We’d like to start off by encouraging our readers to see (and support) the memorandum, Towards a renewal of economics as a social science, supported by 103 academics in the German-speaking world.  The memorandum is supported by researchers from across the social sciences and seeks “to encourage economists to foster a culture of paradigmatic openness.”  It takes a global effort, and more than a gradual encroachment of ideas, to overthrow the power of vested interests...

A must-go for me (TJ) is the annual Association for Institutional Thought (AFIT) conference. The conference took place in Houston a few weeks ago and it turned out to be another interesting conference.  In particular, there was a series of debates on the convergence/divergence between Institutionalism and Post Keynesianism; and the session by three student paper competition winners was most interesting (student papers can be found here). The 2013 AFIT conference will be taking place in Denver, April 10-13. The call for papers will be announced soon.

A last minute reminder: the due date for paper proposals for the 11th International Post Keynesian Conference, the URPE-ASSA 2013 Conference, and the SCEME Seminar is all May 1st. We'd also like to remind you that the Newsletter is published every three weeks (and every four weeks during our summer break, May - August). Please send us your calls for papers, job postings, and the like well ahead of the next issue date so we can include them in a timely manner.

Happy May day!

Tae-Hee Jo and Ted P. Schmidt, Editors

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