Re: Hetero Depts

["Anthony D'Costa" <dcosta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The univ of Roskilde recently bestowed an honorary degree to Amiya Kumar
Bagchi, the renowned nationalist-marxist economic historian from India.

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On Tue, 14 May 2002, Joshua Bragg wrote:

> 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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