Re: The conflict at Notre Dame

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

In some ways a department of "Economic Thought and Policy" or an
Interdisciplinary department with heterodox economists, sociologists,
historians, anthropologists and psychologists sound like heaven, but the
problem is it surrenders economics to the mainstream and we simply can't
afford to do that.  The "math," econometrics or quantitative issue is
pretty much a red herring--there may be some heterodox economists who
don't use these because they can't, but Dutt, Mirowski, and Marty are
not among them. Ironically (or maybe not) there had been rumors over the
years that some of the het folks in the Notre Dame department *wanted*
to move into the history or history and philosophy of science program,
and also that some het people in their department would not hire out of
heterodox grad programs like the New School except under extraordinary
conditions.

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Perelman [mailto:michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 9:56 PM
To: pkt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: The conflict at Notre Dame

Papendreau at Berkeley once tried to meld historians, institutionalists
and theory-minded folk.  It did not work.  Decades later, the math
people
got their own department, but Berkeley never regained its heterodoxical
richness.
 --
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929

Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx