All of this may be so, but I note, and perhaps this is of no relevance to anyone on the list whatsoever, that the current president of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, who has been making noises about moving the country to the left and had some hight profile meetings with Morales and Chavez, is a PhD from Urbana-Champaign. His dissertation was a critical indictment of current development models and he's done as much as he can to get the country out from under the IMF and, IIRC, kicked out the WB a few months ago. In a few weeks there will be another referendum on his attempt to re-write the constitution in a direction much more like that of Venezuela's (though through an expansive assembly process). In other words, if UI U-C econ dept is still a right wing wind tunnel, there must be some countervailing winds in there somewhere.
s On 9/23/07, michael perelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Interesting. Urbana had a top flight econ department during the > McCarthy years, but .... > > Solberg, Winton U. Solberg and Robert W. Tomilson. 1997. "Academic > McCarthyism and Keynesian Economics: The Bowen Controversy at the > University of Illinois." History of Political Economy, 29: 1 (Spring): > pp. 55-81. > They describe how Howard Bowen and some distinguished Keynesians tried > to build a distinguished program, but ran into resistance from some > conservatives in the department. They drummed up right wing political > support for their protest, causing all the Keynesians to depart. > >
