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...Department is opening its doors slowly," Leontief said. "Many members are now starting to focus on problems economists previously ignored...
...that time, Leontief said he supported the radical economist's bid because he felt the Department should concentrate on the broader social issues in the economics field...
Although the Department soundly defeated Bowles' bid for tenure, Leontief said at a press conference yesterday he does not think the situation for Marxist economists at Harvard is hopeless...
...Leontief's own perspective of the discipline in general is consistent with his decision to support Harvard's unsuccessful radical economists. He will not assert that one system or one doctrine is necessarily better than another, but that a variety of economic structures and values are acceptable depending on specific circumstances...
With this outlook, Leontief is able to see virtues both in capitalist America and socialist China. He considers the profit motive the best driving force of the American economy but admires the "purposefulness of the Chinese people...