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The University of Massachusetts at Amherst this week took the final step in approving tenured appointments for Samuel S. Bowles, associate professor of Economics, and Herbert M. Gintis, lecturer in Education, thereby depleting Harvard's Economics Department of its radical junior faculty members.
Bowles, denied tenure at Harvard last December, said yesterday that the group's willingness to accept tenure at UMass hinged on what radical economists and how many UMass was willing to appoint.
Died. William Benton, 72, former Democratic Senator from Connecticut and publisher of the Encyclopaedia Britannica; in Manhattan. Benton helped work his way through Yale as a high-stake auction-bridge player, later gave up a Rhodes scholarship and disappointed family hopes for a ministerial career to become a salesman, then...
Much of what the departments do is not overtly political, not particularly newsworthy, and very important to the way that Harvard functions. Sam Bowles' departure may get some attention, but normally the Economics Department hires the men who perpetuate it without attracting any attention. But self-perpetuation is only one...
A third and in some ways the most serious criticism of Harvard departments as meritocracies is that they are self-defining elites. The men who compose the English Department look for Richard Ellmann, the Sociology Department takes Christopher Jencks, and the Economics Department rejects Samuel Bowles, and in each case...