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No invitation I can recall has caused me as much pleasure as Werner's letter
inviting me to participate in this celebration of Musgrave's ninetieth birthday. I
am confident that all who are participating in this event share a similar
feeling. We all recognize in Richard Musgrave a combination of quite
extraordinary personal and intellectual integrity and creativity, leavened with
broad cultural sophistication, and seasoned with charm at once gruff and
warm. He is one of those rare people who elicit both respect and affection
and who display both dignity and warmth. We have all been touched
personally, or emotionally by a life that spans and has surmounted the
catastrophic, yet miraculous, century just ended. Although I never took a
course from him, Musgrave was my teacher through his writings, as he was
to every public finance economist who passed through graduate school for
the two decades from 1960 to 1980. We are all honored by the privilege of
celebrating his life with him. Let me amend that we are all honored by being
privileged to celebrate the lives of Richard and Peggy with them, for much of
his work is the work of the Musgraves. This invitation caused me, as it did
many others, to try to take stock of his intellectual contributions and to
assess, at a more personal level, what they mean to me. Doing so is not
easy for two reasons. The contributions are numerous, but the greater
challenge lies elsewhere. The intellectual constructs that he pioneered are
now so much a part of our thinking that it is hard now to recover our pre
Musgrave mindsets, a necessary step in measuring his contributions. Doing
so underscored the fact that, as others have noted. Various sections of that
book provoked different thoughts. An economy is best understood when we
study its components or sectors. Sectoral classification can be done on the
basis of several criteria. In this chapter, three types of classifications are
discussed. You can create a discussion about these types by taking
examples familiar to the students and relate them to their daily life. It is
important to emphasise the changing roles of sectors. This can be
highlighted further by drawing attention of the students to the rapid growth of
service sector. While elaborating the ideas provided in the chapter, the
students may need to be familiarised with a few fundamental concepts such
as Gross Domestic Product, Employment etc. Since the students may find
this difficult to understand, it is necessary to explain to them through
examples
inviting me to participate in this celebration of Musgrave's ninetieth birthday. I
am confident that all who are participating in this event share a similar
feeling. We all recognize in Richard Musgrave a combination of quite
extraordinary personal and intellectual integrity and creativity, leavened with
broad cultural sophistication, and seasoned with charm at once gruff and
warm. He is one of those rare people who elicit both respect and affection
and who display both dignity and warmth. We have all been touched
personally, or emotionally by a life that spans and has surmounted the
catastrophic, yet miraculous, century just ended. Although I never took a
course from him, Musgrave was my teacher through his writings, as he was
to every public finance economist who passed through graduate school for
the two decades from 1960 to 1980. We are all honored by the privilege of
celebrating his life with him. Let me amend that we are all honored by being
privileged to celebrate the lives of Richard and Peggy with them, for much of
his work is the work of the Musgraves. This invitation caused me, as it did
many others, to try to take stock of his intellectual contributions and to
assess, at a more personal level, what they mean to me. Doing so is not
easy for two reasons. The contributions are numerous, but the greater
challenge lies elsewhere. The intellectual constructs that he pioneered are
now so much a part of our thinking that it is hard now to recover our pre
Musgrave mindsets, a necessary step in measuring his contributions. Doing
so underscored the fact that, as others have noted. Various sections of that
book provoked different thoughts. An economy is best understood when we
study its components or sectors. Sectoral classification can be done on the
basis of several criteria. In this chapter, three types of classifications are
discussed. You can create a discussion about these types by taking
examples familiar to the students and relate them to their daily life. It is
important to emphasise the changing roles of sectors. This can be
highlighted further by drawing attention of the students to the rapid growth of
service sector. While elaborating the ideas provided in the chapter, the
students may need to be familiarised with a few fundamental concepts such
as Gross Domestic Product, Employment etc. Since the students may find
this difficult to understand, it is necessary to explain to them through
examples
