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The Road We are Traveling

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2010

Ralph W. Hidy
Ralph W. Hidy
Affiliation:
Harvard University
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On this occasion it seems wise to take a leaf from Wassily W. Leontief's book as President of the American Economic Association. He discussed a problem of his organization. His presidential address was a plea for economists to limit their creation of models, especially those difficult of empirical testing, and to test some of those susceptible of verification. My remarks will also deal with a problem, one in the Economic History Association, how it came about, and what we might do about it.

Type
Papers Presented at the Thirty-first Annual Meeting of the Economic History Association
Information
The Journal of Economic History , Volume 32 , Issue 1 , March 1972 , pp. 3 - 14
Copyright
Copyright © The Economic History Association 1972

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