It is a real pleasure to be able to add his Berkeley memorial and picture to this post. Another one of the 1962 candidates, Gregory Grossman, was one of the distinguished outside referees to whom I owe a debt of gratitude for helping me clear the tenure hurdle at the University of Houston. One of the candidates mentioned in the correspondence, Francis Seton, wrote a signed positive referee report for my 1986 article in the Journal of Comparative Economics, “ On Marxian value, exploitation, and the transformation problem: A geometric approach“, that I honestly regard as one of my pedagogical high-water marks. Long before turning to the history of economics as my major research interest, I entered academic economics in the field of comparative economic systems. Nutter did just that and threw in a fourth name. Friedman asked Nutter to rank three possible candidates of interest. Warren Nutter transcribed below, we learn that the University of Chicago was interested in potentially hiring some academic expert on the Soviet economy. From the January 1962 exchange of letters between Milton Friedman and G.
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