From: Gerald_A_Levy@MSN.COM
Date: Mon Jan 17 2005 - 15:24:14 EST
> When did exactly you take Heilbronerīs HET? Paolo: Fall, 1976 and Spring, 1977. I took some other classes that might be described as HET, e.g. a seminar with Ed Nell mostly on the English maginalists including Wicksteed and Marshall, but not any more with Bob. (That seminar was itself memorable. Ron Blackwell, Pat Clausen, Jaspal -- can't remember his last name -- and some others [maybe even Martha?] attended. About 5 students brought along German editions of _Capital_ to each class and if anyone mentioned Marx, they would take _Capital_ out of their briefcases and look for the original passages in German!) > I think it was in 1981 for I > remember your very participative presence in some oval table where > questions were discussed, I think, under his presence. I'm not sure what that could have been but it wasn't one of his courses. We did have one-night-only talks sponsored by the Economics Society during that period so it could have been one of those. Or, perhaps, a meeting that was a presentation by a candidate for a faculty position. The only seminars I recall taking circa 1981-2 were taught by Paolo Giussani, Bob Brenner, and Willi Semmler. I don't suppose you recall what I said? > That year, as was probably his custom, Heilbroner distributed a handout > explaining what one should avoid while writing a paper. That handout > encouraged a direct writing, without dubious or inappropriately exclamative > sentences. It made an impression on me for some of the things I was not > supposed to do were indeed part of my habit. Yes, I recall some hand-out like that as well. He had high expectations for students but was always fair. Do you miss those days? In solidarity, Jerry
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