----------------- HES POSTING ----------------- Following up on Peter Boettke's and Ross Emmett's posts on tracing the first contacts between Knight and Boulding: The undergraduate paper from Boulding's Oxford days which Peter refers to is Boulding, KE (1932): "The Place of the "Displacement Cost" Concept in Economic Theory", EJ 42: 137-141 (March issue) In an autobiographical statement, Boulding recalls in that context: "When I got to Chicago [ie fall 1932?, MK] I sent a reprint of this article to Frank Knight, who sent back a note saying, "Professor Knight thanks Mr. Boulding for his paper, which he thinks is as wrong and confused as it is possible to be." That got our relationship off on a very good level, and I became very fond of him." (in M. Szenberg 1992: _Eminent Economists_, CUP, pbk. 1993, p. 72). Ross, have you found this note in the Knight papers? It might predate the one you refer to, of Dec. 1933. btw: http://csf.colorado.edu/boulding/ has a nice site on Boulding, incl. what seems to be a complete list of publications. Matthias Klaes ------------ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ------------ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]