| Abstract: | ‘T]he established critics of a theory have nearly asmuch interest in the survival of the theory they criticize asits supporters; for when it is abandoned they are transportedfrom the exciting forefront of current scientific debate toa dignified but unexciting position in the museum of the historyof the subject’ (Nuti 1974, p. 364]). ‘If anything explains the heat of debates in growth andcapital] theory, it is the difficulty thinkers in the scholastictradition have in appreciating that, for workers in the scientifictradition, it makes sense to entertain a model and use it withoutbeing committed to it; while the scientists cannot imagine whymere models should be the object of passion’ (Mirrlees1973, p. xxi]). |
