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Erten receives national recognition

Bilge Erten, a graduate student at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, has been selected as a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Scholar from a national applicant pool to attend one of 21 summer study opportunities supported by NEH.

The Endowment is a federal agency that each summer supports seminars and institutes at colleges and universities so that teachers can work in collaboration and study with experts in the humanities and related disciplines.

Erten will participate in an institute entitled “Teaching the History of Political Economy.”  The three-week program, which begins June 6, will be held at Duke University and directed by Dr. Bruce Caldwell, Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for the History of Political Economy at Duke. 

As one of only 25 selected scholars, Bilge Erten will explore the ideas of great economic thinkers.

More information about the Institute is available online at the Center for the History of Political Economy Web site, http://econ.duke.edu/HOPE/.

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Fourteen UMass Students Present at EEA

Fourteen UMass Amherst students presented papers at the Eastern Economic Conference last month in Philadelphia.  The Eastern Economic Association is a not-for-profit corporation whose object is to promote educational and scholarly exchange on economic affairs.

Presenters included:

Bengi Akbulut
“Interrogating the Turkish State and Sustainable Development:  The GEF Experience”

Hasan Cömert
“Did the Fed Trigger the U.S. Financial Crisis of 2008?”

Noah Enelow
“The Relationship between Ecology and Trade: Proposal for a Theoretical Framework”

Charalampos Konstantinidis
“When Everybody Cares: Environmental Technocratism and (the Need for) Radical Ecological Economics”

Iren Levina
“Towards a Dialectical Marxist Theory of Finance”

Cem Oyvat
“How Migration Affects the Inequality in Developing Countries:  A Critique of the Kuznets Curve”

Hyun Woong Park
“A Critique of the Circulationist Tendencies within the Social  Paradigmatic Approach to Marx’s Theory of Value”  
“Oversimplification of Overdetermination: A Critique of Overdeterminist Marxism”

Zhoachang Peng
“The Tragedy of ‘Quantitative Poverty Reduction’: An Analysis of What Has Gone Wrong with Rural Poverty Reduction in Post-Mao China” 
“From Bless to Curse: Releasing and Absorbing Agricultural Surplus Labor in Maoist and Post-Mao China”  

Luis Daniel Rosero
“Insuring Against Neighboring Crises: Contagion and the Reserve-Accumulation Decision by Latin American Central Banks”

Mark Silverman
“Causation and Constitutivity: A Critical Appraisal of Marxian Overdetermination”

Joao Paulo A. de Souza and Ben Zipperer
“Integrating Neo-Keynesian and Neo-Marxian Theories of Distribution”

Hasan Tekguc
“Importance of Food Self-Provisioning for Food Security of Rural Households”

Zhun Xu
“The Political Myth of Land Privatization in China”

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Valley to rally for econ Ph.D. student

Econ Ph.D. Student James Garang
Econ Ph.D. Student James Garang

James Garang has overcome extraordinary challenges to study economics at UMass Amherst. A recent news article described his ongoing odyssey and an upcoming event to support him.

Fundraiser aims to bring family together By LAURIE LOISEL, Daily Hampshire Gazette…

Garang is a former “Lost Boy” of Sudan and has been in the United States since being resettled here as a refugee in 2001.

He married his wife on a visit back to Sudan in June 2007, and their son was born after his return to Amherst, where he is a graduate student in economics at the University of Massachusetts.