<div dir="ltr">Dear Colleagues,<div><br></div><div>I have been a member of PeDAGog for a year or two, but wasn't getting emails until Pallavi helped me get linked up.  What a wonderful group engaged in interesting things!</div><div><br></div><div>I wanted to bring to your attention an organization I helped found called The Alternatives Project, along with a group of progressive academics, civil society activists, and union members.  We have a wonderful Statement (in multiple languages) we would like to invite you to sign <u>and </u>circulate.  To date it has been signed by over 400 educators/activists from all over the world.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.thealternativesproject.org/">https://www.thealternativesproject.org/</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>By way of introducing my work, you might be interested in a short piece I did for Evonomics (standing for evolutionary economics).  It begins with a critique of mainstream economics and quantitative research methods and finishes with a discussion of the many alternatives of practice out there, including GTA.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://evonomics.com/klees-neoclassical-economics-failed-what-comes-next/">https://evonomics.com/klees-neoclassical-economics-failed-what-comes-next/</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>In solidarity,</div><div>Steve</div><div><br></div><div><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(47,85,151)">Steven J. Klees</span></p>

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Education Society</span></p>

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