There was certainly nothing about this at his 100th birthday conference a few years ago. His widow was there, as I recall, as were children and grandchildren. But then, in spite of the fact that I was probably the only person there whose paper was not highly critical of him (it was Poland after the fall of the wall, after all), it would not have been the place to discuss any blemishes on his personal life.
>In his book "How Markets Fail" (p. 60), John Cassidy quotes Milton & >Rose Friedman as saying the following: After Oscar Lange returned to >his native Poland in 1947, "By all reports, he ended up a tragic >figure, a willing puppet of the communist regime, never able to >achieve in practice what he had preached in theory.... His personal >life, also, was devastated. He abandoned his wife, who returned to the >U.S. a sad and lonely figure. When he traveled abroad, it was with >another woman, widely suspected of playing a dual role as companion >and communist watchdog." > >does anyone know anything about this? is there any truth to this story? >-- >Jim Devine / "In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to >be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But >in poetry, it's the exact opposite." -- Paul Dirac >_______________________________________________ >pen-l mailing list >[email protected] >https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > > _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
