“Global Imbalances, Power Relations, and Historical Perspectives” (YSI Workshop in Political Economy II @ UniSi, Feb. 20, 2025)

The Keynesian Working Group is pleased to announce a call for papers for the Second Edition of the YSI Workshop on The Political Economy of Growth and Distribution: Global Imbalances, Power Relations, and Historical Perspectives. We invite young scholars to submit their abstracts of a maximum of 500 words and, subsequently, articles or drafts that showcase current research for this Workshop to be hosted by the University of Siena, Italy, on February 20-21.

Building on last year’s event, this Workshop will focus on global imbalances, emphasizing the international and regional core-periphery divide within the framework of the political economy of growth and distribution. It will explore how these imbalances are intertwined with state-power relations and how these dynamics have evolved throughout history. We aim to address these topics favoring an interdisciplinary approach, bringing together perspectives on political economy, macroeconomics, economic history, political sciences, and social sciences.

The Workshop The Political Economy of Growth and Distribution II: Global Imbalances, Power Relations, and Historical Perspectives will be a valuable opportunity for graduate students and early-career researchers to present their work and receive constructive feedback from colleagues and experts. It is also a chance for participants to share ideas, discuss current research, and form potential collaborations.

Topics

We welcome theoretical and empirical papers on themes related (but not limited) to the following topics:

• Global imbalances, core-periphery divide, global south’s recent trends, regional inequalities;
• Power relations and the State, economic policies and uneven power relations;
• Historical perspectives and analysis in political economy;
• Growth and distribution models, demand regimes, growth drivers;
• International monetary systems, currency hierarchies, financialization and instability;
• Comparative and International Political Economy, trade and industrial imbalances, development strategies;
• Class conflict, social blocs, power and growth coalitions.

Confirmed speakers are:

Daniela Magalhães Prates. Senior Economic Affairs Officer at the Debt and Development Finance Branch of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). Before joining UNCTAD, she was a professor of economics at the University of Campinas, Brazil. Her main research areas are International Economics and Open Macroeconomics, focusing on monetary and financial issues and developing countries. She has published many papers in academic journals (such as Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, Review of Keynesian Economics, International Review of Applied Economics and ECLAC Review) and book chapters.

Eckhard Hein. Professor of Economics at the Berlin School of Economics and Law and a Co-editor of the European Journal of Economics and Economic Policies: Intervention. His research focuses on post-Keynesian macroeconomics, money, interest, and credit in post-Keynesian distribution and growth theory, the macroeconomics of finance-dominated capitalism, and post-Keynesian perspectives on demand and growth regimes. His latest book is Macroeconomics after Kalecki and Keynes: Post-Keynesian Foundations (Edward Elgar, 2023).

Giacomo Gabbuti.  Assistant Professor (Ricercatore Tenure Track) in Economic History at the Institute of Economics of the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa. He was educated at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata” and the University of Oxford, where he received a DPhil in Economic History. His main research field is the study of economic inequality, broadly defined in Modern Italy, including the intellectual history of its measurement and the political debates on taxation and redistribution, and the economic history of Italy during the Fascist Regime.

Riccardo Pariboni. Associate Professor at the University of Siena, Italy. After three years as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Economics of Roma Tre University, he was appointed Visiting Professor at the Freie Universität in Berlin. Then, he joined the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies (Cologne) as a Postdoctoral Fellow. His research interests are growth theory, income distribution and Post-Keynesian Economics, but he has also worked on environmental issues and labour market dynamics.

Important dates
Abstract submission by December 15.
Acceptance notification by December 20.

How to Apply
Young scholars can apply to the call for abstracts here. If selected, you will be invited to present your work. Selections will be made based on merit. Selected students can expect to receive accommodation, participation in the social dinner, and a partial travel stipend.

Contact us for any further queries:

Cinthia de Souza – cinthiands@gmail.com

Vinícius Centeno – vinicenteno@gmail.com

Edoardo Rappa – edoardorappa@gmail.com