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> I agree with David Colander that they are extremely difficult to do. 
> In my advanced HOT seminar I have used Heilbroner's THE ESSENTIAL ADAM 
> SMITH and Keynes's GENERAL THEORY, because they are both very 
> affordable and well worth owning for econ majors. Then I supplement 
> with lots of articles, book chapters. I have used them also in a 
> regular HOT undergrad survey course, along with Ricardo's Principles 
> (the cheapee version, which obviously is not the best, i.e. Sraffa's) 
> and I don't remember what else, but also tons of articles and book 
> chapters. 
>  
 
There is a dog here that is not barking, called the 20th century. Other 
than canonizing Keynes, whose GT was written over 65 years ago, what are 
HET-ers doing about this period in which there are no canonical texts? 
(Exam question: Why not?) 
 
For instance, perusal of many syllabi on our HE site suggests that once we 
get to the 20th century, we're teaching the "isms" of Institutionalism, 
Keynesianism, Monetarism, Post Keynesianism, Neoclassicism, NeoMarxism, 
Formalism, etc. Leaving the distant past behind, what would a reader on 
20th century economics look like? 
 
E. Roy Weintraub 
 
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