In Praise of Dead Men: A Memoir

Robert W. Clower

Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 1998, vol. 20, issue 4, 499-503

Abstract: Among my happiest memories is a 1948 lecture on Adam Smith by a teacher who often read from and commented on primary texts. On the day in question, he arrived with a stack of books, from which he proceeded to read, one after another, for some 40 minutes. Finally he came to the last book in the stack, Smith's Wealth of Nations, from which he read the following:

Date: 1998
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