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...least the past five years reformers have sought to modify the department's generally conservative bias, first by demanding that the ranks of tenured professors include Marxian economists, then, in the past year, by working within the department's committee structure to insure a place in the curriculum where Marxian economics could be systematically taught...
...matter the approach or the intensity of the effort, it seems that the department remains consistently resistant to admitting Marxian analysis or Marxians into its teaching ranks or its graduate curriculum...
...Arrow Committee, chaired by a Nobel-prize winning department liberal, urged that Marxian analysis be part of the economic theory course required of graduate students and that at least two instructors be hired to teach such graduate courses...
URPE is a national organization of economists, "committed to try to establish and develop a Marxian analysis of society," Richard C. Edwards, graduate student in economics and a member of URPE, said yesterday. Harvard membership in the organization consists of about 25 professors and graduate students in economics...
Marxists have been agitating for professorships in the economics department as a matter of representation, balance, and fairness. Leaving aside the question of the validity of Marxian economics, their complaints are legitimate, for the department is conspicuously overloaded with Keynesians and monetarists. while the details of the conclusions reached by these tow schools may vary, their premises are notably similar...