Challenge to economists
(N.Z. Press Association) HAMILTON, Dec. 12. The research committee of the Social Credit Political League has issued a public challenge. It challenged all university economists and, in particular, Sir Alan Danks, the chairman of the University Grants Committee, and formerly professor of economics at the University of Canterbury, to attempt to discredit a revised version of Social Credit theory in a new book written by Mr L. W. Hunter, of the league’s research committee. The committee, in issuing the challenge, said that Mr Hunter’s book represented a major research effort in economics and interdisciplinary studies. “Sir Alan Danks and other orthodox academic economists have assiduously applied themselves to the criticism of Social Credit theory in the past, and should therefore have no objection to attempting to repeat the process at this stage in response to a public challenge to do so,” the committee said.
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Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32788, 13 December 1971, Page 11
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147Challenge to economists Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32788, 13 December 1971, Page 11
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