Thanks Mansour. I definitely remember reading that-- especially the last sentence. I have a vague feeling of recalling some details (perhaps from a conversation) but, if so.... /m
At 03:52 20/05/2007, Mansour wrote:
Thanks, Michael for motivating me to find it. In the same interview, Sweezy gives an indication that may help explain the kind of behavior Julio describes: "For a lot of these people, and you can understand it, there was no real career to be made in the left movement. And there were many other careers to be made, the attractions were enormous, the possibilities in academia, the possibilities in government. Solow and Roll were almost paradigms of the kind of careers that were open to them. Very intelligent, bright radicals, who adjusted their politics to their jobs. It's a kind of opportunism in a way, and yet in these cases it wasn't crass or vicious. It was the kind of thing that the pressures of U.S. society make it extraordinarily difficult for a person to resist, especially if he doesn't have some independent means. You have to understand that I probably would have gone that way, too. I was fortunate in not having to depend on an academic salary." -- Mansour. Sick sense of humor? Visit Yahoo! TV's <http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=47093/*http://tv.yahoo.com/collections/222>Comedy with an Edge to see what's on, when. No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.467 / Virus Database: 269.7.4/811 - Release Date: 18/05/2007 15:50
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