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HETERODOX
GRADUATE PROGRAMS
The programs listed below include in their curricula a
variety of theoretical perspectives and may be of interest
to those interested in pursuing heterodox economics at the
graduate/post-graduate level.
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AMERICAN UNIVERSITY
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BUFFALO STATE COLLEGE
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COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY, FORT COLLINS
- MICHIGAN STATE
UNIVERSITY
- NEW SCHOOL UNIVERSITY
- UNIVERSITY
OF CALIFORNIA-RIVERSIDE
- UNIVERSITY OF DENVER
- THE UNIVERSITY OF
MANITOBA
- THE
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST
- UNIVERSITY
OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON
- UNIVERSITY
OF MISSOURI-KANSAS CITY
- UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE
DAME
- UNIVERSITY OF UTAH
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FHTW BERLIN
- UNIVERSITY OF
ATHENS, GREECE
- UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA
- UNIVERSITY OF
BREMEN, GERMANY
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ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS
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INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL STUDIES IN THE NETHERLANDS
- UNIVERSITY OF
MANCHESTER
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UNIVERSITY OF MAASTRICHT, THE NETHERLANDS
- NOTTINGHAM TRENT
UNIVERSITY
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SAINT-PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY, RUSSIA
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SCHOOL OF ORIENTAL AND AFRICAN STUDIES
- UNIVERSITY OF LONDON,
UK
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TALLINN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
- UNIVERSITY
OF OTTAWA
- UNIVERSITY OF SIENA,
ITALY
- KEELE
UNIVERSITY
- UNIVERSITY OF
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA
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OTHER UNIVERSITIES WITH GRADUATE/POST GRADUATE PROGRAMS IN
HETERODOX ECONOMICS
AMERICAN
UNIVERSITY
The Department of Economics offers a Ph.D. degree with
programs of study in either political economy or traditional
economic theory. The neoclassical and Keynesian traditions
form the core of economic theory taught by the Department of
Economics. Our uniquely pluralistic approach to economics
encompasses a range of other perspectives, including Post
Keynesian, Institutionalist, and post-Marxian economic
theories. Our program emphasizes international and economic
policy perspectives. Specialized course offerings include
the economics of gender, the economics of transition
economies, economic methodology, monetary economics, public
finance, economic development, labor economics, industrial
organization, international trade, international finance,
econometrics, economic history, and mathematical economics.
The diverse theoretical approaches are combined with solid
training in empirical methods which prepare graduates for
teaching in colleges and universities, research positions in
government departments or consulting firms, and policy
making. Our Washington DC location gives students excellent
access to government agencies such as the Bureau of Labor
Statistics and think tanks such as the Economic Policy
Institute and the Institute of International Economics.
These agencies give students special opportunities for
internships and part-time employment as well as the chance
to hear and speak with economists dealing with today's
national and international economic issues.
For more information: email
econ2@american.edu
or call 202-885-3770
BUFFALO
STATE COLLEGE (SUNY, COLLEGE AT BUFFALO)
The Economics and Finance Department at Buffalo State
College offers a Master’s of Arts degree in Applied
Economics with an emphasis on pluralistic approaches to
economic theory and policy. We have two tracks; one in
economic policy analysis and the other in financial
economics. We have fourteen members in our faculty. Our
faculty includes Post-Keynesian, Institutional, Marxist and
Neoclassical economists. Our program has four core courses.
These are the History of Economic Thought, Applied
Microeconomic Theory, Applied Macroeconomic Theory, and
Applied Econometrics. Our program encompasses Post
Keynesian, Marxist, and Institutionalist approaches as well
as the neoclassical approach. This mix improves students'
critical understanding of economic theory and applications.
The program’s orientation toward application as opposed to
pure theory enhances opportunities for graduates in a broad
range of occupations and institutions. These include
financial institutions, business, private and public sector
policy-oriented and community service occupations, economic
and financial consulting, and high school economics and
social studies education. Several of our graduates have gone
on to enter Ph.D. programs in economics.
We currently have about 45 students in the program. Every
year we have 5 to 10 new graduate students and the number
has been growing in recent years. Students have the option
of going either part time or full time and all of our
classes are held in the evening. The newly established
research center, the Center for Economic and Policy Studies,
provides research projects that enable some of our full time
graduate students to obtain research assistantships.
For more information:
http://www.buffalostate.edu/economics
Contact Professor Victor Kasper Jr., e-mail:
kasperv@buffalostate.edu
COLORADO
STATE UNIVERSITY, FORT COLLINS
The graduate program of the Department of Economics
integrates rigorous training in quantitative methods with a
broad, historically-grounded and critical approach to
research and teaching that encompasses a plurality of
perspectives and streams of economic thought. M.A. students
are required to take core courses in each of the fields of
macroeconomics, microeconomics, econometrics and political
economy. Ph.D. students take an additional advanced course
in each of these fields. Beyond the core, students have a
great deal of flexibility in selecting their fields of
emphasis and research. The program has two main foci -
political economy and regional economics. The heterodox
political economy component of the program has traditionally
been active in the fields of radical economics and
institutional economics. In recent years, this dynamic and
evolving program has been complemented by faculty working in
the fields of feminist, structuralist, post-Keynesian, and
Marxist economics, with an overall focus on international
economics and economic development. This foundation prepares
students for research and teaching positions in colleges and
universities, research positions in government and the
private sector, as well as for policy-related work with
labor, environmental and international policy organizations.
For more information:
http://www.colostate.edu/Depts/Econ/index.html
MICHIGAN
STATE UNIVERSITY
The Department of Agricultural Economics at Michigan State
University offers MA and PhD programs that include
institutional and behavioral economics along side strong
neoclassical fields. Courses include institutional and
behavioral economics, information economics, political
economy of agricultural and trade policy, organization and
performance of agricultural markets, and the economics of
environmental resources. Major institutional research
programs include food security in Africa, the role of grades
and standards in market expansion, and the economics of
wetlands.
For more information:
http://www.aec.msu.edu/agecon/.
For institutional economics, see
http://www.msu.edu/user/schmid/instecon.htm.
Contact: Allan Schmid, University Distinguished Professor,
Dept. of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University,
East Lansing MI 48824-1039 USA. Phone (517) 355-2266; FAX
(517) 432-1800; E-Mail
schmid@pilot.msu.edu
NEW
SCHOOL UNIVERSITY
The Department of Economics offers a broad and critical
approach to the study of economics covering a wide range of
schools of thought, including Keynesian and post-Keynesian
economics, the classical political economy of Smith,
Ricardo, Marx, and Structuralist and Institutionalist
approaches to economics, and neoclassical economics. The
courses of study emphasize the historical roots of economic
ideas, their application to contemporary economic policy
debates, and conflicting explanations and interpretations of
economic phenomena, within the context of a rigorous
training in the conceptual, mathematical and statistical
modeling techniques that are the common methodological basis
of contemporary economic research. The department's work
centers on the emerging shape of the world economy, its
financial markets and institutions; the problems of
regulating and guiding economic development in the advanced
industrial world and emerging markets; the sources of
instability and complexity in economic systems; and the
economic aspects of class, gender and ethnic divisions.
The aim of the Economics Department is to put what Robert
Heilbroner calls "the worldly philosophy" --informed,
critical and passionate investigation of the economic
foundations of contemporary society -- at the heart of the
educational and research enterprise. This engagement with
the central unresolved dilemmas of modern society motivates
the detailed analysis of concrete problems of economic
policy and the explanation of economic phenomena that are
the substance of the department's degree programs.
For more information: Department of Economics, Room 350;
Graduate Faculty of
Political and Social Science; 65 Fifth Avenue; New York, NY
10003; Tel: (212) 229-5717; Fax:
(212) 229-5724 or email Anwar Shaikh, Professor, Department
of Economics
shaikh@newschool.edu Duncan Foley, Professor,
Chair, Department of Economics
foleyd@newschool.edu.
UNIVERSITY
OF CALIFORNIA-RIVERSIDE
The University of California, Riverside (UCR) Department of
Economics offers a doctoral program in economics, with about
ten students (including both domestic and international) in
each entering class. This program combines rigorous training
in economic theory and econometrics with the opportunity to
take coursework in a variety of heterodox areas:
development; labor; money and finance; classical, Marxian,
and Keynesian economic theory; methodology and epistemology;
racial inequality and urban issues; and economic history.
Many students in this program also conduct thesis research
and write dissertations in these areas.
For more information:
http://www.economics.ucr.edu
Write to the Graduate Secretary, Department of Economics, UC
Riverside, Riverside CA 92521-0427; contact department chair
Stephen Cullenberg at
scullen@mail.ucr.edu.
UNIVERSITY
OF DENVER
The Department of Economics offers an M.A. Our theory core
covers the claims and deficiencies of received theory. Our
field courses offer the study of international and
development economics, economic history, history of economic
thought, environmental economics, urban and regional
economics, or money and financial economics. The program
provides skills and credentials necessary to work as an
economist and preps students who want to go on for a Ph.D.,
and is especially suitable for those wanting to find out
more about economics and to explore alternative approaches
to economics.
For more information:
http://www.du.edu/econ/
Contact Prof. Peter Ho at
pho@du.edu or Prof. Tracy Mott at
tmott@du.edu for
further information
THE
UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA
The Department of Economics offers M.A. and Ph.D degree
programs. The department is both heterodox and
policy-oriented. Faculty are heavily involved in shaping
policy locally as well as at the national and international
levels, and have strong ties to economic research and
forecasting organizations, international aid agencies, and
institutes for social policy research. Faculty members
currently provide courses and are actively pursuing research
that reflects a range of theoretical and methodological
approaches, including Marxian economics, Post-Keynesian
economics, institutional economics, economic history, and
mainstream neoclassical economics. In addition to the
standard economic curriculum, graduate students can choose
from a variety of approaches and research areas, as well as
take advantage of the department’s openness to
interdisciplinary research. The department considers
economic history and the history of economic thought to be
an important part of the training of an economist and Ph.D
students are required to have had some exposure to these
fields prior to the completion of their degree.
The department’s commitment to methodological pluralism is
instrumental in creating a stimulating intellectual
environment in which students are exposed to a range of
perspectives and to the critical issues informing
contemporary economic theory and policy. Contributing to
this environment is the department’s weekly seminar series.
The department also holds an annual mini-conference with
invited papers from visiting economists. The conference
theme varies yearly, but previous conferences have explored
such issues as the economics of the Kyoto Protocol, the
economic causes of the Great Depression, privatization of
public assets, sustainable development, the challenge of
feminist economics, and the economics of the new economy.
The theme for 2004 is Heterodoxy and Orthodoxy in Economic
Analysis. Graduate students are encouraged to attend and
participate in these conferences, and their costs are fully
covered by the department.
For more information:
http://umanitoba.ca/graduate_studies/programs/masters/economics/index.htm
THE
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST
The Doctoral Program in Economics provides students with a
sophisticated and critical grounding in economic analysis,
so that they can contribute creatively to research,
teaching, and social policy. This commitment has gained the
Department an international reputation as a center of
research in innovative approaches to economics. The graduate
program includes a variety of different approaches and
perspectives in economics, including the neoclassical,
post-Keynesian, Marxist, and theoretical Institutionalist
approaches.
The entering graduate class consists of ten to fifteen
students each year. The focus of the Department, as well as
its policy of maintaining small classes and promoting close
contact between faculty and students, has enabled the
program to attract talented students on a par with other
highly selective graduate programs in the country. The
students are of diverse backgrounds, nationality, gender,
and race. They are drawn by the program's strengths in such
areas as development, international, macro theory, micro
theory, economic history, gender and class, labor, and
industrial organization. Our graduates have been recruited
by leading liberal arts and research institutions in the
United States and abroad.
For more information:
http://www.umass.edu/economics/
gradinfo@econs.umass.edu
Call the Economics Department Graduate Office at
413-545-2082.
UNIVERSITY
OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON
The Ph.D. in Public Policy at the University of
Massachusetts provides an interdisciplinary curriculum, an
applied research focus, and a commitment to state and local
policy issues. Our faculty are drawn from disciplines of
community planning, economics, law, management, philosophy,
political science, psychology, and sociology and have spent
a considerable amount of time developing and refining
curriculum and constructing team taught courses to deliver a
program which reflects progressive approaches to policy
analysis. Focusing on policy issues of equity and
opportunity, the Ph.D. program. Program courses integrate a
wide range of political and economic philosophies and
theories of public policy from various political
perspectives. Courses provide a solid grounding in political
theory, familiarity with the methods of public policy
analysis, and the development of a broad range of
quantitative and qualitative skills necessary for analyzing
and evaluating public policies and programs.
Finally, the program is deeply committed to all members of
the diverse community it serves and works closely with four
outstanding research and service institutes at UMass Boston:
the John W. McCormack Institute of Public Affairs, the
William Monroe Trotter Institute for the Study of Black
Culture, the Mauricio Gaston Institute for Latino Community
Development and Public Policy, and the Institute for Asian
American Studies.
For more information:
http://www.umb.edu/academics/cla/dept/economics/index.html
Contact Randy Albelda:
randy.albelda@umb.edu
UNIVERSITY
OF MISSOURI-KANSAS CITY
The Department of Economics at UMKC offers both MA and PhD
programs that emphasize an interdisciplinary, heterodox
approach to economics. Thus, in the core theory courses
students are provided a critical review of neoclassical
theory and then introduced to Institutional, Post Keynesian
and other heterodox approaches to macroeconomics,
microeconomics, and political economy. The Department also
offers fields based on heterodox theory in advanced economic
theory, financial theory, monetary theory and industrial
organization as well as history of economic thought.
Finally, the Department offers a specialized social science
field that covers philosophy, methods, and theories in the
social sciences. The Department’s goal is to help students
develop knowledge and skills for independent research on
fundamental questions in heterodox economic theory and in
economic and social issues of the present and the future.
The Department is the home of the Center for Full Employment
and Price Stability which is a national policy center,
producing original research and sponsoring national
workshops on the use of full employment policies to achieve
both stable economic growth and price stability. The
Department also has a Center for Economic Information that
engages in research projects in the urban public sector.
Finally, in the recent years the Department has hosted the
AFEE and Post Keynesian summer schools, Post Keynesian
Workshop conference, and conferences on the history of
heterodox economics and radical economics; and it hosted
2003 ICAPE conference on the future of heterodox economics.
For more information:
http://cas.umkc.edu/econ/
Contact Frederic S. Lee:
leefs@umkc.edu.
UNIVERSITY
OF NOTRE DAME
Because of recent changes at Notre Dame, the graduate
program in economics can no longer be considered a heterodox
one. In their core courses, students are limited to
mainstream theories and approaches. However, if a student's
interests survive this, they are allowed to work with one of
the heterodox economists in the Department of Economics &
Policy Studies.
For more information: Contact: Martin H. Wolfson, at
Baker.49@nd.edu
or 219/631-6335 David F. Ruccio
Ruccio.1@nd.edu
UNIVERSITY
OF UTAH
Do you feel that there should be more to Economics than
second order conditions of constrained optima or
intergenerational planning with infinite time horizons?
Would you also like to examine economic theory from the
perspective of the philosophy of science? Are you fascinated
by the problems of the Third World, post-Keynesian
macroeconomics, Marxian economics, ecological economics, the
economics of gender, or Bayesian econometrics? If so,
graduate study in economics at the University of Utah may be
for you.
Mainstream and heterodox approaches are integral parts of a
broad program which includes a technically sophisticated
presentation of economic theory and quantitative methods as
well as a variety of fields of specialization, including the
history of economic thought, political economy, monetary
economics, law and economics, econometrics and economic
development. The Department has approximately 50 Ph.D.
students in residence, 20 Masters students and a faculty of
20 with Ph.D.'s from leading universities across the U.S.
For more information: Al Campbell, email
Al@economics.utah.edu,
tel. (801) 585 - 3521
or directly contact the Department at University of Utah,
Department of Economics, 1645 East Central Campus Drive,
Room 308, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112-9300. Tel: (801)
581-7481, Fax: (801) 585-5649.
FHTW
BERLIN - UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES, GERMANY
The Master´s course in International and Development
Economics is a 186 months full-time programme by the
Department of Management & Economics I (Business
Administration) at the FHTW Berlin. The course, which was
first offered in 2003, begins onin April 1 each year at the
start of the summer semester. The programme consists of
twohree semesters of courses with lectures/seminars of
around 20 hours per week, the 3rd term is mainly for writing
the thesis and the final colloquiumand a further 4 month
period for writing a thesis and a final colloquium. The
programme is taught entirely in English. The programme is
designed for students from developing countries as well as
for students from Germany and other developed countries who
have a special interest in the economic challenges facing
developing, emerging and transition countrieseconomies.
First, the programme will provide students with a solid
foundation in development economics, macroeconomics and
modern theories of international trade and finance. Here,
students will become familiar with contemporary economic
controversies, especially those involving monetary, fiscal
and exchange rate policy. Second, the programme will focus
on policy and management issues in key economic sectors, in
particular agriculture, financial institutions and public
enterprises. There is a special emphasis on development
finance. Hence, the course will be concerned with micro,
meso (sectorial) and macro levels of activity. The main
focus is on heterodox approaches to development issues.
Throughout, the programme will strive to achieve a balance
between theoretical reflection and practical application. It
is expected that students have already acquired basic
academic knowledge and skills in business management in
their undergraduate studiescourse. The programme will
prepare students to work in various areas related to
developing countries. Graduates will be well equipped to
work for European companies which operate in developing
countries, or for governmental or nongovernmental
institutions involved in development cooperation. In
developing countries graduates will be ideally suited for
positions in government departments, bank's and other
financial institutions, consulting organisations,
multinational companies, chambers of commerce or educational
institutions such as universities. Service fee for the
entire programme is 2,000 Euro.
For more information:
http://www.mide.fhtw-berlin.de
Contact: Programme Director, Contact Dr Sebastian Dullien,
Professor of Economics, Professor. Trevor Evans, Director,
Masters in International and Development Economics,FHTW
Berlin - University of Applied Sciences,
Treskowallee 8, ,10313 Berlin, Germany
UNIVERSITY
OF ATHENS, GREECE
The University of Athens Doctoral Program in Economic (UADPhilEcon)
is committed to approaching economics as a social science,
combining advanced mainstream theory and applied work with a
critical edge made possible by a serious engagement with the
philosophical, political and historical implications of
economic ideas and techniques. UADPhilEcon is committed to a
rigorous but also critical approach to economic theories.
The program is founded on the conviction that the best
thinker is one who knows not only the theory and its
applications but also one who understands the untested
assumptions on which it has been built as well as the social
and historical origins of these assumptions. UADPhilEcon
aims at eliciting deep thinking and a pluralism of mind that
equips its graduates with the capacity to transcend the
limits of any rigid explanatory system. While the exposition
of many models requires a mathematical approach, UADPhilEcon
also aspires to embed in students the sense of wonder that
any social scientist must feel when faced with the
complexity and inherent unpredictability of the human
condition. A small number of students are admitted each
year. Applications from outside of Greece (by Greek and
non-Greek candidates alike) are actively encouraged. It is a
policy of UADPhilEcon to charge no fees either to Greek or
to non-Greek students.
For more information:
http://www.uadphilecon.gr.
info@uadphilecon.gr.
UNIVERSITY
OF BARCELONA
A graduate program "Globalization, development and economic
cooperation" with a heterodox perspective.
El món del segle XXI ofereix unes terribles asimetries entre
riquesa i pobresa, seguretat i conflictes, progrés i deter
iorament ambiental, etc. La globalització econòmica ha
afectat irremissiblement altres àmbits de l'existència
social, configur ant definitivament un sistema econòmic
mundial en què les bret-xes entre els seus centres i les
seves per ifèries no semblen sinó reproduir-se eternament.
En aquest context de desigualtat econòmica, social i
territorial, el desenvolupament i la cooperació, tot i que
en contínua tr ansfor mació per adaptar-se als nous temps,
continuen sent dos pols de referència en qualsevo l discurs
estra tègic de futur, si és que aquest futur ha de ser
possible per a tota la humanitat. Els reptes per a un
desenvolupament autènticament socioeconòmic, humà i sostenib
le , i les exigències d'una autèntica cooper ació entre
pobles i països que els per meti a vançar a tots (i no una a
costa dels altres) segueix ocupant les agendes acadèmiques i
polítiques de la consciència mundial. Aquest màster en
Globalització, Desenvo lupament i Cooperació, al llarg de
les 400 hores que comprenen els dos cursos, pretén seguir
for mant, com ho ha fet durant catorz e anys , especialistes
que, enfor tits per una sòlida base teòrica i pràctica,
puguin inter venir directament en la constr ucció d'unes
estratègies de desenvolupament i unes relacions de cooper
ació que apuntalin un món possible de solidaritat i benestar,
respectuós amb la natura lesa i esper ançador per a les
generacions futures.
For more information: Gemma Cairó i Céspedes, Dpt. Política
Econòmica i Estructura
Econòmica Mundial, Facultat Econòmiques (UB), Avda. Diagonal
690, 08034 Barcelona, Tel: 934021922, Fax: 934024573
UNIVERSITY
OF BREMEN, GERMANY
The Department of Economics offers a diploma in economics, a
PhD. degree and possibly a master degree taught in English
in the near future. All programs combine elements of
political economy and traditional economics. Though
neoclassical theory is taught on all course levels, our
faculty is almost exclusively heterodox with one or two
exceptions. A whole bunch of different approaches to
economics are present in Bremen: Keynesian, Marxian,
Feminist, Ecological, Institutionalist, and Social
Economics. Our program emphasizes sustainability,
international, financial and economic policy topics.
Specialized course offerings include the economics of
gender, ecological economics, monetary economics, public
finance, international trade, economic history, industrial
policy, business cycles and regional development. Lately the
business administration section of the department is
growing, which might change the structure of our broad and
critical approach to the study of economics into a
traditional business school leaning.
For more information:
http://www.wiwi.uni-bremen.de/
Contact Wolfram Elsner, e-mail:
welsner@uni-bremen.de
ERASMUS
UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS
Erasmus Center for History in Management and Economics
(CHIMES) and Erasmus Research Institute in Management offer
a four-year international PhD program in Economics,
Management and History. The mission of the PhD program is to
train future generations of international researchers in the
field of economics, management and history. PhD candidates
follow a customized and state of the art course program,
which fits their academic background and CHIMES’s research
program. During the project, each candidate is coached
intensively by senior CHIMES fellows and by co-supervisors
from our international scientific network. PhD Projects in
Economics, Management and History at CHIMES cover a variety
of themes, such as business history and organizational
behavior, the role of business institutions in economic
development, the pattern of breaking routines with
entrepreneurial innovations, and business enterprises as
vehicles of economic and management thought.
For more information:
http://www.chimes.nl.
Contact Ms. Annette Bartels at
abartels@fbk.eur.nl
ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM, THE
NETHERLANDS
The Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics (EIPE)
invites students to apply for its GRADUATE PROGRAMME in
philosophy and economics. The focus of the programme is on
interdisciplinary areas where the Philosophy and Methodology
of Economics, on the one hand, and Institutional Economics,
on the other, meet (with particular attention paid to the
new developments in science studies and to the new economics
of institutions and organizations). The programme is
strongly international. Its working language is English.
Ideally, applicants have a Master's degree in economics or
in philosophy, or are close to completing such a degree.
Those with a strong Bachelor's degree will also be
considered.
The programme is in two parts. The first part provides a
one-year MPhil Degree and it can be done separately. It
consists of a set of foundational courses on topics that
range from the philosophy and rhetoric of both mainstream
and heterodox economics to the foundations of new
institutional and evolutionary economics. The core courses
are currently given by Mark Blaug, John Groenewegen, Arjo
Klamer, Uskali Maki, Deirdre McCloskey and Jack Vromen as
well as visiting professors (such as, in 2000-2002, by
Gregory Dow, Wade Hands, John Davis, Claude Menard, and John
Dupre).
Overall, EIPE has some 20 Members who participate in its
activities, including teaching, and whose areas of expertise
cover a broad range of fields and topics, from philosophy of
science, social epistemology, social ontology, and internet
ethics to theories of rationality, transaction cost
economics, organization theory, game theory, and cultural
economics (the current list of members comprises Gerrit
Antonides, Mark Blaug, John Davis, Igor Douven, Sanjeev
Goyal, John Groenewegen, George Hendrikse, Jeroen van den
Hoven, Maarten Janssen, Arjo Klamer, Barbara Krug, Theo
Kuipers, Deirdre McCloskey, Uskali Maki, Bart Nooteboom,
Paivi Oinas, Laszlo Polos, Ronald Spekle, Ruth Towse, Jack
Vromen, Richard Whitley, Theo van Willigenburg).
The MPhil will be useful for those who want to have a solid
introduction to the areas covered; those who want to upgrade
their knowledge close to the frontline research on these
themes; and those who want to prepare themselves for PhD
research at EIPE or elsewhere. After the MPhil, students can
apply for the second part of the EIPE Programme, the PhD
programme. PhD theses focus on topics related to the EIPE
Research Programme "Institutions".
EIPE organizes a regular research seminar with
internationally renowned experts presenting papers. It also
runs a PhD seminar to provide a forum for discussion of the
work in progress by its graduate students. Moreover, it
organises international workshops and conferences on a wide
range of topics.
For more information:
http://www.eur.nl/fw/english/eipe/
Contact the secretary of the institute, Loes van Dijk
(vandijk@fwb.eur.nl
, +31-10-408 8967).
INSTITUTE
OF SOCIAL STUDIES IN THE NETHERLANDS
It is at graduate level (entry requirement is BA economics).
The offers a 6.5 weeks diploma program in Feminist
Development Economics, in the period end of May - early
July, each year. It is a pluralist diploma, with heterodox
emphasis, drawing mainly from institutional, social, and
Post-Keynesian economics. The course is practical, hands-on
with many group exercises. The course has several modules:
on macro and micro feminist development economics as well as
a module on exploratory feminist data analysis, feminist
economic methodology, and a workshop on feminist development
economic policy. The course convenor is Irene van Staveren.
Among other lecturers on the course are Haroon Akram Lodhi
and Diane Elson.
For more information:
http://www.iss.nl/
Contact: Prof. dr. Irene van Staveren, ISS, P.O. Box 29776,
2502 LT THE HAGUE, THE NETHERLANDS. Phone: (31) 70 42 60
602. Fax: (31) 70 42 60 799. e-mail:
staveren@iss.nl
UNIVERSITY
OF MANCHESTER
The MA in Political Economy programme at Manchester
University offers a cross-disciplinary curriculum of study
in political economy. The MA is housed in the Centre for the
Study of Political Economy, which brings together the
world-class research strengths in the field of political
economy at Manchester University. The programme is taught
from members across the Faculty of Humanities in the School
of Social Sciences, the School of Environment and
Development, and the Manchester Business School. Each
student will pursue their particular interests in political
economy through one of four pathways:
- Theoretical Political Economy
- Political Economy of Society, Space and Environment
- Political Economy of Finance, Business and Work
- Political Economy of Development.
Each pathway offers courses drawn from across the different
disciplines in the schools, offering the student a unique
exposure to the full breadth of the field of political
economy. The research route is an ESRC recognised 1 + 3
programme which offers training in both quantitative and
qualitative research methods that prepare students for
doctoral research.
For more information:
http://www.manchester.ac.uk/postgraduate/howtoapply/
Information on degree course contact Prof John O’Neill:
john.f.o’neill@manchester.ac.uk
Application information contact Zoe Woodend at:
Zoe.Woodend@manchester.ac.uk
UNIVERSITY
OF MAASTRICHT, THE NETHERLANDS
MERIT and UNU/INTECH together offer a PhD Program in
Economics and Policy Studies of Technical Change. The
program is designed for students who are interested in
exploring the theoretical, institutional, and policy issues
underlying technological change and in studying the role of
technical change in fostering economic growth and
development in both industrialized and developing countries.
For more information:
http://www.merit.unu.edu/
Write to MERIT-UNU/INTECH PhD Programme, P.O.
Box 616, 6200 MD, Maastricht, The Netherlands
NOTTINGHAM
TRENT UNIVERSITY
Designed for those interested in the pursuit of economics
research in government, academia or industry, the MSc in
Economics at Nottingham Trent University examines economic
theory, empirical methods and applications. It develops
economics research skills through explicit reflection on
economic research design, planning and methodologies.
Students will be equipped with an understanding of
contemporary economic research methods and their
limitations. The course reflects approaches to research and
policy from the perspective of a number of schools of
thought including neoclassical approaches, Institutional,
Marxian and Post-Keynesian economics. The course is geared
towards producing economics researchers and this is achieved
through specialist teaching and close supervision of
research projects. The MSc in Economics is suitable for
students wishing to pursue a PhD at Nottingham Trent or
elsewhere.
For more information:
http://www.ntu.ac.uk
Contact Dr. Bruce Philp at:
nbs.postgrad@ntu.ac.uk.
SAINT-PETERSBURG
STATE UNIVERSITY, RUSSIA
Saint-Petersburg State University offers Master's and
Doctoral Degrees in the Department of Economic Sociology.
Master's Program (2 years) includes basic elements in
economic sociology and general social sciences. Doctoral
Program (3 years) combines two supplemented fields of
economic sociology and demography. Both programs are
designed during the recent years according to the standards
and regulations of Russian Ministry of Education. Proposed
curriculum meets the properties of heterodox economic
thinking. Members of Economic Sociology Department came from
different educational backgrounds (economics, philosophy,
sociology) and warmly welcome multidimensional systematic
research of economic processes.
For more information: Professor Yuri V. Veselov, Head of
Economic Sociology Department, Saint-Petersburg State
University, Ul. Smolnogo 1/3, entr. 9, R202,
Saint-Petersburg, 193060 Russia. Tel: +7-812-2749706. Fax:
+7-812-1100077.
veselov@soc.pu.ru.
SCHOOL
OF ORIENTAL AND AFRICAN STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON, UK
The Department of Economics at School of Oriental and
African Studies (SOAS) offers a wide range of undergraduate
and postgraduate degrees as well as a doctoral program. All
combine sound foundations in mainstream economics (theory
and techniques) with thorough presentation of alternative
perspectives, including classical political economy, Marxist
economics, and Keynesian and Post-Keynesian approaches. The
aim is to enable students actively to engage with
contemporary mainstream economics while also equipping them
with the tools and insights provided by alternative
theoretical systems of thought in economics. Against this
broad background, the particular expertise of SOAS arises
from its long-standing preoccupation with the political
economy of economic development. Thus, students at all
degree levels have access to a unique pool of regional
expertise and can take course options that cover diverse
aspects of economic and social development in Africa, Asia
and Latin America. At the postgraduate level, our commitment
to critical engagement with mainstream economics while also
studying the political economy of development is reflected
in cutting-edge research into alternatives – both at the
level of theory and of economic policy responses. Innovative
MSc courses develop new approaches to themes such as ‘good
governance’, ‘rent-seeking’, ‘financial system design’, and
the role of ‘social and cultural capital’ in shaping a new
economic world order. A strong body of PhD students is
currently developing some of these ideas as well as
undertaking research on better-established topics in
development economics.
For more information:
http://www.soas.ac.uk/economics/
Contact: Dr. Costas Lapavitsas (
cl5@soas.ac.uk ), Head
of Department, Thornhaugh St, Russell Sq, London WC1 0XG,
UK.
UNIVERSITY OF LONDON, UK
The Department of Economics at School of Oriental and
African Studies (SOAS) offers a wide range of undergraduate
and postgraduate degrees as well as a doctoral program. All
combine sound foundations in mainstream economics (theory
and techniques) with thorough presentation of alternative
perspectives, including classical political economy, Marxist
economics, and Keynesian and Post-Keynesian approaches. The
aim is to enable students actively to engage with
contemporary mainstream economics while also equipping them
with the tools and insights provided by alternative
theoretical systems of thought in economics. Against this
broad background, the particular expertise of SOAS arises
from its long-standing preoccupation with the political
economy of economic development. Thus, students at all
degree levels have access to a unique pool of regional
expertise and can take course options that cover diverse
aspects of economic and social development in Africa, Asia
and Latin America. At the postgraduate level, our commitment
to critical engagement with mainstream economics while also
studying the political economy of development is reflected
in cutting-edge research into alternatives – both at the
level of theory and of economic policy responses. Innovative
MSc courses develop new approaches to themes such as ‘good
governance’, ‘rent-seeking’, ‘financial system design’, and
the role of ‘social and cultural capital’ in shaping a new
economic world order. A strong body of PhD students is
currently developing some of these ideas as well as
undertaking research on better-established topics in
development economics.
For more information:
http://www.soas.ac.uk/economics/
Contact: Dr. Costas Lapavitsas (
cl5@soas.ac.uk ), Head
of Department, Thornhaugh St, Russell Sq, London WC1 0XG,
UK.
TALLINN
UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, ESTONIA
Technology Governance is an approach and a set of policies
undertaken by the public and private sector and society
actors in a given space in time to develop a knowledge base,
social cohesion and competitiveness at the same time. So
far, both in academic research and in policy advice, these
aspects have tended to be separated. The Technology
Governance program at Tallinn University of Technology is
designed to bridge these gaps and to focus on research,
teaching, and advice in an interrelated way. Our one-year
Masters program in Technology Governance is a
technology-focused special graduate degree that could be
placed in such areas as Innovation Policy, Industrial Policy
and Development Economics as a realistic alternative to
mainstream ("Standard Textbook") Economics. Our curriculum
includes the theory of uneven development and the history of
economic policy. In that sense, this is the international
Innovation Policy and High-Tech program with a solid
foundation in history and theory, embedded in an exciting
environment, that so many students and scholars were always
looking for yet could not find!
For more information:
www.technologygovernance.eu
UNIVERSITY
OF OTTAWA, OTTAWA, CANADA
As is the case in a number of other universities in Canada,
the graduate program is a mainstream program at the
University of Ottawa in which all of the core theory courses
are offered within the neoclassical tradition. If students
are able to run the gauntlet and survive these core theory
courses, students are able to work under the supervision of
heterodox economists, Marc Lavoie and Mario Seccareccia,
either for the Master’s or PhD thesis.
For more information: Contact Marc Lavoie (
Marc.Lavoie@uOttawa.ca ) or
Mario Seccareccia (
Mario.Seccareccia@uOttawa.ca )
UNIVERSITY
OF SIENA, ITALY
The Doctorate in Economics at the University of Siena trains
students to do research in economics over a four year
programme. The first two years are devoted to course work.
After a first training in mathematics, microeconomics,
macroeconomics, and econometrics, a full menu of specialized
courses is offered. It is our conviction that a full
understanding of economic phenomena is favored by a
pluralistic view of economics; hence our constant attention
is on exposing the students to different theoretical points
of view. The courses are held in English. Courses take
advantage of the network of international connections
cultivated by our Department. This year Samuel Bowls has
been appointed full professor and will have a leading role
in the doctorate programme.
For more information:
http://www.econ-pol.unisi.it/dottorato/welcome.html
Contact Professor Ugo Pagano at
pagano@unisi.it.
KEELE
UNIVERSITY
RESEARCH INSTITUE FOR PUBLIC POLICY AND MANAGEMENT, UK
Keele University, Research Institute for Public Policy and
Management is open to postgraduate research (PhD) in the
general area of heterodox economics. Postgraduate students
are draw both from Economics and Management disciplines
areas. The areas of staff interest include; the changing
character and experience of work, including the impact of
new technologies and patterns of accountability.
Microeconomic analysis and policy, including labour
economics, consumption and savings, public economics, game
theory, industrial organization including networks growth
and development, business cycles, development economics and
issue and research into gender inequality. Institutional
economics and economic sociology. Economic methodology,
history and philosophy of economics. Research degree
programs at Keele include formal research training in
parallel to work on specific research projects or topics.
This may be through the M.Res. or through a package of
specific research training agreed as part of a ‘learning
plan’. Research in the Institute benefits from close
collaboration with public policy and public service
organizations, government, business and voluntary
enterprises, Trades Unions and professional organizations,
and with communities, not just in the UK, but worldwide.
There are particularly strong links with health services and
health professionals, schools and other education
institutions, Trades Unions, and with Government as well as
with universities worldwide
For more information:
http://www.keele.ac.uk/gradschool/prospectus/rippmanagement.htm
http://www.keele.ac.uk/gradschool/prospectus/making.htm
http://www.keele.ac.uk/research/ppm/
Contact Matthew Brannan at
m.brannan@mngt.keele.ac.uk
UNIVERSITY
OF SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA
The Department of Political Economy offers Masters and
Doctoral studies, emphasising heterodox economics and
interdisciplinary social sciences. The Master of Political
Economy program is suitable for people who have completed a
Bachelors degree, perhaps in another field within the social
sciences and now wish to study political economy. The
Department also offers a research Ph.D. degree in political
economy, based on research and the preparation of a thesis
on a topic of your own choosing.
The Department of Political Economy was formed as a
breakaway from the Department of Economics and is now
located in a new School of Social and Political Sciences.
The department provides an environment in which teaching and
research is not constrained by the economic orthodoxy. It
has the largest grouping of political economists at any
Australian university. The research and teaching interests
include international political economy; corporate
globalisation and international migration; political
economic development; environmental and ecological
economics; Marxist, institutional, Keynesian and feminist
perspectives on political economy; the critique of
neoliberalism; industry policies; economic inequality; and
urban and regional economic issues. Political economy can be
studied directly without having to take mainstream courses
in neoclassical economics. Staff in the department publish
the Journal of Australian Political Economy:
www.jape.org.au.
For more information:
http://www.usyd.edu.au
Contact Tim Anderson
t.anderson@usyd.edu.au or Stuart Rosewarne
s.rosewarne.@usyd.edu.au
OTHER
UNIVERSITIES WITH GRADUATE/POST GRADUATE PROGRAMS IN
HETERODOX ECONOMICS
- Auckland University of Technology,
New Zealand: Supervise Master’s and PhD theses; for
further information contact
stefan.kesting@aut.ac.nz or
aoehlers@aut.ac.nz
- Bucharest University of Economics,
Romania:
http://www.ase.edu.ro/engleza/index.asp
- University of Grenoble, France:
http://www.upmf-grenoble.fr/55458523/0/fiche___pagelibre/
- University of Hertfordshire, United
Kingdom:
http://www.hertfordshire.ac.uk/courses/how-to-apply/home.cfm
- University of Leeds, United Kingdom:
http://lubswww.leeds.ac.uk/researchProgs/our-research/economics/
- University of Newcastle, Australia:
http://www.newcastle.edu.au/school/ept/index.html
- Universite de Paris 13 Villetaneuse,
France:
http://www.univ-paris13.fr/CEPN/cepn.htm
http://www.univ-paris13.fr/formationsUP13/form/default_dom.php?id=5
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