ABSTRACT
The "central problem" in "traditional economic theory," according to Abram Lincoln Harris, was the "construction of] a system of supply-and-demand equations in which value and the distributive shares between productive factors were found to be determinate by means of abstract deductive logic." Harris evidently saw no fundamental difference in the essential characteristics of classical and neoclassical economics. Harris was an exceptionally careful reader of Veblen, far superior to most, fully cognizant of, as he noted in his 1934 publication "Economic Evolution: Dialectical and Darwinian," Veblen's "tongue-in-cheek artfulness." The former is of interest in large measure because of a long footnote in which Harris refutes the view that Veblen was harassed into leaving Chicago because of his unorthodox views and because of Harris' emphasis on Veblen's analytical technique of utilizing conceptual dichotomies. Harris was, in fact, the author of the Encyclopedia Brittanica's entry on Sombart.
