To the Editor, Jewish Daily Bulletin:
In appendix A to his “Principles of Economics,” eighth edition, the celebrated British economist, the late Alfred Marshall, has a few interesting passages dealing with the place of Jews in modern economic thought. The following is from page 753:
“and Germany contains a larger number than any other country of the most cultivated members of that wonderful race who have been leaders of the world in intensity of religious feeling and in keenness of business speculation. In every country, but especially in Germany, much of what is most brilliant and suggestive in economic practice and in economic thought is of Jewish origin. And in particular to German Jews we owe many daring speculations as to the conflict of interests between the individual and society, and as to their ultimate economic causes and their possible socialistic remedies.”
These words coming from the pen of the greatest modern economist, may be of particular significance at this itme.
Zvi Shimsky.
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