[PEN-L:6844] Re: Re: Re: Re: Old "foggies"/"fogeys"

[Peter Dorman <dormanp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Let's be blunt.  Nonneoclassical economics is not reproducing itself.
It needs a fresh supply of PhD's who can be hired to teach new ones *in
graduate programs*.  With a few exceptions the radical/alternative
programs (UMass, New School, AU, Notre Dame, etc.) hire people from
mainstream programs.  They used to find the odd radical (when there were
enclaves within Berkeley, Harvard, Michigan, etc.), but that supply is
drying up.  This is a serious problem.

Peter

"J. Barkley Rosser, Jr." wrote:
>
> Michael,
>      The problem is that the heterodox old fogeys
> are not in positions of power in the main Ph.D.
> granting institutions.  There are a few such
> institutions that have heterodox economics programs.
> But they are few in number and their graduates have
> a great deal of trouble getting placed out of their
> circle in such institutions.
> Barkley Rosser