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Roger Backhouse <[log in to unmask]>
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Societies for the History of Economics <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 10 Apr 2014 16:14:16 +0000
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Steve Medema and I (Journal of Economic Perspectives 2009) came to the conclusion that it may not be a remark be committed to print. We wrote, 

"Jacob Viner reflected this spirit in his oft-quoted statement: “Economics is what economists do.” (We have been unable to find this statement in Viner’s publications, but a remark by Kenneth Boulding (1941, p. 1), a student of Viner’s in 1932–3, suggests that it arose in conversation.)”

The Boulding reference is his textbook, Economic Analysis.

Roger Backhouse

On 10 Apr 2014, at 16:38, Hammond, Daniel <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Does anyone have a citation for Jacob Viner's remark that economics is what economists do?
> Thanks,
> Dan Hammond
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