On the Historiography of Economics: A Correspondence

Paul Samuelson, Don Patinkin and Mark Blaug

Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 1991, vol. 13, issue 2, 144-158

Abstract: 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).

Date: 1991
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