Notes On Sea-Fisheries Development In Less-Developed Areas

F.J.E. Tan

Economics and Finance in Indonesia, 1963, vol. 14, 43-57

Abstract: It is the high calling and duty of every well-meaning economist to be anxious to do good. Economics as technique, a box of tools as Al red Marshall once said, has sometimes too litle to do with ideals. Marshall, himself, however used to tell the following story of his early lifes "About the time that I first resolved to make as through a study as I couk of Political Economy (the word Economics was not then invented) I saw in a shop-window a small oilpainting (of a man's face with a strikingly gaunt and wistful expression, as of one "down and out") and bought it for a few shillings. I set it up above the chimney piece in my room in college and thence-forward called it my patron saint, and devoted my self to trying how to fit men like that for heaven. Meanwhile, I get interested in the semi-mathematical side of pure Economics, and was afraid of becoming a mere thinker. But a glance at my patron saint seemed to call me back to the right path. That was particularly useful after I had been diverted from the study of ultimate aims to the questions about bimetallism, etc., which at one t'me were dominant. I despised them, the 'instinct of the chase' tempted me towards them

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Date: 1963
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