Organized
by:
International Development Economics Associates (IDEAs)
http://www.networkideas.org
Bilkent University Department of Economics
http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~economics
Program
The workshop on Reclaiming Development in the Age
of Financial Globalization is an intensive program
covering theoretical and policy issues in the current
international context. The aim of the workshop is
to present critiques of existing theories as well
to offer alternative analyses of current economic
trends. It will be organized around three broad themes:
(1) The economics of financial globalization and its
implications for development macroeconomics; (2) the
macroeconomics of stabilization and adjustment. (3)
structures and mechanisms of the global economy and
the economics of collective imperialism.
The total working time of the workshop is 24 hours
over four working days. The sessions will be in lecture
format followed by open discussion. In addition, participants
are also expected to attend the International Conference
on Development Economics of the Turkish Social Sciences
Association (TSSA), to be held in the Middle East
Technical University, Ankara, September 5-7, 2005.
This will involve a total stay of 7 days.
All courses are to be offered at the Bilkent University
premises and will be taught in English. Participants
will be hosted at the Bilkent University campus dormitories.
Participants will be chosen from young economists
who have completed or are close to completing their
Ph.D. dissertations. In addition, individuals with
a strong economics background involved in advocacy
work with civil society organizations or engaged in
policy making activities are welcome to apply.
IDEAs will provide full funding for travel and accommodation
to applicants from low-income developing countries
to attend both the IDEAs workshop and to the TSSA
Conference. Researchers from the "South"
are especially encouraged to apply.
Applications should be accompanied with a recent version
of the curriculum vitae and one letter of recommendation
and should be sent to
Professor Erinc Yeldan,
Department of Economics,
Bilkent University,
06580, Ankara TURKEY.
Tel 90-312-2664807;
Fax 90-312-2665140;
E -mail: yeldane@bilkent.edu.tr
or
Professor Jayati Ghosh,
IDEAs,
c/o, Economic Research Foundation,
124 A/1 Katwaria Sarai,
New Delhi 110016, INDIA;
Tel +91- 11-26611235, +91 -11- 26850050;
Fax +9111-26611764
E -mail: erf@vsnl.com
or jayatig@vsnl.com.
The
deadline for applications is: 30 June 2005
Course Program:
Wednesday, 31 August:
Morning: Determinants
of Neoliberal Financial Globalization. The two waves
of globalization; the rise of finance and the demise
of Fordist industrialization; the withering away of
the concept of development'.
(Erinc Yeldan, Bilkent University, Ankara)
Afternoon: Financial
Liberalization, Currency Crises and Developing Countries
Balance of Payments crises and developing countries;
new generation crises under globalization and financial
interdependence; issues of stabilization under hegemonic
conditionality of international financial capital.
(William Tabb, Queens College, NY, USA) To be confirmed
Thursday, 1 September:
Morning: The economics
of financial flows at the global scale; the position
of the developing countries in the new international
division of labor; the dominance of finance and the
sources of financial fragility; the rise of the rentier
class
(Gerald Epstein, University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
Afternoon: The politics
of development in the age of globalisation'. Development,
post development and its social and political consequences;
the politics/anti politics of populist regimes, and
the crisis of development in global perspective.
Pasuk Phongpaichit, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok,
Thailand
Friday, 2 September
Morning: The US in the
world economy. An analytical framework to understand
the current imbalances in the US and the implied financial
burden for the world.
(Alex Izurieta, Cambridge University)
Afternoon: Changing Structures
of National and International Finance and their implications.
Shifts in international financial systems; monetary
and fiscal policy interactions; the onset of contractionary
economics; the expanded Washington consensus; austerity
with central bank independence, inflation targeting.
(C. P. Chandrasekhar, Jawaharlal Nehru University)
Saturday, 3 September
Morning: Interactions
between international trade and finance and the effects
on inequality:
Recent changes in world trade patterns and their implications;
capital flows and trade flows; uneven development
and emerging patterns of inequality and poverty.
(Jayati Ghosh, Jawaharlal Nehru University)
Afternoon: The Dominance
of Finance: Implications for the Global Economy: The
hegemony of finance; the economics of the new imperialism;
deflation and unemployment; sovereignty and the role
of the nation state.
(Prabhat Patnaik, Jawaharlal Nehru University)
Personnel
Program Director and Contact: Erinc Yeldan, Bilkent
University
Instructors:
Gerald Epstein, Professor University of Massachusetts,
Amherst
C.P. Chandrasekhar, Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University,
New Delhi, India
Jayati Ghosh, Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University,
New Delhi, India
Alex Izurieta, Cambridge University
Prabhat Patnaik, Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University,
New Delhi, India
Pasuk Phongpaichit, Professor, Chulalongkorn University,
Bangkok, Thailand
William Tabb, Queens College, NY, USA
Erinc Yeldan, Professor, Bilkent University, Ankara.
Conference on "Acts
of Resistance against Globalization from the South",
5 - 7 September 2005, to be held at the Middle East
Technical University, Ankara .
Organised by the Turkish
Social Scientists' Association, Ankara, Turkey.
5 September 2005, Monday
Opening
Presentation: "Economics of New-Imperialism"
Prabhat Patnaik, (India) (Jawaharlal Nehru University,
New Delhi, India)
CHAIR:
Korkut Boratav, (Turkey) (TSSA, Ankara, Turkey)
Session 1 New Forms of Intervention and Legitimation:
"War against Terror" and Iraq
Mahmood Mamdani (Uganda) (University of Columbia, New
York, USA)
"Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: America,
the Cold War and the Origin of Terror, Culture Talk"
Ali Kadri (Lebanon) (ESCWA, Economic and Social Commission
for West Asia, Beirut, Lebanon)
"The Occupation
of Iraq: Then and Now"
Julian Saurin (UK) (University of Sussex Üniversitesi,
Brighton, UK)
"The War against Terror and the
Contemporay Forms of Imperialism"
Filiz Çulha Zabci (Turkey) (Ankara University,
Ankara, Turkey)
Coercive Strategies and War in New Colonialism
Discussant: Ilhan Uzgel
(Ankara University, Ankara, Turkey)
Session 2 Impact of Neoliberal
Transformation in the North and the South
C.P.Chandrasekhar (India) (Jawaharlal Nehru University,
New Delhi, India)
"Economic Instability of the World Economy: USA;
EU, Asia and the Rest"
Pasuk Phongpaichit (Thailand) (Chulalongkorn University,
Bangkok, Thailand)
"The Politics of Development in the Age of Globalisation"
Cui Zhiyuan (China) (Tsinghua University, Beijing,
China)
"China-USA Tensions and the International Economic
Stability"
Pinar Bedirhanoglu (Turkey) (METU, Ankara, Turkey)
"Neoliberal Agenda on Corruption and the Transformation
of the State"
Discussant: Galip Yalman
(Turkey) (METU, Ankara, Turkey)
6 September 2005, Tuesday
Session 3 Search for Alternatives in the South against
Neoliberal Economic Policies
Jayati Ghosh (India) (Jawaharlal Nehru University,
New Delhi, India)
"Moderate Unorthodoxy or Radical Departures from
Conventional Wisdom: The Case of India"
Alfredo Saad Filho (Brazil) (University of London,
SOAS, London, UK)
"Alternative Policies in the Case of Brazil"
Erinç Yeldan (Turkey) (Bilkent University,
Ankara, Turkey)
"Search for Alternatives to Neoliberal Policies:
The Case of Turkey"
Discussant: Oktar Türel
(Turkey) (TSSA, Ankara, Turkey)
Session 4 Social Transformations:
Social Stratification, Marginalisation and Poverty
Patrick Bond (South Africa) (University of Witwatersrand,
Johannesburg, South Africa)
"Resurgent South African Civil Society"
Necmi Erdogan (Turkey) (METU, Ankara, Turkey)
"Class, Subalternity and Cultural Representation
in Contemporary Turkey"
Metin Özugurlu (Turkey) (Ankara University, Ankara,
Turkey)
"New Dynamics of Class Struggle under Precarious
Working Conditions"
Discussant: Korkut Boratav
(Turkey) (TSSA, Ankara, Turkey)
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