Much of what Michael Meeropol says is true. I might not have passed by Microeconomics PhD comp without Bowles Problem Set. And I used the work of many a radical economist in my teaching, UMass economists included.
I suppose that one thing that always irked me is that no economist at UMass ever offered to teach an economics class in the program there I mentioned. It was taught during the January intersession, so they would not even have had other classes. It is no easy task to teach Say, Keynes, and Marx to students who may never have taken an economics class or, for that matter, gone to college at all. I did this for 35 years, teaching workers all around the country. Believe me, it takes a special skill. Yet which radical economists ever put their money where their mouth is and done this? Yes, we may have working-class students, as I did and as I was. But this is something different. You get a chance to help workers situate their own experiences in a much larger political, economic, social, and cultural framework. Then they can go and teach others. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#9692): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/9692 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/83981848/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
