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Since the end of January 2001, the volume of news relating to the pae movement
has been too great to continue with updates of this page. News, however,
is reported in the post-autistic economics newsletter

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This morning, under the heading “El autismo y el dogmatism de la ciencia economica” (“Autism and dogmatism of economic science”), Expansion, Spain’s leading financial and “neoclassical oriented” newspaper, launched an attack on the post-autistic economics movement. The article coincided with the appearance of Jean-Paul Fitoussi (the economist heading the French government’s inquiry into the economics curriculum) in a public forum in Madrid. After the event Fitoussi met with students regarding the pae movement. Jean-Paul Fitoussi, the eminence appointed by the French government to investigate and recommend changes in the economics curriculum, will on January 24^th take part in a roundtable in Madrid on the post-autistic economics movement and the need for reforming economics teaching. Fitoussi will be joined by Joaquin Estefania and Gabriel Tortella. The event symbolizes the growing influence in Spain of the A.e.e., the student organization leading the Spanish pae movement. For further details, see the announcements section below. United Kingdom: It was announced today that “leading representatives” of the post-autistic economics movement in France have been invited to speak to students and faculty at the University of Cambridge on March 12^th. Australia: The weekend issue of The Australian has an article by Ramona Koval on the post-autistic economics movement in France, Australia and the rest of the world. Read more . . . Le Monde carries a lengthy article by Robert Solow arguing that when it comes to economics Americans (like himself) and maybe a few Brits know best, and that, in effect, the French should stop this silly debate and get back in line. Read more . . . Australia: Alex Millmow reports in The Melbourne Age on the post-autistic economics movement. Read more . . . Paris: French students celebrate historic victory, after winning promise of reform of the national economics curriculum. Read more . . . The December issue of Alternative Economiques features an ariticle on the post-autistic economics movement in France. The post-autistic economics newsletter reports surge of new subscribers from the United Kingdom following public appearance of French student leaders in Leeds. To subscribe to newsletter, send "join the list" message to pae_news@btinternet.com Eonomists teach us "to believe that abstract economic theory is more important than the real world," argues Andrew Simms in The Independent, a UK daily. This intellectual autism is "blinding the world's decision-makers to the reality of imminent environmental collapse." As a force against this escapism, it is noted, there has recently appeared the post-autistic economics movement. Read more

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France: In today's Le Monde, an essay by Jean Gadrey argues that, given its well-known falsity, "Most of neoclassical microeconomics should be taught as part of the history of economic thought, along side, for example, the Marxist theory of labor value, and removed from the foundational curriculum. A substantial part of formalized macroeconomics should suffer the same fate." The current post-autistic initiatives, he says, are the only hope for restraining economics' suicidal behavior. Click here to read English translation. France: Le Monde publishes extracts from the joint communiqué of the French students' collective for the reform of economics teaching and the Association des professeurs de sciences économiques et sociales. Student leaders of Spain's pae movement report that after only six weeks of campaigning, a public debate on the future of economics and its current diseased state is beginning to take place in Spain. The initial pattern resembles the early stages of last summer's French mobilization. Madrid: today's El Pais follows up its earlier coverage (Nov. 27) with a long editorial essay by the Spanish economist Joaquin Estefania. His essay supports post-autistic economics in the context of the teaching of economics in Spain. Click here to read The Chicago Tribune remarks on the appearance of the post-autistic economics newsletter and of the movement in France. USA: The Dec./Jan. issue of Lingua Franca reports on the post-autistic economics movement in France. See "French Resistance", pp.14-6. Argentina: "Con los estudiantes franceses" by Guillermo E. Gigliani appears in La insignia. Click here to read James Galbraith arrives in Paris for three days of consultations with student and academic leaders of the French post-autistic economics movement. Click here to read his article "How the Economists Got It Wrong". The French students response to the neoclassicalists' attack is published in Le Monde. El Pais, Spain's leading newspaper, has two articles on the post-autistic economics movement in France. One features the students' petition; the other is based on interviews with supporting French economists, including Bernard Guerrien and Bernard Paulré. Click here to read articles. Issue No. 3 of the post-autistic economics newsletter is published. USA: An article on the post-autistic economics newsletter appears in the Monthly Review. Click here to read. Ivy League pae student petition site appears on the web. France: Today 's Libération publishes article by Olivier Favereau, Yann Moulier-Boutang and Bernard Paulré responding to earlier article by MIT's Olivier Blanchard's defense of the status-quo. Click here for Favereau article and here for Blanchard article. pae petition pages for Australian economics students and economists go up on the web. Copernic reports 16 web-sites where issues of the post-autistic newsletter has been republished. The student leaders of the post-autistic movement in France accuse Le Monde of conducting a "pseudo-debate". They inform pae news that they are preparing a response to yesterday's issue. Amartya Sen enters the post-autistic economics debate. Le Monde, under the heading "La contreverse française actuelle se retrouve dans de nombreux pays," carries an interview with Sen. Significantly, however, the questions posed to Sen avoid the hard issues raised for the reformist students and academics. Le Monde features three pages of articles on the autisme debate in France. Of the nine articles, most feature economists opposed to reform. For details see next issue of post-autistic newsletter. Economics students at the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid post pae student petition on the web.

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17:30, Wednesday 24 January 2001, Residencia de Estudiantes c/Serrano 117 Madrid

Un Nuevo orden economico: Interviennen: Jean-Paul Fitoussi, Gabriel Tortella, Joaquin Estefania

8:00 p.m. Monday 12 March 2001, King’s College, University of Cambridge, UK: Leading representatives of the post-autistic economics movement in France will speak to students and faculty. The event is organized by the Cambridge Realist Workshop and is open to the public. For details click here.


21 April 2001, Reno, Nevada, USA: At the joint annual meetings of the Association for Evolutionary Economics and the Western Social Science Association there will be:
ROUNDTABLE: POST-AUTISTIC ECONOMICS AND PLURALISM: WHAT DOES IT MEAN?
10:15 - 11:45 AM
Moderator: Charles M.A. Clark, St. John's University
Panelists: Steve Shuklian, Marshall University; John Bellamy Foster, University of Oregon; and others to be announced.


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