Introduction1
William Moore Gorman, known to all as “Terence”, died in Oxford on 12 January 2003. The greatest Irish economist since Edgeworth, he was, like Edgeworth, totally unknown to the general public, both in his native country and in Britain where he made his career.
He was the purest of pure theorists, whose life was devoted to scholarship and teaching, and whose work of forbidding technical difficulty was incomprehensible to most of his contemporaries. Yet, paradoxically, he was always concerned with applied issues, and the tools and theorems he developed have had a lasting influence on empirical work.1This chapter is reprinted from Honohan and Neary (2003) with the kind permission of The Economic and Social Review.
P. Honohan (*)
Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
e-mail: phonohan@tcd.ie
P. Neary
Department of Economics, Oxford, UK e-mail: peter.neary@economics.ox.ac.uk
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