I hope that many of our readers perceive...
I hope that many of our readers perceive the Heterodox Economics Newsletter to be a reliable service: it comes in regularly and on time, has only a few bugs, provides reasonable coverage and it aims to be inclusive in terms of geography, gender as well as research fields and traditions. Recently, our service even survived a hard IT-crackdown at our home institution – the University of Duisburg-Essen – that was due to a ransomware attack (see my coverage on this here). All in all, I think the performance of the Newsletter is solid, especially when taking into account that large parts of our work are based on voluntary efforts.
However, there is also another service covered by the Newsletter-Team – the Heterodox Economics Directory, _that has received less attention over the past years and is, as a consequence, a litte out of date (the most recent edition is from 2016). As you might know, the Heterodox Economics Directory_ is intended to serve as an all-inclusive guide to heterodox economics and contains information on heterodox economic associations, graduate and post-graduate programs, journals and book-series and much more. Thereby an update of the Directory is long overdue and I am somewhat relieved to announce that we are planning such an update for the second half of 2023.
Nonetheless, it seems evident that we cannot do this update alone – instead, we depend on inputs from the heterodox community to identify errors, blind-spots and omissions in the current directory that should definitely be corrected before a new (7th!) edition of the Directory (hopefully;-) sees light in early 2024. So, please support our efforts in updating the Directory simply by browsing the Directory
- … to identify omissions, errors, dated material or blind-spots regarding the institutes, associations, journals or study programs you are involved with.
- … to suggest novel entries covering academic initiatives that are not covered by the Directory (e.g. stuff that only emerged in recent years or that has already been overlooked in previous editions).
- … to identify entries that should be removed or relocated, because the underlying activities stopped or changed in orientation.
Of course, any comments going beyond these more narrow tasks are also highly welcome and will be appreciated. While we are currently still preparing the technical infrastructure necessary to actually edit the Directory in a comprehensible way, we will already start soliciting your suggestions from now on – simply email your observations, recommendations or inputs related to how to improve the Directory to newsletter@heterodoxnews.com.
Many thanks for your efforts and best!
Jakob
PS: We have received a series of requests regarding the Directory in the past years. Most of these are not yet implemented but well-archived. So, if you already requested a change in the Directory some time ago, there is at the moment no need to resend your request.