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...Billy Graham's neo-paganism is an old story," he said, "We have to make use of the Bible for positive political action...
While Psalms has its tightly-structured side (the director called its parallel form "neo-classical"), it is also a work with room to experiment. The play has changed a lot since the first run when, at a college in Marin County where it played a sell-out run to standing ovation crowds, it was performed in Kabuki style and dress. Since then it has been a bit different at every run (this is to be its fifth). Here the genre is undefinable: some ritual-like dances and primitive-looking celebrations resemble an orgiastic Zoroastrean ceremony, others are solemn and formal...
...have argued over the past two years, I believe the confrontation between "neo-classical" and "radical" with its right-left overtones to be an unproductive approach to what we should be talking about, i.e. a narrower versus a broader approach to economics. Traditional economic analysis deals with the efficient use of scarce resources in the production of material goods. The tools of this analysis are powerful even though they have been developed as part of a formal system which involves severely restricted assumptions regarding both human behavior and aspirations. Yet they are useful and must be understood (independent...
Pareto optimality clearing is not the universe, but the answer to the broader issues will not be found by limiting the search to the "radical" or neo-Marxist track. The Marxist tradition, to be sure, has contributed much to thinking in this field and interested students (like young people at other times) are attracted by its non-conformist and more Utopian aspects. Yet there are other models (e.g. Weber) by which to approach these issues and it would be ironic to launch the search for a broader and more complex view of economics by matching the overly narrow neo-classical...
...short, I would like to see our department pay more attention to an expanded view of economics in line with the pluralistic approach which has been its best tradition; but I do not interpret this as an attack on "neo-classical" analysis (which must be taught and learned) nor as an assignment of quotas to "radical economists." Indeed, a staffing policy aimed at filling "political" slots would be fatal to the intellectual quality of the department. What matters is increased concern with the broader aspects of economics and the socio-political forces in which the economic processes are embedded...