================= HES POSTING ================= In response to Colander's question: 1. I have a very similar recollection to Colander's ( that I had seen the juxtaposition of those two views in one place). I thought I might have read it in McCloskey's 1983 Rhetoric article, but could not spot it there on a quick scan. 2. Richard Freeman LABOR MARKETS IN ACTION Harvard 1989 p.ix of its Introduction says "Unlike the great physicist Max Planck, who politely told John Maynard Keynes that he found economics too difficult to study..." 3. As for the Russell assertion, I remember it as "Economics is an easy subject at which few excel." I'm also unsure whether it is Russell or Einstein or ..... Robert S. Goldfarb [log in to unmask] ============ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ============ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]