CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS
15th SCEME Seminar in Economic Methodology
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Taking stock, looking ahead: Economic methodology in the UK and beyond.
A Seminar in tribute to Mark Blaug

Monday 26 March 2012, SCEME, University of Glasgow, UK

The Scottish Centre for Economic Methodology (SCEME) would like to invite  
proposals for contributions to the fifteenth seminar in a series on the  
methodology of economics, on this occasion also to pay tribute to the  
legacy of the late Mark Blaug who served on SCEME's advisory board since  
its inception a decade ago. We are very pleased to be able to announce  
that Sheila Dow will act as lead discussant, and Brian Loasby will join us  
to lead a round table on prospective trajectories of the field.

Topic
Economic methodology as an interdisciplinary field of inquiry in its own  
right received a crucial impetus in 1980 when Mark Blaug, as Professor at  
the University of London, published  the first edition of The Methodology  
of Economics. A young generation of scholars took up the gauntlet and the  
1980s witnessed unprecedented international activity around economic  
methodology as a rallying post for systematic and philosophically informed  
reflection on economics as a discipline and practice, leading in 1988 to  
the formation of the International Network for Economic Method, and in  
1994 to the launch of the Journal of Economic Methodology, which together  
with now annual conferences have established methodology as  
subdisciplinary meta-methodical inquiry under the overall economic  
umbrella. The purpose of the seminar is to reflect on the state of  
methodology achieved at present, and potential trajectories of  
development, with a focus on developments in the UK to begin with but with  
an ambition to relate to the broader canvas of developments in and around  
the field more generally.

Contributions are welcome from any perspective shedding light on the  
seminar topic. Proposed contributions may take the form of a traditional  
paper, or equally consist of presentation of work-in-progress, or the  
offer to join the round table with a focused statement for discussion.  
Proposals should take the form of a one-page outline of the intended  
contribution, and should be sent via e-mail, BY MONDAY 5 MARCH 2012, to:

Matthias Klaes
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