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Barkley wrote that there are 3 ways to do HE: 
 
>1.  Thick histories a la Weintraub.   
>2. Thin histories a la Colander.   
>3)  Hermeneutic re-Haruspications of Ancient Texts.  
 
Barkley: Surely these 3 don't exhaust what HET can and has been!  Would the following
examples, since they fit neither 1 or 2, be "re-Haruspications" ?
 
Hirschman's  Passions and Interest 
Sraffa's Introduction to Ricardo's Collected Works 
Coase's Essays on Economists and Economics 
Rosenberg's work 
Leijonhufvud I've mentioned already 
 
Don't you and Roy believe that one can learn economics by doing the HET?!  There are
questions asked by older economists that are simply not asked by practitioners today. It's
not that we answer them differently and correctly - we simply do not ask them. And many
turn out to be extraordinarily interesting  questions, the answers to which teach us
something about the economy. This has nothing to do with substantive heterodoxy/orthodoxy,
nor is any relativism entailed.
 
 
Kevin Quinn 
 
 
 
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