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Samuel S. Bowles, the most prominent of Harvard's "shafted" radical economists, mounted a Harvard podium Thursday night, maybe for the last time.
Panel discussion tonight on Political Hirings and Firings at Harvard with Sam Bowles, Howard Zinn, Wes Profit, Theda Skocpol and Sandy Davis. Geological Lecture Hall at 7:30 p.m.
Davis said that the decision was part of a trend toward repression of radical viewpoints in the social sciences-evidenced most recently, he said, by the Economics Department's refusal to rehire radical economists Samuel S. Bowles and Arthur MacEwan.
Samuel S. Bowles, associate professor of Economics who was denied tenure last month, called the appointment a gesture of "belated tokenism" and Arthur MacEwan, assistant professor of Economics who was not rehired later that month, attributed the Department's decision to the intensity of public reaction.
The Department's decision not to rehire Bowles and MacEwan received attention from national television and news publications. Last Tuesday's Boston Globe reported that the Harvard Economics Department was "embroiled in charges of political influence in hiring practices and repression of an approach to the study of economics."