Introduction -- A short history of the University of Massachusetts -- The civil rights and Vietnam War protest movements -- The American economics profession -- The Kindahl era -- The transition to radical political economics -- The first three years of radical presence -- Learning to live together -- Epilogue
Summary
Donald Katzner tells the story of an academic department that underwent rapid, wrenching changes from the late 1960s through the 1970s. The story told covers the particulars of the background for these events relating to the University of Massachusetts, the political activism of the period, and the state of the economics profession