Freshwater and Saltwater Economists

[Brad De Long]

>
>I met a woman who had just graduated with an economics major.  I asked
>her if she had read any Doug Henwood or James Galbraith.  She hadn't
>even heard of them.  MF was the man in the Econ dept of her school.
>Anyone, is this the norm for most schools?  Is this a silly question?
>
>-Alec

For American schools located near bodies of fresh water, it is the norm. 
They are for the most part staffed by people who got their Ph.D.'s at the 
University of Chicago, or people who got their Ph.D.'s at places where 
professors who got their Ph.D.'s at the University of Chicago were dominant.

American schools located near salt water tend to be staffed more by people 
from other places, and to be less sympathetic to the Chicago School.

Of course, many people would think that I have just succumbed to the 
narcissism of small differences--like expounding at length on the profound 
and deep differences between the Serbian and the Croatian languages.

Brad DeLong