when did Correa attend? On 9/23/07, Sean Andrews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. > > > > >
-- Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.
