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On the Historiography of Economics: A Correspondence

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 June 2009

Paul A. Samuelson ,
Don Patinkin  and
Mark Blaug
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I read your “…Historiography…” (Blaug 1990) with interest and profit. You were kind to me—probably too kind. But let me explore a point. Let's accept for the sake of the argument that in some instances a “rational reconstruction” can deviate from a “historical reconstruction.” Query: When I attributed to Smith the “canonical classical model” (Samuelson 1978), did I provide your readers with such an instance of deviation? No, I say. And your text does not adduce otherwise. Nor does Hollander's rhetoric (1980) in reaction to me. Actually, Hollander said: Yes, that model is in Smith but one has to work hard not to overlook it (particularly because its pieces are in scattered and unlikely places).

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Journal of the History of Economic Thought , Volume 13 , Issue 2 , Fall 1991 , pp. 144 - 158
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1991

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