Call for Paper - swufe-20120610.pdf2012 International Conference on Trends and Cycles in Global Dynamics and Perspectives of World Development
October 13–15, 2012
Chengdu, China
Co-organizers:
School of Economics, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics (China)
Faculty of Global Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University (Russia)
Institute of Economics Russian Academy of Sciences (Russia)
Though there are numerous studies about economic cycles, such issue remains high importance. In addition, the economic and financial globalization has substantially increased the risks of such cyclical fluctuations as well.
This year’s conference marks the 120th anniversary of economist Nikolai Kondratieff´s birth, as well as the 90th anniversary of the publication of his Mirovoye khozyaistvo i ego conyunktury vo vremya i posle voiny [The World Economy and its Conjunctures during and after the War] (Vologda, 1922), where he first spelled out the idea of long cycles, which is known as Kondratieff cycles or Kondratieff waves (or K-waves for short) later.
The conference will also address issues of global trends and globalization with both national and supranational, group and world interests. Global changes are forthcoming, but not all of them will take a distinct shape. One may say that these will be such changes that could prepare the world for the transition to a new phase of globalization whose contours are unclear yet. All these determine the importance of the discussion of the current processes, which can be analyzed from various angles and with respect to various geographical regions, as well as the importance of activities in the realm of the global forecasting.
In this year´s conference program, beside keynote speech by world-class economists and concurrent sessions by contributed authors, we plan to host two summit forums, one for world´s famous academic associations and one for world´s famous academic journal editors. Both of these two summit forums will address the development, coorpertion and publication in the study of globalization, international trade, as well as international finance. We are also seeking for the opportunities of publishing Ｓelected conference papers in referred journals as special issues.
This year, the conference will be held in Chengdu, Sichuan, China. Over 14 million in population according to the 2010 census and flight time of 2 hours from Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong, the city of Chengdu is the gateway to major southwest China tourist attractions and ranked very high among the most livable cities in China. Among its own top attractions are spicy cuisine (especially hotpot), tea drinking life style and natural beauty abounds in surrounding areas. For more information about Chengdu, please visit:
http://www.chengdu.gov.cn/echengdu/index/indexnew.jsp
http://www.lonelyplanet.com/china/sichuan/chengdu
In the last day of the conference, local site visit will be arranged. Two possible destinations are Dujiang dam as well as the surrounding reconstruction achievements from the 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake, and Chengdu Panda Breeding and Research Center which is home to many giant pandas.
Conference participants with paper will be charged a registration fee of USD 100.00 or RMB 600.00 (participants from universities in Chengdu will be waived for this fee), and participants without paper will be charged a registration fee of USD 300.00 or RMB 1800.00, paid on site. This registration fee will cover conference materials, meals, some local transportation, as well as orgnized site visit. Please note that the travel cost to Chengdu and local accomodation will not be covered. However, we will help the conference participants be accomodated in a hotel near SWUFE´s Liulin Campus with discounted rate, which is aroud RMB 280.00 per night. If the conference participants are willing to stay longer in chengdu and visit more tourism sites, we will help them contact local travel agencies but the associated cost needs to be paid by their own.
The conference will address a wide range of topics, such as:
Economic cycles with different periods;
Economic cycles and the current global crisis;
Cyclical dynamics in political, social, and cultural spheres and perspectives of the global development;
K-waves at all levels of the economy, society, politics and culture;
Economic crises and dynamics;
Mechanisms of K-wave dynamics;
Major trends of global development;
Global trends of technological growth;
Global development forecasts;
Globalization and the open macro-economy;
Globalization and international trade;
Globalization and transboundary capital flow as well as FDI;
Globalization and the relationship between the developing countries and developed countries;
Globalization and the population and poverty issues;
Globalization and the migration as well as the urbanization issue;
Globalization and the climate, environment as well as the sustainability;
Globalization and the regional economic integration;
Economic, political, social, and cultural dimensions of globalization;
Philosophy of globalization and global perspectives.
We believe that this conference will help to conduct an exchange of opinions and ideas in the study of Trends and Cycles in Global Dynamics and Perspectives of World Development, Globalization Studies, as well as International Trade and International Finance.
Prospective contributors are invited to send us titles, abstracts with 300-500 words, key words, JEL classification of their possible papers along with the author’s information by July 15, 2012. You will receive a notification by e-mail once your paper is accepted (or rejected) by the end of July, 2012. Once accepted into the conference, a full length paper will be requested and the full paper is also encouraged in the submission. Please send your paper or abstract to Prof. Lu Liu at liulu@swufe.edu.cn .
