This year’s AFEE conference theme integrates our studies of cultural institutions and capitalism within the context of continual crises. ‘Crises’ here is meant to be broadly interpreted. Of course, all papers that fall within the traditions of Veblen, Commons, Polanyi, Galbraith, Feminist...

Topics: - Modern Monetary Theory: Returning Realism to Macroeconomics; - Financing Progressive Programs; - Theories, Policies, and Institutions to Mitigate Climate Change; - Technological Innovation and Corporate Power: Returning Realism to Microeconomics; - Strengthening the Social Safety Set; -...

It is with sincere regret that the MEA Board announces the cancellation of the 84th Annual Conference originally scheduled from March 27-29, 2020. We take this action in response to the evolving health threat related to the COVID-19 outbreak in the US and under guidance about best practices from...

Paul D. Bush writes that “the idea of ‘progressive’ institutional change is a conceptual bridge” that makes institutional economics “a coherent body of thought in which theoretical and applied considerations can be tightly integrated” (Bush 1989, 455, emphasis added). As documented...

This year’s theme takes its cue from Veblen’s 1920 essay “The Vested Interests and the Common Man.” In it, he argues, the ownership of property in large holdings now controls the nation’s industry, and therefore it controls the conditions of life for those who are or who wish to be...

This conference is being held in conjunction with the EEA 2016 Annual Meeting.

This conference is being held in conjunction with the ASSA 2011 Annual Meeting. AFEE invites proposals for individual papers and complete panels on the topic of The Policy Relevance of Institutional Economics. As the second decade of the 21st century begins, nations across the globe face a...

The theme of the AFEE program will be: "Contributions of Institutional Economics to Public Policy Debates: Past and Present" These papers must be grounded in and contribute to the literature of Original Institutional Economics in the tradition of Commons, Veblen, Mitchell, Kapp, Myrdal, Polanyi,...