Chuck,
I teach at SUNY Buffalo; Ray Boddy and Jim Crotty were here before me in
the late 1960s early 70s. I think they get these course on the books.
When I arrived, I hadn't yet moved to Marxism but occurred shortly
thereafter and the courses were looking me in the face. So, of course,
I took them, in addition to History of the American Labor Movement and
Socialist Economics.
Basically, I have been allowed to teach the courses I want, in spite of
being in an otherwise very neoclassical department. From that point of
view I have nothing to complain about. My regret is not being able to
secure even one colleague I might share interests with (I tried once
when offered the chair of the department but I declined the offer when
such a commitment wasn't forthcoming).
For History of Thought I have been using Backhouse, /The Ordinary
Business of Life/. I'm not 100% satisfied with it because it is rather
dry. But it does go back to the Greeks, covers people like Steuart and
Cantillon, doesn't try to claim Smith as the founder of economics, and
does include an economic history dimension of sorts. Do you, or another
else, have a better suggestion?
I had not know of/Competing Schools of Economic Thought/ by
Lefteris Tsoulfidis. Has anyone on the list used it successfully?
Paul
P.S. After posting my query to this list, I have gotten a huge amount of
spam of naked women inviting me for one thing or another. I wonder how
that happened -- some even included my subject line "Textbook for
Macroeconomics" here.
On 11/1/2012 3:00 PM, [email protected] wrote:
Chuck,
Thanks for the suggestion but I also teach a Marx theory class and a History of
Thought class. I cannot just turn the course in Intro to Macroeconomics into
the other courses. Well, I could since I have tenure, but I don't think it is
the right thing to do.
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Cool. That's unusual. How do you get to teach Marx Theory, History of Thought
and Macroeconomics? I am interested in what you teach as the History of
Thought, which I assume means the history of ideas. Reading list, class
website, etc.
CG
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