STANFORD UNIVERSITY
STANFORD, CALIFORNIA 94303
DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS
February 11, 1981
Dear Josef,
I am writing you once again in the hope that we can spend
a little time together during the coming summer. We are hoping to go
to Hungary this time, there to visit Elisabeth 1 s relatives and to make
a short trip from there to Transylvania; but we are again planning to
spend 12 days in Sils at the end of our trip. Could I persuade you to
join us in Sils or, possibly, to take the same train we shall be taking
from Vienna to St.Moritz? We are planning to take a train called the
Wiener Waltzer on or around August 1, which leaves Budapest at 15:05,
Vienna at 20:10, gets to Sargans at 7:09 the following morning; and
from there to Chur and to St.Moritz is only what in Hungarian would be
called a Katzensprung. We would be staying in Sils until August 13,
having a plan reservation from Zurich to San Francisco for the following
day. I am convinced that Sils is as good for your health as it is for
ours, so it is not only for selfish reasons that I am urging you to join
us there. I realize that you don't like to commit yourself in advance,
so I am just giving you advance information about our movements.
Incidentally, we are planning to stop in Vienna for a couple of days on
our way to Budapest, probably around July 9/10, so perhaps we can see
you then, too; but it would be nicer if you would come to Sils. In
any case, I shall let you know the exact date of our coming — we shall
probably stay at the Hotel Wandl, which we rather liked last time.
There is little news to report from here. We are both well; I am
working on my macroeconomic textbook, although difficulties with my
coauthor make me wonder if it will ever get published. But I enjoy the
writing of it and that is the main thing. I also find myself drawing more
and more on your arguments, especially when trying to explain the increasingly
inflationary nature of our today's economies. I recently attended the
Ph.D orals of a great admirer of yours, Tracy Mott, a nice person though a
somewhat plodding student. Let me close now, so I can send it off by
today's mail.
With best regards from both of us,
Yours ever,