“Economics, Pluralism, and the Social Sciences”
14 - 16 July, 2006
The Eighth Annual Conference of the Association of Heterodox Economics (AHE) will be held at the London School of Economics from 14th to 16th July 2006.
Last year’s highly successful AHE conference yielded a stimulating and original range of papers on pluralism in economics, in opposition to the currently non-pluralistic dominance of the neoclassical mainstream. A striking feature of the conference was the growing interdisciplinary character of the contributions which explored, generally but not exclusively from the standpoint of economics, the relation between economics and other branches of the social sciences. The Eighth Annual Conference will build on this success.
The conference will have both a thematic part and an open part. The AHE is happy to consider papers of both types; however, priority will be given to papers addressing the conference theme, “Economics, Pluralism and the Social Sciences”. Papers are particularly encouraged on topics dealing with economics and its relation to the social sciences as a whole and with respect to its various branches, such as anthropology, development studies, gender and race studies, history, literary studies, management, philosophy, politics, psychology, and sociology, from both economists and non-economists and from a plurality of perspectives.
We encourage the submission of abstracts of papers, or proposals for a session or stream of sessions, which
Apply heterodox economic thought to policy-related issues;
Examine any aspect of economic theory from the standpoint of another discipline or disciplines in the social sciences or the humanities;
Critically assess the existing or potential relation, deleterious or positive, between economics and other branches of the social sciences;
Examine issues or deploy approaches neglected by current economic orthodoxy;
Critically examine either neoclassical economic orthodoxy, or - in the spirit of pluralism - its heterodox critics;
Assess the contribution of one or more heterodox approaches towards opening up economics;
Make a contribution to the scholarship of teaching and learning in economics from a heterodox or pluralist perspective.
The AHE is in process of publishing a selection of the best papers presented at this year’s conference in a special volume of the book series Advances in Heterodox Economics, edited by Professor Frederic S. Lee. We propose to publish a similar volume after the 2006 conference.
Deadline for submission:
Proposals for single papers: please send an abstract of up to 500 words by email only to the local organiser, Alan Freeman (afreeman@iwgvt.org), AND the AHE coordinator, Andrew Mearman (andrew.mearman@uwe.ac.uk), by 27 January 2006. Text, HTML, Word and PDF format email attachments are acceptable.
Proposals for sessions and streams: please indicate exactly what you are proposing, giving the names and email addresses of the proposed speakers, and attaching the abstracts (of not more than 500 words each) for their papers. Send by email to Alan Freeman and Andrew Mearman, as above, by 27 January 2006.
Those whose abstracts have been accepted must send their full paper and completed registration to be received by 28 April 2006.
Parallel sessions will be 90 minutes long and will consist of two papers. Sessions may have a discussant for each paper. The conference is to be conducted in English. All abstracts will be considered by the AHE Committee.
