Welcome to The Association for Heterodox Economics
Welcome to the Association for Heterodox Economics (AHE) website. Our Association was formed over a decade ago, and since then it has established a reputation as a major national and international forum for the discussion of alternatives to mainstream economics, and for the interdisciplinary and pluralistic nature of its discussions. As will become clear in the coming months and years, we are an evolving community. In the past our activity has been focussed on our annual Conference. In addition, we deliver an important Postgraduate Research Methodology Workshop (see under Resources), initially funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).
As an Association we have plans for development, and we anticipate this website will become the focal point for this. The importance of this project is clear: the esteem of mainstream (or neoclassical) economics has reached an all-time low in the wake of the global financial crisis. This is a crisis which mainstream economists failed to predict, and this approach has failed to provide the policy recommendations to ameliorate the problems caused.
Heterodox economists have a particularly important role to play in the development of the economy, and the economics discipline. Many heterodox economists were aware that the crisis was imminent, and heterodox economics has a range of proposals for stable and sustainable economic and social structures going forward.
We hope you find the website informative, and invite you to contribute to the Association’s activities as we engage in a dialogue and debate over the future of economics.
NEW AHE WEB SITE
Dear AHE members and associates,
The AHE sub-committee that deals with the AHE website has been busily working away for the last five months to produce a more up-to-date, user-friendly, more information website. The Home page has a welcome introduction from Bruce Philp as well as announcements about the forthcoming AHE/IIPPE/FAPE 2012 Conference and AHE Methodology Workshop—see below. It also includes a section “About the AHE” which includes entries about its history and its “Principles of Unity”; a section on its past conferences and conference papers (work remains to be done); section on useful links; section on governance which includes all the current AHE sub-committees and their members; and a section on resources, which includes historical and current material on the AHE methodology workshop. The website is not complete. Material on teaching resources will be posted once they are assembled; and material on the RAE will be developed and assembled as well over the next couple of months.
To make the web site really operational, we request that all AHE members and associates go to User Account and register a user account. It is through the user account that membership dues are paid and you can gain access to past conference papers. Once we have paypal up and running, membership dues can be paid online. All who paid conference fees for the 2011 AHE conference in Nottingham are currently members. Information about membership dues etc. will be placed on the website and sent out in the near future.
Please look the web site over (especially the governance page since there are probably some mistakes on it) and if you have any suggestions about how to improve it, please use the “Contact Us” to make your comments.
Sub-Committee for the AHE Website
Anders Ekeland
Alan Freeman
Fred Lee
Julian Wells
Call for Papers
Political Economy and the Outlook for Capitalism
Joint Conference - Paris, 5-8 July 2012
Association for Heterodox Economics (AHE)
French Association of Political Economy/ Association Française D’economie Politique (FAPE)
International Initiative for Promoting Political Economy (IIPPE)
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