...fruitless discussions and hair-splitting distinctions. [We will not go so far as Jevons, in saying that "that able but wrong-headed man, David Ricardo,...shunted the car of economic science on to a wrong line;" but we do maintain that his favourite use of hypothetical methods — ie, a system based on the hypothesis...

...the utmost importance to the science of political economy."1 In this analysis, according to Jevons, "that able but wrong-headed man, David Ricardo, shunted...line, a line, however, on which it was further urged towards confusion by his equally able and wrong-headed admirer John Stuart Mill."1 Mill followed Ricardo's...

...Jevons produced his quasi-mathematical theory, the effect of which was to show, as he declared, how ' that able but wrong-headed man David Ricardo shunted...car of economic science on to a wrong line, a line on which it was further urged towards 'confusion by his equally able and wrong-headed admirer John...

...(1879) edition of his Theory of Political Economy ends with the following peroration: When at length the true system of Economics comes to be established,...line - a line, however, on which it was further urged towards confusion by his equally able and wrong-headed admirer, John Stuart Mill. There were Economists...

...(1874-77). 6. See, for example, the preface to the 1879 edition of his Theory of Political Economy: "When at length a true system of Economics comes to...able but wrong-headed man, David Ricardo, shunted the care of Economic Science on to a wrong line, a line, however, on which it was further urged towards...

...he was one of the most original economists in the history of the science" (Stigler, 1955, p. 7). 13. "That able but wrong-headed man, David Ricardo, shunted...line - a line, however, on which it was further urged towards confusion by his equally able and wrong-headed admirer, John Stuart Mill" (Jevons, 1879, p....

...successors have become minor tributaries. It may be that we are still discouragingly remote from that day "when at length a true system of Economics comes to be established," but surely there is some warrant for the hope that in preparation therefore we shall not have "to pick...

...method and attempt to build economics as a positive science (21). According to the non-Ricardians, Ricardo, "shunted the car of economic science on to a wrong line" (4) or that economics going on Ricardian lines "constrained the subject for a full hundred years in...

...present accepted phase to Ricardo. Another group insist with Jevons, that this " able but wrongheaded man shunted the car of economic science on to a wrong line." A third point out that current enlightenment upon many important practical economic policies traces back...

...preface (of Jevons in the 2nd ed. of his Theory of Political Economy) seemed both false and harmful, viz. that "that able but wrong-headed man, David Ricardo,...line, a line, however, on which it was further urged towards confusion by his equally able and wrong-headed admirer, John Stuart Mill". In the Principles...