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After publishing several neoclassical tracts and receiving tenure in 1967, Marglin left again for India. While there, he fell in love with and later married a French woman raised in Morocco who sensitized him to the wealth of non-Western cultures. he explains. At the same time the student uprisings that brought Paris to a near-standstill in 1968 helped to dispel Marglin's belief in the immutability of the capitalist order. Marglin returned to Harvard no longer believing that the liberal position made sense...
...extreme change in Marglin's beliefs led some to believe that he had been a "closet Marxist" at the time he was a candidate for tenure. Malcolm Gillis, professor of Economics, attributes this charge to the fact that Marglin was making radical statements during the late '60s, "a time of academic acrimony." Marglin today acknowledges that if his present radicalism had then been evident in his work, the University would have probably refused to grant him tenure. Still he denies being a "closet anything. I believed in the separation of my work from my politics then. I don't anymore...
...Marglin's transition isolated him from the rest of the department. "It's all right to be in the minority a lot of the time if the two groups are shifting and everybody tastes a little bit of both sides, but I'm in the minority almost all the time." He notes a general tendency to regard his more recent works less seriously. "People feel it's not economics, it's irrelevant, it's speculation." Maass asserts that Marglin's later career has not been as extraordinary as his early work, adding, "I don't hold that against...
...Marglin argues that while most professors here view him as a partisan, they deny that they themselves possess an ideology. "Many Harvard professors think of ideology as something the other fellow has," Marglin comments, adding that the prevailing attitude at Harvard is that the study of the social sciences can be objective, and this results in a limited spectrum of political ideologies here. He points to the preponderance of he main outlook in the Economics Department: a right-wing, conservative, free-market one. "If you compare my department's political-cultural spectrum to the world's, it by no means...
...Marglin says he has no proof of this tendency, but he points out that the Economic Department has become more narrow in its views since his undergraduate years. Then people seriously debated the issue of whether a large military budget was needed to maintain a prosperous economy. "Today it's no longer even discussed...