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Re: [OPE] one of the great inventions of the 20th century?

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"Despite exaggerated claims by Quesnay's disciples, as that the Tableau was the greatest invention since fire and writing,..."
"The 1984 Nobel Prize in Economics," Science, Jan. 1985 in Collected Scientific Papers of Paul A. Samuelson - see:
http://books.google.com/books?id=UKeJEc46R9AC&pg=PA842&lpg=PA842&dq=kuznets+%22greatest+invention%22&source=web&ots=BL8cqFXtLC&sig=ELJZGBHFTZugqvGSYS-FntfNHFg&hl=en

"Quesnay's disciples called the Tableau, the greatest invention since fire and writing."
S. Chand, A History of Economic Thought - see:
http://books.google.com/books?id=of4TWIJIyG0C&pg=PA256&lpg=PA256&dq=kuznets+%22greatest+invention%22&source=web&ots=8efi7eARPV&sig=hxud7nuA17GWT7d-ZoqHvm2Q2Rk&hl=en


Michael Perelman wrote:
I don't have a copy of Samuelson/Nordhaus. Does any body have an exact reference to use. I was just in the Berkeley library trying to rund down that same quotation for my new book.

I meant for the "greatest invention" quote.

On Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 12:17:38AM +0100, GERALD LEVY wrote:
It is ironic that at a time when we were just discussing some of
the major technological changes of the 20th Century, we are made aware of the following:
<http://www.bea.gov/scb/pdf/beawide/2000/0100od.pdf> 
...
Charles Andrews


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