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================= HES POSTING ================= 
 
In response to Colander's question: 
 
1. I have a very similar recollection to Colander's ( that I had seen the 
juxtaposition of those two views in one place). I thought I might have 
read it in McCloskey's 1983 Rhetoric article, but could not spot it there 
on a quick scan. 
 
2. Richard Freeman LABOR MARKETS IN ACTION Harvard 1989 p.ix of its 
Introduction says "Unlike the great physicist Max Planck, who politely 
told John Maynard Keynes that he found economics too difficult to 
study..." 
 
3. As for the Russell assertion, I remember it as "Economics is an easy 
subject at which few excel." I'm also unsure whether it is Russell or 
Einstein or ..... 
 
Robert S. Goldfarb 
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