Conference Dates:  2- 4 September, 2022 (Friday – Sunday) 

Location: King’s College London (Department of European & International Studies)

Conference program

28th Annual Conference on Alternative Economic Policy in Europe

“The EU and the political economy of global disorder. Struggles for survival, climate and energy justice”, King’s College London (Department of European & International Studies), 2- 4 September 2022

The conference will take place entirely in King’s College Strand campus (i.e. Strand Campus, King’s College, London, WC2R 2LS). The plenaries will be held in the Great Hall and the various workshops in conference rooms K0.16, K0.17, K0.18, K0.19, K0.20, K0.50.

Friday, 2 September 2022

2:00 pm – 3:00 pm Registration

3:00 pm – 7:00 pm Opening Plenary

Welcome Address: Professor Ramon Pacheco Pardo, Head of the Department of European and International Studies (King’s College London), Werner Raza (EuroMemo Group)

Part I – The State of the Union

Chair: Magnus Ryner, King’s College London

• Alan Cafruny, Hamilton College/USA: The Political State of the Union

The U.S. Sanctions Offensive: Economic Statecraft and the Transatlantic Relationship

• Özlem Onaran, University of Greenwich/UK: The Economic State of the Union

Needs-based macro policy for a green purple red new deal in Europe

4:45 pm – 5:00 pm Coffee Break

Part II – Panel Discussion: Brexit and disintegrative tendencies affecting the EU

Chair: Marica Frangakis, EuroMemo Group

• Heikki Patomäki, University of Helsinki/Finnland

BREXIT and the disintegrative tendencies affecting the EU

• Andrew Gamble, University of Sheffield/UK

• Annamaria Simonazzi, Sapienza University Rome/Italy

Between the devil and the deep sea. The place of Germany (and Europe) in the new world geopolitical order

Open discussion

7:00 pm Conference Dinner (Restaurant India Club, 143 Strand)

Saturday, 3 September 2022

9:00 am – 1:00 pm Parallel workshops (including flexible coffee break)

1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Lunch break

2:00 pm – 3:30 pm Plenary on policy proposals from workshops

Chair: Werner Raza EuroMemo Group

3:30 pm – 4:00 pm Coffee break

4.00 pm – 5:30 pm Final Plenary – Political disorder and the ecological question

Chair: Inga Rademacher, King’s College London

• Michael Albert, School of Oriental and African Studies London/UK

The Global Polycrisis and Futures of the World System

• Alfredo Saad Filho, King’s College London/UK

Neoliberalism, Climate Catastrophe, and Democratic Alternatives

• Sarah Bracking, King’s College London

Averting Climate Change catastrophe? Neoliberal environmental governance in Europe

Sunday, 4 September 2022

9:00 am – 12:00 pm Planning meeting: EuroMemorandum 2023 (including flexible coffee break)

You can find the Conference program in a pdf format here.

Workshops

28th Annual Conference on Alternative Economic Policy in Europe, 2- 4 September 2022, King’s College London (Department of European & International Studies)

The conference will take place entirely in King’s College Strand campus (i.e. Strand Campus, King’s College, London, WC2R 2LS). The plenaries will be held in the Great Hall and the various workshops in conference rooms K0.16, K0.17, K0.18, K0.19, K0.20, K0.50.

Parallel Workshops, Saturday, 3 September 2022, 9:00 am – 1 pm

Workshop 1: Macroeconomic Policy (Room K. 0.16) (Coordination: Marica Frangakis)

• Marica Frangakis
  The return of inflation -The case of the EU
• Inga Rademacher & Ian Lovering
  All about Institutional Power? How the ECB Enabled the Deepening of Fiscal Austerity during the Eurozone Crisis through Strategic Interaction with the Economic Sphere
• Alberto Botta & Benjamin Tippet ‘Secular Stagnation and Core-Periphery Uneven Development in Post-Crisis Eurozone’
• Engelbert Stockhammer & Andre Novas Otero
  A tale of housing cycles and fiscal policy, but not competitiveness. Growth drivers in southern Europe
• Johan Ekman, Rune Møller Stahl & Magnus Ryner
  Bulwarks of Disciplinary Neoliberalism? The Social Democratic Nordics and the EU Recovery Fund

Workshop 2: Social and Employment Policy (Room K 0.17) (Coordination: Maria Karamesini)

• Engelbert Stockhammer & Rob Calvert Jump
  An Estimation of Unemployment Hysteresis
• Alexander Guschanski & Özlem Onaran
  The Effect of Global Value Chain Participation on the Labour Share – Evidence from industry-level data
• Anne Eydoux
  Stabilizing an unstable economy and supporting social and environmental justice Employment guarantee: experiences, scales, timing and lessons for the EU
• Hubert Hieke
  Job-Guarantee and Minimum Wage – A solution to Unemployment and Poverty in Western Countries, including Germany?
• Joern Janssen
  A Secular Global Crisis of Labour Relations

Workshop 3: The Ecological Crisis and the Need for Rapid Socio-Ecological Transformation (Room K 0.18) (Coordination: Jeremy Leaman)

• Ronen O’Brian ‘The Imperative of Rapid Change to Address the Climate and Related Crises, Diversions and Delays, and Critique of EU Policy in a Global Context’
• Joseph Baines & Sandy Brian Hager
  From Passive Owners to Planet Savers? Asset Managers, Carbon Majors, and the Limits of Sustainable Finance
• Johannes Jäger ‘Sustainable Finance and Sustainable Monetary Policy: Beyond Passive Revolution in Europe’
• Dario Di Conzo
  Hegemony within the Ecological Crisis: The Case of China
• Werner Raza
  From neoliberal to values-based foreign and trade policy – opportunity or threat for international politics?

Workshop 4: The Impact of Sanctions on the Political Economy of Europe (Room K 0.19) (Coordination: Alan Toplisek & Ksenia Kirkham)

• Alan Cafruny
  The U.S. Sanctions Offensive: Economic Statecraft and the Transatlantic Relationship
• Ksenia Kirkham & Alen Toplisek
  The Impact of Sanctions on Supply Chains in the European Automotive Industry
• Richard Sakwa
  Sanctions and the Dead
• Maria N Ivanova ´The Economic Consequences of the Sanctions against Russia´

You can find the Workshop program in a pdf format here.

We would like to invite you to attend the conference and to submit paper proposals for contributions to the workshops. We invite proposals for papers that address any aspect of the conference theme The EU and the political economy of global disorder. Struggles for survival, climate and energy Justice ‘. In particular, we encourage submissions that relate to recent European developments that pertain to one of the following topics:

• Implications of militarization and increased global divisions for socio-ecological transformation and the European Green Deal;
• Prospects for a new European security order, with particular emphasis on the role of NATO and NATO expansion;
• The conditions required for peace, and opportunities to build alternative global institutions (economic and political)
• The political and economic situation in Eastern Europe, the economic and political agendas of the far-right governments and political forces (e.g. in Hungary and Poland) in the current conjuncture;
• The emergence of a military-industrial policy complex in the EU and the implications of militarization for the financial sector and for public finances;
• The question of survival of the human species amidst the dual threats of war and the climate catastrophe
• Implications of Brexit and other disintegrative tendencies in the EU for European politics
• The return of inflation and its economic as well as social implications;
• The sustainability of debt (public and private), and the needed changes to/reform of the Stability of Growth Pact (SGP)
• The European Green Deal: its state of implementation, its limits and the challenges for achieving the socio-ecological transformation of prevailing production and consumption models
• The Covid-19 crisis: its social impacts, the lessons to be drawn for public health systems, the provisioning of medical and pharmaceutical products; the implications for global health governance.

Proposals for papers together with a short abstract (maximum 250 words) should be submitted by 15 June 2022 to info@euromemo.eu.
If possible, please indicate the topic which the proposal is intended for. If accepted, completed papers should be submitted by 20 August 2022.

We strongly encourage participants to submit short papers (10-12 pages) and to explicitly address policy implications. If you would like to submit an abstract and/ or participate in the conference, please copy the registration form below into an email and reply to info@euromemo.eu.

Please note that there is no deadline for registering for participation only.

All submitted abstracts will be reviewed by the Steering Committee of the EuroMemo Group. Accepted papers will be published on the conference website and there is also the possibility to publish papers presented at the conference within the EuroMemo Group Discussion Paper Series.

Please note that there will be a conference fee to cover the cost of the conference (€ 50 standard rate, €20 for students, 80 Euro for participants with institutional support).

We look forward to seeing you in London!

Best wishes, from the Steering Committee of the EuroMemo Group

Judith Dellheim, Marica Frangakis, Laura Horn, Maria Karamessini, Jeremy Leaman, Mahmood Messkoub, Ronan O’Brien, Heikki Patomäki, Werner Raza, Magnus Ryner, Angela Wigger

European Economists for an Alternative Economic Policy in Europe

Further practical information

29th Annual Conference on Alternative Economic Policy in Europe

“War, the climate catastrophe and the crisis of social reproduction: how should the EU cope with the polycrisis?”

The conference will take place entirely in King’s College Strand campus (i.e. Strand Campus, King’s College, London, WC2R 2LS). The plenaries will be held in the Great Hall and the various workshops in conference rooms K0.16, K0.17, K0.18, K0.19, K0.20, K0.50.