Re: Re: Re: Re: David Neumark

[michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Fusfeld was always a leftie, long before the war.  When he retired, he
recommended me as his replacement.  Michigan gave me a perfunctory
interview in which they expressed extreme disinterest long before I
entered the room.

Gurley is a Quaker.  His revulsion with the war was crucial.

Paul Z. might have an interesting story to tell us.


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> At 07:45 AM 8/31/00 -0700, michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >So it happens once every 150 years.  I am disregarding the overly common
> >experience of lefists who become conservative, mostly in line with their
> >self-interest.
>
> Daniel Fusfeld, Leonard Rapping, Paul Zarembka, and John Gurley seem to be
> cases of economists who went left-wing, likely because of the anti-war
> movement's influence (though it's possible they simply "came out of the
> closet" as leftists once they saw it as permissible).[*] What's rare is
> when an economist changes his or her opinions due to empirical research,
> since usually econometric methods are biased by one's priors.
>
> [*] I don't know these guys' stories, but would be interested in hearing them.
>
> Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxx &  http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
>
>


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