Heterodox
Economics Newsletter
Issue
86: August 12, 2009
From
the Editor
This is an early reminder that the
annual ASSA meetings will be held January 3-5, 2010 in Atlanta, Georgia.
Registration and housing information will be available from the AEA website on
September 15. No booklets will be mailed unless specifically requested from the
AEA. Instead, the ASSA now sends only a postcard with registration information
on it—click here.
Here is the link to the AEA website: www.vanderbilt.edu/AEA.
There is a EU project specially made for heterodox
economists. The link below calls for proposals by the European Union for a four
to five years research on finance that explicitly calls for alternative
approaches to finance from an interdisciplinary perspective. Given the amount
of the project (several million euros), it is expected to attract proposals of
teams composed of around ten or more research units coming from as many
Europeans countries as possible. The project has not only a scientific
objective, but also a normative one, and it should not only include academic
teams, but also engage stakeholders such as researchers having some link to trade
unions, organizations engaged in the protection of the environment, among
others. Ronan O'Brien, in charge of the project, is very open to the socials
studies of finance and is quite available for any questions concerning the ways
to submit an acceptable proposal. Note that the deadline is in February. http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/dc/index.cfm?fuseaction=UserSite.FP7DetailsCallPage&call_id=252
Miriam Kennet of the Green Economics Institute ( [log in to unmask]
) and the New Economics Foundation ( [log in to unmask]
) are thinking about making proposals. So if you are interested, why not
contact them.
In addition there is a smaller EU project (Euro
2,700,000) whose call title is SSH.2010.1.3.1 on "The public sector of the
future" which may interest heterodox economists.
http://ec.europa.eu/research/social-sciences/societal-challenges_en.html
http://tinyurl.com/lpmjrb
A few weeks ago there was a workshop at the University of
Bremen on “Assessing Economic Research in a European Context”. The
workshop seemed to be quite successful. It was attended by twenty-one
participants who listened to ten papers. One of the interesting facts that
emerged is that as a group heterodox economists cite mainstream economists more
than they cite each other—a truly bizarre state of affairs. Some of the
outcomes that came out of the workshop included developing better metrics for
ranking journals and departments, better dissemination of heterodox papers,
promoting more intra-communication (in terms of citations) among heterodox
economists and their journals, increasing activities that promote pluralism in
economics, and developing a website that would house ranking studies and lists
and data bases. The papers given at the workshop are in the process of being
revised, but a number of them will be given at conferences over the next few
months and eventually published in the American Journal of Economics and
Sociology. For a complete report on the workshop, click here.
One last thing, circa 2001 the JEL classifications were
revised to include “current heterodox approaches” (B5) under
“Schools of Economics Thought and Methodology”. Does anybody know
why? Similarly, last year the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) revised
their classification of the fields of research for higher education identified
heterodox economics as research category, which is interesting because it was
done independently of any pressure by heterodox economists in Australia.
However, when I was looking at the ABS economic classifications, I noticed that
the history and philosophy of economics was classified not as economics but as
part of Philosophy and Religious Studies. This means that in Australia anybody
whose research is in history and philosophy of economics is not doing economic
research and hence are not really economists.
Fred Lee
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- The 14th Annual ESHET Conference |
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- 1st Workshop in the History of Economic Theory (WHET) |
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- Institute for Comprehensive Analysis of Economy (ICAE) |
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- Towards a Reflection on Political Economy: Employment Theory |
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- INTERVENTION |
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- Money And Households In A Capitalist Economy |
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- The Living Wage: Lessons from the History of Economic
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- Dublin City University Business School |
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- Mario Nuti's Blog |
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- THESIS |