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Article: Vision in economic thought: remarks upon receipt of the Veblen-Commons Award. (economist Robert Heilbroner speech) (Transcript)
- Article from:
- Journal of Economic Issues
- Article date:
- June 1, 1994
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I fell into the history of economic thought more or less by chance, having signed up as a just discharged veteran at the New School for Social Research, which I had never visited before in my life, for a course given by Adolph Lowe, of whom I had never heard, in the economics of Harrod and Domar, whose names were not on the syllabus of the course in which I studied the mysteries of Keynesian economics at Harvard in the late 1930s.
The course with Lowe was the first of many I subsequently took under that remarkable teacher, at whose receipt of the Veblen-Commons Award in 1979 I was privileged to speak. I visited him in Germany a little over a year ago to help ...