Dear Members of CSE,
Below is a proposal I am putting forth for the November 2003 AGM. If you have any opinions about it send your comments to the Executive Committee in care of the the CSE Office: [log in to unmask]
Fred Lee
> For the Executive Committee of CSE
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> Proposal for the November 2003 AGM of the Conference of Socialist Economists
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> Members of the Conference of Socialist Economists (CSE) agree to have their names and addresses compiled into an electronic CSE Directory that will be made available upon request to the CSE Executive Committee. The Executive Committee will establish the guidelines for compiling the Directory, for updating it on a yearly (or some other regular) basis, and for making the Directory available to members.
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> Reasons for the Proposal:
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> 1. members of CSE should be able to know who their fellow members are; at the moment this information resides solely in the hands of the Executive Committee.
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> 2. members of CSE could use the directory to contact fellow members to arrange activities.
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> 3. it makes the CSE more open and democratic
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> Would this proposal be affected by the European data protection "laws"?
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> Not necessarily in my view. The reason for this is as follows: To establish such a directory, the Executive Committee would send a message out by e-mail and/or post to all CSE members asking them whether they would like to be included in such a directory. If the answer is yes, then the individual would be told that the directory would include his/her name, postal/mailing address, e-mail address, and JEL codes/research interests if relevant. Access to the directory would be by password--the one that will be given to all individual subscribers of C&C in January 2004. [All individual subscribers are members of CSE and vice versa).]
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> Available Membership lists:
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> The Association for Social Economics has such an electronic directory which is part of its web site under members forum [www.socialeconomic.org] his could be a model for CSE). Moreover, the Association for Evolutionary Economics and the Association for Institutionalist Thought both send out hardcopy directories of their membership to their members. And I should also say that the American Economics Association does so as well. Is it not reasonable expectation that if you belong to an association that you also know who else belongs to it--after all we are all part of the same association.
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> What kind of resources are involved?
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> Do not know. CSE already has a web site and all its members will have passwords. Thus I would not think it would be very difficult to put together the directory. As for contacting CSE members--I assume that a large number of them are on the CSE listserve so contacting members would not be a problem.
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