At one point he wrote me that he thought that I would fit in with his
program at Harvard. I sent him more stuff & then he told me that I was
too senior (maybe 20 years ago) for the position.
Paul wrote:
That would fit. Landes first arrived at Harvard a year before the first
edition of Prometheus (1965). One might think that his background (City
College of NY, before WWII) would facilitate camouflage. But he could also
be one of the many from that background who "changed" (although, as I
recall, his earlier work on Egypt mid-19thC wasn't kind to 3rd world people
either).
I recall that by the '70s he was actively on what we would now call the
neo-con track at least in Harvard faculty politics.
Paul
Jim D. writes
On 10/2/06, Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
In previous Pen-l postings I characterized Landes as part of the
"cultural
superiority" school (his early work on Egypt, and "Wealth and Poverty of
Nations"), although Jim D. saw merit in "Unbound Prometheus".
THE UNBOUND PROMETHEUS and other early works likely allowed Landes to
gain status (and maybe tenure). He then exploited his status to spew
nonsense.
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