Re: [OPE-L] Fwd: RE: IAS-Heterodox Economics

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:

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> 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
>
>
>
>
>
>





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