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On Sun, 2 Nov 1997, Ross B. Emmett wrote: 
> Are there any episodes during which writers on economic issues have been  
> repressed by governments or patrons? 
 
Yes.  The most famous case may be Edwin Ross (see his entry in __Internatl 
Encyc Soc Sci__; then see Mary Furner, __Advocacy and Objectivity__).  
Ross wrote on some very "live issues" in late 19c California --economics 
and sociology of Race, Immigration, Labor, Income, Growth, Race.  The 
economics and sociology of Chinese labor in California (immigration, 
railroad construction, and aftermath) was quite interesting to the patron, 
for Ross was a professor at Stanford University. 
 
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Re: PATRONS 
Patronage is a moderately hot topic in the history of science, esp'y for 
Early Modern Europe, where the relationship was often explicit and 
personal.  (See recent works by Dorinda Outram.)  
 
For University work at Stanford and Chicago in the 1890s, which must be 
nearly the best USAmerican examples, how well does "patronage" fit?  That 
is, to set an overreaching essay (teach you to "Ask the Professor"!): 
Explain the relationship between the candidate-"patron" individuals, 
families, or corporations --Leland Stanford and John Rockefeller, 
Stanfords and Rockefellers, Central Pacific[?] and Standard Oil-- and 
"their" university teachers, researchers, writers.  
 
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For University work thruout 1890s USAmerica, I expect that a bimetallist 
could not teach Money (Banking, Finance?) in the East nor a gold bug in 
the West, but the opposite was generally possible and was occasionally a 
strong "selling point" for a job candidate.  Further, I expect that merely 
seeing some good points on both sides of the issue was too close to heresy 
at some universities. 
(That is what I expect.  Has anyone studied this?) 
 
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When I interviewed for an economics job at U. Utah in the 1980s, I was 
told, more or less by a committee of the faculty, that the modern 
department was founded by Leo Rogin as a refugee from UC Berkeley.  As I 
recall hearing, McCarthyism at Berkeley was intolerable for Rogin.  (Was 
he fired?  Or did he see his students and friends driven away?)  He moved 
to Utah, where the non-Mormon UU enjoyed academic freedom.  
 
Paul Wendt, Watertown MA 
asst.editor, HES e-information services (history of economics) 
e-contact, 19th century committee, SABR (baseball research) 
 
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