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[NOTE: This message comes by way of Robert Goldfarb, and provides a 
different twist on the story that Heilbroner tells. Goldfarb asked Leonard 
if he could identify the difficult/easy juxtapositioning in Keynes. --  
RBE] 
 
Yes. Keynes himself is the source, a commment on Marshall, in his 
remembrance:  
 
J. M. Keynes "Alfred Marshall, 1842-1924" The Economic Journal, Vol. 34, 
No. 135. (Sep., 1924), pp. 311-372. 
 
"The study of economics does not seem to require any specialised gifts of 
an unusually high order.  Is it not, intellectually regarded, a very easy 
subject compared with the higher branches of philosophy and pure science? 
Yet good, or even competent, economists are the rarest of birds. An easy 
subject at which very few excel!"  (pp. 321-22). 
 
Thomas Leonard 
 
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