Wednesday, 31 October 2007

The Notre Dame Department Split

One of the reasons why this group exists is because of the split mentioned in Sean's post about "Hip Heterodoxy". To further illuminate the topic, here are two articles from National Catholic Reporter about the split:

http://natcath.org/NCR_Online/archives2/2004b/040904/040904c.php
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1141/is_23_40/ai_n5998939

There is also a nice article from Chronicle of Higher Education. Like "Hip Heterodoxy", it fits the split into the broader issue of the dominance of mainstream economics. Here is the pdf file: http://ase.tufts.edu/gdae/Pubs/news/chron_article.pdf

Finally, there was an article in Scholastic about it, if you can track down a copy. I'm not sure how to access it online, as the Scholastic website seems to have been neglected since February. The Scholastic article does not really add much, except the perspective that things are just fine after the split. And obviously, the belief that things might not be just fine is what compels many of us to engage in this discussion. I don't have much more to say about the articles, but along with "Hip Heterodoxy", they offer a nice primer for the broader issues at hand.

Nick

1 comment:

Sean Mallin said...

Does anybody have a copy of the article that they could keep for me until I get back? They don't send copies of Scholastic to London...

no Irish Rover either...