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It is a signal honour to be invited to be President of Section F in the 150th anniversary year of the British Association. I don’t fool myself that the Association’s return to its foundation city had nothing to do with the invitation. But my kind of economist sees the subject as concerned with adaptation to, or exploitation of, previously unforeseen opportunities: and that is also how I viewed this invitation.
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Wiseman, J. (1983). Introduction. In: Wiseman, J. (eds) Beyond Positive Economics?. British Association for the Advancement of Science. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-16992-4_1
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