World Association for Political Economy

 

WAPE [2006] No.5

                                                                              

 

Call for Papers

The 2nd Forum of the World Association for Political Economy (WAPE), on

The Political Economy of the Contemporary Relationship between Labor and Capital in the World

To be held on October 27-28, 2007 at the University of Shimane, Japan

 

l  About WAPE

WAPE, registered at Hong Kong, China, is an international academic organization founded on open, non-profit and voluntary basis by Marxian economists and related groups all around the world. The standing body of WAPE includes the council, secretariat, academic committee and advisory committee. The mission of WAPE is to utilize modern Marxian economics to analyze and study the world economy, reveal the law of development and its mechanism, offer proper policies to promote the economic and social improvement on the national and global level, so as to improve the welfare of all the people in the world. In April, 2006, over one hundred Marxian economists from 15 countries, namely, China, the U.S.A., Japan, Russia, Germany, the U.K., France, Canada, Austria, Belgium, South Korea, Vietnam, India, Israel, and Luxemburg attended the 1st forum of WAPE to discuss on the topic “Economic Globalization and Modern Marxian Economics” and delivered The Manifesto of the 1st forum of WAPE.

 

l  The Topics of the 2nd Forum of WAPE

1.      The general evolution of the modern relationship between labor and capital and its characteristics in the contemporary era.

2.      The history, current character, and trend in the relationship between labor and capital in different countries.

3.      The theory and practice of labor movement and trade union movement.

4.      The main theories of the relationship between labor and capital and class struggle in the history of Marxism.

5.      Review of the theories of class, stratum, and class contradiction of bourgeois economics and other social sciences.

6.      The theoretical analysis of the relationship between labor and capital, class, stratum and their contradictions in modern Marxian economics.

7.      The construction and development of modern Marxian labor economics.

8.      Imperialism and peace movement in the world.

 

l  Schedule

1.      Registration on October 26, 2007;

2.      Official program on October 27 through October 28, 2007;

3.      Excursion of Hiroshima on October 29, 2007. (Hiroshima, where atomic bomb was dropped, is very near to Shimane.)

 

l  Venue

The University of Shimane, Japan.

 

l  Expenses

All the expenses during the conference such as travel, lodging, excursion and conference fee, which includes food and drinks, pick-up service, the publication of the papers and so on, will be covered by the participants.

 

l  Submission of Papers

Please email your application, the full text of your paper on the above topics together with its shortened version of about 3000 words in English and your curriculum vitae (including your affiliation, list of published papers, contacting information and so on) before June 30, 2007 to hpjjx@vip.163.com (Dr. Xiaoqin Ding/Allen Ding, deputy secretary general of WAPE), and we will send you our formal invitation.

Marxian economists all over the world are welcome to the forum and are supposed to cooperate with each other to enlarge and strengthen the influence of Marxian economics in the world!

 

 

 

 

 

The WAPE Secretariat                                                  September, 2006