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By Sergio Cesaratto (Guest Blogger) “The fact that individual countries no longer have their own currencies and central banks will put n...
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There are Gold Bugs and there are Bitcoin Bugs. They all oppose fiat money (hate the Fed and other monetary authorities) and follow some s...
As an alumnus, I read your account of the genesis of the Economics Department at the New School with great interest. However, there is an important gap: the crucial role of the student movement in the late 60’s, and the student organized Economics Society in forcing the old guard (Lowe, Heilbroner, Vietorisz, Schwartzman et al.)to expand both the curriculum and the faculty to allow a more rigorous exploration of the critique of conventional economic thinking. As a result of this student led effort, new faculty were recruited: Harry Magdoff, Steve Hymer, Robert Gordon, Ed Nell, and Anu Sheikh, among others...(Paranthetically, students of my generation were also active in the establishment of the Union for Radical Political Economy...URPE).
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