-----Original Message----- From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Carrol Cox Sent: Friday, October 29, 2004 12:21 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Radical Economics
Daniel Davies wrote: > > as far as the definition of a "radical economist" (as opposed to a > radical who is also an economist), The distinction Daniel makes here seems to me an important one. At a conference of "Radicals in the Professions" I attended at Ann Arbor in the summer of 1966 an econ grad student from Stony Brook posed it as "Are we radical teachers or radicals who teach?" "Radicals who teach" is analogous to such labels as "radicals who operate gear shavers," "radicals who clerk for Safeway," etc. I decided at that time (I was not yet a marxist) that I was a radical who taught (i.e., earned my living by teaching) rather than a radical teacher. Carrol Response Jim C: I try to be both: a radical who teaches (and does other things too) as well as a radical teacher (a teacher who dares to go--content, subject and pedagogical approaches--where the conventional or "mainstream" dare not go. Jim C.
