>You seem to foreclose the possibility that a group of leftist thinkers could
>do the same. What is the basis for believing this?
I don't think the profession of economics is likely to change as a result of developments within economics; better arguments are not going to persuade members of a profession whose fundamental task is concocting apologias for bourgeois society. It's much more likely that changes in the larger society might bring more radicals into studying economics, and to push some already credentialed wimpy liberals a bit to the left.
Doug