Thanks, Ross, for your excellent and highly informed post on this 
matter. I would quibble with one small part, however. It would be 
better, it seems to me, to insert the word "only" between "been" and 
"an" in this statement. Otherwise, one who aims to study "economics," 
narrowly defined, might neglect one of the very few great thinkers in 
this field.

There is a deeper question of what it means to make a distinction 
between narrow and broad, in referring to an economist. But that is not 
relevant here.

On 5/9/2011 2:54 PM, Ross Emmett wrote:
> a) Knight himself had never been an economist, narrowly defined 
> (although he did define economics narrowly), 
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Pat Gunning
Professor of Economics
Melbourne, Florida
http://www.nomadpress.com/gunning/welcome.htm