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Writing my intellectual autobiography is an assignment which I have long postponed, primarily out of fear. Such a retrospective selfappraisal would inevitably make me stand naked in front of myself, influence the rest of my career and impart a sense of, hopefully premature, semi-closure. A gentle reminder by the editors has now made me grit my teeth, lay my trepidations aside, and commence.
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Adelman, I. (1989). Confessions of an Incurable Romantic. In: Kregel, J.A. (eds) Recollections of Eminent Economists. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-09776-0_5
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