AHE Advanced Training Workshop

["Lee, Frederic" <leefs@xxxxxxxx>]

> Dear Colleagues,
> 
> The following information may be of interest to you and your graduate
> students.  The Association for Heterodox Economics in association with
> the Economic and Social Research Council is putting on an Advanced
> Training Workshop on heterodox economic research methodologies.  All
> the techniques discussed emerge from debates about methodology that
> have been widely publicised in leading economics journals.  The
> workshop includes practical components illustrating the use of
> computer software.  Tony Lawson will speak on causal explanations,
> Sheila Dow on originality in applied economics, Fred Lee on grounded
> theory, Henry Bernstein on cross-fertilisation among social sciences,
> and Wendy Olsen on statistical analysis revitalised and on qualitative
> data analysis.  There will also be tea and discussion on cointegration
> and a free-wheeling debate on modelling.
> 
> Applicants-participants are welcomed from 2nd to 4th year PhD students
> registered at a UK university and from supervisors or potential
> supervisors of PhD students.  OVERSEAS APPLICANTS (who are not
> registered at a UK university) ARE ALSO WELCOME if they can pay their
> own costs.
> 
> I have hopefully attached the appropriate websites which you need to
> look at.  But if you have any problems please go to the following
> websites:
> 
> www.bradford.ac.uk/staff/wkolsen/The HetEcon Workshop.htm
> www.bradford.ac.uk/staff/wkolsen/regandsub
> 
> The workshop is really a great deal for the Association for Heterodox
> and for heterodox economics.  Wendy Olsen and Alfredo Saad Filho have
> put in lots and lots of work to get this workshop running for
> heterodox economists.  So please support the workshop.
> 
> Fred Lee
> 
> 
> 
>  <<regandsub.htm>>  <<The HetEcon Workshop.htm>>  <<Ethan Frome.htm>>

Association for Heterodox Economics
(in association with Economic and Social Research Council)

Advanced Training Workshop Nov. 23-25, 2001
VENUE: and School of Oriental and African Studies
Workshop Content and Aims: The ESRC is funding a three-day session on heterodox economic research methodologies. Economists, heterodox economists, and those working on interdisciplinary topics are all welcome. The workshop includes practical components illustrating the use of computer software. It will also include a poster session and you will get details about preparing your poster after you register.

Timing and Arrangements: We begin at lunch time on Friday 23 November and finish late in the day on Sunday 25 November 2001. The annual conference of Economics Graduate Students is planned separately for most of the Sunday, and Workshop participants must contact the organisers if they wish to attend it. Details are available for that event will be posted on www.hetecon.com.

For background about the workshop aims and its financing, see www.brad.ac.uk/staff/wkolsen/aheworkshop

FOR FULL SCHEDULE OF THE WORKSHOP, SEE www.brad.ac.uk/staff/wkolsen/The HetEcon Workshop.htm

Registration Form:

NOTE: Anyone interested in Economics is welcome. There is a Fee of £25 for Students or £70 for Lecturers (who are welcome to attend because they supervise PhDs - a special arrangement with ESRC).

 

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Please indicate your requirements (circle all that apply):

? I would like to participate in the workshop

? I will be reserving accommodation for the following nights:

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? I am applying for the student subsidy -- full costs of travel and accommodation.

? I am applying as a Supervisor not as a PhD student.

OVERSEAS APPLICANTS ARE WELCOME if they are registered at a UK university (eligible for subsidy) or if they can pay their own costs.

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KEEP THIS PAGE:

For further details about the Workshop, please see the web site at

http://www.brad.ac.uk/staff/wkolsen/advert1.htm

Contact Details 

Dr Wendy K Olsen Centre for International Development University of Bradford Bradford BD7 1DP West Yorkshire email w.k.olsen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx. www.brad.ac.uk/staff/wkolsen

Dr. Alfredo Saad Filho School of Oriental and African Studies Development Studies University of London Russell Square London WC1 0XG Email asfilho@xxxxxxx

Ms. Amanda Brown SOAS Dev. Studies Administrator School of Oriental and African Studies Development Studies University of London Russell Square London WC1 0XG Email ab85@xxxxxxxxxx Phone 0207-898-4480

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Application Form for the Subsidy from ESRC:

We need a few more details to ensure that you are eligible for the ESRC subsidy.

This form does not guarantee that you will receive a subsidy. You are liable for all your costs, including the Fee. However we hope to subsidise lots of 2^nd to 4^th Year PhD students to come.

 

Date you first Registered for MPhil/PhD Research: ...YEAR:......................MONTH:............................

Have you ever been a part-time PhD student? ??????????..

(Explain briefly. This may affect your eligibility for the ESRC subsidy. If you are in your 2^nd year you are probably eligible. If you are past your 4^th year, but did some research as a Part-Time student, you are also probably eligible.)

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What year of the PhD are you in during 2001/2002?....................................................

Do you have outside funding for your PhD fees and/or subsistence? (Optional)

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Please list your previous Degree awards and your Masters dissertation title if you did one.

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OPTIONAL: Below please find Information for Employers Regarding the PhD Advanced Methodology Workshop for Heterodox Economics. You may print this and use it at your workplace. It may help you get funding for your visit to London and for the Workshop Fee.

Information for Employers Regarding the PhD Advanced Methodology Workshop for Heterodox Economics.

The Association for Heterodox Economics has received funds from the ESRC for an advanced methodology workshop. Two categories of participant are welcome: 2^nd to 4^th year PhD students; and Supervisors or potential supervisors of PhD students. Our coverage includes any interdisciplinary PhD with links to Economics as well as Economics co-supervision. Participants who are Lecturers are expected to find the funds for their B&B accommodation, travel, and £70 fee through their employers or other sources. It is a three-day visit to London in November 2001. Your support will be appreciated and this activity is clearly an important staff development activity for those who wish to perform well as PhD supervisors.

Enquiries about the arrangements may be addressed to Dr. Wendy Olsen, Deputy Director, The Graduate School, University of Bradford, Bradford BD7 1DP by phoning 01274-235889 or fax 01274-235585.

Thank you.

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Title: The HetEcon Workshop

The HetEcon Workshop

Proposed Schedule of Events Nov. 23-25

Comments on the Schedule to w.k.olsen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Registrations and Accommodation Queries to Amanda Brown at SOAS please.

 

FRIDAY NOV. 23 2001

Registration from 10 am onward. Each participant receives a notebook of photocopied handouts centred around the six presenters' topics and also covering the question of the supervisor's role and the defining characteristics of the social-science PhD as it now exists in the UK.

Lunch -- Buffet with Laptop P.C.s demonstrating Websites for HetEconomists

2-3 pm Viewing the Posters in the Main Lecture Hall

FOCUS OF THE POSTERS: EMPIRICAL ASPECTS OF YOUR RESEARCH, PLEASE. DETAILS OF POSTER REQUIREMENTS WILL BE PROVIDED BY GARY SLATER.

3-4.30 pm Lecture and Discussion with Tony Lawson on Causal Explanations.

4.30-5.30 A Debate About Modelling with Inputs From Everybody Who Comes Prepared, Including Tony Lawson (cold drinks will be available)

5.30-7 pm Have your evening meal out in a nearby restaurant with some of your new acquaintances. Be sure to meet someone new.

7-9 pm Sheila Dow gives a lecture and discussion on Originality in Applied Economics. (Title still under discussion)

SATURDAY Nov. 24 2001

9.00-9.30 Viewing the Posters, Late Registrations, Meeting Our Speakers in the Main Hall

9.30-11.00 am Fred Lee speaks on Grounded Theory and the Empirical Opportunities for PhDs in Economics Today

Discussants: We would like 2 volunteers from among the participants to read Fred's published work and agree to give a 5 minute Response to Fred before we have an open discussion. Contact W.Olsen if you will volunteer.

11.00-11.30 Tea/coffee/juice.

11.30-12.30 Henry Bernstein on the Unhappy Imperialisms of Economics, e.g. Walrasian Traditions: Cross-Fertilisation Among Social Sciences

12.30-1.45 pm Lunch - pubs and cafes nearby

2.00-3.00 pm Wendy Olsen speaks on Statistical Analysis Revitalised

3.00-4.00 pm Small-Group Discussions Using Micro-Meso-Macro Analysis

(supported by materials from Andrew Sayer and Derek Layder's work).

4.00-5.00 pm Split Into Streams

Group A: tea and discussion of 'why cointegration can/cannot tell you much about causation' (preparation: read Beed and Beed, CJE 2000, about naturalism, and review Sayer on structural causation)

Group B: Cold drinks and Computer Demonstration of 'computerised analysis of qualitative data for inter-disciplinary economics' using NUDIST and SPSS and Ethnograph (preparation: review the materials which are sent out in advance of the workshop, involving discourse-analytic coding of segments of text as well as grounded-theory coding)

5.00 pm Form-filling session in which the Workshop is Evaluated and the Participants get to request a Refund of their costs incurred. This session is required of all Participants because the ESRC are keen to ascertain exactly what is useful and what is not so useful to Workshop Participants.

Friday evening - again, dinner in small groups.

SUNDAY 25 Nov. 2001

The Economics PhD Students' Annual Conference begins and within it, one stream in the morning is offered as an alternative to listening to the papers:

9-10 am W. Olsen, Illustration of Qualitative Data Analysis: The Social Construction of Financial Exclusion and the Social Deconstruction of Free Choice in Banking.

9-11 other paper streams

11-11.30 tea/coffee/juice

11.30-1.15 Paper streams

1.15-2 pm Lunch

2-4 Paper streams

4-5 Plenary of Students' Conference

5 pm departure.

(click here for Registration Forms and here, Advertisement)

Details from:

Ms. Amanda Brown
SOAS Dev. Studies Administrator
School of Oriental and African Studies
Development Studies
University of London
Russell Square
London WC1 0XG
Email ab85@xxxxxxxxxx
Phone 0207-898-4480

Details of the Workshop Speakers: See Next Page

 

Details of the Workshop Speakers

Wendy Olsen is a lecturer in development economics who has found qualitative methodology intermeshes nicely with quantitative methods -- but only if you give up the idea of objectivity and start creatively formulating explanatory descriptions of problematic economic questions. She advocates triangulation.

Tony Lawson teaches econometrics and macro at Cambridge University but has written a well-known book, Economics and Reality (London: Routledge, 1997), which challenges the assumption that the things 'represented' in economic data simply exist in an unproblematic way over time. He argues that the workings of causal mechanisms are often masked so we have to look beyond quantitative data to find out what the multiple tendencies are that produce demi-regularities we observe.

Sheila Dow of Stirling University has written widely on economic history and her paper (Dow, 2000) locates heterodox economists firmly in the margins of the currently dominant neoclassical paradigm (in Kuhnian terms). She argues, however, that there is scope for optimism for us who do inter-disciplinary economics.

Henry Bernstein (SOAS) is a development studies specialist with special expertise in the economics of global capitalism and specific African economies. Henry will argue that . . .

Alfredo Saad-Filho (SOAS) lectures in development economics and is a co-organiser of the Workshop. His own research includes the analysis of marxist and post-marxist models of the financial sector including global interactions and the Brazilian case in particular.

Fred Lee is one of the originators of the 'Association for Heterodox Economics' in the UK. In 2000 he brain-drained himself over to the USA for a new post there at **. He won a prize at the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy for his book, Post-Keynesian Price Theory, in 2000. He is happy to talk about how we should be looking at price-setting processes. Like Andrew Sayer (1992) and Tony Lawson, he sees prices as occurring in a social, time-bound world with complex overlapping causal mechanisms.

All your speakers would tend to argue that to pluck out one cause or explanation and focus attention on it is a political act with social ramifications. Therefore, we argue, political economy and social economy are inherently part of what economists do as analysts of society. We are not arguing that the world is so complex you can't describe it. Instead, we suggest that the description you write will have political and economic impacts so you need to consider the moral/political context whilst you develop your research instrument, choose multiple units of analysis, hone your data analysis technique, and phrase your results.

REFERENCES

Dow, S. 2000. "Prospects for the Progress of Heterodox Economics", Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 22:2, pp. 157-170.

Lawson, T. 1997. Economics and Reality, London: Routledge.

Lee, F. 1998. Post-Keynesian Price Theory, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Olsen, W.K. 2001. Journal of Critical Realism, 1:4.

Sayer, A. 1992. Method in Social Science: A Realist Approach, London: Routledge.

 

Title: Ethan Frome

Association for Heterodox Economics

(in association with Economic and Social Research Council)

Advanced Training Workshop Nov. 23-25, 2001

VENUE: and School of Oriental and African Studies
CONFIRMED SPEAKERS: 		Sheila Dow	 	Henry Bernstein     
	Tony Lawson		Fred Lee
Our pedagogy is mixed			Wendy Olsen	Alfredo Saad Filho
Workshop Content and Aims: The ESRC is funding a three-day session on heterodox economic research methodologies. All the techniques discussed emerge from debates about methodology that have been widely publicised in leading economics journals. The workshop includes practical components illustrating the use of computer software.
WORKSHOP SCHEDULE (PROVISIONAL) is on www.bradford.ac.uk/staff/wkolsen/The HetEcon Workshop.
WORKSHOP FINANCING DETAILS ARE ON www.brad.ac.uk/staff/wkolsen/aheworkshop
REGISTRATION FORMS ARE ON http://www.brad.ac.uk/staff/wkolsen/regandsub.

Timing and Arrangements: We begin at lunch time on Friday 23 November and finish late in the day on Sunday 25 November 2001. The annual conference of Economics Graduate Students is planned separately for most of the Sunday, and Workshop participants must contact the organisers if they wish to attend it. Details are available for that event on www.hetecon.com.

Eligibility for Subsidy: 2nd, 3rd and 4th year PhD students in Economics subjects, including multi- or inter-disciplinary subjects with clear Economics content, may receive a subsidy on their accommodation and travel costs. Students with queries about their eligibility may contact Dr. Wendy Olsen giving their Draft Thesis Title, date of registration, whether full-time or part-time, and their reply phone numbers.

Special Arrangements for Supervisors to Attend: Economics PhD supervisors and Lecturers who plan to supervise in this area (defined broadly, hence including health economics and managerial economics) may attend the workshop with subsidy. Send your details to the organisers to ensure you are eligible.

Costs: The workshop will have a Fee which is charged to non-subsidised participants. We can contribute to the travel and accommodation costs of up to 60 participants (bed and breakfast in a local B&B and/or cheap rate bus or rail travel). A limit may be imposed on the subsidy per person.

How to Apply: FULL DETAILS WILL BE ON THE WEB at www.hetecon.com BY ABOUT 15 AUGUST 2001. There will be a registration form and an application form for the subsidy. Plan to visit London from Thursday to Sunday or from Friday to Monday if you wish.

Contact Details

Dr Wendy K Olsen Centre for International Development University of Bradford Bradford BD7 1DP West Yorkshire email w.k.olsen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx. www.brad.ac.uk/staff/wkolsen

Dr. Alfredo Saad Filho School of Oriental and African Studies Development Studies University of London Russell Square London WC1 0XG Email asfilho@xxxxxxx

Ms. Amanda Brown SOAS Dev. Studies Administrator School of Oriental and African Studies Development Studies University of London Russell Square London WC1 0XG Email ab85@xxxxxxxxxx Phone 0207-898-4480

WORKSHOP DETAILS ARE ON www.brad.ac.uk/staff/wkolsen/aheworkshop