IIRE Economy Seminar 2014

List of sessions and documents for discussion

FINAL PROGRAM

1. Rate of profit, overaccumulation and indebtedness: the causes of the crisis

• Michael Roberts, "Tendencies, triggers and tulips"
• Michael Roberts, Powerpoint Presentation

2. The power of financial capital and its links with productive capital.

• François Chesnais

3. The strategies of the ruling class and the "austeritarian" program in Europe

• Cedric Durand

4. How to confront financial power. The debate around debt annulations and euro-exit.

• Özlem Onaran, "An internationalist transitional program towards an anti-capitalist Europe: A Reply To Costas Lapavitsas"
• What to do about the debt and the euro? A Manifesto

5. Crisis, development and new models in Latin America

• Claudio Katz, Dualidades de América Latina, I, II y III

6. Strength and fragility of the new emerging economies: a disconnection of the center and the periphery? The case of Brazil.

• Rosa Marques "Fictitious Capital and Foreign Capital in Brazil" Rosa Maria Marques and Paulo Nakatani
• Slide show

7. The case of China: a changing role in the world economy.

• Ricardo Molero, "Karl Polanyi in Beijin"
• “Control of Agricultural Prices, Rural-Urban Migration and Primary Distribution: Reasons behind Inequality in China, 1978-2007”

8. The world car industry in the crisis.

• Jean-Claude Vessilier

9. Considering the main tendencies of the capitalism in the crisis: what can we say of a post-crisis capitalism?

• Michel Husson, "A long lasting chaos"
• Daniel Tanuro. An ecologist answer to unemployment. The challenge of the energetic transition.

10. Which emergency program for an anticapitalist exit of the crisis? What do we stand for?

• Eric Toussaint, "Europe Emergency programme for the crisis"

11. Other documents

• Henri Wilno, "Some questions about the crisis"
• Henri Wilno, "Quelques questions sur la crise"