After the fall of the Soviet Bloc in 1991 a number of prominent researchers explored the diverse forms of capitalism and their evolution. Much of this literature countered both mainstream and orthodox Marxist views that capitalism would tend to gravitate towards one form, such as the Western...

Family structures in all industrial and post-industrial societies are changing rapidly, as is the economic security that is granted or can be granted within families. Social security systems are challenged to react to these changes, for they shape current developments and also set the course for...

The conference theme is: Inequality over the life course. We also welcome submissions on all relevant areas of sociological research, notably the labour market, education, gender, the family, migration and ethnicity, urban and spatial inequalities, political sociology, health and well-being,...

This EAAE seminar aims to provide answers to these challenges by addressing the following topics: - Definition, measurement and monitoring of income, wealth and well-being, - Distribution of income among the farm population and the effects of agricultural policies on income distribution, - Risk...

Researchers with an interest in political economy (the interface between economics and politics) are invited to submit papers for the 2019 Silvaplana workshop. Papers can be theoretical and/or empirical. The primary criterion is that papers be judged interesting by the program committee. The...

The theme of the conference is Globalization 2.0: China and the World Market. Leaders from academia, industry, and government are invited to gather in Guangzhou. They will focus on the frontiers of marketing theory and social hotspots, sharing the wisdom of smart companies with practical cases....

The theme of the 2019 Academy of Marketing Science World Marketing Congress draws on the historical significance of Edinburgh as the birthplace of the ‘Scottish Enlightenment’, an intellectual movement that centred on reason and advanced the ideas of liberty, progress and the scientific...

The 6th RDW Conference on "Work and well-being in the 21st century" invites papers around four thematic areas: - transitions and transformations in the world of work; - rethinking capitalism; - well-being in the world of work; - building and renewing institutions: a social contract for the 21st...

The Conference theme is "When you tire of marketing you tire of life". Marketing is, in the eyes of many in society, the driving force for growth and change in our world. Despite this, marketers are the first to be maligned when things seem to go wrong. Marketing is, in some quarters, almost a...

The 2019 conference theme, Solidarities and Challenges at the Intersection of Inequalities, invites scholars, practitioners and activists engaged with the field of feminist economics to bring questions of ‘identity’ and ‘place’ into one of the most important debates in the current era:...