From: ajit sinha (sinha_a99@YAHOO.COM)
Date: Fri Jul 01 2005 - 01:38:38 EDT
All concerned, please respond to Dr. Steve Fleetwood and not me in this regard. Thanks, ajit sinha --- ajit sinha <sinha_a99@YAHOO.COM> wrote: > > Note: forwarded message attached. > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam > protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com> Subject: RE: IAS-Heterodox Economics > Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 13:34:22 +0100 > From: "Fleetwood, Steve" > <s.fleetwood@lancaster.ac.uk> > To: "ajit sinha" <sinha_a99@yahoo.com> > > Ajit > > Please circulate this to URPE and OPE-L and > elsewhere. > > Steve > > > > LANCASTER UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES > > > > ANNUAL PROGRAMME (PROPOSAL) 2007-8: HETERODOX > ECONOMICS > > > > > > At present there are hundreds of Heterodox > economists and dozens of > Heterodox associations, networks, groups, workshops, > newsletters, > conferences and so on, scattered all over the globe. > This is on top of > hundreds of people working on real economic issues > who would not > consider themselves 'economists' because they want > to distance > themselves from orthodoxy. Where can all these > people and associations > come together, over a significant period of time, to > discuss ways to > mount a serous challenge to the dominant orthodox > tradition? How about > Lancaster University's new Institute for Advanced > Studies (IAS)? > > > > I am putting together a proposal to bring together > as many of these > people and associations as possible for a 12 month > programme of events > based in Lancaster. Indeed, if this was successful, > it might become a > permanent feature and the Heterodox Economics > project would have an > institutional base. > > > > To do this, however, requires your help. At this > stage, I need a > (non-committal) expression of interest from any > individual or > association who feels this is a worthy venture and > one they would like > to support in some way. If sufficient interest is > generated, I will then > embark on the next stage of raising funds. > > > > During 2007-8 would you, at least in principle, be > prepared to visit > Lancaster's IAS to: > > * attend a conference or workshop on one or > more Heterodox themes? > * hold your association's annual conference? > * organise, or help organise, a workshop, > conference, summer > school or some other project? > * give 'master classes' in your own specialism > to interested > parties such as postgraduates? > * attend a forum, and engage in a debate, > perhaps a public debate, > with Orthodox Economists? > * attend a forum with policy advisers? > * become involved in some other way? > > > > If so, then please contact me with details of > yourself, and/or the > institution you represent, the particular Heterodox > school(s) you > subscribe to and your specialism(s) within it, and > the some ideas on how > you might like to participate. > > > > Thanking you in anticipation > > > > Dr. Steve Fleetwood > > Research Director, IAS Knowledge-Based Economy > Programme > > Institute for Advanced Studies > > Lancaster University > > > > For further detail of the IAS, go to: > > http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/ias/index.htm > > > > > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - You care about security. So do we. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail
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