Donald W. Katzner, At the Edge of Camelot: Debating Economics in Turbulent Times

Donald Katzner has written a very interesting and informative book about the emergence of the best known U.S. economics department in radical-heterodox economics: University of Massachusetts at Amherst (or UMass). UMass was not the first heterodox economics department that was nationally recognized as heterodox in some manner and turned out heterodox doctoral students—that distinction belongs to the University of Texas; but in the 1970s Texas was transformed into a mainstream department. Prec...