I don't have the stats that Steve wants, and I'd like to see them if anyone does, too. My suspicion is that academia does not want a really radical _and truly rich_ intellectual -- like Paul Sweezy -- because a left-wing person rich enough not to have to depend upon an academic salary would feel free to spout off all kinds of stuff, undeterred by any fear of losing the job. The maximum political freedom in a capitalist society, under normal circumstances, may belong to people who are too rich or too poor to fear unemployment. Under normal business conditions (excepting extremely good and bad times), people who are in the middle do not have enough to make them independent of the labor market but may have too much not to fear the possibility of losing it. -- Yoshie
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