In the last few weeks we have again...

In the last few weeks we have again expanded the resources of the Heterodox Economics Newsletter. In doing so we have set up a Twitter-account to promote all Newsletter-Issues also on Twitter. I hope that those of you using Twitter will find that worthwhile. Additionally, we have implemented an online account for making donations to the Newsletter. Making donations until now has been a rather peculiar procedure, which we have greatly simplified by this maneuver. Supporting the Newsletter financially has never been so easy and we hope that some of you might take up this opportunity (just check out the button on our homepage).

If you are a heterodox economist visiting the upcoming ASSA-conference in Boston you should take a look at this Call for Volunteers: Tae-Hee Jo and Zdravka Todorova have taken up the burden to organize a Heterodox Economics Booth for the Boston-conference - however, they need some support in staffing the booth and representing the heterodox community. Moreover, there is also the possibility to display your own material at this booth - just check the respective entry.

Let me add one personal observation I made this fall, namely that the network various student groups in the German-speaking area, which participated in issuing the “international student call for pluralism in economics” continues to grow in size as well as density. A systematic aspect in this casual observation is the high number of invitations I receive, which ask me for presenting a pluralist viewpoint on economic issues in either talks or panel debates. While I think this is a rather surprising development, given the increasing educational and mobility requirements these students are subject to, it is surely also most welcome. To underline the importance of their efforts let us remind the classic take Max Planck made on the issue of scientific change in his Autobiography :

“A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.”

One implication of this quote that it is possibly superior to talk to the next generation of economists, instead of trying to convince the older one. Even if that makes for a quite hasty fall.

All the Best,

Jakob