At the Edge of Camelot

Debating Economics in Turbulent Times
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-19-976535-5
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 442 g

There is currently no published history, description, or evaluation of these events in the economics department at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst

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.

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 and in spite of the anti-Marxist political climate and the dependence of the university on state politicians for funding, was quickly replaced by a significant visible group of Marxian economists.

This book 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. It describes the events themselves in considerable detail, 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.

Zielgruppe

Academic economists interested in the history of the economics profession and the history of economic thought, heterodox economics, institutional economics, post-Keynesian economics, and the methodology and philosophy of economics. Economists and others in the business world.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Katzner, Donald W.

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Geschichte der VWL
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Donald W. Katzner, Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Donald W. Katzner is Professor of Economics and former Chairman of the Economics Department at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He received his B.A in Mathematics from Oberlin College, and his M.A. in Mathematics and Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Minnesota. He has previously taught at the Universities of Pennsylvania, Waterloo (Ontario), and California (San Diego).