Fwd: question about Manuel Castells

[Brad DeLong]

>Reply-To: wideye at ziplink.net
>From: "* aml *" <wideye420 at hotmail.com>
>To: dhenwood at panix.com
>Subject: question about Manuel Castells
>Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 06:52:24 -0700
>
>Doug, would you be kind enough to post this to the list.  I'm away 
>from home and am using my unsub'd hotmail account.  Thanks
>---------------
>I'm looking for opinions on Manuel Castells.  I've been using a 
>bunch of his work in some research I'm doing as well as taking one 
>of his classes next fall and would love to know what the denizens of 
>this list think of his stuff.
>Thanks
>Alex

In person he's wonderful--tremendously knowledgeable, tremendously 
thoughtful, tremendously witty, and interested in all the right 
things.

I've never been able to successfully crack his books, however. I fall 
asleep about 50 pages in, and wake up confused. I don't know whether 
this is due to my professional deformations as an economist, his 
professional deformations as a sociologist, or both...

Brad DeLong