[movermike] movermike: R.I.P Joseph C. Blumel

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R.I.P Joseph C. Blumel
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   Economic's professor, Joseph C. Blumel, died Monday at the age of 79.
   The Oregonian says he helped bring a fledgling Portland State
   University into maturity during his 12 years as president.

   I remember him as my macro economics professor in the mid-sixties. I
   still have the text book for his course, "Economic Analysis" by
   Kenneth Boulding, copyright 1955. Man that was a tough course. I took
   the first term and passed the class. Second term, I got behind and
   started skipping class. I either dropped it or failed the test. The
   next time I had a chance to take second term, I passed and went on to
   third term. Same thing happened and I flunked the class. Back I came
   for the third term and passed as I recall. Through it all, Mr. Blumel
   treated me with respect.

   I looked up Kenneth E. Boulding and found this quote:

     The World is a very complex system. It is easy to have too simple a
     view of it, and it is easy to do harm and to make things worse
     under the impulse to do good and make things better.

     âKenneth Boulding

   I read a lot about our universities and their left leanings. Those
   words by Boulding mean a lot to me. They say to me that man in his
   arrogance believes he can control the economy and even the climate.
   Boulding and Blumel taught the opposite and I thank Joseph C. Blumel
   for his contibution to my education. I am proud to have graduated from
   PSU.

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   [4]Portland State University [5]Mover Mike

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