"Edgeworth lacked the force that produces impressive treatises and assembles adherents; amiable and generous, he never asserted himself in any claims of his own, he was over-sensitive on the one hand, overmodest on the other; he was content to take a backseat behind Marshall whom he exalted into Achilles; hesitating in conversation, absent-minded to a pathological degree, the worst speaker and lecturer imaginable, he was personally ineffective -- unleadedy is, I think, the word."
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Joseph Schumpeter, History of Economic Analysis, p. 831
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Francis Ysidro Edgeworth
Francis Ysidro Edgeworth, FBA (8 February 1845 – 13 February 1926) was an Anglo-Irish philosopher and political economist who made significant contributions to the methods of statistics during the 1880s.
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