We, the 141 economists from the 40 countries listed below, invite you to join the World Economics Association which we are launching today.
Two commitments listed in our Manifesto sum up the project.
1. To plurality. The Association will encourage the free exploration of economic reality from any perspective that adds to the sum of our understanding. To this end, it advocates plurality of thought, method and philosophy.
2. To global democracy. The Association will be democratically structured so as not to allow its domination by one country or one continent.
The creation of the WEA addresses an obvious gap in the international community of economists – the absence of a truly international, pluralist association. Today’s digital technology makes it feasible to close this gap quickly and cheaply through a bottom-up, grass-roots approach.
The WEA has been legally constituted in the United Kingdom as a “Community Interest Company”, a special legal category (with an asset lock) for non-profit organizations whose purpose is to serve the public interest.
Membership of the World Economics Association is free. To join, all that you need to do is go here and then enter your name, email address and country and then click. You will also be given the option of providing us with a few professional details, but none of these are required. You will receive an email confirming your membership of the WEA. You will also be given the opportunity to make a donation to the running of the WEA. We want to emphasize that the WEA has no major donors, neither institutional nor individual, behind it.
The WEA will initially publish three journals, two of them new. Online access will be free to members, with print copies available to libraries and individuals for a fee. The WEA’s very large membership from which to draw papers will ensure a high standard of scholarship. The general-purpose flagship journal will be the World Economics Journal. The other new journal, Economic Thought, will focus on the history, methodology and philosophy of economics. The Real-World Economics Review will henceforth be published under the umbrella of the WEA. If you wish, you may read a document detailing the structures and procedures, which include an open review process, for the journals.
From its website, the WEA will also run online conferences.
Help economics and yourself. Become a WEA member now.
Hoping you will join us as members,
Africa
Ethiopia
Fantu Cheru,
Nordic Africa Institute
Ghana / Kenya
Charles Abugre,
United Nations Millennium Campaign in Africa
Malawi
Thandika Mkandawire, London School of Economics
South Africa
Lucien Van Der Walt, University of the Witwatersrand
Salim Vally, University of the Witwatersrand
Asia
China
Ping Chen, Center for New Political Economy, Fudan University
Xiaoqin
Ding, Chinese Academy of Social Science
Shulin Gu, Tsinghua University
Kainan Huang, Shandong University
Yanli Huo, Chiba Institute of Technology
Dic Lo, Renmin University of China and University of London
Henry C. K. Liu
Ying Ma, Wuhan University
Yougui Wang, Beijing Normal University
Dapei Zuo,
Institute of Economics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
India
V. Bhaskar, University College London,
C. P. Chandrasekhar, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Jishnu Das, World Bank
Jayati Ghosh, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Prabhat Patnaik, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Japan
Toru Iwami, University of Tokyo
Richard C. Koo, Nomura Research Institute
Korea
Ha-Joon Chang, Cambridge University
Lebanon
Ali Kadri, United Nations and London School of Economics
Malaysia
Rajah Rasiah, Universiti Malaya
Pakistan
Akmal Hussain, Beaconhouse National University
Thailand
Pasuk Phongpaichit, Chulalongkorn University
Turkey
Eyup Özvveren, Middle East Technical University
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Australia
Peter Earl, University of Queensland
Steve Keen, University of Western Sydney
J. E. King, Monash University
New Zealand
Robert Wade, London School of Economics
Europe
Austria
Ulrich Brand, University of Wien
Belgium
Christian Arnsperger, University of Louvain
Ernst Stetter, Foundation for European Progressive Studies u
Denmark
Bengt-Åke Lundvall, University of Aalborg
Estonia
Wolfgang Drechsler, Tallinn University of Technology
Rainer Kattel, Tallinn University of Technology
Finland
Uskali Mäki, University of Helsinki
France
Bruno Amable, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
Rolande Borrelly, Institute of Applied Mathematics and Economics
Jean-Pierre Dupy, École Polytechnique and Stanford University
Olivier Favereau, l’universite Paris X
Jean Gadrey, University of Lille
Bernard Guerrien, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
Frédéric Lordon, Bureau d’économie théorique et appliquée
André Orléan, Ecole Normale Supérieure
Jacques Sapir, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
Henri Sterdyniak,
Observatoire français des conjonctures économiques
Germany
Heiner Flassbeck, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
Ulrich Fritsche, Universität Hamburg
Norbert Haering, Handelsblatt
Gustav Horn, Macroeconomic Policy Institute
Lorenz Jarass, University of Applied Sciences of Wiesbaden
Walter Krämer, Unviersity of Dortmund
Manfred Nitsch, Freie Universitaet Berlin
Sigrid Skarpelis-Sperk, former member of the Bundestag
Friederike Spiecker
Greece
Yanis Varoufakis, University of Athens
Luxembourg
Jean Feyder, Ambassador to the United Nations
Italy
Nicola Acocella, University of Rome
Giovanni Dosi, Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies
Grazia letto-Gillies, London South Bank University,
Cristina Marcuzzo,
University of Rome
Ugo Pagano, University of Siena
Luigi Pasinetti, Catholic University of Milan
Alessandro Roncaglia, University of Rome
Annalisa Rosselli, Roma Tor Vergata
Netherlands
Esther-Mirjam Sent, Radboud University Nijmegen
Irene van Staveren, International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University
Norway
Erik S Reinert, The Other Canon Foundation
Russia
Vladimir Avtonomov, Higher School of Economics, Moscow
Elena Sapir, P.G.Demidov Yaroslav State University
Sweden
Peter Söderbaum, School of Sustainable Development of Society and Technology
Spain
Antonio Garrido, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Switzerland
Paul H. Dembinski, University of Fribourg
Jochen Hartwig, University of Zürich
Friedrich von Kirchbach, International Trade Centre
Paul Meier, Swiss Futures and Options Association
Sergio Rossi, University of Fribourg
United Kingdom
Mark C. Casson, Reading University
Victoria Chick, University College London
Francis Cripps, Cambridge University
Diane Elson, University of Essex
Sheila C. Dow, University of Stirling
Edward Fullbrook, Real-World Economics Review
Geoffrey Hodgson, University of Hertfordshire
Tony Lawson, Cambridge University
Mary Mellor, University of Northumbria at Newcastle
Paul Ormerod, Volterra Consulting
Paul Rayment, former director of UN Economic Commission for Europe
Ann Pettifor, Policy Research in Macroeconomics
Robert Skidelsky, University of Warwick
John Weeks, University of London
Latin American and West Indies
Argentina
Aldo Caliari, Rethinking Bretton Woods Project
Roberto Frenkel, Universidad de Buenos Aires
Gustavo Marqués, Universidad de Buenos Aires
Barbados
Keith Nurse,
University of the West Indies
Brazil
Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira, Getulio Vargas Foundation and University of São Paulo
Ana Celia Castro, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Fernando Ferrari Filho, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
Luiz Fernando de Paula, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
Chile
Mario Cimoli, UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
Mexico
Juan Calos Moreno-Brid, UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
Alicia Puyana, Latin American School of Social Sciences
Peru
Santiago Roca, Universidad ESAN
Jürgen Schuldt, Universidad Pacifico de Lima
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Canada
Marc Lavoie, University of Ottawa 17,300
Jim Stanford, Canada, Canadian Auto Workers
United States
Alice Amsden, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dean Baker, Center for Economic and Policy Research
Michael A. Bernstein, Tulane University
Joerg Bibow, Skidmore College
Ron Blackwell, AFL-CIO
Bruce J. Caldwell, Duke University
David Colander, Middlebury College
Robert Costanza, Potland State University
Herman E Daly, University of Maryland
Paul Davidson, Journal of Post Keynesian Economics
John B. Davis, Marquette University
Lloyd J. Dumas, University of Texas
James Galbraith, University of Texas at Austin
Kevin Gallagher, Boston University
Jo Marie Griesgraber, New Rules for Global Finance Coalition
Stephany Griffith-Jones, Columbia University
Michael Hudson, University of Missouri at Kansas City
Frederic S. Lee, University of Missouri at Kansas City
Robert Locke, University of Hawaii
Stephen Marglin, Harvard University
Anne Mayhew, University of Tennessee
Deirdre McCloskey, University of Illinois at Chicago
Julie A. Nelson, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Richard Parker, Harvard University
Peter Radford, The Radford Free Press
Dani Rodrik, Harvard University
Lance Taylor, New School for Social Research
Immanuel Wallerstein, Yale University
Mark Weisbrot, Center for Economic and Policy Research
Charles K. Wilber, University of Notre Dame
L. Randall Wray, University of Missouri, Kansas City
Stephen T. Ziliak, Roosevelt University
