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...about the floor Stacks of folders stand four feet high on top of the desk, propped up against a bookshelf. Papers seen to crawl out of every available crack This tiny room has become the lonely beachhead of radical economics at Harvard It is the office of Stephen A Marglin...
Radical economists are rare in the Harvard Economics Department, and, with the noted exception of Marglin, only mainstream economics occupies a permanent place on the top floor of Littauer Marglin's own appointment was in many ways, a fluke Wild speculation has accompanied the story of his tenure. "I have been accused or admired, depending on your point of view, of having been a closet radical all those years, and just waiting until I got tenure to show my true colors." Marglin says. "I wish I could claim such foresight, but the reality is more prosaic...
Describing himself as a child of the '60s who was merely a little older than most who fell under the spell of the times. Marglin says his conversion to radical thought occurred shortly after he received tenure in the spring of 1967. Prior to that, he had perceived no inherent contradiction between his liberal weekend politics and his working week mainstream economics. Only latter, he says, did he recognize that the implicit ideology behind the latter was untenable with the former. He had dedicated himself to developmental economics for its challenge. "We had been taught, and we believed, there were...
...President Nixon, in a nationally broadcast address, orders the mining of North Vietnam harbors. Boston police arrest 200 of 1000 protesters--including Harvard economics professor Stephen A Marglin--at an anti-war rally...
Tymienieckay, president of the World Institute for Advanced Phenomenonological Research and Learning, yesterday said the committee developed quickly after Marglin proposed...