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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

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