>The US is largely lacking in that sort of a conveyor belt, no
>doubt because the sort of an organized left such as exists
>in Britain has been largely absent in the US. On the other hand if
>we look at recent administrations in the US, one can certainly
>find some ex-leftists.
Then there's Bruce Steinberg, chief economist at Merrill Lynch, who was a member of the edit board of the Review of Radical Political Economics in 1979-80, and who said in a commencement address at SUNY-Stony Brook a few years ago that studying Marx really helped his career on Wall Street.
Doug