On Aug 25, 2007, at 2:34 PM, Michael Perelman wrote:
> I brought him to Chico in the early 80s -- even before Doug Henwood
> came. Minsky
> was a wonderful economist -- almost an oxymoron. He was not a
> radical, more of a
> left Keynesian, at best, but his work was important.
I sat next to him at the gala opening of the Levy Institute's new house at Bard back in 1989 or 1990. They'd hired a train up from New York with a fancy breakfast and everything. And drinks on the way back! But Minsky slept through most of the program. Can't blame him really; Paul Sarbanes is a snore.
Doug