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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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