CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS TO COME TO 

THE ASSOCIATION FOR HETERODOX ECONOMICS

ANNUAL CONFERENCE

Economics, Pluralism, and the Social Sciences

London

July 14 - 16, 2006

The conference will have both a thematic part and an open part.  The thematic part, Economic, Pluralism, and the Social Sciences, will feature papers on topics dealing with economics and its relation to the social sciences as a whole and with respect to its various branches, such as anthropology, development studies, gender and race studies, history, literary studies, management, philosophy, politics, psychology, and sociology, from both economists and non-economists and from a plurality of perspectives.  Other sessions will be:

1.	Apply heterodox economic thought to policy-related issues

2.	Examine economic theory from the standpoint of another discipline or disciplines in the social sciences or the humanities

3.	Critically assess the existing and potential relation, deleterious or positive, between economics and other branches of the social sciences

4.	Examine issues or deploy approaches neglected by current economic orthodoxy

5.	Critically examine either neoclassical economic orthodoxy, or - in the spirit of pluralism - its heterodox critics

6.	Assess the contributions of various heterodox approaches towards opening up economics

7.	Contribute to the scholarship of teaching and learning in economics from a heterodox or pluralist perspective

See the attachments for further information regarding:

Registration

Conference Locations

Registration and Payment Forms

Conference Dinner:  If you want to come to the conference dinner be particularly sure to book as soon as possible: spaces are limited.

Access Requirements

Accommodation - further information on accommodations is below:

Conference participants must make their own arrangements for accommodation.

For guidance, the LSE offers single studios at its new Grosvenor House Studios off Drury Lane at £40 a night (its nearest accommodation to its campus), and single rooms at £30 a night at its Carr-Saunders Hall in Fitzrovia (near the British Telecom tower).

University College London also offers accommodation: for example, single rooms at Astor College in Charlotte Street (also near the BT tower) at £23 a night. The University of London's Inter-Collegiate halls of residence also offer accommodation. Full details and booking at the following links:

http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/vacations/
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/residences/
http://www.london.ac.uk/halls.html

There are also many reasonably-priced hotels and bed and breakfast establishments in the WC1 area.  For example there is the group of hotels known as the Imperial London Hotels in and nearby by Tavistock Square (about 300 yards from the UCL venue) and offer single rooms starting at £41 a night including breakfast: http://www.imperialhotels.co.uk/index.htm. 

Commercial accommodation in WC2 is likely to be more expensive; for example, the Travelodge London Covent Garden in Drury Lane was offering rooms at £90 a night at the time of going to press.

Full details -- including maps -- of the venues for the conference and the conference dinner will be sent with confirmation of your booking.

If you have any questions, please contact Julian Wells at [log in to unmask]  

Julian Wells
for AHE 06 committee