Re: Article in the Chronicle of Higher Education

["Forstater, Mathew" <ForstaterM@xxxxxxxx>]

Paul can speak for himself, of course, but since he has done so
previously, I imagine he is referring to his tactic of emphasizing the
(related issues of) number of axioms, ergodicity versus non-ergodicity,
and generality (general versus special in Keynes's sense).

My own feeling is that a multi-pronged approach is called for, meaning
that we need to challenge the mainstream in multiple ways. Paul's
approach is important, but we need to fashion a variety of internal and
external critiques, challenging them on their own grounds, as well as
challenging the grounds themselves.  We also need to fashion alternative
approaches, and here I think that we need to both develop specific
alternative paradigms (Post Keynesian, Institutionalist, Marxist,
Austrian, etc.) as well as to work on a variety of hybrid or eclectic
approaches that draw on multiple alternative traditions.  Of course,
every person doesn't have to do all of these--there can be some division
of labor.  But while open, critical dialogue between alternatives is
healthy and can contribute to 'progress', in-fighting and intolerance is
generally not.  I take this to be one of the purposes of ICAPE and its
conference--to promote collaboration and dialogue toward common goals:
making room for alternatives within the discipline, developing
constructive analyses of the real economy, and forging effective
policies.

mat

-----Original Message-----
From: Henry C.K. Liu [mailto:hliu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 3:40 PM
To: pkt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Article in the Chronicle of Higher Education



pdavidso wrote:

>Annual Meeting the AALS Section on Socio-Economics went very well.
Jamie was a
>big hit. In case you did not see it, I thought this article appearing
in the
>Chronicle of Higher Education might interest you. Steve Keen and Neva
Goodwin
>(who were among the economists featured in our program) are quoted and
cited.
>With best wishes and highest regard Robert Ashford College of Law
Syracuse
>Univ
>
>
>Thanks for the information.  I saw the article in the CHRONICLE-- but
in my
>view the heterdox people are arguing the wrong argument -- and make it
easy
>for the mainstream to ignore them.
>
>Paul
>

Paul,

Can you elaborate?

Henry