URPE at UC Berkeley: The Activities, Protests, and Legacy of the Economics Students and URPE’s Once Largest Chapter

Marlene Kim

Review of Radical Political Economics, 2018, vol. 50, issue 3, 522-533

Abstract: Students at UC Berkeley helped found the Union for Radical Political Economic (URPE) in 1968. The Berkeley chapter of URPE worked with economic students to successfully press that a radical economist be hired, which also resulted in a political economy field concentration. URPE at Berkeley provided a supportive community for graduate students, and intellectual stimulation and support for students who were interested in non-neoclassical training and research. URPE with other students provided study groups and taught political economy courses to undergraduates. Although this chapter of URPE no longer exists, its legacy is a more plural department that is more representative, thanks to former economics graduate students who attended this university.

Keywords: URPE; URPE history; Berkeley URPE history (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A14 B20 B29 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1177/0486613418782500

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