Paul Auerbach presents The Giant Firm as a Model of Socialist Co-ordination: How the Centrally Planned Economy was Inspired by the Second Industrial Revolution to the Modern and Comparative Economic History Seminar Group at the LSE.

With sadness, we note the passing of Emeritus Professor Subrata Ghatak, who has unexpectedly suffered a fatal heart attack. Subrata led our research activities from 1997 until his retirement in 2005, since when he continued a close association with the School. His passing is mourned by an extensive network of friends and colleagues throughout the UK and abroad. A funeral will take place on Saturday 21 January 2012 at 9.45am at the Heart of England Crematorium, Heart of England Way, Nuneaton, Warwickshire CV11 6WZ, England.

The International Journal of Economic Issues has published Financial Liberalisation and Endogenous Growth in Bangladesh: cointegration analysis with regime shifts by Subrata Ghatak and Jalal Siddiki, as pages 191-207 of its July-December 2011 issue. This paper identifies a long-run relationship between growth and financial liberalisation when regime shifts are incorporated into the empirical analysis.

A book launch for “A Modern Guide To Keynesian Macroeconomics And Economic Policies”, edited by Eckhard Hein and Engelbert Stockhammer, takes place on Tuesday, 8 November 2011, 5.30 – 7.30 pm at UCL, organised by the Post Keynesian Economics Study Group.

The Oxford Review of Economic Policy (2011 27: 295-311) has published "Wage norms, capital accumulation, and unemployment: a post-Keynesian view" by Engelbert Stockhammer.

Dr. Simrit Kaur, Professor of Public Policy at the Faculty of Management Studies, University of Delhi, India, begins a three-week visit to establish collaborative research projects.