Let's take a look at the purge of what are now called "heterodox" economists from Ivies & other institutions in the 1960s as a case study. There was even an AEA committee on political discrimination that investigated tenure denials & dismissals: doi.org/10.1017/S02698… (1/n) x.com/Tyler_A_Harper… The committee essentially sided with the institutions, while acknowledging violations of academic freedom & the committee's own ineffectiveness (by its members). Economics has seen episodes of ideological discrimination resulting in a narrowing of its own scope, but (2/n)