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From Old to New to Old in Economic History*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2010

William N. Parker
Affiliation:
Yale University

Extract

The President of this Association is like a species of short-lived insect, whose only function in life is to lay an egg, and then to die. Yet, like the walking candle, a President has this brief moment on stage, and his obscurity before and after it makes him determined to burn all the more brightly.

Type
Economic History: Retrospect and Prospect. Papers Presented at the Thirtieth Annual Meeting of the Economic History Association
Copyright
Copyright © The Economic History Association 1971

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References

* Presidential address presented at the Thirtieth Annual Meeting of the Economic History Association.