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In Apprecation of Professor H.A. de S. Gunasekera<\/span><\/h2>\n

Source:<\/span><\/strong>Thuppahis<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Sumanasiri Liyanage, \u2026 His Prologue to An Academic Appreciation of Professor HA De S Gunasekera<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Prologue \u2026. Vice-Chancellor, Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Dean, Faculty of Arts, Head, Department of Economics, Members of Prof. H A De S Gunasekera family, colleagues, Friends and students.<\/span><\/p>\n

It is indeed a pleasure to be in Peradeniya once again, and I felt honored and privileged when I was asked to deliver the Prof H. A. De S. Gunasekera memorial oration 2025 for which I thank Prof Sri Ranjith, Head\/Economics and members of the H.A. De S. Gunasekera Memorial Committee.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Professor<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

\"elanka\"<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Let me begin with a brief anecdote. My first face-to-face meeting with Prof. Gunasekera took place in the latter part of 1966, when I came to Peradeniya to do a special degree in economics after spending the first year at the University of Ceylon, Colombo. However, that was not my first encounter with him, I remember three previous encounters, though not face-to-face meetings.<\/span><\/p>\n

The first was\u00a0in March 1960<\/strong>, a year in which I was thrown into the periphery of left politics in Sri Lanka.\u00a0As a village lad,<\/strong>\u00a0I walked from house to house with the Lanka Samasamaja Party (LSSP) candidate for Baddegama seat in the 1960 March parliamentary election distributing his leaflets. In the same election, I found that Dr. H. A. De S. Gunasekera contested the Borella seat as the LSSP candidate. So,\u00a0I had heard his name not as an economist, but as a samasamajist.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\"Professor<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

In the early 1960s, the Chair of Economics fell vacant as Professor B.B. Das Gupta of Indian origin retired. Who will be the first Sri Lankan chair of economics became an issue of national importance? There were two contestants, Dr F. R. Jayasuriya and Dr. H. A. De S. Gunasekera, both from the teaching staff of the Department of Economics. I was in the GCE A\/L class at the time, and together with many of my friends I supported Dr H. A. De S. Gunasekera because he was a Samasamajist and leftist. There was an intensive campaign. At that time, these kinds of appointments were made by the Senate of the University that had representation from the Parliament. Mr. Dudley Senanayaka and Dr N M Perera voted for Dr H. A. De S. Gunasekera and Mr. Phillip Gunawardena voted for Dr F R Jayasuriya. Dr Gunasekera was finally appointed the first Sri Lankan chair professor of economics.<\/span><\/p>\n

My third encounter was in 1964. Dr N. M. Perera, one of the most popular leaders of the LSSP, proposed to the central committee of the party that the LSSP should form a coalition government with the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) headed by Ms. Sirima R. D. Bandaranaike, the Prime Minister. A special conference was convened to decide on the matter where two more resolutions were added. While the second resolution opposed any kind of coalition with a bourgeois party characterizing it as a betrayal (in spite of the SLFP adopting some radical measures like nationalizations), the third resolution proposed that the LSSP could join a coalition government but along with the other two Left parties. Among the signatories to the third resolution were three Peradeniya dons, Mr. Doric de Souza, Dr Osmond Jayaratne and Prof H. A. De S. Gunasekera.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Professor<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

I referred to these anecdotes as they open up for me a window to enter the subject that is the theme of my talk this evening.\u00a0I consider Prof. Gunasekera as a political economist although the term was not in vogue during that period<\/strong>.\u00a0How do we distinguish political economy from mainstream economics that has become \u2018normal science\u2019[1]<\/strong><\/em><\/a>\u00a0in Kuhnian terms? Mainstream economics, that late John E Weeks called \u201cfakeconomics\u201d[2]<\/strong><\/em><\/a>\u00a0comes from different modes, neo-classical, supply-side, rational expectations and neo-liberal? Weeks defines \u2018fakeconomics<\/strong>\u2019 in the following words:<\/span><\/p>\n

Fakeconomics is the study of exchange relationship that have no counterpart in the real world and are endowed with metaphysical powers. These exchanges are voluntary, timeless and carried out by a large number of omniscient creatures of equal powers. These creatures know all possible outcomes and the likelihood of every exchange, so they are never surprised (they are omniscient, after all). In fakeconomics no difference exists among the past, present and future, and full employment always prevails.[3]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Political economy, however, proposes to examine an economic phenomenon situating it in its social, political, cultural and psychological setting. As Franklin Roosevelt once said, \u201cwe must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature, [but] made by human beings.\u201d\u00a0[4]<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

\"Professor<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Pure economic theory that abstracts from a specific social structure is impossible.\u00a0Prof. Gunasekera was a political economist.\u00a0<\/strong>Moreover, it is correct to say that almost all the teachers in the department during that time were political economists. I wish specially to mention a few names, Prof. B Hewaviharana, Dr K H Jayasinghe, Dr Ian Vanden Driesen, Prof. Balakrishnan and Prof. Tony Rajarathnam.\u00a0Studying under these doyens was not only a memorable but also a pleasant experience although almost all the lectures were held in the dilapidated \u2018takaran\u2019 building. They were great teachers and had a passion to instill knowledge in their students.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>In this talk, I intend to pay my own specific tribute to Prof. Gunasekera as a political economist by adopting the method of political economy to the subject under review.<\/span><\/p>\n

END NOTES<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

[1]<\/sup><\/a>\u00a0Thomas Kuhn.\u00a0The Structure of Scientific Revolution<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

[2]<\/sup><\/a>\u00a0John E Weeks.\u00a0Economics of the 1%: How Mainstream Economics Serves the Rich, Obscures Reality and Distorts Policy<\/em>. London: Anthem Press. 2014<\/span><\/p>\n

[3]<\/sup><\/a>\u00a0Ibid<\/em>. p. 17.<\/span><\/p>\n

[4]<\/sup><\/a>\u00a0Quoted in\u00a0Ibid.\u00a0<\/em>p. 17.<\/span><\/p>\n


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