Abstract
In his Essays in Biography, Keynes (1951) wrote that"the master-economist must possess a rare combination of gifts.He must reach a high standard in several different directionsand must combine talents not often found together. He mustbe mathematician, historian, statesman, philosopher in somedegree. He must understand symbols and speak in words. Hemust contemplate the particular in terms of the general, andtouch abstract and concrete in the same flight of thought. Hemust study the present in the light of the past for the purposesof the future. No part of man’s nature or his institutions mustlie currently outside his regard. He must be purposeful anddisinterested in a simultaneous mood; as aloof and incorruptibleas an artist, yet sometimes as near the earth as a politician."In our eyes, Professor Nanak Kakwani, in whose honour we edited thisSpecial Issue of the Journal of Income Distribution, possesses most, if notall, of the qualities that Keynes considered essential in a good economist.
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