 Faculty WarsAshwani Saith
A chapter in Ajit Singh of Cambridge and Chandigarh, 2019, pp 85-148 from Palgrave Macmillan Abstract: Abstract The Faculty Ajit joined in 1965 boasted a jostling pantheon of Cambridge greats. Rife with divisions, it was an arena of intellectual contestations and gladiatorial jousting, in a state of permanent revolution with continuous orthodox-versus-heterodox battles for controlling Faculty decision-making. Ajit was the linchpin for keeping the left/heterodox groups mobilised. The following 25 years constituted possibly the most volatile period of Cambridge economics. Despite their great history, formidable strength and diversity, these heterodox lineages atrophied and evanesced dramatically as Cambridge economics fell under the control of the orthodox mainstream camp. What explains this remarkable turnaround? How could the fertile, productive intellectual ecology of that great banyan tree of Cambridge heterodox traditions mutate so rapidly into an arid genetically modified mono-strain culture? How were relevant and radical imaginations and curiosities lobotomised? How could this powerhouse of fabled heterodox economists wind up losing the Faculty war? There are many answers but little consensus. Date: 2019 There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pal:pshchp:978-3-030-12422-9_5 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-12422-9_5 Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Palgrave Studies in the History of Economic Thought from Palgrave Macmillan |
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