ABSTRACT
If Kalman Silvert’s great and good friend, Leonard Reissman, were alive, it would be his role to speak here before you and tender this farewell to our beloved friend on behalf of the social science community. But his death late last year was also a tremendous loss, one that I know was deeply felt by Kalman in particular. They worked together for many years, dating back to the Tulane period, and I believe each gave to the other a broader sense of the social sciences—a sense of the redemptive power of addressing real issues and problems without being overly concerned by disciplinary boundaries or bureaucratic departmental notions.
