Publications

ACE Publications

The Association’s conferences and research projects constitute the primary sources of its publication program. Publications often involve collaboration with other organizations. The nature of ACE publications may range from scholarly research papers to policy papers, essays, bibliographies, textbooks or other educational and/or informational resources.

 Occasional publications have addressed topics of interest to the Association, the professional community of economists and the broader Caribbean community. ACE’s thematic concerns evolve in response to the changing economic order, but ACE also seeks to be pro-active, dealing with issues before they enter the mainstream of disciplinary and public policy discourse. The biennial Conferences of Caribbean Economists (organized by ACE) have been and will remain a significant source for the publication program of the Association. However, publications are also based on the results of other activities undertaken by the Association or its individual members, and often involve collaboration with other organizations. The nature of the Association’s occasional publications may range from scholarly research papers to policy papers, essays, bibliographies, textbooks or other educational and/or informational resources.

Selected papers from the ACE conferences have been published as follows:

·         Development in Suspense [selected papers and proceedings of the First Conference of Caribbean Economists], edited by Norman Girvan and George Beckford (FES/ACE: 1989).

·         Integration and Participatory Development [papers from the Second Conference of Caribbean Economists], edited by Judith Wedderburn (FES/ACE: 1990).

·         Debt and Restructuring in the Caribbean [papers from the Second Conference of Caribbean Economists, special issue of the journal Caribbean Studies, volume 24, numbers 1-2, 1991], edited by Marta Magaly Quiñones and Pedro J. Rivera (IEC(UPR)/ACE: 1991).

·         Restructuración, crisis y crecimiento: La experiencia Caribeña [selected papers from the Third Conference of Caribbean Economists], edited by Pedro J. Rivera (FES/Ford Foundation/ACE: 1993).

·         Roads to Competitiveness: Human Development with Export Growth [papers from the Fourth Conference of Caribbean Economists], edited by Macklenan F. Hasham (UNA/ACE: 1995).

·         Caribbean Economies and Global restructuring [papers from the Sixth Conference of Caribbean Economists], edited by Marie-Claude Derné & Keith Nurse (ACE: 2002), also published in French as Economies de la Caraïbe et restructuration mondiale.

Other ACE publications are:

·         Ace Newsletter

ACE Bulletin - The Bulletin is scheduled for publication twice a year. The purpose of the Bulletin is to inform members and other interested parties of the work, progress and latest news of the Association. The contents of the Bulletin may typically vary from reports on events (conferences, seminars), announcements of upcoming events, news from the Executive Committee, reports on research projects, short papers authored by members, and other selected items of interest.

Marronage - This ACE Journal provides an intellectual space within which economists working on the Caribbean can exchange the results of their research with each other and the wider world. It is intended to “carry” thoughts on subjects varying from the Caribbean role in the international economy to trade liberalization, poverty, and cultural and ecological economics. Issues of Marronage normally center on particular themes but this does not preclude the acceptance of individual articles that fall outside of the given themes.
The first issue (volume 1, number 1, September 1998) of Marronage was guest edited by Dennis Pantin and Dhanayshar Mahabir and was dedicated to the theme “Plantation Economy Revisited.”