Donald W. Katzner is Professor of Economics and former Chairman of the Economics Department at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He received his B.A in Mathematics from Oberlin College, and his M.A. in Mathematics and Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Minnesota. He has previously taught at the Universities of Pennsylvania, Waterloo (Ontario), and California (San Diego).

Quite honorable...an honest, candid account of the golden age of the UMass economics department.... Given the richness of its detail and insightfulness of its author, Katzner's book will serve for years to come as a principal source of how the UMass economics department was fundamentally transformed--in many ways, against all odds--into the premier program of radical political economy in the United States.

• Preface 1. Introduction 2. A Short History of the University of Massachusetts 3. The Civil Rights and Vietnam-War-Protest Movements 4. The American Economics Profession 5. The Kindahl Era 6. The Transition to Radical Political Economics 7. The First Three Years of Radical Presence 8. Learning to Live Together 9. Epilogue Appendix A: Time Line Appendix B: Heterodox Economics at Three Other Universities

Donald W. Katzner is Professor of Economics and former Chairman of the Economics Department at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He received his B.A in Mathematics from Oberlin College, and his M.A. in Mathematics and Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Minnesota. He has previously taught at the Universities of Pennsylvania, Waterloo (Ontario), and California (San Diego).

Quite honorable...an honest, candid account of the golden age of the UMass economics department.... Given the richness of its detail and insightfulness of its author, Katzner's book will serve for years to come as a principal source of how the UMass economics department was fundamentally transformed--in many ways, against all odds--into the premier program of radical political economy in the United States.

• Preface 1. Introduction 2. A Short History of the University of Massachusetts 3. The Civil Rights and Vietnam-War-Protest Movements 4. The American Economics Profession 5. The Kindahl Era 6. The Transition to Radical Political Economics 7. The First Three Years of Radical Presence 8. Learning to Live Together 9. Epilogue Appendix A: Time Line Appendix B: Heterodox Economics at Three Other Universities

Donald W. Katzner is Professor of Economics and former Chairman of the Economics Department at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He received his B.A in Mathematics from Oberlin College, and his M.A. in Mathematics and Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Minnesota. He has previously taught at the Universities of Pennsylvania, Waterloo (Ontario), and California (San Diego).

Quite honorable...an honest, candid account of the golden age of the UMass economics department.... Given the richness of its detail and insightfulness of its author, Katzner's book will serve for years to come as a principal source of how the UMass economics department was fundamentally transformed--in many ways, against all odds--into the premier program of radical political economy in the United States.

• Preface 1. Introduction 2. A Short History of the University of Massachusetts 3. The Civil Rights and Vietnam-War-Protest Movements 4. The American Economics Profession 5. The Kindahl Era 6. The Transition to Radical Political Economics 7. The First Three Years of Radical Presence 8. Learning to Live Together 9. Epilogue Appendix A: Time Line Appendix B: Heterodox Economics at Three Other Universities