>. If all the economists were
>>radicalized via new analytical tools we'd still have to confront the poly
>>sci,
>>business admin/management/marketing, and law departments to change the
>>ongoing
>>creation of economic behavior.
>
>You mustn't think that law schools are all the University of Chicago, econ
>&
>law running wild. It's true that Critical Legal Studies (legal
>psotmodernism
>from the left) is prett quiescent, but if my experience at Ohio State Law
>was typical, law profs are typically left liberals, well to the left of
>their students, more likely than not. And you tell the students what you
>like; they don't call the shots when they go out in the world as lawyers.
>
>--jks
But Ian is correct in acknowledging that political science (and other disciplines/professional schools) is generally as intolerant of radical departures from orthodoxy as the academic discipline of economics. Should we expect something different? The typical college/university is an establishment institution, and the social sciences are particularly committed to social reproduction rather than expanding the realm of our understanding of society, although dissent is permitted to varying degrees. Ivy League and other major universities are responsible for reproducing the ruling class and its elite professional minions. Beyond individual disciplines/departments, administrations and boards of trustees coupled with corporate funding ensure the dominance of bourgeois ideology. Capitalism permeates academia as it permeates all social institutions.
Cheers, Joseph
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