Charlie Kindleberger‪.‬

I think of Charlie with a mixture of admiration, respect, and affection--especially affection. Admiration for the volume and enormous interest of his scholarly output, and his ability to follow the beat of his own drummer at a time when the rest of the profession and the MIT Department of Economics were moving in a more formal direction, and admiration for the life force that kept him so productive, so lively, so interesting, and so cheerful to the end of his days.