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Still, the conservative make-up of the Economics faculty makes any real progress towards the inclusion of Marxian economics impossible. This year there were two radical economists on the department's faculty--Stephen A. Marglin '59, professor of Economics, and Arthur MacEwan, lecturer on Economics. With the expiration of MacEwan's contract this June, and the hiring of Lazonick, the number of radicals on the Economics faculty for next year remains exactly the same as this year: one senior faculty member--Marglin--whom the department cannot get rid of, and one junior faculty member, Lazonick. In the short-term...
...height of student demands for reform at the University and protest over the war in Vietnam--there were five radical economists on the faculty. In the years between 1970 and 1974 three of the four-junior faculty radicals here were refused tenure. With the departure of MacEwan at the end of this year, each one of the four will have left Harvard for other universities, at least three of them finding tenured positions elsewhere...
...Bowles and Art MacEwan, whom they passed...
...Arthur MacEwan, lecturer on Economics and the only remaining non-tenured radical in the department, said last week, "the concept of the ivory tower does not apply to Harvard, except possibly to the Classics Department--and I've heard that an ex-student in Classics once wrote speeches for Agnew." MacEwan says that the Government and Economics Departments "are bound up with advising and even running the government," adding, "Consider people like Kissinger, Bundy, Moynihan and Dunlop; consider institutions like the Center for International Affairs. The bourgeois faculty here is well-rooted in the class they serve and the system...
...MacEwan's and the other since-departed radicals' point is that the practice of neutral scholarship is impossible. MacEwan says, "Ideology is a good thing, and in any case, an inescapable thing--if it's a good ideology." The radical faculty at Harvard takes pride in having a point of view, and insists that all scholars have points of view. The radicals think the senior faculty's bias toward maintaining the capitalist social system is concealed by its seemingly value-free work. MacEwan says that "to work to help coordinate the economy and advise the government--as many orthodox economists...