A crooked path along The Gravel Walks

In the half century of my life as an economist, the works, correspondence and lives of four Universalists has dominated my own interests – but also four others whose works, over the years, came gradually to influence me: Gunnar Myrdal, the Universal Social Scientist (Velupillai, 1990); Maynard Keynes, the Universal Man; ¹ Paul Samuelson, the Universal Economist (Velupillai, 2018); and Herbert Simon, the Universal Behavioural Scientist (this whole monograph).