[URPE] IAS-Heterodox Economics

[Ruth Indeck]

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>http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/ias/index.htm