Reasons To Be Cheerful

I look at the speakers (here and here)at the Institute for New Economic Thinking conference that just concluded at King's College, Cambridge. And I see a number of economists I consider heterodox: Sheila Dow, John Eatwell, Duncan Foley, James Galbraith, Tony Lawson, and Philip Mirowski. (You can download selected papers at those sites.)

Not that this addresses Benjamin's worries about whether the institutional structure that George Soros seems to to be setting up will be as open to new ideas and pluralism as it might be.