From: glevy@PRATT.EDU
Date: Mon Mar 21 2005 - 20:55:32 EST
This came with an attachment which was 265K long, which I
have deleted. You can read the entire issue at:
<http://www.btinternet.com/~pae_news/review/issue30.htm >
The articles by McCartney, van Bouwel, and McFarling have
relevance to our recent discussion on the "new pluralism"
in economics.
In solidarity, Jerry
post-autistic economics review
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In this issue:
Forum on Economic Reform
In recent decades the alliance of neoclassical economics and neoliberalism
has hijacked the term "economic reform". By presenting political choices
as market necessities, they have subverted public debate about what
economic policy changes are possible and are or are not desirable. This
new venue intends to promote discussion of economic reform that is not
limited to the one ideological point of view.
- Erik S. Reinert
Development and Social Goals: Balancing Aid and Development
to Prevent 'Welfare Colonialism'
- Matthew McCartney
Game Theory: a Refinement or an Alternative to Neo-classical Economics?
Symposium on Reorienting Economics (Part III)
Dialogue on the reform of economics with Tony Lawson's Reorienting
Economics as focal point
- Jeroen Van Bouwel
Towards a Framework for Pluralism in Economics
- Bruce R. McFarling
Finding a Critical Pragmatism in Reorienting Economics
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Three Announcements
Leontief Prize
This year's Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought
has been won by Ha-Joon Chang of Cambridge University and Richard Nelson
of Columbia University for their contributions in the areas of innovation
and international development. The Leontief Prize recognizes economists
whose work combines theoretical and empirical research that promotes a
more comprehensive understanding of social and environmental processes.
Cambridge Advanced Programme on Rethinking Development Economics
Hosted by Development Studies Committee, University of Cambridge with
support from the Ford Foundation, 14 July - 30 July, 2005, Queens'
College, Cambridge, England
The programme is mainly intended for young academics and will admit a
select group of 20 or so young academics from developing countries,
including transition economies, and provide them with lectures,
discussion, and research workshops with leading scholars on cutting edge
topics in development economics from a number of critical perspectives.
The programme will fully finance travel, accommodation, subsistence, and
fees for those who are selected.
This year's lecturers whose participation is confirmed are, in
alphabetical order, Ha-Joon Chang (Cambridge), Andrea Cornia (Firenze),
Michael Ellman (Amsterdam), Diane Elson (Essex), Shailaja Fennell
(Cambridge), Ben Fine (SOAS), Ilene Grabel (Denver), Jomo, S.K.
(Assistant-Secretary General, UN), Martin Khor (Third World Network),
Sanjaya Lall (Oxford), Deepak Nayaar (Delhi), Jose Antonio Ocampo
(Under-Secretary General), Peter Nolan (Cambridge), Gabriel Palma
(Cambridge), Erik Reinert (The Other Canon Foundation), John Sender
(SOAS), Ajit Singh, (Cambridge), Howard Stein (Michigan), Lance Taylor
(New School), and John Toye (Oxford). Participation by Barbara
Harris-White (Oxford) is to be confirmed.
Applications, including a CV, transcripts, and a letter of recommendation,
should be received by Dr. Ha-Joon Chang, Course Director, CAPORDE,
Development Studies Committee, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge CB2 1RX, United
Kingdom, by 25 April.
For further details visit this web page.
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