Thank you, Paul Phillips, for sharing your warmth, your patience, your integrity and your unblinkered intelligence with the rest of us on pen-l. We will indeed miss you.
On 7/18/08, michael a. lebowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 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 > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > pen-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > > > > > > > > -- > Michael A. Lebowitz > Professor Emeritus > Economics Department > Simon Fraser University > Burnaby, B.C., Canada V5A 1S6 > > Director, Programme in 'Transformative Practice and Human Development' > Centro Internacional Miranda, P.H. > Residencias Anauco Suites, Parque Central, final Av. Bolivar > Caracas, Venezuela > fax: 0212 5768274/0212 5777231 > http//:centrointernacionalmiranda.gob.ve > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > -- Sandwichman _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
