Hetero Depts

["Joshua Bragg" <joshuabraggecon@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I was at the University of Copenhagen last year studying Economic
Development. I expected a very heterodox tradition considering the enormous
Danish aid program and the influence of Gunnar Myrdal. Surprisingly, I had a
hard time finding a prof who would disagree with anything in the mainstream
textbooks. Even scarier was the complete acceptance of this by the students.
I tried to get the post-autistic movement going there, but ran into too much
resistance from fellow students. As I travelled around, I found this to be
the case throughout Scandinavia. Extremely creative social programs, but
repressive economics departments. I wonder why? Maybe the Scandinavians on
the list can explain this strange phenomenon.

The only place of refuge I found was the University of Roskilde in Denmark.
They have a heterodox economic development program, but it's looked down
upon by most because it lacks math.

Joshua

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