>Date: Tue, 12 Jul 1994 06:05:48 -0400 >Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Originator: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Precedence: bulk From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: Multiple recipients of list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Book:Want to Join DPE Committee? >X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas >X-Comment: Feminist Economists Discussion Group > >------------------------------------------------ >Dictionary of Political Economy Project >------------------------------------------------ >Phillip O'Hara >Department of Economics >Curtin University >GPO Box U1987, Perth 6001 >Australia. 7 July 1994 >Fax: +61-9-351-3026 >Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Tel: +61-9-351-7761 (mess mach) > +61-9-451-2618 (home) > >Dear Feminist Economists: > >I am writing to invite you to become part of the Dictionary of Political >Economy (DPE) Project, which is planned to be published in 1996. It will be a >one volume work (about 800 double-faced pages), with a retail hardback price >of about US$65 (soft cover), specialising in Institutionalist, Post-Keynesian, >Marxist, Feminist, Social, and Neo-Ricardian themes. We are currently seeking >a publisher. > >The philosophy behind the EDPE is for a balance between being >comprehensive, accessible, readable, and affordable. It is hoped that the >average heterodox economist will want a copy on her or his study desk for >daily use or enjoyment. It should also be very useful for graduates and >undergraduates. The entries will concentrate on non-neoclassical political >economy, to the extent that this is possible. Many entries will be structured >with an introduction, detailed definition(s), history, current state of >knowledge, scope for further research, criticism, conclusion, & references. No >knowledge will be assumed of the subject matter of most entries. The average >entry will be about 800 words (with a range from 100 to 2000 words). It would >help if you had an email address, as the DPE committee is communicating >through a fully-fledged email network. > >There is a School Committee for each of the schools of thought. The task of >these groups is to ensure that a representative selection of entries is chosen >for each school. And there will be Subject Committees for 17 areas of study, >whose task it will be to suggest topics and writers. Everyone who contributes >to the organisation of the EDPE will be fully acknowledged either on the title >page of the work, or on the next one or two pages. Would you be interested in >becoming part of any of the committees mentioned below? (committees have >no more than four members each - the ones below have vacancies): > >(a) Feminist Political Economy; >(b) Domestic Labor, the Family, and the Sexual Division of Labor; >(c) Class, Race and Gender; >(d) Neo-Ricardian Political Economy >(e) Marxist Political Economy >(f) Development; >(g) Environment; >(h) Regional; >(i) Evolution, Change & Transformation >(j) Labor and Work; >(k) World Capitalist Economy >(l) Socialism, Social Democracy, and Communism: Theory & Practice >(m) History of Political Economy; >(n) System of Production and Distribution; & Fordism & Post-Fordism >(o) Role of the State and Macroeconomics; >(p) Methodology and Philosophy > >I hope you will think seriously about this request, both in relation to time >availability and capacity. For a committee you will need, on average over the >next two years, 2 hours per month to spare. Some of the committee members >may also wish to write some of the a-z entries for the dictionaries; or at >least >suggest names. At present there are 32 members of DPE committees >(including Ann Jennings and Anne Mayhew - I have also asked Prue Hyman). > >I hope you will look favourably on this request (or perhaps you could >suggest someone to take your place). In any case, I look forward to any >comments you may have on this exercise. > > >Yours Sincerely, > > > >Phil O'Hara >Coordinator - DPE Project > > > *************** Teresa Amott Dept. of Economics Bucknell University Lewisburg, PA 17837 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 717/524-1652 (w) 717/524-3760 (fax)
