I hope you're wrong. I may be on the job market in a year or two. Scott
At 14:50 16/12/01 -0800, you wrote: >I'd like to put in a word for John Culbertson, whose death was reported >today in the New York Times. John was one of two economics faculty who >influenced me when I was an undergraduate at the University of Wisconsin >-- without them, I doubt I would have had any interest in advanced >study. I worked independently with Culbertson, who by that point (mid >1970s) was a Wisconsin Institutionalist, in spirit if not by >self-identification. He was open-minded and willing to hear me out, no >matter how unorthodox my take on the subject matter. Naturally, he >existed at the margins of the department -- all the flurry of grad >student activity bypassed his office, which was filled with books on >history and politics as well as economics. His style was calm, >reflective and perpetually curious. > >It's good he was part of the generation that entered the economics >profession in the 1940s and 50s. There's no room for his kind any more. > >Peter > >
