Dear all,

We are organizing a special session on Pluralism 
and Heterodoxy in Economics at this years EAEPE 
conference. The session will be organized around 
David Colander's paper entitled "Moving Beyond 
the Rhetoric of Pluralism: Suggestions for an 
'Inside-the-Mainstream' Heterodoxy ". The 
discussants are Geoff Hodgson, Dimitris Milonakis & Uskali MÃki.

If you are interested in attending this special 
event, please register at http://eaepe.org/

You may also be interested in the following 
sessions concerning Economic Methodology (Research Area A)

Saturday 7 November, 08h45-10h45 Research area A - Room: E0.03

* Chair: Ana Santos
* Hansen: The Stern review and its critics: 
Putting economics at work in an interdisciplinary setting
* Engelen: My way or the highway: Why economists 
should stop isolating themselves from other social scientists
* Wells: What kind of economics is Amartya Sen's 
capability approach and where is it going?
* Chiusi: A two-tier structure for normative theory appraisal

Saturday 7 November, 11h00-13h00 Research area A - Room: E0.03

* Chair: Uskali MÃki
* Boland: Models vs. theories: a generation gap
* Martinez: Good predictions and bad policies? A 
critique of methodological instrumentalism in economics
* Boldyrev: Ontology of economics: an interpretive perspective
* Denis: Methodological individualism: some notes 
on orthodox and heterodox views

Saturday 7 November, 14h30-16h30 Research area A - Room: E0.03

* Chair: Bart Engelen
* Maki: One size does not fit all: scientific 
realism and disciplinary diversity
* Hirsch: Interdisciplinarity in the social 
sciences: the case of Williamson's transaction cost economics
* Aydinonat: Interdisciplinary perspectives on the origin of money
* Stanek: Plurality of theories and its realist 
interpretation: the case of money

Saturday 7 November, 16h45-18h45 Research area A - Room: E0.03

* Chair: Thomas Wells
* Daemen: The cash value of performativity in finance
* Sappinen: Economics imperialism writ large - 
the reflexive impact of neo-institutional and organizational economics
* Santos: Choice architecture and design economics: theoretical implications
* Su: John Stuart Mill on political economy as a 
moral science: Reconsider the distinction between 
positive and normative economics

Sunday 8 November, 08h45-10h45 Research area A - Room: E0.03

* Special session: Pluralism and heterodoxy in Economics
* Chair: Emrah Aydinonat
* Colander: Beyond the rhetoric of pluralism
* Discussants: Geoff Hodgson, Dimitris Milonakis & Uskali Mäki

Sunday 8 November, 11h00-13h00 Research area A - Room: E0.03

* Chair: Jorma Sappinen
* Alierta: Technical change and wages in a (evolutionary) general system
* Gagliardi: Diversity in socio-economic systems: 
from unilinear to institutional views
* McMaster: Situating care and dignity in health economics.
* Klarl: Modelling the folk theorem of spatial 
economics: a heterogeneous regional growth model

More info at http://eaepe.org/

Cheers,

N. Emrah Aydinonat