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CALL FOR PAPERS
CONFERENCE ON THE HISTORY OF HETERODOX ECONOMICS IN THE 20TH CENTURY
Date: 3 - 5 October 2002
Place: Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering and Technology
adjacent to
University of Missouri-Kansas City
Kansas City, Missouri
United States
In the last 15 years, economists have started to distinguish between the
history of economics and history of economic theory--that is, roughly,
between the intellectual history and the social history of economics.
Consequently, there have been an increasing number of books and articles on
the history of economics in various universities and the history of
mainstream economic associations. On the other hand, very little has been
written about the history of heterodox economics. In fact most mainstream
economists who work in the area of the history of economics do not believe
that such a history is at all interesting. Rather they see heterodox
economics as simply a reaction to but still tied to neoclassical economics
with no independent life of its own. To suggest otherwise is to upset
their world view of economics and supremacy of neoclassical economic
theory. This conference aims to challenge this view by showing that there
is a separate history of heterodox economics.
Proposals on any aspect of the history of heterodox economics in the 20th
century are invited. By heterodox economics, we mean Marxism,
institutionalism, Social Economics, Post Keynesian Economics, Sraffian
Economics, Feminist Economics, Georgist Economics, Evolutionary Economics,
Historical Economics, and Austrian Economics. Suggested topics for papers
include but are not restricted to:
1. the history of college and university economic departments vis-a-vis the
teaching of heterodox economic theory.
2. history of heterodox academic and non-academic economic journals.
3. history of heterodox economic associations and other kinds of
communities and groups of academic and non-academic heterodox economists.
4. discrimination against the hiring and retaining of heterodox economists
at academic institutions as well as at government and other non-academic
organizations.
5. discrimination against the publishing of heterodox papers and books.
6. the use of state power to silence heterodox economic views and heterodox
economists, such as McCarthyism in the United States, military regimes in
Latin America, and the suppression of dissendents in Stalinist Eastern
Europe and in China.
7. biographical histories of well-known and not-so-well-known heterodox
economists and their contributions towards building a community of
heterodox economists.
8. the teaching of Marxism, Georgist Economics, and other heterodox
economics to workers and the general public at schools and institutes
outside of colleges and universities.
9. the role of historical events in promoting interest in heterodox
economics and the establishing communities and groups of heterodox
economics--such as the rise of the New Left, Vietnam War, and the Great
Depression.
10. discrimination and sectarian behavior within heterodox economics and
its impact on developing a community of heterodox economists.
Please send a 250 word abstract (either by e-mail or hard copy) to both
Fred Lee
Department of Economics
211 Haag Hall
University of Missouri-Kansas City
Kansas City, Missouri 64110
United States
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
John King
Department of Economics and Finance
La Trobe University
Bundoora, Victoria 3086
Australia
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
Deadline for submission: Friday, 7 December 2001
Notification: Friday, 11 January 2002
Conference Fee: $120.00 (Includes lunches,
tea/coffee/juice, and conference dinner)
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