“[…] the most reckless and treacherous of all theorists is he who professes to let facts and figures speak for themselves, who keeps in the background the part he has played, perhaps unconsciously, in selecting and grouping them […]”
– Alfred Marshall (1885, February 24). The present position of economics. Inaugural lecture, University of Cambridge. Reprinted in Hodgson, G. M. (2005). Journal of Institutional Economics, 1(1), 121–137.
Suggested citation: Fugard, A. (2025, December 25). Reckless and treacherous theorists [blog post]. https://andifugard.info/reckless-and-treacherous-theorists/
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