摘要：Ladies and gentlemen, director, colleagues and friends: it is a great honour
and a pleasure to be asked to deliver this year’s Geary lecture, coming, as
it does, on the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Economic and Social
Research Institute (ESRI). Over the years many eminent economists and
sociologists have given the Geary lecture, but I believe that I am one of the few
who knew Roy Geary personally because we were colleagues here during the
last few years of his life.
