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I'd appreciate being given references for the early use of "real" and 
"nominal" in economics. I'm less concerned here with their meanings today, 
contentious as they may be for some, but with the introduction of these 
terms into economics and early instances of their use. 
 
This is my first post to HES, and I hope its members will excuse what may 
be a naive question. My PhD was in resource economics but, as an 
undergraduate, I had fled economics (PPE, actually) to study Old Norse. My 
interests, therefore, are a little hard to categorise; right now, I teach 
macro and public finance at a four-year college. 
 
I became interested in the history of these terms when considering how, in 
general philosophy, such terms as "realism" and "nominalism" have altered 
their meanings greatly over the years, even to the point of exchanging 
places. I wondered just when economics had adopted these the terms, and in 
what context. I'm sorry if this is all too well known to historians of 
economics. 
 
Thank you. 
 
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C.N.Gomersall                         [log in to unmask] 
 
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