When The Economy Was Going Up, [milton

Marshall's Crime Is To Pretend To Handle Imperfect Competition With Tools Only Applicable To Perfect Competition.

That's What I Would Like To Do Until The End Of Time, To Go On Scribbling My Articles On The Third Floor Of The Sloan Building, In Between Playing Tennis And Drinking Coffee At My Other Study In The Concord Avenue Branch Of Burger King.

By Keeping Labor Supply Down, Immigration Policy Tends To Keep Wages High. Let Us Underline This Basic Principle: Limitation Of The Supply Of Any Grade Of Labor Relative To All Other Productive Factors Can Be Expected To Raise Its Wage Rate; And Increase In Supply Will, Other Things Being Equal, Tend To Depress Wage Rates.

Economists Have Much To Be Humble About.

An American Economist Of Two Generations Ago, H. J. Davenport, Who Was The Best Friend Thorstein Veblen Ever Had (veblen Actually Lived For A Time In Davenport's Coal Cellar) Once Said: "there Is No Reason Why Theoretical Economics Should Be A Monopoly Of The Reactionaries." All My Life I Have Tried To Take This Warning To Heart, And I Dare Call It To Your Favorable Attention.