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...state observer with close connections to Harvard, I have followed with great interest your continuing coverage of the controversy surrounding the appointment of Arnold Harberger as head of the HIID...
...sees no effort on Harvard's part to find him company. Moreover, Marglin feels the department and the Harvard community unconsciously discriminate against those with liberal political beliefs. From his vocal opposition to the possible appointment of Arnold C. Harberger to the director of Harvard Institure for International Development (HIID) to his support of an affirmative action program for faculty with radical ideologies, Marglin stands apart noticeably from his colleagues...
Marglin's career is case in point. "If his political outlook hadn't changed, he today would be the director of HIID," says James Duesenberry, professor of Economics, who taught Marglin when he was an undergraduate. But Marglin's political outlook has undergone dramatic changes since its mainstream beginnings...
...although Marglin says he would find most mainstream economists unsuitable for the position, Harberger "represents an extreme case who, even more than most, would narrow the political range of countries and programs the HIID can be involved in." Harberger's policy requires an ideological commitment to the free market, which many Third World governments are unwilling to make, Marglin explains, saying not only does the implementation of these policies require the repression of civil liberties, but also the crushing of any free or independent labor movement there. Marglin lists one more reason for the unsuitabiltiy of Harberger: HIID recently attempted...
...denied appointment because of his ideology, nevertheless, he protests the appointment of more free-market conservatives because they are already over-represented in the department. Failing to accept President Bok's claim of academic freedom as a justification for the Harberger appointment, Marglin states that the directorship of the HIID is a policy-making, not an academic, postion. Moreover, Marglin's critique of the Harberger appointment extends beyond the specifics of Harberger's career. "I don't think," says Marglin, "the real issue is Al Harberger or at what point Al Harberger officially became a representative of the Chilean electric...