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An excellent example of the forgetfulness of second generation modellers
was J.R Hicks'and Lionel Robbins' simplifying assumption, made in the
early 1930s that the given working day was of optimal length. Chris Nyland
argued that by the 1960s, the standard approach became to implicitly
assume that the given working day _was_ of optimal length and
decidedly not to consistently think back their abstractions to a
more realistic form as Hicks had cautioned they must (1989, Reduced
Working Time and the Management of Production, Cambridge University Press,
p.33)
Tom Walker
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