Posted on 03/15/2019 6:40:49 AM PDT by reaganaut1
For almost a quarter century I have been a professor of economics at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio. After years of working there, I have learned something about how my department’s academic radicals, who by dint of personality but not numbers have near-decisive control over many departmental decisions.
WSU economics is a master’s-level department. How its radicals operate is utterly inconsistent with all that is best about Western universities.
I would like to share whatever wisdom I have gained from working in this department to give readers a sense of how at least some on the academic left think about academic freedom, collegiality, and what makes for good scholarship and a good curriculum.
The department has long had a reputation for advocacy of left-heterodox economics. I use that term, though the term the radicals themselves use is merely “heterodox” economics. That’s because in economics, pro-market schools such as the Austrians, despite being out of the mainstream, are not counted as “heterodox” by the keepers of this term’s flame.
So defined, left-heterodox economics is critical of relying on market competition to achieve better economic outcomes, and the main arguments in favor of such competition are dismissed as mere “neoclassical economics.”
There are several components of today’s left-heterodox thought, some now thoroughly rejected by the broader profession (e.g., Marxism and so-called old-style institutional economics, led in the 1960s by Harvard’s John Kenneth Galbraith, then one of the world’s best-known economists) and some currently influential (e.g., feminist economics).
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A left winger in any econ department worth its salt is akin to a phlogiston believer in a physics department.
We see what happens when the left refuses to change any of their views. For example, democrats from the 60’s who refuse to vote anything but democrat ticket. So, enter abortion, feminism, politically correctness, etc. and they do not look at sides chosen of the party, so still vote solid democrat ticket. So, left goes even farther left, and they still side with them. Then, they sit in churches where The Bible tells them issues of life are to side, and they reject biblical teachings for voting and proclaiming their left leaning ideas. Those we hear, yes HEAR, proudly proclaim their party in church settings, all the while knowing that because they didn’t get an abortion, it’s okay for another to kill a baby late term or born alive. So diluted in their minds with being left that they do not see the harm they do to themselves and the “right” to inflict all their ilk on those who honestly decide what side they want to live/vote.
THE GATE is narrow.......
OK, you made me look up phlogiston!
Phlogiston were the aliens that the Voyager crew were fighting.....
That’s the beauty of all the real sciences and engineering.
there really isn’t any room for politics its way too academic
The stupidity of left is him as is the terrorism of Islam being exposed day by day
Venezuela is the absolute perfect modern day case in point of the failure complete and Autre failure of socialism
oh...I thought they were one of the Vulcan’s many enemies. Didn’t they team up with the Romulans at one point?
Actually, phlogiston was associated more with chemistry than with physics.
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