From the Editor

The 4th issue of the Heterodox Economics Newsletter has some old calls for papers, in particular the Conference on Radical Economics in the 20th Century and the Association for Heterodox Economics 2005 Conference on Pluralism in Economics. Some of the new calls for papers include the 10th Karl Polanyi Conference that is taking place in Turkey at the home university of my assistant—so it must be a great location for a conference. Other new calls for papers include the Economics Rights Conference, an ‘After Financial Deregulation’ Conference, Australian History of Economic Thought Conference, and the Economic Theory and Policy conference located in the Basque country. There is also an announcement of the AHE 4th ESRC funded post-graduate workshop on advanced research methods. The workshop is the best and the only one of its kind in the world for heterodox post-graduate students. Not only do students get a critical understanding of econometrics, they also get introduced to various kinds of qualitative research methods and uses of qualitative/quantitative methods for theory creation. This workshop is the frontier for research methods for heterodox economists. If you want your post-graduate students to do something more than mindlessly crank out econometric results, if you want your students to build a better heterodox theory, then send them to the workshop as it is the future of heterodox economics. While the workshop is designed for UK post-graduate students, it is in fact open to any and all students from around the world. There are a couple of new job postings from the University of Nevada at Reno and Hamburg University of Economics and Politics. This latter position involves a Marie Curie Chair for European Studies in heterodox economics. Check it out of you would like to spend 3 years in Germany doing some really interesting research. Finally, the Newsletter lists a new heterodox association – Centre for Alternative Economic Policy Research, and the 2004 Keynes Lecture at the British Academy, which is a bit neoclassical but you can hear it online. So if you have not heard a Keynes Lecture, now is your chance.

Fred Lee

In this issue:

- Call for Papers

            - Conference on Radical Economics in the 20th Century: Radical Economics and the Labor Movement
             - Association for Heterodox Economics 7th Annual Conference
             - EAEPE Annual Meeting 2005
             - TENTH INTERNATIONAL KARL POLANYI CONFERENCE
             - ECONOMIC RIGHTS: CONCEPTUAL, MEASUREMENT, AND POLICY ISSUES
             - AFTER “DEREGULATION”: THE FINANCIAL SYSTEM IN THE 21ST CENTURY
             - Does Economics Have a Useful Past?
             - 2nd International Conference Developments in Economic Theory and Policy

- Conferences, Seminars and Lectures

- Fourth ESRC funded post graduate workshop on advanced research methods

- Job Postings for Heterodox Economists

            - University of Missouri-Kansas City
             - University of Bremen
             - University of Nevada at Reno – Home of the Journal of Economic Issues
             - The Centre of International Studies at the Hamburg University of Economics and Politics

- Heterodox Associations

- Centre for Alternative Economic Policy Research

- Heterodox Announcements

- European Economists for an Alternative Economic Policy in Europe
- The Keynes Lecture 2004 at the British Academy

Professor Frederic S. Lee

Department of Economics

University of Missouri-Kansas City

5100 Rockhill Road

Kansas City, Missouri 64110

USA

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