The case for Emancipatory Economics
Online presentation to the St Petersburg Economic Forum. A progenitor of Volume 2 of my proposed trilogy. This post includes the slideshow of my own presentation
Should economics be replaced or reformed? Presentation to North-West University, China
This slideshow, presented to an online seminar organisd by NorthWest University in China, is a precursor to my forthcoming book to be entitled ‘Market-Free Economics: a General theory of Value, [...]
Pluralism: scientific, emancipatory, and here to stay
My introduction to the collective volume of works by writers in the Association for Heterodox Economics (AHE) edited by Arthur Hermann and Simon Mouatt. Cite as: Freeman, A. 2020. ‘Pluralism: [...]
The Second Opinion: an ethical approach to learning and teaching
Chapter in Wolfram Elsner and Svenja Flechtner’s volume on approaches to teaching economics. Cite as: ‘The Second Opinion: an ethical approach to learning and teaching’. In Decker, [...]
Depressions, Cycles and capitalist self-restoration: a pluralistic introduction to the relation between Schumpeter, Keynes, and Marx. Short course at Changchung University, Jilin province, China
At the instigation of Wolfram Elsner, we took part in a course in heterodox economics at Changchung University, Jilin province, China. Other participants were Tae Hee Jo and Paolo Ramazzotti. [...]
Comments on DeMartino’s ‘I solemnly swear’
This is the prepublication contribution to a symposium on George DeMartino’s ‘I solemnly swear’, organised by the journal Rethinking Marxism. I first came across DeMartino’s work through the [...]
First tell no untruth:Affirmative pluralism as the foundation of a civil ethical code for political economy.
Slides for a session on economic ethics at the Southern Economic Association Annual Conference, organised by the Association for Integrity and Responsible Leadership in Economics and Associated [...]
Remembering the Future: Place and narrative in the age of the internet
Keynote presentation to the Association of Manitoba Museums, November 2015. The post includes the text and slides Cite as: Freeman, Alan (2015). ‘Remembering the Future: Place and narrative [...]
First Tell No Untruth – Changchung University, Jilin
A comprehensive set of slides explaining the ethical and scientific basis for assertive pluralism, and why the simple but common counterposition of heterodox economics to orthodox economics [...]
Memorial for Fred Lee
Fred Lee, founder of the Association for Heterodox Economics and leading spirit of the heterodox economics movement, passed away of cancer in 2014. It was a great loss. A memorial event was [...]
