[URPE] volunteers for ICAPE booth
Lee, Frederic
leefs at umkc.edu
Thu Oct 15 13:15:40 MDT 2009
Dear All,
This is the annual request for volunteers for the ICAPE booth at the
ASSA in Atlanta. This is an opportunity to meet heterodox and other
economists interested in pluralism. Hopefully many of your favourite
associations will have materials at the booth for you to look at. In
addition, individuals can also have material at the booth. The booth is
a resource for all economists interested in pluralism-so please use it.
If you want to volunteer for the booth or if you intend to have material
for the booth, please respond with the particulars by sending an e-mail
to Erik Olsen (olsenek at umkc.edu).
INTERNATIONAL CONFEDERATION OF ASSOCIATIONS FOR PLURALISM IN ECONOMICS
NEED ICAPE BOOTH VOLUNTEERS
FOR ASSA MEETINGS IN ATLANTA
JANUARY 3-5, 2010
Sunday, January 3, 2009 Name of Volunteer
9.00 - 10.00
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10.00 - 12.00
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12.00 - 2.00
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2.00 - 4.00
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4.00 - 6.00
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Material for the booth: URPE
Monday, January 4, 2009 Name of Volunteer
9.00 - 10.00
_______________
____________
10.00 - 12.00
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_________
12.00 - 2.00
___________________
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2.00 - 4.00
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______________________
4.00 - 5.00
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Monday, January 5, 2009 Name of Volunteer
9.00 - 10.00
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_______________________
10.00 - 12.00
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12.00 - 1.00
_____Fred Lee__________
INTERNATIONAL CONFEDERATION OF ASSOCIATIONS
FOR PLURALISM IN ECONOMICS
Notes for booth volunteers
First off, thank you very, very much! I don't know what we would do
without the support of individuals like yourself. I know how much you'd
rather be attending sessions, getting free stuff at the exhibits, and
exploring San Francisco-your help is greatly appreciated!
Second, your daunting task is to answer passerbys' questions about
ICAPE. Just in case you have not read and memorized the web page, here
are some quick bits of info and some instructions to help you:
Founded in 1993, ICAPE is a consortium of roughly
forty economic associations, journals, and departments (listed on the
"Membership Benefits" handout). Though they represent often widely
disparate paradigms, specializations, and regions, the ICAPE associates
are bound by their belief that methodological pluralism and intellectual
progress are complements. ICAPE's assigned task is to create and
maintain resources for these groups and to facilitate interaction among
them. To that end, ICAPE provides associates with:
Membership on a list
serve over which official announcements may be made
Pages on our web site
where descriptions, contacts, links, and calls for papers may be
displayed (http://www.icape.org)
Space to display
materials at our annual ASSA booth
Easy access to a large
and diverse community of like-minded scholars
Individuals cannot join ICAPE-only organizations
(see our "Membership Options" handout)
People are welcome to any of the items on the
table except journals and books (unless otherwise indicated to you by
the owner of the book or journal).
Interested groups should grab (at least) a copy
of the "Membership Options" and "Membership Benefits" handout. The
address of the web site is given in the latter.
ICAPE is not against the AEA or neoclassicism (a
common misconception)! Many of our members are mainstream economists
and many belong to the AEA.
If you are closing the booth for the day, no need
to remove the materials from the table.
If you are opening the booth for the day, bear in
mind that the security folks will not let you in early unless you are
wearing an exhibitor's badge. No big deal-you don't need to get there
early, anyway.
How much info to share with folks is entirely up to you. You'll be the
best judge of that. Personally, I am not a high-pressure kind of guy,
so I would not be comfortable accosting every passerby. But if you are,
then so be it! I'm not going to repress the innate enthusiasm of any of
our volunteers! The only thing I think we need to be consistent about
is emphasizing the positive aspects of our organization and how it
addresses a real need in our discipline.
By the way, it is my belief that ICAPE can be of great service to
graduate students and new Ph.D.'s in terms of informing them of the many
research groups that exist in our discipline. I certainly had no idea
of the diversity that existed out there when I was entering the job
market, and who knows how careers might play out differently when given
"perfect" information?! To that end, I think we should make a special
effort to reach new economists. I don't know exactly how we should do
this, but I think we should!
Thanks again for your time and energy.
Sincerely,
Fred Lee
Professor Frederic S. Lee
Editor, American Journal of Economics and Sociology
Department of Economics
University of Missouri-Kansas City
5100 Rockhill Road
Kansas City, Missouri 64110
USA
E-mail: leefs at umkc.edu
For Heterodox Economics Newsletter: http://www.heterodoxnews.com
For the Association for Heterodox Economics: http://www.hetecon.com
International Confederation of Associations for Pluralism in Economics
(ICAPE): http://icape.org
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