:: Centro Celso Furtado ::

July 14-17, 2025

Schedule: TBA
Invited Speakers: TBA

CALL FOR PAPERS
April 15: submission deadline
May 01: notification of selected papers

Recently, sustainable development and the environmental implications of economic development have attracted increasing attention in the economic debate. Particularly in relation to issues such as climate change, resource depletion, renewable energy and loss of biodiversity. There is growing recognition that economic development must address environmental damage in order to achieve long-term sustainability by reducing carbon footprints, promoting renewable energy and the responsible use of natural resources. In response, governments and institutions are increasingly adopting green economic practices. At the same time, there have been major demographic shifts in both advanced and developing countries.

Conventional economics often links the solution of the green transition to market-friendly policies, incentives and the elimination of interventionist distortions, and the demographic transition with austerity policies. However, in our view, these transitions require the design and coordination of public policies and the provision of public goods. A possible alternative approach to the conventional view is to align the necessary green and demographic transitions with demand-led growth and its policy implications.

This is particularly connected to the vision of the organizers and participants of the Demand-led Growth Workshop, currently in its sixth edition. This line of research seeks to make the Keynesian-Kaleckian principle of effective demand compatible with the classical surplus approach. Growth, in this view, is demand-led and restricted by economic policy and the balance of payments. Within this framework, macroeconomic policies are fundamental to growth, inflation and income distribution. The workshop organizers believe that building policy-relevant analyses, in addition to theoretical and applied models to better understand the current performance of advanced and developing countries, will contribute the soundness of this theoretical approach.

The aim of the 6th edition of the Workshop is to strengthen this promising trend by promoting a constructive and policy-relevant debate between these strands of critical thinking. Other heterodox approaches to economics are also welcomed and encouraged to promote new contributions on demand-led growth analysis, models and the multiplicity of relationships with monetary and financial elements. We encourage submission that broadly falls within the topics of the conference, and in particular on the relationship between ‘demand-led growth and the green and demographic transitions’. The Workshop aims to provide an opportunity for participants to discuss questions about the relationship between demand-led growth and sustainable development.

ARTICLES THAT BROADLY FALL WITHIN THE FOLLOWING TOPICS ARE WELCOME:

Demand-led growth and sustainable development;
Fiscal policy for the green transition;
Green finance and the role of central banks;
Climate change and the analysis of the decarbonization of the economy;
Input-output analysis of the green transition and structural change;
Carbon markets and taxation in demand-led growth models
Demographic transition from a demand-led growth perspective;
Monetary and fiscal policy, Central Bank, monetary and financial channels in an open economy;
Demand-led growth, capital flows and external constraints;
Growth regimes, growth engines, growth models and autonomous demand: debates between post-Keynesians and comparative political economy;
Conflict inflation, personal and functional income distribution;
Structuralism, classical political economy and demand-led growth;
Demand-led growth, theories of stagnation and stagnation policies;
Demand-led growth, capacity utilization and labor unemployment;
Demand-led growth and macroeconomic policies;
Functional finance: implications for monetary and fiscal policies;
Stock-flow and monetary circuit approaches to money and finance;
Monetary and financial determinants and constraints of demand-led growth.

Papers should be written in English and contain a title, abstract (maximum 200 words), authors' names, institution and e-mail address. It is recommended that articles have a maximum of 8000 words.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

Carlos Pinkusfeld Monteiro Bastos (Centro Celso Furtado and UFRJ)
Guilherme Morlin (University of Pisa)
Gustavo Bhering (UFRJ)
João Vaz (IE/UFRJ)
Letícia Inácio (IE/UFRJ)
Lidia Brochier (UFRJ)
Louis-Philippe Rochon (Laurentian University)
Manuel Valencia (YSI)
Matias Vernengo (Bucknell University)
Nathalie Marins (Boston University)
Nikolas Passos (European University Institute)
Ricardo de Figueiredo Summa (UFRJ)

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

Clara Brenck (UFMG)
Guilherme Haluska (UNILA)
Guilherme Morlin (University of Pisa)
Gustavo Bhering (UFRJ)
Lilian Rolim (Unicamp)
Maria Cristina Barbieri Goes (University of Bergamo)
Nathalie Marins (Boston University)
Ricardo de Figueiredo Summa (UFRJ)
Sylvio Kappes (UFAL)

CONTACT: demandledgw@ie.ufrj.br

Notícias

6th International Workshop on Demand-Led Growth: The green and demographic transitions