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Kenneth J. Arrow, professor of Economics, Daniel Bell, professor of Sociology, Wassily W. Leontief, Lee Professor of Economics, John Rawls, professor of Philosophy and James Vorenberg '49, professor of Law, are among hundreds of professors who have signed petitions circulated on the nation's campuses...
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...Caves. Formally, Lazonick's hiring was the fulfillment of a pledge made last April to hire one economist interested in "social problem" for 1975-76. This decision, in turn grew out of the recommendations made early in 1974 by a curriculum review committee, chaired by professor Kenneth J. Arrow...
...both the formation of the Arrow Committee to review curriculum, and the department's pledge to hire a Marxist economist as a junior faculty member, were in response to angry student pressure--mainly among graduate students--following the refusal of Economics to grant tenure to Associate Professor Samuel Bowles in 1972 or any other radical economist, even though the department has had as many as four radical junior faculty members to choose from...
Leontief's detractors within the department were quick to point out that he may be leaving simply because he is approaching the mandatory retirement age of 70 and because N.Y.U. offered him more money. But other economics professors, including Fellow Nobel Winner Kenneth Arrow (who almost left for Stanford last year) and Galbraith (who plans to retire this summer), agree with Leontief that the department must broaden its view of contemporary problems. Indeed, Galbraith has noted "the obsolescence of neoclassical economic theory," the foundation of the department's curriculum. Some faculty members and graduate students also insist that...