Nascida na China, a Associação Mundial de Economia Política - WAPE (sigla em inglês) realizou seu primeiro encontro na América Latina em 2012, no México. Desde a fundação em 2006, os encontros se realizaram na China, Europa e Estados Unidos. Em 2013, o encontro anual da WAPE que se realizará em Florianópolis, Brasil, permitirá o fortalecimento dos estudos em economia política, especialmente desde uma perspectiva marxiana, por todo o continente.
O encontro em Florianópolis será precedido por um debate público sobre a economia política latino-americana, no dia 24 de maio. Já o encontro da WAPE abre na noite do dia 24, com sequência dos trabalhos nos dias 25 e 26. Prazo para Inscrição de Artigos/Deadline for applications:
1o. de
fevereiro de 2013
February,1,
2013
A língua oficial do encontro é o inglês.
O tema será:
Desigualdade e capitalismo mundial: Análise, política e ação
Inequality and world capitalism: analysis, policy and
action
8º. Fórum da Associação
Mundial de Política Econômica
23
a 26 de maio de 2013
Universidade
federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC)
Florianópolis,
Santa Catarina, Brasil
Abertura e conferências: Auditório Guarapuvu/Centro de Eventos/UFSC
Apresentação de Trabalhos: Centro Socioeconômico/CSE/UFSC
Abertura e conferências: Auditório Guarapuvu/Centro de Eventos/UFSC
Apresentação de Trabalhos: Centro Socioeconômico/CSE/UFSC
The Eighth Forum of the World Association for Political Economy
May 23-26,
2013
Federal University
of Santa Catarina (UFSC)
Florianopolis,
Santa Catarina, Brazil
Tópicos para o Fórum WAPE 8ª. edição:
1. A desigualdade na produção e distribuição de riqueza no mundo e suas
causas.
2. O Movimento ‘’Ocuppy’’ e a luta contra a desigualdade ao redor do
mundo.
3. Desigualdade e exploração na América Latina.
4. Política social e redução da desigualdade.
5. Análise da crise financeira e econômica atual.
6. Queda da taxa de lucro nos países capitalistas.
7. Mudanças nas relações norte-sul no século 21.
8. Comparação dos modelos Latino-Americano e Chinês/Vietnamita.
9. Modelos de socialismo.
10. Teoria do Valor-Trabalho e Exploração.
11. Ecossocialismo e movimento contra a usina nuclear no mundo.
12. Propriedade e classe social no capitalismo contemporâneo.
Topics for the Eighth WAPE Forum:
1. The inequality in the
production and distribution of wealth in the world and its causes.
2. The Occupy Movement and anti-inequality
struggles worldwide.
3. Inequality and
exploitation in Latin America.
4. Social policy and
reduction of inequality.
5. Analyses of the current
financial and economic crisis.
6. Falling rate of profit
in capitalist countries.
7. Changing north-south
relations in the 21st century.
8. Comparison of Latin
American model and Chinese/Vietnamese model.
9. Models of socialism
10. Labor Theory of Value
and Exploitation.
11. Eco-socialism and
anti-nuclear power plant movement in the world.
12. Estate and social class
in contemporary capitalism.
Proposals on
the above topics and beyond for both individual papers and complete panels are
welcome. Some of the
sessions will be co-supported by Japan Society for Promoting Science.
Please send
your application, including curriculum vitae and a paper abstract of 500 words
in English, to Professor Xiaoqin Ding at wape2006@gmail.com.
Deadline for
applications: February 1, 2013.
Applicants
will be notified about acceptance of their applications by March 1,
2013.
Papers of up
to 10,000 words will be due by April 1, 2013.
Conference
papers will be considered for publication in World Review of Political Economy.
· Official
Languages of the Forum: English
· Schedule
1. On site
registration on May 23 through May 24, 2013.
2. WAPE Council
meeting/WRPE Editorial meeting on May 24, 2013.
3. Official
program on May 25 through May 26, 2013.
· Registration
fee: US$200 per person.
Marxian
economists from all over the world are welcome to attend the forum whether or
not they will present a paper. The WAPE Forums aim to encourage cooperation
among Marxian economists and to enlarge and strengthen the influence of Marxian
economics in the world.
· WAPE. The World
Association for Political Economy, registered in Hong
Kong, China, is an international academic
organization founded in 2006 by Marxian economists and related groups around the
world. The mission of WAPE is to utilize modern Marxian economics to analyze and
study the world economy, reveal its laws of development, and offer policies to
promote economic and social progress on the national and global level. The last
six WAPE forums were successively held in Shanghai,
Shimane(Japan), Beijing, Paris,
Suzhou(China),
Amherst(USA), and Mexico City
(Mexico) during 2006-2012. Participants in past WAPE
forums have come from over 50 countries in Asia, Australia,
Africa, Europe, and North and South
America.
· WRPE. The World Review of Political Economy is a new peer-reviewed quarterly journal of
Marxian Political Economy sponsored by WAPE and published by Pluto Press. For
more information including types of submissions that will be considered, please
go to www.wrpe.org.
· WAPE
Awards. The Distinguished Achievement Award of World Political
Economy of the 21st Century, established by WAPE, has been
granted annually since 2009. It is intended to promote research in modern
political economy around the world by granting the award to economists who have
made important innovations in the theory or methodology of political economy
since the year of 2001. Marxian Economics Award, established by
WAPE in 2011, is to promote the prosperity and development of the research of
Marxist economics around the world by granting the award to economists of
different countries in the world who have made important innovations in the
research of theories, methodology and application of Marxian economics. The 2013
WAPE Awards will be granted at the opening ceremony of the Eighth WAPE Forum.
Nominations and applications can be sent to
wape2006@gmail.com.
