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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