Please support our heterodox colleagues at Notre Dame by signing the
petition indicated below. The background is the purge of heterodox
economists from the 'mainstream department' at Notre Dame a few years
ago with the establishment of the Department of Economics and Policy
Studies separate from Department of Economics and Econometrics.
Message from Amitava Dutt
Our Dean has publicly announced the closing of the Department of
Economics and Policy Studies. The Department of Economics and
Econometrics, which calls itself a "neoclassical" department, will be
the one which will then house both our economics undergraduate and
graduate programs (the latter it has done for the last four years in any
case). Our faculty will not lose their jobs because we have tenure in
the College of Arts and Letters, but it seems that we will be dispersed
in centers and institutes around the university. Some undergraduate
students alums have started a petition expressing opposition to the
move. In case you haven't seen it, I am attaching the link.
"Save the Liberal Arts Economics Education at ND"
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/SaveEconomicsND?e
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