September 5, 2008

Ignoring Marx, Returning to Hegel

To the Editor:

Russell Jacoby raises several interesting and important points about the absence of Freud, Hegel, and Marx from their respective disciplines ("Gone, and Being Forgotten," The Chronicle Review, July 25). I cannot speak to the marginalization of Freud in psychology or that of Hegel in philosophy, but I can speak to why economists no longer read Marx. For the most part, we don't read him because he contributed nothing of lasting value to the discipline. The professor who

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