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“When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.” -Hunter S. Thompson- After WWII the going in economics definitely got weird. consider now the birth of Post-Autistic Economics for sanity, humanity, and science Life gets better when the young engage in sensible rebellion. In Post-Autistic Economics, the rebellion’s definitely on. The weird have turned pro. So listen up all ye Doctrinaire Children of the Monotonic Function:
In Paris a few years ago, a small group of students complained sensibly about the relevance of their economic education. Soon they were joined by British students, arguing about the same. Both levied public complaints about the relevance of economic research, philosophy, and objectives, too. Now there’s an international movement, “Post Autistic Economics.” There’s an on-line journal. There are books. And there’s a website. Check it out: http://www.paecon.net/ Hope has a beginning and an end.
The Association for Heterodox Economics Here’s evidence of the growing number of British-American-and Other Worldly-wise economists with a new game in town. http://www.hetecon.com/ AHE conferences will introduce you to cool people.
Daniel Klein (of George Mason University) has assembled an impressive team of economists to be a nearly real-time, on-line conscience of the economics profession. Reward Dan and John Stuart Mill by checking out this web site. Or, better, contributing to it: http://www.econjournalwatch.org/main/index.php
ICAPE http://www.econ.tcu.edu/econ/icare/main.html Pluralism in Economics “ICAPE” is the International Confederation of Associations for Pluralism in Economics. Phew! Glad that’s out. The mission is better than the name, “Eye Cape.” ICAPE is “dedicated to the idea that pluralism and intellectual progress are complements. This is not to say “anything goes,” but that each tradition of thought (Austrian, feminist, old and new institutionalist, Marxian, neoclassical, Post Keynesian, Sraffian, etc.) adds something unique and valuable to economic scholarship.” “Achieving productive discussion and debate across schools of economic thought is not a simple matter. There are many institutional and practical obstacles to pluralism. It is precisely by helping to remove those obstacles that ICAPE hopes to render a service to the community of economists throughout the world. In 1993, our founders outlined four goals for ICAPE:
Though the particular means used may vary over time, ICAPE’s activities are always inspired by these aims” [ICAPE “Statement of Purpose”]. Reasonable, yes?
You Gotta Love Your Bayesian Prof. Arnold Zellner (University of Chicago) http://gsbwww.uchicago.edu/fac/arnold.zellner/more/
Prof. Edward Leamer (UCLA) http://www.econ.ucla.edu/people/faculty/Leamer.html 
William Sealy Gosset (aka "Student")
When Deirdre speaks, other professors say: “Wow! She makes me want to go back to school!” (right) Deirdre McCloskey with Janie (d. 2005) I
Between writing chapters of The Standard Error we took in some jazz at The Green Mill: Steve, Suzette, Deirdre, and Deirdre’s amazing 83-year old mother, the poet Helen McCloskey.
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