My Thanks to Tiziano Raffaelli to pointing me to the previous thread
with Larry Willmore on this which I was able to retrieve from the SHOE
archive.


[I gulped when Tiziano said the message was missing, but it--and 
every other message on this list
since Feb 1995--is available at

https://listserv.yorku.ca/archives/shoe.html

HB]


I had forgotten my own previous posting on this and had either
forgotten or not seen Larry Willmore's posting on the Hayek Quote. In any
event, I find it quite helpful to be pointed to the sources for the
previous expressions of sentiments similar to Hayek's by Keynes, Marshall,
and Mill. So I do appreciate Tiziano's help on this.

I have no particular interest in flogging my suggested Hayek quote over
any other one. One issue regards how much commonality there is in tone and
possibly in rationale behind the various statements involved as to how
specialized an economist should be (or more precisely in Mill's case, as
Tiziano points out, a political economist). I sense more commonality
between Hayek and Mill on this than between these two and Keynes.
Keynes seems primarily concerned to point to the range of "gifts" that the
great economist must command. Mill seems more concerned that the
specialist political economist not have due humility for the limits of her
knowledge--I suspect that it is in part this sentiment that Hayek shares
and this theme does not come out as fully in the Marshall quote as in that
of Mill.

But I would need to read and ponder more fully all the items in question
on this.

Again, I appreciate being put onto the original sources for these statements.

David Mitch