Re: Re: Markets and socialism

[michael]

The story I got was that Utah wanted to show that it was not just a bunch
of Yahoos, so they gave a space to the econ. department.  Now, they have
been told, no more lefties.  Hire conventionally.  I do not think that
there is a single major department that would intentionally hire a lefty
today.  Young Marxists pretty much have to go for the few jobs left in the
liberal arts colleges.



> 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_.
> 


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