Prepared in March 1994 shortly after Alan’s death in December 1993. He was 79.
Keywords: History of Ideas, Methodology & Philosophy;
I last met Alan Danks in the Wellington Public Library, standing there among the book stacks, with an enormous pile of novels for the week’s reading. He talked of how he never considered himself an economist, but only an economics teacher, for when he was young there was not an economics profession in the public service and business. This exceptionally tall man always looked down on me, seemingly ending his sentences with an unspoken “boy”. Yet it was a modest remark. “Only” an economics teacher: he was a great economics teacher, the best I had.
