DEFINITELY LAST REQUEST—DON’T BE LEFT OUT

Dear Colleagues,

Previously with the help of Paddy Quick I compiled a list of universities/economic departments that had graduate programs in which heterodox economics was a significant component (see the attachment).  We now would like to compile a similar list of colleges and universities in the UNITED STATES AND ELSEWHERE AROUND THE WORLD whose undergraduate programs are broad, pluralistic and provide students with opportunities to examine and engage with mainstream and alternative/heterodox perspectives.  Our purpose for compiling this list is to identify those colleges and universities where new entrants into academia as well as others who are interested in engaging with and teaching heterodox economics can do so in a friendly, supportive academic environment.  What we are looking for is something like the following in terms of describing what your department is like [just to prevent confusion, this college does not exist, Commons, Robinson, and Hayek are all dead, and even if it did exist, its faculty would not be holding séances with them]:

Luxemburg Veblen College, Kansas City, Missouri  64110

The Economics Department is a pretty heterodox friendly place.  We have a political economy minor and regularly teach courses on Marxist and Institutionalist economics, have several other courses that include these as well as Post Keynesian, Feminist, Social, and Austrian perspectives.  During their junior and senior year students have the opportunity to take a trip during Spring break to visit a sister college in Nicaragua where they can see how co-operative enterprises work.  Finally, all majors in economics have a capstone course that has a community service component.  Our ethos is to provide students with the capability to engage and understand both neoclassical and the range of heterodox approaches and then let them make their own choices.  The Department brings in outside speakers three or four times a year.  This past year we had John R. Commons, Joan Robinson, and Friedrich Hayek as guest speakers.  We also have a faculty monthly seminar.  For further information about the Department go to our website:  http://www/lvc.econ.edu.

Try to keep the description under 200 words.  Please e-mail me the description of your department by November 15, 2004.  The list will first be published in the URPE Newsletter and the distributed widely via my Heterodox Economics Newsletter list all of which will take place in December.

So far I have received responses from

Ramapo College of New Jersey

the University of Michigan

University of Notre Dame

University of Vermont

Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Franklin and Marshall College

Lewis and Clark College

Evergreen State College

Michigan State University

Portland State University

Hampshire College

Connecticut College

Dickinson College

Bucknell University

Stetson University

University of Wisconsin-La Crosse

SUNY College at Cortland

Buffalo State College

New School University

University of Massachusetts-Boston

Texas Christian University

Roosevelt University

California State University, San Bernardino

Hobart and William Smith Colleges

University of Denver

University of Minnesota, Morris

 all in the United States; and from the United Kingdom

School of Oriental and African Studies

There are more undergraduate programs with some kind of heterodox component than this out there in the United States and around the world—so please send me information about your program and it does not have to be in English—any language is desirable.

Sincerely,

Fred Lee

Professor Frederic S. Lee

Department of Economics

University of Missouri-Kansas City

5100 Rockhill Road

Kansas City, Missouri 64110

USA

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