Re: [Pen-l] Obituary for Paul Phillips

[Sandwichman <lumpoflabor@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you, Paul Phillips, for sharing your warmth, your patience, your
integrity and your unblinkered intelligence with the rest of us on
pen-l. We will indeed miss you.

On 7/18/08, michael a. lebowitz <mlebowit@xxxxxx> wrote:
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>  I'm really sorry to hear about Paul's death. I first met him a bit after
> arriving in Canada because he was the research economist for the B.C.
> Federation of Labour, and I recall vividly a meeting at his house with the
> then-leader (could be 1966 or 1967) of the provincial NDP to talk about
> economic policies of the party should he win the election. (I remember
> thinking, why am I here? Shouldn't this be a party discussion?) Paul
> subsequently was a visitor in my department, teaching economic history while
> I was away, went off to teach economics at the University of Manitoba but
> could be counted on to appear at annual meetings of the Learned Societies
> ['the stupids'] across the country and to liven up parties of the Society
> for Socialist Studies and occasional pub gatherings with song (I have a
> vague, besotted memory of such an occasion in a Halifax pub). I also saw him
> when he was briefly on the editorial board of Studies in Political Economy.
> Other than that, we kept in touch periodically with e-mail discussions of
> worker-management in x-Yugoslavia and about a mutual friend from Slovenia. I
> always had it in mind to arrange for him to come to Venezuela to talk about
> the Yugoslav experience (and I think invited him once when he was otherwise
> committed). I'll miss our connection. He was a good person. But I'll never
> understand what he was doing playing polo.
>       michael
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