Title: FW: Dissident economists fight to be heard
-Original Message-
From: Lee, Frederic
Chronicle of Higher Education, issue dated January 24, 2003
Taking On 'Rational Man'
Dissident economists fight for a niche in the discipline
By PETER MONAGHAN
How do you start a fire
There are some lines in what Jim Devine posted ...
satisfying the field's evaluative norms.
that remind me of what I was told when losing my job years ago:
You must teach orthodox economics so students will have what graduate
schools demand. Once they are in graduate school the students can
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From: Eugene Coyle [EMAIL PROTECTED]
There are some lines in what Jim Devine posted ...
satisfying the field's evaluative norms.
that remind me of what I was told when losing my job years ago:
You must teach orthodox economics so students will have what
Chronicle of Higher Education, issue dated January 24, 2003
Taking On 'Rational Man'
Dissident economists fight for a niche in the discipline
By PETER MONAGHAN
How do you start a fire under a huge wet blanket? A faction of disgruntled
economists says that is their predicament.
Their efforts
The Notre Dame story is quite troubling. Notre Dame had had a few good
liberals and even a UMass Marxist. As I understand it, Notre Dame made its
attempt to become a first-line economics department by hiring Phil Mirowsky and
offering him to right to oversee several hires.
Mirowsky and the
