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Discussion: Five Neophytes in Search of a Mentor

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 February 2011

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1 While North America was the subject of 70 percent of the theses discussed four years ago, it represents only 20 percent of the current crop.

2 In this period 25 dissertations have been presented, but one was in the area of economic doctrine.

3 And there are those who claim that Dick Roehl's native tongue is Latin.

4 No one would argue that questions of growth and development are the only interesting ones. Instead, this is a plea only for a change in emphasis: a modal change like the annual automobile change, not a total model change.

5 Keynes pointed this out long ago when, in his attempt to resolve the Methodenstreit, he suggested that the road from facts to theory is a two-way street. See Keynes, John Neville, Scope and Method of Political Economy (1891)Google Scholar.