BRIAN,
BECAUSE YOU ARE NOT PERHAPS RADICAL OR RADICAL ENOUGH.THE ANSWER
IS BE RADICAL.FIKRET
On Wed, 31 Aug 1994, Brian Eggleston wrote:
> I am receiving many messages in duplicate. Is anyone else so
> afflicted? Is there anything I can do to remedy the problem?
>
> Thanks.
>
> B
Dear pen people,
I usually just listen in, but THIS discussion requires a comment.
I must add my voice to those who strongly oppose dropping "radical."
The term does have a number of different meanings, but aside from
a few degenerate usages (i.e., "radical new toothpaste cap") it does
point
As I look around URPE the fear is that the average age is advancing about
a year per year. Even as a reformer or worse I can realize that we need to
do something to make the group seem more with-it. I suggest that we change
the name to the Union of Totally Rad Political Economy.
The idea of repressing the R in URPE reminds me of Cardenas' electoral
strategy in Mexico. In the interest of winning friends on Wall Street and
the Mexican upper middle class, Cardenas and his party softened their
message, and became the friends of free trade and marketization. So they
gave t
Dear Progressive Economists: As we try and get promoted, and as the crisis
on the left continues, of course these questions about changing the name
of the RRPE will arise. I prefer the RRPE to keep the existing title,
because we are radical, and because RRPE and URPE at least is known; and
any
>Posted on 31 Aug 1994 at 17:32:31 by Uriacc Mailer (002033)
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>Re: URPE = UPE?
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>Date: Wed, 31 Aug 1994 14:31:31 -0700
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>From: "Chris Barrett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>I do think some of the recent postings on the URPE name
I am receiving many messages in duplicate. Is anyone else so
afflicted? Is there anything I can do to remedy the problem?
Thanks.
Brian Eggleston
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I do think some of the recent postings on the URPE name change issue
are missing the serious point and attending instead to more trivial
matters, such as what difference the name makes on resumes. The real issue
concerns the audience accessible to those of us who believe there is
a better [feas
First, I don't think the word "radical" should be dropped to improve anyone's
career chances. It is a matter of principle. Having said that, I will admit
to having expunged RRPE articles from my vita, but the real boost came when I
also eliminated *any* publication outside the narrow specialty p
An organization called UPE will attract different people and develop
in a different way than an organization called URPE. Calling ourselves
"radical political economists" was already a compromise with the fear
of being labelled "Marxist economists." Are we going to end up with
an organization wh
It strikes me as naive to believe that one could hide one's political stance by
keeping words like radical off of one's resume. If one is so deep in the
closet waiting out the seven years to a tenure decision, I suspect it would be
hard to find the door at that time. But let's do an empirical te
Better yet (more in line with this way of thinking-e.g., message below),
why not simply call it "economics" and forget about the adjective
"political" as well as "radical"?
there already are organizations and journals that fill these spaces? why
shouldn't there continue to be one that is not afra
Doug, this is an oversimplification, but it's a bit like: you're a radical who
does desktop publishing as against a practitioner of "radical desktop
publishing". Of course, the analogy breaks down at various points, since
political economy is not apolitical. But it is not (or at least need not b
Jim,
Is "critical" a more discerning adjective than "radical?" In any case,
a name change isn't going to solve the identity crisis of the "left."
peace, patrick l mason
I don't get this distinction. Does it mean that technique now takes
precedence over the challenge to power?
Doug
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On Tue, 30 Aug 1994, Peter.Dorman wrote:
> This is interesting. My main gripe agai
I think the big issue is not getting rid of the word "radical" but defining
what it means these days. When I talk to my orthodox colleagues it isn't
the radical that bothers them but whether we are doing anything relevant
or simply just trying to hold on to the old faith. I think its important
tha
I, for one, don't think that capitalism has the answers; while I support
reforms within it, it seems clear to me that an economy centered in
and controlled by capital, with its focus on profits and growth, and
exploitation of labor and the environment, isn't the best we can do.
I also don't bel
I agree with Hugo Radice's comment that it's not URPE that should
change its name but if anything should have its name changed it's the
RRPE. (I assume that it's Hugo's comment; please sigh sign your
names, folks!)
My problem is with the word "radical." The Ayatollah Khomenei was
"radical." Fr
The question of changing URPE's name arose in slightly different form
at a meeting of the RRPE Ed Board in Salt Lake City, I think in April
1989. There, the debate was over changing the title of the journal
to Review of Political Economy or something similar. But the reason
was basically the
I now regret even more that I had to leave before the URPE Summer Conference
"Business" meeting (where I assume this issue of excising 'Radical' from our
name came up -- as it has before) and I heartily second the postings of
Feldpauch, Dorman, and Laffey.
There is *much* that could be said
Before there was the Soviet Union, what did self-professed radicals think they
were doing? Before there was a democratic state, what did radical democrats
think they were talking about? Before there was legislation to attempt to
ensure equal opportunity for women, and protection from rape within
To all URPE members or Those Interested Therein:
While at the URPE (Union for Radical Political Economists) summer camp, the
proposal was bantered about by a few that URPE drop the Radical from their
name. One reason mentioned was that people are afraid to list the organiz-
ation on their r
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