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...DECISION BY THE TENURED FACULTY of the Economics Department not to rehire me and Arthur MacEwan hardly came as a surprise. Over the past two years the senior members of the department have made it clear that Marxian economics would not be made a part (even a small part) of the core curriculum offered to graduate students and undergraduates. Tom Weisskopf and Herb Gintis, both popular teachers with substantial reputations for scholarly research in the Marxian tradition were let go. Demands that the department hire a Marxist economic theorist, passed virtually unanimously at meetings of the graduate economics club, were...
Those in power in the department are taking no chances with the future of this system. The last several years, student demands for the democratization of the department, which MacEwan and I vociferously supported and which were passed overwhelmingly by the graduate economics club, have been met either with an arrogant "we know best what's in your interest" or the evidently false statement that the senior faculty and students have no differences in interests...
...fact, this decision casts doubts on the validity of the Economics Department's judgements of the academic merits of Arthur MacEwan, Thomas Weisskopf and Herbert M. Gintis, all previously denied appointments in the Department. Dangling Herb Gintis on the promotional ladder for another four years is hardly an adequate substitution for a tenured appointment...
Davis said that the decision was part of a trend toward repression of radical viewpoints in the social sciences-evidenced most recently, he said, by the Economics Department's refusal to rehire radical economists Samuel S. Bowles and Arthur MacEwan...
Samuel S. Bowles, associate professor of Economics who was denied tenure last month, called the appointment a gesture of "belated tokenism" and Arthur MacEwan, assistant professor of Economics who was not rehired later that month, attributed the Department's decision to the intensity of public reaction...