. . . the master-economist must possess a rare
combination of gifts. He must reach a high standard in several different
directions and must combine talents not often found together.
He must be a 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 or 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 the earth as a politician.
J.M. Keynes "Alfred Marshall,
1842-1924; A Memoir." The Economic Journal, vol. xxxiv, no. 135, 1924, pp.
311-83.
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 the earth as a politician.
J.M. Keynes "Alfred Marshall,
1842-1924; A Memoir." The Economic Journal, vol. xxxiv, no. 135, 1924, pp.
311-83.
