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"James C.W. Ahiakpor" <[log in to unmask]>
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Ric Holt wrote:
>
> It seems possible that a visit such as I am here proposing will prove 
> more agreeable to the visitor and more profitable to faculty and 
> students than a formal lecture. Evangelists may accomplish something 
> in an hour’s stand, but I doubt that scholars ever do.
>
> (In a letter to Jacob Viner inviting him to Harvard for a few days to 
> be with students and faculty, Nov. 1, 1950)
>
>
>
A gem of an invitation indeed.  More interesting to me would be to know 
whether it worked with Jacob Viner.  Clearly, the kind of 
classical-inspired monetary economics and macroeconomics that Frank 
Taussig (e.g. _Principles of Economics_) taught at Harvard and Jacob 
Viner learned and continued to teach at Chicago didn't endure at Harvard 
after the former left teaching there.

James Ahiakpor

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