ABSTRACT
A fertile imagination, idealistic visions, vast, preferably infinite perspectivesthis, above all, is what public taste and the business instincts of the publishers demand of a writer on economics, in our country; inner coherence, conclusive argumentation, reliably corroborated facts, etc., are of merely secondary importance, in so far as they are not actually abhorred as tedious pedantry. Thus, while writers like Carey, Henry George, F.List and others have not needed to wait long for translators, not a single one of the classical authors, in contrast, as far as is known-not even Adam Smith or John Stuart Millhas been deemed worthy of appearing in Swedish garb.
