Re: Markets and socialism

[Jim Devine]

At 10:11 AM 07/14/2000 -0400, you wrote:
>It was chaired by Al
>Campbell, an ex-Trotskyist who now teaches economics at the University of
>Utah, which is quite an anomaly. The economics department there is reputed
>to be one of the most Marxist-friendly in the country, while the state of
>Utah is also the home base of the notorious anticommunist and racist Mormon
>sect.

the story they told me to explain this anomaly was that back in the 1950s, 
a bunch of leftist economists fled UC-Berkeley (and Stanford?) because of 
McCarthyism. They fled to the University of Utah because Utah didn't have a 
left and therefore didn't need McCarthyism. The old lefties help create an 
atmosphere friendly to E.K. Hunt _et al_.

Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~JDevine