Meet the Speakers — Political Economy of Capitalism

Innovation & Economic History Working Group @Young Scholars Initiative of the Institute for New Economic Thinking x UNIGE Workshop

Laurène Tran
Sep 4, 2018 · 3 min read

by Laurène Tran |Innovation Working Group, Young Scholars Initiative, Institute for New Economic Thinking

Laurène Tran, Besiana Balla, prof. Mary O’Sullivan

Last September, our YSI Innovation, Institutions and Governance conference in Tallinn was our first official collaboration with Prof. Mary O’Sullivan whose work (among others) inspired us to set up the Innovation Working Group. In continuation with our research agenda on the role of history, institutions and governance in innovation, this year, thanks to the vision and work of Besiana Balla, cofounder and coordinator of the Innovation Working Group, we’ve teamed up with the University of Geneva to organize a 3-day workshop on The Political Economy of Capitalism. All this was also made possible thanks to our collaboration with the Economic History Working Group and their local organizer Laura de la Villa Aleman who is a PhD candidate at the Paul Bairoch Institute of Economic History.

Here, I’m sharing with you our speakers’ main research interests, what you should read first and which paper you can’t miss.

Link to the call for papers

They’ll be here for us:

Mary O’Sullivan — “Capital and Profit in Capitalism: Theoretical and Empirical Challenges”

🌠“A Confusion of Capital in the United States”

📑 “Finance Capital in Chandlerian Capitalism”

👂Dividends of Development: Securities Markets in the History of US Capitalism, 1866–1922

Bruno Amable — “The Political Economy of Institutional Change”

🌠“A neorealist approach to institutional change and the diversity of capitalism”

📑 “Product Market Regulation, Innovation, and Productivity”

👀 Presenting the journal Socio-Economic Review

Cédric Durand — “Financialization Mark II: Profits without accumulation in Global Knowledge Monopoly Capitalism”

🌠 Intellectual Monopoly in Global Value Chain📑 Financialization, globalization and the making of profits by leading retailers
📑 Balance Sheets after the EMU: an Assessment of the Redenomination Risk
📕Fictitious Capital

Richard Kozul-Wright — “Footlose capital, rent-seeking corporations”

🌠 The Rentiers Are Here

📑 Corporate Rent-Seeking, Market Power and Inequality: Time for a multilateral trust buster?


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The Innovation Working Group views Innovation as being central to the process of economic development and growth. We look at how economic actors, policies, technology and market conditions interact and evolve over time. We provide a platform to create professional and academic networks for young scholars to share and promote their work on innovation related topics.

Innovation Working Group YSI/INET

We provide a platform to create professional and academic networks for young scholars to share and promote their work on innovation related topics.

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Innovation Working Group YSI/INET

We provide a platform to create professional and academic networks for young scholars to share and promote their work on innovation related topics.

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