Akbulut
“Interrogating the Turkish State and Sustainable Development: The GEF Experience”
Hasan Cömert
“Did the Fed Trigger the U.S. Financial Crisis of 2008?”
Noah Enelow
“The Relationship between Ecology and Trade: Proposal for a Theoretical Framework”
Charalampos Konstantinidis
“When Everybody Cares: Environmental Technocratism and (the Need for) Radical Ecological Economics”
Iren Levina
“Towards a Dialectical Marxist Theory of Finance”
Cem Oyvat
“How Migration Affects the Inequality in Developing Countries: A Critique of the Kuznets Curve”
Hyun Woong Park
“A Critique of the Circulationist Tendencies within the Social Paradigmatic Approach to Marx’s Theory of Value”
“Oversimplification of Overdetermination: A Critique of Overdeterminist Marxism”
Zhoachang Peng
“The Tragedy of ‘Quantitative Poverty Reduction’: An Analysis of What Has Gone Wrong with Rural Poverty Reduction in Post-Mao China”
“From Bless to Curse: Releasing and Absorbing Agricultural Surplus Labor in Maoist and Post-Mao China”
Luis Daniel Rosero
“Insuring Against Neighboring Crises: Contagion and the Reserve-Accumulation Decision by Latin American Central Banks”
Mark Silverman
“Causation and Constitutivity: A Critical Appraisal of Marxian Overdetermination”
Joao Paulo A. de Souza and Ben Zipperer
“Integrating Neo-Keynesian and Neo-Marxian Theories of Distribution”
Hasan Tekguc
“Importance of Food Self-Provisioning for Food Security of Rural Households”
Zhun Xu
“The Political Myth of Land Privatization in China”