some questions

["Ric Holt" <rholt@xxxxxxx>]

The University of Utah's economic department is an interesting story.
What I heard was that in the 1950s a group of  radicals from Berkeley
heard that the University of Utah did not require its faculty to  take
an oath denouncing communism, as was required in the state of
California. Robert Edminister, Laurence Nabers and Ernst Randa and
probably the most radical of them all Sydney Coontz left Berkeley to go
to Utah and started an interesting
heterodox graduate program that took Marx seriously. E.K. Hunt was a
student there and later came back to teach. In response to the Communist
scare, Utah did require its students to take a class about the
democratic values of the United States. One of the classes that a
student could take to fulfill this requirement was economic history of
the United States. The person that taught the class was Sydney Coontz,
who was sympathic I heard to Stalinism. I wonder how the class went?
Probably the person to get in touch with about the program is E.K.
Hunt.
-Ric Holt