On Feb 25, 2011, at 5:32 PM, Jim Farmelant wrote:
> Also, as Richard Seymour has been pointing out on his
> blog, Anthony Giddens, who use to be a pretty respectable,
> and respected academic, was not only (as we all know)
> hobnobbing with Tony Blair but also was hanging out
> (and advising) the elder Gadaffy too. I guess that sort
> of thing must be more fun (and far more lucrative) than
> writing tomes on Max Weber or Talcott Parsons.
The Gadaffy family gave buckets of money to LSE when Giddens was running it.
Doug