7TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE
ASSOCIATION OF HETERODOX ECONOMICS
City University, London
15 – 17 July 2005
CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS
The AHE is the principal world forum encouraging and supporting pluralism in
economics with participants from nearly 30 countries expected at the conference.
The CONFERENCE is organised around the theme of "Pluralism in Economics",
sessions incorporate a variety of perspectives and fields of study.
Issues examined include globalisation and international trade, poverty, finance,
technology studies, monetary theory and policy, banking and financial
institutions, health economics, labour economics and literary criticism. These
are addressed by presenters from the fields of economic development, transition
economics, applied microeconomics, economic history, history of economic
thought, and methodology and philosophy of economics, as well as researchers
working in interdisciplinary areas at the borders of economics with cognate
disciplines such as sociology, psychology, political science, philosophy and
management.
Presenters will examine issues or deploy approaches neglected by the current
orthodoxy; and to further develop the critique - and the defence - of the
neo-classical orthodoxy. Discussion and debate, amongst participants from such
diverse traditions as Post-Keynesian, Austrian, Institutionalist, Evolutionary
Economics, Neo-Schumpeterian, Sraffian, Marxist and neoclassical economics,
contribute towards opening up the discipline of economics.
The AHE and its annual conference arose out of the belief that institutions of
the discipline of economics systematically discriminate against those working in
non-mainstream fields and approaches, specifically, economists writing from a
heterodox standpoint or active in minority areas. Advocating pluralism in
economics, the AHE and its conferences provide a forum for advancing new ideas
in heterodox political economy both theoretically and in policy debates. These
conferences enable heterodox economists the opportunity to network, and allow
for the dissemination of ideas. They demonstrate the continuing relevance of
heterodox political economy to those practising and utilising modern economics.
The AHE also runs an annual graduate student training programmes and is
currently holding a series of seminars at the LSE. We welcome participation and
support from individuals and organisations that share our goals.
To register for the conference, please go to
www.hetecon.com