What surprised me was how brittle he was.  He seemed truly hurt when anyone 
challenged him.

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Subject: Re: [Pen-l] Samuel Bowles on his firing from Harvard

he did the same on pen-l.

On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 9:12 AM, Doug Henwood <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Apr 18, 2012, at 11:57 AM, Eugene Coyle wrote:
>
>> Can you give us some examples of the Gintis you mention?
>
> They were all on the old Post-Keynesian Though listserv more than 10 years 
> ago. But he insisted that as an economist, he should have no political 
> preferences - he was just a technician. He made fun of the left-wingers on 
> the list.
>
> Doug
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understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, 
it's the exact opposite." -- Paul Dirac. Social science is in the middle.... 
and usually in a muddle.
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