Quotable: Richard Ely, co-founder of the American Economic Association

“In no other science is there so much quackery and it must be our province to expose it and bring it into ‘merited contempt.’”

-Richard T. Ely, co-founder of the American Economic Association

Ely, R. T. (1886). Report of the organization of the American Economic Association. Publications of the American Economic Association, 1(1), 15.

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