To read this content please select one of the options below:

HETERODOX ECONOMICS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH

Wisconsin "Government and Business" and the History of Heterodox Economic Thought

ISBN: 978-0-76231-090-6, eISBN: 978-1-84950-258-0

Publication date: 18 February 2004

Abstract

The University of Utah is located in Salt Lake City, the home of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (LDS or Mormon). This conjunction has led some to believe the University is Church-run, or at least Church dominated. In fact, the University, state-financed from the beginning, has been wholly autonomous since an incident in the early 20th Century. In that incident several faculty members were discharged for their unorthodox religious and political views. This led to an uproar and subsequent protracted controversy, the resolution of which did not reinstate the discharged faculty members but did establish the complete autonomy of the University from the Church.

Citation

Hunt, E.K. and Sievers, A.M. (2004), "HETERODOX ECONOMICS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH", Samuels, W.J. (Ed.) Wisconsin "Government and Business" and the History of Heterodox Economic Thought (Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology, Vol. 22), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 273-280. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0743-4154(03)22054-X

Publisher

:

Emerald Group Publishing Limited

Copyright © 2003, Emerald Group Publishing Limited