Limitations

The University tower is above everything we are doing. It’s so strange; the course is over; we have moved; plans and dreams have changed; but the tower is there. Actually, it’s become closer, we can see it out of the window, and at night, when everything is quiet, we can hear it toll.
We’ve had quite [...]

Quoting, Reading List and Indignation

I used to feel a thrill at teaching my students the elegant economic theories that could supposedly solve societal problems of all types. But in 1974, I started to dread my own lectures. What good were all my complex theories when people were dying of starvation on the sidewalks and porches across from my lecture [...]