ABSTRACT
Sheila Dow is Professor Emeritus in Economics at the University of Stirling, where she has been based since 1979, apart from short spells at the Universities of Toronto and Cambridge. She is also currently an adjunct member of faculty at the University of Victoria, British Columbia. Prior to that she worked in the Overseas Department of the Bank of England and was senior economist in the Department of Finance of the Government of Manitoba. A combination of the aesthetic and the intellectual, as well as the social. People make decisions much more carefully nowadays. The simplest level is to think of it as a community. The fact that heterodox economics is a community that has conferences where people get together from different traditions and are able to communicate up to a point and certainly argue – that suggests to the author that there is an entity there which people can call heterodox economics.
