RE: Hetero Depts

["Forstater, Mathew" <ForstaterM@xxxxxxxx>]

Sven Larson (Post Keynesian) is at Roskilde. CBS actually has a bunch of
people interested in non-neoclassical stuff, but they are in something
like the Organizational Learning dept. I was there a year or two ago for
a conference--it was held in the King's former summer home on the Black
Sea--with Phil Mirowski and Richard Swedburg, among others.

-----Original Message-----
From: Joshua Bragg [mailto:joshuabraggecon@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2002 2:45 PM
To: pen-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [PEN-L:25996] Hetero Depts

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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