This is not restricted to economics. In the biological sciences, "science,"
has been redefined as meaning molecular biology (i.e., developing drugs and
other agents for pharmaceutical and agribusiness companies). Field
biologists and system's ecologists are not hired and those that remain are
denied funds and laboratory space. In the mean time an article in the
Washington Post the other day documents increasingly out of control exotic
species of plants and animals due to the increasing globalization of trade.
The knowledge that could anticipate and control these problems is woefully
inadequate because of the decline in support on non-molecular biology.
Three guesses about what that great ecologist - Al Gore - has done to
address this trend.
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Do people see the commercialisation of universities in order to obtain basic
funding and research $$ as a threat to the independence of staff
appointments? You would expect that backers would favour appointment of
persons who have a free-market orientation.
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From: Doug Henwood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, 4 August 2000 12:23
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Michael Perelman wrote:
>When is the last time that a leftist economist has been hired at a major
>university economics department?
When I was in Frankfurt in June, I talked a bit with a left German
economist, who told me the local profession was being totally
Americanized, in both content and style. Even the principal journal
has been renamed the German Economic Review (in German, of course).
His own employment is fairly tenuous, the new hires are all
neoclassicals, and the remaining lefties are on the run.
Doug
