Heterodox
Economics Newsletter
Issue
84: June 24, 2009
From
the Editor
In
two days, the Bremen Workshop on Assessing Heterodox Economics Research in a
European Context will take place. While working on the preparations for the
Workshop I received the following e-mail from an Australian colleague:
Just back from a deeply depressing staff meeting, at which we learned
that the Deputy VC (Research) intends to actively discourage staff from
publishing in B-ranked journals, on the grounds that ‘it will pull down
the average’. When implemented (as it will be), this will eradicate
heterodox economics (and HET) altogether....A longer-term cloud on the horizon
is staff support for compulsory (mainstream micro, macro, econometrics)
coursework for all new PhD students, which will eradicate heterodox research
students too. When I pointed out the effect on anyone doing research in HET or
political economy (all 4 of my current PhD students), it was suggested that
they might be exempted because they are ‘not doing economics’.
The issues that the Workshop will address are indeed important ones for
heterodox economists.
Fred Lee
In
this issue:
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- The European Society for the History of Economic Thought |
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- ISHET – International Symposium on the History of
Economic Thought |
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- Alternative Explanations of the Operation of Capitalist
Economy: Efficient Market Theory vs. Keynes's Liquidity Theory |
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- Economia e Sociedade |
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- Nice Work If You Can Get It |
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- Lawrence E. Mitchell, _The Speculation Economy: How Finance
Triumphed over Industry |
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- The International Adam Smith Society |
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- Survey on Education for Sustainable Development |