*I see that Jon Wiener has a new book coming out. Doug probably has seen it.
Historians in Trouble: Plagiarism, Fraud, and Politics in the Ivory Tower* by Jon Wiener <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/index=books&field-author=Jon%20Wiener/102-5783442-4417708>
I think that it would be interesting to compile a list of people who have come under fire recently. I just heard an interview with Wiener and Gerald Markowitz, who is coming under fire for being right.
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20050207&s=wiener
You can hear the interview at
http://www.againstthegrain.org/
Also, Fred Lee is a veritable encyclopedia about economists who have been caught in the buzz saw.
Now with Lynn Stewart. I know that it is bad form to compare matters with the Nazis, but this atmosphere makes me wonder about what people were thinking when ugly stuff was bubbling up in Germany. At least they had an organized left.
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Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University michael at ecst.csuchico.edu Chico, CA 95929 530-898-5321 fax 530-898-5901
