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Alternative Approaches Research Group

Researchers
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Ivano Cardinale - Lecturer, Goldsmiths College, University of London
Ha-Joon Chang - University Reader
Phil Faulkner - Fellow, Senior College Teaching Officer, Director of Studies in Economics (Clare College)
Tony Lawson - Professor of Economics and Philosophy
Clive Lawson - College Teaching Officer (Girton College)
Jose Gabriel Palma - Emeritus Senior Lecturer

Research Grants
  • Isrf Professorial Research Fellowship (ISRF) - Lawson, T.

Published Papers
TitleAuthorsJournalYear
Unknowns, Black Swans and the risk/uncertainty distinction Faulkner, P., Feduzi, A., and Runde, J.Cambridge Journal of Economics (2017)
Cambridge Social Ontology: Clarification, Development and Deployment Faulkner, P., Pratten, S., and Runde, J.Cambridge Journal of Economics (2017)
What is wrong with modern economics, and why does it stay wrong? Lawson, T.Journal of Australian Political Economy (2017)
Social Positioning and the Nature of Money Lawson, T.Cambridge Journal of Economics (2016)
Why corporations in developing countries are likely to be even more susceptible to the vicissitudes of international finance than their counterparts in the developed world: A Tribute to Ajit Singh Palma, J. G. Economic and Labour Relations Review (2016)
Ontology and social relations: reply to Doug Porpora and to Colin Wight Lawson, T.Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour (2016)
Industrial policy and the future of manufacturing Andreoni, A. and Chang, H. J.Economia e Politica Industriale (2016)
Comparing Conceptions of Social Ontology Lawson, T.Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour (2016)

Cambridge Working Papers in Economics
TitleAuthorsCWPE NumberYear
Do nations just get the inequality they deserve? The 'Palma Ratio' re-examined Palma, J. G.CWPE1627 (2016)
Why corporations in developing countries are likely to be even more susceptible to the vicissitudes of international finance than their counterparts in the developed world: A Tribute to Ajit Singh Palma, J. G.CWPE1539 (2015)
Comparing Conceptions of Social Ontology: Emergent Social Entities and/or Institutional Facts? Lawson, T.CWPE1514 (2015)
Has the income share of the middle and upper-middle been stable over time, or is its current homogeneity across the world the outcome of a process of convergence? The 'Palma Ratio' revisited Palma, J. G.CWPE1437 (2014)
Latin America's social imagination since 1950. From one type of 'absolute certainties' to another - with no (far more creative)'uncomfortable uncertainties' in sight, Palma, J. G.CWPE1416 (2014)
How to create a financial crisis by trying to avoid one: the Brazilian 1999-financial collapse as "Macho-Monetarism" can't handle "Bubble Thy Neighbour" levels of inflows Palma, J. G.CWPE1301 (2013)
Was Brazil's recent growth acceleration the world's most overrated boom? Palma, J. G.CWPE1248 (2012)
How the full opening of the capital account to highly liquid financial markets led Latin America to two and a half cycles of ‘mania, panic and crash’ Palma, J. G.CWPE1201 (2012)
Homogeneous middles vs. heterogeneous tails, and the end of the ‘Inverted-U’: the share of the rich is what it's all about Palma, J. G.CWPE1111 (2011)
Why has productivity growth stagnated in most Latin-American countries since the neo-liberal reforms? (Revised 26-07-2011) Palma, J. G.CWPE1030 (2010)

Alternative Approaches Research Group


Rajani Kanth and Genevieve Vaughan
'Eurocentrism and the Gift Economy: A Critique and an Envisioning'
Monday 12th March 2018 8:00pm
Latimer Room, Old Court, Clare College
Paul Lewis - CANCELLED
'Ontology and the History of Economic Thought'
Monday 26th February 2018 8:00pm
Latimer Room, Old Court, Clare College
Łukasz Hardt
(University of Warsaw)
'Classical economists as advocates of economics without laws'
Monday 12th February 2018 8:00pm
Latimer Room, Old Court, Clare College
Full Realist Workshop Series


Events

07 Sep

Conference Marking 25 Years of the Cambridge Realist Workshop
Newnham College

Recent Publications

Andreoni, A. and Chang, H. J. Industrial policy and the future of manufacturing Economia e Politica Industriale [2016]
Faulkner, P., Pratten, S., and Runde, J. Cambridge Social Ontology: Clarification, Development and Deployment Cambridge Journal of Economics [2017]
Faulkner, P., Feduzi, A., and Runde, J. Unknowns, Black Swans and the risk/uncertainty distinction Cambridge Journal of Economics [2017]


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Do nations just get the inequality they deserve? The 'Palma Ratio' re-examined, Palma, J. G.

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Why corporations in developing countries are likely to be even more susceptible to the vic..., Palma, J. G.

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Comparing Conceptions of Social Ontology: Emergent Social Entities and/or Institutional Fa..., Lawson, T.
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