Beatrice Cherrier: @Undercoverhist: "The second part of t...

Beatrice Cherrier: @Undercoverhist: "The second part of this article is totally accurate, but omitting key information in the first part seriously weakens the overall message (any resemblance to other Duke historians���) The CHOPE received money from conservative Pope and Earhart, which funded, among others, Van Horn���s anti-Hayekian research (https://t.co/v43aoW6L3N). Then got a large grant from progressive INET (https://t.co/mhYbtnkLPO) which funded, among other, Austrian research...

...That CHOPE is ���stronghold for Austrian econ��� is a lie. Here���s list of CHOPE faculty https://t.co/aNjspJC2E4.
There���s exactly 1 permanent member who���s a Hayek scholar, its director B. Caldwell, who invited Mirowski to 2018 summer school . Other members are a historian of macro, & now 2 retired and 1 passed historians of math econ, econ visuals, Keynes. I agree w/ Chronicle open that Koch funding is extremely worrying. I���ll watch what it funds w/ attention & concern (grant agreement: https://t.co/Opkz4WzpXa). I also wholeheartedly agree that ���programs should not be determined by the agenda-driven.���

But what���s the alternative? David Warsh recently narrated how Duke���s econ dpt have hitherto failed to replace (thus fund) now retired CHOPE historians of econ http://www.economicprincipals.com/issues/2016.09.04/1921.html. Defunding of history of econ is a larger trend. The field has been removed from curricula, its researchers removed from US econ faculty, its output removed from econ journals. And Duke hosts the larger repository of economists��� archives in the world: https://t.co/0aluwo4JLi.

So a better title for the HigherEd chronicle might be: ���Congratulations, economists. Koch just bought your past. What are you going to do about it?���...

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