經濟系 問答集 - 經濟

※ 引述《washburn (Just a game)》之銘言：
: 首先, Marshall (1890) 認為, 經濟學即為 "人類日常生活的研究"
: (the study of man in the ordinary business of life).

既然提到 Marshall, 突然想起這個 quote

“The study of economics does not seem to require any
specialized gifts of an unusually high order.
Is it not, intellectually regarded, a very easy
subject compared with the higher branches of
philosophy or pure science?
An easy subject at which few excel!
The paradox finds its explanation, perhaps, in that
the master-economist must possess a rare combination
of gifts. He must be mathematician, historian,
statesman, philosopher — in some degree. He must
understand symbols and speak in words. He must
contemplate the particular in terms of the general
and touch abstract and concrete in the same
flight of thought. He must study the present in
the light of the past for the purposes of the
future. No part of man’s nature of his institutions
must lie entirely outside his regard. He must be
purposeful and disinterested in a simultaneous mood;
as aloof and incorruptible as an artist, yet sometimes
as near to earth as a politician.”

- J. M. Keynes "Alfred Marshall, 1842-1924"
The Economic Journal, (Sept.,1924)

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Lesson 9:

"Nobody Knows the Suffering That Farmers (and Students) Do."

--George J. Stigler,How to Pass Examinations in Economics


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