Dear Readers of the Real-World Economics Review,

We, the 141 economists from the 40 countries listed below, invite you to join the World Economics Association which we are launching today.

Two commitments listed in our Manifesto sum up the project.

1. To plurality. The Association will encourage the free exploration of economic reality from any perspective that adds to the sum of our understanding.  To this end, it advocates plurality of thought, method and philosophy.

8. To global democracy.  The Association will be democratically structured so as not to allow its domination by one country or one continent.

The creation of the WEA addresses an obvious gap in the international community of economists – the absence of a truly international, pluralist association. Today’s digital technology makes it feasible to close this gap quickly and cheaply through a bottom-up, grass-roots approach.

The WEA has been legally constituted in the United Kingdom as a “Community Interest Company”, a special legal category (with an asset lock) for non-profit organizations whose purpose is to serve the public interest.

Membership of the World Economics Association is free.  To join, all that you need to do is go  here    and then enter your name, email address and country and then click.    You will also be given the option of providing us with a few professional details, but none of these are required. You will receive an email confirming your membership of the WEA .  You will also be given the opportunity to make a donation to the running of the WEA .  We want to emphasize that the WEA has no major donors, neither institutional nor individual, behind it.

The WEA will initially publish three journals, two of them new.  Online access will be free to members, with print copies available to libraries and individuals for a fee.  The WEA ’s very large membership from which to draw papers will ensure a high standard of scholarship. The general-purpose flagship journal will be the World Economics Journal. The other new journal, Economic Thought , will focus on the history, methodology and philosophy of economics.  The Real-World Economics Review will henceforth be published under the umbrella of the WEA .  If you wish, you may read a  document  detailing the structures and procedures, which include an open review process, for the journals. 

From its website, the WEA will also run online conferences.

Help economics and yourself.  Become a WEA member now .  

Hoping you will join us as members,

Africa

Ethiopia

Fantu Cheru , Nordic Africa Institute 

Ghana / Kenya

Charles Abugre , United Nations Millennium Campaign in Africa      

Malawi

Thandika Mkandawire , London School of Economics

South Africa

Lucien Van Der Walt , University of the Witwatersrand

Salim Vally , University of the Witwatersrand

Asia

China

Ping Chen , Center for New Political Economy, Fudan University

Xiaoqin Ding, Chinese Academy of Social Science   

Shulin Gu, Tsinghua University

Kainan Huang , Shandong University  

Yanli Huo , Chiba Institute of Technology 

Dic Lo , Renmin University of China and University of London

Henry C. K. Liu

Ying Ma , Wuhan University

Yougui Wang , Beijing Normal University  

Dapei Zuo , Institute of Economics , Chinese Academy of Social Sciences  

India

V. Bhaskar , University College London ,  

C. P. Chandrasekhar , Jawaharlal Nehru University
Jishnu Das , World Bank

Jayati Ghosh , Jawaharlal Nehru University

Prabhat Patnaik , Jawaharlal Nehru University 

Japan  

Toru Iwami , University of Tokyo

Richard C. Koo , Nomura Research Institute 

Korea

Ha-Joon Chang , Cambridge University  

Lebanon

Ali Kadri , United Nations and London School of Economics 

Malaysia

Rajah Rasiah , Universiti Malaya  

Pakistan

Akmal Hussain , Beaconhouse National University    

Thailand

Pasuk Phongpaichit , Chulalongkorn University  

Turkey

Eyup Özvveren , Middle East Technical University

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Australia

Peter Earl , University of Queensland    

Steve Keen , University of Western Sydney 

J. E. King , Monash University

New Zealand

Robert Wade , London School of Economics 

Europe

Austria

Ulrich Brand , University of Wien  

Belgium

Christian Arnsperger , University of Louvain  

Ernst Stetter , Foundation for European Progressive Studies 

Denmark

Bengt-Åke Lundvall , University of Aalborg  

Estonia

Wolfgang Drechsler , Tallinn University of Technology  

Rainer Kattel , Tallinn University of Technology  

Finland

Uskali Mäki , University of  Helsinki   

France   

Bruno Amable , Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne

Rolande Borrelly , Institute of Applied Mathematics and Economics  

Jean-Pierre Dupy , École Polytechnique and Stanford University

Olivier Favereau , l'universite Paris X

Jean Gadrey , University of Lille 

Bernard Guerrien , Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne  

Frédéric Lordon , Bureau d'économie théorique et appliquée  

André Orléan , Ecole Normale Supérieure   

Jacques Sapir ,  Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales

Henri Sterdyniak , Observatoire français des conjonctures économiques  

Germany

Heiner Flassbeck , United Nations Conference on Trade and Development   

Ulrich Fritsche , Universität Hamburg

Norbert Haering , Handelsblatt 

Gustav Horn , Macroeconomic Policy Institute  

Lorenz Jarass , University of Applied Sciences of Wiesbaden

Walter Krämer , Unviersity of Dortmund  

Manfred Nitsch , Freie Universitaet Berlin

Sigrid Skarpelis-Sperk , former member of the Bundestag  

Friederike Spiecker                                                     

Greece

Yanis Varoufakis , University of Athens

Luxembourg

Jean Feyder , Ambassador to the United Nations

Italy

Nicola Acocella , University of Rome  

Giovanni Dosi , Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies        

Grazia letto-Gillies , London South Bank University ,   

Cristina Marcuzzo , University of Rome  

Ugo Pagano , University of Siena  

Luigi Pasinetti , Catholic University of Milan    

Alessandro Roncaglia , University of Rome   

Annalisa Rosselli , Roma Tor Vergata

Netherlands

Esther-Mirjam Sent , Radboud University Nijmegen   

Irene van Staveren , International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University 

Norway

Erik S Reinert , Norwegian Institute for Strategic Studies  

Russia

Vladimir Avtonomov , Higher School of Economics , Moscow  

Elena Sapir , P.G.Demidov Yaroslav State University   

Sweden

Peter Söderbaum , School of Sustainable Development of Society and Technology

Spain

Antonio Garrido ,  Universidad Politécnica de Madrid  

Switzerland

Paul H. Dembinski , University  of Fribourg

Jochen Hartwig , University of Zürich   

Friedrich von Kirchbach , International Trade Centre

Paul Meier , Swiss Futures and Options Association

Sergio Rossi , University  of Fribourg

United Kingdom  

Mark C. Casson , Reading University   

Victoria Chick , University College London  

Francis Cripps , Cambridge University  

Diane Elson , University of  Essex   

Sheila C. Dow ,  University of Stirling    

Edward Fullbrook , Real-World Economics Review  

Geoffrey Hodgson ,   University of Hertfordshire  

Tony Lawson , Cambridge University  

Mary Mellor , University of Northumbria at Newcastle     

Paul Ormerod , Volterra Consulting 

Paul Rayment , former director of UN Economic Commission for Europe   

Ann Pettifor , Policy Research in Macroeconomics    

Robert Skidelsky , University of Warwick    

John Weeks , University of London

Latin American and West Indies

Argentina  

Aldo Caliari , Rethinking Bretton Woods Project   

Roberto Frenkel , Universidad de Buenos Aires

Gustavo Marqués , Universidad de Buenos Aires   

Barbados

Keith Nurse ,   University of the West Indies 

Brazil

Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira , Getulio Vargas Foundation and University of São Paulo

Ana Celia Castro , Federal University of Rio de Janeiro 

Fernando Ferrari Filho , Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul  

Luiz Fernando de Paula , Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro 

Chile

Mario Cimoli , UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean

Mexico

Juan Calos Moreno-Brid , UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean

Alicia Puyana , Latin American School of Social Sciences   

Peru

Santiago Roca , Universidad ESAN    

Jürgen Schuldt , Universidad Pacifico de Lima  

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Canada

Marc Lavoie , University of Ottawa  17,300    

Jim Stanford , Canada , Canadian Auto Workers

United States

Alice Amsden , Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Dean Baker , Center for Economic and Policy Research 

Michael A. Bernstein, Tulane University     

Joerg Bibow , Skidmore College

Ron Blackwell , AFL -CIO

Bruce J. Caldwell , Duke University

David Colander , Middlebury College   

Robert Costanza , Potland State University  

Herman E Daly , University of Maryland

Paul Davidson , Journal of Post Keynesian Economics  

John B. Davis , Marquette University  

Lloyd J. Dumas , University of Texas

James Galbraith , University of Texas at Austin   

Kevin Gallagher , Boston University

Jo Marie Griesgraber , New Rules for Global Finance Coalition

Stephany Griffith-Jones , Columbia University  

Michael Hudson , University of Missouri at Kansas City   

Frederic S. Lee , University of Missouri at Kansas City

Robert Locke , University of Hawaii

Stephen Marglin , Harvard University    

Anne Mayhew , University of Tennessee  

Deirdre McCloskey ,  University of Illinois at Chicago  

Julie A. Nelson , University of Massachusetts , Boston   

Richard Parker , Harvard University

Peter Radford , The Radford Free Press  

Dani Rodrik , Harvard University   

Lance Taylor , New School for Social Research 

Immanuel Wallerstein , Yale University   

Mark Weisbrot , Center for Economic and Policy Research  

Charles K. Wilber , University of Notre Dame  

L. Randall Wray , University of Missouri , Kansas City   

Stephen T. Ziliak , Roosevelt University