I'm really sorry to hear about Paul's death. I first met him a bit after
arriving in Canada because he was the research economist for the B.C.
Federation of Labour, and I recall vividly a meeting at his house with
the then-leader (could be 1966 or 1967) of the provincial NDP to talk
about economic policies of the party should he win the election. (I
remember thinking, why am I here? Shouldn't this be a party discussion?)
Paul subsequently was a visitor in my department, teaching economic
history while I was away, went off to teach economics at the University
of Manitoba but could be counted on to appear at annual meetings of the
Learned Societies ['the stupids'] across the country and to liven up
parties of the Society for Socialist Studies and occasional pub
gatherings with song (I have a vague, besotted memory of such an
occasion in a Halifax pub). I also saw him when he was briefly on the
editorial board of Studies in Political Economy. Other than that, we
kept in touch periodically with e-mail discussions of worker-management
in x-Yugoslavia and about a mutual friend from Slovenia. I always had it
in mind to arrange for him to come to Venezuela to talk about the
Yugoslav experience (and I think invited him once when he was otherwise
committed). I'll miss our connection. He was a good person. But I'll
never understand what he was doing playing polo.
michael
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