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At the Edge of Camelot - Debating Economics in Turbulent Times (Hardcover)
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At the Edge of Camelot - Debating Economics in Turbulent Times (Hardcover)
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This book tells the story of an academic department that underwent
rapid, wrenching changes at a time and in a place that one would
not have expected them to have occurred. The time was the late
1960s through the 1970s and the place was a public university
heavily dependent on state funding. The Cold War was raging, the US
public was fearful of communism and the Soviet Union, and
politicians were speaking to these fears for political ends.
Protests against racial discrimination and the Vietnam War were
creating social disorder and sometimes inciting violence. And the
Economics Department at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst
was in turmoil. In this environment, a significant proportion of
the Department's visible faculty of traditional economists was
rapidly created. In spite of the anti-Marxist political climate and
the dependence of the university on state politicians for funding,
these traditional economists were quickly replaced by a significant
and visible group of Marxian economists.
The story told covers the particulars of the background for these
events relating to the University of Massachusetts, the political
activism of the period, and the state of the economics profession.
In considerable detail, Katzner describes the events, the
multi-year turmoil within the Economics Department associated with
them, the eventual resolution of that turmoil into an
intellectually exciting and friendly atmosphere, the significance
of the events in terms of academic endeavor, and their legacy for
the economics profession.
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