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Submission from the Association for Heterodox Economics to the International Benchmarking Review on Research Assessment

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This article, deposited for archival purposes with Repec, contains the submission of the UK-based Association for Heterodox Economics (AHE) on the benchmarking of research assessment in economics in the UK, to a consultation organised by the Economics and Social Science Research Council (ESRC) in 2007. This version is taken with kind permission from a special issue of the journal On The Horizon (Lee and Elsner 2008) on ‘Publishing, Refereeing, Rankings, and the Future of Heterodox Economics’. It should be cited as “Freeman, A. 2008. ‘Submission from the Association for Heterodox Economics to the International Benchmarking Review on Research Assessment’. Horizon Special issue on Publishing, Refereeing, Rankings, and the Future of Heterodox Economics, edited by Fred Lee and Wolfram Elsner, Vol 16, No. 4, December 2008.

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  • Freeman, Alan, 2008. "Submission from the Association for Heterodox Economics to the International Benchmarking Review on Research Assessment," MPRA Paper 52836, University Library of Munich, Germany, revised Dec 2008.
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    1. Frederic S. Lee, 2007. "The Research Assessment Exercise, the state and the dominance of mainstream economics in British universities," Cambridge Journal of Economics, Cambridge Political Economy Society, vol. 31(2), pages 309-325, March.
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    1. Frederic S. Lee & Xuan Pham & Gyun Gu, 2013. "The UK Research Assessment Exercise and the narrowing of UK economics," Cambridge Journal of Economics, Cambridge Political Economy Society, vol. 37(4), pages 693-717.
    2. Alan Freeman, 2010. "The Economists of Tomorrow: The Case for Assertive Pluralism in Economics Education," American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 69(5), pages 1591-1613, November.

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    Keywords

    Economics Teaching; Pluralism; Heterodox Economics;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • A11 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics - - - Role of Economics; Role of Economists
    • A12 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics - - - Relation of Economics to Other Disciplines
    • A13 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics - - - Relation of Economics to Social Values
    • A14 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics - - - Sociology of Economics
    • A22 - General Economics and Teaching - - Economic Education and Teaching of Economics - - - Undergraduate
    • B5 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - Current Heterodox Approaches

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