Dear Member,
The World Economics Association has had a great
start. More than 4,500 people from 120 countries
joined in the first three weeks. That probably
makes the WEA already the world’s second largest
association of economists. It shows how much
demand there is for a truly international and
inclusive professional association.
Nearly 400 people have made donations. We are
most grateful for these. They now total over
£10,000, a sum which will enable us to set up a
web infrastructure for the journals and
conferences.
Although our work at recruiting members
continues, we are now focusing on getting the
journals and conferences up and running. We are
in the process of recruiting editorial boards
for the World Economics Journal, Economic
Thought and the Real-World Economics Review, as
well as five-person editor teams for the first
two. We aim to complete this process within a
few weeks. We will let you know as soon as the
journals and the associated discussion forums
for working papers are operational, so that you
can submit your papers. Guidelines on journals
and conferences will be posted soon on
http://worldeconomicsassociation.org/.
We are also in the process of setting up the
procedures for conferences. We will inform you
when this is completed, when the first
conference is scheduled and when members who
want to organize a conference can submit their
suggestions.
We are also setting up an Ethics Committee to
draw up a code of professional conduct for WEA
members. Peter Radford, who is based in New
York, will chair this committee.
We very much welcome your suggestions and
comments. Please send them to
con...@worldeconomicsassociation.org But please
understand that we are under-resourced at the
moment. So it may take us a while to answer, and
if mail volume should be high, we may not be
able to answer all your emails. But we will
certainly read all your comments and suggestions
and think about them.
We intend to bring the WEA membership up to a
much higher number than it is already. After the
new journals and conferences are operational,
the number of members should increase
spontaneously. But in the meantime, to maintain
momentum and to attract attention from world
media, we want to see the number of WEA members
increasing month by month. This will depend
primarily on you, the first WEA members,
spreading the word.
We will be emailing you from time to time.
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On behalf of my co-organizers, Peter Radford,
Norbert Häring, Grazia Ietto-Gillies, Vicki
Harris, and Valerie Radford, I thank you for
your leap of faith in joining the WEA in its
first month of existence.
Edward Fullbrook
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