Progress and survival ; an essay on the future of mankind

Emile Benoit was a rare person in more than one sense. As an economist he was unusually competent; but more than that , he had a breadth of vision that was rare among economists. He saw economics always as a tool and a stepping stone to a larger appreciation of the complexities of the real world. As a friend he was a rare person, a delight to be with-sensitive, kindly, gentle, full of ideas, yet rigorous and disciplined. Nothing shoddy got by him. As a writer he was rare in that nothing that he did was overdone. His style is always clear but always retains a sense of something left unsaid. His work Disarmament and the Economy¹ was a pioneer ing book, which opened up a whole new subject-the inter action between the war industry and the economy and the rest of society. His later work on this subject Defense and Eonomic Growth in Developing Countries 2 combined two major interests of his life-development and the world economy and the role of the war industry in that development. Some of the results were not wholly to his liking, but his deep honesty and integrity made him publish what he found whether he liked it or not.