Dear Colleagues, Below is an advert for a economic methodology workshop for graduate/post-graduate students in the U.K. It is designed to show graduate students that there is more to empirical research than econometrics. So if you have students that are interested in doing empirical work using qualitative methods of various sorts or quantitative methods that are not necessarily based on econometrics, you might want them to make them aware of the workshop. The workshop will also examine critically the use of econometrics. While it is unlikely that your students will be able to attend such a workshop so far away, at least make them aware that there are alternative ways of carrying out valid, high and acceptable empirical research in economics without using econometrics. Of course if they would like to attend the workshop, the information regarding it is given below. Sincerely, Fred Lee > Dear All, > > This is the second announcement for the AHE 2nd Post-Graduate Training Workshop. Please send this announcement to all post-graduate students you know of and to anybody else. Post- graduate students from outside the UK are welcome and encouraged to attend. There will be lectures on causal explanations by Steve Fleetwood, grounded theory by Fred Lee, open systems by Victoria Chick, and qualitative analysis by Wendy Olsen, and more. In addition, Paul Downward will speak about applied econometrics, taking into account the 14 chapters he has for a Routledge edited book on this > subject. Hopefully there will be draft chapters distributed for discussion. These > include explicit treatment of economet' at an advanced philosophical level. > In addition V. Monastiriotis, a geographer/interdisciplinary, will talk about > multivariate regression, which will cover those who are doing > cross-sectional statistical analysis and/or who have overlapping causal > mechanisms represented in their empirical model's equations. > > Fred Lee > > Association for Heterodox Economics > 2nd Post-Graduate Training Workshop > "> Getting From Hypotheses to Conclusions: > Advanced Methods for Pluralist and Interdisciplinary Economics Research> "> > 2002 > The workshop is to be held December 9th, 9 am to Dec. 11th 2 pm and will be held at: > Chancellors Conference Centre > University of Manchester -- subsidised for eligible PhD students in years 2-4! > For those eligible, subsidy includes B&B&Evening Meals&Travel > Each person still has to pay 25 pounds though. > Invited speakers include Vicki Chick, Steve Fleetwood and others as well as two international speakers > Steve Fleetwood has confirmed that he will speak on > '> How (not) to do causal explanation in labour markets> '> , with reference to recently published work of his in Review of Social Economy and other work. > Workshop facilitators include Wendy Olsen and are likely to also include other active members of AHE in the UK/Ireland. > A Workshop handbook consisting of papers by all the presenters and more will be given - last year it ran to two volumes. > The workshop will have discussion, Q&A, seminar, and practical components including: > * specialist applications of advanced statistical skills, notably linking-up a statistics package with interview transcript data; > * specialist applications of advanced qualitative skills, notably grounded theory and discourse analysis; > * developing the capacity for originality as well as social worth and policy relevance in economic research, which will in turn have knock-on effects on pedagogy and on the ability to apply the learning that takes place during the PhD. > * encouraging researchers to work within a context of methodological and theoretical triangulation > Social theorists, realists, feminists, marxists, post-keynesians, empirical researchers, and all others who consider themselves under the umbrella of heterodoxy are welcome to the workshop. For a list of 650 people who have signed up to a statement favouring heterodoxy over orthodoxy, please see the website of the Post-Autistic Economics Review. > > Specifically: > http://www.btinternet.com/~pae_news/Camproposal.htm > Contact Maria-Luisa Mendez: > maria-luisa.mendez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx for details or click here > <http://www.ccsr.ac.uk/staff/wkolsen/workshopDetails.htm> (provisional programme and details). > If you decide to register please see aheregister.htm <http://www.ccsr.ac.uk/staff/wkolsen/aheregister.htm> > You must send your registration form by post to the following address: > AHE c/o Maria-Luisa Mendez > The Cathie Marsh Centre for Census and Survey Research > Faculty of Social Sciences and Law > The University of Manchester > Dover Street Building > Manchester M13 9PL > (staff are also welcome but without so much subsidy > - the approximate cost will be 45 pounds per night for rooms at the Conference Centre or at a local B&B plus 25 pounds fee = total 160 pounds and your travel costs; rooms at the Conference Centre can be booked through Maria) > > Firm bookings by the end of Nov. 2002 at the latest. > > Advice for staff if they want to come is that this should count as your > Professional Develoment or Staff Development activity, and in many > universities you should consult the University level Staff Dev't Office for > an application form to apply fo rfunds to cover your travel plus the approx. > pounds 180 cost of accom&Fee. > > > <<aheworkshop.htm>> > > <<ahewk1.htm>> > > <<regform.htm>>Title: Association for Heterodox Economics
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Association
for Heterodox Economics 2nd
Post-Graduate Training Workshop ?Getting
From Hypotheses to Conclusions: Advanced
Methods for Pluralist and Interdisciplinary Economics
Research? 2002 All are
Welcome to Attend. However you
must Register. To register, fill in
and post us the form located at
www.ccsr.ac.uk/staff/wkolsen/aheregister.htm Registration
does not make you eligible for a subsidy.
Indeed you must pay a 25 pound fee (cheques payable to the University of
Manchester) if you register. You
may pay this fee at the time of registration. This is why we ask you to post your
registration form to us. Details of
the Programme (to be
amended periodically)
Agreed
speakers: Vicki Chick, Steve
Fleetwood, Fred Lee, Wendy Olsen, V. Monastiriotis, and one
other.
*
Demonstrating three pieces of software in action: NVIVO, which organises thoughts and
qualitative data; INSPIRATIONS, which creates flowcharts and other diagrams,
including path diagrams; and finally MLWIN, which does multilevel regression
after you have created a good clean data set. Bring your clean data set as a single
matrix in spreadsheet format. We assume you are familiar with SPSS etc.
already. Steve
Fleetwood has confirmed that he will speak on ?How (not) to do causal
explanation in labour markets?, with reference to recently published work of his
in Review of Social Economy and other work. Vicki Chick
has confirmed that she will speak about open systems and formalism, and she
refers you to a recent paper by her and Sheila Dow in the Journal of
Post-Keynesian Economics. Paul
Downward is the editor of a collection of papers on heterodox research methods,
and these papers may be available at the workshop. The work is forthcoming
(Downward, ed., London:
Routledge).
There will be a mixture of talks, demonstrations, discussions and one
group practical task.
There will be pre-reading and a set of printed readings.
Both qualitative and quantitative research methods will be
covered. Details of
Eligibility for Subsidy
For those eligible, subsidy includes B&B&Evening
Meals&Travel
Each person still has to pay 25 pounds though. Workshop
facilitators include Wendy Olsen and are likely to also include other active
members of AHE in the UK/Ireland. A Workshop
handbook consisting of papers by all the presenters and more will be given ?
last year it ran to two volumes. Details of
the Objectives of the Workshop
Details of What a Heterodox Economist ?Is? or,
Better, What Heterodox Economics is Like The definition of heterodoxy is contested because
the borderline of orthodoxy is contested.
Many researchers do pieces of work both within and without the
neoclassical paradigm, so clearly heterodoxy is not simply
non-neoclassical. Among
institutionalists, for instance, many researchers combine insights from both old
and new institutionalism (e.g. Hodgson refers to Veblen; but Hodgson also
appreciates the work of North etc.).
Many institutionalists would consider their work to be heterodox at
times. The Workshop will no doubt
generate further clarifications of these various borderlines, but it is
abundantly clear that labelling a person is less appropriate than
labelling a piece of research or a set of assumptions. That way, we can talk about/across
assumptions. For this reason much
heterodox research could be thought of as pluralist. Books on pluralism in economics include
the edited volumes by Samuels, W., and by Screpanti as well as a new edited
volume by Downward (forthcoming). Institutionalists, social theorists, realists,
feminists, marxists, post-keynesians, empirical researchers, and all others who
consider themselves under the umbrella of heterodoxy are welcome to the
workshop. For a list of 650 people
who have signed up to a statement favouring heterodoxy over orthodoxy, please
see the website of the Post-Autistic Economics Review. You can look at the
statement, or the related statements from the Kansas conference and in the PAE
Review, using the web links.
Specifically: Contact
Maria-Luisa Mendez: maria-luisa.mendez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
for details. If
you decide to register please see aheregister.htm You
must send your registration form by post to the following
address: AHE
c/o Maria-Luisa Mendez The
Cathie Marsh Centre for Census and Survey Research Faculty
of Social Sciences and Law The
University of Manchester Dover
Street Building Manchester
M13 9PL (staff are also welcome
but without so much subsidy -
the approximate cost will be 135 pounds B&B plus 25 pounds fee = total 160
pounds and your travel costs) |
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Association
for Heterodox Economics 2nd
Post-Graduate Training Workshop ?Getting
From Hypotheses to Conclusions: Advanced
Methods for Pluralist and Interdisciplinary Economics
Research? 2002 The workshop
is to be held December 9th, 9 am to Dec. 11th 2 pm and
will be held at: Chancellors
Conference Centre University
of Manchester
-- subsidised for eligible PhD students in years
2-4!
For those eligible, subsidy includes B&B&Evening
Meals&Travel
Each person still has to pay 25 pounds though. Invited
speakers include Vicki Chick, Steve Fleetwood and others as well as two
international speakers Steve
Fleetwood has confirmed that he will speak on ?How (not) to do causal
explanation in labour markets?, with reference to recently published work of his
in Review of Social Economy and other work. Workshop
facilitators include Wendy Olsen and are likely to also include other active
members of AHE in the UK/Ireland. A Workshop
handbook consisting of papers by all the presenters and more will be given ?
last year it ran to two volumes. The workshop
will have discussion, Q&A, seminar, and practical components
including:
Social
theorists, realists, feminists, marxists, post-keynesians, empirical
researchers, and all others who consider themselves under the umbrella of
heterodoxy are welcome to the workshop.
For a list of 650 people who have signed up to a statement favouring
heterodoxy over orthodoxy, please see the website of the Post-Autistic Economics
Review. Specifically: Contact
Maria-Luisa Mendez: maria-luisa.mendez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
for details or
click here (provisional programme and details). If
you decide to register please see aheregister.htm You
must send your registration form by post to the following
address: AHE
c/o Maria-Luisa Mendez The
Cathie Marsh Centre for Census and Survey Research Faculty
of Social Sciences and Law The
University of Manchester Dover
Street Building Manchester
M13 9PL (staff are also welcome
but without so much subsidy -
the approximate cost will be 135 pounds B&B plus 25 pounds fee = total 160
pounds and your travel costs) |
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ASSOCIATION FOR HETERODOX
ECONOMICS 2nd
Post-Graduate Training Workshop ?Getting
From Hypotheses to Conclusions: Advanced
Methods for Pluralistic and Interdisciplinary Economics
Research?
December
9th to 11th 2002 Thank you for your interest**Please notice that registration by
Internet is not acceptable. **
Please indicate your
requirements (circle all that apply):
OVERSEAS APPLICANTS ARE
WELCOME if they are registered at a UK university or if they can pay their own
costs. For further details about
the Workshop, please see the web site at: http://www.ccsr.ac.uk/staff/wkolsen/workshopDetails.htm This registration form is
located at www.ccsr.ac.uk/staff/wkolsen/aheregister.htm The basic poster about the
workshop is located at www.ccsr.ac.uk/staff/wkolsen/workshopBasic.htm
Fill in the Registration Form and post it to: AHE C/O MARIA-LUISA
MENDEZ THE CATHIE MARSH CENTRE FOR CENSUS AND
SURVEY RESEARCH FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND
LAW THE UNIVERSITY OF
MANCHESTER DOVER STREET BUILDING,
MANCHESTER M13 9PL | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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