Submission from the Association for Heterodox Economics to the International Benchmarking Review on Research Assessment

This article, deposited for archival purposes with Repec, contains the submission of the UK-based Association for Heterodox Economics (AHE) on the benchmarking of research assessment in economics in the UK, to a consultation organised by the Economics and Social Science Research Council (ESRC) in 2007. This version is taken with kind permission from a special issue of the journal On The Horizon (Lee and Elsner 2008) on ‘Publishing, Refereeing, Rankings, and the Future of Heterodox Economics’. It should be cited as “Freeman, A. 2008. ‘Submission from the Association for Heterodox Economics to the International Benchmarking Review on Research Assessment’. Horizon Special issue on Publishing, Refereeing, Rankings, and the Future of Heterodox Economics, edited by Fred Lee and Wolfram Elsner, Vol 16, No. 4, December 2008.