===================== HES POSTING ======================= According to William Manchester (The Glory and the Dream, London: Michael Joseph, 1973, 493-8): 1. The Executive Director of the IMF (Harry Dexter White) and Roosevelt's special assistant (Lauchlin Currie) were accused of treachery. 2. UCLA sacked 157 professors who refused to sign a loyalty oath. Also, Paul Samuelson's textbook was targetted by the witch-hunters as was Lorie Tarshis'. An attempt has been made to integrate this history into the development of post war economics in HOPE, Spring 1997 ('The Political Economy of the Inflation Unemployment Trade Off'). The first co-recipients of the Nobel Prize were persecuted during World War Two (though not, I think, because of their economics): Frisch was in a concentration camp, Tinbergen was saved from starvation by Allied food air drops. ------------------------------------------- Robert Leeson - Senior Lecturer - Economics Department [log in to unmask] Murdoch University, Western Australia ============ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ============ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]