Invitation from 141 economists to join the World Economics Association

Dear Economists and Other Interested Scholars,

We, the 141 economists from the 40 countries listed below, invite you to join the World Economics Association which we are launching.  

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.

8. 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 theUnited 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 theWitwatersrand
Salim Vally, University of theWitwatersrand

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, ChineseAcademy 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
Yilmaz Akyüz, UNCTAD
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

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 ofAthens

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 forLatin America and theCaribbean

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