ABSTRACT
To have combined longevity with work of lasting significance occasions greater opportunity for tribute than might otherwise be the case. There have been scholars who have produced influential, valuable work and who did not live long enough to enjoy merited recognition-C.Wright Mills and David M.Gordon are only two such examples. Then there are others whose long life is still no guarantee of contemporaneous reward-Thorstein Veblen is notable in this regard. By the time he was offered the presidency of the American Economic Association in 1924 on condition that he join it and deliver an address, he had endured so much professional difficulty and opprobrium in a fraught career that he took pleasure in rejecting it (Dorfman, 1972:492).
