Date: Wed, 28 Sep 1994 11:22:23 -0400 (EDT) From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood-AT-panix.com> Subject: Re: marxian economics On Wed, 28 Sep 1994, SCOTT MCNABB wrote: > > 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? > Yeah, Utah's one of those, what is it, 5 or so economics departments where the unusual is usual. Out of 3,601 colleges and universities in the US in 1991, 2,157 of them 4-year? I used Marxoid as a jokey way of saying Marxian, i.e. someone strongly influenced by Marx, to avoid the doctrinal straitjacket of calling someone a MarxIST. Doug Doug Henwood [dhenwood-AT-panix.com] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax) ------------------
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