I thought it was great when UMass-Amherst hired radical economists. Now, however, the whole thing seems much less impressive. We drove Herb Gintis off the Pen-l list decades ago, because he had already moved so far to the right. Sam Bowles never moved that far right, but he certainly wouldn't be considered a Marxist today. And look at the foolishness Robert Pollin has been putting out about growth and the Green New Deal. James Crotty? Not much there now either. One thing that struck me (I taught in Labor Studies at UMass for many years, in a special program for union staff and members) is that these economists had virtually no working-class roots. I remember David Houston joking about how all of these "star" radical economists spent an inordinate amount of time at URPE conferences talking with one another about their upper-class acquaintances. They for the most part had nothing at all in common with me. Harry and Paul at MR were not much impressed with them.
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