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Curiously the critique is more a reactionary than a radical document. Though the critique's author Stephen Kelman '70 and his confederates would deplore the suggestion that they wanted a return to the good old days, it is ironic that instituting all the practical changes their criticisms implied would make the course much as it was in the late...
...last month's critique as well is the conviction that the course would be better if it were more political. "This is the only course most people take in economics," says a section man, "so there ought to be more time on present problems and less on economic tools." Kelman's call for more "controversy" in Economics I was based on a similar idea--the course should be constantly examining both sides of economic questions instead of trying to develop an objective economic theory first...
...letter of Messrs. Kelman and Abrams is as intriguing as the perhaps unique political coalition it so aptly represents...
...question of "Old" and "New" involved here: was the SDS any less the New Left when it said in its 1962 Port Huron Statement that "as democrats, we are in basic opposition to the communist system," as today, when they refuse to make such a definite commitment? Steven J. Kelman '69, Elliot Abrams '69 Co-Chairmen Harvard-Radcliffe Young People's Socialist League Campus Americans for Democratic Action
Articles by Milton Friedman, former economics adviser to Barry Goldwater, are not rebutted by liberal material covering the same field, Kelman said. But an article by liberal economist John Kenneth Galbraith, Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics, is refuted by a conservative stand on the same issue...