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Formerly the Western Social Science Association

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AAAS - African/African American Studies
ABS - Association For Borderland Studies
AFIT - Economics (Association For Institutional Thought)
AIS - American Indian Studies
AS - Asian Studies
CDD - Chronic Disease & Disability
CJC - Criminal Justice & Criminology
CMS - Communication Studies
CS - Canadian Studies
EG - Economics General

EPN - Environmenal Policy & Natural Resource Management
GD - Globalization & Development
HIS - History
LASC - Latin American Studies & Chicano-Iberian Culture Network
MC - Mass Communication
MENA - Middle East & North Africa
NPPS - Non-Profit, Philanthropy, Social Enterprise & Entrepreneurship
NZAS - New Zealand & Australia Studies
PA - Public Administration
PFB - Public Finance & Budgeting

PS - Political Science
RAS - Rural & Agricultural Studies
SA - Sociology & Anthropology
SES - Slavic & Eurasian Studies
SP - Social Psychology
SW - Social Work
URPE - Union For Radical Political Economists
US - Urban Studies
WGBL - Women's, Gender, & LGBTQ Studies

AFIT - Economics (Association For Institutional Thought)

13
Apr
2023

AFIT Banquet

04-13-2023 6:00 pm -8:00 pm
Courtyard West
14
Apr
2023

Morning Gathering and WSSA Give Back

04-14-2023 7:00 am -9:00 am
Court Yard

Pastries and coffee.

During this break we will be asking for donations to the local food bank.

14
Apr
2023

AFIT 9 - Roundtable: “A Modern Guide to Post-Keynesian Institutional Economics by Charles Whalen”

04-14-2023 8:00 am -9:30 am
Colonade

Karol Gil-Vasquez
Title: Coordinator
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Affiliation: Nichols College

 

Chair:  Jack Reardon, University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire

 

Participants:
Avraham Baranes, Elmhurts University 
Thomas Kemp, KEMPHE
Janice Peterson, California State University, Fresno
Yan Liang, Willamette University
Reynold F. Nesiba, Augustana University
William Waller, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Barbara Hopkins, Wright State University

14
Apr
2023

AFIT 10 - Original Institutional Economics: Ceremonial and Instrumental Practices

04-14-2023 8:00 am -9:30 am
Wind Flower

Karol Gil-Vasquez
Title: Coordinator
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Affiliation: Nichols College

 

Moderator: TBD

 

Discussants: The panelists 

“Thorstein Veblen’s “Common Man and Friedrich Nietzsche’s “Last Man”, John Battaile Hall, Portland State University

“Dewey, Veblen and Keynes: Who Wrote What? , James I. Sturgeon, University of Missouri-Kansas City

“The Consequences of Pragmatism for Professionalized Economics”, Robert Kemp, KEMPHE

“A Multilevel Incentive Theory of Group Integration”, Sam Levey, University of Missouri-Kansas City

14
Apr
2023

AFIT 11, URPE 3 - The Political Economy of Development: China and Columbia

04-14-2023 9:45 am -11:15 am
Wind Flower

Geoffrey Schneider
Title: Coordinator
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Affiliation: Bucknell University

 

Moderator: Yan Liang, Willamette College

 

Discussants: The Panelists

 

“MMT-Informed Fiscal Reforms for China”, Yan Liang, Willamette College
“A Surprising Left-Government in Columbia: The Difficulties and Challenges in Promoting Institutional

Change Amidst a New Revival of a Pink Tide in Latin America”, Jairo Parada, Universidad del Norte, Colombia
“Colombian trade policies and development plans 2006-2022”, Liliana Marcela Bastos Osorio and Javier Alfonso Torres Velasco, Francisco de Paula Santander University

14
Apr
2023

AFIT 12 - Institutions of the Welfare State, the Great Depression- Lessons to Considered

04-14-2023 9:45 am -11:15 am
Sand Lotus

Karol Gil-Vasquez
Title: Coordinator
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Affiliation: Nichols College

 

Moderator: Hans Despain, Nichols College 

 

Participants: Panelists 

“Thorstein Veblen and Distribution Theory”, James Sturgeon, University of Missouri-Kansas City

“British Public Investment, Government Spending, Housing, and the Industrial Revolution: Economic Surplus Absorption According to Baran Ratio”, Thomas E. Lambert, University of Louisville

“The Business Cycle of 1900-1929 – A New Data Set”, Ahmad A. Borazan, California State University – Fresno

“Becoming a ‘Great Equalizer.’ Evolution of the Social Security Act”, B. Oakley McCoy and Mila Malyshave, Rogue Scholar and Bard College

14
Apr
2023

Awards and Presidential Luncheon - Brown Bag Lunch

04-14-2023 11:30 am -1:00 pm
Cloister East

WSSA Council Members and Section Coordinators Only

14
Apr
2023

AFIT 13, URPE 4 - The Political Economy of Labor and Social Reproduction

04-14-2023 1:00 pm -2:30 pm
Cloister East

Geoffrey Schneider
Title: Coordinator
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Affiliation: Bucknell University

 

Moderator: Richard Dadzie, Seattle Pacific University

 

Discussants: The Panelists

 

“Reframing the Crisis of Social Reproduction Through Hodgson’s Concept of Necessary Impurities”, Barbara Hopkins, Wright State University
“The Double Crisis of Social Reproduction: Caste, Capital and Essential Labor in India”, Abhilasha Srivastava, California State University – Fresno
“Precarious Employment, Precarious Lives, Institutional Economic Perspectives, Janice Peterson, University of California-Fresno
“Telework and Hybrid Work: Inequality Issues and Challenges”, Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay, University of Quebec
“Capitalism, Enslavement, and the Logic of Dividuation”

14
Apr
2023

AFIT 14 - “Reflection on Job Wisman’s “The Origins and Dynamics of Inequality: Sex, Politics and Ideology”

04-14-2023 2:45 pm -4:15 pm
Cloister East

Karol Gil-Vasquez
Title: Coordinator
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Affiliation: Nichols College

 

The panel of scholar will critically reflect on the contributions of Jon Wisman’s latest book (The Origins and Dynamics of Inequality: Sex, Politics, and Ideology) to the institutional economic literature.

 

Moderator: Rojhat Avasar, Columbia College Chicago

 

Participants:
William Waller, Hobart and Williams Smith College
Reynold Nesiba, Augustana University
Jan D. Weber, University of Utah

14
Apr
2023

AFIT 15 - AFIT’s Keynote Speaker: Randall Wray, Levy Economics Institute of Bard College Topic: How Can We Make Money Work for US?

04-14-2023 4:30 pm -6:00 pm
Cloister East

Karol Gil-Vasquez
Title: Coordinator
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Affiliation: Nichols College