ABSTRACT
In the more than 1,500 books, articles, review essays, and comments authored by Eli Ginzberg, one of the least employed words that would be found is theory. Ginzberg lives in a world of service to presidents, fulfilling terms of a wide variety of grants, and targeting presentations to decision-making bodies of all sizes and shapes. In such a busy schedule, theory may not exactly be a dirty word, but it cannot readily be celebrated in the context of the empirical tradition in economics, even an older qualitative version of that tradition.
