My apologies if this is a repeat--I am not sure if this got around in my first attempt. Dr S M Ghazanfar College of Business and Economics University of Idaho Tel: (208) 885 7144 Fax: (208) 885 8939 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 28 Jun 1995 14:34:09 -0700 (PDT) From: S.M. Ghazanfar <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] Cc: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: definition of economics Perhaps not so much of a definition--but some observations from well-known names about economics: Marshall: "I do not assign any universality to economic dogmas. It is not a body of concrete truth" John Maurice Clark: "An economist is a man with an irrational passion for dispassionate rationality" G.L.S. Shackle: "In natural sciences, what is thought is built upon what is seen; but in economics, what is seen is built upon what is thought" Karl Polanyi: "Though human society is naturally conditioned by economic factors, the motives of human individuals are only exceptionally determined by the needs of material want-satisfaction." Dr S M Ghazanfar College of Business and Economics University of Idaho Tel: (208) 885 7144 Fax: (208) 885 8939