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Article: Heraclitian vespers.
- Article from:
- The American Journal of Economics and Sociology
- Article date:
- January 1, 2004
- Author:
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By way of preface, let me say that I am no Karl Brunner, who was a past master at offering summations of sometimes disparate papers. A few of you will remember Karl, who visited us in Blacksburg in 1969. You will recall that, during the last two decades of his life, Karl could scarcely read anything; his eyes were too bad. He used his ears; and when he wanted to have a discussion, he would make long telephone calls. At conferences he would listen to the presentations rather than read the papers. And he would absorb the arguments so that, when asked to summarize the proceedings, he could offer an amazing integration of the discussion, and also place the whole conference in ...