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...text of the demand calls for the department to "hire at least four radical economists at all levels to insure the teaching of Marxist theory and roughly to replace Professors MacEwan, Bowles, Weisskopf, and Gintis...
...fact, this decision casts doubts on the validity of the Department's judgments on the academic merits of the tenure decisions concerning Arthur MacEwan, Thomas Weisskopf and Herbert Gintis, all of whom have previously been denied appointments. The Department offered Gintis a new non-tenured appointment this year, but that hardly represents an adequate commitment to this field...
...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 rebuffed. The writing was on the wall...
...experience of the 1960s and early 1970s and a reading of U.S. history has persuaded us that the problems we confront cannot be solved within the framework of the capitalist society. (The argument is spelled out in some detail in R. Edwards, M. Reich, and T. Weisskopf, The Capitalist System, a book that grew out of our experience teaching...
...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...