ASSOCIATION FOR INSTITUTIONAL THOUGHT (AFIT)

WESTERN SOCIAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION, 56TH ANNUAL

CONFERENCE
April 2-5, 2014

John Hall, President

John Watkins, Vice-President (801) 550-5834

Panel 1: Explorations in Institutional Thought

Thursday
8:00-9:30
PAVILLION IV

Moderator: Barbara Wiens-Tuers, Penn State Altoona

“The “Affluent Society” of John Kenneth Galbraith and its Relevance

for the Analysis of the Problems of Today”
Arturo Hermann, Italian National Institute of Statistics

“Dewey’s Habits and Kahneman’s Two Systems: Implications for a

Communitarian Democracy”
James L. Webb, University of Missouri-Kansas City

“Evolutionary-Institutional Thinking in Russia”

John Hall, Department of Economics and International Studies,
Portland State University
Kirdina Svetlana, Head of Sub-Division, Institute of Economics,
Russian Academy of Sciences

“Consistency and Viability of Economic Systems: An Institutional-

Evolutionary Approach”
John Marangos, University of Crete

Discussants: F. Gregory Hayden, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Anna Klimina, St. Thomas More College

Panel 2: Institutional Approaches to Understanding Inequality

Thursday
8:00-9:30
PAVILLION V

Moderator: David A. Zalewski, Providence College

“A Resilience Approach to Social Change: Inequality and Social Unrest

in the US”
William Barnes, University of Portland
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Greg Hill, University of Portland

“Re-Examining Capitalism and Inequality”

Jon D. Wisman, American University

“Extended Family Networks and Racial Wealth Inequality: Towards a

New Model of Wealth Accumulation”
Johan A. Uribe, University of Utah

“Rising Inequality and the Non-Invidious Creation of Community”

John P. Watkins, Westminster College
Richard G. Chapman, Westminster College

Discussants: Reynold Nesiba, Augustana College

Jake Jennings, University of Utah

Panel 3: Institutional Economics and the History of Economic Thought

Thursday
9:45-11:15
PAVILLION IV

Moderator: Sarah A. Neeley, University of Denver/Iliff School of Theology

“AFEE’s Foundation and JEI’s Early Years”

Felipe Almeida, Federal University of Paraná, Brazil
Marco Cavalieri, Federal University of Paraná, Brazil

“Primitive Accumulation in the Cultural Common”

Zoe Sherman, University of Massachusetts Amherst

“Veblen's Epistemological Critique of Enlightenment”

Roberto Simiqueli, University of Campinas / IE- UNICAMP
Manuel Ramon Souza Luz, Post-Doctoral Researcher in Economics –
University of São Paulo/FEA-USP

“The American Influence on Roberto Simonsen’s Economic Ideas:

Social Control, Institutionalism, and Planning”
Marco Cavalieri, Federal University of Paraná, Brazil

Discussants: William Waller, Hobart and William Smith Colleges

John Henry, University of Missouri-Kansas City
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Thursday
11:45-1:00
Association for Institutional Thought Business Meeting

Panel 4: Marx, Veblen, and the Foundations of Heterodox Economics: A

session in honor of John F. Henry
Thursday
1:00-2:30
PAVILLION IV

Moderator: Tae-Hee Jo, SUNY Buffalo State

“Marx, Veblen, and Henry: Breaking up the Illusions of the Epoch”

Tae-Hee Jo, SUNY Buffalo State
Frederic S. Lee, University of Missouri-Kansas City

“Instincts and Exchange: A Veblenian Exploration”

William Waller, Hobart and William Smith Colleges

“Veblen on Marx and Marginalism”

Gary Mongiovi, St. John’s University

Discussant: John F. Henry, University of Missouri-Kansas City

Panel 5: Institutional Economics and Business Enterprise

Thursday
1:00-2:30
PAVILLION VI

Moderator: Valerie K. Kepner, King’s College, Wilkes-Barre, PA

“The Institutional Economics of Forbearance”

David A. Zalewski, Providence College

“Exploitation and Institutional Rent in the Knowledge Based Economy:

The Case of the Pharmaceutical Industry.”
Avraham Izhar Baranes, University of Missouri – Kansas City

“The Illusion of the Epoch: Theories of the Business Enterprise During

Managerial Capitalism and Financialization”
Sergio Canavati, University of Missouri-Kansas City

Discussants: Daniel Urban, University of Missouri Kansas City

Andres F. Cantillo, University of Missouri-Kansas City
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Panel 6: Understanding Institutional Change

Thursday
2:45-4:15
PAVILLION IV

Moderator: Rick Adkisson, Department of Economics, Applied Statistics,

and International Business, New Mexico State University

“Towards Understanding the Origins of Industrial Capitalism: A Tale of Two

Historical Economies”
Stephen C. Bannister, University of Utah

“State Capitalism and the Social Structure of Accumulation: the Case

Study of post-Soviet Russia”
Anna Klimina, St. Thomas More College, University of Saskatchewan,
Canada

“Institutional Adjustment and Social Harmony: Is Consensus Possible

With Ceremonial Encapsulation?”
Avraham Izhar Baranes, University of Missouri – Kansas City

“Mass media as Institutions, and What Economics has to do with It”

Andrea Grisold, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard
University

“Write, Sell, Critique: The Street Paper Phenomena as a Method for

Economic Change”
Sarah A. Neeley, University of Denver/Iliff School of Theology

Discussants: Rick Adkisson, Department of Economics, Applied Statistics,

and International Business, New Mexico State University
Dick Chapman, Westminster College
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Panel 7: Macro Perspectives of Decent Work and Informal Employment

Thursday
2:45-4:15
ENCHANTMENT A

Moderator: Bret Anderson, Dept. of Economics, Chafee Soc. Sci. Center,

University of Rhode Island

“Growth and Employment Outcomes by Gender and Age”

Bret Anderson, University of Rhode Island

“Decent Work and the Great Recession: Impact on Flexibility and

Worktime”
Barbara Wiens-Tuers, Penn State Altoona
Janice Peterson, California State University, Fresno

“Targeting the ‘Invisible’: Improving Entrepreneurship Opportunities

for Informal Sector Women”
Tonia Warnecke, Rollins College

Panel 8: AFIT Student Competition Papers

4:30-6:00
Moderator: John Hall, Department of Economics and International Studies,
Portland State University
PAVILLION IV

“The Expanding Techniques of Progress: Agricultural Biotechnology

and UN-REDD+”
Alexander Dunlap, University of Sussex

“On Employment: An analysis of the Compatibility Between Veblen

and the Employer of Last Resort”
Brandon O. McCoy, University of Missouri – Kansas City

“Just Another Form of Market Governance: A Grounded Theory of

Cartels”
Christian Spanberger, University of Missouri – Kansas City

Discussants: Bill Dugger, University of Tulsa

John P. Watkins, Westminster College
Tae-Hee Jo, SUNY Buffalo State
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Association for Institutional Thought Conference Dinner

Thursday
6:00-9:30
Pasión Latin Fusion Restaurant, 722 Lomas Blvd NW, Albuquerque
(505) 503-7880

Panel 9: Institutional Approaches to the Financial Crisis

Friday
8:00-9:30
PAVILLION IV

Panel 10: Wealth, Finance, Production, and Money

Friday
9:45-11:15
PAVILLION IV

Moderator: Avraham Izhar Baranes, University of Missouri – Kansas City

“Driving the ‘New Economy’ - The importance of Net Worth and its
Roots”
Jake Jennings, University of Utah

“Bigger Is Not Better: Sizing Up Modern Finance and Financialization”

Hendrik Van den Berg, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

“Integrating Circular Production Into a Stock-Flow-Consistent Model”

Matthew Berg, University of Missouri – Kansas City

“Does Marx have a Theory of Modern Money?”

Daniel Urban, University of Missouri – Kansas City

“Monopoly Capital and Capitalist Inefficiency”

Thomas E. Lambert, Northern Kentucky University

Discussants: Rick Adkisson, Department of Economics, Applied Statistics,

and International Business, New Mexico State University
Arturo Hermann, Italian National Institute of Statistics
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Panel 11: Methodological Issues in Institutional Economics

Friday
9:45-11:15
PAVILLION V

Moderator: Andrea Grisold, Weatherhead Center for international Affairs,

Harvard University

“Methodological Individualism, Methodological Institutionalism”

Svetlana Kirdina, Institute of Economics of the Russian Academy of Sciences

“Extensions in Institutional Economic Analysis and Praxis due to Extensions in

F. Gregory Hayden, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

“Method as Interface: How 'Science Can Benefit from the Study of Methodolog
Nicola Matthews, University of Missouri – Kansas City

““Financialization” of Public Discourse: The Case of AIG Bailout”

Rojhat B. Avsar, Columbia College Chicago

Discussants: Anna Klimina, St. Thomas More College, University of

Saskatchewan, Canada
Tae-Hee Jo, SUNY Buffalo State
Glen Atkinson, University of Nevada at Reno

Panel 12: A Panel Discussion of Angus Deaton's New Book, The Great Escape:
Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality
(Cross Listed with General Economics)
Friday
1:00-2:30
PAVILLION IV

Moderator: Reynold Nesiba, Augustana College

Panelists:

Rick Adkisson, Department of Economics, Applied Statistics, and

International Business, New Mexico State University

Scott Carson, University of Texas of the Permian Basin

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Reynold Nesiba, Augustana College

James Peach, New Mexico State University

John Watkins, Westminster College

Panel 13: The American Dream and Institutional Views of Consumption

Friday
1:00-2:30
PAVILLION V

Moderator: Stephanie Welcomer, University of Maine

“The American Dream and the Moving Target of Virtue”

Valerie K. Kepner, King’s College, Wilkes-Barre, PA

“A Genealogy of Santa Fe Style: A Postcolonial Interrogation of

Emulation, Class, and Ethnicity in New Mexican Consumer Culture”
Barbara Ellen Hopkins, Wright State University

“Consumption: Meeting Human or System Needs?”

Leopoldo Rodríguez, Portland State University

“The Impact of Urban Sprawl on Disaster Relief Spending: An Exploratory

Study”
Thomas E. Lambert, Northern Kentucky University
James Catchen, MPA Student, Northern Kentucky University
Victoria Vogelgesang, MPA Graduate Northern Kentucky University

Discussants: Nicola Matthews, University of Missouri – Kansas City

Kurt J. Keiser, Southwestern College, Winfield, Kansas

Panel 14 Creating Community

Friday
2:45-4:15
PAVILLION IV

Moderator: Barbara Ellen Hopkins, Wright State University

“The Culture of Complementarity”

Fred Jennings, Center for Ecological Economic and Ethical Education
(CEEEE), Ipswich, MA

“Phases and Levels of the Community Economist Workplan”

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Linwood F. Tauheed, University of Missouri Kansas City

“Counterculture and the Preservation of Archaic Traits: Reading the

60s through Veblenian Lenses”
Roberto Simiqueli and Manuel Ramon Souza Luz, University of
Campinas IE- UNICAMP/ University of São Paulo/ FEA-USP

"Relative Merits of Institutional Analysis Techniques: The Glorious

Revolution by Way of Resource Structure, Culture and Agency"
Aqdas Afzal, University of Missouri-Kansas City

“Collective Social Formations as a Technological Goal”

Stefanie Cole, University of Missouri-Kansas City

Discussants: Svetlana Kirdina, Institute of Economics of the Russian Academy

of Sciences
Barbara Ellen Hopkins, Wright State University

Panel 15: Development and Employment Policy in Latin America

(Cross-Listed With Globalization and Development)
Friday
4:30-6:00
PAVILLION IV

Moderator: Bret Anderson, University of Rhode Island

“Development and Employment Policy in Latin America: From

Structuralism to Neoliberal Depredation to Neostructuralism, 1950-
2014”
James M. Cypher, University of Zacatecas, Mexico

“Quality Employment Generation and Structural Change in Latin

America”
Bret Anderson, University of Rhode Island

“A Hundred Years of Solitude: How Many More Do We Need to

Broach Development”
Natália Bracarense, North Central College, Naperville, IL

Discussants: Marco Cavalieri, Federal University of Paraná, Brazil

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Panel 16: Protecting Humans, Nature, and Capital

Saturday
8:00-9:30
PAVILLION IV

Moderator: Zoe Sherman, University of Massachusetts Amherst

“Polanyi’s Protective Response and Faith-Based Institutions”

Kurt J. Keiser, Southwestern College, Winfield, Kansas

“Farmers’ Perceptions of Sustainability as Social Value”

Mark Haggerty, University of Maine
Stephanie Welcomer, University of Maine
John Jemison, University of Maine
Christine Gilbert, University of Maine

“The Political Economics of Texas Organic Farming”

Ian Allison, Austin College

“Chartalism and the Mormon Church”

Daniel Urban, University of Missouri – Kansas City

“Promoting Economic Growth and Climate Change in ECON 100”

Emily Northrop, Southwestern University

Discussants: John Watkins, Westminster College

Fred Jennings, Center for Ecological Economic and Ethical
Education (CEEEE), Ipswich, MA

Panel 17: Overcoming Invidiousness

Saturday
9:45-11:15
PAVILLION IV

Moderator: James L. Webb, University of Missouri-Kansas City

“Solutions for the Alienation of Work under Capitalism”

Alex Binder, University of Missouri-Kansas City

“The Evolution of Higher Education as a System of Institutions”

Dmitry Shishkin, Georgia Gwinnett College

“Worker-Ownership: A Debate”
Julia Poznik, University of Missouri-Kansas City
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“Lawn Ordinances to Street Signs: Noninvidious Recreation of

Community from the Ground Up”
Panayotis Giannakouros, Harriet Tubman Cultural Center and
University of Missouri--Kansas City

Discussants: Barbara Ellen Hopkins, Wright State University

Johan Uribe, University of Utah

Panel 18: Marginalized Workers, Exchange Rate Polices, and Business Cycles
(Cross-Listed With Globalization and Development)
Saturday
9:45-11:15
PAVILLION V

Moderator: Andres F. Cantillo, University of Missouri-Kansas City

“Imprisoned Workers, Imprisoned Jobs, The Relation Between Prison

Population and the Labor Market”
Kerem Cantekin, University of Utah

“Devaluation as a Feasible Policy Option for Caricom Countries”

Winston H. Griffith, Bucknell University

“The Exchange rate Policy of Nepal: To Fix or to Float”

Kalpana Khanal, University of Missouri-Kansas City

“Partisan Politics, Government Policy, and Business Cycle

Synchronization”
Mansokku Lee, State University of New York (SUNY) - Geneseo

Discussants: Stephen C. Bannister, University of Utah

John Hall, Department of Economics and International Studies,
Portland State University
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Panel 19: Cooperative Enterprises: Democratic Values, Business Acumen

Saturday
1:00-2:30
PAVILLION V

Moderator: Dianne R. Layden, Central New Mexico Community College,

School of Communications, Humanities, and Social Sciences

Panelists:

Dianne R. Layden, Ph.D.

Central New Mexico Community College
School of Communications, Humanities, and Social Sciences

Susann Mikkelson, Rocky Mountain Farmers Union

Martha Whitman, La Montanita Co-op

Marshall Kovitz, La Montanita Co-op