Re Paul Z's [6439]: > I teach in an Arts and Letters faculty not a business school, so the answer > to your question, Jerry, is "all". I was unaware that you were talking > only about a Marx class in a business school (how many are there?) as > opposed to a business school student taking a Marx class somewhere in the > university. I was talking about the latter. The issue I posed was: what does a business school student learn from taking a class in Marx? A minority might decide to do something else with their lives. Others could, if they end up getting jobs as managers, use that knowledge against workers. In any event, I don't think that a heck of a lot of business students take classes on Marx or Marxian political economy -- most potential employers might not think that it would be a very useful class on their resumes. Indeed, as we've noted before, there are even some classes on Marx that have been re-labeled as classes in 'Classical Political Economy' for job-search related reasons (which kind of reminds me of Plekhanov writing about the 'monist' view of history, although for Plekhanov the euphemism was inspired by his attempt to evade the Czar's censors and get his book published). In solidarity, Jerry
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