The seminar builds on two lines of research within agricultural economics and sociology, trying to fit them together and to show their future perspectives. The first is research concerned with explaining structural change. The last two decades have seen enormous progress in constructing...

We will be organizing three sessions on gender-related topics and three sessions on nongender-related topics. For the gender-related sessions, we are particularly interested in receiving proposals on the under-representation of women in undergraduate economics majors, on the gender implications...

The conference will consist of six paper sessions including three jointly sponsored with the Association for Social Economics (ASE), Economists Allied for Arms Reduction (ECAAR), and the Union for Radical Political Economists, a special program for doctoral students and the Membership Reception...

As with any ACR conference, the Latin American conference will provide a multi-topical forum for scholarly presentations, discussions, and collaborations on consumer behavior. In addition, a theme for this conference has been established to encourage some attendees to focus on a set of issues...

The conference will consist of twenty paper sessions including two jointly sponsored with the American Economic Association (AEA) and the American Finance Association (AFA). There will also be a special program for doctoral students, and social events. The topical focus of the sessions will...

The January 2006 Labor and Employment Relations Association (new name for the IRRA) meeting in Boston will inaugurate a new era for the association-a new name, a new sense of mission for a new century. President Stephen R. Sleigh has selected a theme for this conference that seeks to link our...