This lecture is part of a thematic series of events leading up to the October 31-November 2, 2012 conference, "A New Insurgency: The Port Huron Statement in Its Time and Ours." It is free and open to the public.

Abstract: Drawing on personal experience as well as other sources of information, I will begin by addressing the rise of a dissident movement within the field of economics in the U.S. that came to be labeled “radical political economics.” This was one of many manifestations of the North American New Left movement of the 1960s. I will then examine the evolution of radical political economics over subsequent decades, as the broader political climate in the U.S. shifted increasingly to the Right. This political shift, as well as new developments within mainstream academic economics, have changed in significant respects the nature of radical political economics and the activities of its practitioners.