He plays down its Middle Eastern origins and he stresses its diverse sources (Shia and Sufi as well as Sunni) as well as its heterodox innovations.
It could do lots of things, in other words, that did not, to the first order, represent a mechanical tightening of monetary policy.Or to turn the empirical side of the heterodox argument on the heterodox economists: when has raising interest rates while at the zero lower bound led to higher inflation?
It has been fixed against the dollar since September 1998, part of the country's heterodox approach to the crisis, which also involved spurning the help of the International Monetary Fund and imposing controls on capital that were lifted completely only this month.
If they go, their party's caucus in the House will become even more homogenous than it already is.The replacement of heterodox congressmen with identikit Republicans and Democrats has been so gradual that it is hard to identify a single turning-point.
MARK THOMA directs us to an interview with heterodox economist Michael Perelman.
John McCain is a heterodox conservative hated by many traditional Republicans.
Mr Koizumi has Mr Hosokawa's looks, charisma and heterodox appeal, though the match is not perfect: not even Mr Hosokawa was as popular.Accounting for Mr Koizumi's instant and overwhelming popularity is by no means easy.
Rethinking Economics wants curricula to cover heterodox schools of thought.
But the main thing these rather different governors have in common is their heterodox, confrontational style.
But as I recently argued, Mr Paul's paternal legacy is as much a curse as a blessing, and could hurt him in a race against less heterodox Tea Party senate sweethearts, such as Ted Cruz or Marco Rubio, who have yet to kick their campaigns into gear.
Hail to the not-quite-president!In this section The Kosovo cauldron Why the Orthodox are heterodox Open up! Mesut Yilmaz, ambivalent Turk Slovakia's not-quite-president A little while yet A fear in Provence Such a kindly foe Reprints.
