Re: Re: RE: Hetero Depts

[Michael Perelman <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Someone mentioned geography yesterday.  Urban planning departments used to
offer some refuge of lefties -- I don't know of many people who have taken
that route recently.

Does anybody know of a progressive Keynesian who has gotten a job at a
prestige university lately?

On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 12:37:12PM -0400, Doug Henwood wrote:
> Sabri Oncu wrote:
>
> >Why is it that we don't see any Hetero Depts at Ivy League
> >universities?
>
> Liza Featherstone & I discovered in researching our sweatshop
> economics piece for the late Lingua Franca that the only Marxist to
> have gotten a job at a prestige U.S. economics department in the last
> 20 years was John Roemer - and that was a joint appointment with poli
> sci, which took the initiative in recruiting him.
>
> Doug
>

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