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Speaking of textbooks . . . 
 
I am working on a couple papers on Frank Knight's The Economic Organization. One of the
questions I want to answer is whether the themes of Knight's little textbook were picked
up by other economics textbooks. Samuelson, for example, tells us in the first several
editions of his textbook that he borrows the basic functions of an economic system from
The Economic Organization (what is produced, how much, and for whom?). Similar
(attributed) borrowings are present in Stigler's Theory of Price and Friedman's Price
Theory.
 
I'm wondering if members of the list know of other direct (or indirect) borrowings from
Knight's textbook. Hayek once said that the book had wide circulation (I know it was used
as a text at both Chicago and Yale in the 1930s), but am anxious to accumulate the
evidence.
 
An additional question: if anyone on the list owns an original 1951 edition of The
Economic Organization WITH A DUSTJACKET (published by A. M. Kelley), I'd be interested to
know if there are any other comments about the book(other than Hayek's) on the dustjacket.
Libraries do not keep dustjackets, and editions with one are hard to come by. I own
various versions of the text, but none with a dustjacket.
 
Ross B. Emmett 
 
 
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