Friend! Personally, I have not heard of a grad school specialized in cultural economics. I think I understand what you mean, but this field is pretty unclear to me now. This is besides the point though. I suspect you mean "cultural studies" rather than "cultural economics". Economic departments in the US are too mainstream to afford such connotations. Instead, what you can do is to apply inter-diciplinary studies that is a combination of one or two diciplines such as economics, politics, sociology and history. There are schools specialized in political economy like SUNY/ Stony Brook, University of Colorado at Boulder (international political economy), SUNY/Binghamton (economic history and sociology particularly. See the Fernand Braudel Center), U Mass Amherst (econ is good I heard). I strongly advise you to apply Canada too. Canadians are good at radical issues. Toronto and York have *very very* strong programs in women's studies that must include cultural studies as well. I am hundred percent sure that York's is inter-diciplinary, so check out. The worst thing with Canada is that if you are applying for a funding, their funding mechanism is somewhat weird. The conservaties in the federal government cut off international students' money sometime ago. Why don't you try British fellows too? SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies)is a very well known and established institution. They teach topics like post-colonial studies, colonialism and development, third world countries, cultural issues, etc.. Stuart Hall is doing cultural/media studies some place in Britian I don't remember now.. My advise to you as a graduate student: Instead of applying to economics departments directly either find 1)"heterodox economics" programs or try 2) other social science diciplines. The closest one to economics is "political economy", and the only place you can find this are political science departments, broadly speaking, not economics. Economic departments are heavily dominated by classsical economics especially of neo-liberal type, and rececently by trends like game theory. don't allow yourself brainswashed; try to find some radical places, and do not go with sexy names. You can check out the faculty interests of the above mentioned on their web pages.. that is all i can tell! good luck.. Mine Doyran Phd Student Political Science SUNY/Albany >Dear all, I am currently finishing my studies in International Economics at Portland State University. I would like to pursue graduate studies in Cultural Economics. Unfortunately, this field is not very well known and I haven't found anyone to share my ideas with, although I'm sure they've been talked about before. One of them being that culture is transmitted to a society largely through a political figure or ideology and not as Marx asserts, the mode of production. I would greatly appreciate any feedback and critique on this, as well as suggestions for a graduate school here in the US for this type of study. Thank you, Fumie Hayashi ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
