Re: [Marxism] non-political economics

[Jim Farmelant <farmelantj@xxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 28 Jan 2006 17:17:50 -0500 Les Schaffer <schaffer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
writes:
> i've been following the increased focus on physics and physical
> modeling
> in economic analysis. this Times article interested me in this vein:
>
> les schaffer
>
>
>
> Students Are Leaving the Politics Out of Economics
> By LOUIS UCHITELLE
>
> Taking as a model the research techniques that Steven D. Levitt


> The students, in their answers to the poll, applauded an education
> that
> teaches them to be researchers and to stay away from policy. The
> poll
> and its implications were debated in a panel discussion at the
> annual
> meeting of the American Economic Association in Boston this month,
> and
> in follow-up interviews.
>
>
> [snip]
>
> Graduate schools rarely offer courses in the history of economic
> thought, the poll showed, and fewer students than in the 1980's have
> read the works of the giants in their field ? Adam Smith, for
> example,
> or David Ricardo, Alfred Marshall and John Maynard Keynes.

I think we can assume that if they are not reading Ricardo
or Keynes, then they are not reading Marx either.

>
>
> full: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/27/business/27econ.html
>
>


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