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[45] REAL EFFECTS OF FINANCIAL STRUCTURES (JEL Codes E, G)
Session Organizer and Chair: Engelbert Stockhammer, Vienna University
of Economics and B.A., Austria (engelbert.stockhammer@wu-wien.ac.at)
The Impact of the Glass Steagall Act on the Relationship Between Industrial
and Financial Capital
Ellen D. Russell, U Mass Amherst (erussell@econs.umass.edu)
China's Stock Market and Chinese Listed Companies' Investment Behavior
Feng Xiao, U Mass Amherst (fxiao@econs.umass.edu)
Finance against Growth: The Financial Structures of Neoliberalism
Gerard Dumenil, Univ Paris X (gerard.dumenil@u-paris10.fr)
Kaleckian Macroeconomics with Shareholder Value and Wealth Effects
Engelbert Stockhammer, Vienna University of Economics and B.A., Austria
(engelbert.stockhammer@wu-wien.ac.at)
Discussants
Engelbert Stockhammer, Vienna University of Economics and B.A., Austria
(engelbert.stockhammer@wu-wien.ac.at)
Gerard Dumenil, Univ Paris X (gerard.dumenil@u-paris10.fr)
Feng Xiao, U Mass Amherst (fxiao@econs.umass.edu)
Ellen D. Russell, U Mass Amherst (erussell@econs.umass.edu)
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[46] ACTIVE LEARNING
Session Organizer: Susan Christoffersen, Philadelphia University (christoffersens@philau.edu)
Session Chair: Mary Lesser, Iona College (mlesser@iona.edu)
Assessing and Evaluating Active Learning in the Economics Classroom:
A
Qualitative Approach
Javier Stanziola, Florida Gulf Coast University (jstanzio@fgcu.edu)
Improving Student Thinking/Writing in Economics
Steven Greenlaw, Mary Washington College
Electronic Journaling
James Barbour, Elon University
Discussion among participants.
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[47] THE INTERNET: PROMISE AND REALITY (JEL Codes D, G)
Session Organizer and Chair: Thomas W. Synnott 3rd, Chief Economist,
US Trust
(tsynnott@ustrust.com)
Electronic Payments and The Internet Today
Lawrence Radecki, Federal Reserve Bank of New York (Lawrence.Radecki@NY.FRB.org)
Electronic Delivery of Entertainment and Information
Owen Smith, C.W. Post Campus, Long Island University (osmith@liu.edu)
The Internet and the Boom and Bust in High-Tech Investment
(with some comparisons to the 19th Century Railroad Boom)
Thomas W. Synnott 3rd, Chief Economist, US Trust (tsynnott@ustrust.com)
Discussant:
Vincent Massaro, C. W. Post Campus, Long Island University (Vincent_massaro@hotmail.com)
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[48] THE END OF ECONOMIC MAN? CELEBRATING THE LIFE AND WORK OF GEORGE
BROCKWAY (JEL Code B)
Session Organizer and Chair: Mathew Forstater, Center for Full Employment
and Price Stability, University of Missouri - Kansas City (forstaterm@umkc.edu)
Roundtable participants:
David Colander, Princeton University and Middlebury College (colander@princeton.edu)
Paul Davidson, University of Tennessee - Knoxville (Pdavidson@utk.edu)
Ingrid Rima, Temple University (irima@aol.com)
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[49] ECONOMICS AND PHILOSOPHY (JEL Code B)
Session Chair: Tom Cate, Northern Kentucky University (cate@nku.edu)
Descartes and the Economic Machine
Stephen P. Stageberg, Mary Washington College (sstagebe@mwc.edu)
Ethics: The Discursive Regime that Evolved to Govern the Irreducible
Duplicities between the General and the Specific
Benjamin Balak, Washington & Lee University (balakb@wlu.edu) [http://home.wlu.edu/~balakb/]
Pragmatism and Economics: C.S. Peirce’s Philosophical, Scientific,
and Economic Writings of the 1870s
James R. Wible, University of New Hampshire (jrwible@cisunix.unh.edu)
Discussants:
Karl Phillip Widerquist, Educational Priorities Panel (karl@widerquist.com)
Tom Cate, Northern Kentucky University (cate@nku.edu)
Nicola Tynan, Dickinson College (tynann@dickinson.edu)
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[50] THE PRODUCTION FUNCTION (JEL Code E)
Session Organizer and Chair: Steven Pressman, Monmouth University
(pressman@monmouth.edu)
Why are Some Countries Richer than Others? A Reassessment of Mankiw-Romer-Weil's
Test of the Neoclassical Growth Model
John McCombie, Downing College, Cambridge University (jslm2@cam.ac.uk)
and Jesus Felipe, Georgia Institute of Technology (jesfelipe@hotmail.com)
Nonlinear Dynamical Systems and Aggregate Pseudo Production Functions
Anwar Shaikh, New School University (shaikh@newschool.edu)
Let’s Take the Con Out of Total Factor Productivity: Implications
for Macroeconomic Analyses and the New Economy
Jesus Felipe, Georgia Institute of Technology (jesfelipe@hotmail.com)
Discussant:
Franklin M. Fisher, MIT (ffisher@mit.edu)
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[51] INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES (JEL Code F)
Session Organizer and Chair: Ashton I. Veramallay, Indiana University
East (averamal@indiana.edu)
The Euro as an International Currency
Ashton I. Veramallay, Indiana University East (averamal@indiana.edu)
A Progress Report on the Japanese Economic Recovery
David W. Leapard, Eastern Michigan University (be_leapard@online.emich.edu)
NAFTA-Does It Really Matter? A Southwest Report
K. Wayne Hast, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas (wayne.hast@dal.frb.org)
Discussion among participants and with audience.
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[53] TOPICS IN TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS – Part 2
(JEL Code O)
Session Organizers: James H. Cassing and Jerome C. Wells, University
of Pittsburgh
Session Chair: Jerome C. Wells, University of Pittsburgh
China Joins the WTO: Why? How? And What Now?
Penny Prime, Coles College of Business, Kennesaw State University
Repercussions of the War on Terrorism on Economic Growth
Maria Cruz-Saco, Connecticut College
The Depreciation Rate of the Stock of Knowledge and the Scale Factor
on the Knowledge Accumulation Function: Some Theoretical Considerations
Fernando L. Lugo, DRI-WEFA (fernando.lugo@dri-wefa.com)
Discussants:
TBA
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[54] HEALTH ECONOMICS (JEL Code I)
Session Chair: Glenn Graham, SUNY Oswego (graham@Oswego.edu)
Microeconomics of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: Screening for the
Disease and Treating It
Douglas O. Stewart, Cleveland State University (d.o.stewart@csuohio.edu)
Disparities in the Use of Preventive Health Services Before and After
Age 65
Sandra L. Decker, International Longevity Center and Kenneth A. Knapp,
International Longevity Center (kenk@ilcusa.org)
[www.ilcusa.org]
Access to Health Care in Southern Europe: A Comparative Analysis
of Italy, Greece and Spain
Thanos Mergoupis, Queen’s University Belfast (a.mergoupis@qub.ac.uk)
Discussants:
Thanos Mergoupis, Queen’s University Belfast (a.mergoupis@qub.ac.uk)
Frank W. Musgrave, Ithaca College (musgrave@ithaca.edu)
Dennis R. Heffley, University of Connecticut (dennis.heffley@uconn.edu)
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[56] GOVERNMENT, POLICY AND CRITICAL ECONOMICS
Session 4 of The Mini-Conference of the International Working Group
on Value Theory
Session Organizer: Alan Freeman, University of Greenwich, UK
(a.freeman@greenwich.ac.uk)
Session Chair: Andrew Kliman, Pace University, USA (Andrew_Kliman@email.msn.com)
Current Factors Which Make Science a Productive Force at the Service
of Capital – the Fourth Stage in the Running London: Practical Economics
in a Growing World City
Alan Freeman, University of Greenwich, UK (a.freeman@greenwich.ac.uk)
Production Organization
Dimitri Uzinidis, Universite du Littoral, Dunkerque, France (labrii@univ-littoral.fr)
Self-Administration: ‘Solution via Value’ to the Urban Transportation’s
Problems
Vladimir Micheletti, Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Brasil (vlamiche@sistecnet.com.br)
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[57] FIELD RESEARCH IN PSYCHOLOGY AND ECONOMICS
Session Organizer: David Laibson, Harvard University (dlaibson@arrow.fas.harvard.edu)
Session Chair: Geoffrey Tate, Harvard University
Self-control in the Market: Evidence from the Health Club Industry
Stefano Della Vigna, Harvard University and Ulrike Malmendier, Harvard
University
CEO Overconfidence and Corporate Investment
Ulrike Malmendier, Harvard University and Geoffrey Tate, Harvard University
Implications of Hyperbolic Discounting for Lifecycle Consumption and
Investment Choices
David Laibson, Harvard University (dlaibson@arrow.fas.harvard.edu);
Andrea Repetto, Universidad de Chile; and Jeremy Tobacman, Harvard University
Discussion among participants.
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[58] TOPICS IN INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS
Session Organizer and Chair: Patrick O’Sullivan, SUNY Old Westbury
(osullivan@oldwestbury.edu)
The Success of the Euro
Patrick O’Sullivan, SUNY Old Westbury (osullivan@oldwestbury.edu)
The Fed vs. The ECB
Al Mickens, New York University
Modeling the Structure and Growth of the Iranian Economy
Sirousse Tabriztchi, SUNY Old Westbury
Discussants:
Patrick O’Sullivan, SUNY Old Westbury
Cecilia Winters, Manhattanville College
Al Mickens, New York University
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