...the number of saintly men has not yet risen to the level where the census makes them a separate statistical category.

All great economists are tall. There are two exceptions: John Kenneth Galbraith and Milton Friedman.

...the number of saintly men has not yet risen to the level where the census makes them a separate statistical category.

A Swedish physicist can not discuss his work with fifty people unless he goes abroad. A Swedish economist can get opinions and instructions in his native language from thousands upon thousands of his fellow citizens.

There is only one social science and we are its practitioners

My teaching began in 1936 at Iowa State College where T. W. Schultz was the department chairman.

That subject has lost its one time appeal to economists as our science has become more abstract, but my interest has even grown more intense as the questions raised by the sociology of science became more prominent.