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Some of the posts on this topic have treated the failure to hire 
economists from a certain "school" or perspective as a form of 
censorship.  While this is in some ways understandable, it is also 
awkward.  I shall use a hypothetical example to make my point.   
 
I am studying History of Economic Thought and Macroeconomics.  If I 
complete my Ph. D. and seek positions, with the work of R. Cantillion as 
my total focus as a macroeconomist, I most likely would have a difficult 
time getting a position.  Why- because those persons doing the hiring 
would find my position to have no merit, or, following the reasoning 
discussed above, they wished to "censor" that particular view of the 
economy. 
 
The point, of course is not that Cantillion should be taught in a modern 
macro course, but rather that some of the economists who are "censored" 
had views which are more or less similarly unacceptable to those doing 
the hiring.  This is, to me, an entirely different concept than say, 
governmental sanctions for unacceptable ideas. 
 
Mike Robison 
Math and Economics graduate student 
Michigan State University 
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