ABSTRACT
Edward Fullbrook is founder and editor of theReal-World Economics Review , executive director of the World Economics Association, and a Visiting Professor at the University of the West of England, Bristol. The conferees, mostly from the States, were both demoralised and conversationally obsessed by the cleansing that was taking place in economics departments – especially by the dropping of economic history and the history of economic thought. Political correctness has never been one of the author's virtues, and it was called the Post-Autistic Economics Newsletter. Except after the fact – and then only marginally – the term “heterodox” does not really pertain to this category of pursuit. As a consequence not only does each heterodox school begin in isolation from other ones, but its primary point of reference remains the neoclassical mainstream.
