Issue no. 30 of the Post-Autistic Economics Review

sanity, humanity and science

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Issue no. 30, 21 March 2005 back issues at www.paecon.net
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In this issue:

Forum on Economic Reform

In recent decades the alliance of neoclassical economics and neoliberalism has hijacked
the term “economic reform”. By presenting political choices as market necessities, they
have subverted public debate about what economic policy changes are possible and are
or are not desirable. This new venue intends to promote discussion of economic reform
that is not limited to the one ideological point of view.

- Erik S. Reinert
Development and Social Goals: Balancing Aid and Development
to Prevent ‘Welfare Colonialism’

- Matthew McCartney
Game Theory: a Refinement or an Alternative to Neo-classical
Economics?

Symposium on Reorienting Economics (Part III)

Dialogue on the reform of economics with Tony Lawson’s Reorienting Economics as focal point

- Jeroen Van Bouwel
Towards a Framework for Pluralism in Economics

- Bruce R. McFarling
Finding a Critical Pragmatism in Reorienting Economics

Three Announcements

Leontief Prize

This year’s Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought has been won by
Ha-Joon Chang of Cambridge University and Richard Nelson of Columbia University for their
contributions in the areas of innovation and international development. The Leontief Prize
recognizes economists whose work combines theoretical and empirical research that promotes
a more comprehensive understanding of social and environmental processes.

Cambridge Advanced Programme on Rethinking Development Economics

Hosted by Development Studies Committee, University of Cambridge with support from the
Ford Foundation, 14 July – 30 July, 2005, Queens’ College, Cambridge, England

The programme is mainly intended for young academics and will admit a select group of 20 or so
young academics from developing countries, including transition economies, and provide them
with lectures, discussion, and research workshops with leading scholars on cutting edge topics in
development economics from a number of critical perspectives. The programme will fully finance
travel, accommodation, subsistence, and fees for those who are selected.

This year’s lecturers whose participation is confirmed are, in alphabetical order, Ha-Joon Chang
(Cambridge), Andrea Cornia (Firenze), Michael Ellman (Amsterdam), Diane Elson (Essex),
Shailaja Fennell (Cambridge), Ben Fine (SOAS), Ilene Grabel (Denver), Jomo, S.K. (Assistant-Secretary
General, UN), Martin Khor (Third World Network), Sanjaya Lall (Oxford), Deepak Nayaar (Delhi),
Jose Antonio Ocampo (Under-Secretary General), Peter Nolan (Cambridge), Gabriel Palma (Cambridge),
Erik Reinert (The Other Canon Foundation), John Sender (SOAS), Ajit Singh, (Cambridge), Howard Stein
(Michigan), Lance Taylor (New School), and John Toye (Oxford). Participation by Barbara Harris-White
(Oxford) is to be confirmed.

Applications, including a CV, transcripts, and a letter of recommendation, should be received by Dr.
Ha-Joon Chang, Course Director, CAPORDE, Development Studies Committee, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge
CB2 1RX, United Kingdom, by 25 April.

For further details visit this web page.

Directory of researchers in behavioural economics

Are you working on behavioural economics or related topics? We are compiling a directory for the UK
Environment Agency (a public body in the UK which seeks to protect the environment) of international
researchers (at doctoral level and above) who are actively working on:

· issues relating to bounded rationality and models of behaviour which go beyond the standard
neoclassical models

· in the fields of behavioural, institutional and experimental economics or psychology
where it is being applied to economics or organisational behaviour,

· and in particular where this work has direct relevance to policy makers.

The main aim of compiling this database is to give the Environment Agency contacts in the international
academic community and a better understanding of the research that is presently being conducted
across the world. The directory will also be made publicly available so that researchers are aware of
who is working on different areas and can make contact with one another.

If you would like to be included please fill in the short on-line form (which takes only 3 - 4 minutes) at
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=79693869078.

This directory is being compiled by nef (the new economics foundation). nef is an independent
think-and-do tank that inspires and demonstrates real economic well-being. For more information
see: www.neweconomics.org.

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EDITOR: Edward Fullbrook
CORRESPONDENTS: Argentina: Iserino; Australia: Joseph Halevi, Steve Keen: Brazil: Wagner Leal Arienti; France: Gilles Raveaud,
Olivier Vaury, J. Walter Plinge; Germany: Helge Peukert; Greece: Yanis Varoufakis; Japan: Susumu Takenaga; United Kingdom:
Nitasha Kaul; United States: Benjamin Balak, Daniel Lien, Paul Surlis: At large: Paddy Quick
PAST CONTRIBUTORS: James Galbraith, Frank Ackerman, André Orléan, Hugh Stretton, Jacques Sapir, Edward Fullbrook, Gilles
Raveaud, Deirdre McCloskey, Tony Lawson, Geoff Harcourt, Joseph Halevi, Sheila C. Dow, Kurt Jacobsen, The Cambridge 27, Paul
Ormerod, Steve Keen, Grazia Ietto-Gillies, Emmanuelle Benicourt, Le Movement Autisme-Economie, Geoffrey Hodgson, Ben Fine,
Michael A. Bernstein, Julie A. Nelson, Jeff Gates, Anne Mayhew, Bruce Edmonds, Jason Potts, John Nightingale, Alan Shipman,
Peter E. Earl, Marc Lavoie, Jean Gadrey, Peter Söderbaum, Bernard Guerrien, Susan Feiner, Warren J. Samuels, Katalin Martinás,
George M. Frankfurter, Elton G. McGoun, Yanis Varoufakis, Alex Millmow, Bruce J. Caldwell, Poul Thøis Madsen, Helge Peukert,
Dietmar Lindenberger, Reiner Kümmel, Jane King, Peter Dorman, K.M.P. Williams, Frank Rotering, Ha-Joon Chang, Claude Mouchot,
Robert E. Lane, James G. Devine, Richard Wolff, Jamie Morgan, Robert Heilbroner, William Milberg, Stephen T. Ziliak, Steve
Fleetwood, Tony Aspromourgos, Yves Gingras, Ingrid Robeyns, Robert Scott Gassler, Grischa Periono, Esther-Mirjam Sent,
Ana Maria Bianchi, Steve Cohn, Peter Wynarczyk, Daniel Gay, Asatar Bair, Nathaniel Chamberland, James Bondio, Jared Ferrie,
Goutam U. Jois, Charles K. Wilber, Robert Costanza, Saski Sivramkrishna, Jorge Buzaglo, Jim Stanford. Matthew McCartney,
Herman E. Daly, Kyle Siler, Kepa M. Ormazabal, Antonio Garrido, Robert Locke, J. E. King, Paul Davidson, Juan Pablo Pardo-
Guerra, Kevin Quinn, Trond Andresen, Shaun Hargreaves Heap, Lewis L. Smith, Gautam Mukerjee, Ian Fletcher, Rajni Bakshi,
M. Ben-Yami, Deborah Campbell, Irene van Staveren, Neva Goodwin, Thomas Weisskopf, Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra, Mehrdad
Vahabi,
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