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Where Do Correct Ideas Come From? Do They Drop From The Skies?

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Have the ideas that mainstream economists teach and apply won out against alternatives in intellectual debate? Perhaps modern economics has been shaped by interventions with a non-cognitive basis.

Academics have one well-established method for writing books. They can try out chapters as articles, thereby seeing what reviewers find convincing and where reviewers think the argument needs strengthening. Maybe Fred Lee is working on a book about the sort of interventions mentioned above and counter-hegemonic movements within academic economics:
  • Lee, Frederick S. (2000a). "Conference of Socialist Economists and the Emergence of Heterodox Economics in Post-War Britain", Capital and Class, V. 75: 15-39
  • Lee, Frederick S. (2000b) "The Organizational History of Post Keynesian Economics in America, 1971-1995", Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, V. 23, N. 1 (Fall): 141-162
  • Lee, Frederick S. (2002). "Mutual Aid and the Making of Heterodox Economics in Postwar America: a Post Keynesian View", History of Economics Review: 45-62
  • Lee, Frederick S. (2004a). "History and Identity: The Case of Radical Economics and Radical Economists, 1945-70", Review of Radical Political Economics, V. 36, N. 2 (Sprong): 177-195
  • Lee, Frederick S. (2004b). "To Be a Heterodox Economist: The Contested Landscape of American Economics, 1960s and 1970s", Journal of Economic Issues, V. XXXVIII, N. 3 (September): 747-763
  • Lee, Frederick S. and Sandra Harley (1998). "Peer Review, the Research Assessment Exercise and the Demise of Non-Mainstream Economics", Capital and Class: 23-51
  • Mata, Tiago and Frederick S. Lee (2006). "Making Visible What is Hidden: The Role of Life Histories in Writing the History of Heterodox Economics", 19th Annual Conference of the History of Economic Thought Society of Australia, Ballarat, Victoria (4-7 July)
  • Tymoigne, Eric and Frederick S. Lee (2003-4). "Post Keynesian Economics Since 1936: A History of a Promise that Bounced?", Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, V. 26, N. 2 (Winter): 273-287

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