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Issue-16, September 29, 2005
From the Editor
Dear Colleague,
This issue of the Heterodox Economics Newsletter marks its first
anniversary (as well as 32nd wedding anniversary). I have been quite
surprised and pleased at its reception by heterodox economists around
the world. I have been told many times by heterodox economists that the
Newsletter is their link to the heterodox economics community. As the
Newsletter begins its second year, I hope that it continues to
contribute to the building of heterodox economics.
Aside from the numerous interesting conferences, job postings, heterodox
newsletters, journals, etc. there are two items I would like to
particularly draw to your attention. The first is that the Association
for Social Economics seeks a new editor or editorial team for the Forum
for Social Economics to begin in 2006. The Forum is a refereed economics
journal published twice a year. The current editor is Patric Welch of
Saint Louis University. The Association seeks an individual or
individuals who have a vision for the journal, and seek to develop it as
a heterodox social economic voice. Proposals and inquiries should be
sent to John Davis ([log in to unmask]) and Patric Welch
([log in to unmask]) by January 1, 2006.
The second item is from Jane Clary, the Program Secretary for the
Association for Social Economics (ASE). It concerns two very IMPORTANT
issues regarding the ASSA meetings:
1) ASSA has changed the pre-registration fees so that AEA members pay
one rate ($60) and non-AEA members pay a higher rate ($75). The on-site
registration is the same for AEA members and non-members ($125).
2) ASSA is changing the way it calculates revenue shares for the 6
associations which were founders of ASSA and which share in the
revenue.ASE is one of those six, along with AEA, AFA, AAEA, Am.
Agricultural Economics Association, the Econometric Society, and Labor &
Employment Relations Association.
Here is what John Siegfried had to say in his letter:
"The AEA Executive Committee approved the discount for AEA members at
its April 22, 2005 meeting in order to provide a modest benefit to those
individuals who underwrite the annual ASSA meetings through their dues."
And "The new discount for AEA membership may cause registrants who are
members of more than one of the six participating (in net revenue)
associations to claim the AEA as their primary membership so as to be
eligible for the discount (when they had previously checked
anotherassociation). Because this would change revenue shares to the
disadvantage of the associations other than AEA, the Executive Committee
also voted to change the method of calculating shares. In 2006 and
beyond, registrants will be asked to indicate all of the participating
associations of which they are a member. Shares will be computed on the
basis of each association's membership among registrants relative to
thesum of all the registrants' memberships in the participating
associations."
What he does not tell us is that everyone who marks "OTHER" or who marks
NOTHING and LEAVES THIS BLANK is counted as AEA membership for the
calculation of monetary shares. The most recent numbers I have, from the
2002 meetings, are:
ORG % of Registered Participants Net Proceeds
AEA .688
$78,770
AAEA .020 $
2,295
AFA .142
$16,245
ASE .018 $
2,033
ES .080 $
9,159
IRRA .053 $
6,059
As you can see, nothing is allocated to "other" and to "blank" and ASSA
tells me that it all goes to AEA.
The implications of this for heterodox economists are the following:
(1) if you tick "other" or not tick anything at all, you are giving your
net contribution to the AEA AND THIS IS NOT SUPPORTING HETERODOX
ECONOMICS.
(2) if you want to support heterodox economics then you should tick the
box for ASE even if you are not a member. MORE STRONGLY, IF YOU ARE A
MEMBER OF URPE, AFEE, IAFFE, CSE, AHE, EAEPE, ETC. OR ARE A FREE
STANDING HETERODOX ECONOMIST, THEN YOU SHOULD TICK THE ASE BOX.
SUPPORTING THE ASE IS SUPPORTING HETERODOX ECONOMICS.
There is one final item-which is my recent Conference on Radical
Economics in the 20th Century: Radical Economics and the Labor Movement.
Many of the papers presented at the conference as well as conference
pictures etc. can be found at http://cas.umkc.edu/econ/iwwconf/.
Additional conference papers will be added over the next couple of
weeks.
Fred Lee
In this issue:
- Call for Papers
<http://l.web.umkc.edu/leefs/htn16.htm#Call_for_Papers>
- The Fourth Australian Society of Heterodox Economists
Conference
- Association for Institutional Thought [AFIT]
- New Approaches to the Design of Development Policies
- The State and Social Regulation
- The Association for Social Economics
- The Association for Georgist Studies
- How Class Works - 2006
- The Second Forum: "The Spirit of Innovation", 2006
- Globalisation and the Semiperiphery Workshop
- Conferences, Seminars and Lectures
<http://l.web.umkc.edu/leefs/htn16.htm#Conferences,_Seminars_and_Lecture
s>
- Creating a Culture of Full Employment Conference
- Institutional Economics and the Next Generation
Infrastructures
- International Conference on Institutional and Social
Economics
- London Marx-Hegel Reading Group
- Endgame at the WTO
- Historical Materialism Annual Conference 2005, 4-6 November
- European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy
- Job Postings for Heterodox Economists
<http://l.web.umkc.edu/leefs/htn16.htm#Job_Postings_for_Heterodox_Econom
ists>
- Greenwich Business School
- University of Memphis
- School of International Service American University,
Washington, D.C.
- Franklin & Marshall College
- California State University, Fresno
- Research Associate with the Research Institute on Social
and Economic Policy (RISEP), Florida International University
-University of Michigan-Dearborn, Dearborn-MI
- Heterodox Conference Papers, Reports and Articles
<http://l.web.umkc.edu/leefs/htn16.htm#Heterodox_Conference_Papers,_Repo
rts_and_Articles>
- "Banking and the Financing of Development: A Schumpeterian
and Minskyian Perspective"
- Heterodox Journals and Newsletters
<http://l.web.umkc.edu/leefs/htn16.htm#Heterodox%20Journals%20and%20News
papers>
- Revue de Philosophie Economique
- Issues in Regulation Theory- Number 52
- Talking Economics Monthly
- Earthscan's September E-Newsletter
- Heterodox Books and Book Series
<http://l.web.umkc.edu/leefs/htn16.htm#Heterodox%20Books%20and%20Book%20
Series>
- Environmentalism in Turkey Between Democracy and
Development?
- Priceless On Knowing the Price of Everything and the Value
of Nothing
- Review of Political Economy/ Books for Review
- Heterodox Associations and Institutes
<http://l.web.umkc.edu/leefs/htn16.htm#Heterodox_Associations_and_Instit
utes>
- The Association for Georgist Studies
- For Your Information
<http://l.web.umkc.edu/leefs/htn16.htm#For_Your_Information>
- Institute at Tufts to Award Economics Prize to Columbia's
Richard R. Nelson, Cambridge University's Ha-Joon Chang Awards Ceremony
- Tributes to David Houston, Radical Economist
- "The Story Begins"
