Letter from Felix Schafer (28 April 1955)
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My dear Karl,
… Kari's new baby. […] I am looking forward to study your new book. Could you manage to let me see a copy of the manuscript as far as you have already written it? […] As you know, I feel like you do, that the marginal analysis has some drawbacks, because it is too narrow. I am therefore most interested in your concept of economy. Re-writing history of ______ history seems to me an urgent necessity. The study of philosophy, I have to do this year shows me the difficulty of misunderstanding for instance the Greeks without knowing about the economic and social background. The same applies to history of the German language, I have to go through …
[21] […] The scarcity analysis has done all it could be. There are "exceptions" it cannot reach? Still remember Mayer's lectures, when after developing Böhm's market pattern of price formation, he referred to some "exceptions" such as the wages of the public servants. I think I am not the only one who would say that the exceptions are becoming the rule. Now ___ more the best wishes …