From: ajit sinha (sinha_a99@YAHOO.COM)
Date: Tue Jun 28 2005 - 04:54:30 EDT
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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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