Emerging conflict -- Getting started -- Resolve or resing' -- More struggles -- a long march -- A significant shift -- What's wrong with economics? -- Pedagogy and power -- Intellectual suppression -- Market forces -- Dissent and legitimacy -- Whither political economy?
Summary
The story of one of the most substantial and enduring conflicts in the history of Australian universities. Beginning in the late 1960s, it pitted those committed to teaching mainstream economics against those proponents of an alternative program in political economy at Sydney University. The dispute continued for decades until a Department of Political Economy was established in the Faculty of Arts in 2008. [Rear cover]
