From: "SCOTT MCNABB" <MCNABB-AT-econ.sbs.utah.edu>
Date:          Wed, 28 Sep 1994 08:49:18 GMT-700
Subject:       Re: marxian economics


> Date sent:      Tue, 27 Sep 94 16:22:39 EDT
> To:             marxism-AT-world.std.com
> From:           Andrew.Daitsman-AT-mail.trincoll.edu (Andy Daitsman)
> Subject:        Re: marxian economics
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> It seems, in academia at least, that the 
> >degree of relative autonomy is a function of distance from the economics 
> >and politics departments; they keep the Marxoids in English where they 
> >can do no serious harm.
> 
> Hey, wait a minute!  I'm in the history department, and I teach classes on 
> politics!  (Mock horror dissembled)  
> 
> Hmmm.  Maybe I'm not a Marxoid... but then, what am I?

Hey, our economics department is one of the nation's best departments 
for teaching heterodox economic theory (more mock horror).  We have 
several left leaning faculty (in fact the left out-ranks the 
neoclassical contingent in this department) not the least of whom is 
E. K. Hunt, a great orthodox marxist and labor theorist; and our 
graduate political economy seminars are entirely Marxian Political 
Economy in content.  BTW, being new to this list I'm not quite sure 
what a "Marxoid" is.  Could someone fill me in?

P.S.  I'm currently reading "No Ivory Tower: McCarthyism in the 
Universities."  Any thoughts, criticisms, or plaudits relating to the 
book?

Cheers,
Scott Mc Nabb
Department of Economics
University of Utah

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> Yours,
> Andy Daitsman
> Department of HISTORY and Latin American Studies
> Trinity College
> 
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