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Sam Bowles won't be at Harvard next year, and that will be Harvard's loss. The Economics Department's decision not to give him tenure is effectively a decision to ignore one of the important thrusts of modern economics on the shaky grounds that it is "beyond our boundaries...
The Economics Department at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst earlier this week recommended tenure for Bowles--but this did not stop him from getting in his last licks at his former employers.
Bowles and radical faculty members who also feared fond-farewells from their departments called the faculty hiring practices at Harvard politically biased.
"Radicals at Harvard are at variance with the system because they seek to serve those who suffer under advanced capitalism and not those who serve it," Bowles said.
Howard Zinn, radical political economist from Boston University, extended Bowles's allegations to the outside world. The Federal government uses "proper procedure" and "sophisticated ambiguities" to hide the real interests of those who govern, Zinn explained.