ABSTRACT

One of the students who leaned forward to catch every one of the professor's words on brisk walks about the campus was Miss Sarah Hardy. Sarah could talk to the professors in the department about the intricacies of economics as well as any of the advanced students, and she was, besides, terribly attractive. She was very like Thorstein Veblen in that she always supported the view that was opposite from that which was expected of her. Ellen had become aware of her husband's walks with Sarah, and was not entirely content with them. Then Veblen showed her the recently published first volume of Cohn's Science of Finance. The three years she and Thorstein had been working together on the translation were their "happiest hours". After two years in the University of Chicago Graduate School of Political Economy, Sarah very nearly, but not quite, earned her Ph.D. in the field of Money.