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Although the November report of the Visiting Committee of the Board of Overseers--which questioned the Ec Department for its failure to have more than one radical on its faculty--and the recent resignation of Wassily W. Leontief, Lee Professor of Economics, put more pressure than ever on the department, the commitment to hire one radical junior faculty member was made last April...
NOBEL LAUREATE Wassily W. Leontief's announcement last week that he would leave Harvard's Economics Department to take a post at New York University is the latest and possibly the saddest in a series of indications that the department has serious problems...
...Leontief, in his 44 years of teaching here, has been one of the few professors who consistently attempted to challenge the Fe Department's tunnel vision toward neo-classical theory, its aversion to reform, and its discrimination against minorities and women. He is also one of the last...
James S. Duesenberry, chairman of the Economics Department, said last night from Washington that he is "sorry to see Leontief go," but added that because of retirement rules, Leontief had only a few more years of tenure in the Economic Department...
...declined to comment on the reasons Leontief gave for his resignation...