Conclusion
Gorman wrote in his first paper: ‘In writing this article I have been torn between a desire for rigour and a desire for simplicity, and each has had to be sacrificed in part to the other’ (Gorman 1953: 63, fn. 1). Even to today’s technically trained economists, his writings seem characterised more by rigour than by simplicity. Yet Gorman’s legacy, carried on in part by generations of students to whom he devoted so much of his time and attention, is a set of results and tools which make it immeasurably easier for future economists ‘to tailor models for particular problems and particular data’ (Gorman 1987: 305).