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Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9724414 |
|---|---|
| Authors | F W Paish (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1951 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 69 |
| Pages | 1 |
| Publication date | 1951-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Economica (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-0427 • E-ISSN: 1468-0335 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2601575 |
| OpenAlex | W2332427443 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
Although it has only recently been realised that Alice in wonderland is a major source of information on medieval history, it has long been known, on the very best authority, that a detailed acquaintance with Alice is essential for a proper understanding of economic theory. It is, therefore, not without some fear of being thought presumptuous that I venture to say that at this moment I feel a little like Alice herself. You will remember that, after passing through the looking-glass and walking a little in the garden, she was invited by the Red Queen to join in a game of chess in the capacity of a pawn; and that, with the help of much kindness, a great deal of good advice and, at worst, the toleration of her fellow-pieces, she gradually progressed across the board until, jumping her last ditch, she found herself, suddenly encumbered with a crown, undergoing a searching qualifying examination at the hands of her companion queens. So, I, too, after many years of kindness, good advice or, at worst, toleration from my fellow-teachers, having jumped my last ditch and finding myself suddenly encumbered, if not with a crown, at least with a chair, stand here this evening undergoing my examination before my colleagues, some at least of whom were queens before I was even a pawn. I can only hope that, unlike Alice's queens, they will not feel obliged to go to sleep before the examination is completed.And I think the resemblance can be pushed even a little further. You will remember that, after her examination, Alice proceeded to her castle and that, after a most unsatisfactory dinner, she saw her castle shake, collapse and vanish into nothingness. So I too, when I get to my castle-part of which is the subject of my lecture this evening-find it, if not threatened with actual dissolution, at any rate dwarfed and in danger of being squeezed out of existence by an enormous block of government offices which is sprouting and spreading on all sides of it
Adventure · Alice (programming language) · Art history · Kindness · Political science · Queen (butterfly) · Sociology · Toleration · Historical Economic and Social Studies · History · Law · Psychology
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,27 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2021 (11) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |