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There are presently three assistant professors in Economics who call themselves radical--Arthur MacEwan, Samuel S. Bowles and Herbert M. Gintis--all of whom are leaving at the end of this academic year. Steven A. Marglin '59, professor of Economics, is the only tenured member of the department who is...
The text of the demand calls for the department to "hire at least four radical economists at all levels to insure the teaching of Marxist theory and roughly to replace Professors MacEwan, Bowles, Weisskopf, and Gintis."
Leontief demonstrated his independence when he and Kenneth J. Arrow, the 1972 Nobel Prize winner, joined a tiny minority in the Department in support of tenure for radical economist Samuel S. Bowles, associate professor of Economics.
Leontief distinguished himself as an independent in Harvard's Economics Department last year when he joined a small minority of Faculty members who voted to award tenure to Samuel S. Bowles, associate professor of Economics.
Although the Department soundly defeated Bowles' bid for tenure, Leontief said at a press conference yesterday he does not think the situation for Marxist economists at Harvard is hopeless.