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Sedat Aybar is Associate Professor of Economics and currently Head of Department of Economics, at Kadir Has University in Istanbul. He has worked in Asia and Africa on development projects and taught at a variety of universities in the UK and abroad. He has published extensively on political economy of money and finance, international economics, economic theory and development economics.
Paulo L dos Santos lectures in capital markets, finance and microeconomic theory at the School of Oriental and African Studies. His research focuses on the political economy of capital markets, financial intermediation, and the internationalisation of banking. He is also a specialist in the political economy of the Philippine banking sector. He has written extensively on the transformation of contemporary banking, technological innovation, and on the entry of foreign banks into middle-income economies.
Gary Dymski is a professor at the department of economics of the University of California, Riverside. Since 2003, he has been founding Director of the University of California Center, Sacramento. Gary has several books, including The Bank Merger Wave (1999), and six co-edited volumes. His most recent book publications are Capture and Exclude: Developing Nations and the Poor in Global Finance (Tulika Books, New Delhi, 2007), co-edited with Amiya Bagchi, and Reimagining Growth: Toward a Renewal of the Idea of Development, co-edited with Silvana DePaula (Zed, London, 2005), including Reimagining Growth: Toward a Renewal of the Idea of Development, co-edited with Silvana DePaula (Zed, 2005). Gary has published more than 100 articles and chapters on banking, financial fragility, urban development, microcredit, credit-market discrimination and redlining, the Latin American and Asian financial crises, economic exploitation, housing finance, the subprime crisis, and financial governance.
Sherif Elkholy specialises on private equity and structured financing, having worked with Actis Capital, HSBC, and EFG-Hermes in Egypt. His research interests are in the economics and the political economy of asset-backed securitization in emerging markets with a special focus on Egypt.
Nuray Ergunes currently lectures in the Economics Department of Maltepe University, Turkey. Her research interests include banking and finance, gender, and the Turkish Economy. Recent publications are ‘Banks, Accumulation, Corruption: the Banking Sector of Turkey after 1980s’, SAV Publications, 2008; ‘Neoliberalism, Informalisation and Women Labour’, Iktisat Review, 2008; and ‘Restructuring of Finance Capital in the Process of Internationalisation of Capital’, in ‘Actual Issues of Capitalism in Turkey’ Dipnot Publications, 2008.
Diego Guerrero is professor of Political Economy in the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. His latest published books are Un resumen completo de El capital de Marx, MAIA, 2008; and La explotación: Trabajo y capital en España (1954-2001), El Viejo Topo, 2006. He is the author of other books about the Spanish economy, competitiveness, macroeconomics and crisis, political economy and ‘A History of the Heterodox Economic Thought’ (1997, 2008). He is a member of Asalariados sin Fronteras (Wage Workers Without Frontiers).
Makoto Itoh is Professor of Economics, Kokushikan University, in Tokyo, Emeritus Professor of the University of Tokyo, and a member of the Japan Academy. He has taught at several Universities abroad, including the New School of Social Research, New York University, the University of London, the University of Sydney, and others. His books in English include: ‘Value and Crisis’, Monthly Review Press and Pluto Press, 1980. (translated into Dutch, French, Korean and Chinese). ‘The Basic Theory of Capitalism, Macmillan’, 1988. ‘The World Economic Crisis and Japanese Capitalism’, Macmillan, 1990. ‘Political Economy for Socialism’, Macmillan,1995. ‘Political Economy of Money and Finance’ (with Costas Lapavitsas), Macmillan, 1999. ‘The Japanese Economy Reconsidered’, Palgrave, 2000.
Elif Karacimen researches the financialisation of the Chinese economy and the political economy of Turkish banking at Soas.
George Labrinidis is a PhD candidate in UADPhilEcon, the University of Athens Doctoral Program in Economics. His research looks into the nature of contemporary world money and its management, following the significant changes that have occurred since the mid 1970’s in the structure of the capitalist mode of production. He is a scholar of the State Scholarships Foundation, Greece.
Costas Lapavitsas teaches economics at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He has done research in the political economy of money and finance, the Japanese economy, history of economic thought, economic history, and the contemporary world economy. He has published widely, and his books include ‘Political Economy of Money and Finance’ (with M. Itoh), MacMillan, 1999, ‘Development Policy in the Twenty-first Century’ (with B. Fine and J. Pincus), Routledge, 2001, ‘Social Foundations of Markets, Money and Credit, Routledge, 2003, and ‘Beyond Market-Driven Development’ (with M. Noguchi), Routledge, 2005.
Iren Levina is a PhD student at University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her research is focused on political economy of finance and development of a Marxist theory of finance in its interrelationship with circuit of total social capital. She is also interested in methodology and philosophy of political economy. She has published work on the relationship between the financial and non-financial systems of the economy, and on the concept of contradiction.
Duncan Lindo has extensive experience of derivatives in a large financial institution from both a controlling and a trading perspective, including most recently in the emerging area of active counterparty risk management. His research interests centre on derivatives: uses, users, their extraordinary expansion over recent years and the implications for developing economies.
Carlos Morera Camacho is a Professor at the Economic Research Institute of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He has also taught in several Mexican universities and was a guest researcher at Oxford University and the Federal University of Bahía. He is the author and co-author of several books and chapters of books, among them El capital financiero en México y la globalización, Era Mexico City 1997; Globalización inserción de México y alternativas incluyentes para el siglo XXI, Porrúa-UNAM-IIEc; Mexico City, 2001; Mexico: Work Process, Oil Revenue and Financial Restructuring in World Economy´, published in the proceedings of the international symposium held in Beijing, China. Morera has been a speaker at seventy national and international seminars.
Juan Pablo Painceira is currently carrying out research in the political economy of money and finance at SOAS, University of London. He is also interested in the philosophy of science and macroeconomics. He has worked for several years on the Brazilian financial sector, at the Banco Central do Brasil. He has published work on financial instability, the South Korean financial system, and economic method.
Demophanes Papadatos works in the banking sector in Greece. He is also currently undertaking research in the political economy of money and finance at SOAS, University of London. His research interests include money and finance, economic development and macroeconomics.
Jeff Powell worked as Coordinator of the Bretton Woods Project, a UK NGO which acts as a watchdog of the World Bank and IMF. Jeff has also worked with community economic development initiatives in Southeast Asia and Latin America, with a special focus in community-level responses to financial crisis. He is currently pursuing doctoral research on the role of commercial banking in economic development.
José Antonio Rojas Nieto is a Professor at the Academy of Political Economy and (until 1990) as professor in postgraduate studies in the Energy Economics Programme in the UNAM Economics Department. He has also worked as a technical specialist at Mexico’s Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) since 1991. He has conducted research on energy economics since 1980, and received UNAM’s “Jesus Silva Herzog” Economy Award in 1986. He has also been a regular contributor to the national dailies unomásuno and, more recently, La Jornada.
Yoshihiko Saito is Professor at the Department of Economics of Dokkyo University, Japan. Since 2007 he has been Director of the Japanese Society for the Economic Analysis of Securities. He has published widely, and his books include ‘Retail Banking in Britain’, Jicho-sha, 1994, ‘Thrift Institutions and Institutional Investors in Britain’, Nihon-Keizai-Hyoron-sha, 1999, and ‘Japan’s Monetary Policy and Bank Behaviour in the Era of Financial Liberalization’, Nihon-Keizai-Hyoron-sha, 2006.
Engelbert Stockhammer is associate professor at the Vienna University of Economics and Business. His research areas include macroeconomics, financialisation, European integration, and heterodox economics. He has published articles on issues such as the finance-dominated accumulation regime, demand effects of changes in functional income distribution, and economic policy in Europe as well as a book on 'The rise of unemployment in Europe' (Edward Elgar, 2004).
Jan Toporowski has worked in fund management, international banking, and central banking. His most recent book, Theories of Financial Disturbance, was published by Edward Elgar in 2005. Since 2004 he has been teaching at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.
