Hooray, hooray, here are some fantastic news: starting...

Hooray, hooray, here are some fantastic news: starting with this issue the Heterodox Economics Newsletter is back! We are up & running again and this is how it should be and, honestly, it’s a good feeling to do such a comeback ;-)

As many of you might have noticed in the past months, our technical facility for distributing emails was down due to a ransomware-attack on my home institution, the University of Duisburg-Essen. While many of the university’s IT-facilities are not yet restored, some admin finally decided to put the service for mailing-lists, on which we rely, back online. This is truly relieving as (contrary to what you might believe about the supposedly high standards of diligence in Germany) our administration has not shared much details with us, so we were totally in the dark for some months and could not form any estimate with regard to when, exactly, we will get our mailing-list back.

As our remaining services – like our email address as well as our website – remained operational, we have continued to publish issues of the Newsletter (although not in the usual frequency) and distributed these issues via alternative mailing-lists as well as on social media. If you want to check back on past issues you might have missed, you can always peek into our archives, in which all past issues of the Newsletter are documented.

As every crisis also brings some opportunities, this emergency strategy had the unintended positive consequence that our follower-base on social media showed a significant increase – we are thankful for this considerate reaction of the heterodox community on social media, but still more thankful that we are now in a position to return to a normal mode of operations. In doing so, we will also return to the usual policies – like sending out a Newsletter every three weeks or writing a short editorial that does say a little more than noting that some emergency is happening ;-)

Hence, we will return to the tradition to provide some key pieces of information at this point – information that typically relates to cool digital tools (like this interactive website on the history of macroeconomics), progress in heterodox economics (as exemplified by the impressive Encyclopedia on Post-Keynesian Economics or the fantastic recent special issues published in the Cambridge Journal of Economics and the Review of Social Economy) or the mishaps of the mainstream (like this recent piece in the Journal of Economic Literature that tracks the assimilation of the concept of hysteresis within the mainstream with only minimal reference to heterodox traditions). So, stay tuned for our upcoming issues – we hope you will eventually enjoy our comeback at least as much as we do!

All the best,

Jakob