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(Our benefactor Hans Ehrbar in the news.)
That leaves the question of how Utah gained its reputation as a hive of
Marxian scholarship in the first place. The process apparently began
with the arrival of leftist economists from UC Berkeley, who were
fleeing an atmosphere of ferocious anti-communism there after World War
II. They recruited two notable Marxian economists, Hans Ehrbar and Emery
K. Hunt, both of whom are now retired and listed as emeritus professors.
As Marxian economic analysis fell out of favor, and Marx’s thinking
became relegated to the history and philosophy departments, Utah
remained one place where he was still taught as an economist.
The university, for its part, says the notion that its economics
department is still “red” is outdated, especially since Ehrbar and Hunt
are long retired. What remain, the university says, is a department
committed to a diversity of economic research, including the
Keynesianism espoused in effect by Marriner Eccles.
Would Eccles approve of his role in American economic history being
caricatured as Marxian by supporters of an institute bearing his name?
Good question.
full:
http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-koch-utah-20170725-story.html
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