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From Old to New to Old in Economic History*
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 May 2010
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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.
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- Economic History: Retrospect and Prospect. Papers Presented at the Thirtieth Annual Meeting of the Economic History Association
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- Copyright © The Economic History Association 1971
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* Presidential address presented at the Thirtieth Annual Meeting of the Economic History Association.
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