Year: 1962
Type: article
Abstract: Work on the nineteenth century America may indeed be called work in progress —if that notoriously unfashionable word can be given any meaning at all in our fashionably disillusioned century. In any case, though ‘work in progress’ may logically imply progress in work, these notes are offered as a simple tribute to a fine scholar, not as an advance claim to accomplishment. No occasion would be more inappropriate to such a claim. Preferable indeed would be the kind of finely wrought, finished product that on such an occasion Söderlund himself would have produced. But even under his critical scrutiny—‘as ever in my great Taskmaster's eye'—a short sketch of some of the current effort in the United States may pass muster. It is sometimes wise, indeed, to look at the rose while the dew lies still upon it, before its flaws and frailties are opened out to pitiless light.
Author: William N. Parker
Institution: Yale University
Language: English
Subfield: Economics and Econometrics
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2332477436