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For many years in classroom and seminar Professor Davenport’s primary concern was with criticism and constructive amendment of the doctrinal content of the classical and neo-classical economics. His attitude toward systematic economic theory was never that of the iconoclast. He was indeed a jealous guardian of the economic discipline, and thought

From the author: In questions of economic theory the writer conceives himself, as among his colleagues of the craft, to be in essentials rather a conservative than an innovator. The Socialists, indeed — with whom he disclaims all theoretical sympathies — seem to him to be the ultra-conservatives in doctrinal positions. Mostly, therefore, his