================= HES POSTING ================= [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. -- 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). Tim Leonard ============ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ============ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]