https://heterodoxnews.com/blog/ Editorials from the Heterodox Economics Newsletter en https://heterodoxnews.com/blog/htn364.html https://heterodoxnews.com/blog/htn364.html Sun, 27 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 There is an old Daoist saying: “Those who speak, do not know. Those who know, do not speak.” While I cherish this saying a lot, two minor adaptations seem in order to capture the role of economics in society. The first concerns the wording: if you replace the active “speak” with the passive “are heard”, you arrive at a rather accurate description of the public and political impact of economics – evolutionary-and-institutional-economics global-south inequality labour pluralism policy radical-economics https://heterodoxnews.com/blog/htn363.html https://heterodoxnews.com/blog/htn363.html Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 A newsletter collects news, no matter whether they cause joy or sadness. In the past weeks we have been saddened to learn that Robert Blecker (1956-2026) has passed away. Robert was a leading heterodox economist, widely known for his applications of post-Keynesian ideas to questions on international trade and finance, many of which turned into archetypical contributions that helped guide the development feminist-economics heterodox-archetypes iaphe international-trade keynesian labour obituary https://heterodoxnews.com/blog/htn362.html https://heterodoxnews.com/blog/htn362.html Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 The craving for exactness and rigor, that characterizes so many efforts undertaken in mainstream economics, has transformed over the past decades from a focus on formal-analytical rigor towards an emphasis on ‚clean identification‘ of (allegedly) ‚causal‘ effects. And while the ghosts of formal-deductive reasoning still linger, this change had a profound impact on the discipline: in some way it labour methodology pluralism https://heterodoxnews.com/blog/htn361.html https://heterodoxnews.com/blog/htn361.html Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 As researchers most of us supposedly like the mean. The mean is seemingly very kind to us: it is a simple number, it (supposedly) summarizes a lot of information and it can serve as (somewhat) solid anchor for further statistical reasoning. Hence, all praise to the mean and its convenience ;-) While I think the above is largely correct, it is also incomplete: precisely because the mean compresses climate democracy feminist-economics https://heterodoxnews.com/blog/htn360.html https://heterodoxnews.com/blog/htn360.html Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 One can say many things about people trying to push pluralist or heterodox economics, but surely not that they are taking the easy route on the academic job market ;-). Especially against the backdrop of the often lamented and rightly criticized closure towards heterodox perspectives found in traditional econ departments, it is truly heartwarming to see that heterodox economists cannot be stopped climate conference heterodox-archetypes heterodox-associations pluralism publishing-and-journals https://heterodoxnews.com/blog/htn359.html https://heterodoxnews.com/blog/htn359.html Mon, 11 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 There is an adage, sometimes (probably wrongly) attributed to Confucius, that I cherish a lot and it goes like this: "If you tell me I will forget, if you show me I will remember, if you let me play a part I will understand.“ This nice saying not only carries a helpful and compact pedagogical lesson (which I too often violate by holding long lectures ;-)), but also points us to an alternative way democracy https://heterodoxnews.com/blog/htn358.html https://heterodoxnews.com/blog/htn358.html Mon, 20 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 One of the most time-consuming tasks when editing the Newsletter is surely to review the entries in our journals section as screening so many different and inspiring contributions will typically lead to repeated distractions in the editing process ;-) For instance, I lost some time with this neat paper in the Journal of Evolutionary Economics that summarizes how high real wages might lead to development education evolutionary-and-institutional-economics feminist-economics global-south heterodox-archetypes history-of-thought iaphe keynesian labour publishing-and-journals https://heterodoxnews.com/blog/htn357.html https://heterodoxnews.com/blog/htn357.html Mon, 30 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Once upon a time, when I was still young, bold and clueless, I inherited the editorship of the Heterodox Economics from dedicated and well-established researchers like Fred S. Lee or Tae-Hee Jo. Fred and Tae-Hee had compiled a lot of important background material – most notably the Heterodox Economics Directory, which is still updated regularly by the Newsletter’s team – and had also designed a conference development feminist-economics heterodox-archetypes inequality pluralism https://heterodoxnews.com/blog/htn356.html https://heterodoxnews.com/blog/htn356.html Mon, 09 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 In a certain sense this will be the most nerdy editorial that has ever had the honor to introduce an issue of the Heterodox Economics Newsletter 🤖. So let’s get this one going! As you might have guessed producing the Newsletter is a tedious endeavor and we could never do it with standard tools, like html-editors, tex-files or GoogleDoc. We need our own dedicated and secure database. And an data-tools publishing-and-journals https://heterodoxnews.com/blog/htn355.html https://heterodoxnews.com/blog/htn355.html Mon, 16 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Among the many cool things that can be found in this issue of the Heterodox Economics Newsletter, the "Symposium on Honor of Geoff Harcourt", which is part of the most recent issue of the Review of Political Economy , shines out a little. This is so, not only because Geoff was an immensely versatile, perceptive and inspiring economist with an impressiveoeuvre and a sizeable portion of humor, but conference education feminist-economics global-south heterodox-archetypes publishing-and-journals https://heterodoxnews.com/blog/htn354.html https://heterodoxnews.com/blog/htn354.html Mon, 26 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 The probably most funny (although somewhat implicit) assumption in Ricardo’s model of comparative advantage is the supposition that all sectors are essentially equivalent in terms of development: as specialization is determined by short-run costs, the long-run consequences of sectoral lock-ins are bracketed out. It is, hence, not without irony that Ricardo’s original example relies on comparing development history-of-thought international-trade policy https://heterodoxnews.com/blog/htn353.html https://heterodoxnews.com/blog/htn353.html Mon, 05 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 The bad news is that your work-life in 2026 starts probably right about now. The good news is that it does so with a fresh and crisp issue of the Heterodox Economics Newsletter ;-) Among other great things, this issue features a series of highly interesting conferences and workshops, including both long-time classics like the annual conferences of the Association for Heterodox Economics (AHE) and conference democracy global-south heterodox-associations history-of-thought https://heterodoxnews.com/blog/htn352.html https://heterodoxnews.com/blog/htn352.html Mon, 08 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 It was a somewhat ambivalent feeling to receive news of Christine Lagarde’s diagnosis that Europe’s “growth model” is now outdated. While this diagnosis echoes a key element of heterodox critique on economic policy in Europe and, especially, the Eurozone – namely that its focus on achieving permanent current account surpluses is neither sustainable in the long-run nor able to produce inclusive climate crisis europe global-south inequality international-trade labour policy https://heterodoxnews.com/blog/htn351.html https://heterodoxnews.com/blog/htn351.html Mon, 17 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Contrary to current trends almost everywhere else, this issue of the Heterodox Economics Newsletter brings some good news. While this is fantastic it comes with the drawback that a long editorial emerged out of my enthusiasm; hope that is OK 😠. First and foremost, it should be noted that the Institute for Comprehensive Analysis of the Economy (ICAE) at Johannes Kepler University Linz – one climate conference crisis data-tools democracy heterodox-associations iaphe inequality international-trade pluralism publishing-and-journals https://heterodoxnews.com/blog/htn350.html https://heterodoxnews.com/blog/htn350.html Mon, 27 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000 I was very intrigued to discover a novel ‚programmatic paper‘ on complexity economics these days that comes with the ambitious title „Complexity and Paradigm Change in Economics“. The paper is authored by Eric Beinhocker and Jenna Bednar and articulates key cornerstones of complexity economics as an internally coherent research program, that is increasingly challenging the economic mainstream on crisis evolutionary-and-institutional-economics feminist-economics heterodox-archetypes keynesian pluralism radical-economics https://heterodoxnews.com/blog/htn349.html https://heterodoxnews.com/blog/htn349.html Mon, 06 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Last week I was graciously invited by the University of Zürich to participate in a teaching workshop on Pluralism in Economics together with a series of inspiring researchers, namely Dina Pomeranz, Florian Bally-Rommel and Suresh Naidu. The workshop was focused on confronting different views on what economics is and should be and it was exceptionally exciting to learn from both, other senior conference europe labour pluralism policy publishing-and-journals https://heterodoxnews.com/blog/htn348.html https://heterodoxnews.com/blog/htn348.html Mon, 15 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000 It is quite evident that increasing geopolitical tensions and fragility are more and more reflected in economic policy and, relatedly, also within economics. With the rise of such security concerns, practical economic considerations become much more Macchievellian in nature and I am not sure, whether it is fully reflected in the discipline how much this impacts on applied problems. A key notion austerity climate democracy europe history-of-thought international-trade neoliberalism policy usa https://heterodoxnews.com/blog/htn347.html https://heterodoxnews.com/blog/htn347.html Mon, 18 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000 As usual at this time of the year, where there is less information traffic on academic matters, your favorite newsletter comes a week later than expected. However, we will switch back to our usual rhythm of three weeks after our next issue on September 15. Also in terms of internal matters, please note that we will accept corrections, additions, or (suggestions for) extensions of the Heterodox climate democracy heterodox-archetypes history-of-thought inequality pluralism publishing-and-journals https://heterodoxnews.com/blog/htn346.html https://heterodoxnews.com/blog/htn346.html Mon, 21 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000 In a world at the brink of darkness, the Heterodox Economics Newsletter is a beacon of hope – or at least that is what I tell myself to get me going writing editorials on weekends 😁. However, in my impression this issue truly lives up to this spirit as it is full of good news – so listen out and enjoy reading what follows: For one, I am super-happy to announce that we managed to acquire funds for climate inequality publishing-and-journals https://heterodoxnews.com/blog/htn345.html https://heterodoxnews.com/blog/htn345.html Mon, 23 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Joseph Schumpeter's iconic description of the entrepreneur, as an ideal-type for the passionate, adventurous, and smart characters that coin the history of industry, can, of course, be contested in many ways: it's a little reductionist, it's a little essentialist, its framing is overly sexist... and so on. Nonetheless, I would admit that the intuition that some actors are driven by an intrinsic democracy global-south heterodox-archetypes heterodox-associations iaphe https://heterodoxnews.com/blog/htn344.html https://heterodoxnews.com/blog/htn344.html Mon, 02 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000 My favorite item in this issue of the Heterodox Economics Newsletter is, somewhat self-servingly ;-), our job ad for a new position associated with the Institute for Socio-Economics at the University of Duisburg-Essen. If you wanna work with us at one of the homes of the Heterodox Economics Newsletter, please consider applying. Also, please consider forwarding this opportunity to potentially democracy europe inequality keynesian methodology usa https://heterodoxnews.com/blog/htn343.html https://heterodoxnews.com/blog/htn343.html Mon, 12 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000 In recent editorials, we have repeatedly touched upon issues of academic freedom as a fundamental value that is a necessary requirement for doing accurate academic research and teaching. Academic freedom is essential for the functionality of science as a systemic search for (often incomplete and preliminary) truth because it is a prerequisite for any open debate on how to best interpret the democracy feminist-economics publishing-and-journals https://heterodoxnews.com/blog/htn342.html https://heterodoxnews.com/blog/htn342.html Mon, 21 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000 As heterodox economists, we are well aware that temporality and timing are key aspects in economic analysis. However, probably only a few of you are aware of the fact that the material covered in this newsletter occasionally shows specific and distinct temporal patterns. So let's reveal a thing or two about the inner rhythm of our work ;-) For one, there are recurring seasonal patterns : In climate conference europe heterodox-archetypes international-trade policy https://heterodoxnews.com/blog/htn341.html https://heterodoxnews.com/blog/htn341.html Mon, 31 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000 The world is full of unanticipated consequences and one (probably very minor ;-) unintended consequence of the unconventional economic policies on the way in the US (due to Trump) and Europe (als due to Trump ;-)) is that I receive an increased number of media requests. Such requests are ambivalent in many ways: they often force you to choose between focusing on explaining clearly what's going on evolutionary-and-institutional-economics heterodox-archetypes https://heterodoxnews.com/blog/htn340.html https://heterodoxnews.com/blog/htn340.html Mon, 10 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000 While I generally like people from the US, as most people from the US I met have been kind and amicable, I always had an ambivalent impression of the US as a leading global power. This ambivalence is rooted in the contradictory historical roles played by the US. Some examples are: (1) Being the world's oldest democracy vs. being somewhat of a self-serving empire. (2) Saving Europe from itself by conference democracy feminist-economics heterodox-archetypes international-trade radical-economics usa https://heterodoxnews.com/blog/htn339.html https://heterodoxnews.com/blog/htn339.html Mon, 17 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000 When checking all the (quite numerous ;-)) items for this issue of the Heterodox Economics Newsletter, I was most distracted by the leading article in the recent issue of Industrial and Corporate Change , which is about the role of rational heuristics in pricing strategies. In my humble opinion this fine paper connects two areas of research that are somehwat underresearched (maybe also labour publishing-and-journals https://heterodoxnews.com/blog/htn338.html https://heterodoxnews.com/blog/htn338.html Mon, 27 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000 While the sad news of Richard Easterlin's passing reached my desk somewhat late, I had to pause for a moment to reflect on his impact on my own development in my more formative years. Although Easterlin is a highly unconventional economics author, he is hardly listed among key heterodox sources and thinkers. Nonetheless, I have to admit that the Easterlin paradox and related debates about its conference europe inequality https://heterodoxnews.com/blog/htn337.html https://heterodoxnews.com/blog/htn337.html Mon, 06 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000 While preparing this issue of the Heterodox Economics Newsletter I recognized that this is the first issue in the second quarter of the 21st century. This means that in our last issue I closed the first quarter with a humor-focused editorial, which seems quite apt, retrospectively ;-). I also received some neat additional suggestions for cartoonsas a respone, which I collected here, and even evolutionary-and-institutional-economics keynesian https://heterodoxnews.com/blog/htn336.html https://heterodoxnews.com/blog/htn336.html Mon, 09 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000 We maybe talk too rarely and too little about how teaching and thinking on heterodox economics could be more funny. While this might not seem totally apt for what is sometimes called the 'dismal science', I still wanted to point out for once that cartoons can serve as a core entry point for doing so. Human creativity is a beautiful resource, that can be employed for many purposes, and I am climate heterodox-archetypes history-of-thought methodology https://heterodoxnews.com/blog/htn335.html https://heterodoxnews.com/blog/htn335.html Mon, 18 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Following Karl Polanyi's classic The Great Transformation) we can understand how increased economic pressure through marketization and individualization contributes to the emergence of countermovements that, explicitly or implicitly, aim to preserve social cohesion. Historical examples for such countermovements may be bright (as in the case of the New Deal or the development of European welfare climate democracy development europe heterodox-archetypes inequality policy https://heterodoxnews.com/blog/htn334.html https://heterodoxnews.com/blog/htn334.html Mon, 28 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000 It has been on the news that three economists – Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James Robinson – received a famous prize for their work. According to my somewhat superficial impression the euvre of the laureates is quite broad and heterogenous providing more (e.g. here) or less (e.g. here) nuanced takes on the driving forces of economic development. Similarly, these authors contributed to the development evolutionary-and-institutional-economics labour neoliberalism publishing-and-journals https://heterodoxnews.com/blog/htn333.html https://heterodoxnews.com/blog/htn333.html Mon, 07 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Wealth is in many ways a key topic in heterodox economic research: for one, it is a key source of social stratification and determines the class position of individuals and households. For another, the distribution of wealth is highly unequal, which creates socio-economic power asymmetries, that give rise to differential returns, which often reinforce existing inequalities. This latter europe global-south inequality https://heterodoxnews.com/blog/htn332.html https://heterodoxnews.com/blog/htn332.html Mon, 16 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000 While this Newsletter is typically sent out from somewhere in central Europe, it occasionally comes from elsewhere, e.g. when I am on vacation or traveling to conferences. As a result, I have sent Newsletter-issues from many different countries in the past decade, including countries far off from my home, like the US or Chile. However, this issue of the Newsletter is somewhat of a premiere as it conference democracy global-south inequality labour https://heterodoxnews.com/blog/htn331.html https://heterodoxnews.com/blog/htn331.html Mon, 19 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000 My ten-year old daughter received a postcard these days. It was sent by a a friend of her's, who is currently on vacation in Northern Italy. The card read: Dear Florentina, we are on vacation and it is very nice. But, admittedly, it is also very hot. Best wishes, Carla Now, this is a somewhat compelling analysis. It is hot, much hotter than usual, especially in the Mediterraen area, but also up climate global-south heterodox-archetypes https://heterodoxnews.com/blog/htn330.html https://heterodoxnews.com/blog/htn330.html Mon, 22 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000 In the past weeks we have continued working on the on-going update of the Heterodox Economics Directory, which is now very close to completion. Only the introductory chapter, is still missing, which means that all the (relevant) parts that try to document the activities of heterodox economists across the globe are (hopefully) completed. We will keep these categories open for review for another climate democracy development heterodox-archetypes history-of-thought international-trade https://heterodoxnews.com/blog/htn329.html https://heterodoxnews.com/blog/htn329.html Mon, 24 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Throughout the last weeks we have been continuing our work on updating the Heterodox Economics Directory and added a revised collection of heterodox study programs to the current beta-version of the upcoming 7th edition. As usual, it would be great if you could check whether all heterodox programs you are involved with are covered and adequately described in this revision. We will put additional heterodox-archetypes usa publishing-and-journals https://heterodoxnews.com/blog/htn328.html https://heterodoxnews.com/blog/htn328.html Mon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Three weeks ago we published the first chapter of the upcoming 7th edition of the Heterodox Economics Directory and we want to thank all of you who contributed by sending some feedback or suggestions for addition. For this issue of the Newsletter we have extended the beta-version of the Directory in two ways: for one, we incorporated feedback in the already existing section on 'heterodox economic conference publishing-and-journals https://heterodoxnews.com/blog/htn327.html https://heterodoxnews.com/blog/htn327.html Mon, 13 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000 While many people think Moloko's classic 'The Time is Now' is a love song, I posit it can be equally well interpreted as a celebration of the warm feelings induced by the arrival of a long-awaited publication: the book, that contains your most important ideas; the edited volume you have been waiting so long for; the perfect paper, accepted and published by a renowned outlet. The song works publishing-and-journals https://heterodoxnews.com/blog/htn326.html https://heterodoxnews.com/blog/htn326.html Mon, 22 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000 These days I received several emails saying that some china-related domains (like .cn, .com.cn and the like) based on my personal name (e.g. jakob-kapeller.cn) will be claimed by a company in Hong Kong that specializes in medical equipment. These guys are serious, they already wrote me an email saying they will press their claims, regardless of any actions I might take ;-) Now, what form of late keynesian pluralism https://heterodoxnews.com/blog/htn325.html https://heterodoxnews.com/blog/htn325.html Mon, 01 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000 About ten years ago a former teacher of mine, who had by then become a cherished colleague and friend, celebrated his retirement. He was a post-Keynesian economist in a mainstream department and the laudatio was given by one of his senior mainstream colleagues. At one point in the speech the laudator mentioned Kaleckian models, which my friend was fond of, and added that, potentially, this class conference international-trade keynesian pluralism https://heterodoxnews.com/blog/htn324.html https://heterodoxnews.com/blog/htn324.html Mon, 11 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Working on the Heterodox Economics Newsletter has become tougher. Over the years I notice an increasing load of emails to screen, more numerous and diverse requests to consider, more journals to feature and, as a consequence, an increasing number of entries within each issue with the pdf-version of the Newsletter now often reaching more than one-hundred pages. As the Newsletter's trying to publishing-and-journals https://heterodoxnews.com/blog/htn323.html https://heterodoxnews.com/blog/htn323.html Mon, 19 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000 During the last weeks, I have received the sad news that the full editorial board of the Journal of Economic Surveys has stepped down from their positions. This is sad, because the Journal of Economic Surveys not only provided a great service to the profession by publishing highly interesting review papers and meta-analyses, but was also an established journal open for submissions with a crisis publishing-and-journals https://heterodoxnews.com/blog/htn322.html https://heterodoxnews.com/blog/htn322.html Mon, 29 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Economic models are powerful tools in many ways. As all scientific models these tools can be used for various purposes. Classic accounts in philosophy of science would emphasize the trias explanation, prediction and design, which can be easily represented by simple deductive-nomological models. Such models are helpful as they allow for illustrating basic concepts, like law-like mechanisms, the methodology power https://heterodoxnews.com/blog/htn321.html https://heterodoxnews.com/blog/htn321.html Mon, 08 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000 "Your intention is obviously counter-cultural, and god knows the current culture has to be changed." (Robert Solow in an early letter to the founders of the Review of Keynesian Economics) While the above quote is more than a decade old – indeed, the Review of Keynesian Economics has already seen the publication of its 11th Volume – the gist of Solow's statement is still well-suited to describe keynesian publishing-and-journals https://heterodoxnews.com/blog/htn320.html https://heterodoxnews.com/blog/htn320.html Mon, 04 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000 It is now close to two months that another moral conundrum arising from path-dependent, historical lines of conflict has unfolded into an escalating spiral of violence. Such lock-ins into violent escalation, even if they should only be temporary, always come at an incredible human cost and leave me largely speechless. However, nonetheless the underlying dynamics of such conflicts – both in terms power https://heterodoxnews.com/blog/htn319.html https://heterodoxnews.com/blog/htn319.html Mon, 13 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000 In my last editorial, I posted a lengthy note on the importance of shared infrastructures for community-buildung, thereby also emphasizing the need to advance "joint visions of teaching political economy". Building on this intuition, I wanted to use the opportunity to point to the recently published "Teaching Heterodox Economics Magazine", that is available freely on the web and tries to education publishing-and-journals https://heterodoxnews.com/blog/htn318.html https://heterodoxnews.com/blog/htn318.html Mon, 23 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000 When pinning down my editorial words, I often exploit the opportunity to point towards the merits of pluralism, diversity and open-mindedness in economic thought. And while I surely stand by my words, my emphasis should not discount the fact that political economy and heterodox economics also need to strive for shared conceptual foundations to foster clarity, coherence and cohesion. This history-of-thought pluralism publishing-and-journals https://heterodoxnews.com/blog/htn317.html https://heterodoxnews.com/blog/htn317.html Mon, 02 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000 It was a great pleasure to take part in this year’s great EAEPE conference, that took place in Leeds some weeks ago. I always enjoy the pluralist spirit of EAEPE, the theoretical and methodological diversity it incorporates and the fact that the participants are patient and open-minded so that conversation across different heterodox traditions, social science disciplines and cultural backgrounds conference heterodox-associations methodology pluralism https://heterodoxnews.com/blog/htn316.html https://heterodoxnews.com/blog/htn316.html Mon, 11 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000 A not so long time ago I was taking a break from work. I was sitting on my terrace, listening to some music and then it came to me that I made a mistake. And the mistake is this: Although I am the main editor of the Newsletter for close to a decade now I never took the opportunity to ask the somewhat essential question: "what is the sound of heterodox economics?" You might object by saying that inequality https://heterodoxnews.com/blog/htn315.html https://heterodoxnews.com/blog/htn315.html Mon, 14 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000 (Lack of) diversity in economics is still a major problem of the discipline and one that is regularly addressed in the Heterodox Economics Newsletter in different ways (e.g. here, here or here). Thereby concerns about diversity do not only relate to personal characteristics and identities of researchers, but also pertain to other aspects of academic life – the way we communicate with each other, conference history-of-thought pluralism publishing-and-journals