Your next question, Sam. "How do you know that Jacob Viner was an 
economist?"

By the way, as I recall, there is some dispute about whether Viner said 
this. I wrote something about this on this list a couple of months ago, 
as I recall. Do a search on "what economists do."

On 4/12/2011 11:45 AM, Samuel Bostaph wrote:
> Who is an "economist?"
>
> Samuel Bostaph, Ph.D.
> Champaign, Illinois
>
> "Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick 
> themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened."--Winston Churchill
>
> --- On *Mon, 4/11/11, Thomas Humphrey /<[log in to unmask]>/* wrote:
>
>
>     From: Thomas Humphrey <[log in to unmask]>
>     Subject: [SHOE] DeLong on Econ Ed
>     To: [log in to unmask]
>     Date: Monday, April 11, 2011, 1:12 PM
>
>     Students should be taught economics.
>     Economics is defined as what economists do (including modeling).
>     Therefore students should be taught modeling, among other things.
>

-- 
Pat Gunning
Professor of Economics
Melbourne, Florida
http://www.nomadpress.com/gunning/welcome.htm