> Dear Colleague,
>
> You may have heard through the grapevine that we
> are UMKC are developing a Post Keynesian-Institutionalist-heterodox graduate
> economics program. Below is a brief overview of the program; and attached is
> a more detailed delineation of the program. If you have students that might
> be interested in our program, please get them to contact either Professor Jim
> Sturgeon or myself. If you would like flyers about the program or the
> complete graduate program handbook, please e-mail me your request and I will
> send you out the hard copies. If your department has a Post
> Keynesian-Institutionalist-heterodox graduate program in economics, I would
> like flyers/information about it so that I can make it known to our students
> as well.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Fred Lee
>
>
>
> University of Missouri, Kansas City
> Economics Graduate Degree Programs
>
> The Department offers graduate programs that
> emphasize an interdisciplinary, heterodox approach to economics. It trains
> students to teach in economic programs at liberal arts colleges and research
> universities in the United States and abroad and to conduct research in
> economic theory, applied economic issues, and policy-oriented problems.
>
> UMKC has a long tradition of Institutional,
> Keynesian and Post Keynesian Scholarship. Abba Lerner began his U.S. career
> here in 1936. John Hodges, the first Ph.D. student of C.E. Ayres, began as
> department chair in 1946. He started the tradition in Institutional economics
> that has been in place since.
>
> Ph.D. Program
>
> The Department of Economics offers an
> Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program that spans traditional boundaries among
> disciplines. The goal is to help students develop knowledge and skills for
> independent research on fundamental questions of the present and the future.
> The world of the future will require scholars with a global approach to
> problem solving. UMKC is in the forefront of developing programs designed to
> meet that challenge.
>
> Masters Program
>
> The M.A. program provides students with a sound,
> but critical grounding in both orthodox and heterodox theory, econometrics and
> applied research and policy. The degree has an applied track, leading to a
> terminal degree and one that prepares students for the Ph.D. or other advanced
> study.
>
> Application for Programs
>
> Applications for admission to the M.A. program
> are accepted at any time. The deadline for receipt of completed applications
> for the Ph.D. is February for the Fall semester and October 30 for the Winter
> semester.
>
> Financial Aid
>
> Several Graduate Assistantships and Fellowships,
> as well as other forms of Financial Aid, are available through the Department
> and Graduate School. Students apply directly to the Department.
>
> Ph.D. Fields of Specialization
>
> Macroeconomic, Microeconomic, and Institutional
> Theory
> Financial Theory
> Monetary Theory
> Industrial Organization
> History of Economic Thought
> Economic Methodology
> Human Resources
> Community Development
> Race, Class, and Gender
>
> Other fields may be designed subject to approval
> of the graduate committee.
>
> Co-Discipline
>
> In our Interdisciplinary Ph.D. program, each
> student has both a Coordinating Discipline (Major area) and a Co-discipline
> (Minor area). Co-disciplines that can be chosen include History, Mathematics,
> Political Science, Psychology, Public Administration, Sociology, Urban
> Leadership, and the Social Science Consortium.
>
> Social Science Consortium
>
> The Department is home to the Social Science
> Consortium. The SSC is an innovative interdisciplinary co-discipline in the
> Ph.D. program. It is one of the most popular programs for students with
> economics as their major area of study. It covers philosophy, methods, and
> theories in the social sciences.
>
> Economic Philosophy and Methodology Project
>
> The Department, jointly with the SSC, conducts
> an ongoing seminar as part of its Economic Philosophy and Methodology Project.
> The seminar deals with the work of C.S. Pierce, Roy Bashkar, John Dewey,
> Thorstein Veblen and others.
>
> Center for Full Employment and Price Stability
>
> The Center for Full Employment and Price
> Stability is a national policy center, producing original research and
> sponsoring national workshops on the use of full employment policies to
> achieve both stable economic growth and price stability.
>
> Center for Economic Information
>
> The research of the Center for Economic
> Information is typically oriented toward the public sector, and regularly
> involves the use of economic statistics, econometrics, environmental
> economics, database development and geographic information systems.
>
> University of Missouri-Kansas City
>
> Founded in 1933, UMKC is located on a wooded
> campus in the heart of Kansas City's cultural district. The university is
> centrally located with easy access to the rest of the metropolitan area. We
> have strong ties to the community and work in conjunction with the city for
> social change.
>
> Kansas City is a major metropolitan area in the
> center of the United States. It has a diverse population of nearly 2 million
> and offers a wide variety of cultural activities.
>
> For Application Information Contact
>
> Graduate Advisor
> Department of Economics
> University of Missouri-Kansas City
> 5100 Rockhill Road
> Kansas City, Missouri 64110
>
> e-mail: [log in to unmask]
> phone: 816-235-1314
>
> Application forms and other information are also
> at our Web Site: http://iml.umkc.edu/econ
>
>
>
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